No friends, you say? Well, now you can talk to your Gamecube!!

[Great Rumbler]

Mario Party 6 looks like it could be a very fun game.

[OB1]

...

So you play Mario Party 6 using a tampon?

[Dark Jaguar]

Interesting, the first actual innovation in the series isn't even all that innovative :D.

Still, you know I'll be playing it when it comes out. I won't BUY it, oh heavens no, this is the sort of game you let your FRIENDS buy and you just play it with them :D. I suppose online play (won't happen) is coming along with Mario Party 7.

...Then comes Mario Party 7-2

[OB1]

They should just start naming the games by year. Mario Party 2005 instead of Mario Party 8.

[Great Rumbler]

And what if we two in the same year?

[OB1]

Then all hell breaks loose!

[A Black Falcon]

Two in the same year? I don't know if even Nintendo would do THAT... :)

But yes, I think it is well past time to start a yearly naming thing with this game, like Epic has done with Unreal Tournament... it might make it look not quite as ridiculously over-remade...

As for the microphone, I guess it's okay. Whatever. It's not like I'll be getting Mario Party ten million anyway.

[Dark Jaguar]

I hate it when new releases of software are named by year. It's just about as silly as sticking the version number in the title. There's a reason MS stopped doing that (at least with the OS's). I mean, I wouldn't want new Zelda games named by year, it would RUIN it.

(Just, just go with me on this, okay? :D)

[A Black Falcon]

It only works well if it's a yearly product, I think. Mario Party would be much better off as a game which shows up a couple of times per generation, definitely, but as long as it IS a yearly thing, it starts getting stupid when they're at Mario Party 6 or 7 in 6 or 7 years, I think. As I said, using years disguises a little bit the fact that they are horribly over-using the franchise.

[OB1]

Exactly. Imagine having Madden 17.

[A Black Falcon]

It'd be even more obvious that the primary purpose is exploiting their customers for more cash.

[Geno]

I haven't played any Mario Party games beyond 1.

[Great Rumbler]

I've played, and owned, 1-4.

[A Black Falcon]

I've only played one of them I think, in a store demo...

[Great Rumbler]

They're fun games if you can find 3 friends to play with you.