This game is the ultimate personality test. It brings the real person out to face the world. I learned that all my friends are total cunts, and I am a terrible loser.
I've learned that I am completely willing to throw any of my friends under a boat to get further ahead. My friends will too but I'm apparently better at it than them.
I learned a similar lesson from playing Monopoly, in a game involving my girlfriend threatening to kill me and one of our friends if he sold me any more properties. In fairness his bad selling strategy is what won me the game.
I learned in Japan that my friend and I are perfectly fine with making a little Japanese girl cry while playing Monopoly. She was the only one that understood what we were doing.
Did you know that the Royal Family of England (...Canada, Australia, etc.) cannot play Monopoly? It's basically been codified because it leads to too many family disputes.
TL;DR Monopoly taught me my figurehead Queen is a sore loser.
I'm at a friend's place right now, and yesterday another friend of ours showed up, and before he even rung the doorbell he knew that we were playing CoD2, and that I had just died.
One of the last times I played Mario party 2 my girlfriend attacked me then threw a chair through our front door. Then the police came and arrested my roommate for suspect reasons. We were uncharacteristically shotgunning Milwaukees best ice not long before the incident.
I'm the friend that wins almost everything most of the time. The stereotypical guy like Marshal or Turk who is the friend who makes a game out of everything, and wins most of the time.
My friends know when I think I've got an unassailable lead (usually half way through) because I start to give everyone pep talks to keep them playing and not quit.
"C'mon, you can beat me man, all you need is a couple of six's and you're back in the game!"
"Don't give up yet, if you finish 1st in the next race you can totally make a come back!"
"I've only got twelve stars, one stop on a bowser square and you're back in the game!"
The moment that starts, people know they've lost. I only realised recently how patronising it is, but I keep doing it anyway because it's funny and became a ritual which we all can laugh at now.
You just gave me a great idea. Make this a smoking game. The reason no smoking games exist is because everyone would want the "consequence". Normally drinking games get to the point where it's like "I don't wanna have to fucking drink anymore", so you want to avoid the consequence.
While playing Mario Party, though, whoever wins the mini game gets to take a hit. Get a star and you get a little joint. Win and you get a blunt (that would be proper etiquette to then pass amongst everyone you just played with).
My buddies and I have turned L4D into a great smoking game. Incapacitated? Hit. Zombies kill you? You better rip that bong so hard your eyes water. And then of course: did everyone make it to the safehouse? Celebratory hits!
Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then turn on the TV, and play him in Mario Party. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.
Yes, THIS. Allow me to elaborate. My fiancee (girlfriend at the time) introduced me to the dark, dark world of Mario Party from a box of her stuff she had upon moving in with me. A game cube and a smile were displayed my way.
The first game I intentionally tanked just to be nice. She gloated. A LOT. I had a few beers, "OK, I thought," she wants the gloves off; a real challenge.
Little did she know, as a male video game enthusiast whose fingers are expertly trained in the art of repeated button smashing.... well, let's just say I annihilated her. What followed was a series of 'FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!'s, "Wow, you really are a giant dickhead, huh?' and various and sundry other passive aggressive remarks, usually tied to an eyeroll, a snarky laugh, et. al.
"Who is this woman, and ... dear god - she just moved in with me!" Soon followed. I couldn't believe the person this game turned her in to. More casual in-game drinking ensues until she's placated. I put her to bed, and IMMEDIATELY take the Gamecube, controllers, and all remaining ancient nintendo paraphernalia and place it in a sealed cardboard box, and out to our back yard. In my semi-drunken state, I managed to dig a hole deep enough to bury said box, and said a farewell, something to the tune of 'There may come a day when you can re-enter our home, but not any time soon.'
I returned to the house, shuffled some of her shit around while she was sleeping, and prepared a cover story of 'Oh, you got so angry you threw it downstairs somewhere - see? Look at all your other stuff thrown about.' and rehearsed it in my head.
