By "non-speaking" I actually just mean no voice acting. Let him speak in word balloons/subtitles, but only make grunts and growls.

After one month...

Also, I might add: Nintendo at this point is seeing a real struggle in sales on the Wii U, simply because of a dire lack of system-selling games. At this point their main cash cow Mario has two games featured on the console, and both are mere upgrades to existing titles on the 3DS.

It's not so much jumping to conclusions. And if you read my other replies in this thread, you'll see that I actually do still enjoy the 2/2.5D Mario games. Nintendo will always be making new entries in the franchise, that's a given; I just miss the atmosphere and massive environments of the true 3D ones.

I think this just boils down to personal taste between us, then. I actually really enjoy having a huge level to explore, to have a Star with a name that gives me a vague hint at what's changed to let me get a little further and find the now-opened path. That kind of gameplay is addicting as hell, where each time you…

THANK YOU: Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed is absolutely better than any recent Mario Kart entry. The 3DS MarioKart 7 was good, but it still suffered from the same balance issues with certain items being far too overpowered (and too frequently handed to the computer AI to screw you out of a victory at the last…

Nintendo said outright that they would be debuting a "new 3D Mario adventure" at E3 this year. Then they unveiled 3D World, which as you even admit is nothing but a mixture of 2D and 3D. It's hardly a successor to the Galaxies, or even Mario 64.

THANK YOU for the stab at co-op multiplayer. The classic Mario games were amazing in multiplayer because the game design is intended for one player at a time. Ever since they went with the whole "run through the level together" system, it has become nothing but chaos. Me, my brother and our friends all played through…

Really? I mean I'll admit 3D Land on the 3DS was a decent fun game, and 3D World on Wii U does look just as good. But I've never met anyone yet who played Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxies and went "Y'know, this is fun... but I really wish it was smaller."

Like all Mario games, it will be good and fun, I'm sure.

Actually, I think the old has already met the new with the "Mario 3D Land/World" games. But that's kind of the biggest problem; it's basically a middle-ground series. 3D levels, designed to be played like the classic short 2D stages, so it's less a true 3D and more 2.5D, like Super Paper Mario on the Wii. Sure, you…

That little man was the most frustrating thing about the original NES. Mine had wicked bad allergies and would often end up sneezing repeatedly, accidentally hitting the internal Reset button each time. I'd blow on the cartridges to try and get all the dust out for him, but it rarely helped. I swear the guy should…

You pay $60 for games with a fraction of the content and gameplay hours this almost-20-year-old game has to offer.

Anyone else find it interesting that the screenshot they used on the Nintendo site is actually from the finale? Odd that they'd use the ending as a preview.

NUTBUNNIES!! Had I known, I would have called in sick. Dang it, Nintendo, with your not-announcing-releases-ahead-of-time!!

I admit that I'm jaded, but it's hard to be dedicated to a series so under-appreciated by even those who created it. They've effectively sedated any anticipated projects, and all things affiliated, only to then offer up this antiquated product after all hope had dissipated. Can you blame fans for feeling alienated?

I had underestimated just how infuriated fans of this ill-fated series would get when baited by this game's dated concept as stated.

Your hunger was not satiated, but rather exacerbated?

The difference: GT5 Prologue had substantially more content than just a demo, and was released specifically because the full GT5 had once again been delayed. To make the fans happy and give them something to enjoy in the meantime, they put together a smaller version of the game. It was specifically branded and…

Someone who willingly bends over and takes any crooked policy or anti-consumer practice up the tailpipe, simply in blind support of their company/platform/medium of choice, while simultaneously mocking those who don't by calling them "fanboys."