3dfd90 No.14680653
>Best game
>Best character
>Best stage
>Best items
>Best drifting mechanics
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
Also, for Double Dash, is it possible to play the grand prix 2 players with CPU while using LAN with two different screens? Or does LAN permit only non-CPU players?
>Best game
DD
>Best character
Waluigi/Bowser
>Best stage
Waluigi Pinball
>Best items
Bowser's gigantic shell, bob-ombs
>Best drifting mechanics
DD, where you can actually avoid red shells if you are gud.
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
The item that defines the series.
290659 No.14680714
>DD
>Petey/Wario
>Wario Colosseum
>Bob-ombs and boost mushroom for pushing people off the road.
>DD, some karts felt bouncy while otheres didn't, pretty fun mechanic imo.
>I love the blue shell. Only african-americans dislike it.
f88992 No.14680715
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
No, I don't enjoy anti-meritocratic bullshit. Because I'm not a commie libshit.
4e4e41 No.14680800
>Double Dash DS is cool too, too bad for the shitty ass drifting mechanics
>Daisy/Wario
>Wii Rainbow Road
>Banana Peel (i'm serious, if you know how to use them it's fun as fuck watching retards trip on them)
>Double Dash
>Yes in all games except 7, never played 8.
a6fcc8 No.14680805
Did we really need a fucking general for this?
265ea0 No.14680862
>>14680653
>Best Game
My mind says DS but my heart says DD since i played that one religiously
>Best Character
King Boo/Toadette
>Best Stage
I always loved Wario Colosseum, the sound effect of drifting on the chainlink road was great
>Best Items
Golden Mushrooms, King Boo and Toadette always seemed to get them more than their counterparts
>Best drifting
DD, hands down you could fucking dodge red shells
>Blue Shells
They werent all over the fucking place in DD like they are now, you MAYBE saw 2 the whole race
Im convinced King Boo/Toadette in the Boo Pipes is the "FOX FINAL DESTINATION NO ITEMS" combo of Double Dash. Because the Boo Pipes have 4 stars in acceleration and 5 stars in weight, if you are hit by a red shell from behind the cart maybe bounces only once and sometimes not even at all and you IMMEDIATELY start driving again. The 2 star speed is irrelevant because a good player can stay in first with the worst karts in the game. And as I said before, it seems like they get the golden mushroom more than usual in all my years of playing than Toad or Petey Piranha.
265ea0 No.14680868
>>14680805
>do we really need to talk about video games?
you tell me
f43296 No.14680880
>>14680715
Sounds like the logic of a tourneyfag justifying "No items, Fox only, Final Destination."
"Items are anti-meritocratic, someone might get a hammer and win this party game through inherent randomness instead of skill."
"You want to play as other characters and stages? You fucking communist."
Also, that image is factually incorrect as the blue shell actually work when its used
a6fcc8 No.14680889
>>14680868
Nice reduction. You could have chosen something you specifically wanted to talk about in the series, but no you just make a vapid general with all the same questions every general fucking has.
265ea0 No.14680918
>>14680889
>your thread must be as specific as possible to post on this board stifling any other conversation
I didnt even make the general, fuck i barely participate in generals, but that is some retarded thinking in terms of how threads should be made. I said this in last meta thread, the hate generals receives is so fucking retarded because its only newfags who dont use the catalog complaining.
>>14680880
At least in 8 they added a way to defend yourself from blue shells but it made the rest of the game worse because red shells and blue shells appear more and bananas appear less and coins appear all the time. Its a shitty tradeoff that is unfortunately not going to be changed because MK8 sold like hotcakes and was a system seller for the Wii U and the Switch.
f7e05d No.14680922
>>14680653
Blue Shells are a "fuck you" option used by the last player to punish the first one. It doesn't even help the last player get ahead since if they're there the shell's going to be the last thing they actually need, so the last and first player are punished, the last being punished for being bad at the game and the first being punished for going neck and neck instead of lapping the other players or staying hugely ahead.
In an online match this acts as rubber-band tactics in place of rubber-band AI, a method that keeps the players together since the ones farther back get better items while the ones in front have very little to work with.
Ones in front will likely get single items instead of trios, and the ones in back get trios and golden mushrooms to close the gap.
