People that claim that Mario Kart Wii doesn't involve skill...

[Pineapple]

burgerstein said:

Pineapple said:

burgerstein said:
It depends. Early on in the race while it's still close maybe. But on the final lap things are a bit too spread out for the blue shell to achieve a noticable advantage from 5 spots back.

Then I don't see the harm of it, really. If a blue shell won't get you knocked down further than from 1st to 4th place (at most), why is there so much complaining about it?

I'd much rather play a game where someone close to me in "skill" could beat me, than having me win near every single time.

A blue shell alone isn't so bad. A blue shell followed by two red shells and a bullet bill is what really pisses people off. Not to mention I've been knocked from 2nd to 8th by a blue shell.

Personally I think the blue shell is more inconvenient to the person who gets it that to the person hit by it. If they race is spread out a bit you've just been handed a useless item.

You're contradicting yourself here. If you have been knocked from 2nd to 8th, the person who fired it (6th or 7th place) did get something good out of it.