@feanor: Nah, its all about the Schadenfreude

@sethphotopoulos: Dan thought it'd be funny or something. The rest probably didn't realize how long that would actually take.

Mario Party is terrible. I don't know how they've managed to make ten of these damn things.

They could also kill it by playing the worst one Sonic Shuffle.

Less turns prehaps

Mario Party 2 was the shit. So were 4 and 5.

I watched the stream yesterday for a bit, went to sleep, came back and fast forwarded to the end where everyone is sad and miserable. I didn't get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Drew was hardly responsive. Jeff just got up and left at the end. If the crew wants to go through with this, please take the time to pick a fun board. I didn't like this one, mainly because of the arrows that can change direction. It looked very confusing.

Happens a lot more than it should around here.

"GUYS BRAD SAID SOMETHING MEAN TO DAN WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING TETRIS. I WISH THEY WOULDN'T PLAY TETRIS ANYMORE BECAUSE IT MAKES BRAD HATE DAN"

"GUYS THE BOMBCAST WAS SO AWKWARD THIS WEEK. BRAD AND JEFF SHOULD BE NICER TO EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GETTING MAD ABOUT 'LEFT TRIGGER RIGHT TRIGGER' SHOOTERS. I DON'T WANT THE BOMB CREW TO BREAK UP"

Reading social cues is sometimes not the forte of a portion of people who might be frequenting a video game forum, I guess. I don't mean to offend; just an observation.

The bottom line is that they're only going to do things that they're comfortable with and agree with each other about doing; if they want to stop, they will.

Definitely, the games get really good later on. Plus watching Jeff suffer makes my day.

Totally, but if the other games continue to add extra nonsense then I think the turn count is gonna have to be turned down a bit. 4 hours was a bit much.

You think wrong, then. It's more of a "some people like Giant Bomb's style of humor, and will watch the content that provides said humor" situation.

I've enjoyed the first 3, but if they continue with the series, it'd be cool to see them change up the formula a bit. Maybe get some new people in. They've wrung all the humor they're going to get out of everyone but dan being completely miserable. An episode with Dan, Danny, Mary and someone else would be pretty great.

Nah, they should move to something else, Only Dan seems to be enjoying them. Also, while I have watched all 3 and enjoyed them, I was also doing something else at the time because those games are not very interesting turn by turn.

Seriously, why are all you guys acting like psychologists? Holy shit. The whole point of the feature was that Dan wanted to do it while no one else did. Of course they're not enjoying it, they knew going on they wouldn't enjoy it. No one's going to break or snap, not everyone is emotionally unstable, you know.

@baillie: It's just that in the first two, Drew, Brad and Jeff seemed to care about it slightly more than this one which made them fun to watch. In this one everyone but Dan just wanted to get the fuck out of there as quickly as possible. It's no fun when everyone but Dan ACTUALLY doesn't care about the outcome of the game. It just makes it really sad to watch at that point. I wouldn't go as far as to say they'd snap or something, it just made things boring as fuck for them and for the viewers.

That reminded me of the time when Jeff pushed Game Room on to all others. No he's at the receiving end of something similar. Karma ;)

@superfusion: Considering everyone seemed to enjoy the first two, I think it's just indicative that Mario Party 3 is a fucking awful game.

These come all 3 or 4 months right now, so they'll be okay. (Also come on people, this is not a serious issue.)

Anyways yes, I want to see them play them all eventually, again with the highest turn count (except if the upcoming games really are going even slower than MP3, then fuck no to 50 turns.)

Yes, they should do one every day. Forever.

This is your life now bombcrew.

That doesn't make any sense.

As for the OP's question: Yes, but wait a couple of months.

This hasn't been a monthly feature, the first one was in the end of July.

Mario Party is beginning to interfere with the social lives of the people playing Mario Party and those around them (e.g. Dan's date).

Surely none of us want this to end in a Gameageddon.

Seeing what Drew and Jason were doing to the stream from the control room was fun, but I like watching people play videogames and enjoying themselves, not slogging through because they have to.

Jeff's performance during the last thirty seconds of Mario Party 3 just solidified my belief that this feature should never end.

Yes, but make it less turns. Wait a long while before doing 4. I want to see the Gamecube ones cause those are my favorites

I want them too if only because 4 is next and is my favourite along side 2.

But I really want them to play Fortune Street.

Nope, the despair was funy for the first 6 hours, now it's just... Same minigames over and over again. The game is just annoying and I found myself skipping though the latest one. And I loved the second MPP.

