post any random Mario thought on your mind

I think live-rendering is okay at best but I'd like to see something even more top-notch quality, like the recent Wii U renders we're getting, but animated and stuff. I think it would be glorious, actually. The CGI cutscenes are pretty nice to look at, and they can do all that fancy lighting and rendering and high poly models that live rendering can't realistically do.
 
Yeah, it pretty much is. But I don't think any can top Mario Power Tennis's piece of art.
 
Perhaps the developers were busy?

Next Level Games were making Punch Out Wii, Luigi's Mansion, and now that bloody Federation Force game.

Not sure what Square Enix is doing.

Namco might be doing Super Smash Bros. rather than a Mario Baseball game.

And Camelot made Ultra Smash, Tennis Open, and World Tour, but I don't think people loved any of these, maybe except World Tour. And we have the crappy Mario & Sonic stuff, but no one cares about those.

And any potential new Mario Sports... well, can't predict those, but I think there are overall less Mario spinoffs and more Mario platformers. Yeah, we do get some spinoffs like Puzzles and Dragons, Paper Jam, but overall, it didn't feel as big as Mario soccer, Mario baseball, Mario dancing, Mario "monopoly", Mario mahjong, and the others.
 
It really amuses me that looking through the Mario Gallery and before SM64 Mario was really short and stumpy.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Gallery:Mario

But after 64 he got the look he's famous for having these days.
 
And all of a sudden I understand why an incredibly cute character such as Lemmy was conceived as Bowser's son:
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although the prequel was already a sign of things to come:
BowserPM64.png
 

Mario Pinball land always made me lament the fact that the GBA never got an isometric Mario platformer.

It looks beautiful for a GBA game and even kept certain classic elements of Mario intact that the modern games seem to ignore, primarily the whole ''landscape has eyes'' thing.
 
Mcmadness said:
the whole ''landscape has eyes'' thing.
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They went too far with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and realized too late that they surpassed the event horizon...
Yep, the sun has eyes:

Try to count the number of eyes in this video:
 
Mister Wu said:
Yep, the sun has eyes
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I imagined it as an Angry Sun type of thing where the sun has a face, and it should be noted that Desert Hills (DS) have that Angry Sun. Of course, I didn't think it's about the sun having actual eyes, which is something I didn't notice until now.

Thanks for reading.