@manhattan_project: Good to know, thank for the heads-up. It was what helped make me a subscriber of this site in the first place (angry Giant Bomb is my favorite) :-)
They're probably waiting a full year to give Mario Party 5 the proper treatment by doing it on Cinco de Mayo (or Cinco de Ketchup, whichever you prefer).
I mailed in a copy of Mario Party 5 to the office mailbag about this time last week. If I got the right address it should be there soon. Even if it doesn't, still looking forward to more of Mario Party's skill and/or bullshit.
I hope this is happening in the next two weeks, else everything is going to revolve around Pax again for a while and it will get postponed to whenever.
I was hoping it would have aired this week actually. It seemed like the perfect time...until Monday came around and I realized I forgot about Gamescom.
I don't know when PAX is, but I hope it airs before they guys head out to Seattle.
I'm curious if doing it live will work or not - part of the appeal of the previous videos has always been seeing the guys get progressively more frustrated and beaten down by how bad the game is, I feel like they'll feel the need to be more energetic in a live setting. Might still work, but I bet the vibe will be different at least.
Not too sure about this Mario Party 5 in front of a live audience stunt. I'd rather have them sit on the couch and listen to Brad and Dan go at it on their own. We'll see how this goes.
While I appreciate the attempt to keep the Party fresh I'm not sure this is the way to do it. I'll wait and see how it shakes out though before grabbing any pitchfork.
Sitting in a comedy club for 4 hours seems a little much. Especially while PAX is going on (I don't think this is happening at the event Thursday night). Unless it's on one of the nights after PAX closes.
I think the idea sounds fucking rad. I just hope they get a good audience. This seems like the type of thing to be real awkward and boring if you get a bunch of weak ass mofos sitting in the crowd.
When Mario Party Party is livestreamed, I feel like the chat can barely contain the raw emotion of the users. Putting that same feature in a live setting seems all but guaranteed to result in a riot.
Will the event at The Parlor have IRL mods? By which I mean multiple T-1000s?
Should be a nice way to mix things up. If it doesn't work out better than the past live streams, who cares, they'll have plenty more chances to party on the couch with the remaining games.
Well that's rad for the people who can be there but for everyone else I don't really see the archive version being as good as a regular episode would be so I'm kinda bummed out.
Oh well, not like there won't be 5 more games after that.
When Mario Party Party is livestreamed, I feel like the chat can barely contain the raw emotion of the users. Putting that same feature in a live setting seems all but guaranteed to result in a riot.
Will the event at The Parlor have IRL mods? By which I mean multiple T-1000s?
People are not so confrontational and inflammatory, by and large, in real life. It'll be loud but well-behaved.
I'm glad it's in front of a crowd, assuming it forces everyone to be a bit more energetic. Part of what has progressively turned me off of the series is how everyone just seems to be getting so frustrated that they sit around fuming in silence.
On one hand, the format is getting incredibly stale, so they had to do something. On the other hand, this sounds like a terrible idea. I'll watch it either way, because I am a fool.
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