Help me understand Mario. What's the appeal? It's just running right and making sure you run into the coins or w/e. That's not a game.
Help me understand Mario. What's the appeal?
Help me understand Mario. What's the appeal? It's just running right and making sure you run into the coins or w/e. That's not a game.
There's nothing else to undertsand
You don't understand, the obstacles are the game.
Having to press jump is an obstacle? For who?
its hard for toddlers, okay
Kirby fans
Specially those that think the rtd rehashes or forgotten land were goty material
Yes. Timing and precision. Granted Mario games are rarely super challenging, but it feels satisfying to run through the games as quickly or stylistically as possible
It's a videogame I believe (just a theory)
agreed, old side scrolling marios were actually difficult. the new ones are baby shit
>Help me understand video games. What's the appeal? It's just pushing buttons and making sure you don't die or w/e. That's not a hobby.
Do you honestly face any adversity or the need to think or react playing Mario
Yeah, the good sidescrolling Mario games are pretty tough.
You could always try playing one instead of claiming the most go-to series video game somehow isn't a video game.
I have. It's just moving right and collecting coins.
>the most go-to series video game
How could you call Justin Bieber's ART not MUSIC? He's BELOVED by millions CHUD
How is it not music, moron?
>still butthurt about JB
Are you from 2010? How's life in the past?
>what's fun about an obstacle course where you try to get to a goal, while the game throws shit in your path to impede you
I don't know man. It doesn't even have XP.
Where are the cutscenes? Talking to other characters while pushing on forward? Throwing the epic axe boomerang at enemies? Painstakingly climbing cliffs while avoiding debris? This just isn't a real game, it's a toy for toddlers.
This but unironically GOW is kino and tendies gaslighting will never succeed
Listen to me you little shit, this was one of the most thrilling video games back in the day. hold the sprint button and forward down and you are in for a ride
on the one hand i think you're a moron for not calling it a real game
on the other i do kinda agree that wonder doesn't look that different to NSMB and it makes me wonder what the point is when we have mario maker
They said themselves the Mario Maker was the last word on NSMB, and they would have to do something different if they ever made another full 2D Mario, which they seem to be trying to do. Time will tell if it's a significant step forward for the formula, or just a bunch of gimmicks though.
yeah i guess so
it basically has to be as big a difference as mario 3 was to the original mario but for nsmb if we look at it as "significant enough to be a new game" and i don't know if the gliding and pushing are enough to justify that so far
Seems like they're focused on doing lots of weird things with the level design. That power up that makes the world around you transform is obviously going to be a huge thing.
It's merely going to transform a level from being a static Mario level to one with moving obstacles, but Mario levels have had moving obstacles since forever. What I'm saying is that the whole "gimmick" is a scam.
depends how it's done cause honestly as it stands it just feels a bit like trying to ape kirby level design but with a mario spin
at the very least it doesn't look like a bad game and op is a moron for thinking it doesn't count
You're absolutely right, 2D platformers are hardly a game and even VN's like ace attorney require more interaction, yet you have crowds saying the latter isn't a game and nothing about the former because it's popular. Curious you'll see a lot of people on Ganker claiming to be redditors, yet they fall in the same pattern of thinking regarding this.
This some kind of new made-up zoomer mental illness, isn't it?
Pretending you can't imagine a fricking apple wasn't enough. Now they're going to list inability to perceive two dimensional planes in their bios.
Eric on literal suicide watch once again
All games sound dumb and pointless when you boil them down to their basic components.
Wait till I tell you this: all games are just you pressing buttons on a plastic thingamabob.
If your game can be boiled down to pressing buttons for no reason with no adversity with no story with nothing at all, it's not a game
fr fr we all need some more of that horizon and spiderman!!
>if a game has content it bad
>Sony gay joins the thread
You guys stick out like a troony in a kindergartner.
Most of these Mario games let you know why you're pushing the buttons within the first few minutes. The ones that don't have that in-game all had it in the manual.
The story to the first game actually puts a lot of emotional weight behind every block that Mario or Luigi breaks. You might be into it.
>for no reason
do inputs only matter if they are flashing QTE prompts?
this, everything can be reduced to something dumb.
>FPS are games where you click on people's heads
Platformers are for children and manchildren.
Dont try to understand what the appeal is.
It will sell million because parents will buy it for their children to keep them occupied, not because people are looking for an engaging and stimulating experience.
The appeal is ease of movement, acrobatics, and weaving a character through tightly designed obstacle courses. If you don't get it, it's not for you.
Don't worry about it. Play your "very grown up" games, where you character is planted to the ground, and talks at you while you move stiffly through hallways, and pick up crafting materials. You're an adult. You can handle those themes.
