20 years of Snaking and Waluigi Pinball !
i always used peach and apparently she has the worst kart
I traded my copy of Pokemon Fire Red with a bunch of legitimate shinies to my buddy for this game back in middle school. Worthwhile trade.
Mario Kart 64 best straight up
While you are not wrong, this news displeases me greatly.
Pretty sure the DS came out like 5 years ago. OP is on Crack.
I remember spending so long designing my emblem for online, only to be blown away by what others managed to draw. Let’s not forget all the penises🤣
Relevant Mastodon post I saw earlier.
Remember having multiple full local sessions going while sitting outside of Best Buy waiting for the Wii launch. The overnight DS sessions ended up being more fun than the Wii launch titles
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My favorite Mario Kart game. Shout outs to CTGP Nitro, a romhack that keeps the entire original game intact, but optionally adds dozens of custom tracks.
Omg what, that’s sick
Was going to downvote this, because i hate those “you’re old, feel it! more! MORE! FEEL MORE OLD!” posts.
But then i changed my mind. You know what? Time for the next generation to start feeling the pain. Have fun genZ. or milenials or whatever.
I loved this level of graphics. Enough for cool 3D stuff that could be nice and smooth, but no expectations for or effort spent on absurd levels of hyper-realism
20 years holy crap. I remember playing this in the school cafeteria with the crew, was some good gaming
I, uh, remember playing this at work.
is old
I bought a DS with my 2nd paycheck ever, when I still lived with parents and a McJob made me pretty much a millionaire.
It still feels like future tech despite being obsolete AF
I didn’t like MKDS very much.
I like how they got rid of the left-right bullshit on drifting after it. It’s just annoying and achieves nothing. And it’s especially bad having to do that on a d-pad.
I also think Wii is the one that really started balancing items a lot more fairly, though 7 and 8 refined it even more.
I actually enjoy the drifting and was saddened that it was dumbed down in later entries
I remember getting in so many stupid internet arguments over this shit as a kid because I couldn’t keep up with it LMAO but looking back it added a skill ceiling to this game that I can’t say for sure if any future game in the series really matched.
You’re calling that “dumbed down”, but I’d call the old input arbitrary. I don’t see the point of hiding a major gameplay mechanic behind a complex input. You don’t use a cryptic button combo to jump in a platform game.
Have you SEEN the movement tech in Mario Odyssey?
I have done semi complex move combos with Cappy in SMO, not sure what you consider “the” tech though.
Doesn’t matter. It’s cool to pull off, but it’s not required in any way. And most importantly in the end those combos are not programmed that way, they’re a string of independent moves that are directly associated to their button.
I have no idea what is supposed to connect “get a boost” to “rapidly alternate left and right direction buttons while you drift”.
Drifting is also cool to pull off but not required in any way
Left-right on the D-pad is hardly a complex input. Just about every child managed to discover it. It was one of the few ways they could make Mario Kart a bit more skill based.
The way to make MK more skill based was to balance item distribution, which they started doing decently after MKDS.
It’s not like drifting is automatic in modern MK (well, it is in auto mode, but it’s meant for complete beginners and it sucks for anyone who knows how to play). You’re still calling all the shots regarding when to drift and for how long. It’s just less annoying to do.
It’s definitely not cryptic I was like 10 or so when i played that and i figured it out. I think one of the missions tells you how to do it. It also added more agency to how you boost with some risk reward instead of just passively earning boost from drifting.
The best evolution would’ve been a mix of both. Gain boost passively but speed it up by alternating directions.
I think i bounced off the wii version (didn’t own it only played at friends) because i was confused on how drifting worked. Wasn’t until i got 8 on the wii u when i realised that alternating directions wasn’t needed anymore. 8 is fun, mostly due to track design and the fact it became second nature like riding a bike but i think DS was more actively fun in the moment to moment. Not to mention the mission mode which is a crime it’s never returned.
MKDS had the best soundtrack, hands down.
Also the reason I main Daisy on 8 😄
I remember it looking better than this screenshot shows
I only see perfection (on a blurry image), don’t overlook the tires on motion btw.
because at the time it was impressive and now it’s not
I have played it recently and you may be misremembering. There was one on 3ds too iirc. Might be the one you’re thinking of
I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn’t really tell you why.
I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!
