Mario used to be the best! I remember back when I was 5, I played the NES with all of the Super Mario Bros's, Kirby's Adventure, & the Zelda series. Then I got an SNES with Donkey Kong Country set. Got every US Mario game except Mario RPG. I chose the SNES over the Genesis, thought it was better. Grew up with the GameBoy Pocket, then the N64! Man, the N64 used to be the best, & Playstation was around there too! Then the Dreamcast came out. The N64 was still great! Had great games like MK 64, Zelda 64, GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie. Then the PS2, GameCube, & XBOX came out. Man, what is up with :smt071Mario Sunshine?!? It's not even as good as the Mario games in perspective back then! Then the GameCube mini discs, can't do anything with that Game Cube (maybe now, since I haven't been update with the Video Gaming scene in a while). :smt022 My PS2 was the first non Nintendo system that I have ever gotten. Who can blame me? :smt009 (I should have gotten an XBOX) I just hope the new Nintendo Revolution will be a remarkable sight (especially with that new Zelda game to back up Nintendo), but with the new graphics of the XBOX 360 & the PS3's compatibility with Blue-Ray discs, who knows...
There is too much emphasis in graphics nowadays, though I think Nintendo still should include HD video output from the Revolution. I still say FFX would have been better if it had been in the style of FF4-6. All that extra time saved from programming the graphics engine could have been put into a better storyline (and whoever came up with FFX-2 should be executed on sight). Ahem, anyway... I blame all the damn game magazines/review websites (I'm looking at you Gamespot) for the crap that we are getting. Every article I read has statements like: "but there are no new innovations", "everything else is great, but the graphics look outdated - 3 out of 10" or "the game has horrible control, poor AI and no plot, but the graphics are top notch so we give it a 9 out of 10." Unfortunately, the game companies listen too much to the magazines and not enough to the consumers. Now, I will just go sit in a corner and wait patiently for someone to make "Metroid: Rebirth" for the Revolution in the style of Super Metroid (i.e. side-scrolling not the first-person crap)... :-(
I think there is too much emphasis on Mario and their other "classic" IP, this is the reason they are falling behind all the time, they are not staying up to date with the markets demands. Yeah, keep Mario et all if you must, but at least come up with a game now and then that isn't someone else's game with him pasted in.
