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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Originally posted by: JediSage

Sadly I hate that one too. SMSS is another one that's mediocre in my book. RE4 is a sweet game that I really need to get.


O_O... Jedi, dude... you're killing me here. Sunshine was certainly no classic, but to call it 'mediocre'?... Just wow...

As for Resident Evil V, I'm holding out hope that Capcom will announce it for the 360 as well. It's probably a long shot--yet I simply cannot afford to support games and accessories for five consoles and three hand-helds. Heck, I can't support what I've got! My mom gave me Call of Duty 3 for Christmas and that's still the ONLY X-Box 360 game I own.


You're drinking the fan-boy kool-aid chalts...

Mediocre is generous.
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Originally posted by: JediSage

You're drinking the fan-boy kool-aid chalts...

Mediocre is generous.


Sage, dude, I'm the first to say that Sunshine doesn't feel enough like a Mario game. It's nowhere near as good as Super Mario 64, nowhere near as good as Super Mario World or SMB3. But 'Mediocre' is equating it with your bland generic beat'em ups. Even as many missteps as it made, Sunshine is a cut above most other platformers. Are you sure you're not the one on 'fanboy gatorade' or whatever the smeg you call it.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Are you sure you're not the one on 'fanboy gatorade' or whatever the smeg you call it.


I suddenly feel the urge to watch some Red Dwarf...

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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I feel the urge to play Dragons Lair. Even though I've never played it.
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Mario Sunshine was awesome. Anyone who thinks it is 'mediocre' is a dipshit.
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I think so too, but I doubt Sage will take kindly to that insult.

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Sorry, my inner Hotrod was coming out. I was just doing some friendly breaking balls, Sage. But you said it right, Chaltab. While some may not have liked Sunshine, and the water tank may not have been their cup of tea, in the grand scheme of video games, it was far from mediocre.
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Who cares. It's just a game.



Now THEM THAR be fightin' words.
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Mario Sunshine was a lot of fun. It was not an amazing game by historical standards though. Miyamoto's last truly as-of-yet-undefeated, game-play feat was Yoshi's Island (in my opinion of course).

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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Mario Sunshine was a lot of fun. It was not an amazing game by historical standards though. Miyamoto's last truly as-of-yet-undefeated, game-play feat was Yoshi's Island (in my opinion of course).


Surely you don't mean the N64 Yoshi's Island? Because that game was made of AIDS and fail.

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Originally posted by: Tiptup
Mario Sunshine was a lot of fun. It was not an amazing game by historical standards though. Miyamoto's last truly as-of-yet-undefeated, game-play feat was Yoshi's Island (in my opinion of course).


Surely you don't mean the N64 Yoshi's Island? Because that game was made of AIDS and fail.


If he meant the N64 version he would have called it Yoshi's Story, since, you know, that's what the game was called.

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Originally posted by: Windexed
Sorry, my inner Hotrod was coming out. I was just doing some friendly breaking balls, Sage. But you said it right, Chaltab. While some may not have liked Sunshine, and the water tank may not have been their cup of tea, in the grand scheme of video games, it was far from mediocre.


You're misinterpreting my take on it. I meant that it's mediocre in terms of Mario games...not "games" in general. It's definitely enjoyable, but hardly a "great" Mario title.
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Mario Sunshine was a lot of fun. It was not an amazing game by historical standards though. Miyamoto's last truly as-of-yet-undefeated, game-play feat was Yoshi's Island (in my opinion of course).


Never got into that one much. Tried playing it a few times, but ultimately found it annoying and not too entertaining. Perhaps I didn't give it enough of a chance. I had high hopes for it since it was subtitled Super Mario World 2 and all, but I felt it didn't live up to SMW (which was a near perfect Mario game in my opinion. Absolutely fantastic. Especially if you played it from the context of upgrading from an NES with the wonderful SMB3 to a SNES when it first came out). The one thing about SMW that has always bothered me from day one is that the gumbas don't quite look right. They look more like balls with feet than walking mushrooms.

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Well, honestly, I think that the whole "evil mushroom" thing was just something the English localization team came up with for their instruction manual to SMB. Notice how they're rarely referred to as that in any recent game. And take the Goombas' real name: Kuribo, which is a pun on the Japanese word for "chestnut" (similar to Kuririn or Kuriza from Dragon Ball), and you might start to realize where these people were going with this.

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The Goombas in SMW, even if they look different, still aren't nearly as bad as the Goombas in the Super Mario Bros. movie.

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Those Goombas were just friggin' creepy. Tiny little heads on big burly bodies... *shudder*

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Does anyone subscribe to Nintendo Power? I remember getting several issues when it was first published, then I let it lapse, which combined with my not getting any Nintendo console after the NES is ANOTHER mistake I'm kicking myself for.
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Well, honestly, I think that the whole "evil mushroom" thing was just something the English localization team came up with for their instruction manual to SMB. Notice how they're rarely referred to as that in any recent game. And take the Goombas' real name: Kuribo, which is a pun on the Japanese word for "chestnut" (similar to Kuririn or Kuriza from Dragon Ball), and you might start to realize where these people were going with this.


I must admit, they do look very much like chestnuts in Super Mario World, however they are very mushroom like in any previous and following Mario game. In Mario RPG and Mario 64 they are very mushroom like. I am personally very fond of the mushroom shaped goombas. I could care less about the "evil mushroom" story, it is just that they have always explicitly resembled mushrooms and they were by far always the coolest Bowser's minions. I find consistency an admirable trait in evil minions.

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
The Goombas in SMW, even if they look different, still aren't nearly as bad as the Goombas in the Super Mario Bros. movie.


Nanner, what are you talking about??? There is no "Super Mario Bros." movie. That would be a dumb idea, Nintendo would never dream of that. You're just being silly!

EDIT: D'oh! Double post.

Sage, about letting your Nintendo Power subscription lapse, no need to kick youself for that. A friend of mine subscribed to it back in the N64 days and it really sucked. It was at its prime back in the SNES days. As far as kicking yourself for not buying another Nintendo system after the NES... hang on a second, I will be right over to help you with the kicking.

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Originally posted by: JediSage
Does anyone subscribe to Nintendo Power? I remember getting several issues when it was first published, then I let it lapse, which combined with my not getting any Nintendo console after the NES is ANOTHER mistake I'm kicking myself for.


Nintendo Power was pretty crappy during the N64 and early Gamecube days. They barely even acknowledged that Nintendo even HAD competation back then.

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