Mario Party Party: Mario Party Party

@csl316: I'm seriously shocked Reiner or Turi never attempted to attack Dan before.

I'm also writing this to say Turi is also great.

Yes!

Between the EU Hub playing Gang Beasts and now these guys playing Mario Party, I'm totally ready for Jeff to just start playing games with Statsman Bruno.

Tim Turi is one of my favorite video gamesmen. We're talking top 3.

And JeffM got so, so close to losing it during Ninja Gaiden.

Also, I'm clicking through this to see what I'm in for (Overblood). Each time, Jeff is either shaking his head, frowning, or has a hateful, defeated look on his face. As expected!

pleasepleaseplease let there be more mario party! I need this joy in my life/the world

Anyone have the issue of playing this video in HTML 5 then have the audio go out of sync later in the video? I did refresh and it fixed it, but thought it was weird that it happened.

I'm using the latest FireFox.

Did the audio fall out of sync about 15 mins in or is it just me?

drew :C

As much as they hated doing this it made for some really entertaining content. I'm so happy Dan's along for the ride!

Thank you for doing this, guys -- I laughed almost the whole time. :)

@sydlanel said:

Laughs did run a but low at the end, but that will probably happen with any 3 hour stream. I think we can both agree that the 9 (in 2015 to be 10) part series needs to happen for real.

I believe this about sums up the stream.

I paused it at around 10 minutes and saw Jeff and Brad smiling, and Drew's hair was all nice and orderly.

I then skipped it to 2 hours and 40 minutes in, and everyone had exhausted faces with no smiles, and Drew's hair was disheveled and unruly. It was pretty goddamn funny.

So glad Dan is part of GB! His personality brings such an awesome energy to the crew.

Dan is more Mario Party than man now...

This was amazing. The minigame when Jeff missed the last jump to win I laughed so hard.

Tomorrow's headline:

Giant Bomb Founder Questioned as Prime Suspect in Murder of Game Journalist

They need to break the world record for the longest Mario Party marathon. It would only have to be two whole matches because no one has ever survived the overwhelming violence that happens halfway through the second match.

Dan is so much win.

You do know that while I'm sure it was enjoyable for him because he's a fun-lovin' guy and all, he was also clearly playing up a heel persona, right?

This is the best Mario party...

About to dig into this monster.

Great idea for premium content!

@coolarman: I made it during the live show and pasted it in the chat.

Glad it got some chuckles!

Not pictured: Jeff taking a hammer into the GameSpot archive room and destroying all copies of Mario Party and its sequels. Then following Dan to his apartment to destroy his copies to make sure.

You did a great job. Funny shit

Dan's utter joy and Jeff's utter contempt are so good here.

It really is videos like these that further cement Jeff as a true agent of chaos

Yep, same problem in Chrome, latest version, at around 20 minutes. Refreshing fixed it as well.

@sydlanel: If you go back and watch the Fortune Street stream it wasn't too different other than the general contempt towards the game. I seriously doubt anyone would be playing a game they genuinely hated, or at least without realizing the entertainment value of doing so. Dan brings an unabashed enthusiasm to games he enjoys and that over enthusiasm plays well against Brad/Drew's apathy and Jeff's disdain.

So yeah, there's a method to the madness even if it isn't all thought and planned out. It's about putting these dudes into a room, with a game or games, and having fun.

Same thing happened to me on chrome and refreshing did fix it. Not sure what's up with that.

@fobwashed: Thank you for this gif, it is amazing! Still laughing my ass off.

Guess we should be congratulating Dan as the newest addition to the Giant Bomb East crew after this.

(as overheard from chat)

Two words: Fortune Street.

Best thing since Fortune Street. Content like this is why I'm subscribed, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Man I love Mario Party.

well, the first few of them anyway.

The rise and fall of the dangerous alliance was a sight to behold

Now we need to make Dan play some Fortune Street.

This was the best night of our lives.

We need another Fortune Street game.

YES. YES. I need this in my life right now. Thank you so much!

dat thumbnail

@csl316: Yeah Dan, Tim and Andrew quickly became some of my favorite duders after watching a few Super Replays.

@wumbo3000:

We could do a Faces of Meth before/after to show the devastating effects of Mario Party.

Dan is a professional Mario Partier; that glove!

@fobwashed said:

This is the saddest I've seen Jeff. This stream was wonderful.

Giant Bomb After Dark, best Giant Bomb.

All these ersatz Mario characters really creep me out. They look like slightly deformed versions of themselves, but there's just something not quite right about them.

@coolarman said:

Yes

GB can't even handle Heel Dan right now. Thank you, Dan.

I'm also getting it on chrome.

This was so good :D