Posted by xkitten

"you can't be talking about the real world when you play Mario you idiot"

PendanticGreenMario plays Mario all the freaking time and yet she has real world discussions on global warming and vaccination and driving, and she likes bird watching and science and history and real world things and she is an atheist.

She still seems to be in touch with reality.

Posted by xkitten

But Super Mario Galaxy 2 is - what? diiiiffferrreeeennnttt :DDD

Well, it has a different worldmap system, hub, and Green Stars.. SMG1 only had 3, meanwhile SMG2 has 120.

It's actually quite different.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III has 4 completely new playable characters, has a bigger focus on open-world shooting, a new momentum-based movement system that uses thrusters to allow players to perform short bursts in the air and make wall movements, there is a "specialist" character system where players can pick from 9 different soldiers, weapon customization, a new XP progression system via Zombie mode, new powers, and probably new maps and weapons.

Didn't even play the game, just took it from Wikpedia.

Seems like a hell a lot more new significant gameplay mechanics than Galaxy 2 (which is just mostly, if not all temporary powerups.

But still, Galaxy 2 has got to be the most goddamn overrated Mario game of all time. It does not deserve all that heaping praise for what bare minimum it does.

I'm not comfortable either. Even I don't like cursing a lot, and I'm 21. I don't think kids should be exposed to violence. It's not that they'll get violent, but being exposed to this stuff desensitizes you, so when actual violence does happen, desensitized people tend to downplay it. And violence also helps people react more aggressively under pressure, but I don't think they'll become murderous. I think it's ridiculous to think that extended periods of Left 4 Dead 2 will make you a serial killer.

Posted by xkitten

Being an atheist being in touch with reality is an opinion, not a fact.

Yeah, that's true.

But I decided to be atheist because I believe having a god is as plausible as having a teapot orbit our sun and it's between Earth and Mars. That's another topic, though.

Posted by Baby Luigi

It's still funny how people say "Mario is kiddy and whatever" 10 years ago, and they still say it today, even though Mario is still one of the biggest and most successful franchises in existence.

These type of kids don't go away, do they? At least that train of thought dies with them when they grow older.

Well, to be honest, Mario is kinda... kiddy and dorky? Sonic was advertised as "hip" and "cool" back then and they intended to contrast that with the babyish Mario image. Of course, Sonic later went to be the laughingstock of video game characters while Mario is doing okayish today?

Posted by MercuryPenny

there haven't been 11 smg2s :^)

Doesn't excuse it from the bare minimum when New Super Mario Bros. can't get away with it (and it's only one game more at the time).