My stance on the New Super Mario Bros. games

I still think the timer is stupid
 
Lives are dumb and outdated. I'm still waiting for Nintendo to do away with them.
 
Mario's Drunken Holiday Special said:
Lives are dumb and outdated. I'm still waiting for Nintendo to do away with them.
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I think it's something from the arcade days? Because Kirby still uses them, however the punishment isn't as severe.
 
Yes, it is a relic of the arcade days. Kirby should also do away with them; Mass Attack didn't have it.
 
You should really play Pikmin. It does away with all those cliches. No lives, and 2 and 3 let you take as much time as you need, however in 3 you need to keep your juice levels up- that's not hard though.
 
or you guys could just switch genres

i mean seriously if you're fed up with lives, one of the staples of this genre, then you should probably just go play a good FPS or something
 
Dr. Javelin said:
or you guys could just switch genres

i mean seriously if you're fed up with lives, one of the staples of this genre, then you should probably just go play a good FPS or something
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Lives aren't a staple. They're an outdated relic from the arcade age that serves no purpose other than additional time to program and that jazz. There are many platformers that don't use lives, and they're pretty well off.
 
Mario's Drunken Holiday Special said:
Lives aren't a staple. They're an outdated relic from the arcade age that serves no purpose other than additional time to program and that jazz. There are many platformers that don't use lives, and they're pretty well off.
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Like Rayman?
 
Dr. Javelin said:
okay, it's a staple of nintendo games

i mean they can't just do away with the 1-up mushroom entirely!
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Easy: find a more useful purpose for coins and have 1-up Mushrooms equate to checkpoints or more coins.

Giga12 said:
Mario's Drunken Holiday Special said:
Lives aren't a staple. They're an outdated relic from the arcade age that serves no purpose other than additional time to program and that jazz. There are many platformers that don't use lives, and they're pretty well off.
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Like Rayman?
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Yep. Except for the 1st Rayman.