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2D Mario vs. 3D Mario - Nintendo Podcast

IGN - Which era of Mario games comes out on top?

johny53740d ago (Edited 3740d ago )

Funny how Mario "a so called Italian" goes from having brown skin and dark eyes to milky white skin and blue eyes....diffidently not how most Italians are depicted!

jcnba283740d ago

There are a lot of white Italians in Italy but I get what you mean. Maybe they lightened his skin tone to appeal more to the western audience.

johny53740d ago (Edited 3740d ago )

I'm just stating the obvious!

There are a lot of games where dark skin, dark eyed people are seen as evil or malevolent "Except if your Kratos or live in Japan"

What's scary is the fact that these games that are geared towards children may make them think having Dark skin is bad or people of Dark Skin are dangerous!

This could bread indifference and Racism!

By the way I prefer 2D Mario.

KonsoruMasuta3740d ago

Who cares? He is also supposed to be a plumber, even though we never see him act like one.

contradictory3740d ago

Super Mario: Plumber Simulator 2014
someone should make that happen.
have mario plug Toad's smelly toilet
now that's a game i'd pay for!
( i'm just joking, the true gamer spends their money on Goat Simulator )

Loadedklip3740d ago

I preferred the original 2D Mario's more for their time (still amazing today) but for today ... I prefer 3D Marios.

Today's 2D Marios are still great but built more as a retro game and not to truly innovate the franchise. Not saying they are cheap but it's clear their intention is more to rekindled nostalgia and not really to bring something new other than multiplayer. Again ... this is not a bad thing and judging from the sales of the "NEW" Mario Bros series ... clearly Nintendo did the right call.

With that said 3D Marios are given true AAA quality, attention and innovates so I prefer 3D Marios.

contradictory3740d ago

personally i like both equally.

DualWielding3740d ago

2D Mario, I gave up on Mario after playing a few hours of Mario 64 and didn't came back until New Super Mario Bros on the DS.... The only 3D Mario I like is 3D Land (haven't played 3D world cuz don't have a Wii U) because it plays and feel like a 2D mario. However even 3D land is not as good as 2D mario's because perception of depth issues constantly get you screwed (unless you use 3D but I hate having to hold the 3DS in the same position to keep the effect)...

Actually is not just Mario, platformers as a genre simply work much better on 2D

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Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music

It should come as no surprise that Nintendo is pretty protective regarding its IP. Going after emulators, ROM hacks, and reproductions is one thing, but it looks like the firm is starting to aim its sights on something rather surprising: sheet music.

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CrimsonWing693d ago

Nintendo sure knows how to take the fun out of everything.

MeteorPanda3d ago

this reminds me of that nintendo facebook social media question where they asked people what their favourite nintendo song was and people posted yt links. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS TAKEN DOWN

Knightofelemia3d ago

You want to kill a party fast just invite Nintendo. But we are talking about a company who took down pictures of a strategy guide that has never appeared in the west. You don't see Square taking down music or sheet music to Aerith's theme, Tifa's theme, June Mermaid. Memorable tunes stick with fans to great games. Nintendo games have fans that have been routed since the NES. People have Youtube vids showing how to play Zelda's lullaby on piano, violin or my favorite the harp. Nintendo taking down sheet music or those curious about a Japanese strategy guide makes Nintendo look like an asshole to those fans.

PRIMORDUS2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Torrent and Usenet is the way. Imagine if all these people just share game music, roms, fan remakes in that way instead of on a website. Nintendo would be so helpless and cannot do anything we all win LOL

gold_drake3d ago

its abit ridiculous at this point.

PRIMORDUS2d ago

Out of spite those people should now out put all that music in a torrent upload and share it (I will seed for them🤣) Then email Nintendo the link to it lol. Good luck taking down a torrent. Torrents and Usenet is the only way to get around anything Nintendo tries to take down because they can't. This is the way to preserve games and game music, without anyone telling you otherwise.

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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration

The latest Switch firmware update kills off support for the Elon Musk-owned social media company.

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Jin_Sakai11d ago

Could care less. I use consoles to play games not for social media.

Cacabunga10d ago

Social garbage should be abandoned altogether.. the world is stupid since these things got introduced

senorfartcushion10d ago

I would say YouTube was more to blame for this weird unrest we are seeing at the minute. That platform has given license to some of the stupidest people to build advice channels for kids growing through their formative learning years. It's no wonder there are so many incels around.

z2g10d ago

The world was stupid before that. Social media just let you see it.

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z2g10d ago

It’s for posting content like game captures, not responding to your boo’s pool pictures.

But F twitter anyway

CrashMania11d ago

And nothing of value was lost, that site is a cesspit.

purple10111d ago (Edited 11d ago )

correction, was a cesspit,

now more of just a swamp / everglades / marshland

gold_drake11d ago

not sure who actually used it in the first placd

Vithar10d ago

Good, Twitter is getting worst than 4chan

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos33d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H932d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX32d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H932d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro32d ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos31d ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger8832d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk7732d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos32d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris32d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day