Roger Fingas wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough:
RF  ACK!  No!  Why go for a dull, standard side-scroller when so RF> many 
possibilities exist with 3D?
 PM>  er, because it's the game play that matters.
 PM>  3D is just another way of looking at something.  A bad game is still
 PM>  going to be a bad game, even in 4D-sensurround.
RF> But there's so much more freedom and immersion in a 3D
RF> world!  Not to mention realism...
 If realism were so hot, people wouldn't FLEE reality for video games.
 I prefer games that aren't reality.
RF> Besides, if I wanted to play yet another Mario-clone, I'd
RF> buy someone's old NES.
 Who cares about Mario, anyway?  I've never understood what's SO darn
 great about Mario.  Maybe because I remember him from Donkey Kong in
 the arcades, and all these RPG/do this/find that Marios aren't him.
 In any case, side scroller doesn't automatically equal a Mario clone.
 He's got no patent on that style of play.
 Or are you going to tell me the side-scrolling Duke Nukem's are Mario
 clones?  :)
 Patrick
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