Topic: How seriously do you take the Mario characters?

[darknight06]

As seriously as I take video game characters in general, not at all.

[Adrock]

I basically agree with everything KDR_11k said.

How can you take these characters seriously?

Stuff that does bother me is Baby Mario co-existing with Mario in Mario Kart.  Yeah it's just a racing game but it just reaks of Nintendo not giving a f*ck because it's just product.  They're the SAME CHARACTER.  How the hell do they co-exist? Am I just taking it too seriously?

Then, Smash Bros. must really drive you nuts. Imagine that game if you couldn't choose the same character in multiplayer. How can Mario fight himself? AHHH!

[animecyberrat]

I basically agree with everything KDR_11k said.

How can you take these characters seriously?

Stuff that does bother me is Baby Mario co-existing with Mario in Mario Kart.  Yeah it's just a racing game but it just reaks of Nintendo not giving a f*ck because it's just product.  They're the SAME CHARACTER.  How the hell do they co-exist? Am I just taking it too seriously?

Then, Smash Bros. must really drive you nuts. Imagine that game if you couldn't choose the same character in multiplayer. How can Mario fight himself? AHHH!

It's no different then in Mortal Kombat when you have Scorpion facing Scorpion. They called it a Mirror Match (in the book it even said you would face a doppelganger of your self)

So that settles that.

[Arbok]

Then, Smash Bros. must really drive you nuts. Imagine that game if you couldn't choose the same character in multiplayer. How can Mario fight himself? AHHH!

Actually, that was one thing that I didn't like about Melee. Not that you can pick the same character, that's fine and a must, but that there were selectable variations to the existing characters, notably Dr. Mario and Young Link. Something about that just... bothers me for some reason. I'm fine with Toon Link, as it's not actually the same character at a different point in time, and I'm not sure why I'm bugged by the multiple version thing but I am. It just seems taboo for some reason.

So yeah, I would have been happy had the babies not been in Mario Kart at all, and there are still enough characters to choose from where they don't need to resort to using them IMO (Dixie, Cackletta and the always ignored Koopa Kids).

[King of Twitch]

What about the face people from super mario land.

They run around, jump, fly and throw rocks even mario doesn't throw rocks they should have their own series

[Adrock]

It's no different then in Mortal Kombat when you have Scorpion facing Scorpion. They called it a Mirror Match (in the book it even said you would face a doppelganger of your self)

I don't think you even need an explanation. It's unnecessary to complain about. How much of the Mario universe makes sense anyway?

Actually, that was one thing that I didn't like about Melee. Not that you can pick the same character, that's fine and a must, but that there were selectable variations to the existing characters, notably Dr. Mario and Young Link. Something about that just... bothers me for some reason. I'm fine with Toon Link, as it's not actually the same character at a different point in time, and I'm not sure why I'm bugged by the multiple version thing but I am. It just seems taboo for some reason.

Well, you could always chalk Young Link's appearance up to time travel though if he were to encounter his older self, wouldn't he cause a time paradox which would subsequently lead to the end of the universe?

[RABicle]

I didn't like it how in the first few Mario Party games they were competing to be the Super Star when anyone who played the games could CLEARLY SEE that not only was Bowser the star of the show, but the most awesome character in the history of the universe.

Also I have a massive problem witht he friendly koopas in Mario Party and the stupid baby versions of everyone in golf/kart

[KDR_11k]

They run around, jump, fly and throw rocks even mario doesn't throw rocks they should have their own series

They do, at least if you count Konami games.

Duplicate characters look out of place in MK but not SSB because in SSB it's acceptable to have copies of characters but in MK two players cannot select the same character. Kinda weird that you can select alternate versions of the same guy but not the same version.

[animecyberrat]

Considering all the Ninjas are just duplicate sprites anyways what does it matter?

[Kairon]

The commercial for the first Smash Brothers settled this argument LONG ago.

[IceCold]

KDR, I have a question. When they localised Phoenix Wright for Europe, did they translate it verbatim? Especially the North American pop culture bits - did they adapt that for Germany or just kept the same references? Because I assume it would be very hard to change so much for so many languages, especially for such a text-heavy game.

[animecyberrat]

The commercial for the first Smash Brothers settled this argument LONG ago.

All I remember was Pickachu, Dk, Yoshi and Mario running around in a field of flowers and then they start beating each other up.

[KDR_11k]

KDR, I have a question. When they localised Phoenix Wright for Europe, did they translate it verbatim? Especially the North American pop culture bits - did they adapt that for Germany or just kept the same references? Because I assume it would be very hard to change so much for so many languages, especially for such a text-heavy game.

Dunno, what were the pop culture references? I'm not familiar enough with any pop culture (neither local nor foreign) to spot any of those. I do think it was very verbatim though.

[Mario]

They run around, jump, fly and throw rocks even mario doesn't throw rocks they should have their own series

They do, at least if you count Konami games.

Duplicate characters look out of place in MK but not SSB because in SSB it's acceptable to have copies of characters but in MK two players cannot select the same character. Kinda weird that you can select alternate versions of the same guy but not the same version.

You can select the same characters in Mario Kart DS

[animecyberrat]

weren't we talking about Mortal Kombat not Mario Kart? Or at least with the duplicates?