| tuscaniman said: Any game that rewards last place drivers over and over with ridiculous powerups is a game that takes no skill. You can talk about 9999 vr or whatever you want but when I can sit my controller on the couch for the first 10 seconds of the races so I can turn into a ridiculously overpowered bomb that turns on a dime at 10x the speed of everyone racing and win proves it takes no skill. If you want a racing game that takes skill go play a racing simulator. Or at that play the original Mario Kart, not this uber casual uber easy version. |
There is only 1 track where you will get a proper, almost reliable advantage from having a slow start (Peach Gardens DS... you need to pass the items in about 4th or 5th as you are likely to get a mushroom) and that doesn't involve being in last.
And the bullet bill is first of all quite rare so early in the race, but also gives only minimal advantage in speed (it's about 10-15% faster... same as the mushrooms... as such golden mushrooms are often far better items as you can drive a much better line or take shortcuts with it.
In addition, the bullet bill goes for a different amount of time depending on how far behind you are.... generally dropping you in the middle of the pack, if everyone is close together like at the start then it may catapult you to first.... but only just, and tragically you will bejust in front of a pack of racers tooled up with items to take you right to the back again.