It's a way of both casualizing the game and enforcing a grouped style of play so that you can slow down to let the one behind you get hit, there's no other way of really avoiding it outside of luck, and this means the one in front has to juggle when to slow down and when to take the lead, but in order to avoid it he has to stay miles ahead of the other players or keep the 2nd behind his ass at all times.
It's both good and bad, but the game wouldn't suffer if it didn't have the Blue Shell. From a design perspective it's just a little excessive, but the purpose of it is to cause upsets and to employ salt miners to farm the sheer salt, so it's not actually bad since it increases the drama around the game when you're playing with friends. This doesn't make online play better by it's inclusion because of this, and it's a better option for local play, but if you could turn it off, most pussies would for their matches, so the Blue Shell must stay in order to fulfill it's purpose.
a6fcc8 No.14680943
>>14680918
You are just reducing again. I'm saying it needs a topic other than game: discuss
8e36db No.14680960
>>14680922
>there's no way of avoiding it outside of luck
>not being fast enough that you tank 3 blue shells and still win, never once falling into second place
290659 No.14680968
>>14680960
Also DS and Wii let you dodge it if you use a boost mushroom at the last moment before it hits you.
a3133a No.14680987
>emulate mk64 because it's a meme game
>at one point ram into toad with Bowser so hard he falls of the stage
>five seconds later he's closing in at me at mach 6 with no boosts and overtakes me on a flat road
I've heard of rubber banding but this is just silly.
How can anyone defend something like this?
8e36db No.14680995
>>14680987
Mario Kart 64 was pretty much trash and people only say it's good because of nostalgia and the battle mode.
265ea0 No.14681009
>>14680987
mario kart 64 is only there to "RELIVE MUH CHILDHOOD". it was fun for the time but its aged really poorly
d92320 No.14681031
>>14681009
This. MK64 isn't a bad game but still overrated as balls, just like 90% of the N64 library in general.
23337d No.14681039
I hate the blue shells and shells in general in mario kart 8, just because of the lack of counterplay. Horns were rare to come by, and at least in double dash, a well timed boost can help you avoid a blue shell.
I liked what they did in Sega and Sonic All Star Racing Transformed, where the hornet acted as a sort of blue shell. For those who don't know, it does something like chuck down like 9 or so medium sized banana peels, and the person in first place has to tackle them. They don't disappear for a while, so those in third fourth and second place also have to try and avoid them too
8e36db No.14681051
>>14681031
>not a bad game
It's solidly "mediocre" looking back.
>tons of glitches
>that yoshi level where the console didn't have enough CPU power to process who was in what place
>horrendous rubberbanding
>fuck-ugly graphics style (nobody seems to remember how the players were sprites and not models)
>Diddy Kong Racing came out on the same system so clearly MK64 was not utilizing it to its full potential like other "nintendo polish" games
>Diddy Kong Racing was also a more fleshed out and properly functional game
Only reason MK64 got popular was because Mario, and it came out a year earlier than DKR.
a3133a No.14681053
>>14681039
Transformed is a superior game because you can dodge everything if you have the skills, including all star moves.
dc8a08 No.14681100
>>14680880
Nintendo added the blue shell for the benefit of children and women who would otherwise get dominated nonstop and never have any fun at the game. It's garbage, and so are you if you defend it.
290659 No.14681108
>>14681051
CTR is also a supperior game over MK64.MK64 is a bigger meme than OoT.
fb649c No.14681145
>Best game
Double Dash Although I have an extremely soft spot for Super Circuit
>Best character
Bowser or Metal Mario
>Best stage
Ribbon Road GBA
>Best items
Super Circuit's red shells
>Best drifting mechanics
Double dash's drifting because how it works in co-op it's absolutely broken
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
I'm generally indifferent, I just prefer the versions where there is a chance to escape it
7a8294 No.14681179
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>>14680653
>>Best game
MK8 on WiiU; haven't had a chance to play the Switch version but I imagine it's better. DS is a close second, since both of those games actually let you steer your fucking kart instead of the MK64 and DD "controls" where you can't do anything but fishtail.
>>Best character
Daisy. Standalone game never ever ;_;
Toadette was cute in DD.
