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Forgot to say, skill can lead you to do some crazy shit you weren't even expecting to pull off.

>>15746574

Call me crazy but I think that's not a Mario Kart game.

>>15746576

Maybe. But it's still the best kart racer ever.

>>15746576

>>15746596

Though calling it a standalone best game is disingenuous as the developers were avid fans of both Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing especially - they modeled a test track with the same layout of DKR to get a good feel for everything.

Circuit is one of my fave MK games though, but Double Dash and DS are just way funnier to play with friends and the Wii game has some insane autism behind its modding community.

>>15746596

Yeah no. The main problem of CTR (which I love) is how hard you can abuse miniturbos almost all the fucking time. Which means that the amount of miniturbos one manages to use becomes the most important aspect in order to win.

Double Dash was shit but the co-op mechanic was so fun it makes me mad we never saw it again

>>15746605

To be honest miniturbos infinitely enhance the game, but the one downside of them is that unless you unlock the secret characters (which are just reskins) you can only have two people using all the tech (the N. Gin and Coco players) while everyone else lags behind. Which by itself is not such a problem since most people never got the 4 player adapter, but lan games aren't as fun if two players are clearly OP.

Plus the miniturbos themselves have a lot of fun tech - minis conservation, where you just have to keep on having successful drifts or you lose all your speed, which makes you learn all the tracks and shortcuts perfectly, jump management, since staying in the air slows you down but you can do some absolutely sick jumps in places with half pipes, especially in the sewer track, lag manipulation, so you can go fast but shouldn't go too fast in places where a lot of objects are loaded in - which make the game much more enjoyable even so long after it was released. Any game that makes me go Shazbot levels of fast with tech or glitches is a good game.

>>15746547

Sonic Kart Transformed was better

>>15746547

Super Mario Kart was the only good game in the entire series.

>>15746547

>Need skill

>Needs skills

>I'm just here to brag at being good in a party game

>You have to be skilled like me

>Gotta be skillful

>Fucking 40 tracks

>Catchy OST

>Did I mention it takes skill?

Are you 12?

>>15746547

This was the first I got for my GBA. I played the hell out of it to the point I'd race against my ghost for hours and hours to get the best lap time I could. When I finally got Mario Kart DS I always faced hackers, so the MP was useless outside of playing with friends at school, and the SP wasn't as fun as Super Circuit, so I just went back to that.

>>15746574

I have to agree, CTR is the best Kart Racer I have ever played.

>>15747668

It shows what the game is capable of and outside the shortcut exploits, that's what you can do in the game.

>>15747692

It's a TAS, as in some of the stuff in it isn't humanly possible.

>>15748705

These games are way better than they have any right to be, and are better than any version of Mario Kart. As is this >>15746574

>>15746574

This.

Also MK64 is the best MK.

>>15746547

>Even red shells demand some thought and skill in order to be properly used

Is this some sort of joke? They are the fastest, most homing, and you can even plant them on the road to kill any passerbyers. I can't even remember if you can block them.

Super Circuit's Red Shells are the most powerful red shells in the franchise. What are you talking about OP?

>>15750106

You should replay the game because you are the wrong one here anon

>>15748542

This is why I don't understand any TAS speed run. It inherently fucks with the game.

Then again the speed running community is fucking garbage anyways, so what's the point in complaining about it.

F-Zero > your shit.

my favorite racing game is Ninja Gaiden.

>>15749670

>after 11 years they finally add multiplayer

The height of opensource technology!

>>15750577

F-Zero is straight up racing, though.

>>15750823

Fairness to the other competitors? Though I really liked Sonic R when it came out.

>>15750451

Tell me three things that it does better than CTR and the Sonic racing games

>>15750823

>pollaconruedas

¿Español o sudaca?

>>15750854

That's why it's supperior. Kart Racing is for babbiez.

>>15750854

Tell me 3 things those games do better than rock & roll racing

>>15751188

I'd have loved to keep forgetting that Yogcast and Danica Patrick exist.

Crash Tag Team Racing had an interesting concept, half of it was a platformer as much as it was a racing game. The idea was that you can merge with another racer and become more powerful, one of you steers while the other mans a gun or throws bombs at others or something. The only problem is that when you disconnect from them, the gunner would always jump ahead of the driver slightly and get a little speed boost, which meant you could basically piggyback from whoever was in first place and steal the race right at the end of it.

>>15752347

>B-but SEGA listens to fans!

This is why you shouldn't. Input is ok, but when you give in to their demand, shit like this can happen. Fans are shit in the first place, they should work as they see fit.

>>15751149

>polla

>sudaca

Los panchitos no usan la palabra polla

>>15750351

No, I am correct.

