Koopaul said:
I'm sorry but what planet are you from? The roster has only been getting bigger and better over the years.
Are you seriously counting the "lol exclusive guest character tied to only one event" to contribute to a bigger and better roster? Like, seriously?
From what I've checked, no, the roster has been stagnant since the second installment. When they actually did introduce new playable characters (which took them until Rio, so there goes London and Sochi), you could use them in *only* one event, so it's like a corrupt a wish type thing too. That's not a bigger and better roster, it's mostly the same damn pool of characters and oh you could play as Wave in BMX racing if you wanted to I guess.
Also, congrats for ignoring the handheld installments. Ever since London, they've been locking even the typical characters in either utterly ridiculous categories (Mario has to be part of "The Heroes" and Vector as "The Wild Ones") that could be played in only really specific events and in Rio 3DS, they went even further down the shit path by locking EVERY character not named Mario or Sonic to one or two events only. That is not an improvement, that's going backwards.
Not even Mario Party is this stagnant. At the very least, they usually introduce new characters each new installment, few exceptions of course, and surprise surprise, those characters could be used in all minigames and modes.
Koopaul said:
And the Dream Events have been getting better treatment too.
Which the latest installment Rio threw all away. I don't know how this is considered "better" treatment.
Koopaul said:
But the series has improved. Haven't you been paying attention?
I guess not, because the marginal improvements must be detected with like a magnifying glass or something.
Koopaul said:
So that's why. You shouldn't complain about a series not improving if you've barely played it. As far as I'm conscerned your opinion is not worth anything unless you have actually done the research.
You know why I stopped giving the games a chance and stopped caring about them, despite being an avid Mario Sports and Mario Party fan? Because they gave me a mediocre impression. Mario & Sonic at the Winder Games for 3DS was entertaining for its Dream Events and I had some fun with it. The same is said about London's Dream Events, which were the only things I cared about in the game, because the rest of the events were painfully mediocre. But the 3DS game, London, was extremely abysmal from what my twin played, and when I read that Rio 3DS is making their character roster restriction even worse and Rio for Wii U scrapping the only thing I liked about the Olympic Games away, why should I even bother playing something I know I wouldn't like as much? Why should I play this series when I've got Mario Party, which is a better minigame collection than this series, aside from the Dream Events which were better than minigames, but less of them and gone by Rio (Mario Party also offers a lot more freedom with opponents selecting too, and that's a huge plus)?
You're not going to sway my overall dull opinion on the series, so what's the point of trying to argue this with me?
! So they won't have a 2018 game, they will have a 2020 game, and then they'll stop there? Well, it wasn't the best series anyway. I mean, each event was simply a minigame rather than a full-scale sport. If they actually went into depth into those sports, especially the dream events, I'd actually miss the series. But they need to do that in 2020, as well as adding a Perspective Mode (like in MP9). They need to end the series with a bang.