>>Best stage
I'm partial to the mountain slope track in MK8 since it feels like a huge race and has tonnes of varied scenery and geography.
>>Best items
Either Koopa since a trio of red shells is a 10-second stunlock when timed correctly, andDD for introducing special items and having the driver/thrower dynamic which let you store them for actual strategic use. I'm still tickled by speedrun autistocrats who claim MKWii was the best due to "strategic item use" influencing the race so much.
>>Best drifting mechanics
DS's were the most skill-based and thus the most fun, but they did have the problem of being doable on straightaways, which meant there was a huge gap between faggots who memorized optimal drift patterns and people who just wanted to race. MK8 does a nice job of encouraging you to drift around corners while still rewarding you for knowing what you're doing.
>>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
I used to hate them until I had the reason for them explained to me: if you're in last place, or even the middle of the pack, there is literally no way for you to interact with a player in first outside of a blue shell. Given the whole point of items is to be interactive, I can tolerate it.
>>14681053
The best Mario Kart game is the criminally underappreciated Blur. Nothing like driving down Mount Haruna in a fucking panel van with one of the highest top speeds in the game.
ffe3f9 No.14681266
Any mario kart mod/rom hacks for snes, n64 and gc?
290659 No.14681334
>>14681266
People only like to mod Wii and DS, but a dude found a level editor some time ago.
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=87486
Unrelated WEBM.
4c6f9b No.14681689
>>14680968
wii u version even has the horn item that's supposed to destroy the blue shell, and the mushroom trick still works kinda.
4091bb No.14681846
>Best Game
8, but I also like DD and 64
>Best Character
Depends on the game, but Wario, DK, Roy, Bowser, Shy Guy, Paratroopa, and King Boo are usually common picks.
>Best Stage
Big Blue, Mute City, SNES Rainbow Road (At least in 8), Baby Park, Bowser's Castle (in 64 and 8) Mount Wario, and Toad Harbor
>Best Items
The Horn, Triple Reds, Bowser Shell, Bob-ombs, and the Boomerang.
>Best Drifting Mechanics
I don't really care about these between games, so I'll just say 8.
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
Anything that shuts them down is good in my opinion.
0f2f78 No.14681883
>>14680653
FUCK MARIO KART
The entire game is just one giant shitfest of cheap mechanics to fuck over the players since programming actual AI to make the NPCs actually good was just too much to ask.
Blue Shell
The only purpose this serves is to knock the non-NPC players out of first place. That's it. Sure, it gets used while NPCs are in first, but the rubber band AI mentioned next renders it ineffective against NPCs. If you create a custom game with no blue shells, the game's difficulty decrease by ten fold. You may argue that the blue shell legitimately increase the challenge, but it doesn't. It basically turns every race into a roguelike where your victory is decided largely on a dice roll. It's bullshit.
Rubberband AI
Ever notice how quickly NPCs recover from spin-outs or even after being thrown off the track? Also notice how the order of the NPCs are predetermined at the first race and remains constant throughout the rest of the races in the current game? This is rubberband AI, a mechanic that ensures all the NPCs finish in the same place every rank so as not to disrupt the points at the end of the race.
Think about it: If it weren't for rubberband AI, you would be able to disrupt and manipulate the rankings by saving red and blue shells for the first-place kart at the last lap so that they fall to third or fourth place, thus affecting the distribution of points at the end of the race. If you make the second and third NPC karts compete against one another while you consistently take first, you got the cup in the bag every time.
Conspicuously accurate shots and lobs by NPCs
The ability for the NPCs to track your trajectory and fire perfectly-aimed green shells or banana peels so they intercept your kart is utter bullshit. Wayward shells will even bounce of a wall and change to an intercept course with your kart.
It is for these reasons that I will never buy another Mario Kart game again.
d8a8a2 No.14681920
>>14681883
>roguelike
>victory decided largely on a dice roll
Maybe in a shitty indie rogulite but not a real roguelike
>rubberband AI
True. in F-Zero the AI is rubberbanded up to 11, but if you knock another racer off the track they get 0 points for that race, so the way to win on hard difficulty is to make all your rivals retire.
In any case, mario kart is meant to be played by multiple real people and all the random shit is so that little jimmy can win once in a while and people who don't take the game seriously can still have fun.
