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[PATV] Monday, October 21, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 19: There’s No Mojo Here
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[PATV] Monday, October 21, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 19: There’s No Mojo Here
Do you need common sense and market research if you have wild, unattainable dreams? Yes Madcatz, you do.
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So while none of their characters has any real personality, as a collective people do like them (kids especially). If they build a really tight cart game, which is what they are good at, people will buy it.
And let's face it, when the first Mario Cart game came out 21 years ago, it's not like all of those characters had been flushed out.
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Other than MAYBE Yoshi (as he only had one title under his belt before Mario Kart came out, but was an integral part of Super Mario World), which of the characters weren't "flushed" out.
If you honestly want to believe that Angry Birds is going to do a better job than Mario Kart, simply because they know how to sell t-shirts, stuffed animals, etc... You may want to realize that Mario > all in brand recognition. Even if they make a phenomenal cart game, just like every other cart game that's come out since SNES it will be seen as a Mario Kart clone (and for good reason).
(But that's a vastly better game than FFVII, since characters have actual personalities.)
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Wow, not really sure what I did to deserve such hostility, but I never said they would do better than Mario Cart, just that IF they do a good job, it will sell. Nothing more.
But I think you are letting your obvious love of Nintendo get in the way of your memory a bit. In 1992, Donkey Kong was not like he is now. DK Country was not released until two years later, up until then, Donkey Kong was just the bad Gorilla from the Donkey Kong games at that point.
Toad and Yoshi were minor characters, and Koopa was just bad guys that Mario sqaushed as he raced through levels. While Princess Peach/Toadstool is a prominent character now, back in 1992 she had only been playable in one game, Super Mario Brothers 2 IIRC. Other than that, she was just the McGuffin that Mario needed to chase down.
Sure, Mario and Luigi were famous as hell, I wouldn't argue other wise. Mario Kart sold 8 million units, which was a lot back then considering the 50 million console sales. The newest Angry Birds has that many downloads it's first weekend. In 2013, I'd argue that Angry Birds has an incredibly solid brand recognition, especially for the younger generation.
None of that means they will make a better game than Mario Cart, but Graham dismissing it because the birds don't have "character" is silly as well. In 1992, only Mario, Luigi and Bowser, had personality. Nobody was saying "wow, I love that Toad guy". That, and kids love Angry BIrds, so whether Angry Birds Racing (or whatever they call it) is a clone or not doesn't matter because if it's a GOOD clone, it'll sell millions of units.
Or maybe an app that allows the Mojo to stream to your mobile device, allowing you to enjoy your mobile games on the go and causing everyone's heads to explode like that guy in Scanners.
The steam version they have out now is just the 1998 version with a new graphics driver cloned from the one the fan base has had for almost 4 years now.
I'm actually making a youtube series about it.
They loaned it to George Lucas, and he taped over it.
I heard that the heating in The Moonbase started making a weird warbly oscillating hum, so now she doesn't need music at all.