Mario Party 10

Judging by how often MP recycled assets I get the feeling this series doesn't have quite the same budget as other spin off series do.

Mind you thats just me speculating.
 
I'm pretty sure Mario Party is operating on like an infinite budget like how Mario Kart 8 is.

Mario Party 10 especially. I daresay that game has better graphics than Mario Kart 8.
 
I wouldn't since 10 is mainly composed of assets from 9 with an HD filter.
 
Is there really any proof of that?

It's kinda like saying Mario Kart 8 is just Mario Kart 7 with better models.
 
Just look up gameplay of 9 and island tour and then look at 10. There are a lot of re-used animations, voice effects, even music as well as certain textures. Obviously its not 100% the same stuff but its easy to spot stuff thats being re-used.
 
I guess you could say that, but Island Tour is like literally the first game that reuses music as far as I'm concerned. And I really wouldn't point to texture images as definite proof that things are being reused anyway.

And I'm not really complaining about the reused assets as long as the game is fun (which the GameCube titles still are).
 
I'm not complaining either, I just think it points towards the possibility of these games not having as big a budget as say, Mario kart or certain sports titles.
 
I don't see the point of creating new meshes, textures, bones, and that stuff when immediate models exist. I do think new animations and new voices would help a lot, but Wario's losing animations in the GCN Mario Party games are beyond hilarious.

Mario Kart games don't have a much bigger budget than Mario Party especially if their models look like crap while Kirby Air Ride is much better-looking. You can argue that the rendering environment puts constraints on the model quality to preserve frame-rate, but I counter with Kirby Air Ride.
 
Mario Party X said:
I don't see the point of creating new meshes, textures, bones, and that stuff when immediate models exist. I do think new animations and new voices would help a lot, but Wario's losing animations in the GCN Mario Party games are beyond hilarious.

Mario Kart games don't have a much bigger budget than Mario Party especially if their models look like crap while Kirby Air Ride is much better-looking. You can argue that the rendering environment puts constraints on the model quality to preserve frame-rate, but I counter with Kirby Air Ride.
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Just because you think they look like crap that doesn't mean effort and time wasn't put into them. I own air ride and I'd say MK8 looks way better than that.