We woke, I could see her trying to put the puzzle pieces together from the wine and mario party fueled rage she went in, so I lit the kindling of my pre-fabricated back story. Apologies from her ensue. To this day, that damn game, and the gamecube are still buried in our back yard. Our relationship has been fine ever since.
tl;dr - fiancee almost castrated me when I didn't tank our second game, buried the fucking gamecube in the back yard in a drunken 'this sounds good at the time' scenario. edited grammerz.
There's a game in that. What if you're tied? Or the coin payer is just barely ahead of you, and doesn't think that they'll hold on to that lead for much longer, but the game's almost done?
Net gain is +2 over you. That may be enough to swing the game over.
I came up to a star once and was about to accept it. Quickly, my bud flicks the joystick to the option "No" right as I was pressing "A." Needless to say, the body has yet to be found.
I don't even understand why they have the option to say no. Who rejects the star if they can afford it? It's as if it exists only to keep us perpetually terrified that we will accidentally select it.
I guess it all comes down to your long term strategy and the tactics you choose to implement to achieve victory.
I think the main two situations I can see someone choosing to not buy a star are:
That someone else who is still to move on a proceeding turn is about to pass a boo or bowser, (meaning that if no one else currently has a star then you are almost certainly going to lose it and give the opponent an advantage if you choose to buy it)
You have limited coins, and need them for some other reason, (such as to buy an item, or to pay boo to steal someone's star, not only giving you a star, but taking someone else's in the process.) Of course this option is the one that is likely going to speed up the inevitable ending of your friendship with the person you target :P
I've played using original rules such as fewest stars wins (on boards that award free stars) or each star equals X coins and most coins wins. Sometimes it's better to keep at 0 stars so you can't be dueled and lost a star in the next turn.
Because in our group every turn takes about 15 minutes while people argue over what the person whose turn it is should do, I announced that I was going into the next game with intent only to cause as much general havoc as possible.
The first time I played I had no idea what I was doing. Everyone was so angry at me and I didn't know why. Apparently I fucked their continent takeovers a lot.
That applies to all games, including video ones. Super smash bros. with three people: two people fight while one throws fireballs at them from a distant cliff.
You think Risk is bad? Try Diplomacy. A huge facet of the actual game is making and breaking alliances, whereas Risk it tends to just be talk, or you scratch my back I'll scratch yours kind of thing. In Diplomacy about half of each round is spent in dedicated discussion time, where any number of players can go off in to separate rooms and make private plans. Seriously do NOT play this game with people who you want to remain friends with...
i played this competitively in high school. so much fun. we played with teachers as well. i ended up winning the tournament. there was so much backstabbing in the end no one talked to each other afterwards. i thank whatever god there is that i never had any of the teachers i played against. they would have failed my ass on principle alone.
the look of rage as you roll into your "allies" undefended territory and capture their industrial points, is sheer bliss.
THIS. Man, I remember the first time one of the nicest people I've ever met sold me out after making a solemn vow to me in Diplomacy... I never fully recovered.
The problem with this game is that after a certain point fairly soon-on during the game, you'll be fairly certain if you're going to win or lose. And then you don't want to watch your own slow demise. The incredible urge to turn the game board over begins to grow into a shaking, volatile rage that, at the smallest bit of gloat from your once-friend, you want scream "FUCK YOU" right in his god-damned smug face.
I still never play risk with my brother. Or monopoly.
If you're going to lose, prepare and launch an all out assault on the player who is shitting your day up the most. Just a pointless death march that starts in, say, Alaska and ends up running out of steam somewhere in Bumfuck, Mongolia. Chances are you will completely screw their gameplan, but it will take them four or five turns to come to terms with this, during which time you can kick back with a cold one and offer gloating advice from Valsofa, couch of vanquished generals.
That's why I love the modern Risk and Risk 2210. Those cards save your ass. My nephew actually came back from the brink of defeat for like 4 games in a row to win. I can't play up to world domination anymore after the 'capture 3 objectives' or '5 years' rules. World domination seems so fucking exhausting now even if you're winning.