968c33 No.14682003
>removing vs mode so you could sell it again on switch
fuk u nintendo
>Best game
Double Nigger
>Best character
Fat Jew
>Best stage
Homo Road
>Best items
Blue Shell
>Best drifting mechanics
DS (git gud casuals)
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
See above
715c2b No.14682027
>Best game
SMK
>Best character
Peach (SMK), Rosalina (whole series)
>Best stage
Cheese Land (GBA)
>Best item
Heart shield (DD)
>Best drifting mechanics
SMK (they're nonexistent)
>Am I a faggot who enjoys spiny shells?
No thank you, I'm heterosexual
290659 No.14682057
>>14682003
Skeleboi + tank = Fawxtier.
t. snaker pro
290659 No.14682065
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>>14682027
>"hetero"
>dislikes drifting
Kill yourself. Drifting is a must for all racing games.
7a8294 No.14682372
>>14681883
>Wayward shells will even bounce of a wall and change to an intercept course with your kart.
Green shells have never done that in any MK game.
23337d No.14682402
>>14681053
Yes, it's a shame to be honest. Everyone thinks i'm memeing when I say that Sega and Sonic transformed is a better game than MK8. Not trying to say that MK8 is a bad game. It has a lot of map content, looks good, sounds good and is extremely polished. However I think everything is just too streamlined.
Drifting in Double Dash felt more involved, the items in double dash felt less frustrating, character choice having more meaning was nicer. The trick system in Transformed also feels more satisfying, especially when you land a lot in succession.
The Zero G gimmick in MK8 was disappointing and hardly worth it honestly. Very few maps made good use of it, outside of the F Zero maps.
(also the single player in Transformed is really great, especially for a kart racing game)
b23e9d No.14682412
>mk wii
>funky kong
>koopa cape
>banana
>flame runner and similar vehicles
>it's not mk without it
37d21f No.14682423
I love double dash because I used to play it with my brother but it wasn't that good to be honest. That said I like double items and the fact that you can switch them, unlike in mk8d where you have to use one first to get the other one.
715c2b No.14682750
>>14682065
No, I don't dislike it, but, SMK works fine without it and I have no real preference regarding the mechanic anyways.
9fdff3 No.14683702
>>14680653
>>Best character
>Waluigi/Bowser
<Heavy character with Medium character
I've always chosen Waluigi and Yoshi for both defense and offense , but when it comes to 150cc that's where you had to chose light characters.
>>14682430
>Not using shortcuts like in Wild Woods
>Wasting items
>Can't drift for shit
>Get pushed around due to her worst vehicle
>Doesn't notice that the blue shell always slides on the middle.
9fdff3 No.14683755
>>14680653
>>Best game
I would say MK8 because it let's you spy on your opponents' items
>>Best character
Depends, I usually chose Wario for fun and Waluigi when it comes to dueling fags.
>>Best stage
The Chinese track from Mario Kart 8
>>Best items
Fire Flower to defend yourself from red shells, triple mushroom or star for sick shortcuts.
>>Best drifting mechanics
Mario Kart Wii to 8
>>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
The giant bullet bill does a perfect job on bashing everyone and reaching a decent place. Why the fuck does the blue shell exist?
7b297a No.14683843
>>14680653
I had the most fun racing in 8, but its VS mode is awful. I usually play DD because it's the easiest to play with friends. Its racing is fine and it has 3 different VS modes that don't feel like the same thing. I like DS VS mode more because I'd play balloon battle by getting better items on 1 balloon then after that either inflate the second balloon or steal another and keep all 4 in stock. (It didn't always work but it was fun to try.) Other than that, it's VS was mostly the same as DD.
>>14683755
>MK8 because it let's you spy on your opponents' items
Pretty sure DS/7 let you do that too.
7b297a No.14684097
>>14683843
>it's the easiest to play with friends
I should probably add that almost all of my friends have a Wii (that I've since softmodded for them), but I'm the only one with a WiiU. We can play DD at just about anyone's house and either race or battle. If we play 8 at my place, it would just be racing because of its poor battle mode.
