>Still UnsurpassedHow does he do it?
>>681411152eh jumps high and doesn't afraid of anything
mario sets the bar for 3d platformers so high it's insane, you end up taking it for granted and think it's the standard but really you play any other big budget modern 3d platformer like super lucky's tale or tearaway and it's unbelievably mid
>>681411152>be better than everyone else>keep doing it
>>681411152>have an army of loyal manchildren defending you
>>681412921You lost and got raped, Eric :)
Mario can be thrown into just about in genre and just works. Also helps that his design has been consistent ever since mario 64 with little to no variance and no shitty redesign no one asked for.
>Main games consistently lead by some of the most creative game designers in history>Singlehandedly revolutionized console games forever with first true mainline game>Wrote the book on a major game genre in 2D AND 3D>Simple, memorable character and enemy designs that stick with you>Most of the 3D games have unique and memorable settings, and the ones that don't are more simple and fast-paced games anyway>Just happened to have one of the most genius composers in video game history basically from the get-go, creating several games' worth of very catchy, memorable music>Tons of spinoff games, most of which are at least decent and one series of which is massively popular in its own rightThat's how. Mario is something else.
>>681411152There is a perfect line of pedigree from Super Mario Odyssey & 3D World, and Super Mario Bros Wonder all the way back to Super Mario Bros(obviously Miyamoto is a common factor going back to DK '81 but that's just cheating, honestly). The people that made older games made sure to train successors. Miyamoto directs Super Mario, then Yamauchi lets Koizumi make a team in Tokyo to make 3D Mario games(if just to rush something out the door for the Gamecube), Koizumi trains Koichi Hayashida to work on Galaxy and 3D Land, Hayashida taps Kenta Motokura who does 3D World and Odyssey. Maybe we'll see who Motokura's successor will be with the next 3D Mario on Switch 2.NSMB has been known as the crucible for Nintendo to train its burgeoning talent which is why there's so many different directors and designers working on it who often go on to other jobs, e.g. Masataka Takemoto who directed NSMBU and NSLU and went on to do stuff like Good Job of all things, but they still take the job seriously when cultivating their design sentiments.Ironically with the Sega-to-Nintendo pipeline, Nintendo probably has more people that worked on older Sonic games working on current Mario titles, than Sega does working on Sonic games.Compare that to something like Microsoft having to build an entire team from scratch because they retained basically nobody from Bungie to work on further Halo games. Or how after all the carnage of 7th gen IP auctioning and buying, Toys for Bob being bought by Activision and sent to work on Crash and Spyro.
>nintendo managed to keep mario and other series going for years>MS and Sony constantly dropped their old stuff without giving them much of a chance to grow or somehow massively fuck shit up like they did with halo
>>681411152>tranniogo back
>>681411152Sex appeal
>>681416953Mario is pure Italian muscule and he will hit you with the strength of a truckSonic is so fast, that he finished in less than 5 minutes
Biggest thing is that Mario doesn't try at all to be cool or interesting. The gameplay speaks for itself. Meanwhile other mascot games tried way too hard to be "cool" and now they're dead.
>>681411152He's Mario! He's number one!
>>681419558the jump from jak 1 to jak 2 and 3 is sill really fucking mind boggling
