Mario Advance 4: Mario 3!!

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Originally posted by lazyfatbum
Fuck the E-Reader? A device that lets you buy a 5 dollar pack of cards and get new levels, abilities, power ups and characters? Yeah, fuck that. You guys make the dumbest responses sometimes. We already know that Nintendo is testing the market with the E-Reader and that their ultimate goal is to release game X for the home console and then release hundreds of cheaply made and inexpensive add-on E-Reader cards that infinitely alter the game. I can reach orgasm just thinking about it.

Imagine the possibility of never buying a sequel until there's suffiecent advancements in the software to warrant a sequel. A few years from now, we could be playing Metroid 2 and each of us have our own unique modded version of it. Through E-Reader, you could form your own planet or suit, or even game play modes like creating an obsticle course for your unique abilities or shooting range for your own unique weapons. And you look down on that ideal?? Because Nintendo sees it as a way to make 10 fold the money with nearly zero cost after enitial production of the main game! We'll be cleaning the stains from our pants when we explore a game that WE made to the point that the only thing that even resembles the original game is some of the most basic game play mechanics! AND YOU PAY 40 BUCKS FOR THE DEVICE AND 5 BUCKS FOR A PACK OF CARDS THAT YOU CAN TRADE AND YOU FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. WOULD YOU RATHER GET A SEQUEL EVERY TEN YEARS AND PAY 50 BUCKS FOR IT??

SHMUCKS

Yeah, and when they actually start DOING any of those things with the E-Reader, perhaps I might feel it's worth the money. As it stands right now, to get the full experience for Mario 3 will cost me $75 at the very least. And I doubt the E-Reader, even though it is most probably capable of living up to your expectations, actually ever will.

And why do all that when you can so easily program them into the game!? You do realize that you're paying $30 for a GBA game because it comes on a 32MB cart, and you also realize that this port, even with the extras most likely aren't even consuming a tenth of that. Hell, with all that extra space, they could fit every Super Mario Advance game, PLUS full-featured level-editors for each, AND have enough remaining space to flashrom-save tons of those levels. All WITHOUT the need for an E-Reader.

Of course, my biggest fundamental problem with this whole thing is that I've already bought Super Mario Bros. 3 twice, once when I got the NES version, and again when I got it on All-Stars. How can you say it's right for them to expect me to buy this game a THIRD time, and then charge me even MORE for the new stuff!?

I'm sorry, this is bullshit and I don't like it.