Ideas for a remake of Paper Mario.

Badly by Mario standards. Just under a million is average for series like metroid or smaller Nintendo franchises.
 
Magikrazy said:
Paper Mario sold horribly, with not even a million hits, which every other Mario RPG has gotten at the very least.
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Well I know for a fact that The Thousand Year Door outsold Paper Mario 64. It did better if am not mistaken.
 
Lumastar said:
It came at the end of the N64's life cycle.
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true

and the n64 wasnt that popular to begin with

iirc the most popular game, sm64, only had something like 6-8 million copies sold
 
It was actually 11.62 million.

Another contributor to Paper Mario's low sales was lack of advertising from Nintendo.

It was completely overshadowed by games like Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Tooie, Mario Tennis, Mario Party 3, Kirby 64, and probably some others I might be forgetting.
 
Magikrazy said:
Another contributor to Paper Mario's low sales was lack of advertising from Nintendo.
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All the Mario RPGs have this problem. They could be as popular as the more mainstream games if Nintendo would advertise them that way. Their gameplay is just as solid as in the main series (Exceptions: maybe SPM and Sticker Star) plus they also have story and characterization going for them. The fact that they sell so poorly is depressing.
 
I don't buy that. I saw commercials for the rpgs all the time. The reason they don't sell as much is because rpgs in general don't do as well as platformers do.
 
Pokemon is an exception, not the rule.
 
Another thing. Yeah there may be TV commercials for them, but when's the last time you saw a promotion for a Mario RPG on Nintendo's website, or their characters appearing in the general Mario promotions? The closest thing I've seen is Dream Team on Year of Luigi promotions, but even then it easily got the least promotion of all the major Year of Luigi games.
 
People have answered these questions dozens of times before, I'm not going over it again.
 
I did see TV commercials, especially Bowser's Inside Story (good god that one was awful).

As for website promotions, I think the closest thing I remember is Bombette for the Women's Rights Day thing they did.
 
Took them long enough. And yes, BIS commercials were awful. They should've been Fawful instead :P

And I think they just did that Bombette thing to purposely be random. Which gives me less hope for these characters actually being important again.
 
Magikrazy said:
As for website promotions, I think the closest thing I remember is Bombette for the Women's Rights Day thing they did.
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Bombette isn't even that good of a choice, she barely has any personality anyway.
 
She was also kinda daft.
 
Toadette
 
I don't really care.
 
If the next Paper Mario game that may be announced at E3 turns out to be a remake then it should feature all the ideas listed.

Seriously, a remake will bring Paper Mario back to it's roots.
 
And it turns out that the new Paper Mario is a Crossover with the Mario and Luigi series. It's not what I am expecting. But still a remake of the original Paper Mario helps.
 
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