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lolno, Galaxy was more streamlined, it cut the massive amount of bull**** SM64 and Sunshine had and went straight to the platforming, anyone who thinks the Galaxy series was garbage should seriously stop playing videogames.
Super Mario 3D World isn't original? Just because it has similarities with SM3DL that doesn't mean they're the same game. First 3D Mario with local multiplayer support sounds pretty original to me.
I'd love to hear what game source you primarily use when it comes to game scores and reviews. The point of the metacritic list was to highlight how successful the Galaxy series has been by both critics and gamers alike, sales aside.
I specifically went out of my way in the post to clarify that what I meant by the use of the word 'original' in this case, so please reread it.
Metacritic, and game reviews in general, are totally unreliable for many, many reasons. A lot of the time, reviewers don't get to actually finish the games before they have to write reviews. Games will get unreasonably high scores just because they're overhyped or from a big-name series. Games will get unfairly low scores because they're difficult, the reviewer just doesn't understand the game, or they're reviewing a game from a genre they don't usually like. Some reviewers only use the 7-10 scale (coughIGNcough), while others actually use the full 0-10 range. Reviewers can be bribed. Competitive games like fighting games or MOBAs are usually only judged by their presentation and content, while the core gameplay (i.e. the single most important part) will just get a "Yeah, it's good" regardless of if it actually is or not. The list goes on and on. In the end, when you try to compile all of this into one score, what you end up with is a number that ultimately means nothing.
I dropped galaxy 2 within 30 or so stars.....
I think that says your opinion. You've literally just said that in your own opinion your opinion says a lot. That opinion is wrong, man. Galaxy is fine, and allows a lot of versatility.I dropped galaxy 2 within 30 or so stars.....
SM64 & Sunshine completed 100/
I think that says alot...
''In my Opnion''
Let me ask you this then... If the Wii U weren't struggling as it is currently sales wise would you support the idea of a Galaxy 3? Yes or no?
Nobody's stupid enough to look at a Metacritic score and immediately say "WOW THAT'S AN AMAZING/TERRIBLE GAME." That's not my point. Metacritic scores are good to look at when you need to know what the general public thinks about a game since the score is based on a compilation of multiple reviews from both big game reviewers that could possibly be bribed and smaller ones alike, NOT how good the game is itself. Most of the time the scores reflect this pretty accurately. Even if you don't trust professional reviewers you can check out the "User Scores" as well which are scored by regular peeps like us. My example is just one of many that proves how well received the Galaxy series is. Bottom line is that even if you don't trust Metacritic or whatever my point still stands, Mario Galaxy is one of the highest acclaimed games of all time.
The user scores are even worse. :/
I would never support the idea of Galaxy 3.
NSMB is notorious. They even directly copy pasted some cover art over.
If you look closer, you can see that Nintendo has basically done that with almost every Mario game since 2005ish.
Really though, how many ways can you put four characters in a 2D area? Unless you put them in a 3D plane, (which would be false advertising as far as casual Mario fans are concerned) they're pretty much doomed to look the same.
The Wiimote isn't a gimmick, neither is the GamePad.
Well, you're the only one that thinks that.
No, I don't see what's the problem with new control methods, the Wiimote wasn't for everyone, but the GamePad offers one amazing experience, it's just so smooth and pleasing to use it. Also, 'no one really likes'? I liked the Wiimote a lot, and I LOVE the Gamepad, I've loved it from the moment it was announced.
gimmick
I don't normally like to side with D-idara, But you walked right into that one.
Ignoring that both the wiimote and the game pad have alienated many 3rd party devs from producing for Nintendo consoles?
Cough cough Mario Galaxy one and two, and Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword cough cough
Skyward Sword wasn't really particularly great though.
Say what you will about Skyward Sword, but the controls were definitely one of its greatest strengths.
No they kinda weren't though because they had a tendency not to register every now and again. You may think that's acceptable, but if someone were to tell you Mario wouldn't jump 1 time out of 10 when you pressed A, you would probably consider that to be totally unacceptable, because it sort of is.
Any problems with the controls were on your end, and same goes with whoever else complains about it. They were perfect for me 100% of the time.
The fact that problems exist on many people's ends is cause enough for concern, stop being obtuse.
If the sensor bar is on top of the TV and aligned in the middle, you're sitting aligned with the sensor bar and a reasonable distance from the TV, there's no source of IR interference, you put the Wiimote on a flat surface when it asks you to calibrate it, and you don't do anything stupid like hold the Wiimote upside down, then the controls will work. Of course, that is a lot of setting-up required compared to just using a controller, and that is an understandable complaint, but when the controls work they feel natural and intuitive in a way that would have never been possible with a controller.
If sega makes an actually critically acclaimed sonic game with sonic boom. Well that would help a ton
gimmick
ITT: No one knows what the word gimmick means.
Do you really think Nintendo will ever win back third parties? Yamuchi pretty much sealed Nintendo's fate with the N64's intentionally backwards design.
It's a shaky business. It's not to say that you can't get a seamless experience, but there can often be factors in a household that hamper this. It's not always about distance, there's all kinds of noise going on with devices and sometimes no matter how well you seem to calibrate, things go awry. Nintendo did a great job of making the best of it, but when you look at it from a basic standard, consistent failure to register inputs is just something that shouldn't fly in a game, and that's more down to the limitations of the tech.
NO 3DS VERSION HUH? HE LIES LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HE PRE ORDERED BOTH YESTERDAY!
Most of the games on the Wii were really unbearable to play...? We must've played different Super Mario Galaxies, Skyward Swords, Twilight Princesses, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Return to Dreamlands, New Super Mario Bros. Wiis, Super Smash Bros. Brawls, No More Heroes, Madworlds...