Everyone knows 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Party is one of the best party games around. It's the king of the genre, and while the series has gone up and down relative to its own quality, even the lesser-lauded titles are great for getting the gang together. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Party, one of these lesser-lauded offerings, was my game of choice over the weekend. I hadn't played Mario Party for about a year before that. I don't think I came up with any fresh ideas on Mario Party that no one with a brain has ever thunk before, but it gave me a renewed appreciation for the series, and why it has such a long-lasting legacy - Mario Party is secretly not just the best Mario sports game, but the closest any game comes to capturing the true magic of sport.
One of the core reasons I love sport so dearly is its unpredictability. It's the only form of mainstream entertainment where nobody knows what's going to happen. Most art is scripted, written in ways that can be predictable, trite, or unsatisfying, and even unscripted reality TV still has teams of producers who push the action forward off-screen, creating an atmosphere that is designed by human hand. Sport is not like that.
I love football above all sports because it best encapsulates this. It's a team sport that rewards togetherness and tactics, but has room for individual brilliance. Games are short enough that it can all be over in an instant, but long enough that real narratives can unfold during play. It's fast enough that it's never over until it's over, but slow enough that there's always a second chance. While the elite level has seen teams with huge cash injections slowly turn top leagues stale, football is built on the fundamental joy of sport - anyone can beat anyone on their day.
However, in sports games, it doesn't work like that. Sure, someone could play as Forest Green Rovers and beat someone else playing as Real Madrid, but sports games are heavily reliant on fine motor skills, mechanical knowledge, and practised execution. You gotta git gud. If I was to play FIFA with my real life friends, I'd win every game without even trying, no matter who I played as. I have 50 hours in FIFA 23, and similar (or higher) hours in every FIFA going back 20 years. They've never played before. Anyone can't beat anyone on their day with video games.
This can't even happen with the more arcade sports titles. You might get a couple of good shots in a motion based game like the tennis in Nintendo Switch Sports, but if you've ever played Mario Kart, Golf, Sluggers, or Strikers with friends unfamiliar with gaming, you'll realise they aren't as 'pick up and play' as they seem. And if you've ever tried to force your friends to play Mario Hoops, you are my hero.
You can pick flaws in this argument, I know. If you take 11 people who have never played football and put them up against Man City, they're not going to win. But Mario Party has room for this. Even if you have never played Mario Party, or never even played a video game before, you can win Mario Party. While some of the games ask for motor skills, many rely on basic movement or even raw luck. Once that's out the way, it still doesn't matter. Coins are awarded and taken away for all sorts of reasons on the Mario Party board, and where the Stars fall is random. You could lose every game and get lucky with coin drops and Star paths and pick up the points.
That's still not all. When the game ends, there's time for some injury time drama. The bonus stars don't usually go to the best player, but to the one who used the most items, or moved the most spaces, or landed on the most spaces that look like triangles. There is no way to predict it. Anyone can truly beat anyone. Mario Party is great because it's a game where the losers can win. No, I didn't write this just because I won all the minigames and still didn't win the game, and you can't prove otherwise.