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Still... screw Yellow Toad! I want my floating Peach! #newsupermariobros
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Yay Bullet Bill =] here is a pic of one i did in forza 3 #newsupermariobros
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seriously i thought palette swaps were dead at this point. how is nintendo allowed to us them for two of the main characters to one of their console games. a console game that happens to be their main fucking franchise! #newsupermariobros
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hell name games that have 3d characters who are mere palette swaps.
my point still stands. no one else would be allowed to get away w/ this. nintendo clearly doesnt have to follow the same set of rules that everyone else does. #newsupermariobros
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Nintendo is having a slow year- so hopefully they will realize that we want more games like this (and mario galaxy, and Zelda, and Mario kart, and smash bros.. etc. etc.) and the next year or 2 will deliver on the promise of the Wii and they will start making the kind of games that made nintendo matter in the first place! with sales at 20 million copies- yeah, it's safe to say the fans are still out there and willing to buy great games :D #newsupermariobros
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I'm not implying that half of the population of japan bought it, I was merely providing a possible justification for including Wii sports in the sales numbers. I only know that it was not bundled in japan, that's all. Maybe there were other countries that sold Wii Sports as a stand-alone as well? I dunno. #newsupermariobros
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wow i just got so owned
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Mario has been done to death. You need to give some Star Fox love, or a new IP. There is such thing as too much Mario. It also makes me sad that a rehashed game like New Super Mario sells 20 million and all the combined game sales on the PS3 or Xbox360 on any given year can barely match it, or seems that way with AAA games selling at most a few million. #newsupermariobros
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1985 Super Mario Bros.
1988 Super Mario Bros. 2
1989 Super Mario Land.
1990 Super Mario Bros 3
1991 Super Mario World
1992 Super Mario Land 2
1995 Yoshi's Island
1996 Super Mario 64
2002 Mario Sunshine
2005 New Super Mario Bros.
2007 Super Mario Galaxy
So in all, we have 11 games across 7 systems in a span of almost 25 years. In the case of 2D platformers, NSMB was the first in over a decade. Conversely, you've got seven main Call of Duty games in the last six years, but I don't hear people complaining about it. Mario sells well because the games are wicked fun.
However, there really does need to be a lot more attention given to the Starfox and Metroid franchises. I'd kill for another 2D Metroid like Zero, Fusion, or 3. #newsupermariobros
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Not to count the incontable Mario Party games, as well as all the Mario Karts, Mario Golfs, Mario Tennis, Mario Baseball, Mario Strikers. Of course, they can be put aside, because they're spin-offs that go in completely different directions, but I think that was what kimahri meant when he said that Nintendo was "milking" Mario. In a certain sense, they are, but certainly not in the area of platforming games. #newsupermariobros
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Kratos doesn't keep Sackboys and Nathan Drakes from having a share of the pie. Nor does Master Chief from Marcus Fenix or Alan Shepherd. I'd take a three or foursome any day. #newsupermariobros
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I wasn't impressed with the levels or the power ups. I'm going to pass on this Wii one. #newsupermariobros
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Are you turned off by the Wii version as well? or would you try that out?
Clearly mario is not about the story, its all about challenging, wacky levels and tight controls which i think NSMB delivers. #newsupermariobros
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In the same vein, this New New Super Mario Bros on Wii looks pretty miserable sofar, but it is no surprise since levels have to be pretty simple if you want them to allow for great 4 players fun. I suspect it will be an entertaining and federating party game, but another pretty poor Super Mario Bros. #newsupermariobros
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If you create a sequel to NSMB (DS), please let me save after every level, without having to beat the game first. It was the wrong way to create "challenge" on a handheld title. Also, in Super Mario World, a game I realize you made a long time ago, you labeled the levels (in red) that had multiple paths branching from them. I began to resent the levels in NSMB after searching them over and over for secret routes that weren't there.
Sincerely,
A Fan #newsupermariobros
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We have come to the firm conclusion that w/e Sega does, it will do bad and someone else will do better using the exact same idea. #newsupermariobros
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First Disc Based Ad-on (Didn't work without a Mega Drive)-Huge, laughable disc loading times. Loaded down with FMV games and old reborn NEMO software. Very few RPG's. Cost way too much.
First Internet Ready Console-The sins of the past came back to haunt it. GDRoms digustingly easy to copy. #newsupermariobros
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I hear this company called Nec had a CD-Rom add-on for its 8/16bit console back in 1988.
While not exactly similar, I hear you could download games over a phone line on the Atari 2600.
What would we have done without Sega? #newsupermariobros
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THE KOOPA KIDS ARE IN IT. NOW PLAY IT AND GIVE IT A REST. #newsupermariobros
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why? because i see videogames from more than just the stand point of someone that plays them. im always thinking about concepts and designs.. and i think super mario bros 2 (the us release) was one of the most interesting mario games out of the classics. now we have something like this that has 4 players and the first 2d mario on a home console in years.. so its interesting. being a fan of mario bros 2.. i think that this game being called new super mario bros 2 would be a neat double meaning as in a sequel to new super mario bros, and a NEW approach to mario bros 2.
anyways, if you dont like it when people say these kinds of things, ignore them and move on.
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id say that each one should represent a difficulty and they could have meant something in a single player mode.
but once again, im still super stoked about this game.. i just love to daydream about game design. #newsupermariobros
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and i'd like to believe that yoshi chooses to aid mario from his own free will, as mario is the first thing he sees after hatching. #newsupermariobros
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As for the sales, I don't think the sales of the Wii Sports that came bundled should count in total sales.
As for the new Super Mario Bros coming out in December, I am tempted to pick up a Wii solely for that game. #newsupermariobros
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