Personally I get PUMPED when I get a chance to buy a collection of unremarkable and formulaic games.
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Would you buy a $60 dollar New Super Mario Bros. All-Stars on Switch?
- Thread starter Mekanos
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Personally I get PUMPED when I get a chance to buy a collection of unremarkable and formulaic games.
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My point is the NSMB games are so far removed from being outright bad that it's silly to even entertain calling them such.
Plenty of developers would kill to have games as "bad" as them.
well no but thats because nsmb is garbage
see the thing is i am comparing them to every other mario game and they are excessively worse, thats why i say garbage op
see the thing is i am comparing them to every other mario game and they are excessively worse, thats why i say garbage op
… but if you concede that they're unremarkable and formulaic you understand why people aren't clamoring for this, right?
Plus when people say these games are bad or bland or whatever they're comparing them to other Mario games. Compared to Odyssey or 64 or whatever, yeah, I would say NSMBU is pretty bad in comparison. That doesn't mean I think it's on par with low-budget licensed games or whatever. It does mean I don't particularly care to spend time with it.
Nah
NSMB games all feel the same to me tbh
I remember one year they had new super Mario bros 2 the gold one and then new super Mario bros u a few months later and it felt so stale to me
NSMB games all feel the same to me tbh
I remember one year they had new super Mario bros 2 the gold one and then new super Mario bros u a few months later and it felt so stale to me
Bold of you to assume that Nintendo wouldn't just sell each of them for full price separate.
But nah. I have access to all of them and don't feel all that strongly about any of them. If I want to play them at higher resolution, then that is what Emulators are for.
But nah. I have access to all of them and don't feel all that strongly about any of them. If I want to play them at higher resolution, then that is what Emulators are for.
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I was quoting posts calling the games bad! That's what I was responding to, nothing else.
Technically one of the posts you quoted just said they're "not good," which isn't exactly the same as calling them terrible or whatever.
And I edited my post. You have to remember what games these are being compared to. Mario 3, Mario World, and Yoshi's Island are some of the most acclaimed games in history. Not just in their genre, period. A few of the 3D games are widely considered masterpieces. That's what people are comparing the New to when they say they're bad.
I happily bought 3D All-Stars and enjoyed NSMB but no. It's just because I'm not interested in 2D Mario anymore.
No. I don't even think I'd play them if they were on NSO. Not awful but I have better ways to spend my gaming time
Definitely not. I have all three, and while they're enjoyable, they aren't really worth replaying. They are basically all the same game with different levels. I don't think there are many people who would be able to recognize which game a random level is from (besides general graphics, resolution, etc.)
I love the original New Super Mario Bros. I dreamed of a new 2D Mario on GBA. I will never understand why they didn't release an original game in their most popular and iconic franchise for it. With New Super Mario Bros there was finally a new 2D Mario.
But for a company that is obsessive about not releasing games that don't have unique new ideas, I don't know what is going on with New Super Mario Bros. They are basically all the same game with different levels made on some sort of internal Super Mario Maker. They might have slightly different powerups and settings, with some other small gameplay tweaks, but they are just too similar. The least they could do is vary the art style between games/console generations.
It was very jarring going from DK: Tropical Freeze to New Super Mario U. There are individual levels in DK that have more setting/location variation than the entire New Super Mario U game.
I love the original New Super Mario Bros. I dreamed of a new 2D Mario on GBA. I will never understand why they didn't release an original game in their most popular and iconic franchise for it. With New Super Mario Bros there was finally a new 2D Mario.
But for a company that is obsessive about not releasing games that don't have unique new ideas, I don't know what is going on with New Super Mario Bros. They are basically all the same game with different levels made on some sort of internal Super Mario Maker. They might have slightly different powerups and settings, with some other small gameplay tweaks, but they are just too similar. The least they could do is vary the art style between games/console generations.
It was very jarring going from DK: Tropical Freeze to New Super Mario U. There are individual levels in DK that have more setting/location variation than the entire New Super Mario U game.
C'mon. You wanna compare Galaxy to NSMB? Sure, NSMB is fun for a bit, undoubtedly fun if you can't play the classic 2Ds. But seriously. Comparing NSMB to 3D Mario is like comparing McDonalds to a perfectly grilled burger.
I never needed to coop to enjoy a mario game before and ive been playing mario games since 1991
It would be of those collections which ERA hates on and then goes on to sell 10 million copies....just like NSMBU DX
I kinda wanna replay NSMB2 on console.
The OP's a hypothetical, not an announcement.
Oh ok my bad I read too fast. Caffeine didn't kick in yet it seems
To each to their own, but it's just so weird that considering the NSMB games "bad" has been so normalised to such extent that people considering a collection like this a good idea are considered crazy. They are extremely basic and iterative, but they have some of the most interesting and well-thought level design out of any platformer, not just Mario. However, I do think that creating such collection and not including NSMBU as well as unified the engine across all four games would be a mistake. I could see this happening early next generation, because this is the type of evergreen title that could go on selling throughout an entire generation and easily exceed 12 million copies sold with a minimum investment.
I haven't really played a platformer singleplayer since those years tbh. I only play them at all anymore because my wife loves them, and the NSMB games were the most fun I had platforming with her over the past decade or so... maybe aside from the one Rayman game we liked
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You're the target demographic a lot more than nerds who have been playing platformers well into adulthood, is why lol.
(I say this as a nerd who has also been playing platformers well into adulthood.)
Ha mostly true! Not a familiar feeling anymore what with me being an old and all
100%
Me, i wouldn't touch it, as i feel like it came during Mario's least inspired period. Tbh I'd rather buy a remade Mario Land trilogy
I did, but Mario 64 and Galaxy are good games. I can't stand the NSMB games.
That would be amazing.
Yes, I LOVE the NSMB series!
Playing them co-op with my family is one of my most cherished gaming memories of ALL TIME.
Could the presentation be better? Yea. But as far as gameplay goes NSMBU was tops. Tight, awesome fun 2D Mario.
Playing them co-op with my family is one of my most cherished gaming memories of ALL TIME.
Could the presentation be better? Yea. But as far as gameplay goes NSMBU was tops. Tight, awesome fun 2D Mario.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes NSMB Wii. The bowser fight at the end is one of the best Mario bosses ever.
NSMBU wasn't as fun.
NSMBU wasn't as fun.
