lol. But it brings up the question, what if Nintendo trolled us and announced a new 2D Mario game instead of a 3d one?

A 2.5d one then?

But to be honest, now Nintendo needs real innovation. In both 2D and 3D series. Both SMG and NSMB were huge new awesome series, but now novelty has worn off. NSMB2, NSMBU, SM3DL. Blah blah.

(NSMBU is nice, I played it last month. It's definitely better than NSMB2 but I still wouldn't call it an innovation)

Well aren't all the NSMB games 2.5D?

Well they're entirely 2D in terms of gameplay...
I mean something with both 2D and 3D gameplay. But I lack imagination to imagine how this would work...

Like Super Paper Mario? I guess that could work, but it would be better on the 3DS

I like NSMB and NSMBW but NSMB2 and NSMBU is why SMG won for me.

Also, a game doesn't have to be 3D to have 2.5D enviroments. Take Donkey Kong Country Returns for example, it's a 2D game, but it used 3D models and sometimes it blasts you between foreground and background.

The NSMB games are on a single plane all the time, I don't call that 2.5D, whether science agrees with me or not.
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It's the NSMB series for me, and although I haven't played all of them, (I assume you also count older games), I have played all SMG games, and NSMBDS alone was better for me then those.

It might just be me, but NSMBDS was one of the less games I really wanted to finish, together with PW and PL. And my mind gets bored pretty fast of the SMG games :
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This. I loved NSMBDS so much. More than every other Mario game ever.

NSMB was the first Mario game I played (or second, after mario 64 ds).
Also I must have liked the similarity to mario 64 ds.
That's probably why I like level editing so much and the unused stuff.

I feel like  Freeze and  Hiccup: NSMB was my first Game I've EVER played and still it's the most epic one.

But also I can't wait for Mario in 3D for WiiU wich will probably be shown on E3 in June.
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i pick nsmb becuses i am makeing a hack call new super mario 3D land the hack is in 2D not 3D idk how to make custom thing.

Did you really have to bump an old thread just to say THAT?

And there is a whole group dedicated to SMG hacking, and I come from there. So don't act like its impossible to hack. It just takes a lot of work.

there is a smg ds http://nsmbhd.net/get.php?id=380
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I just revisited SMG the other day. Im not trying to be rude, but SMG and SMG2 completely BLOW NSMB out of the water. Its not even comparable. The NSMB series is so easy to make, given that it is 2D and the level design is more limited. Galaxy though, requires 3D Models and extensive programming for it to work. Also, NSMB is just meh... the games feel the same all the time. They're still good, its just they feel way too similar. And the music... SMG has an orchestrated soundtrack. NSMB recycles the same, mediocre tracks between games.