What if Nintendo made more mature games?

[Yvl]

What would nintendo's famous first party games (Link, Mario, etc) be like if they were to suddenly make a more mature version of them? I could definately see alot more awesomeness if they did this. Can you imagine a Goomba writhing in agony after being stepped on?
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[Tullaryx]

I think turning some of the well-known Nintendo titles abit more mature would be a good thing in terms of sales. There's always going to be an interest from the gaming community when it comes to games with mature content. But I think Nintendo's been smart in keeping their well-known titles and characters just the way they are: kid-friendly.

People have grown up with Mario, Zelda, Link, and Pikachu as being something fun, innocent and a break from all the violence, sex and drugs of the more mature games from the other two console makers. To suddenly see a game where Link and Zelda are doing more than hugging would be quite a shock to alot of people, not to mention to the parents of kids who have a pre-conceived notion than Nintendo is a kid-friendly company and their consoles being the same. I wouldn't be dissuaded from buying a mature-version of Mario and Zelda, but then my attachments to Nintendo's first-party title characters are not as extreme as other gamers so seeing Link get all GTA on Zelda wouldn't turn me off the game. Now the Pokemon titles suddenly getting all mature would be disturbing on so many levels.
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[Parallax]

Hmm...I think Nintendo could do a better job of acquiring titles which are more adult-friendly for their consoles. For the GameCube, I can only think of about two (Resident Evil, and Sanity's Requiem...or was that the subtitle? I can't remember...) that they put out on the system. Everything else was aimed at a much younger audience, for the most part.

I don't have an issue with that, honestly. I'm okay with Nintendo making games however they like. Their games are still pretty fun, and I still want to play them. On the Wii, since I can play any of my arcade-classic type favourites, you know I'll be buying one. In the future thought, it definitely might be a good move for them to broaden their audience some.

[Tullaryx]

[Parallax]

[Masa]

Nintendo do have quite a few mature franchises. F-Zero and Metroid come to mind. A few of their Wii titles are like that too (though I can't remember the names)

Twilight Princess is too mature for Zelda in my opinion. I liked Wind Waker, but whatever. Anyone who thinks Mario needs to become mature is off their rocker. You can't make a mature game based off a overweight italian plumber unless it becomes really... sick.

(BTW, 'mature' is the worst description for what we're talking about. More realistic, maybe. But maturity does not mean blood, guts, sex, and profanity.)

I say Nintendo should leave their franchises as is and continue to pick up new franchises. But I don't need games to have blood and guts to justify me playing then. Fortunately I don't have to have that sort of thing to justify my playing experience so that people don't think I'm kiddy. You wanna know what I call a good mature games? Pikmin 2. Think about it.
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[Tullaryx]

[John Layfield]

Well, using the topic creator's example and applying it to anyone who feels the only thing stopping Mario from being good is the lack of skull crushing from jump attacks, if seeing a Goomba writhe in agony is what you need to enjoy the same basic Mario game everyone else has been playing for more than twenty years, you don't need to tell us about it here, just save it for your therapist.

I just don't think blood is cool. It's just blood. Sex is something I'd rather have than watch and swearing adds nothing.
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[Masa]

Unless it's McCoy saying it. McCoy makes all swearing better.

But you know, I dunno how many Mario sprite flash movies I've seen that include decapitation, bloodspray, and all that sort of stuff. You know what that does to the movie? It makes it stupid and unrealistic. Yeah. Blood is unrealistic. Puzzle that one out.
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[Scarlet Assassin]

Leave the blood and seriousness to Sony and Microsoft, they do it well. I don't think watching Kirby shred and devour his opponents with realistic blood spatter would make me enjoy Kirby any more (In fact, I don't know that I could enjoy Kirby more than I already do) and I don't want to see my Bulbasaur get third degree burns when he fights charmander. bloodying up their mainstays would be a huge mistake for nintendo. ask any person over 40 what they think of when they hear video games and they will tell you either nintendo or Asteroids, why would nintendo even think about ruining that sort of image?
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[Masa]

I see what you mean. That is a bit different there. I don't suspect you've played either Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi, have you?

As far as Mario goes, I dunno if going too deep into a plot is the best idea. Mario is more about quirky adventures with bizarre villains. There's only so far you can that that.
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[Buff]

the only true mature game nintendo has is resident evil. i personally hope they don't since they can easily do better with out them. like scarlet said leave them for playstation and microsoft. only thing i like about nintendo is the fact they have zelda and mario bros and super smash bros. if they started to get more violent and get games like that it'll easly hurt them i think.
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Devoted protector of Ferid and Arshtat

[Yvl]

But then, I'm not saying the ySHOULD, I'm saying what would the game be like if they did?
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[Sophita]