By bob on Oct 28, 2009

thats a bunch of bs

By Jason Tanner on Oct 28, 2009

Morgan Webb,

Yeah, didn’t she sing the praises of Mario Galaxy along with Mr. Sessler when game came out? And now she’s putting it down in order to promote the new Ratchet and Clank game?

Sounds to me like sony gave G4 and Morgan a payday and she lacked the integrity to pass on it.
Well check G4 TV off the list of game reviewers than can be trusted by anyone.

By TNAjonathan on Oct 28, 2009

Why should we care, what this idiot thinks of SUPER MARIO GALAXY, its one of the best games ever made, SUPER MARIO 4 LIFE

By humbert on Oct 28, 2009

Well the problem is that this is the 9th game in the series which isn’t known as being stellar, and hasn’t been changing much throughout the years, where Galaxy is a huge leap in terms of game design for the whole industry. So you choose what to play

By dreamshatterer on Oct 28, 2009

Ironically humbert, marios new ‘huge leap’ is actually just stolen from the ps2 ratchet and clank games, planet gameplay been there done that

By Rob on Oct 28, 2009

Wheras A Crack In Time stole it’s new thing from a flash game…

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron

Obviously R&C most likely does it better- but then Galaxy moved planet gameply from being a neat gimmick to a design revelation.

By RuddigerPez on Oct 28, 2009

Get over it…almost anything on Wii is for kids. Might be fun to play as an adult, but honestly, you can’t tell me some of the watered down action isn’t at least a little bit insulting. In my opinion, Ratchet isn’t too innovative, but neither is Mario, which hasn’t truly innovated since it went to 3D. Truth is, neither series needs to innovate, all major games for either are quality games with their interesting aspects.

And why is it that everytime someone says something against their favorite games, they are getting paid off by an opposing console maker or developer to say it? I’m not getting paid by Sony or Nintendo, but I’ll badmouth anything Microsoft until the cows come home, and all the cows are really dead in a ditch somewhere and will never come home…

Really, just realize some people aren’t there to say just what you want to hear all the time…

By Shqype on Oct 28, 2009

@Jason Tanner:

Sony is not the company that delivers “paydays” in order to promote their own product or demote a competitors’. You’re thinking of Microsoft.

Wii games are generally tailored towards children. That doesn’t make it a bad thing, but it’s just the reality. That said, having played the demo of Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, I must admit that the game also seeks to appeal to children. The silly humor definitely detracts from the experience for me. The gameplay, on the other hand, is really enjoyable.

By BFrank on Oct 28, 2009

You people defending what this person said are missing the point. She said only kids should play Mario Galaxy, What The f*** is that about?

By Thomas N on Oct 28, 2009

This is a new low for G4TV, and a reason I do not watch it anymore. It gives game journalism a bad name.

By Man on Oct 28, 2009

Morgan Webb is not a old school 80′s baby gamer. She is a new school gamer and probably plays games inorder to keep up with job more than recreation. Her comment leads me to believe that she doesn’t have a clue as to what a quality AAA title is if hit her in her big white teeth.

I don’t really watch that show and her comment certainly doesn’t convince me otherwise. She is anything but a credible source of gaming information. On to real news…

By sparced on Oct 28, 2009

Mario Galaxy was the last Wii game I experienced before switching to a PS3 in Jan ’08.

I found it ridiculously easy to the point that there was no challenge whatsoever. When I couldn’t be bothered to finish it I knew that at the age of 27 I was now too old for Nintendo.

Never looked back.

By thoughtful on Oct 28, 2009

I would agree about the Mario being for kids. Not that you can’t play it as an adult AND enjoy it, it’s just that it’s so damned easy. Same with LOZ:TP, enemies run up to you and stand there for a full 3 seconds before swinging to hit you.

The challenge in Nintendo games is gone. They’ve designed these games so kids and casual gamers can pick them up and play them easily, whereas the gamer that’s been playing these games for years feels like there’s been no progression in difficulty.

By Mark on Oct 28, 2009

Who the f*** is Morgan Webb?

By Mark on Oct 28, 2009

Mario Galaxy is an easy game but only because you have infinite lives, try beating the game with out losing more then 3 lives.

An R&C will never be better then a Mario game those games will always exist under the big Mario shadow.

