/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6972179
Big pengus and ballsack
Also the peach get save get sex

Thus is the life of game.

>>6972179
he is Italian and thus superior to mere humans but I wouldn't expect weakblooded barbarians to understand

wahoo

He doesn't really have "appeal" in the strictest sense. He's just platform game protagonist man that beats up the monsters and saves the princess. Luigi has way more actual appeal, mostly thanks to the RPG games giving him a character.

>>6972179
None. If you want real appeal, you need to play the Wario and Donkey Kong spin-offs.

What went wrong?

>>6972179
He's just a fun dude

Come to think of it, you’re right. Mario is a very bland character with literally no personality at all.

Nintendo doesn’t even allow him to speak very much.

>>6972179
His games are good. That’s all it takes.

>>6972856
Pretty much any Mario franchise game that doesn't focus on Mario is actually allowed to have personality, like said Wario and DK games.

I don't know anyone whose favourite Mario character is actually Mario himself. He's just a generic blue collar everyman to serve as the player character. Just about every other character has more personality.

>>6972179
first time I saw mario was for SNES and the appeal was he had a cape so he was like supa hiro

>>6972179
I never liked Mario's design 2bh. Looks stupid. And why would kids want to play as a middle aged man with a big nose, overalls and a ball body?

>>6973197
He’s not a middle aged man he’s 24

>>6973209
Holy shit, Mario has terrible genetics.

>>6972179
There isn't one. He's an early 80s arcade protagonist. Pacman has no appeal outside of his association with fun games, either.

Consistently good games. No one really likes Mario because he's Mario. He's just a multi-purpose blank slate who you can put in almost any genre and have it instantly work. He's that way by design. When you want a character with personality, you bring out Wario.

For me, it's red dungarees Mario

>>6973247
I have a soft spot for regular working class Joe Mario, before he became le wacky mushroom man.

>>6973209
wtf is that real?

>>6972179
kids love fat manlet plumbers with moustaches

>>6972179
The colours, he looks friendly, he sounds joyful. It's obvious. Everyone who knows marketing or design knows the appeal of Mario, it's only the autist shut-ins who have to ask such inane questions.

>>6973537
They like bold primary colors and large expressive eyes.
It's the same reason why emotionally/socially stunted people gravitate to anime and cartoons

>>6973209
damn, mario's been living fast

He has a good outlook on life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcv2Mcoyqyw

>>6972179
Nostalgia. Clear back from Donkey Kong before he had a name.

>>6973548

>>6973149
>Pretty much any Mario franchise game that doesn't focus on Mario is actually allowed to have personality, like said Wario and DK games.
Not the Yoshi games or Super Princess Peach, though.

>>6973158
He has generic dumb good guy anime protagonist personality, so you're almost not wrong. You can see this in the anime, manga, and more subtly in many games (the RPGs and some of the N64 games show it most clearly I think, along with Odyssey and Sunshine). He's not a total blank slate, but with a lot of the secondary Western material he has an alternate character of generic Italian man from Brooklyn, kek. Still, they do try to keep his characterization subtle with minimal dialogue and I think it helps his games appeal to more than just kids. If he talked constantly I can't imagine it would go over well. It would probably put off kids too even. Staying silent also leaves it more open for the player to do extremely OOC shit for fun I think. More protags should remain silent, if you ask me.

>>6973623
I'd say the Yoshi games definitely have a feel, even if the overall feel is kindergarten play time. Super Princess Peach though is just weird. The shit with her using her overactive emotions to get through obstacles would make today's twitter users go berserk.

>>6972179
Eugenic child-friendly everyman Italian alpha male with a god-tier character design

Very iconic and personal details like the cap, the moustache and the red/blue overalls and shirt. It's simple and memorable, as iconic characters should be.
His modern 3D model can be a bit uncanny, but still looks much more faithful to the original 2D version than many other 3D reimaginings.
I still prefer the 2D version though, it's a charming Popeye or Tintin sort of character.

Iconicness as previously said and the fact he’s a face on most of the games.

Shame Nintentards are mostly wankers and discord trannies now

>>6972208
based and pastapilled

>>6973601
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCM7VtDjmrU

>>6972856
wario showed me fun

>>6972921
damn this is a sweet ass cover. this is now canon. the "official stuff" is fake and gay, and they're just jealous they aren't this radical.

>>6973540
>Everyone who knows marketing or design knows the appeal of Mario

>>6972179
He jumps man

Mario's the man everyone wants to be. He's an upstanding citizen with good morals. He practices a good trade and is a well rounded individual having travelled the world and his country several times as well as playing multiple sports with his many friends. He's forgiving as shown through him inviting his supposed archnemesis to go karting with him and his friends, as well as being able to swallow his pride and work with Bowser towards a common goal like driving the smithy gang out. Mario's positive and always up for a new adventure. He's a genuinely likeable individual with a blue collar background making him somewhat relatable. That and his games are just fun.

>>6973618
go mickey mario
go out and jump to the extreme.
i will! thank you, bing bing hohoh

>>6973209
He hit the wall hard

>>6972179
He was designed with the limitations of the hardware, he has a big nose so they don't bother with facial expresions, wears a hat so they don't have to use hair motion, and it's short so the sprite is smaller and uses less resources.

>>6972856
Virgin Mario vs Chad Wario

>>6972179
He's in a bunch of good games.

>>6978079
This is canon.

>>6978079
>>6978183
Wrong pic.

>>6973623
You can talk shit about the rest of the Yoshi games even Yoshi's Story and Wooly World despite that those games are decent and have some charms to them but you're out of your damn mind if you actually think Yoshi's Island have no personality.

>>6972179
shoots fireballs from his hands
exceptional jumping ability
can kill/hurt things by jumping on them
previously voiced by Capt. Lou
big punching fists

>>6972179
>Big nose
>Pedo mustache
>Dresses like a plumber
Nothing.

>>6978183
it has all my favorite guys
mr shadowy guy
scuba gator
stoned key bird ghost
the rock things back there
golden ziggurat is so cool
and sleazy masked dude
and the palm trees
and wario's kinda cool cuz he hangs out with them

>>6972179
He's in SMB games, the best platformer series in existence

>>6978189
Looks like a rapist.

>>6976638
kek'd irl

>>6978483
>Big nose
>Pedo mustache
oy vey

He is the everyman. When I see Mario, I see me.

>>6980125
Short, fat, old, white male?

>>6980125
>He is the everyman. When I see Mario, I see me.

>>6980135
Why not?

>>6972179
I GOT THREE(3) WORDS FOR YOU
BING
BING
WAHOO

>>6976638
How? He looks great. Wonderful moustache, nice eyes. He's not really fat, all his body is proportional. Don't tell me you think Mario is actually supposed to be like whoever played his character in that ridiculous movie.

>>6973126
He's designed to be as bland and non-offensive as possible to appeal to as many people around the world as possible. Can't afford to give him a personality quirk in case Mugamba in Kenya is put off by it and doesn't feel included.

>>6978483
>Mario having a pedo mustache
>Not Wario

>>6972179
In order to answer your question I'd have to explain to you quantum physics, m'lad

>>6972179
Apart from the constant drug use, and the fact that he's murdered more inhabitants of a foreign land than most bloodthirsty genocidal lunatics, I think it's because he's quite wholesome.