Nintendo’s new Super Mario plays itself – “Demo Play”
June 11, 2009 by Ruibo
Something I never imagined would ever happen but Nintendo has decided to create games that will cheat for you. No longer will you need to play the game, you can just watch it play itself, how exciting is that….?
It has been confirmed this new feature called “demo play” is something they’re planning to put into future Nintendo Wii titles. Young kids no longer need to Google for cheats, purchasing strategy guides or even need to work hard to get to the next level.
The first game to utilize this feature will be the upcoming Super Mario Bros, players can pause at any level and let the game take over to complete it on its own. Resume playing at anytime, uber cheat mode.
In a recent interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, it’s due, in part, to making games accessible to wide audiences. “In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, if a player is experiencing an area of difficulty, this will allow them to clear troubled areas and take over when they’re ready” confirmed Miyamoto, through his translator. “And yes, we’re looking into this for future games, too” Miyamoto says.
Not sure about most of you but I can’t come to agree that this has been one of the best decisions by Nintendo, but hey — if you don’t like it, you don’t have to use it. What do you guys think?
For more details and trailer on the New Super Mario Bros Wii, check out our recent post.
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I would much rather see the time, resources, and disc space be used for something useful and entertaining like online play! And not Super Smash Brothers broken laggy useless online play, but true easy in easy out 4 player mayhem. But that would be too obvious for Nintendo.
wow lame…
I say, if you don’t use it who cares? I would only use it as a last resort. For instance, I bought “Zach and Wiki” for the Wii and I was stuck for over two hours in one section. I know any other player would have given up on the game… but I went to gamefaq. LOL. This would save me from having to go on that website and read. Screw reading, that was so 1900’s.
Let me guess, the stupid section with the ice mirrors? I’m still stuck on that level!
If you’re stuck on the ice mirrors, you’re not going to do so well for the rest of the game. It gets much harder than that I’m afraid.
It’s basically just a really easy mode. Nothing to get yourself all worked up about. In the end, you play games for yourself. If it makes you feel accomplished to have finished the game using demo play, so be it.
What the heck kind of work ethic is that? I’ve never felt good about cheating in games. Overcoming hurdles is what makes games so rewarding. If you just skip over the hard parts, you’ll never get any better.
Some people don’t really want to get better.
Playing games isn’t just about accomplishing something. There is also the fun factor. If your really sucking at a game, it can zap the fun out of it.
Why play a game that your not enjoying?
Better than … NOT playing the game.
I cant wait till I don’t even have to turn on the video game console to win at a game.
I think most naysayers are missing the point: the biggest obstacle preventing Nintendo from making challenging games to appeal to those of us who’ve been playing for years are the fresh, inexperienced gamers making up the majority of their market right now. This is Nintendo addressing that issue: with this system in place, they don’t have to worry quite so much about making areas too challenging, thus increasing the appeal to the hardcore gamers without sacrificing the appeal to the rest of the market. This has the potential to improve the quality of games for everyone, not just casual players.
That’s true. If they do make games harder because of this, I’ll be happy. Twilight Princess was so easy it scared me.
Another step to mainstream video games, apparently heading to your nearest computer and actually reading up on what you need to do is too much work nowadays.
I guess yeah, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want, but that’s like putting a cake on the table when someone isn’t hungry and saying “well, you don’t have to eat it, I’m just putting it here.”
Eventually you’re going to eat it, because you’ll be too hungry to care that it shouldn’t really be there in the first place…
But if they stick this on games that are rather casual like Super Mario Bros rather than “sit down and play for a while” games like Gears of War, or something, I’m fine with it – keep casual games casual, I say.
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Dick size has nothing to do with the ability to reproduce. You seem sexually frustrated.
No offense intended, I just call ‘em like I see ‘em.
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lol, get laid, your post reeks of self reflection. Do us a favor and double check your pants, you’ll be surprised to find a tiny dick.
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yes and I’m sure your white trash trailer park children are at Walmart right now with your dirty skank of a wife buying Marlboro and a 6 pack of miller for nascar night. The very fact you conceived children deals a substantial blow to darwin, you undereducated hillbilly, do the world a favor and use a condom.
p.s. impregnating the neighborhood rent-a-hole, by no means makes you the next Casanova
p.s.s. try being a real parent you scumbag fuck and raise your children yourself, don’t complain that a video game wont auto-parent for you. You kids need quality time, not something to space out to while daddy drinks beer and beats mommy
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I feel so sorry for your many kids. You are a failure. Grow up.
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You’re immature as hell for being a supposed parent, instantly resorting to accusing everyone of being a small dick virgin. Can you not argue respectably?
If Tomb Raider 3 did poorly, it was probably because it was awful. I’m only commenting because I remember how much fun I had with the first 2 games, and how bad they got after that.
Smuggler’s Run? I’d guess the first one sold because it was one of the handful of PS2 release titles, most of which were awful. It’s easy to sell a game when there’s only 10 on the shelf. I didn’t even know there was a sequel. Did they do any advertising for it? The boxart looks like a bad photoshop…
But if I’m gonna drop $70 on a game, it damn well better take me some time to finish it. Sometimes that means spending time solving puzzles and thinking. It’s not like New Super Mario Bros Wii, or any game made today, is going to have the impossible to figure out whirlwind from Castlevania 2.
Everyone was angry at TR2. They purchased it without trying it. It is not remembered fondly, and that effected the sales of TR3. People already burned by TR2.
