What's Your "Mario Game Ranking"?

[SilverPaw750]

I've been playing a lot of Mario platformers recently, and it got me to thinking which ones I liked the most.

What's your order?

Mine would go:
(from best to worst)

Traditional 2D Marios:
SMB3 > SMW > NSMB > SMB

All 2D Marios:
SMB3 > SMW > YIDS > YI > NSMB > SMB > SMB2

+3D Marios:
SMB3 > SMW > SM64 > YIDS > YI > NSMB > SMS > SMB > SMB2

I know almost nothing about the Super Mario Land series, so I didn't include it.

And I don't hate SMB2...it's not a bad game, just not nearly as good as the other marios.

I'm curious which Marios other people liked the best. What's your list look like?

 

[Rocko]

Your ommitance of Super Mario RPG disappoints me greatly.

 

[Pancake Rabbit]

Smb 3
Sm64
Smw
Smb
Smb 2
Nsmb

 

[SilverPaw750]

[quote name='sixersballernum3']Your ommitance of Super Mario RPG disappoints me greatly.[/QUOTE]
I was only ranking the platformers. I'd have to spend 4-6 hours to rank every mario game.

Oh, and I've never played Super Mairo RPG $
...Paper Mario: TTYD and both M&L games were great though.

 

[furyk]

In this order (of the Mario console platformers where you play as Mario):

Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
New Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Brothers 3
Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Brothers 2 (US)
Super Mario Brothers 2 (JAP)

SMB 3 disappoints me going back to it recently.

 

[Rocko]

[quote name='SilverPaw750']I was only ranking the platformers. I'd have to spend 4-6 hours to rank every mario game.

Oh, and I've never played Super Mairo RPG $
...Paper Mario: TTYD and both M&L games were great though.[/quote]

Oh, my fault. #

Well, get on it! Splendid game.

 

[SilverPaw750]

[quote name='sixersballernum3']Oh, my fault. #

Well, get on it! Splendid game.[/QUOTE]
I'll get it if it hits VC. The cart is way, way, way too expensive on eBay.

 

[Kawnhr]

Yoshi's Island
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Sunshine
New Super Mario Bros.
Yoshi's Island DS (not BAD, but really really disapointing)
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Bros. 2

 

[Rocko]

[quote name='SilverPaw750']I'll get it if it hits VC. The cart is way, way, way too expensive on eBay.[/quote]

Wow, indeed it is. That's lame.

 

[naes]

Lemme say one thing, the US version of Super Mario Bros. 2 is a great game. Very underrated.

 

[elwood731]

[quote name='naes']Lemme say one thing, the US version of Super Mario Bros. 2 is a great game. Very underrated.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. I don't get everyone ranking it last.

 

[Kawnhr]

I was actually talking about Lost Levels.

 

[naes]

It wasn't only you.

 

[converge]

super mario world
super mario 64
super mario bros 2
super mario bros 3
super mario sunshine
new super mario b's
super mario b's
YI
YIDS

 

[naes]

Wow, Yoshi's Island near the bottom? That game was is great!
[quote name='converge']super mario world
super mario 64
super mario bros 2
super mario bros 3
super mario sunshine
new super mario b's
super mario b's
YI
YIDS[/quote]

 

[mr ryles]

Super mario world.
Mario bros. 3
Mario 64
new super mario
Paper mario 64

I'm assuming super paper mario will crack it's way into that top 5 list somewhere.

 

[Melatonin]

Super Mario Sunshine
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other Mario platformers

 

[gofishn]

[quote name='Melatonin']Super Mario Sunshine
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other Mario platformers[/QUOTE]

I respectfully disagree. My favorite has to be SMW, but I have a special place in my heart for SM64. In all honesty I think I was a bigger fan of SMB2 (US) than SMB3. I enjoyed NSMB, but it was way too short (and easy). I thought it would let me re-live the glory days of SMW, but it just wasn't as good. I deliberately excluded the Yoshi's Island games because I was never a fan of the whole egg shooting thing, plus IMO Yoshi is meant to be one of Mario's accessories/tools rather than a permanent fixture. Therefore, my list would look something like this.

SMW
SM64
SMB2
NSMB
SMB3
SMB1
SMSS

 

[dmaul1114]

2D: SMW>SMB3>SMW2:YI>NSMB>SMB2>SMB

With 3D: SMW>SMB3>SMW2:YI>M64>NSMB>Mario Sunshine>SMB2>SMB

Mario RPG, the Paper Mario games etc. are too different to rank and it's been too long since I played the original Gameboy Super Mario Land games to rank them.

 

[SpecTrE3353]

Mario RPG and Paper Mario are fantastic.

 

[dmaul1114]

[quote name='SpecTrE3353']Mario RPG and Paper Mario are fantastic.[/QUOTE]

Totally. Just too different to rank among the platformer games. Their totally different aside from starring the same characters.

 

[willardhaven]

Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros. 3
New Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 1 + JP2
Super Mario Bros. 2