Mario Baseball

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Originally Posted by Johnny Undaunted

What I actually find even more ironic is the fact that Nintendo brags about innovation, yet some of their more recent games are deratives of pre-existing titles (i.e: Mario Golf was a derative of Hot Shots Golf, Donkey Konga was based on Taiko no Tatsujin and this might as well be Namco's latest Famista title).

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Derivative maybe, but at least Nintendo's secured the exact same teams to make their franchise versions. In Camelot's case, they secured the developer entirely (forcing Sony to start their own internal HSG team with a few Camelot expatriots).

Which is really the aim of their external collaberative R&D anyway, it's for filler releases (something N64 was severely lacking). Internal Nintendo R&D is what's producing new concepts like Pikmin, Wario Ware or Animal Crossing for the most part.

That's it, I fucking give up. I hope you die, Nintendo.

This is a first, isn't it? Mario Baseball?
Would this be the last of the NES green-letter sports titles to receive a "mariofied" upgrade?

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Originally Posted by jarrod

Which is really the aim of their external collaberative R&D anyway, it's for filler releases (something N64 was severely lacking). Internal Nintendo R&D is what's producing new concepts like Pikmin, Wario Ware or Animal Crossing for the most part.

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Except that we haven't seen Nintendo produce new concepts since Wario Ware, and that was last year. I was initially excited about Nintendo farming out their franchises to other companies so that they could make new games because it should have brought a mixture of revamped and new Nintendo franchises. Instead, all Nintendo had to show for in terms of new franchises since 2001 was Pikmin on the Gamecube and Wario Ware for the Game Boy Advance. That's it! Nothing else. So much for "TEH NEW"!

Now looking at Mario Baseball, I just went "ugh" because even I've have had it with the Mario whoring, but was somewhat relieved that it's Namco wasting their time with the game and not Nintendo. Namco's been having a good run lately (Katamari Damacy, Taiko Drum Master, maybe Tekken 5), so the game may turn out to be good, but I'm highly skeptical.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

This is a first, isn't it? Mario Baseball?
Would this be the last of the NES green-letter sports titles to receive a "mariofied" upgrade?

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We'd still need Mario Play Action Football.

I wouldn't mind seeing KCET handle a Mario Soccer game for Nintendo, using their Winning Eleven 8 engine. That could actually be a huge seller in Japan & Europe.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

This is a first, isn't it? Mario Baseball?
Would this be the last of the NES green-letter sports titles to receive a "mariofied" upgrade?

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ICE HOCKEY. i miss that game so much.

Ah, ah...that was a white-letter sports game. But hell yeah, it rules. I play it all the time. Skinny-fat-fat-fat.

The thing that's going to be a downer for me is they will use the EXACT SAME CHARACTERS found in Mario Golf AND Mario Tennis.

I mean, I don't mind the same core characters, but Mario has a cast of fucking hundreds that would be totally awesome and unique to play in a game like this.

I liked the enemies from Mario 2 and Super Mario World showing up in Mario Tennis, and I hope that even more of that type of thinking will follow into this title.

But sadly, I already know the roster is Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser, Daisy, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser Jr, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and probably that fucking piranha plant from Mario Sunshine again.

Man, you have it OUT for Petey Piranha.

Anyway, I have no interest in this game whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Man, you have it OUT for Petey Piranha.

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He's probably the WORST character to ever step foot into a Mario universe.

I mean, his one shot deal in Mario Sunshine, I could live with that.

BUT THEN!!! The fucker shows up in Mario Kart, Mario Golf, AND Mario Tennis?

WHY?!?!?!