Topic: Nintendo Confirms Mario Super Sluggers

[NWR_insanolord]

I completely and adamantly 100 percent disagree. You can say they are good games on their own, but they have all kinds of power ups and extras NOT typically associated with a regular sports game. How many sports games have power ups that work like the Mario sports games?

 I do not think they are bad games and honestly enjoy a few of the sports games, but NOT as sports games, AS Mario games. Even the people I know who are ONLY into sports games think the same way, they are good games, but take away the unique Mario attributes and they are just really wacky sports games that do not make any sense at all.

I actually agree with Ian all the way on this, if say Mario Strikes had just bee a regular Soccer game made by Nintendo and the draw would be funky power moves that most other Soccer games did not feature, then people would just point to the unique power moves as the main draw to the games and there are already a few non-Nintendo sports franchises that have funky power ups and stuff they Nintendo games likely wouldn't stand out as much. They *need* the Mario name to sell those games.

NOT that they are bad games, but most people DO buy them BECAUSE Mario and crew are featured. If Super Star Tennis came out on GC and lacked any recognizable characters that die hard fans would eat up the game would have sold less than half of what it ended up selling. Golf on it's own without Mario would have had to compete with Tiger Woods and some of the more established titles and without Mario and gang would not have stood out.

I don't think you understand what Ian said. He enjoys them a lot less because Mario and the gang are in them and thinks it would be a good idea to make the games without them, the exact opposite of what you are agreeing with.

[animecyberrat]

Maybe I was taking something else away from his post. My actual reply was to your post about them being quality games on their own merits. The part I agree with Ian on was hot reflected well in my post. I agree with what he said but I was mostly focusing on what your post said. now look what you did, you got me confused.


See I am torn between liking some of the Mario sports games, well mostly Mario Kart and Mario Baseball or whatever they call it, but I always hated the fact that Mario was in these non Mario type games. For me though it just ruined the universe I had depicted them to exist in.

So whatever I said I said in a rush of excitement and didn't think it through very well obviously.

[Kairon]

Well, it's worth remembering that Mario Strikers WAS new IP from a third party called... what? Super Soccer Strykers or something like that? Yeah, it was ignored then... except Nintendo noticed it, realized it was a solid game, slapped mario characters on it, and brought it to everyone's attention.

[Mario]

Sega Soccer Slam. I bought it back then. However, Mario Strikers is MUCH improved over it, and not because of the characters. Some of the characters in SSS are hilariously awesome.

[Kairon]

Thanks, but the point still stands. Sega Soccer Slam? What's that? That game faded into oblivion... and Mario Strikers emerged on the scene.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Sega Soccer Slam was an awesome 3rd party game you didn't buy.

Sega and Nintendo had no idea how, nor funds, to market it.

[DAaaMan64]

Sega Soccer Slam was an awesome 3rd party game you didn't buy.

Sega and Nintendo had no idea how, nor funds, to market it.

Ya it was a good game, to bad it did so poorly.

[Kairon]

Sega Soccer Slam was an awesome 3rd party game you didn't buy.

Sega and Nintendo had no idea how, nor funds, to market it.

This is why I buy third party games today, to atone for past sins like these.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

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