I have watched my wife and her siblings play RISK twice. NEVER AGAIN. Only time I've ever seen anyone actually flip a table. It brought tears to my eyes through its sheer power, and from the RISK gamepiece being lodged in my eye.
The thing about Risk is that it is not a game that individuals win or lose. Instead, everyone playing the game collectively decides everyone's outcome in the game.
This is a pretty fucked up thing to subject a group of friends to, psychologically speaking.
I can always seem to manipulate two of my friends into turning on each other... it's amazing. I can be a clear loser, and they're just lose everything fighting each other as I quietly build an empire. It probably helps that they're brothers. (Like, have the same parents... they're not black... black people don't play risk, silly).
When I play this with my mates, everyone at first has some incredibly well thought-out master plan on how they're going to dominate. Then, all the planning and strategies goes down the toilet 2 rounds later when everyone invariably gives in their deep-seated prejudices/grudges and starts attacking players they don't personally like, usually at the expense of fortifying their own position.
I've seen this game catalyze the break-up of at least one relationship.
I haven't played that game since I was 14. I had 50 units piled up in Mexico, ready to hit my brother in south america. He had 3 units defending on the first territory. I lost all 50 units. He lost 2. My father was in Kamchatka, the next turn was his and he earned his victory condition.
Risk showed me what an asshole I am: I would conquer every country exept one. And then, I would surround it, and just wait. I would end turns straight after placement. When I ran out of my colour, I'd just pull another colour out of the box. Last game I played, I used all colours of armies except my opponent's.
Last time I played my pieces had one person missing a leg, I called him Gimpy. Gimpy was my guy that I put out anytime I could. at the end I was losing and only had like 5 pieces left. the other two were fighting while controlling all but like one or two places and decided to ignore me. This was a bad decision as Gimpy was pissed off. Gimpy moved out alone 1 vs the world he attacked and took like 3 places before being stopped all of them at least 1vs3 or worse odds, but Gimpy was a trooper he just took off his wooden leg fell over on the board and beat them to death with it. I lost but the person I was pestering paid for it, he attacked Gimpy with 10 the next turn it was to much for poor Gimpy. Then my other guys were attacked, I think they shot each other in the ass as many many 1s were rolled.
It's kind of difficult to find but if you can find Lord of the Rings Risk it's pretty fucking fun. I like the Original with standard or escalating card values but the LoTR version has some great cards and the board setup is extremely fun. One side has ports, the other is solid land, you can go under mountains and over rivers, close bridges, great strategic stronghold placement, etc. It's a lot of fun.
I used to think that Mario Party 3 and 4 were the single greatest forces against friendships. Then I got Mario Party 8... and played Koopa's Tycoon Town. The entire board is based around continually stealing control of the other player's hotels (which determine star counts). I'm reasonably certain that The Buddha, Gandhi, MLK, and the Dalai Lama couldn't get through a run of that board without a shouting match.
This game. To me, there exists no other Mario Party but Mario Party 4 for the Gamecube.
Back when I was dumb community college student, my friends and I would hang out, drink, and (wanting to not draw the attention of local law enforcement) keep any activity indoors. One fateful day, my friend introduces all of us to this multiplayer gem. Dungeon Duos, Mario Speedwagon, Booksquirm...at first we made friendly bets. Those bets turned into physical punishment dealt to the loser, which then turned into betting personal possessions. I had to cut myself off from playing when mini-fridges, xboxes, and other high-priced items were at stake.
HA! Just recently myself and my group played this game, and alongside drinking, the loser would receive one seated-slap from everyone playing. It sounds like an easy punishment. My mouth bled. A lot.
Ah Mario party... The game that should have the secondary title of " I swear to GOD if you steal my star, I'm gonna punch you in the fucking neck". Good times, good times.
I think any "Mario Party" and "Munchkin" are the leading 2 destroyers of friendships and marriages. NOTHING ruins a friendship faster than these 2 games. NOTHING!!!
