Zero Punctuation: Super Mario 3D World
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I feel that at this point Mario needs gritty reboot
Mario- obese plumber with drinking problems
Luigi- weed smoking brother of Mario with PTSD (after 2 tours in Afghanistan)
Peach- independent prostitute that Mario regularly buys
Bowser- local pimp
Story: Bowser and Peach gets into conflict because Bowser don't like independent girls working on his territory. In process Bowser kidnaps her with intent to sell her. Mario find it out. Luigi pulls some of his old contacts and gets weapons. Armed to the teeth Mario and Luigi goes against Bowser and his goons. Ultra-violent shenanigans ensue.
P.S. Although that kinda reminds me plot of Super
Mario- obese plumber with drinking problems
Luigi- weed smoking brother of Mario with PTSD (after 2 tours in Afghanistan)
Peach- independent prostitute that Mario regularly buys
Bowser- local pimp
Story: Bowser and Peach gets into conflict because Bowser don't like independent girls working on his territory. In process Bowser kidnaps her with intent to sell her. Mario find it out. Luigi pulls some of his old contacts and gets weapons. Armed to the teeth Mario and Luigi goes against Bowser and his goons. Ultra-violent shenanigans ensue.
P.S. Although that kinda reminds me plot of Super
Oh god. After a whole generation of avoiding anything that even smells like social interaction with strangers over the Internet because Nintendo has exactly as much faith in humanity as they ought to, they've gone all the way over the edge and started forcing said interaction into games even in non-online mode in the stupidest possible way.
No, sorry, I don't care if Yahtzee compared your system favorably to the Xbox One and PS4; that is officially the stupidest "feature" I've heard of in a game all year, and Sony and Microsoft are going to have to try to beat it.
No, sorry, I don't care if Yahtzee compared your system favorably to the Xbox One and PS4; that is officially the stupidest "feature" I've heard of in a game all year, and Sony and Microsoft are going to have to try to beat it.
VHS? Dude, Beta tape is where it's at.FPLOON said:
I had forgotten about the Wii U until you mentioned it, Yahtzee. Nintendo doesn't care about keeping Mario fresh because they know their audience is either under the age of 10 and has an attention span of 2 seconds or people in their 20's who still play Super Mario 64.
Alright, I'm gonna call Yahtzee's top 5 now:
-Papers Please
-Bioshock Infinite
-Luigi's Mansion 2
-Saints Row 4
-Aaaaand for the last one I'm going to make a crazy (And probably wrong) guess - just because Yahtzee said at the expo that his personal list is based on games he thinks people should play, I'm going to go ahead and guess Ride to Hell: Retribution
(I'm not going to bother trying to guess the bottom five, because there are SO MANY from this year)
-Papers Please
-Bioshock Infinite
-Luigi's Mansion 2
-Saints Row 4
-Aaaaand for the last one I'm going to make a crazy (And probably wrong) guess - just because Yahtzee said at the expo that his personal list is based on games he thinks people should play, I'm going to go ahead and guess Ride to Hell: Retribution
(I'm not going to bother trying to guess the bottom five, because there are SO MANY from this year)
I think it's a combination of three things.rutcommapat2013 said:
1) Yahtzee's mellowing out with age (was it last Escapist Expo where he said he was trying to be less negative?).
2) Game devs are better at the craft of making games. Aside from rare exceptions like Aliens: Colonial Marines, it's rare to see major game-breaking bugs, terrible graphics, or utterly broken games from the AAA market anymore. Even the most derivative, mediocre AAA game will still be competently made, have decent graphics and sound, workable controls, and passable voice-acting.
3) You especially expect to see this at the end of a console generation, after devs have spent 6 or 7 years mastering the capabilities of the systems and how to maximize their potential. We might see buggier, broken games again as devs start developing for the new-gen consoles, but it probably won't be as pronounced as previous generational shifts: the Xbox One and PS4 are basically just more powerful versions of their predecessors, and both are basically just dedicated gaming PCs. There's no radical shift in hardware capabilities to overcome this time. The only exception might be the WiiU, but since only Nintendo seems to be developing for it, they probably have a better handle on its capabilities than a 3rd-party dev would.
The nice thing about the comments is that you can turn them off. In fact, if I remember, the game actively asks you if you want them before it turns them on. And this is the game that made me confident that there's at least one furry working on Mario. The resurgence of the Tanuki outfit, and now cat suits that make them actually act like cats? As Yahtzee said, someone out there is getting off to it.
Haha, is it weird that I came here just to post that I was happy to hear him mention Bushido Blade?Zachary Amaranth said:
Speaking of SMB2...those fairies. Didn't MovieBob in one of his little extra blurbs at the end of one of his Escape to the Movies spots look at said fairies and make a comparison to the fairy-like things you save at the end of SMB2? I'm kinda thinking SM3DW may very well be SMB2 ver 2.0 WiiU.
Heh...actually "furry" might be right, Yahtzee. Look at many of the powerups through the years: Raccoon, Tanuki, Frog, Hammer/Boomerang Bros. (basically a turtle), Rabbit, Bee, Emolg...er Flying Squirrel, and now Cat. Ya gotta wonder...
Heh...actually "furry" might be right, Yahtzee. Look at many of the powerups through the years: Raccoon, Tanuki, Frog, Hammer/Boomerang Bros. (basically a turtle), Rabbit, Bee, Emolg...er Flying Squirrel, and now Cat. Ya gotta wonder...
Nope, totally smiled when he mentioned Bushido Blade as well.Zachary Amaranth said:
Also the Yahtzee x Luigi bromance.
Totally. Weirdo. >.>Lightknight said:
I always thought Bushido Blade had a lot of potential. No store near me stocked the sequel, though, so I don't know if it was better or worse. So it hits this interesting nostalgia button where I love it more for what it could have been (though it wasn't a bad game).
Me neither but that 5 story drop to concrete seems like a tempting experience now.CWestfall said:
But seriously... Does Nintendo have some kind of fetish towards bondage and kidnapping things? If it is not the princess then it is some random... thing...
Also why call it Mario if there is 4 playable characters equal in ability?
Is it just me or has things with Mario in the name lately been less about mario and more about... Some other things...
They already have, it's called "Eye Cancer".Steve the Pocket said:
...I'm being told I'm not allowed to refer to Twitch Chat as "Eye Cancer" X3
I think there should be a second video commentary where a new forum gets pick each week, where Yahtzee rips in to it on the comments posted there since that part of the video was one of the funniest parts i have seen in a long time, almost as good as the "spunk gargled wee wee" games.
BB2 was much better. Better graphics and gameplay with basically the same idea. I loved that game.Zachary Amaranth said:
A BB3 would be much appreciated. Something about the lack of a health bar that made the game so unique. The way you could injure a limb or instantly kill just gives more weight to individual rounds. The use of feints to trick your opponents like in the real world fencing and the danger of each action just sticks with me. What a great game. Square Enix owns the rights to it, I think. I know I'd buy it and it doesn't need to be cutting edge graphics.
Don't think Yahtzee made it to the end of the game.
The social feature is optional.Steve the Pocket said: