Comments on: Wii Preview: Mario Party 8

By: Kmach

Kmach — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:48:14 +0000

Agreed, all the fanboys were telling me how great Zelda was so I purchased it. While it isn’t a bad title, let’s face it…if it didn’t have the title of Zelda and came out for another system it would be considered sub par. Graphics suck, levels are amazingly linear, no online play, plot average, extremely short for an RPG, and one of my personal gripes is no spoken dialogue! You have to read mostly non-important dialogue for hours in one of the supposedly best RPGs ever. Aside from playing Wii Sports (system pack-in) and Wii Play (a very cheap/lame tech demo) with my wife once in a while the Wii really has nothing left to offer.

I purchased another party mini-game title today in WarioWare and just after bringing it home and before actually opening it, I realized it is a one player game. If anything you have to trade off controllers which is extremely weak for a first party title for a “Party” system. I am going to return it and get Mario Party 8, yup another party game. Hopefully this will keep me occupied until something better comes out like…..OK, I don’t really know if ANYTHING is coming out soon that is any good. The only other game I showed any interest in was Mama Cook Off (ANOTHER PARTY GAME!) but the controls were way too wonky for me. Would be playing Rainbow Six Vegas, Halo 3, GRAW 2, etc., right now if my 360 wasn’t broken for the 3rd time! Anyone else think the this generation of videogames is extremely lame?! I mean the 360 can’t last more than 6-12mos and the Wii can’t even play an audio disc or go online multiplayer (OR play any decent game aside from endless repetitive party games)! The PS3…well, need I say more. Good luck to all the gamers out there but I have yet to find a good time on any next gen console!

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:55:28 +0000

I also have the new Zelda game but I do not play it that much. for some reason I did not get into it the way so many others did.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:00:03 +0000

Cool :P I think I may get Rayman, but I have to get the extra nunchuk first..

Mario Party sure looks pretty good, I will get that when they released.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:37:59 +0000

I did a review on Mario Ware here on the blog. The short and sweet of Wario Ware is that it is a game that is almost there. A few of the things in it could have been done better.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:03 +0000

Thanks for your suggestions Steve..

I think super swing golf has the same price tag as the other two games here :(

I also heard WarioWare is a good party game; have you tried it?

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:13:38 +0000

I suggest Rayman raving Rabbids for multi-player and Excite truck for single player. Super swing Golf is one of the better “low price” Wii games.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:58:51 +0000

Just Wii Sports! :P

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:01:58 +0000

What games do you have thus far?

By: andy

andy — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:07:40 +0000

Steve, I finally got my Wii today! ;) Now I gotta get some games.

Mario Party looks like a pretty decent multi player game …