And what of the hundreds of thousands of people that buy the same $70 game you do, but do not get a third of the value because they stop playing out of frustration and disgust?! Again, YOU are from a tiny minority. Oh you aren’t? You are part of a majority of games players? Have a look at the Wii moron. Have a look at the numbers of units moved compared to the other platforms. You will find that the vast majority of games players do not care a flying fuck about your elite skills, and would rather just play something that is fun that they can sink their hours into.
You cold be made happy with a “Difficult” mode. Why does the avaerage game playing mode need to be set at “difficult”? Why should intelligent games producers cater for 1% of the game playing population at the cost of the other 99%? Are your elite skills that important on the world scale?
And Smugglers Run was a great game… on the GameCube. One of hundreds of titles to chose from for me. Oh, I purchased a first gen PS2, and it sat unplayed for 8 years because the GameCube made the PS2 look like junk. You may find that many of the older players have the disposable income to own more than one platform. It is time that most older players do not have. That is what children nagging away at you to help them steals from you.
This guy’s whole mess of replies is what happens when /v/ gets a hold of a link and every retard is let loose.
Who gives a shit if games are difficult? You don’t want to help your kids with a level? DON’T BUY THEM A FUCKING GAME. You are the bottom feeder of the gaming industry — Buy a Wii for your kid and shut the fuck up.
In the meantime, see a fucking therapist because you have some sort of unhealthy obsession with other men’s junk.
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This is a great response! I feel your pain brother. I’m greeted almost everyday by my youngest son (after work) – first a hug. Next, the dreaded words – “Daddy come play the fight game with me” which means, “Daddy come play this same game over and over and over and over while I watch. Than when I want to play for 5 minutes again, I’ll die so fast that you have to start over yet again.” insert time distorting loop of hell. But hey, the kids have fun. I’m ready for Demo mode!
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Unfortunately demo mode won’t help, I’ve got two kids and really what they want is to spend time with you, and cheer you on and feel that pride of you accomplishing something with them as a team. Parenting, so rewarding and yet so annoying…
Parenting is having fun with your children. Sometimes that can be on games, but that does not include broken 6 hour gaming sessions.
The sad thing is that in many places around the world, you can not leave your children play with the other children in the neighborhood, instead families are so small that there are few children in most neighborhoods, and there are plenty of old women who call the police as soon as a child sets foot outside your gate. This leaves families trapped inside unless the parents are already independently wealthy.
So backhanded insinuations that someone is not spending enough time with his/her children is a pathetic attack akin to that of a hormonal 12 year old teenage girl.
Oh no! People will have the *OPTION* to do this and not spend hours (minutes?) on a spot where they keep dying. This is surely the end of modern gaming as we know it.
Get a grip, it’s an option just like cheating in the first place.
The difference is that it encourages gamers to cheat when, I think, you should be ashamed to. It’s not a big deal though. With a mode like this, Nintendo will up the difficulty of the games themselves, so I’m happy.
Why complain? If you want the hard version then play the hard version. I’ve been so put off by difficult portions of video games that I’ve put them down permanently never to return to that game, that series, and sometimes that developer.
I know that beating something challenging is a point of pride and accomplishment for some, but if you don’t have your ego tied up in your game based performance, then really slamming your head against a difficult challenge is just a complete waste of time.
This is a good thing for hardcore gamers, because it lets the devs put more difficulty in the game, knowing that it won’t stop normal people from enjoying the entertainment and enjoyment aspect of the game, because they can just get help.
I am sure that working hard on something you care about is important. I work hard in my professional life, and I work hard playing and learning music, but if someone wants to hand me some no effort results in a video game, or in yardwork, I’m taking it. Why would someone disparage me over that?
The reason this is giving the core audience a fit is because it’s a sign of what video games are gradually becoming. The people who play video games more intensively usually seek out challenge so the concept of making a game easier seems absurd.
I do believe strongly in difficulty levels, if simply to open up otherwise impossible games for less skilled players or those with time constraints, but really having a game “play itself” is taking it a little too far.
I can understand what Nintendo is doing — though it’s doubtful that it’s to appease tiny dick man up there. It’s true that kids like to deal with games as easily as possible, they’re kids, but being angry over having to help them (and breaking a game because you have to) is ridiculous.
There is always the option to say “No,” or to — surprise surprise — positively encourage them. A variety of difficulty levels are the key, not self-playing games.
Wide audience = Spoiled generation of kids who give up too easily. The generation that grew up with the original NES never had options like this and we (most of us?) got past every level until we finished the game. It was designed to be challenging, and for most of us, that was the point of playing it. When we beat it, we got a feeling of accomplishment, something i am not sure I’d get if I used an option that played past the hard parts for me.
I don’t think the original super mario brothers would still be a part of my childhood memories if I had this option back then.
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What’s the point of playing a game that plays for you?
I say Nintendo has become so self absorbed with this reach the masses bullshit that they’ve lost what it is to make a good game. I know they are seriously banking off the Wii. I just seriously can’t wait for the whole Crapware offering that we’re getting to blow up in their face. Hopefully the Natal camera Microsoft is about to release will reduce Nintendo to a developer company, which is exactly what they should be. Hell it doesn’t even have to be Nintendo. Just put Shigeru in a room and let him continue to make Zelda and Mario games without being douched by the Nintendo machine.
you are right they need to make more wii games
where can you play the demo. does it need downloading if it does reply
This is the most supid idea ever
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