For Mario purists, Paper Mario offers the most nostalgic experience.
Is there an actual meaning in this statement? What exactly is a "Mario purist"? I'm guessing it's not me, since I played Super Mario RPG years before Paper Mario, which I should mention barely qualifies as nostalgic seeing as it's from this millennium. I liked Paper Mario. Hell, I got it the day it showed up on store shelves. But, I've always considered it, and all the Mario RPG's since, to be in a completely different league from SMRPG.
In a case like this (where we don't fully know what he means specifically), you really got to look at it from the other person's point of view. I played Paper Mario first, so playing it now hold more nostalgic value than SMRPG. But I also believe that Paper Mario was superior, whether it's bias or not, that's how the cookie crumbles. I will not fool myself into thinking that the new Mario RPG's are worst that SMRPG, SMRPG is a good game, but there are a few issues that new RPG's don't have, but those are mere nitpicks. The one thing that is superior are the puzzles. I love puzzles in my RPG's, but there are relatively few in SMRPG compared to the new mario RPG's. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, SMRPG is a great game, and the only way to solve this delema would be to buy them both.
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And you're right in bringing up those roots; without SMRPG, there would be no Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi.*
Ugh. I feel I may have sounded like a jerk here in bolding out that statement. It's how you feel about it, it's your opinion, I don't mind, and I'm okay with it. That's what I should've said before. I'm sorry.
For Mario purists, Paper Mario offers the most nostalgic experience.
Is there an actual meaning in this statement? What exactly is a "Mario purist"? I'm guessing it's not me, since I played Super Mario RPG years before Paper Mario, which I should mention barely qualifies as nostalgic seeing as it's from this millennium. I liked Paper Mario. Hell, I got it the day it showed up on store shelves. But, I've always considered it, and all the Mario RPG's since, to be in a completely different league from SMRPG.
In a case like this (where we don't fully know what he means specifically), you really got to look at it from the other person's point of view. I played Paper Mario first, so playing it now hold more nostalgic value than SMRPG. But I also believe that Paper Mario was superior, whether it's bias or not, that's how the cookie crumbles. I will not fool myself into thinking that the new Mario RPG's are worst that SMRPG, SMRPG is a good game, but there are a few issues that new RPG's don't have, but those are mere nitpicks. The one thing that is superior are the puzzles. I love puzzles in my RPG's, but there are relatively few in SMRPG compared to the new mario RPG's. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, SMRPG is a great game, and the only way to solve this delema would be to buy them both.
I think, before you consider giving a response, you should know the point of my previous inquiry towards Badknux was at the use of "Mario purists" and it's correlation towards nostalgia, where such a phrase, if any meaning could be derived from it, would presumably be assumed to mean "long time Mario fans" who would be more prone to wax nostalgia towards Super Mario RPG than Paper Mario. That is what I meant when I said your statement had no meaning, as what you stated seemed to have no obvious relevance to said inquiry.
People should give both games a chance, but personally, you know where my recommendation lies.
I dunno, I felt Paper Mario had a lot more Morio-style gameplay and Mario series references in it than SMRPG. IMO, if you have a lot of nostalgia for the Mario series, Paper Mario would be your best pick. I mean, I played Paper Mario before I played the actual series, and every time I play a main series Mario game, I always find more references and such that included in PM(which is great for me, since Paper Mario is one of my favorite games of all time). I never quite got that quite as much from SMRPG, and if it did, I never noticed it as much.
Also, since Paper Mario is more of a 2D game rather than SMRPGs isometric view, PM actually plays more like a Mario game than SMRPG did, IMHO.
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