Mario Baseball

[dave is ok]

Mushrooms make you hit homeruns. But you have to be careful because the league checks for them

[Roufuss]

Owned.

But really, when remnant says Nintendo has gone too far, it's time to stop and take stock.

How is this game going to play, anyway? Does each team have a skeleton crew of Nintendo characters? Do you have to pick each person? Could you have 2 Marios, one in each team?

Here's how I think it'll work.

I posted the initial 18 I think will be in, plus a few hidden characters.

Teams are just going to be those 18 plus an extra 3 switched around. I highly doubt Nintendo is going to go through the effort of making unique teams, when they can just the stock Mario characters and mix and match.

I'd imagine you'd have to pick each person, and some would play better in different positions than others.

This is just going by the screenshots, and how Mario Golf and Mario Tennis were laid out.

[Hero]

IGN Article

1) Clearly this is a proper response from a company that claims there is a current Crisis in Video Gaming.
2) So if the sport-game-purchasing-casual-gamers are the ones ruining the industry, what does that make the people who buy this?

You don't like Nintendo, but dislike them enough to bother with spreading their news? Or am I missing something here?

*yawn*

I don't like baseball, and chances are Mario and co. won't change my mind.

[Dyne]

Halo 2, Half Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Grand Theft Auto: Sand Adreas, Burnout 3 and the soon to be released Prince of Persia 2.

All exciting, all innovative and some edgy in terms of content.

i dont know your meaning of innovative.....but to me none of those listed associate with that word to me. especially Halo 2.

[Bacon McShig]

More people over the age of 21 are playing videogames than under 21. This is a trend that is showing no signs of stopping. People over 21 have more money to spend on videogames than people under 21. As the gaming industry grows older, and it is, then it doesnt take a genius to see what the problem is with Nintendo targetting 11 year olds. Their platforms are selling less than ever, and their big franchises are selling less than ever. Their market and fanbase is shrinking. This will not change until they actually start to make games to appeal to more people... and let me tell you, fucking Mario Baseball isn't gonna do it. All they make now is fanservice.

I like more mature games as much as the next guy, but the simple fact remains that kids still exist. Personally, it's nice to see a company that still acknowledges them as a market, when it may be cooler to ignore them. I mean really, you want more mature games, you're more than covered by every single other freakin' game maker on the planet right now. Just because kids are a shrinking demographic doesn't mean that everyone should stop making games for them.

[Aurora]

Wow, all this debate over a stupid Mario Baseball game. You guys are such dorks.

[Diff-chan]

Just because kids are a shrinking demographic doesn't mean that everyone should stop making games for them.

Sure it does.

[Will]

While I haven't played Animal Crossing, jarrod for the most part, is a pretty reasonable poster who backs up his shit but I still think his Metroid Prime take is dead wrong. I didn't even continue arguing with him on that anymore since it was just futile.

Anyway, Mario Baseball? Hmm.....quite an odd combo.

[Johnny Undaunted]

Here's how I think it'll work.

I posted the initial 18 I think will be in, plus a few hidden characters.

Teams are just going to be those 18 plus an extra 3 switched around. I highly doubt Nintendo is going to go through the effort of making unique teams, when they can just the stock Mario characters and mix and match.

I'd imagine you'd have to pick each person, and some would play better in different positions than others.

This is just going by the screenshots, and how Mario Golf and Mario Tennis were laid out.

I got thinking about this and I think, instead of having like two teams consisting of the 18 core characters, maybe they should bring characters from the various Mario-related spinoffs.

For example, Wario's team can contain the entire cast of Wario Ware (any of them would be 100x times better than that lameass Waluigi), Donkey Kong's team would consist of Donkey Kong Country characters (as much as I hate the series, I know it has it's fans), Bowser's team could consist of the Koopa Kids and so on.

Unfortunately, Nintendo are probably too lame to think of this idea.

[Bacon McShig]

For example, Wario's team can contain the entire cast of Wario Ware (any of them would be 100x times better than that lameass Waluigi), Donkey Kong's team would consist of Donkey Kong Country characters (as much as I hate the series, I know it has it's fans), Bowser's team could consist of the Koopa Kids and so on.

That would be so awesome, especially the Koopa Kids team.

And you hush up, Waluigi rocks.