if anyone has played mario party alone as a kid, a thread has been made for us all to come together, and i would like to say i would have liked to play mario party with you when we were kids.
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i have never played a mario party except for this one time in like 1998 when i went over to a funcoland coworkerās apartment and he and his girlfriend wanted to play it! uh, the first or second one, i think? i sort ofā¦ mentally bounced off the experience because it wasnāt something i could go home and play by myself, i thought, and thus concluded my relationship with the mario party
it took me a really long time to warm up to the idea of multiplayer games other than goldeneye and mario kart 64 but that might have just been me being weird around people i didnāt know very well
(i think he tried to show me a hot shots golf or something, too)
heh heh
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you had the right idea.
also yea iāve never been super warm to multiplayer either. the fact that i got so into ffxiv was like, a lightning in a bottle sorta thing lol
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When I was a kid I spent a lot of time playing 2 player Herzog Zwei by myself. I had no clue how that game worked. I so badly wanted to figure it out and I never did so I am convinced everyone who claims to love it is lying. They are all āputting on airsā*.
I was fortunate enough to share Mario Party with other people though. Namely my nephews, who were like my little brothers, and they spent lots of time at my place so we played lots and lots of Mario Party. They really liked that mini-game where you played, like, āBumper Ballsā, and would giggle like mad and shout about how powerful their balls were. I would try and discourage such behavior but there were like 4 of them and 1 of me. I was helpless. There is no way you can stop 4 little boys from laughing about balls. It is impossible.
Anyway one of these nephews was like, 4 or 5 during peak Mario Party years, and he had some shit taste in video games. Itās ok for me to say this, as 20 years have passed and the statute of limitations on talking trash about a childās taste has expired. Aside from Mario Party that kid was only interested in horrible licensed games. Ones none of his brothers would play with him. And this would have been sad except the kid didnāt really give a shit, he would just boot up multiplayer mode in like Small Soldiers or Attack of the Clones and move player 1 here, and then player 2 there, and then execute an āepic killā and hoot and holler about it for a few minutes before hitting reset and doing it all over again.
I envied that kid. He had imaginations, and passion, and wasnāt 1/10 as self-aware or anxious as the rest of my family, so he was able to just enjoy things. They were all shitty things though. Letās be honest. That kid didnāt have taste. But he knew how to have a good time, and thatās more important. He knew how to handle that Rodeo Burger.
I have about half a dozen board games I bought 4 years ago thinking that I was finally going to come out of my shell and find people to play games with but it did not happen. Except for that one time I played Twilight Struggle with my sister. That game ended with me accidentally nuking myself on like the third turn. That game is worse than Mario Party, because thereās no computer keeping track of the rules, and I donāt think thereās a single card mentioning big round balls.
Thank you.
*I think by name dropping Herzog Zwei, claiming I played it when it came out, and also accusing all its admirers of being poseurs I have now made the most OG Insert Credit post of all times. Please put this thread in the Hall of Fame. Thank you.
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Played Mario Party 5 solo as a non-adult. Got way too into the vehicle-building combat game that it had for some reason.
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Oh god this thread!!
Disclaimer, I was a lonely as hell kid, from when I was born to the moment I left the house I had friends come over to my house 1 time and visited friends at their house 2 times. I was shy but not antisocial, I just lived too far from anyone else. My siblings were either too old or too young to play with and my parents never there.
I got Mario Party 1 and played it exclusively solo, never with anyone else. Finished 100% which was actually fairly long. I abused the Ā« put the joystick inside your palm and rotate your hand Ā» trick to win a few mini-games, which absolutely destroyed my hand, though I didnāt break any controller.
I also got Mario Party 2 and also finished 100% solo
They were better experiences than Mario Tennis (which I also only played solo) and Golf (solo only) but worse than Smash Bros (solo only) and Kart 64 (solo only)
I also played a lot of board games solo and turned Solitaire into a sprawling epic story, I changed the rules so I could get bonuses in the next game based on the last ones, and if I won enough times in a row I could ascend into Heaven or else Iād be sent to Hell or something. If you die God doesnāt check out your sins or something but instead just makes you play Solitaire 100 times in a row to see if you deserve to go to heaven. Fair IMO
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Damn, I did the same for a bunch of multiplayer Gamecube games come to think of it. Love playing Melee and Double Dash solo. Super Monkey Ball less so. Played Metroid Prime 2 multiplayer solo. I donāt think it had bots so I would just line my self up with the player 2 camera and watch Samus do cool shit.
Next time thereās a power-cut I wanna play this version of Solitaire.
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never had Mario party but used to play Mario Kart 1 deathmatch by myself by just trying to fill up the arena with as many green shells as possible and seeing how long I could last.
I think the most inexplicable one to me in hindsight was playing Alien Vs Predator 2 multiplayer alone as well, since I guess it was set up for LAN games and I didnāt know what that was. My house didnāt have internet yet but I was terrified of accidentally connecting to it nevertheless since I had a vague sense that chatrooms were all Reservoirs of Sin. But I did find it interesting to be faced with all these incomprehensible options, have all these big empty areas with mysteriously abbreviated names to explore, getting to play as various different aliens etc. I guess taking it as a variant of the ācomb through a big convoluted databaseā school of videogame pleasures.
