Sean Malstrom in a recent post
“People are currently saying games like Mario 5 are selling due to ‘nostalgia’. Those people are idiots.”
Sean Malstrom in a older post
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What an odd commercial! No footage of the game is showed, only footage from SMB 1 and SMB 3.
But watching that commercial made me feel something I haven’t felt in over a decade. It felt like the commercial was directed at me. It was as if Nintendo was aiming a laser at me.”
really… really? you are telling me “the commercial is talking to me by showing me old footage” and then you call idiot people when they say it’s selling due to nostalgia? while saying that is the only reason is discounting the game too much,IT IS one of the reason it is selling,you admitted yourself,you just told yourself you are an idiot!
Curious. You honestly don’t get it, do you? People like me who like classic Mario and do not like the ‘star finder’ Mario series were left behind for decades (which is also when Nintendo’s console sales increasingly plummeted). The commercials of showing old Mario games was not to sell the game based on nostalgia but to say that NSMB Wii was Super Mario Brothers 5. The commercials were saying that NSMB Wii was a direct sequel to the classic Mario games, not to the ‘star finder’ gamers.
There is a reason why I always refer to NSMB Wii on this website as “Super Mario Brothers 5”. It is because that is NSMB Wii’s true name. It is why the game comes in a red box to signal the return of classic Mario to consoles after two decades of being gone. Most people using the word ‘nostalgia’ probably can’t even define it.
I do not like classic Mario because it is “old” or because I remembered playing it long ago. I like classic Mario because of the arcade-like gameplay it has which, to many game journalists’ surprise, is still very fun decades later.
Nostalgia means a longing of the past. Virtual Console games sell due to nostalgia, for example. Some of the remakes such as Gradius Rebirth sell due to nostalgia. But Super Mario Brothers 5 is not being bought because of nostalgia. It is because it has been TWENTY YEARS since a game like this has been released on the home console. There has been an untapped demand for this type of game.
If this game was based on nostalgia, its gameplay would not be anything new. It would have the cape, the racoon suit, and the same old levels. But it has completely new power-ups and levels that could never be done twenty years ago. It is a new game based on that classic Mario gameplay.
This is what all those idiots who say Mario 5 sells due to ‘nostalgia’. They fail to recognize that classic Mario has a very unique and sophisticated gameplay that is completely different from the star-finder Mario games and was bizarrely abandoned. Mario 5 sells due to that great arcade gameplay that made Mario a household name. Mario 5 is not selling merely because it has the same old themes. One 2d Mario game, Super Paper Mario, has much nostalgia in it. Yet, the game lacks that arcade gameplay which is why people didn’t buy it.
you know the thing that truly make me angry is that after reading all the stuff you had to say about megaman 9 i would have expected some nice critic about new super mario bros wii,i mean it’s not like there is nothing to say about it… the game uses so much stuff from older mario,it’s hard to say what exactly new in this new super mario bros and yet if i say this instead of any sort of argument i get to be called an idiot,this is not a good thing,i want a new evil final boss,remember when nintendo invented wario? why i can’t have a new wario? why i have to stick to these koopa kids who fight all the same? (and feature the same old theme) i want new gimmick! good gimmick like the crates! what do i get? one of the level in new super mario bros feature an elevator… really? an elevator? do you see people having fun while they are waiting in the elevator? another let you control a torchlight by tilting the remote while you wait for a raft to do his job,yes you WAIT IN A MARIO GAME!
There is a new Wario game out. Perhaps you missed it.
If Nintendo wanted to do the same old thing, it would have re-used Bowser Jr. We haven’t seen the Koopa Kids in twenty years. And they all have unique attacks.
And the elevator rocked.
comments like this will get brushed off as “the rambling of a demon know as hardcore” and at this point i can’t help but get pissed and wonder if i’m just talking to a wall and losing my time
you know i’m still waiting for that definition of “old school” game since apparently every game i consider “old school” like the LOL remake of megaman (which i want to remember had feature like online and a level editor… truly it’s an horrible thing to have extra stuff in your game!) is apparently “hardcore” and therefore doesn’t deserve even any sort of tiny little bitty taste of success
Any yet that online and level editor didn’t equal to sales, did it? Perhaps people should stop pointing to these two things as the be-all and end-all for all games.
seriously does anybody have the courage to not call this game “old school”?
Game looks pretty meh to me. Remember, just because a game is a side scroller doesn’t mean it is an “old school” game. “Old School” gaming is about games having that arcade difficulty and arcade simplicity and be as inviting. Games like Mega Man 9 may have that difficulty and even simplicity, but Mega Man 9 is not inviting. The game was not designed to make new Mega Man fans. This is why the game is a failure and stopped selling after the first wave of consumers.