Stop Daggering and say why they weren't better, else it just seems like they weren't better for you
Fair enough. Since I can't quote them or post in the thread (it's closed), I'll just mention the poster and say what's on my mind.
Milenko (Gaping Anus) voted MM because he found it easier.
Serious Jones had his post ripped apart by SalvIsWin, who proved virtually all his points wrong. to say that Mario is "just a game" while MM isn't is fucking stupid. MM is just as much "just a game" as Mario. It's just about saving the princess (ironically just like Mario, which came out years earlier. The characters are not fleshed out, etc.
Blade spent 4 paragraphs telling us how Mario is amazing, then votes for MM because "They don't evoke the mixture of emotions that MM evoke." Of course one of the emotions he brings up is "The joy of helping those two young lovers come together." Really, man? What the fuck do you call Mario and Peach?
Doc had a great post. However, sorry, MM is still just a game. You have a controller in your hands, and make a character do stuff. Whatever emotions you encounter don't make the game better, they make it a different experience. Games aren't movies, the emotion isn't the important point, the gameplay is.
Mozz had a ok post, but most of it was fluff. Too bad in M64, while you do play the same each world 6 times, you really don't, as each star is a different quest with different objectives, and in some cases the world itself is different. Then he insults our intelligence by just saying that MM is different without saying why (hint, it isn't). Then he complains about the story. Fuck that shit. Mario is a good game because it doesn't NEED a story to be good. And making a game without a complex story is MUCH more creative, as you need to use creative gameplay elements in order to make it interesting, as supposed to just making a good story.
Zelda was good because of the story, Mario was good because the gameplay.
And again, MM was built off a different game (whatever you say, it was, it looks exactly like OoT). Mario was completely original, older, better graphics, and better gameplay.