General Mario Thread

Yeah, with Mario on one hand his voice just somehow sounds strange to me when he talks normally, but on the other hand, I really can't imagine him having a significantly different voice.

delicious gameplay footage

Apparently, according to Game FA Qs, if you get 5 Stars (through 100% Completion and clearing every stage with both Mario and Luigi) in Super Mario 3 D Land you get a special level, which will be the hardest level in the game.

Wow, it even includes the "Puzzle Solved" jingle. Attention to detail... I dig it. I can already tell that it'll be my personal favorite level. Now, if only there was a Sonic-themed level in the game...

Has anyone seen this video of Mario with Call Of Duty sounds?

http://kotaku.com/5857856/super-mario-3d-land-has-game-reviewers-loving-the-extra-dimension hey guys do you know that water is wet?

The 3D in the games so far hasn't done a whole lot to add to the gameplay. This game takes the 3D and makes it an actual gameplay mechanic.

It reminds me of how the Wii started out, most people thought the motion controls was more or less was a poor replacement for an actual button, and then more games started showing that it could actually add more to the experience than previously thought.

edited 9th Nov '11 2:01:58 PM by MrW

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Huh. Looks like it's looking good. I'm looking forward to this, this game looks like what 3D Mario is supposed to be. Wonder how a 3D version of a 2D Sonic game would work.

... Aaaaaand, the comments section of that article degenerated into an argument over whether NSMBW is a good game or not. Why do keep reading those?

Yeah, I didn't think 3D would add much to the experience, but Nintendo proved me wrong.

edited 9th Nov '11 2:07:33 PM by Marioguy128

Metacritic score: 89.

Pretty solid.

http://www.destructoid.com/review-super-mario-3d-land-215338.phtml Jim sterling loved it, its official this game is good.

You know what I was just thinking?:

Is there such thing as a bad Mario game? Of course, I'm just talking Main series and not Sport/Party/RPG/Paper/&Luigi/Edutainment/Hotel Mario.

edited 10th Nov '11 6:06:00 PM by Smasher

Well, let's see, there's the original, both versions of 2, then 3, World, both Lands, 64, Sunshine, the two New Super Mario Bros, the two Galaxies, and now this one, I think. Some of them seem to be rather divisive, but I don't think any of them are generally considered poor.

edited 10th Nov '11 6:07:42 PM by Beorc

I tried the demo at Best Buy a couple days ago. It was fun, but I need to get used to the controls. I really do love the gyroscope though. Makes it look like you're peering into a little mario world (land?)

hello I think Princess Rosalia should have a team if they make another baseball game. But who showed her partner be?

Lubba?

Or Polari.

I was on /v/ and they were complaing about the game being on rails (even though the game is meant to be linear) and that the final boss was disappointing and easy. (even though they all are) yeah fuck /v/.

How about Vivian?

They didn't even meet each other, mate. The Lumas make more sense.

Did Yoshi ever meat Birdo?

I've been playing Donkey Kong Country Returns, and I wonder why Retro Studios hasn't done a mainline Mario game beyond the next Mario Kart...

I think that since Mario is the mascot of Nintendo, they would want to develop main Mario platform games in-house.

Technically, they moved development of 3D Mario games to their Tokyo unit, and kept 2D game development in-house. So, not all of it is in-house.

At least, I could conceivably see them do some level design, like how they're doing it for Mario Kart 7.

edited 12th Nov '11 8:51:29 AM by MrW

That would be possible. I still think that main Mario platformers are something that Nintendo wants to do themselves though.