Poll: The eternal debate... Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World?

[ShinyCharizard]

I loved both but I have to say that Super Mario World is better overall.

 

[Nomanslander]

I don't know, I was a Sega kid at the time.

 

[Ulkjen]

Arrrgh! This is hard! I freakin love my Yoshis! Enough so that i never threw them away for the sake of a double jump! But i have to go with 3. It just... had that feeling to it. The way everything felt and meshed together... DARNIT. Now I need to find a way to play the two of them...

 

[MrsBloo]

I had to think about it and even go home to replay these two games. But I guess I have to say SM3 i loved all the different suits and really admired the maps lol besides it came out before smw and i feel like smw and sm3 are big on their own scales. sm3 was the ending of that type of mario graphics and smw brought the new. But i can and will say i prefer both. I have a SNES game with a SMW and SM3 and a couple of other mario games on it (Ill totally put the name of all the games it has on it up when i go home for lunch) so i guess i get the best of all worlds lol

**but i love that they kept the secret worlds ;D

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Very, VERY narrowly chose World. It basically boiled down to Yoshi vs airships.

 

[loc978]

World... it was an evolution of the concepts that 3 introduced.

Don't get me wrong, Super Mario Brothers 3 was a much more important title in video game history, and a great game in its own right... but it also paved the way for even better games to be made... including Super Mario World.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

You know what? Neither. Wario Land 3. I'm going with that. Mario can have his Princess, and vendetta with reptiles. I just want treasure goddamn it.

First time anyone's ever agreed with me on that.

 

[Maxtro]

World tosses all of them, then adds the cape and Yoshi.

For me, it will always be Mario 3.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I didn't like either, but I chose World over 3.

I prefer SMB 2 and Yoshi's Island.

Though my least favorite is Mario Sunshine by a wide margin.

Also, I don't like Coke, Pepsi, pancakes, OR waffles.

I prefer Root Beer and green tea, and crepes.

 

[wintercoat]

Of the two options given, I've gotta say Super Mario 3. Though World has slightly tighter controls and prettier graphics, 3 has the better levels and the powers feel better and are more diverse. Both have excellent level design(though personally, I feel 3's is a bit better), both have great enemy diversity, and both have a great difficulty.

They're both stellar games, but 3 is just about perfect in my opinion. Though that's pretty fiercely laced with nostalgia, as I literally grew up playing Mario 3 as a family game, so I have ridiculously high reserves of fond memories attached to it. By the time my family got a SNES, I was the only one really into playing video games.

Though to be honest, I still prefer Yoshi's Island over SMW.

Aaaand now I have to go hook up the SNES and dig out Mario Allstars and World 1+2.

 

[Lieju]

SMB3, but that's the game I played as a kid. I only played World as an adult.

 

[The Funslinger]

That's a tough one. I think SMW is the better experience being essentially a polished version of SMB3, but SMB3 just feels to this day to be more creative and "fun." I've gotta go with SMW being the better game.

This is basically my opinion. SMB3 had those toad houses and the competitive multiplayer, but SMW has the best aesthetic.

And they both have their share of secrets and hidden routes.

 

[The Funslinger]

Honestly, Super Mario World is probably the more entertaining and easy of the two, maybe partially because I don't have it quite as memorized. I actually only got to play SMW for the first time when the Gameboy Advance version came out and I was already an adult, since I never played a SNES before (all my friends had NESs and I had a Sega :C). But even later on it was really fun and I'd like to play it on a tv screen sometime.

But I'm still going to go with SMB3 for personal reasons, cause that was my special Mario tape and it introduced the Koopa Kids. Also it has that awesome fast doomship level.

You poor woman! They must have ostracized you! D:

Also, interesting note: The GBA version has an improved Luigi sprite, making him his slightly taller, thinner self. In the original, he's a recoloured Mario.

Anyway, I play both of them on my Wii's VC. Best download purchase I've ever made, rivalled only by having MegaMan ports on my iPod.

 

[Sparrow]

Yoshi's Island.

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, I WENT THERE.