What was Nintendo's golden decade?

[Iceman404]

Gen II, when gaming wasn't annoyingly casual, and the games (and their ideas) were was actually new, creative, and competitive.
Nintendo never tries to wean from the bottle anymore and try out new ideas besides things that relate to the gamepad.

Mario games specifically used to invite tons of new ideas and experiences all the time with every single title, which is why they're timeless and memorable. Now, the new games mostly just bring back old ideas for the sake of Nostalgia. All the new games do is bring back old things rather than make new ones; like "Remember the Koopalings? They're back now haha-yeah! Party woooo!", "Remember the tanooki-tail? Well that's back too-- haha yeah...!".

This is what people mean by the games not having any 'soul' anymore (Not to mention the NSMB like scenery the games have started taking too is getting monotonous as hell...). The new games lack STYLE, they use the same models, scenery, and art style over and over and over again, they've just become fucking cash cows. The latest Mario game in a while that seems to have some form of soul in it is Super Mario 3D Land.





I mean really when will we get more than 8-worlds, an actually different story, a new genre of spinoffs, or a Mario Kart game that doesn't feel exactly like the last one.