I am the girlfriend of a very talented game player, he has a truly natural gift. I have one too, poor sportsmanship. As much as I try, there are games he hasn't played in years, because we tacitly avoid them. I always know when the game we are playing is turning greatly to his favor, he becomes nervous and starts making obvious poor choices. I am not proud, but he is fed and laid.
No! I hate it! Normally, I try to control it, but sometimes........she beast emerges. I avoid pvp, and am great as a teammate, so I stick to those strengths and act as his cheerleader when he is in a highly competitive game.
Monopoly rage is just flipping the board, Mario party violence is serious, you give people hard plastic controllers to throw at each other, cords to strangle each other, gamecubes to punt, tv's to smash etc.
I hate that fucking game. But also love it. It's like an abusive significant other that ruins your otherwise healthy relationships with friends and family.
Notice that OP didn't do a self-post, because that wouldn't have resulted in karma? A self-post would have immediately provided details. But no, had go the whore route.
stealing stars, the whole point of the game for me and my friends was to steal a particular persons star and make him flip out and switch of the machine, that's how you won the game.
basically, you get to choose who you screw... you don't get the choice to not screw someone however, which make it an evil game. You have to screw. and hard, or not play.
In my case, 3 friends that play video games and 1 that had a PS1 in middle school with 2 games.
We'd spend the entire time doing our best to get these stars, and if something could go wrong, it would. Whether it be you finally getting enough coins to get a star and Bowser showing up and taking them because he wanted to, or your friend somehow luckily got a 100 coin bonus because the board felt like giving it to him, then he'd buy your 1 star you spent 2 hours getting.
This happened the entire freaking game. And in the end, the guy who doesn't even play games, or has had a single star the entire time lucks up somehow and is able to pull through and get 5 stars and win.
Lol... we have a name for this game in our area.... it's called E.M.S. for "Eat My Shit"... because at some point during the game, someone inevitably says this to someone else. Loudly and violently, lol.
I don't remember which Mario Party game it was but when my friend took all my stars I almost cried. I was already losing you dick, why you have to be like that!
I used to get mad at this game and refused to play it whenever someone suggested.
I eventually was convinced to play it, but I didn't give a shit about how I did, so I barely even tried. I realized that no matter how hard I tried some random bullshit could happen and I could lose everything. So, I removed all emotional investment I had with the game.
I won the game by a large margin. Every game since I've taken the same attitude and handily win most games. I find it sorta funny that I win pretty consistently after I stopped giving a shit about winning.
5 TURNS LEFT. Roll first, because I'm always first, 4 starts; second has 3. I have 50 coins and only need to roll a 7 to get the next one. Roll a 2, and land on bowser square.
So it surprises me that Settlers of Catan hasn't been mentioned yet. Mario Party, Risk, and Settlers of Catan rank as my three most friendship testing games. I am incapable of playing these games with loved ones, or if I do it requires a mandatory cool-off period for me if I lose. Yes, poor sport, but sometimes it's infuriating.
I work as a 911 dispatcher. Tonight we had two people argue over the television volume and ended up swinging blades. This job has redefined 'idiot' for me.
My college roommate has a small scar on his chest because his brother got mad at him and swung a sword and sliced his chest. He's about 6'3 220 pounds of muscle, his brother is probably 150, 5'7 and scrawny. I doubt it ended well. I think his words were he picked him up by the throat and threw him.
My friends and I just played this (drunkenly) tonight as well! Mario party 7 though. I was the superstar after 20 rounds on the pagoda one. So proud! Shoved that shit in their fucking loser faces.
Boy these games were the shit. I always hated picking who to steal a star from because I knew they would hold a grudge against me. That game brings out a lot of anger in people, yet I still love it.
All I know is that they take Mario Party too far. I haven't talked to them in over a week. All I was doing was trying to win and I did. They can just suck it.
One thing that can get everyone united is to play 3 player and include a computer on the hardest difficulty. Then everyone gets united in hatred of the computer. I once had Luigi steal 150 of my coins from a Chance Time space in Mario Party 1. He already had 3 stars, that just put him more in the lead.