By ThatGuy on Oct 28, 2009

Aw, man. Here I was thinking Morgan Webb was intelligent. :/

Brilliant game for all ages, Galaxy.

By Bowserone on Oct 29, 2009

yeah sony would NEVER pay ppl off (killzone 2) ahem excuse me…And who cares what morgan thinks that show died long ago and the network 2 there better off playin more reruns of cops

By Dread on Oct 29, 2009

F&*k morgan webb.Ive played rachet and clank its gay i dont know why pepl even buy it,its a peice of crap.ive played SMG i like it waaaaaay betr than ratchet and clank.

By John on Oct 29, 2009

@sparced

sooo….. why are you here? Why are there people on a website called “nintendo everything” that are arguing that nintendo is for kids? How does that make any sense at all?! Oh and Sparced, its no wonder you didn’t find SMG hard if you didn’t play the whole thing! You probably didn’t even get to the purple coin galaxies!

By humbert on Oct 29, 2009

dreamshatterer , ironically spheres as levels were used as a level in Yoshi’s Island which was out in 1995. So don’t make a noob out of yourself, make sure you have made your homework before posting.

By L.A.C. on Oct 29, 2009

No R&C game is better than any Mario game.
Every Mario game is very different from the other while R&C games are more of the same.
I personally think the R&C games are good, but uncomparable with any Mario game.

I don’t agree with ppl saying the game was easy, because to be fair, is just balanced.
Some stars were ridiculously easy, while others were more challenging.

But still, Miyamoto always desing games to be enjoyed by all ages, and Galaxy is no exception.

Hopefully SMG2 will be as difficult and challenging as they say.

Oh and one more thing. Interplanetary travel has been done in other games before Galaxy, but not quite the same way. THAT is what makes it revolutionary.

By Max on Oct 29, 2009

In response to everyone who thinks that Sony gave money to G4, I highly doubt that. That’s more of Microsoft’s job, reason why Gears of War and Halo are so overrated on G4… Remember all those Halo related episodes on G4 before the launch of Halo 2?

I’m not bashing either console, company or game (can’t believe I have to say this, but I need to create a barrier so that fanboys don’t attack me). All I’m saying is Sony doesn’t have to pay people to get high ratings and reviews, and I did not like the demo of R&C, nor have I played any previous games in the series.

I would like to play Super Mario Galaxy one day, though. I love Mario games… the old ones, at least.

By Xbot on Oct 29, 2009

Nintendo is for kids.

xbox and PlayStation & PC is for adults.

all facts!

By Brendan J. on Oct 29, 2009

Jason Tanner -
“Morgan Webb, Yeah, didn’t she sing the praises of Mario Galaxy along with Mr. Sessler when game came out? And now she’s putting it down in order to promote the new Ratchet and Clank game?

Sounds to me like sony gave G4 and Morgan a payday and she lacked the integrity to pass on it.
Well check G4 TV off the list of game reviewers than can be trusted by anyone.”

—–

That comment is utterly foolish. Nowhere in the article did she say ‘Super Mario Galaxy is crap’; she simply said it’s more directed toward a younger audience than Ratchet & Clank is, that’s all.

By Keener on Oct 29, 2009

I would agree with web, I couldn’t imagine at 28 sitting at home playing Galaxy or any Wii games for that matter.

By John on Oct 29, 2009

I don’t know if it was aimed for kids specifically, but Galaxy was way too dumbed down for me to play personally. I mean you ran through the same sections of a level up to 4 times. I think Mario Galaxy was insulting to play as a person. lol

By TheYam on Oct 29, 2009

You know, I completely agree with her. She DID review Galaxy well, but that doesn’t mean its infallable.

I love them both, but I do feel like I’m participating in a far more mature adventure when I’m playing a Ratchet or Jak game. Mario is so light-hearted and innocent. I mean honestly, the most devestating plotline in a Mario game involves what, a kidnapping, an attempt to rule the Kingdom? Ratchet, Jak, all have some element of death and destruction on a far more personal level and THAT taps into more adult themes than Mario ever could.

Again…that doesn’t make Mario a bad game so I’m unsure why everyone is getting so defensive, it’s simply a different and more broad demographic…one that includes kids.

