OpinionDebug's Eoco answers a few of the responses that he saw to his article entitled: Nintendo, get some new ideas.
OpinionDebug writes:
Ok so I just really wanted to reply to some of the comments I've seen with regards to yesterday's article. Many of you are under the impression that I hate Nintendo and only buy Madden games. Sorry, guess again. I also wanted to explain my opinion a bit better than yesterday to give people a stronger idea of what I mean.
Right, so quite a lot of people have said that anyone who supports my view that Nintendo should stop milking the Mario franchise, only buy and play GTA, Madden and FPS games. Firstly I would like to congratulate you on your surprisingly ability to know what games people buy without ever meeting them. It's a surprising talent. However I would argue that the GTA and Madden series seem fresh, when compared to Mario's 200 appearances. GTA has had 10 games released and unless you think Madden has been going for 200 years, I very much doubt it has had as many releases as Mario.
The regular season of Major League Baseballis over. Washington took the cup, and the boys of summer are off to hibernate until spring. For the baseball superfan, this means many long months without their sport of choice, so they've turned to the virtual world. And rather than the super-sims or manager games, a Mario spin-off baseball series seems to have captured people's attention.
Mario Superstar Baseball hit the GameCube in 2005, and its sequel Mario Super Sluggers landed on the Wii in 2008. There hasn't been a new baseball spinoff since developer Now Production's closure, unless you count Super Mario Party's baseball toybox, but the decline in Mario sports games hasn't deterred the dejected baseball fans of the r/baseball subreddit from picking the game apart.
Nintendo trademarks four new titles. The names of the titles are Wrecking Crew, Rhythm Heaven, Mario Super Sluggers, and Golden Sun. Let us hope something new will come from these trademarks, either a remake or a new title.
full remake of the original 2 goldensuns on gba would be awesome
i didnt enjoy the third one on 3ds as much though
Wrecking Crew and Rhythm Heaven sound like they could be cool new IPs.
I believe Rhythm Heaven has had previous games, not sure about Wrecking Crew, it could be a new version of the demolition game that released at N64's launch.
Edit: Wrecking Crew: https://www.google.co.uk/se...
Rhythm Heaven:
https://www.google.co.uk/se...
A.J. says: "I don't like sports but for some reason I love playing baseball video games. Here, I'll cover all the bases as to why this sport appeals to non-fans like me so let's get this ball game going."
Smells heavily of double standards but to each his own. Some just don't care for Nintendo and there sudden jump to popularity again.
I can see what he means, but to get some good games out sometimes they have to make decent games in between. Wii Sports baseball is an awesome concept if you ever played it. I probably would like a fleshed out game like that more than a mario one, because there's always some way to break the game, and be impossible to beat when you try to balance power ups.
I know that only 8 of the 200 games Mario has been is are proper Mario games. This is what makes it even harder to digest. The Mario games are great, but it's the spinoffs that annoy me.
Of course there are similarities between the GTA games, but Vice City and San Andreas have greater differences than Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers.
Oh, and just pull out the quote where I say all the Madden games are unique, because I can't find one.
Ok, dude, proud Nintendo supporter here, but come on. Mario is Nintendo's unofficial but commonly known MASCOT. From what your saying, then any sports team can't just display thier logo and mascot all over thier stuff because they're milking it to death. Laern to get used to the fact that mascots do get beaten to death. Unfortunately, in the modern vieo game age, very few good games come out from brand spanking new concepts. Mario is a mascot and an easily recongizable figure: HE WILL BE USED.