Mario Party: Old-School or New & "Improved?"

[Poefred]

I don't think the new ones are nearly as bad as a lot of people say. They can still be really fun especially with others to play it with you. That being said I still enjoy the older games much more than the new ones.

 

[Mrmariobros222]

I was playing Mario Party: Island Tour earlier, and I was thinking about what Mario Party used to be: Going around the board collecting stars and coins. Now, Mario Party is just a game of getting to the end (and sometimes collecting Mini Stars and Mini Ztars along the way).

And so now I ask: What's your opinion? Do you prefer Mario Party 1-7 and Mario Party DS (Old-School) or Mario Party 9, Mario Party Island Tour, and soon to be Mario Party 10 (New)?

I prefer the old Mario Party. I only owned Mario Party DS, but dang, that game was good. I liked collecting enough coins to buy myself a star, and I liked beating everyone I played against in the minigames. I especially liked going to the Item Shop to grab an item that wins me the game! I AM UNBEATABLE! Well, except by stinkin' expert mode computers.

Anyway, what's your vote? Old or New?

Old Mario Party 1 to 8 are the best since i don't wanna be in a car with others, i rather have a board with many paths on getting the star space instead of getting to then end with how many mini stars do we get, the mini games were fun and challenging at the same time, and playing those game with friends are the best to play but with Mario Party 9 and 10 it kinda gets boring since all you do is reach to the end with the amount of mini stars you get by just moving the car around or by playing mini games, i mean what happened to the coins? there useful to get some items to make things interesting or funny. (i remember the last time using those items to switch the star space so that the closest player doesn't get it.) and chance time is another best thing about mario party, it can be good and it can be bad, like one time i was in last place and i got a chance time and manage to win at the last few turns because i took all the stars and coins from the player in 1st place and it was hilarious.

 

[Wariomovie]

Oh! old, so much better than the new. What I liked most was that you all don't ride in just one kart. you all get to go about I. Your own merry way and tackle the objective that you find nescessary. The old game show a certain degree of exploration that the new ones don't. The fact that you all ride in one car makes it fell like your all on some kind of team, instead of being great rivals of one another. The new games also don't stress the mini games as much as they used to. They mostly just blow off mini games as some kind of addon to the formula. Overall, I'm an old school kind of mario parry-goer.

 

[Artisan]

The old style appears to look more fun but Mario Party for the Wii U was better by adding Amiibo functionality. The independence that goes along the old MP style is more like and actual board game but I think the main point across the series enjoyment now is the minigames whether they be luck based or battle based or run away from something based.

 

[Kalomaze]

I loved the old mario party games much more because of the gameplay and old mini-games. The one I play the most is mario party 3 which has even more classic minigames and is like the first party game. You even have more exploration on the giant board maps unlike the new games kart. I also liked the coins, wonder why they were removed.

 

[ElectricFireball]

The old ones were the best. They lasted long enough, always had a minigame after every turn, and had cool concepts on getting Stars, not just "hope you get lucky enough on the dice rolls to obtain more Mini-Stars than your opponents before you reach the end". Most previous Mario Party games also had items, which allowed strategy against separate opponents. The way the new Mario Party is set up, it's all reduced to luck. Even the minigames, which are the only skill factor in the entire game, can only be activated via getting lucky. I've heard that the only reason Nintendo resorted to this is because Hudson Software, their partner, got shut down and they were banned from using the old style. I'm not sure how they were able to implement Amiibo Party, but it's the only thing that shows they still remember the glory Mario Party used to be.