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

“Ratchet & Clank is 10X the game Mario will ever be. That doesn’t make Mario bad by any means but R & C is in a league of it’s own when it comes to originality”

^^^ Bullcrap.

How original can it be when the freaking franchise was born precisely to counter the fact that the Playstation console didn’t have Super Mario games back in the days. That’s WHY it was born! For the same reason Alundra and many other Zelda rip-off games were created to placate those PSX adopters that missed playing Zelda games.

Hell, R&C is basically a Banjo-Kazooie RIP-OFF! The way you use two characters and stuff. Which in turn was based on those ealier Mario games where you use a combination of two characters (Mario and Yoshi). All these morons claiming that Mario took from R&C need to pull their heads from their craggy arses.

And here’s another point that blows away the R&C is 10X better than SMG…. guess which game rated rate higher at metacritic.com and will sold more units? That’s right, your royal highness SUPER MARIO GALAXY!

^____^

By Anthony on Oct 29, 2009

Morgan Webb is right. Mario’s story and general feel are for kids. The gameplay may not be, but the atmosphere is. Any moron knows that.

Ratchet and Clank are geared more for adults, in terms of humor, story and challenge.

By Anthony on Oct 29, 2009

Oh and Ed, most of your points are lame.

No one said R&C was more original. He said it was better. And I agree.

It uses two characters so it’s a rip off? That’s quite a leap, kid.

And Metacritic and sales don’t equal quality. Sure it gets great reviews and it deserves them, but since people whine about reviews all the time, why should we care? And sales only means its popular, not that its better.

By Hollander on Oct 29, 2009

I personally found Bioshock insulting to play because it was way to easy… When did gaming become the pass time of Wimps…
I remember playing games on the NES and being dead nervous of dying, it was actually an accomplishment to finish games back then…

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

Anthony- did you even bothered to read the post I was replying to? That guy said R&C was the best when it comes to being original. R&C is as original as Banjo-Kazzooie was when it was called a Mario clone. And for good reason too.

David Macphail- Are you seriously saying R&C didn’t copy Mario, the freaking king of platformers? C’mon you gibbon, any dev out there making platformers have taken things from Mario games. Even Half Life did it. The guy behind that game admitted he took stuff from Mario 64. And obviously he wasn’t talking about pinguins, you silly mothertrucker… game design! That’s what I was talking about before when I mentioned R&C ripping-off Mario games.

And please spare us with the whole holier than thou bullsh1t. Nothing you said is above the fanboy crap you find at most gamefaqs or neogaf forums.

By the looks of it, you got a Wii to play with the magic dildo cuz I sure as hell cannot find any other reason why you got it. That is, if you find one of the best games for the system to be less than a typical retarded R&C that are easy as hell due to the fact that all you do is SHOOT with weapons that only make things EASIER for the kiddies.

By L.A.C. on Oct 29, 2009

To the ones who feel R&C is so mature, lets see if you’ll be playing it about 10 years from now. Meaning, being mature doesn’t make a game. (and I don’t necessarily mean the M rating.)

That’s what puts Mario games over any other of its kind. Mario games are timeless.

R&C might have an expanded more adult oriented story, but that is exactly what will make it end up like Sonic, Crash and most other games created to rival Mario games.
Which all of them at some point were considered to be better than Mario, like R&C now.
Sonic is the best example. When the story was simple, it saw success, but as soon as it became more mature, well it has slowly become what it is today.

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

I find it funny how ppl say Mario games are easy and imply that those R&C games are harder to beat, thus aimed at adults. When in reality R&C games aren’t exactly hard at all. I played Tools of Destruction and it was extremely easy (mainly because the weapons were way too powerful).

R&C4 (Deadlock) was also criminally easy.

Anywhoo those that claims R&C games are hard are probably find a challange just trying to put on a pair of shoes after their mom places a blue helmet on their fat heads.

By Jason Tanner on Oct 29, 2009

@Hollander

“I personally found Bioshock insulting to play because it was way to easy… When did gaming become the pass time of Wimps…
I remember playing games on the NES and being dead nervous of dying, it was actually an accomplishment to finish games back then…”

Man, those were the days huh? I can remember being able to finish Megaman 2 and 3 without losing a single life, now I can’t finish a level without dying!

