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Mario Kart 8... is this supposed to be fun?

posted 8 years ago by HereComesMadness
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My girlfriend's family is at our place for the week, and her brother brought his Wii U. This was my opportunity to try the thing out for the first time since I don't hate myself enough to buy one.

We played MK8 for a couple of hours and this the most unfair thing I've ever played. It's less of a racing game and more like a game of UNO on wheels. They should have called this thing Mario's Turtle Shell Derby. Screw skill when you're just gonna get 8 projectiles rammed in your ass over the course of a race.

And I wonder why I'm not a Nintendo fanboy.

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[–] Harry_Skywalker 8 years ago

You can't be serious...

Oh my god!

I always tell the truth, even when I lie.

[–] HereComesMadness 8 years ago

I'm sorry, Harry. It's just no good.

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[–] Harry_Skywalker 8 years ago

No. It's your complaints that make no sense.

What were you expecting? A car simulator?

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[–] otterox 8 years ago

You don't have a girlfriend, you're mad deep in dude ass.

[–] HereComesMadness 8 years ago

You coming on to me or something?

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[–] Mogz 8 years ago

Actually agree for once.

The very first SNES Mariocart was great, and a real skill test you could play against other people.

Subsequent ones introduced rampant cheating to "even the playing field". Whoever is in front, always gets banana peel or green turtleshell. Whoever's in back, lightning bolts and blue turtleshells for days. The CPU controlled racers will literally levitate and zoom super fast to catch up with the leader if he gets too far ahead. Etc etc. The only "strategy" worth a damn is to stay in 3-4th place consistently, then try to pull ahead at the very last moment.

[–] HereComesMadness 8 years ago

It's some of the most annoying crap ever. It seemed like when I was in 3-4th place is when the AI went ape sht on me. Like, it started forming a vendetta. Half the time I was wondering if I was doing something wrong since I'm not a Mario Kart vet. I mean, I would try to keep a turtle shell or the horn for a counter, but most times, you're just going to eat those shells.

The game is chaos, and I don't really get the appeal.

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[–] Harry_Skywalker 8 years ago

You guys seem to not understand what's the appeal of the Mario Kart games.

The games are filled with cheating and... that's exactly the point.

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