>What's the appeal?
You run and jump through obstacles courses surrounded by pretty scenery and set to good music. The characters in these games have a very tangible sense of momentum to their movements that adds to the challenge of navigating said obstacle courses. Power-ups further add variety to the gameplay, and clear times and high scores encourage replayability.
Also, nostalgia, obviously. The first NES game was a legitimately ground-breaking video game that left a lasting impact on the platforming genre and is one of the most iconic games to have ever existed. There have also been several sequels to that game that all enjoyed equal or greater global popularity than the first game. The series has been consistently popular for nearly forty years and was likely among one of the first video game series that a lot of people in their twenties and older played as kids.
But you already knew all of that. You just wanted to see if someone was bored enough to write this.
I swear we've had more dipshit threads like this since reddit started their protest.
Their what?
What's reddit doing lately, anon?
It's summer and kids have more time to be moronic
I don't understand why Ganker has a boner for this, but seems to hate the NSMB games. It's literally the same. It will play exactly the same with few extra gimmicks. It will be toddler level of difficulty. They literally only changed the art style a little.
I'm not Ganker and merely someone who posts here sometimes, but my biggest gripe with the New series was the artstyle.
I didn't play all of them, just NSMB, NSMB Wii and NSMB 2, but I didn't think they were bad games. The Wii game was actually really good. The 3DS game, 2, was a huge disappointment, though. It was a very short game that didn't feel like it was worth what I paid for it.
>What's the appeal
Dunno OP.
Maybe a videogame is just to be video + game.
Maybe a video + movie, would be more fun to you, but then again, mario is a videogame, not a video+movie.
just play SMW, is fun.
>what's the appeal
Playing local co-op with friends. Something the snoy doesn't understand or have
>everyone else:.........
>you: S-S-S-SNOY!
Rent free.
yeah, if only sony had come up with 4 player platforming coop before nintendo
oh wait....
Help me understand DOOM. What's the appeal? It's just running around and making sure you shoot the enemies or w/e. That's not a game
You can actually fail in Doom
>You can actually fail in Doom
And not in Mario games ? Are you moronic ? They're infamous for their difficulty.
You can't fail in a Mario game
Try it again as an adult and report back
Literally every time I pick up Mario 3, I say "this'll be really easy now that i'm so skilled at games", and it isn't.
I bet you haven't played it.
That's kind of embarrassing.
Why would I play a game I don't enjoy? I'm not a redditoid.
>mario 3 is hard
HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
It's harder than like every "hard" game that comes out these days, and a lot of "hard" games from back then. It's harder than Castlevania, Contra, a lot of the Megamans.
At what point can we accept it's actually a hard game? Does it have to be Battletoads?
Bro, 3 is easier than world and that's already a fricking joke, only literal morons and women think mario is hard
my sister loves to play fricking mario 3 and I'm happy is the few games she plays on her phone.
kys
Whats your high score in The Lost Levels
The 2nd Super Mario Bros ever.
It's a white person thing. Same reason why they go on "hikes".
But it's made by Japs for their Jap children
And Nintendo consoles always have the most racially diverse audience in the West
>Bing bing wahoo is like climbing a mountain irl
>That's not a game
You progress in a level. By running right yes, that's how you advance in a level in most 2D games. You dodge or attack enemies, you collect things, you explore hidden paths, some items give you abilities, you can die because of environment hazards or if you get hit a few times, etc.
There. I just described a game. Mario games are quintessential examples of video games.
I don't like Mario, it doesn't interest me, I played maybe 4 mario games in 20+ years of gaming but you'd have to be really moronic and contrarian to think it doesn't qualify as a game.
Running into a wall to see how many times you can hit yourself in the head until you pass out is.. le game
See
I just proved it
>I just proved it
No, you just said something really dumb and possibly slightly on the schizo spectrum.
I just posted on a board
for (yous)
with a limited time (bump limit)
I explore the seethe of anons
This is a game
Mario is not
Mario is OLD and SHIT guys. I'm a young person or at least pretend to be and do not care about your opinion. TAKE THAT.
my frickin monocle pop off my face when I read this shit? what the deuce?
Why did OP asking people why they enjoy Mario cause so much absolute seethe? That's not the sign of a good franchise.
LUIGI U IS FUN AND CHALLENGING.
YOU ALL NEED TO PLAY
Help me understand Snoyslop. What's the appeal? It's just walking around and making sure you run into a cutscene. That's not a game.
Gameplay gets in the way of good storytelling.
They knew what they were doing
>Good storytelling
>Choose between revenge bad, family, doing "what's right" for yourself and when you run out of that put some gender/sexual related shit as the main plot point to earn good boy points
i didnt know totk was a snoy game