Topic: Super Mario Maker - OT

It's just a slight lisp isn't it? Or is that the wrong term?

lewl, he sounds like a duck but I usually enjoy his commentaries. If it was Angry Joe I would punch my laptop in the face.

Super Mario World miscolored all of the bosses color pallets. I think Super Mario Bros 3 did a better job with the color patterns on characters.

@Rexcalibr: Not by much. Most of their colors are still off.

I'm still glad they had Bowser redone. He looks like himself now.

If we do actually get DLC, I would like to be able to drag items into bosses so they drop items when defeated. That would go a long way in solving the issue of not being able to make mandatory bods fights without some roundabout solution.

So I've been avoiding videos myself, just want it to feel fresh when I start it up.

Glad to know there's at least a way to force a boss battle. lol

I got a question regarding the game.

Is it possible that you can do it so that if you beat a certain enemy, a door will appear allowing you to make progress?

Also @Jason723: Because of nostalgia sake, does the green one also show up? I don't mind the new Bowser since he's always rad though. Just for nostalgia alone.....

Am I the only one who is not interested in this game? The Mario franchise is great and all, but I feel like it is something that I want to enjoy as it is. I want Nintendo to do the level designs because they are the experts on that. I just don't think that the Mario franchise was made to be put in the hands of the player.

Nintendo will be the best at designing Mario levels, but I'm still expecting lots of great levels from many players. I doubt mine will be that good, but it'll be lots of fun trying out various levels and making levels of my own.

Well GameXplain posted yet ANOTHER SMM video, showing off the object/enemy limitations. Seems like there are multiple categories for everything and they each have their own limit.

Japanese TVCMs for Mario Maker.

That was my initial reaction too. But having seen about 100 videos on it, I'm completely won over.
What I think's going to happen with this is that the general public will just create a very different type of level to those traditionally found in Mario games. Look at that video a few pages back where they spend 30 mins getting through 2 of the toughest levels.
Nintendo have never made anything like those. It's the kind of level design you couldn't get away with for a general audience, but is well received by a hardcore niche.

I just thought up something: how different do you think the Wii U's life cycle (both in terms of critical/ general acceptance + sales and release drip with games) would have been had Super Mario Maker been a launch title?

Not much different I imagine.

Yeah....I feel that too. I wonder if this game will put a halt on 2D Mario games since the 3D ones are far more unique than the 2D ones.

1 game would've made little difference. If they'd launched with Mario Maker, Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8, that might've worked. Without either a special gimmick OR third party support, I get the sense it was always destined to lose to the PS4.

Maybe a non Mario game or two alongside them, given how not everyone would have bought the system for Mario. But you're right, a line up like that would have helped a fair bit, and Nintendo's actual game release schedule just kind of doomed the system from the outset.

On another note, Mario Maker's new ghost house music is great. And the remade SMAS all stars versions are even better:

@CM30: Those are really nice remixes, the mockup picture in the first video looks pretty cool too. I do appreciate the new music being made in Super Mario Maker for the previous games that lacked a level "trope", same with the new enemy sprites.

Still, I hope add-on content is being considered. Star Coins, Checkpoints, Chargin' Chuck, Bonus level and Desert level backgrounds; just a few things I'd appreciate for SMM.

It's funny when you think about it, back at E3 2014 it looked like a simple level editor... Now it has tons of content (and customization) and seems to be Nintendo's main game for 2015.

I plan on making some roller coaster type levels, inspired by actual rides I've been on (though of course they are just inspired. Can't be an exact replica). I'll make the tracks similar to the real rides track, perhaps with some missing parts, and enemies and such throughout. From what I've seen, you can speed up those skull platforms, so it should work nicely with some tweaking here and there. My first may be "Banshee" from King's Island in Ohio, using the skull platforms and I think the SMB3 style in a ghost house.

For those curious: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/banshee#&panel1-1

I'm getting this day one, although I'm kind of confused as to why they left out checkpoints, Those are a staple of the Mario games, and their exclusion means that boss levels could be a little more frustrating. Star coins would have been nice, too, but I'm okay without them.