Fear of idea theft kept Mario 128 out of E3 2003

Well yeah, everything besides the Metal Gear comment stands.

But when a game that relies heavily on level design screws up in that department, it's gonna have a big impact on the game.

Those levels could have been as big as they wanted, but when each one doesn't feel different from the next, there's a problem.

I applaud Miyamoto for trying something new with the series, but I don't think having a "theme" was such a brilliant idea.

All I was saying that Sunshine was located in one area with things that go with that particular area. Maybe the Metal Gear comment was poor, but... meh whatever. I was just saying that they kept to a theme instead of just making up crazy levels just becuase they could use the excuse, "Its a crazy video game world!"

"I just do not know if I am going to make a so-called Mario 128. I actually kind of expected some reaction from the audience, but now that I have seen the strong reaction? It would take one year to complete Mario 128 or any project of that sort."

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Originally Posted by burgundy

I don't think 128 is going to blow the doors off like 64 did either.

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The only thing Mario 64 blew the door off of was a big container of poop........that had doors holding the poop in.....or something. Gah. I just didn't like that game. Sunshine was much better.

Oh well. Here's to hoping that the secret idea that Nindendo doesn't want stolen is tied in to that Mario 2.5D rumor in that thread in the games board. A 2.5D Mario would rock.

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Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

I agree with 88.

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Excellent point Shin Johnpv.

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Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable

The first dimention is a line existing on the X-axis.
The second dimention is any given flat geometric shape, I.E. adding the Y-axis, but without a Z-axis.
The third dimention adds the Z-axis.
The fourth dimention is a tesseract, or "hypercube." I.E. adding the W-axis.
The fifth dimention is time.

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Dimensionality is grossly misunderstoood by 99.99999% of people. There is actually an infinite amount of dimensions. It's all a matter of how many dimensions are needed to portray a bit of information. For a vector, we need two or three. A surface, three (and a map that goes from a two dimensional area to said surface, so really its closer to five dimensions). It takes only a simple thought experiment to see that everything we can observe can be represented in terms of X, Y, Z, and T. So thus the existence that we inhabit is 4D, but there is an infinite number of dimensions beyond that.