It's very possible that a new Mario Party will be made, no one knows when though. A new one could be shown at E3 this year, either for the Wii or most likely the 3DS. And actually I found an interview article on GoNintendo a while back with Hudson talking about the future of the Mario Party series. I don't remember the exact wording but they stated that a new Mario Party will be made but they want to wait until they can make one that will blow everyone away. I think a new one should be made also, it's just too good of a series to end.
Things I want to see implemented are,
Motion Plus support as well as Wii Speak Support if it comes out on the Wii, obviously those wouldn't work on the 3DS.
Online play with at least three other people online including yourself and the ability to play party boards with friends or random people. Make it so that if a person leaves or drops out of a game because they're losing it would affect their online Star Ranking. Also have eight player mini games online so up to seven other people could play with you including yourself. Have the option to either play party boards or mini games online, it could be two seperate modes.
Online leaderboards of somekind. Have a Star Ranking system, the more you win the more stars you have. Playing party boards online would award you 25 Stars for coming in first, 20 for second, 15 for third and 10 for fourth. Playing mini games online would award you 1 Star per mini game won or something like that.Add more characters. I'm not sure if adding non nintendo characters would be a good idea, it's not like Smash Bros :P But maybe there could be cameo appearances on some of the party boards, like you could see Link or Samus but they wouldn't actually be playable or there could be references like in the item shops in the background you could see the Master Sword or Samus's Helmet or something. But as for characters I think Rosalina, Bowser and Bowser Jr need to be playable characters. Petey Pirannah, King Boo, Para Troopa and Diddy Kong would also be good additions and also bring back Donkey Kong as a playable character. And add the baby characters, Baby Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Donkey Kong, Wario and add Baby Waluigi and Rosalina as new ones. Plus keep all the current characters they already have in Mario Party 8 and don't get rid of any. And make Mii's playable not just in certain mini games. That would bring the roster to over 30 I think.
Also bring back costumes from Mario Party 2. That was such a clever addition to the game and it's a shame they didn't implement it more. And they could make the boards each have a theme, or make 6 additional boards that you have to unlock and are seperate from the standard 6 you start out with. Like there could be a Super Mario Galaxy theme board, Paper Mario theme board, a Mario Kart/Sports theme board, Super Mario Sunshine/Delfino Plaza theme board, 8-Bit retro theme board and maybe a New Super Mario Bros theme board. For example, the Super Mario Galaxy board would take place in space and there would be launch stars and other things placed around the board, Paper Mario board everything would be paper including the characters, Mario Kart/Sports board the characters would be driving around the board on their karts and there could be sports equipment lying around and stuff like that, Mario Sunshine board would take place around Delfino Plaza with Piantas that you could interact with and everyone would be equiped with a F.L.U.D.D, 8-Bit board everything would have 8-Bit graphics and New Super Mario Bros board maybe they could make a board out of the World Map from NSMB Wii or something. Basically all these special themed boards would implement things from all the games they're based upon.
J_Ford
well that was my exact idea about the characters. no non-nintendo characters, just some non-mario ones added. i.e.: link, zelda, samus, pikachu... etc.. as for the boards those would be great ideas too. id like to see, if they use the non-mario character idea, the creation of boards about the non-mario charactesr like: a hyrule or termina or great sea board, tallon 4 or zebes or aether board, one from the pokemon series.. stuff like that.
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