WiiParty or Mario Party 8? (Vote only if you've played both)

[Joelcool7]

Now I am a huge Mario Party fan, at one time or another I have owned every single Mario Party game. I recently bought MarioParty2 on VC. I bought a copy of MarioParty8 launch day however somebody borrowed it about a year ago and I can't remember who. I've asked my friends who borrowed it but everyone says they didn't. I guess a lesson learned , don't trust your friends to return your stuff.

But the question is not about my friends. I am going up North for a few months to live with my mom again. During that time I will be bringing my Wii. My mom used to play MarioParty 64 with me when I was a pre-teen/teen. I know she loves the game and since their is no internet access other then dial up, no cable and the nearest city is over half an hour away. I decided I'd buy MarioParty8 again so that we could play it.

But then I thought, what about WiiParty? Nintendo was marketing it as such a great party game. It honestly looked interesting. But I hate WiiSports/WS:Resort/WiiMusic and can barely stand WiiPlay. As such I counted WiiParty out pretty quickly last year. But now I'm having second thoughts. Also I am like a few hundred points from platinum status through ClubNintendo and regestering WiiParty would give me another 60 points, so this got me wondering if I rebuy MarioParty8 I can't regester the second copy.

So other then the ClubNintendo thing, is WiiParty a better party game then MarioParty and if it is why is it so?

My mom and I loved playing the board games because it seemed familiar. I loved the board games in MarioParty8 are their board games in WiiParty? (Example of what kind of things could be used as plus's for WiiParty)

I would love to hear the positives and negatives to rebuying MarioParty8 over WiiParty or Vice versa, could you help me?