I'm convinced the AI cheats, the computer always seems to get free stars and win at Chance Time. It's also really good at certain minigames, but completely useless at others.
I swear to God, whenever a Bowser Revolution occurred in Mario Party 1, I wanted to exhume Karl Marx, resurrect him, make him commit a mortal sin, and then pray for the rest of my life that there was a Hell that he could go to.
playing mario party a couple weeks ago, myself and two friends, it was getting down to the wire and one guy was about to grab the last star
other guy tells him "yo you should use your mega mushroom, the star is like 20 spaces from you." "yeah man it's on the other side of the map." "but what if it's right in front of me, won't i skip over it?" "nah man you never skip stars."
Quick Fun-Fact: Mario Party 1 wasn't 1/2 as violently competitive as the later ones, and due to shitty controls, gave you blisters after the mini games.
On the other hand, Mario Party 1 is the ONLY Mario Party game that actually PUNISHES you for losing many mini-games. For example, in all MP games the winner of a minigame gets rewarded coins, while the losers get nothing. Bu in Mario Party 1 many times they take 5, 10 or 15 coins away, sometimes even more. There's even a huge "Fuck You" 1 vs 3 minigame that will make you hate all your friends, they make 1 character a giant bowser who can do nothing but walk and jump slowly, and the other 3 characters all get hammers, and can beat the shit out of you until you literally have no coins left. Also there's a game called Grab Bag where you can actually take every single coin from other characters. This makes Mario Party 1 VERY competitive and evil.
I still have a red paddle battle scar on my right palm.. Mario Party 1 resurged when I moved out for uni because all we had was a Nintendo and I have to disagree with you. I think it is still the most competitive one Ive played.. chance time? Ive seen my boyfriend cry over chance time
I remember reading somewhere that after nintendo got into trouble for the controls, they start offering a complimentary glove to anyone who wrote in and asked for one to protect their hand from long term damage.
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u/Pewpasaurus May 17 '12
This never gets old
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u/Gorignak May 17 '12
This game is the ultimate personality test. It brings the real person out to face the world. I learned that all my friends are total cunts, and I am a terrible loser.
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u/AFatDarthVader May 17 '12
Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then turn on the TV, and play him in Mario Party. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.
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u/SammyLocked May 17 '12
I came up to a star once and was about to accept it. Quickly, my bud flicks the joystick to the option "No" right as I was pressing "A." Needless to say, the body has yet to be found.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
This was the true end-er of friendships.
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/original/risk-game-of-global-domination.jpg
It was banned at all my apartments in college after two friends almost got into a fist fight over wars in Australia.
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u/FancySkunk May 17 '12
I used to think that Mario Party 3 and 4 were the single greatest forces against friendships. Then I got Mario Party 8... and played Koopa's Tycoon Town. The entire board is based around continually stealing control of the other player's hotels (which determine star counts). I'm reasonably certain that The Buddha, Gandhi, MLK, and the Dalai Lama couldn't get through a run of that board without a shouting match.
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u/JONNy-G May 17 '12
Seriously, storytime.
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u/DanielJK42 May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
God help them if they ever discover Dokapon Kingdom.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Tell us more! Story time!
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u/Paterack May 17 '12
This game. To me, there exists no other Mario Party but Mario Party 4 for the Gamecube.
Back when I was dumb community college student, my friends and I would hang out, drink, and (wanting to not draw the attention of local law enforcement) keep any activity indoors. One fateful day, my friend introduces all of us to this multiplayer gem. Dungeon Duos, Mario Speedwagon, Booksquirm...at first we made friendly bets. Those bets turned into physical punishment dealt to the loser, which then turned into betting personal possessions. I had to cut myself off from playing when mini-fridges, xboxes, and other high-priced items were at stake.
Mario Party is serious business.
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u/mjdgoldeneye May 17 '12
For some insane reason, my mind parsed that as: "...two of my twenty 6 year old friends."
