Mario Pinball Land is like Citizen Kane compared to Sticker Star. There are other Mario titles that aren't good, Mario Tennis on Wii U has a lack of content that would be embarrassing at the N64 launch, let alone in 2015, but Sticker Star is a uniquely bad game. It looks good, but that's about all I can say about it that is positive. Sticker Star is a uniquely bad Nintendo game. We all loved the game for a few hours, then finally admitted it was bad. I remember the reviews dropped, including a bad review from GameXplain, and we were all in full cope mode 'these reviewers just don't like classic Paper Mario. I remember we were all so excited for the big return to the old style.Ī month or two before release, I remember GameXplain put up a preview where they talked about the new sticker mechanic, but I think they had hope that it would have a progression system rather than just throwing stickers at enemies for the entire game.

Maybe NintendoLife forums too, but my timing may be off with that one. Neogaf, gamefaqs, and 3DSforums (rip) were my main Nintendo forums at the time. I remember leading up to launch, we were so excited. I'll pull out a slightly more obscure one. With bounties you at least have some idea of what you're getting.Īlso, doing the entire campaign to be able to use a sparrow was definitely a choice.

Challenges weren't perfect and they share the same problems as bounties, but they're obnoxious and always there to annoy you. Quite insane to think about it, you just had 3 challenges per day per activity and that was it. I remember everything was tokenized and progression was capped daily. I was skeptical about it, but man, when the game launched and there was no fabled god roll but just some 'fabled' weapons and once you got them it's over. Still on the topic of balance, fixed rolls have to be one of the most stupid ideas of all time. I remember one of my imediate complaints to my friends was 'I want 6v6 back'. And the crucible itself wasn't much better with 4v4. Nowadays the ghost of crucible balance ruining PvE is gone, but in D2 vanilla… Scout meta in both sandboxes, double primaries and especial weapons on the heavy slot. Graphics and the campaign could only provide enjoyment for a few hours though, or maybe days if you went slow enough.Ĭrucible was awful and it literally ruined the entire game. Not much better in terms of story quality, but D2 had no shortage of CG to tell the story, unlike D1 vanilla and all its expansions (and D2 expansions!). I'd argue it had two advantages over D1 at Rise of Iron: better graphics and better campaign. I can't even remember the honeymoon phase.Įdit: Looking back, Destiny 2 vanilla was wild. Destiny 2 vanilla it's fastest I can think of.

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