Mario 3 and Mario 64 Suck

[Yubadias]

Okay, they don't suck, but are HUGELY HUGELY HUGELY overrated.

I played Super Mario Brothers 3 the other day. I didn't like it.

It was fun for a while. I enjoyed the whole first world. Unfortunately the game is too hard. Especially the battleship fortresses! Everyone says Silver Surfer was bad, but Mario 3 is EXACTLY the same! Projectiles everywhere? Dying in one hit? I must say, I expected more from the best game of all time.

You also have to be pretty precise about where you land on enemies. Anywhere other than dead centre becomes a hit. Sliding down some hills kills enemies and some don't.

The games gets worse as it progresses. The level with the angry sun is torture. It's too difficult. I ended up wasting the P-Wing on it by just flying over the sun.

World 4 is so horrendous that it just shrieks "LET'S RUIN IT!" At first it seems incredible. Big guys everywhere! Man, that's fun. But then they ruin it with an underwater stage. The swimming levels in this game are a nightmare. They're so impossible that they should be burned at the stake then used as litter boxes for excitable old cats.
4/10

Super Mario 64 is one of the most overrated games ever.

It's one small step below good. I jut got bored. There isn't much to do except run Mario around and jump on people. Isn't that what the old Mario games were?

Nothing's really changed except an awkward camera and a few more hits (which I love).
5/10

Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy are both faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar superior to 64 and 3. Nostalgia is nice, but unfortunately it blinds Nintendo fanboys to the truth. Twilight Princess and Wind Waker were both much more fun than Ocarina of Time. Just because they were revolutionary, it doesn't mean they're the best games. The CDi, Sega CD and Genesis, and 3DO were revolutionary. They sucked, sure, but they had their places in history. Why can't Mario's 3 and 64 be treated the same?

Please tell me why these games are universally loved.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Ah...you took that other person's advice. Hate to say it, but you got it right the first time by putting it in Gaming Discussion. This is much too sparse to qualify as a review.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Meh peoples opinion, I personally don't like them that much either

Also nostalgia can make people say crap, remember that then a lot of old games will be explained nicely

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I still say you're just weak, and recreating the exact same thread to say the exact same thing is a waste of time and I'm pretty sure it's against site policy.

 

[Darth Pope]

You have to be there when a game comes out to truly enjoy it in it's entirety;before the lens of time distorts you perception.

From your statement I can surmise either:

A): You weren't gaming at the time either because you were to young or were occupied elsewhere.

B): You have no soul.

 

[Hippobatman]

Please tell me why these games are universally loved.

Because they're good, perhaps? Now, I don't want to challenge your opinion in any way, but games that are universally loved might have earned their status for a reason, you know.

They're relatively old games, but since they were great games back then (my opinion), they are still great games now. Time should not shroud classics titles like these.
I'm aware that this might sound like I just shot a syringe of nostalgia here, however, it's still my point of view that old games can still be good.

 

[Pimppeter2]

So you suck at them? They must be bad then!

Mario 64 was brilliant. Think about all the diverse levels and all the designs. Amazing

 

[milomalo]

mario 3 was a milestone in gaming and yes sr.(kid) you suck at them, "uhhh if the game dosnt have check points every 5 steps its to haaard"

so whats is a good game for you? Mafia wars?

 

[lxl_c0d3m0nk3y_lxl]

Ok, listen, you are rating a game made back in the '90's i believe and you're saying it's terrible. Well, obviously it will not meet up to the standards like CoD and other games. Besides, Mario 64 was probably the last (if not last) decent Mario game ever made. Galaxy was the stupidest game i have ever played, and i've played the Legend of Link, if you dislike Mario 64 you don't have to ask "why it's universally loved," because it is in fact a GOOD GAME. Now get that through your god damn skull and don't write reviews for a game, when a later version of it is even worse.

EDIT: My opinion, i think flamebate because everyone on earth likes original mario games?

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Your "review" lacked substance. You said that Super Mario Bros. 3 was too hard for you. I've beaten it over 5 times and most of those were in the fifth grade... Just because the game was hard doesn't make it bad. And there was tons to do in Mario 64. I don't know where you're getting your facts from... did you even play the games? Super Mario Sunshine was fun, but Super Mario Bros 3 was great. This seemed almost identical to what Yahtzee said in one of his videos except with less supporting facts. I think you were trying to hard to be Yahtzee and purposefully looking for criticism.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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Please tell me why these games are universally loved.

Because when they came out they were the very highest quality games out there.

A game being hard does not make it bad. That is an ignorant attitude to have.

I finished Mario 3 when I was 10, when it came out, so it can be done. Older games were just generally much more difficult and punishing than nowadays.

 

[Ernie Devlin]

So you're rating these games poorly, fully knowing the fact that they are both over 10 years old, because they don't come up to the same standard as games made in this decade?
That'd be like if I were to rate Goldeneye poorly compared to, let's say COD4, because the gameplay was slower and the levels less detailed.
This really is a flawed way of thinking about older games indeed.