0e731a No.14684113
>Best game
64
>Best character
Wario/Waluigi/Funky Kong
>Best stage
Toad's Turnpike
>Best battle stage
Block Fart
>Best items
Double Dash or 8
>Best drifting mechanics
64
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
I wasn't until they started putting wings on them.
acb725 No.14684177
>BEST GAME
You already posted it, anon.
>BEST CHARACTER
Wario. Although I'd love to play as more enemies like Monty Mole
>BEST STAGE
Wario Colosseum
>BEST ITEMS
Double Dash, need Chain Chomp, although the POW block from Wii was fun.
>BEST DRIFT
Double Dash
>FAGGOT?
No.
0be85a No.14684333
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7a68bd No.14684336
>>14682065
>another weebfag obsessed with car ice skating
Drifting a shit.
e0e9ef No.14684346
>>14680922
Calm down, nigga. It's a party game.
79f4e4 No.14684407
>>14680922
Spiny shells have gotten a little bit better since they don't fly to first place anymore and now go back traveling along the ground and hitting anyone in it's way to 1st place (like in 64).
>>14681031
64's Battle mode was fucking good, Block Fort and Double Deck could handle fuckloads of banana's laying around or green shells bouncing around forever, so the longer a match went on the more hazardous it got. While in Double Dash races I remember excess items (like banana's) would actually vanish out of existence (with a little white smoke puff) if too items were on the track.
All I want is another Battle Mode where the stage becomes more of a danger the longer the fight goes on.
7b297a No.14684445
>>14684407
I remember my friends and I would make our own forts within the block fort level by barricading a corner with a wall bananas at each bridge or opening. Needless to say matches tended to drag on until someone either broke the bananas or found an opening.
e1afc9 No.14684519
>>14682057
>starred in BLACKED at age 9
And how is that a good thing? Should've been "foster father pimped him out and he took control of that situation too"
>>14682065
don't forget
>favorite item
<heart shield
This man isn't a heterosexual. He's a turbosoyboy who can't utilize drift mechanics to perform tight cornering and be rewarded with more speed, so he needs to use heart shield instead of a massive lead+banana peels to deal with shells.
4633de No.14684583
>>14680653
>Best game
Double Dash, 7 is a close 2nd. There should have been an optional Double Dash mode in all future games
>Best character
Lakitu and Funky Kong
>Best stage
Waluigi Pinball
>Best items
Bob-omb is my personal favorite
>Best drifting mechanics
8 has some pretty tight drifts
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
I kind of like blue shells now that you can break them with a super horn. Kind of miss the buggy ways to dodge the blue shells in the older games though. They never really bothered me though, Mario Kart isn't a game to be taken seriously.
bd8bf9 No.14684727
>Best game
8Deluxe. I do like Super Circuit a lot as well but 8D is just top tier shit.
>Best character
Rosalina of course.
>Best stage
Deluxe version of SNES Rainbow Road. No rails. 200cc.
>Best items
Giant Bowser shell and banana peel stack from 64 because it's satisfying as fuck to slam that line of bananas into some cunt behind you.
>Best drifting mechanics
8D, simply because I'm most used to them by now.
>Am I a faggot?
Absolutely not.
e1afc9 No.14684937
>>14684727
>FUCKING CUNT DENIED ME SEVENTH PLACE
is he a LARPing streamer?
a3133a No.14686579
>>14682438
>that webm
Truly the peak of mascot kart racing games.
cf0ddb No.14686716
>>14686579
he got a coin again after getting double coins twice, that's fuckin 5 coins in a row.
41ed88 No.14686740
>>14684937
Think he's one of those "I yell because it earns me shekels" streamers. AKA: the worst kind.
e1afc9 No.14686763
>>14686740
It's such a shame that people can't win over an audience with charismatic charm, so instead resort to overblown outbursts.
b7d8b2 No.14686987
>>14680653
>Best game
Mario Kart Wii
>Best character
Motherfucking DONKEY KONG
>Best stage
In the series? N64 Rainbow Road. In Wii? Bowser's Castle
or Rainbow Road Wii.
>Best drifting mechanics
Double Dash definitely but Wii is still good.
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
Blue shells are great. Fuck the police.
bd8bf9 No.14687129
>>14684937
He's just from New York.
37e8e7 No.14687276
I love 7 and 8 for the Mii characters. It's fun playing as Hitler in a peach racing suit. I hate how 8 forces your Mii to wear a helmet though.