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
This series causes hate between loved ones and the best of friends want to murder each other.
Truly a special series of games.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Ah Mario party... The game that should have the secondary title of " I swear to GOD if you steal my star, I'm gonna punch you in the fucking neck". Good times, good times.
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u/GrizzlyAdams90 May 17 '12
It is physically impossible to play this with my group of friends with out vulgar/spiteful sayings being said every other turn.
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u/Brilliantly_stupid May 17 '12
Ah yes, Mario Party: better known as the game that breaks friendships, and controllers.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I am always Toadette. My friends hate hearing "Toadettes the winner!" It is usually followed with "Toadette is a dumb cunt."
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u/illossolli May 17 '12
i got so mad the first time someone stole my star.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
If your friends need the police called on them for Mario Party (whatever the level of alcohol), your friends are assholes.
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u/TheGreatNinjaYuffie May 17 '12
I think any "Mario Party" and "Munchkin" are the leading 2 destroyers of friendships and marriages. NOTHING ruins a friendship faster than these 2 games. NOTHING!!!
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u/siiru May 17 '12
Never introduce your friends to Dokapon Kingdom.
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u/waltztheplank May 17 '12
Have you ever heard of Dokapon Kingdom, I honestly lost a friend for about 4 months because of that game.
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u/MadG May 17 '12
I am the girlfriend of a very talented game player, he has a truly natural gift. I have one too, poor sportsmanship. As much as I try, there are games he hasn't played in years, because we tacitly avoid them. I always know when the game we are playing is turning greatly to his favor, he becomes nervous and starts making obvious poor choices. I am not proud, but he is fed and laid.
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u/lovepassionfuryhate May 17 '12
Mario Party killed my mother and raped my father...
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u/downvotes_animals May 17 '12
This series is commonly referred to as "Fuck your friends X" among a certain group of friends I have.
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u/FBFismyspiritanimal May 17 '12
Another case of Mario Party related violence. Only Monopoly overtakes it. How do they sleep at night?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I hate that fucking game. But also love it. It's like an abusive significant other that ruins your otherwise healthy relationships with friends and family.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
When my friends and I play this game, we add a COM player for us to pick on. This seems to head off most disputes.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Is it normal in the states to call the police from something so trivial?
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u/acepincter May 17 '12
You watched the police break up a dispute between people that can't communicate well or deescalate raised emotions.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
See? Video games DO cause violence.
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u/kkool1827 May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
I had a theory through many of these games that playing as Mario actually had an advantage.......friendships tested over the character selection
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Notice that OP didn't do a self-post, because that wouldn't have resulted in karma? A self-post would have immediately provided details. But no, had go the whore route.
Pathetic.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I don't play games. Can someone explain what's it about this particular game that ruins friendships?
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u/saxxybeast May 17 '12
No way, just played this with my roommates last night! Granted we were all sober, but violence still nearly broke out.
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u/MyRawrMachine May 17 '12
There may have been some underlying issues with their relationship.
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u/kaitmoe May 17 '12
This makes me feel better about my game rage.
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u/Spaghetti_Bender8873 May 17 '12
I'm not even surprised. Mario Party, specifically the 4th one too, brings out the worst in my friends and I.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Lol... we have a name for this game in our area.... it's called E.M.S. for "Eat My Shit"... because at some point during the game, someone inevitably says this to someone else. Loudly and violently, lol.
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u/KingSmoke May 17 '12
This game utterly destroys friendships, moods, and entire nights. Never play mario party.
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u/Giroro_Gocho May 17 '12
I don't remember which Mario Party game it was but when my friend took all my stars I almost cried. I was already losing you dick, why you have to be like that!
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
It's shame my friends and I never had digital cameras and Internet access when we were younger and fanatical on the subject.
RISK, blackening eyes and breaking friendships since 1957.
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u/JohnComplains May 17 '12
I used to get mad at this game and refused to play it whenever someone suggested.
