Mario: Better now or then?

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Dark_Craw

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Has any of the orginal Mario-ness that we all love been lost over the many years of knock-offs and sequels? My favorite Mario game is still Super Mario Bros. 3 all these years. It's just so Mario! Hard to explain. So, anyway, is Mario better than ever, or can he never match his classic greatness? :?:
 
Come one, man, A or B! I'm interested in what you really think about it.

Okay, here's what I think. The Mario now is still Mario. The way the Marioverse has grown is incredible. I love Mario games as much now as before. Although, there will never be another SMB3!
 
Not counting remakes.

I kind of like the in-between time, shortly after NES, during the Super NES, but before the N64. Great games them, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
 
Totally agree. Super Mario World was the bomb, and Yoshi's Island was fun. Shortly after RPG cam Super Mario 64, which was acclaimed by many as "the greatest game ever made." What do you think about that?
 
I don't play it anymore, either. SM64 DS was just something to do, although using Wario is fun.
Iguess the main improvement has been in the writing for the games. Mario and Luigi and Paper Mario 2 made me laugh out loud.
 
Sir Grodus said:
Not counting remakes.

I kind of like the in-between time, shortly after NES, during the Super NES, but before the N64. Great games them, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
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And couldn't agree more... but don't you dare leave Yoshi's Safari and Tetris Attack out.
 
I like the in-between time best too. Especially around the time of Yoshi's Story, Mario Party 1-3, and Paper Mario (so basically the N64 era). Yoshi's Story was my first video game, and it is my third favorite to this day (Paper Mario is my favorite). ^_^ A bunch of nostalgic things came out around that time too: Ocarina of Time, Kirby 64, Majora's Mask, Mario Tennis...

Anyway, though, I have currently been annoyed about how in more recent games (namely Super Mario Strikers and Mario Party 8), Yoshi has been sounding SO bad. I mean, did Kotaka Yumazi (or whatever his name is) die or something? Yoshi always sounded so cute, and now all of the sudden he's sounding like something for 2-year olds...
 
...I was close...
 
I will love the most my "super mario infancy" y grow with him, there's my mario history
-my mom says that I liked mario since I was 1 and 1/2 years old. she was the one who played the super mario bros ,1,2 and 3 and sometimes, my aunt played super mario world,but, that was until they leave that, and I decide to play by myself, and I was a better player than my mom and aunt quickly, but I still don't have a snes. but later, my aunt give me her snes as a gift, I started to play and play the mario bros saga until my nes was damaged and super mario world was the only thing left. but I loved the mario saga too much, that even y had mario as an imaginary friend!!!!!!!!!!! went I was in my favorite central market came the N64, the first thing that I saw was the face of mario in the super mario 64 and I enjoined mimicing him and wen he battles bowser I thought that guy was morton jr, because I din't know annything about him. but, afther I beat bowser in the super mario world, I feel like I saved the world and I begind the game from the start counteless times seeking to