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

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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.

If you sit with your controller on the couch for the first 10 seconds, you are not going to win.  I wouldn't win, you wouldn't win, RolStoppable wouldn't win,  Richard Petty wouldn't win, and not even Speed Racer would win.  The ridiculously overpowered bomb known as the Bullet Bill is not much of a help at all.  The worst part of that item is when it ends right in the middle of a turn.  Anyhow, if you get a Bullet Bill, the odds are that you are so far behind that your aren't going to compete for 6th, and you definitely aren't going to come in first. 

As far as the game being uber casual and uber easy, that's a crock.  I constantly hear people complain about the difficult AI in the one player game.  The 150 CC is all about luck when trying to come in first I hear.  Why is it that everytime that I race it for fun, I win, and usually get a three star ranking?  Must be luck.  Also, when you play online, you are usually put in a group with racers that have a similar VR to you, which means that it will be competitve.  This is why you probably usually see people in the 4500 range.