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I have played sonic shuffle solo
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me and my friends loved sonic shuffle, but to unlock all the characters and stages, you had to complete the game on single player, so i had to do that
it sucked
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I really wanted to play games with other kids as a child, but a second controller was like Ā£40 and that was the same price as two preowned games. Sorry childhood me, but I stand by that decision.
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The only time I have ever really even come close to touching Mario Party was as a side game when an old SB poster used to host these fighting game nights at his house in the SF4 era, and I suck at fighting games, but the side game competitions there got fierce and fun as hell. Really, i loved how much the FGC people that showed up there were willing to make anything into a competition just for the hell of it. Never seen so many people get loud and hyped competing in Wii minigame compilations.
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i would play board games by myself all the time, I didnāt care about other players for shit like 13 dead end drive and mousetrap, but playing parcheesi by myself made me super hate it, the player that i chose to be āmeā (they were all me but the me i was rooting for) would never win because i couldnāt cheat the dice
people made fun of me for playing 2 player street fighter alone but now thatās called training mode so FUCK YOU MARK COLLINS OF BRIARWOOD ELEMENTARY
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I played Twilight Struggle once, about six years ago. My friend and I got a rule wrong that made the game take all day. I want to play it again eventually to see what itās really like.
Board games are the primary way that I force myself to be at least a little bit social. Before quarantine, I attended local game nights occasionally. Earlier this year, I showed up for an event thatās held every Friday in a coffee shop. I commented that the tables were different from the last time Iād attended, and someone said that change was made more than a year ago.
I didnāt have a game console other than an Atari 2600 as a kid, but I didnāt miss out because I was able to play NES and Sega Master System games with neighbors. (I mostly preferred to watch and not play.)
Our Atari 2600 was kept in the top of the closet with the board games and taken out only occasionally until the day that our house was chosen as the place for everyone on our street to send their kids to catch chickenpox. (I just recently learned that people do not do this anymore because thereās a vaccine.) From that point forward, it remained hooked up all the time.
For several years now, Iāve had a thought that it would be fun to play through one of the Super Mario Bros. games again in two-player mode. Iām just waiting for the opportunity to arise.
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i played mario party 1 alone multiple times and got to a point where i started making my own take on mario party out of index cards and paper. i also played a heck of a lot of starfox 64 multiplayer alone, although i donāt really remember the specifics as to why. i think you could just fly around a lot and also play as the tank or something?
also god yeah i played board games alone a lot too. star halma mostly, and monopoly which is a lot easier to play by yourself if you ask me
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i think the only mp game i somewhat frequently play solo these days is quake 3 w/ bots because itās easier and quicker to do than dig up a decent server w/ live players (though that can be fun, too)
anyway i thought to make another post here because cemu got a nice new update and vulkanās shader caching is super fast now (i play botw running at 75fps w/ very little stutter) and i kinda wanna try splatoon since iāve never played it and it looks cool! idk whether itās any good solo, but hey, itāll be easy enough to find out
thinking about this thread this morning i also remembered that i used to, uh, āplayā the hero quest board game (which i wish i still had!) by myself. i just thought the pieces were cool and in some other life i might have become obsessed w/ collecting warhammer figurines or something. but then, when i was like 7 or 8 years old my dad bought me a couple of robotech and car models and i never got into building plastic models (though i do sometimes think about it, since i think stuff like that is neat and i like looking at them)
i really need to work on making my posts more fun to read
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I donāt know why, but Pokemonās marketing hit me like a gunshot from the moment go. I was all in before anyone else I knew was even aware of it. But with that much lead time I had a whole lot of days with the over lapping feelings of āI want Pokemonā and āPokemon isnāt out yet.ā
At some point inside that haze a vision solidified of an acceptable alternative, at least for the time being. That was to boot up Diddy Kong Racing, complete a save file in its entirety to unlock both secret characters, T.T. and Drumstick; not out of necessity but out of convenience. Then load up one of the VS arena stages multiple times, because the opponents chosen are random, until all four placed are filled by one of the following: Pipsy (Rattata), Diddy (Mankey), Tiptup (Squirtle), Drumstick (Pidgey), or T.T. (Voltorb). Then do what comes naturally, for the remainder of the weekend.
Coincidentally if I had to compete with the Devil in a game of skill Iād probably pick Diddy Kong Racing arena combat, because that is a skill I have developed.
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Oh I forgot Pokemon. I got all 150 without interacting with another human being by getting two copies and borrowing my sisterās gameboy + the cable link that had been used maybe once for competitive Tetris
I also started trying to get all of them to level 100 by using Pokemon Stadiumās 3x speed up Dotrio mode until my sister asked Ā« ā¦ Why are you doing this Ā» which was an eye opening shameful moment
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iāve told this somewhere on the forum before but it must have been the axe because i canāt find in. this is king of posters so it will forever be enshrined now.
anyway one of my strongest memories of beingā¦10? 11? was playing Mario Party 2 alone trying to unlock something and just getting like, 6 bad rolls in a row after having struggled to get in first for like an hour, and just crying, just like, life is so unfair iām going to sob for 30 minutes. I was inconsolable.
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