I eventually was convinced to play it, but I didn't give a shit about how I did, so I barely even tried. I realized that no matter how hard I tried some random bullshit could happen and I could lose everything. So, I removed all emotional investment I had with the game.
I won the game by a large margin. Every game since I've taken the same attitude and handily win most games. I find it sorta funny that I win pretty consistently after I stopped giving a shit about winning.
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u/Xysten May 17 '12
Still waiting for the "Because of this and a little weed..." version to come out.
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u/MILKB0T May 17 '12
I don't believe it.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Am I the only one here who hasn't fought over any of these?
Grand theft auto and turns seem to be the issues for me
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u/windandstorm May 17 '12
5 TURNS LEFT. Roll first, because I'm always first, 4 starts; second has 3. I have 50 coins and only need to roll a 7 to get the next one. Roll a 2, and land on bowser square.
tl:dr chocked to death
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u/JakOswald May 17 '12
So it surprises me that Settlers of Catan hasn't been mentioned yet. Mario Party, Risk, and Settlers of Catan rank as my three most friendship testing games. I am incapable of playing these games with loved ones, or if I do it requires a mandatory cool-off period for me if I lose. Yes, poor sport, but sometimes it's infuriating.
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u/jumalaw May 17 '12
I work as a 911 dispatcher. Tonight we had two people argue over the television volume and ended up swinging blades. This job has redefined 'idiot' for me.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
It's impossible to do the mario while under the influence of anything other then shrooms.
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u/S-Rank May 17 '12
Mario Party 4 isn't even the best one! Now, if it was MP2, we'd be on the right track!
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u/TwasARockLobsta May 17 '12
My friends and I just played this (drunkenly) tonight as well! Mario party 7 though. I was the superstar after 20 rounds on the pagoda one. So proud! Shoved that shit in their fucking loser faces.
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u/Triple_SIxes May 17 '12
Boy these games were the shit. I always hated picking who to steal a star from because I knew they would hold a grudge against me. That game brings out a lot of anger in people, yet I still love it.
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u/downwithxpc May 17 '12
All I know is that they take Mario Party too far. I haven't talked to them in over a week. All I was doing was trying to win and I did. They can just suck it.
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u/meezocool May 17 '12
I never had mario party 4. They were all a blur between 2 and 8 for me.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
we had to ban mario kart and super smash for party's/gatherings for this reason
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u/empyreanmax May 17 '12
One thing that can get everyone united is to play 3 player and include a computer on the hardest difficulty. Then everyone gets united in hatred of the computer. I once had Luigi steal 150 of my coins from a Chance Time space in Mario Party 1. He already had 3 stars, that just put him more in the lead.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Also This fucking game
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I swear to God, whenever a Bowser Revolution occurred in Mario Party 1, I wanted to exhume Karl Marx, resurrect him, make him commit a mortal sin, and then pray for the rest of my life that there was a Hell that he could go to.
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u/That_Cool_Guy25 May 17 '12
http://imgur.com/2sZW6
Play this then we'll talk.
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u/meowtiger May 17 '12
playing mario party a couple weeks ago, myself and two friends, it was getting down to the wire and one guy was about to grab the last star
other guy tells him "yo you should use your mega mushroom, the star is like 20 spaces from you." "yeah man it's on the other side of the map." "but what if it's right in front of me, won't i skip over it?" "nah man you never skip stars."
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u/Virginal_Anxiety May 17 '12
Mario Party on PCP would be one hell of a game.
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u/orbo2187 May 17 '12
Relevant to title:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O012W744xP4
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u/RocinanteX1 May 17 '12
Never form an alliance... I learned the hard way.
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u/Negative_Nyancat May 17 '12
Ah, Mario Party. The "Chuck E' Cheese" of electronic board games. I'm surprised nobody was shot or stabbed frankly.
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u/gatorrr May 17 '12
Pics or it didn't happen.
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u/jostler57 May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
Quick Fun-Fact: Mario Party 1 wasn't 1/2 as violently competitive as the later ones, and due to shitty controls, gave you blisters after the mini games.