Mario Party Party is easily my favorite feature on the site right now. The focus on just playing the game is what leads to the best moments. Dan being eternally optimistic and the others wavering back and forth between frustrated and delirious is the best. Also, all the MP games are huge trolls which is wonderful to watch. I wouldn't want them to skip any of them.

@vextroid:

There's a really great video of folks playing Fortune Street on a TNT way back I believe.

YOU GET NOTHING!!!

They could be more selective in their choices. Honestly this could be a once or twice per year thing, that's more than frequently enough. I like watching them, but there are other games that I'd rather see them play for three-four hours at a time. Alternatively they could mix up the team each time, but I worry that once you've given some of the guys an excuse to get out of it they'll never do another one. If they really hated it that much though, they'd stop.

I don't play Mario Party very often but I always opt for the max number of turns.

It crossed the line from being funny to being boring. The joke has run its course. I don't want to see the crew legitimately bummed out for 4 hours.

They should flip it on it's head and pick a game that Dan would hate. Then we can watch him suffer for four hours to balance it all out.

It's great as it is. Keep the feature going with breaks in between, in my opinion. 50 turns Mario Party 4, we're getting to the Gamecube ones!

Brad's outright hostility towards Dan really made this last stream hard to enjoy. I mean, I like Jeff's misery, he takes it out on the game, not the people around him. Brad just made things uncomfortable.

Also, no offense, but a lot of you may be reading way too much on this. If the Crew was actually suffering from these videos, they would stop doing them. If you want to say you don't like the videos, that's one thing, but please don't start talking about how they hate each other or whatever.

Apart from Dan no one wants to sit there and waste that much time on it, and thats the beauty of the feature. It's the reason why people watched stuff like Fear Factor. This is like Dan Factor.

If there is something I am good at it's reading social cues.

Just rewatch the stream and tell me Brad is not being outright hostile, and not in a funny way. "Research the game in your own time!" There is a clear difference between Jeff and Brad in this stream. One is bored and expressing that in a funny way. One is outright pissed he has to be there and is taking it out on Dan.

I'm not saying this to defend Dan or anything, I am sure he doesn't need it. But for me, it just makes the whole thing uncomfortable.

They should take a break and play Fortune Street.

I think that sway is what matters. When people other than Dan win mini games they actually end up kinda happy. At the end of the day they are paid to provide premium video features. If this happens to be a "ratings winner" then it's hard to argue with the up aboves and justify not doing anymore.

As for the staff reactions I think Jeff genuinely does not like the N64 and that straight up informs the way he feels about Mario Party as a series. Brad is slightly more difficult to explain, he is extremely competitive whether he likes to admit it or not (I think Jeff differs in that he likes be good at games rather than outright competitive) and Mario Party brings out frustration in him from the fact that it's not balanced and not far a lot of the same and he seemingly can't handle it. This kind of boils over though in unpleasant ways; he snapped at Dan for a wrestling reference which is claimed 99% of the populous would not have heard of but at the time everyone else sat there go it. This from a man who has bored many a person talking about DOTA I'm sure. It's kind of a case of "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".

Who knows perhaps now they aren't using an N64 controller from this point on they won't be as bad? (I've never played any of the Gamecube or Wii versions)

I think so. It's a fun feature.

If/when MPP wears out its welcome with the crew, Dan should finish up the series on the side and post them to his own YouTube channel, NDX-style.

No, They're such a time commitment and for the little fun that is squeezed out of them I'd much rather they did something else.

As long as they don't do 50 turns again I'm all for it. But 50 turns is just too much.

4 is actually the only one I ever really considered a good game. Maybe "good" isn't the right word. It's an interesting game. There's a ton of shit in there. It's like somebody emptied the dumptruck of half-formed ideas into that game.

Every episode is the ultimate endurance run

The first two parties are a couple of my favorite videos on the site but.. Jeff was just so quiet and Brad's not giving a shit attitude really took the wind out of the sails so I don't know.

I think so. It being a long slog that everyone but Dan "hates" is the charm.

I want to see this great journey completed!

Yes, but just two more. They should do the Wii one that changed the mechanics and then jump straight into the one coming out.

They should stop playing Mario Party, and start playing Settlers of Catan. At least they will have some amount of fun playing that.

I could almost guarantee you that dan and brad are good friends off camera too. They are definitely self aware enough to play up this (hilarious) rivalry.