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

Anybody remember Ninja Gaiden? You would be wisked to the start if you died enough times. So you could start over! Now those games were hard.

These days, sorry to say but neither on the PS3, 360 or Wii do I find such such extreme challenges as back in the days. Not saying there aren’t games without a challenge, just that they’re not as hard to beat as games once were.

Thing is, I find it hilarious that some think R&C is hard at all. Freaking games are easy as pie. You get weapons with too much power and basically the hard thing is to keep a good aim and thats pretty much it (and that also goes for 99% of all those so-called “mature” games… FPS).

With Mario games, the thing with them is that they’re designed to be fun with a small dose of challenge here and there. The only Mario game with a challenge was SMB2. That game was harder to beat than most core games out there.

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

David Macphail- Yeah I sure feel bad I was being “told” by someone named “David MCFAIL” LOL

Freaking McDonads here thinks he’s above all this fanboy talk. And look at him write all that manure. Obviously having the vapors because the users here actually support the Wii ONE A NINTENDO RELATED WEBSITE! LOL I mean, sheesh! how DUMB can you get?

I always get a kick how some limeys try to vent off their frustrations with ppl they don’t know. They’re some of the most sour bitches around. What would they be without the good old US? That’s right, nothing. LOL

By Ed on Oct 29, 2009

McFAIL- LOL Listen, I know that I make typos since it’s pretty hard to write and bang that cow you call “mum” at the same time.. ahem… no actually (LOL), trying to write using a phone is more complex than getting through a typical R&C game on what you PS3 owners call hard mode but everyone else calls “easy mode”.

So please excuse me for making a typo here and there. I know that you limeys get all emotional when us Americans butcher Shakespeare’s language.

But right now I really want to get back about me being right and you being wrong. So, just write something down. Y’know, some of your fanboy stuff.

By L.A.C. on Oct 30, 2009

Don’t worry Ed.
Everyone knows when a person has nothing else to say they rely on typos to insult people.
The internet is the last place to look for perfect grammar. Everyone knows that.

By Andrew on Nov 9, 2009

*RAMPAGING GAMER WARNING* Morgan Webb is officially the Biggest joke of Video Game News and Reporting. She doesn’t play games because she loves them. She plays to keep a job. She even admitted that she has someone else play the games for her and write a review so she can take credit. I’m a huge Mario fan. I’m much older than a little kid as Ms.Webb suggested and I still believe Mario is aimed towards everyone and is not in the slightest insulting nor do any of my friends think so. So she can go screw herself. Second, Mario Galaxy didn’t copy anyone. Shigeru Miaymoto has always been a creative personality and really worked his magic with Galaxy. (And for those Sony and Microsoft fanboys who think they know everything, I bet you didn’t know that planets, outer space, and gravity were used in Mario games before the Playstation or XBox were even in development. Super Mario Land 2 or Yoshis Island anyone?) I’ve played Ratchet and Clank and was almost embarassed by the game’s childish antics like the Sonic Erupter weapon. If that’s not aimed for children and manchildren I don’t know what is.
@ Xbot: those aren’t facts, those are your opinions you idiotic fanboy.
@ Everyone on the topic of payday: I didn’t know that you knew who Sony and Microsoft pays or not. I thought you were someone off the Internet defending you’re favorite company but here I find that you’re actually the people who work for them. Huh, astonishing.
@ John: Youre insulting, douchebag.
@ Keener: I can and so can everyone else that enjoys quality games, retard.
@ TheYam: Mario hasn’t dealt with adult themes you say? Excuse me, clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about. Princess Rosalinas whole baskstory deals with her mothers death and her Luma companion’s loss. Go read up on some Mario and well chat.
@ BrendanJ: She also said it was insulting to adults and very childish. Are you stupid are did you just not read?
@ Ed: Good one. Seriously, people, Mario is in a league of it’s own due to the fact that he is on Nintendo’s a-List and every high quality game is created with the utmost care. That’s why R&C doesn’t score as high (nor will they ever score as high) as Mario. Or most other games for that matter.

Well that just about settles it. I kicked rectum and took names for Mario to see. Lol Besides with NSMBWii and Galaxy 2 just around the corner, well see just what kind of challenge you whimps are up for. Get ready to shit your knickers with frustration cause the heat has just been turned up.

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