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
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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.
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)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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.