Hideo Kojima Loves Super Mario Bros a Bit Too Much

[More Fun To Compute]

Super Mario Brothers inspired him to make games with 2 hour long cut scenes.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

I find it ironic that he praises a series of games to the point of calling it the greatest invention of mankind that is 99% gameplay and then has horrifyingly long cutscenes in his own games.

Well, he also praises the game for it's "cerebral philosophy." I think he might have been playing a much different version of the game than the rest of us.

 

[Hippobatman]

Funk, I just have to ask: why all the Nintendo hate???

Um...is this an attempt at sarcasm-fueled humor? I think perhaps something has been lost in translation.

I don't see why this is news worthy at all. Hideo's just sharing his admiration of the game, a game that truly did revolutionize gaming history; it's probably just me but Funk takes every opportunity to take random stabs at Nintendo for no reason whatsoever.

Don't worry about it, man.

I didn't find this as a "stab" at Nintendo. Heck, Funk is the Mr. Pokémon around here, so I do believe he's not opposed to the company.

Furthermore, don't expect every day to have a revolutionary news case, 'cause that doesn't happen too often. I liked this, made me feel good. It's Mario's 25th anniversary anyway, so anything related to that is worth reading, given that you like Mario.

My $0.02..

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Well, he also praises the game for it's "cerebral philosophy." I think he might have been playing a much different version of the game than the rest of us.

The design philosophy of SMB was very intelligent for the time.

 

[John Funk]

I find it ironic that he praises a series of games to the point of calling it the greatest invention of mankind that is 99% gameplay and then has horrifyingly long cutscenes in his own games.

Well, he also praises the game for it's "cerebral philosophy." I think he might have been playing a much different version of the game than the rest of us.

I'm not sure he is. Think about the very first screen of World 1-1. You have a goomba walking toward you and a ? block. You have precisely two tools: move and jump. That first screen teaches you, jump on goombas, jump to hit blocks, mushrooms make you grow.

That first screen teaches you everything you need to know about the entire gameplay of Super Mario. It teaches you simplicity and builds complexity from there. It's deceptively brilliant.

Funk, I just have to ask: why all the Nintendo hate???

Um...is this an attempt at sarcasm-fueled humor? I think perhaps something has been lost in translation.

I don't see why this is news worthy at all. Hideo's just sharing his admiration of the game, a game that truly did revolutionize gaming history; it's probably just me but Funk takes every opportunity to take random stabs at Nintendo for no reason whatsoever.

Er, excuse me?

I invite you to look at anything I've written about Pokemon or Super Mario Galaxy/64/World. I'd be more likely to think someone would call me a Nintendo FANBOY than the other way around...

 

[Beefjerky]

Can't say I disagree with him!

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I still love that picture. I wish every mainstream gaming-as-a-business name were attached to a goofy picture. Although, the evidence of the polarity between the two game types is pretty radical. Although, if you think about it, he's kinda got a point. Can you imagine gaming as a media had we not had SMB? Interesting to think that Mario has stayed relatively the same game play to story ratio, while other games have evolved into movies with controllable characters.

 

[dex-dex]

that's nice to know.

so he likes to a bit more than the average gamer and is embellishing a bit.

 

[LittleChone]

You can never love Mario Bros too much.
NEVER!!!!!

 

[The_Spirit_of_Epic]

just imagine if Hideo Kojima and Shigeru Miyamoto got together and made one epic game.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I invite you to look at anything I've written about Pokemon or Super Mario Galaxy/64/World. I'd be more likely to think someone would call me a Nintendo FANBOY than the other way around...

I have no idea why people think your hating on Nintendo...

(Crap you probably know more about Pokemon that me, and for a while in my home town I was known as the master XD)

 

[-Samurai-]

The man knows what he's talking about. It's good to see one developer praising another. He acknowledges his roots, and that's respectful.

He looks awesome on that picture, too. Like he's doing some extremely serious thinking on that duck.

 

[Gigaguy64]

And i pretty much agree with Kojima.
For a insane man he makes sense a lot of the time.

SMB was a huge Risk at the time, it did things that many people hadn't even considered, and they way it taught you about the game and the progressively forced you to be come better was ingenious at the time.

Plus, it never got old(for me at least).
Its still one of the funnest games around.

 

[feeback06]

Well he's right up to a certain point. The whole "one of mankind's greatest inventions" comment is a bit much though.

 

[Skorpyo]

Can't say that the man doesn't have a point.

Just sayin...

 

[Saltyk]

Can't say that I'm surprised that Hideo Kojima takes games very seriously. I've seen other interviews with him where he basically says that video games are the most incredible form of art and expression we have ever created. Can't say that I disagree with the man.

Oh Hideo Kojima, one of these days we're gonna have to drop you, Richard Gariot, and Peter Molyneux into a small room and see what insane star child of gaming is born.

It would either create the most brillant game designer of all time. Or the worst. And then, the universe would implode.

 

[Jezzy54]

"One of mankind's greatest inventions". Yes, you have the airplane, the telephone, the lightbulb, and a game about a plumber jumping on stuff.