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5520560 No.5520560 [Reply] [Original]

When did Mario stop being cool?

>> No.5520569

>>5520560
after sunshine and thousand year door, then again you didn't specify the context. do you mean when did it become less cool to be 'into' mario? or do you mean the character in his own game's context? personally his persona in sunshine was cool but i wasnt a humongous fan of the game as it often went hot/cold in terms of gameplay/platforming. thousand year door he was a pimp. i thought he turned into a giant faggot in uhhh whats that shit called again? galaxy.

>> No.5520574

>>5520560
Playing Mario without yoshi is like playing sonic without spindash so he wasn't cool for very long

>> No.5520581

>>5520560
So long gay Bowser!

>> No.5520603

>>5520560
Super Mario 64 was the last cool Mario game.

>> No.5520605

To me, Sunshine ruined the core franchise.
I despise gimmicky shit that just complicates the original purpose of having fun in the first place. Nintendo has been losing grasp of simple, fun ideas that are worth the cost of a full price game.

Now they have gone balls to the wall insane trying to market the Labo goggles.

Childhood essentially ruined bc it's so rare to find a game like Mario 64 which truly revolutionized gaming without added content or hardware.

>> No.5520609

When Sonic the Hedgehog debuted.

>> No.5520614
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5520614

>>5520560
Mario was never cool. Was never intended to be cool. He’s just a generic character to be placed in ANY Nintendo game role. Which is why I think it’s weird people criticize Mario Golf, Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, Picross, etc. This is exactly what Mario was designed for.

>> No.5520616

objectively when they decided to give him a high pitched voice instead of a dirty brooklyn accent

>> No.5520865

>>5520616
This. Mario is better when he boings instead of yahoos.

>> No.5520870

>>5520560
sunshine. it all started with sunshine.

>> No.5520873

>>5520560
When the turtles started walking with 2 feet.

>> No.5520890

>ITT: The absolute state of nostalfags

>> No.5520893
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5520893

>>5520560
That class traitor was never cool. The games are fun, but no kid liked the smelly hamburger man

>> No.5520896

I've never thought of Mario as cool, but he is fun, and that's all that's ultimately matters for a video game character.

>> No.5520945

>1996
>"thank you so much for-a playing my game!"
>2019
>"owowowowow oh no!"

Why does Mario talk less and less with each passing year? It's like Nintendo at first wanted to show off that the N64 could do speech samples and you could hear the iconic Mario's voice for the first time, in a game, but as the tech got better Shiggy just decides "go wowowow oh no yippie". I'm not asking for a pixar movie, I want the characters to at least be able to hold a small conversation.

>> No.5520968

>>5520945
>He's never heard Mario speak full sentences
https://youtu.be/G8sYvNtjXRI

>> No.5520982

>>5520968
That's like a PR thing, those old computer games with Mario also had Mario speak more than just onomatopoeias like in newer games. It's kinda like how the characters in Zelda games never actually say anything, they just grunt, gasp, or sigh, and by extension any character interactions in Brawl onwards.