Gaming Mario Party 8

[Ellerby]

[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=4][CENTER]Mario Party 8[/CENTER][/SIZE]

Yeah, I don't think anyone could deny the inevitable sequel to the Mario Party games. This time around, of course, it'll be on the Wii. I've dug around the net for about an hour finding videos and such for you guys so I could make this thread meaningful.

Obviously the graphics look much better than the previous games, but I really didn't expect them to be [url=http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6530/283189649712743/400/Supermarioparty81.jpg]this good[/url]. That's a fairly small screen shot but you can tell the graphics look a lot nicer.

Really, Mario Party is a perfect game for the Wii. It's a party game and that's what the Wii is all about. There's a good article on Mario Party 8 at IGN [url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/743/743882p1.html]here[/url] that talks about that.

Because of the Wiimote, you'll be getting a whole butt load of original mini-games that Nintendo could never dream of before. Kind of like an advanced Wario Ware. Now IGN has [url=http://media.wii.ign.com/media/853/853824/vids_1.html]two videos[/url] of some sample mini-games on their site but I found that GameTrailers.com had better and more videos of the mini-games. Click [url=http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3394]here[/url] to see those.

One of the videos shows the character selection screen (whether this is just the demo selection screen or the real one I'm not sure) and it's interesting to note [b]two[/b] "?" panels. Tis good news. :)

To be honest I'm rather excited. None of my friends really like Mario Party but even my friend (who I force to play them when they come out) admitted it'll be fun with the Wii. Comments?[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Kenshin DX]

[COLOR=SlateGray]When I saw the title of this thread I was going to beat my head aganist the wall till I died. But now that its on the Wii maybe my love of Mario Party will return. I have fond memories of Mario Party 1 it was my first party game and I still have blisters from rotating the control stick. 2 was good , 3 was ok(I expected the series to end there), 4 ,5,6,7 were the same crap over and over and the mic system they implemented was horrible.

On the Wii however the minigame ideas are endless. This could be the game to save the series from its repitive nature. I hope they go all out for this one. That way we wont see a Mario Party 9,10,11,12 with the same game mechanics.[/COLOR]

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[quote name='Kenshin DX][COLOR=SlateGray']On the Wii however the minigame ideas are endless. This could be the game to save the series from its repitive nature. I hope they go all out for this one. That way we wont see a Mario Party 9,10,11,12 with the same game mechanics.[/COLOR][/quote]
[COLOR=DimGray][FONT=Tahoma]I don't think we'll even see Mario Party 9 (let alone 10-12) for a while after 8 since the whole Connect24 thing may allow for updates and all that. And that's really all new Mario Party games are when they're on the same console as before. Expansions.[/FONT][/COLOR]