REHASH- To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration: rehashing old ideas.
-old material that is slightly reworked and used again; "merely a dull rehash of his first novel"
-present or use over, with no or few changes
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those are definitions of it from 3 different sources. i have heard this word misused far too many times. Super Paper Mario was not a rehash. not only was it only the 3rd game in the series, it is almost a completely different genre. it used only common RPG elements found in the other games. there were some 4 Ratchet and Clank games last gen, but were they rehashes? you could argue that one i guess because they were much more similar to each other than the Paper Marios have been.
the only game franchises i think are "rehashed" are the maddens (or any other annual football or sport game), the several versions of the Sims (those expansions arent worth $20 each), and those crappy generic FPS games that were a dime a dozen last gen.
i also hear people claiming rehash before games are out. people say GTAIV will be rehash just because the last 3 ones were similar, even though each new one brought a lot of new things. i also hear people say that once you have played Halo, you have played them all. well who the hell knows what those geniouses at Bungie are cooking up for us.
so stop using the word "rehash" because it is being whored more than the words "innovation" and "gimmick" have been since Wii was announced (btw, the Wii is in the middle of gimmick and innovation).
so sure SPM flopped it's rather high hype, but until you play that awesome game, shut your ignorent mouths about how it is "just like every other Mario game". btw, sorry for so much writing...
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