What the hell happened to Mario Party!?

I know I just made a thread a minute ago, but this instantly crossed my mind:

I have every single Mario Party game, except for the GameBoy Advance one. That's right; Mario Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and DS. All of that for the full price at retail. I've spent around 455-465 dollars (counting tax) on Mario Party games alone, so I guess you could consider me a fan. :P

Anyway, we used to get one annually, but there was a one and a half year gap between 7 and 8! We got one every year from 1999, but then 2006 was missing one. May 2007 was the last Mario Party game we got, which was a long time back. I would love to see what they could do with Wii Motion Plus. The eighth entry was another insignificant entry that wasn't too big of a change. It certainly was no Resident Evil 3 to Resident Evil 4. But I have faith that this one can give us a good time if they make better mini games, add more mini games, and most importantly, make the board games less boring. Get rid of the crappy random events, and have the remaining ones take less time.

I remember whenever someone would make a thread of what series need to die off, people would always throw out "Mario Party!" Now it's just Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Madden, and such. :(

I think there will be an announcement at E3 of Mario Party 9. What do you guys think?

Mario Party is garbage now IMO, though I can see a Mario Party 9 happening.

i think the series had potential, but they haven't really changed anything (except the addition of the orb things) since the n64 games

i've always found the mario parties to be fun games, but hell they need to change the game up

The "Wii Blank" phenom happened... which is why Wii Sports 2 and Wii Fit Plus are coming out instead, lol.Keltoid

8 is way more than enough Mario Party... seek out other party games- i'm sure you'll find some.

Because it got rehashed way too much it gets way underrated. I wish they thought of it more of a sports game. Because the games are/and always will be a blast to play.

No more please. The more they made, the more it died. The earliest ones were the best.siLVURcross

The Mario Party games got progressively worse after Mario Party 2.

i really hate mario party. Even the early ones, they were more like an endurance test than fun

Who cares about the past games, judge the last game of the series on its own merit. Mario Party on the Wii was a great game...great motion controls, the boards were original and engaging (I really liked the train). All they need to do to make this game a top seller is add online. Im sure a new Mario Party will come out and ill be excited.

Personally, I think Mario Party was always bad. I fail to see any big difference between the Mario Party series and Sonic Shuffle (Mario Party is better, but not by much), which I thought was pretty terrible. I think the board game structure can make any game boring even if there are some decent mini-games present.

I know I just made a thread a minute ago, but this instantly crossed my mind:

I have every single Mario Party game, except for the GameBoy Advance one. That's right; Mario Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and DS. All of that for the full price at retail. I've spent around 455-465 dollars (counting tax) on Mario Party games alone, so I guess you could consider me a fan. :P

Anyway, we used to get one annually, but there was a one and a half year gap between 7 and 8! We got one every year from 1999, but then 2006 was missing one. May 2007 was the last Mario Party game we got, which was a long time back. I would love to see what they could do with Wii Motion Plus. The eighth entry was another insignificant entry that wasn't too big of a change. It certainly was no Resident Evil 3 to Resident Evil 4. But I have faith that this one can give us a good time if they make better mini games, add more mini games, and most importantly, make the board games less boring. Get rid of the crappy random events, and have the remaining ones take less time.

I remember whenever someone would make a thread of what series need to die off, people would always throw out "Mario Party!" Now it's just Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Madden, and such. :(

I think there will be an announcement at E3 of Mario Party 9. What do you guys think?

DeathScape666

Wow, you like your Mario Party. :lol:

Mario Party isn't great anymore.The series got old quickly after MP3.

I think Mario & Sonic have taken over for the time being.AlexSays

I think a better question is "What happened to Donkey Kong?!" Seriously, Donkey Kong went downhill after Donkey Kong 64. Donkey Konga (Gamecube) was alright, but the Donkey Kong Wii game was pretty bad. Atleast the Mario Party games are fun and very consistent with each other in terms of gameplay.

The difference is that Hudson Soft made the Mario Party series, so I really fail to see why some series that isn't at all related to them would stop them. Yeah, I realize they both have Mario, but that means nothing, considering the developement teams are completely different.DeathScape666

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]The difference is that Hudson Soft made the Mario Party series, so I really fail to see why some series that isn't at all related to them would stop them. Yeah, I realize they both have Mario, but that means nothing, considering the developement teams are completely different.AlexSays