>Red shells in MK64 are retarded and try to take shortcuts, effectively becoming useless if you are too far away from your enemy and constantly crashing into walls unless you are in last place or so

>Red shells in Double Dash are incredibly slow, the slowest in the franchise, and extremely easy to dodge even without a boost, you just need a hard drift. Also only Koopa/Paratroopa even had the ability to do 3 red shells and they didn't even protect your Kart regardless of one or 3 shells.

>Red shells in Mario Kart DS are normal and good but lack the ability to place behind you. They can hit you from the side though.

>Red shells in Mario Kart 7 & 8 are decent because they have better AI to travel in the air and over gaps, but you have so many options to defend against them that they are easy to avoid if you have an item. Otherwise, they are pretty good.

<Red shells in Super Circuit

>one of the fastest in the franchise

>homes incredibly well, not too slow like Double Dash and not retarded like MK64 (and most of the tracks in Super Circuit are more flat so there is little obstruction)

>Can be placed behind you and will active like a trap if any racer pass buys it, making them the only game where they are useful even if you get them at higher rankings or first place

There is no downside to the Super Circuit red shell. None.

>>15750451

>Mario Kart is one of those series that gets more refined and better with each installment.

surely you jestin

>>15750577

also this

>>15752985

Those weren't SEGA fans. When you listen to SEGA fans you end up with Sonic Mania.

>>15754626

>I like round tracks: the game

haha no

>>15749670

Holy shit it's about goddamn time.

>>15750451

MK is "two steps forward, one step back the series". The only reason MK8D ending being really good was improving on MK8 (like bringing back 2 items) and removing the terrible idea of using "loop" race tracks as battle mode stages and putting in proper ones.

The only way it would have been better would have been putting in Double Dash style two person karts. The Switch has co-op right out of the box with the included Joy Con and it would have been perfect to bring it back as new content for an upgraded re-release of MK8, such a missed opportunity.

>>15754606

>>tfw they remade ribbon road for MK8 but removed all the fun parts

You mean the massive fucking shortcut using the first jump to land on track past the second jump? I'll admit that would have been a bit game breaking if they had kept that in.

Then again I'm pissed they fenced up that cool cliff jump shortcut in Yoshi Valley in MK8, that one was a challenge to do (requires high speed, hopping at the right time and possibly drifting) and felt amazing performing it the first time. Vid related shows it off at 0:19.

>>15749670

65536+ player gamenight when?

>>15754626

CTR ripped off a lot from DKR but it's still a much better game. It makes you really want to play as much as possible and beat your own records.

Mario Kart will forever be garbage until they remove the blue shell. What was the last mario kart before that trash was added?

>>15757102

The controls are good and it's a fun play but dude its ridiculously easy

>>15761225

Super Mario Kart. Although some games the CPU will never get a blue shell.

>>15761480

>>15761225

So what would a good Mario Kart have as its item list?

>>15750522

It pushes the game to its technical limit to create the theoretical "perfect play". A lot of the autism in speedrunning comes from the execution, but with TAS, execution isn't a big deal because you can use save states and frame advancing. The autism in TAS comes from picking the game apart meticulously, discovering quirks and exploits in the engine. I find that way more passable than RTA.

>>15766716

TAS also includes rng manipulation, it's not just execution

>>15754683

Amazing mashup

>>15753115

>Los panchitos no usan la palabra polla

Not necessarily true. It probably depends more on local dialect than anything else.

t. ecuatoriano

>>15746547

Crash Team Racing

>>15766856

>sonic fanbase

>voting in Simon

It was precisely not the fanbase that voted him him.

>>15766688

I want racing with items, not item management with a bit of racing. Nerfing items in general is the way.

Red shells that can't do sharp turns and crash when going from flat surface to ramp. A shrinking flash that doesn't strike when there isn't open sky right over your cart and that first changes the sky to give you half a second of a warning, and it also doesn't stop your momentum during a jump. A blue shell that makes three attempts on hitting you and only if you dodge it twice and get hit on the third attempt does it make the spectacular big explosion. Marginally decreasing hitstun when hit by several things in a row.

>>15751190

The reason Danica got in was because Hotwheels helped advertise the game. Still never want to play her though.

>>15751198

>Crash Tag Team Racing

And now I have the music stuck in my head.

I liked the platforming mostly, though you are right the actual racing is a bit of a joke due to the transforming (hell you didn't even need to piggy back whoever was in first, just find Nina or N.gin and blast everyone away, then jump out before the end before the AI did).

>>15774736

>Red shells that can't do sharp turns and crash when going from flat surface to ramp.

Funny you mention that because the whole reason why CTR has a way better red shell item than Mario Kart (that is, you need at least a quasi direct line of sight to get the rockets to find your enemy) is an oversight by the devs: basically, the rockets track perfectly on the horizontal axis, but will maintain whatever vertical position they had when they were first launched, so if you just shoot them at random, especially mid curves, the rockets will go apeshit and sometimes even go back and crash into your own kart. You can see this by going to the beach level and standing on the small bridge at the midway point and having your enemy stand right below it.