Mario Party = flop

Its flopping with critics but its getting great user reviews and I think thats what really countstoken08

Sometimes I agree... but often times gamers give great reviews to games that are crap. Spider-Man 3 comes to mind. A lot of people thought it was great dispite getting (and rightfully so) awful reviews.

hammer nice dream theater pic, there absoulutley amazing.

to be fair, i think mario party 8 was a gamecube game that was moved to wii, though i could be wrongremmbermytitans

I believe you are correct, sir.

who coulda guessed?bob_the_can_man

A PANCAKE IS A FLOP TO BUT IT TASTES GOOD

Considering Mario Party 8 is very similar to its predecessors and there have been 7 of them in about the same amount of years...

This shouldn't be a surprise. It would still  make a great party game though, especially if you haven't played the 7 other games.

who coulda guessed?bob_the_can_man

I knew it would be after I have read half of the minigames use the motion sensors.

No more hopes for MP series... unless they change the devs who are making them which is Hudson. 

Mario party always gets bad reviews because it's a bad game. That's not gunna stop me from getting number 8 though. With Mario Party, it's not about the actual game, it's about the experience you have playing it with you're friends. Let me use an analogy... hmm.. Okay, I got it. If you've ever seen the movie Disturbia, you know it was pretty bad (by a movie reviewer's standard's, and frankly, i agree with the movie reviewers on this one), but I don't think I've ever had more fun in a movie theater in my life just because people we're scared all around me, but it was the funniest movie i'd seen in a while. so with mario party, its not about the actual game, its about the stuff that happens when you're playing it.

 a few of my favorite mario party memories:

Me: Get the Boo Bell.

Friend 1: I'm not gettin the Boo Bell.

Me: Get the Boo Bell, you can steal Friend 2's coins and i'll be in first.

Friend 1: I'm not gettin the Boo Bell.

Me: Get the ****ing Boo Bell!

Me: I don't wanna play anymore! *rips game from console because I just got my star stolen*

I think one of my favorite moments though was when I was playing mario party two and I was winning every mini-game, but my friend who at that point had won no mini-games had 3 stars and all of my coins (more than 100). He got all of his stars from bonus boxes and he got the coins because of one of those chance time things (or maybe it was a bowser thing, i dont remember). I was in awe.

I dont see why people are buying this garbage i mean it brings nothing new to the table except use of the wiimote. Theres no online no any thing.cyprus646

[QUOTE="cyprus646"]I dont see why people are buying this garbage i mean it brings nothing new to the table except use of the wiimote. Theres no online no any thing.aransom

Non-hyped games can't flop.

And I know I'll be getting it due to my kids loving the series. Sometimesit doesn't matter what the reviewers think.

I don't understand how Gamespot's reviewer can say that Mario Party's reliance on chance is such a negative thing. It's a board game with dice. Every board game with dice relies on chance. You can use certain strategies to improve your chances, but you can't rely totally on skill to win. That's the point of board games. Skill can help, but it can't guarantee anything.

The fun in a game like this is the whole experience, not the outcome. If you genuinely get angry when you lose, then you're taking it too seriously.

I don't understand how Gamespot's reviewer can say that Mario Party's reliance on chance is such a negative thing. It's a board game with dice. Every board game with dice relies on chance. You can use certain strategies to improve your chances, but you can't rely totally on skill to win. That's the point of board games. Skill can help, but it can't guarantee anything.

The fun in a game like this is the whole experience, not the outcome. If you genuinely get angry when you lose, then you're taking it too seriously.

JordanElek

I think the trick is to skip getting every 2 or 3 of them, as to avoid getting repetition in mini-games. But they do make a good party game (oddly enough >.>) and work well for any age, skill, or gender.FFXIsAstyanax

Nintendo might've screwed themselves by making too many installments of this game. I don't know anything about the sales figures, but it seems that after a few editions, many people would see that there isn't enough new to warrant another $50 purchase. I think I've only played the first Mario Party and whatever the first one for the Gamecube was; I never bought either of them, so Mario Party 8 is still pretty fresh to me. I played a round last night with my brother and his fiance, and it was a blast.

My friends back at college were begging me to buy it... but I graduated before them, I have very few friends back at home any more, and I'm broke, so I probably won't. It would probably be an amazing game for a college setting, though.

Its flopping with critics but its getting great user reviews and I think thats what really countstoken08