Me personally I would say Mario Party 2 and 6. My absolute favorite is 6 out of the two.
MP2 because of how different every single board felt (the costumes are a factor here for me too). Plus there’s a lot of mini-games that are still great to this day. MP3 definitely still has some favorites too, but I prefer the second one.
MP6 I think is the best entry on the GameCube. Great mini games. Takes all the features from 4&5 and fully fleshed them out, which can make the boards chaotic, which can be more fun IMO.
7 is where I feel the series started to lose its luster. It wasn’t what I would call bad, there’s still a good game there at its core. That said, it felt unnecessary to me as an entry. I barely remember 7 and greatly remember 6.
As an honorable mention, I think 8 started to move back in the right direction, even if I didn’t care for the laughing hat character. The mini games were fun and I remember having fun with my friends at the time. Still prefer 6 and 2 over it though.
To this day I still have no interest in playing 9 or 10 lol.
I definitely get what you’re saying on that. Leaving behind communities that you’re a part of, potentially for years or longer, is not appealing.
The sad reality is that is where each individual person will have to weigh their options and beliefs.
For me personally, I’m already down to just a few personal communities on Discord and for the one that I run, I will be migrating to either something like Stoat, Matrix or even a good old fashioned web forum. This all stems from not trusting Discord with my personal information, which works for me. Obviously not a one size fits all situation.
It would be nice to see Discord realize that they’re making a huge mistake and backtrack the decision, but I don’t see that happening.
Perhaps this will lead to communities migrating to web forums down the road? Only time will tell.
For an exact 1:1 replacement? Yeah, I do agree about that. If anyone looking for options doesn’t mind making some compromises it opens the doors quite a bit.
I shared in another reply a link to some alternatives. Guilded seems to be the closest to a 1:1 replacement for now.
My personal concern is having to repeat this again if the next proprietary platform becomes too big. My friend group has gone through google hangouts (it was a different time lol), the curse client, which became a Twitch product eventually and then Discord.
I’m at the point where I’m considering going back to web forums and things like teamspeak/ventrillo.
For a potential 1:1 Discord alternative? The one that has stood out to me is Guilded. I started looking at alternatives last year when talk about this was starting to float around and forgot about it.
Here’s a recent article with alternatives that I found in a quick search. Don’t agree with all of them personally, but I’m not the target audience for some of them.
I used to use it years ago but I haven’t used it in quite a while. Kind of surprised it’s still around.
I do recall it needing access to quite a bit of permissions for tracking purposes. Outside of the camera and GPS though I don’t remember it all off the top of my head.
If you aren’t going to use it I would say it’s best to uninstall it.
As far as it being a risk; I don’t think it is? Hoping someone else will chime in on it
Edit: some of this was answered while I was typing this out. I’m not a fan of kernel level anything personally. And yeah, most devices already have a way to track it down if needed. Prey would be redundant.
As someone who finished Rebirth recently and decided to revisit the original after, I’m actually glad to hear about this newer version. Mostly for the (hopefully improved) controller support.
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It sounds like it was forced into a censored version by Nintendo’s standards. The article goes into more detail on it, but it sounds like the requirements for it to be playable in Japan are a part of the puzzle.
I have it on PC and can safely say it’s the definitive way to experience this game. Shame it’s censored on the Switch.
I finally did this last week. I had been meaning to for a while now. I got homebrew stuff setup, did a NAND backup and looked at what type of chipset my system has. I lucked out with a Samsung chipset.
Now I’m working with the fun stuff: homebrew apps, Pretendo, etc
I think this is the best middle ground solution at the moment. Limiting the amount of posts that can be spammed would act as a deterrent for whoever keeps creating accounts and deleting them within a few hours.
As a bonus, if possible; limit only accounts less than X days old to that timeframe (this would allow people who actually want to post and keep their accounts the freedom to do so without restrictions).
I was starting to group together my older computers for potential recycling, but they’re now going to be repurposed after thorough testing. Not a fan of where big tech currently wants to go
Me personally I would say Mario Party 2 and 6. My absolute favorite is 6 out of the two.
MP2 because of how different every single board felt (the costumes are a factor here for me too). Plus there’s a lot of mini-games that are still great to this day. MP3 definitely still has some favorites too, but I prefer the second one.
MP6 I think is the best entry on the GameCube. Great mini games. Takes all the features from 4&5 and fully fleshed them out, which can make the boards chaotic, which can be more fun IMO.
7 is where I feel the series started to lose its luster. It wasn’t what I would call bad, there’s still a good game there at its core. That said, it felt unnecessary to me as an entry. I barely remember 7 and greatly remember 6.
As an honorable mention, I think 8 started to move back in the right direction, even if I didn’t care for the laughing hat character. The mini games were fun and I remember having fun with my friends at the time. Still prefer 6 and 2 over it though.
To this day I still have no interest in playing 9 or 10 lol.