Mario Party 8 in June Comments by Robert Purchese

Pants tent?

Online eh ? I believe THAT when I see it !

"cake-decoration contests"

yesssssss

This game is going to be so much bloody fun. I can't wait.

And yeah, I'm being serious. I like Mario Party.

Screw this. Where is Paper Mario?

More minigames? Gah.

I realise you're currently printing money off the back of titles like this Nintendo, but might I refer you to the sage words of the Black Eyed Peas? 'Where is the (single-player) LOVE?'

ugh the first mario party you play is very fun with family, but then it feels average the next iteration.

Saying that i expect the wiimote to re-invigorate Mario Party 8 once, but all the others after this one i expect to turn out to be a pile of turd.

I realise you're currently printing money off the back of titles like this Nintendo, but might I refer you to the sage words of the Black Eyed Peas? 'Where is the (single-player) LOVE?'

I'd give up on hopes of Nintendo doing much single player games anymore or at least on the same epic level as Zelda Twilight Princess, in a interview somewhere Miyamoto was chatting on about how nobody wants long RPG's like Zelda anymore.... i still can't believe he called Zelda a RPG. :O

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20037961...

yeah mario party is fun but it has outpaced megaman sequels ffs and at this rate maybe even fifa :S. anyway it's a good game but i only justify buying 1 every generation

They should really drop the numbers...
They should start using subtitles...
Mario Party: Smoother Moves?

I want to see a Mario FPS. Mario: Modern Day combat.

Or a 3rd person action game: Mario May Cry.

Wow a wii game based around mini games, how exciting!

I haven't played a Mario Party game since the very first N64 incarnation (boy I was drunk that night...), but I'm cautiously optimistic that the Wii controls might reinvigorate the series and deliver something worth getting. I said "might"...

Where's Paper Mario?

Paper Mario, where is it you bastards.

In Japan, don't you guys no anything? Sheesh!

Mario Party... Dario Smarty... we want Super Paper Mario !!

'Mario Party... Dario Smarty... we want Super Paper Mario with the turn-based battling put back into it you conniving corporate monkeys !!'

Fixed a bit.

@Steroyd
I've always thought of the Zelda series as action-rpgs personally. I got smacked down on here last time I mentioned it. Now Miyamoto says it - so in your face doubters! :)

Seriously, it's got all the elements of an action RPG. So why not call it one.

I wonder how the onlne system will work?

@DrDamn what exactly makes Zelda a RPG i never understood that, it's more akin to Devil May Cry, God of War, with puzzles in dungeons and junk.

I still stand by that Zelda is an Action Adventure game. :P

Marioriginality 8

The fact that Zelda is hard to categorize in a genre is a good thing - means it has varied gameplay.
Games that stick rigidly to the standards of a single genre don't tend to be very innovative.

WHERE IS PAPER MARIO YOU STUPID IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!.

Calms Down...

"Marioriginality 8"

Ok. I was just looking at the Cooking Mama thread, and I noticed this little nugget, also by you.

"I'm sorry, but a game based on cooking? Originality for originality's sake? Fucking pathetic."

So, basically, you don't like Nintendo when they try original games, and you don't like them when they rehash old games. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.

Incidentally, why are you even here? Surely there are better things to do than to comment on games for a console that you have no interest in.

Wherever fanboys rear their ugly heads, the great Genji will be waiting. Witness as he strikes down the evildoer with brutal logic and a fearsome sweep of his mighty Wiimote.

"Wherever fanboys rear their ugly heads, the great Genji will be waiting. Witness as he strikes down the evildoer with brutal logic and a fearsome sweep of his mighty Wiimote."

Well, I'm sorry. Believe it or not, I don't keep records of all the comments people make, waiting to call them a hypocrite. That's actually the first time I've quoted something from another thread.

It just seems like some people are literally impossible to please. They don't want original games, and they don't want unoriginal games.

I really wish more people around here would argue more about games, and less about systems.

I'd agree with those sentiments entirely. Just being flippant :)

/American mode on

What's a flip ant?

Ah, I see. Try and put a wink on there or something next time.

:-D

Two Mario games in less than a month?!? Ooh Nintendo, you're spoiling us... We are not worthy...



PS. Please, don't make us wait 'til Christmas for SPM...

Online mode unrelated.

Having recently played MP7, after not having touched a Mario Party game since the first, can't say it was all that bad really. I guess since it's only my second one I'm not sick of them yet. Good for me. :D

@Genji

I'm all for originality mate (hence the dig at MP8) but I also dislike games like Cook Off where the originality is the ONLY saving grace it has. Originality is an important INGREDIENT of a great game, hence my 'is this originality purely for the sake of originality' comment. I mean, apart from the fact that it's an original CONCEPT it's almost sacrilidge to call that steaming pile of bilge a game.

"Incidentally, why are you even here? Surely there are better things to do than to comment on games for a console that you have no interest in"

I'm sorry, does the rule book of rules state that I can't comment on goods I don't own or in forums that don't 'belong' to products I don't own? Dear me, here I was thinking I lived in a free world. I must get you and smelly to stamp my ration card eh, Big Brother?

The online system will work in 4 easy steps

Step 1. Find a friend who has managed to buy a wii and mario party 8
Step 2. Contained within will be a game specific friend code which you swap with your friend.
Step 3. Send the code into nintendo as well as supporting documentation to prove you are "friends" including photos from the last three years.
Step 4. In four to six months nintendo will have completed their background checks and will send you a decoder ring so you can input your friend codes and play the game.

Nintendo. Making online safe for our children. While pissing the rest of us right off.

Eurogamer... MP8 with online? Are you sure? Nothing has been said about this anywhere else, so I can only presume you got it wrong...

Doesn't look like much has changed with the board game side of things (judging from the screenshots) which is a shame because they could make that side of it so much fun...on the gamecube it was so long, drawn out and slow that it ruined playing it... YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SKIP ANIMATIONS NINTENDO!!!

This isn't going to be online.

Clearly Eurogamer don't have a clue or don't care.

TBH: I wouldnt want to play this online.

This is about having a laugh with your family around the tv.

Having it online would not make it any more or less fun (unless you have no friends - and lets face it, that pretty much only applies to 360 owners)

I've got lots of friends on Xbox Live; they are really mature intellectual people, not little kids wanting a wee.

"I've got lots of friends on Xbox Live"

Say no more.

What a coincidence so have I; is 'say no more' your Xbox Live user name?

The best part of the Mario Party franchise is the Mini Games. Obviously when Eurogamer post their review of Mario Party 8 we'll get a few people saying the original line "Not more bloody mini games for the Wii?" My instincts tell me that E/G will score the game 5/10. Lets face it board games are boring and an online game of Mario Party would be as exciting as a Cliff Richard concert.

A compilation of mini games online could be fun.