715c2b No.14687289
>>14684519
The heart shield is legitimately one of the most useful items in the game. Keeps all the bullshit off you while letting you focus on driving.
Why would you NOT always use it? Unless you were retarded or something?
98f23e No.14687997
>>14684333
and people like you are claiming that loli is totally okay…
f09462 No.14688771
>>14684727
Did MK8 Deluxe became new a Mario Kart Wii?
f09462 No.14688782
>>14687997
How dare you shit on his autistic fetish, goon. Baby fucking =/= closet pedophile
290659 No.14688786
>>14687289
Real men dodge shit in DD, that's why.
290659 No.14688793
>>14686987
>N64 Rainbow Road.
>Literally a track that's emptier and blander than Luigi's circuit from the same game.
Just how autistic you are?
>Posted le epin Yui polar bear.
Oh…
636b8d No.14693953
>>14684519
>drifting
>tight corners
Pick one.
0e731a No.14693993
>>14684113
And if we're talking about specific items…
>Best
Big banana from Double Dash
>Worst
That gay-ass fucking thunder cloud from Wii
f09462 No.14694472
>>14680653
>Not defending Tag you're It Cloud
66cba6 No.14694800
Why do you bitch about the rubber-banding? I find just playing solo, the games are waaay too fucking easy.
809b1f No.14694924
I thought I was alone in liking DD the most. It does everything I want from a sequel/new installment of a game. It keeps the same mechanics of the rest of the series while also giving you a new way to play.
809b1f No.14694928
>>14694924
Or maybe it's the other way around. I don't know.
dff317 No.14696342
Mario Kart Wii best OST prove me wrong
dff317 No.14696355
>>14680987
Can't remember if this mechanic is in 64 tbh but in other ones if you press accelerate at the right time while hitting the ground after lakitu drops you there's a boost
79f4e4 No.14698437
>>14694472
It's hard to defend MK equivalent of an STD Anon
In seriousness it was an interesting idea for a hot potato item, holding on to it long enough to work your way past the other racers before passing it on to them which is great if your near last place and should have replaced the Bullet Bill AKA auto pilot. Problem was it sucked if you got it in first place when it felt like a punishment and would get slowed down by the lightning shrink effect.
Though I do recall winning a race on Mushroom Gorge by being able to shortcut across the grass before the final bend with it once.
Always remember, the 3 new items of Wii, the Lightning Cloud, POW Block AKA Lightning Bolt 2.0 and Mega Mushroom never returned. I liked the Mega Mushroom, it was nice having a weaker version of Invincibility Star and felt balanced because it did have vulnerabilities, it was also good to see the Mario "size increase" effect finally appear in the MK series
11ce6a No.14698477
>>14680922
>and this means the one in front has to juggle when to slow down and when to take the lead, but in order to avoid it he has to stay miles ahead of the other players or keep the 2nd behind his ass at all times.
I disagree entirely. I think I'm terrible at games, but thanks to the retards in the west, gaming ability on average has dropped so low that you can easily rape every player in a MK8D match on Switch. I'm in Europe and I was surprised at how easy it was to place in the top 4, even when RNG screws you over. I hadn't played the game in over 6 months as well.
Thanks to normalfags being the tastemakers of the industry, their lack of taste and skill means they get wiped across the floor. It's just the extreme autists with no life that you have to watch out for, because they have the time to master the game mechanics.
642c97 No.14703686
I will never understand the love for Double Dash
>incredibly ugly, especially the character models and Kart designs
>Soundtrack is not terrible but incredibly lame
>controls incredibly poorly compared to every other MK
>two characters in one kart was retarded, it limited the roster beyond what was necessary and gave a false sense of allusion that there were many characters
>Special items were incredibly unbalanced, certain characters clearly had the special items that shadowed over the rest
That said the Giant Spiny alone almost makes it one of the most fun Mario karts. Seriously they need to bring that item back
This was the game that pushed me more to F-Zero. Mario Kart DS was more my speed though, too bad fighting CPUs was so easy and online was so limited.
4bef3a No.14705599
>>14703686
Nostalgia, for times when he had fun playing games with friends.
8ff5cf No.14707492
>Best game
Mario Kart 7
>Best Character
None (The Mii I guess?)
