Mario Game to Hurt and Heal!

[blueflower999]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 16
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 8
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9

[blueflower999]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 17
2. Super Mario 64 - 2
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 8
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 12
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9

[mikey]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 17
2. Super Mario 64 - 2
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9

I mean I've played Brawl before but I'm bad at it so we need to keep them close but SMG in front.

[FierceDeity]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 15
2. Super Mario 64 - 2
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 10

SMG is great, but 17 was a little high.

Sorry guys but a game that I've actually played needs to win.  You understand right?

You, sir, need to play more games. Choosing the "best" game based on level of familiarity is kinda bullshit.

I mean I've played Brawl before but I'm bad at it so we need to keep them close but SMG in front.

Are brawl and SMG the only ones you've played that remain on this list...?
Also, are you ranking how good of a game brawl is based on how good you are at it?

[mikey]

SMG is great, but 17 was a little high.
no it wasn't...

You, sir, need to play more games. Choosing the "best" game based on level of familiarity is kinda bullshit.
Not true.  How am I supposed to rank a game if I've never played it before?
Are brawl and SMG the only ones you've played that remain on this list...?
could be
Also, are you ranking how good of a game brawl is based on how good you are at it?
I'm not really sure, but I'm gonna say no... because I DID heal it.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 13
2. Super Mario 64 - 2
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 14
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 10

[FierceDeity]

How am I supposed to rank a game if I've never played it before?

By playing it...? Idk, I'm not saying this forum game should be exclusive to people who have played a significant amount of mario games, but it would seem you haven't played many mario games, like, at all. Granted, the games remaining on this list are more of a combination of relatively older and newer games in comparison to the two that you actually do know, but if you haven't played the newer ones, and also haven't played super mario 64 (arguably the most popular/well known game in the entire series), then you would seem to have a very limited experience with the super mario franchise (although I'm not gonna pretend I expect everybody to be familiar with super mario RPG). Back to the question, though, of how you're supposed to rank a game if you've never played it before, that's exactly my goddamn point. How can you say a game is worse if you've never played it?

Also, are you ranking how good of a game brawl is based on how good you are at it?
I'm not really sure, but I'm gonna say no... because I DID heal it.

That was honestly more of a rhetorical question, seeing as you'd already essentially said that you are... again, having said that "[you're] bad at [brawl] so we need to keep them close but SMG in front." I was asking if that was your method within your previously established method of familiarity. But apparently you disagree with an answer that I thought to be pretty evident. In case you do consider more challenging games to be worse (as you've implied so far), then I know a game you might enjoy a lot more than anything on this list...

Spoiler

What, too much?

[close]

I mean, I had no intention of starting a debate on the logistics of how to decide which is the "best"; this whole thing is a game, after all. It's just that your method of voting parallels the methods that people use to actually evaluate games on their "quality", and these people who end up ranking games solely based on shallow criteria such as nostalgia frustrate me to no end, as they provide no help in actually advancing the gaming industry in the right direction.

[mikey]

No I've beaten subspace it's just that really advanced precise button mashing is beyond me.  I can beat, say a lv 9 computer every once in a while but my friends just destroy me.

EDIT:  Okay, yeah I've played like 5 minutes of SM64 on the DS, so it wasn't really the real thing.  And yeah I guess I'm not good with Mario games...  I played Mario 1, 2, and 3 on NES, skipped SNES and N64, played Super Mario Sunshine, NSMB Wii, Brawl, and both SMGs.

[FierceDeity]

>type what I think to be a pretty well-reasoned argument
>receive no relevant response to, like, any of it

welp.

[blueflower999]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 14
2. Super Mario 64 - 2
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 14
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 8

[BlackDragonSlayer]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 12
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 14
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 8

[FierceDeity]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 12
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 12
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9

[BlackDragonSlayer]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 10
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9

[blueflower999]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 11
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 7

[FierceDeity]

1. Super Mario Galaxy - 11
2. Super Mario 64 - 3
3. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team - 6
4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 6
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 11
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 8