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I have mixed feelings about all of that. I dunno... My biggest pet peeve is the easier games thing... But, I just want games to be fun, so, if they can make them more fun then ever, go for it. Mario and Zelda have never been about challange, and as far as games like Mario Tennis, Smash, Kart, and basically anything that isn't Mario or Zelda, those usually start off easy but have harder difficultities anyway. I don't see much of a difference by this announcement. :-)
The hard concept was explained by Miyamoto.
He wasn't saying it was hard because of game difficulty, he said he wanted Mario games to be easy to get into(Pick up and play) but he felt that Sunshine didn't follow that path. So it's not really the difficulty factor.
oh right, i remember him talking about that.
The only frustrating part about Sunshine was the platforming.
And playing through the same level 7 times.
:(
I wanted Mario Kart Online...
Well Mario markets towards every age group, meaning that a lot of little kids like to play it, so yeah difficulty may have been much (Which is why I like games that have difficulty choices). Though I still don't think Sunshine was too hard, my 4 year old Nephew can beat some of the levels. Something that adds to difficulty for little kids, is 3-D, moving around in so many directions can be a pain in the ass for sure.
God Damnit! It was not that hard, people just suck! Thats the only conclusion I can come up with. Its not hard to move mario around, its not hard to jump from platform to platform, and its not hard to control the fucking camera! So now thanks to a bunch of suck pots Nintendo wants him to dumb down the games!? :: throws chair through window ::Quote:
Originally posted by Lucas Barton
"Shigeru Miyamoto agreed with criticism that the [Super Mario Sunshine] game was too hard. ... The word has since come from up high to make games less challenging."
so did everyone ignore Chojin's post?
what i think was also the problem with sunshine was not that it was too hard, but that it didn't ease the player into the game. it basically assumed you were completely comfortable with it completely.. basically you had already completed mario 64 was the assumption, which may not be the case for some of the younger kids who ended up with the game.
i think that mario sunshine could've used about 2 more levels at the front which were smaller/easier and another big nice one at the back end. great though. i doubt we'll see them dumbing down/making the games easier, but they'll make them more accessible.
That's what was great about the 2D Mario games. You could play and beat the game if you were an average player. You would find all of the magical hidden areas and everything else if you were into looking for it/a great player. As great as Mario 64 was and as good as SMS was they don't have the same accessability as the 2D games.