>Best Stage
DK Mountain
>Best Items
The horn from 8
>Best Drifting Mechanic
DD. It takes actual skill and it's better when it's in co-op
>Are you a faggot who can't enjoy the blue spiny shells?
In recent games, they aren't so bad, but they're a pain in the ass in DD and Wii.
1229a6 No.14707594
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>14693953
The entire point of drifting is to allow vehicles to hairpin using lines that are not otherwise feasible, ones where the expected line would waste too much speed, or the turn is just plain impossible over 20mph. It is a mountain and street driving technique at its core, not meant for the ridiculously wide turns with good grip you'll see on a circuit.
In MK8 the places where it helps the most are tight turns. If you're having trouble, you may need to consider using the breaks, counter-intuitively, racing games sometimes require you to slow down to achieve good time.
There are a few particularly well executed turns in this clip, pay special attention to the segment between 1:04 and 1:08. It appears wide because of how stretched the hairpins are, but the necessary change in angle between passing the skeleton piranha plant and hitting the boost is anywhere between eighty and one hundred degrees, depending on how tight your entry is.
36ceb7 No.14711539
>>14703686
In MK8 the idea of 1 item per character returns, and I was expecting a Double Dash mode, surprise surprise jack shit happened.
885a07 No.14711687
What would you like to see in the inevitable Mario Kart sequel that Nintendo will put out?
1d2523 No.14711727
>>14703686
>"Bad" controls.
But they are better. They take skill unlike all the other babbyshit.
>>14711687
Slightly realistic approach.
63d428 No.14711741
>>14711727
I wouldn't mind if Nintendo toned it back down a bit to a simpler theme of pure go-kart racing.
1bd623 No.14711804
>>14681100
>Nintendo added the blue shell for the benefit of children
Children are the primary demographic of these games, you fucking autist.
bcfa59 No.14711847
Nintendo needs to stop being faggots and bring back Super Circuit's Red Shells.
36ceb7 No.14711943
>>14711687
More gimmicky bullshit and not giving a shit about balance for the 100th time.
526a69 No.14718381
>>14711943
This please. Also more new tracks, old ones are nice to revisit if they're the better ones, but new ones are preferred.
7aa278 No.14718552
>>14680960
I never got this argument. If you're that much better than the competition, then you might as well be doing time trials, anyway. It's like entering a boxing match against a toddler.
cc5490 No.14718622
>>14692595
>>14692598
DSP literally did nothing wrong there.
ed6277 No.14718673
>>14711847
And its blue shells, never forget about its blue shells.
Also, an honest question to people who really enjoy the series: don't you think that it would be much better if you could do multiple although weaker mini turbos in succession while drifting rather than committing to a single one on predetermined curves?
526a69 No.14718741
>>14718673
What, like snaking but in a turn?
ed6277 No.14718814
>>14718741
Snaking is miniturbo after miniturbo by cancelling your original direction, I'm talking about doing consecutive miniturbos while drifting towards a single direction.
ed6277 No.14718818
>>14707594
>counter-intuitively, racing games sometimes require you to slow down to achieve good time.
That's not counter intuitive at all, you're re positioning your car so that you can take a better curve.
0db13d No.14719693
Diddy Kong Racing
Timber
Darkmoon Caverns
6c64d4 No.14719709
God i love 8DX but i want new tracks. 8 fucking games and STILL not one pokemon route?
2226f9 No.14719782
>>14719709
>8 fucking games and STILL not one pokemon route?
Considering it took the 8 games to put non-mario themed tracks in the game and the Pokemon Company have just as much control over the IP as Nintendo does.
Don't expect it ever to happen
32cb14 No.14721514
>>14719782
On that same topic of different IP in MK, think of how many Smash series are 1st party owned (Eg: Kid Icarus, Punch Out or Duck Hunt, etc) and then didn't get amiibo unlock costumes, but no, no here's an Inkling costume even though they made the Inkling Boy and Girl playable characters at the same time.
There's something weird about what series gets in and what doesn't and I would assume ownership rights and popularity are factors.
28cdfd No.14721545
>>14718673
Double Dash courses were built with multiple mini turbos in mind. That's the reason there are so many long, constant turns.