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ElGranCabeza on 27 November 2011
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Torillian said:
ElGranCabeza said:
leatherhat said:
ElGranCabeza said:
This is gonna suck and sell horrible and I'll tell you why:

1) No recognizable character worldwide. Kratos is not that famous in EU/Japan, Drake not famous in Japan, and everything else not famous anywhere
2) Developer is unknown. Remember when Sony gave 3 of its biggest mascots to the horrible Nihilistic Software and they made one of the worst games of all time? They then rewarded them by having them make Resistance Vita which so far looks pretty fucking bad? Yeah, expect more of the same. MNR was supposed to be Mario Kart like but it sucked and the load times actually put me to sleep. Nothing Mario Kart about that.

I thought for sure you would support this game

Why? The concept itself is pretty stupid, but Nintendo is able to pull it off because their characters are pretty damn popular worldwide, this has bomba written all over it, even more so than the Mario Kart clone, MNR.

Nintendo made a subgenre with the kart racer, they still clearly own it but how long does a company have to wait until they're just making a kart racer and it isn't a mario kart clone.

 

Anyway, MNR sold 870,000 on PS3 and has an offshoot on PSP and a sequel planned for Vita, compared to the 10+million Mario Kart sells it's small, but it's no bomb.    And it certainly isn't a bad game either, atleast according to most people since it has the same meta score as the last Mario Kart.  Loading sucked but other than that it was a fun, well designed game.

I think it's a bomba. Major one at that too. You might not remember how they were hyping it, but the hype was surreal at the time.

 

LBP 1 is not a bomba, 2 is in bomba territory, MNR is a major bomba, no way to spin it otherwise.

The PS3 version was poor, the loading was horrendous and killed the most important aspect for this type of game, the community. I also think it's funny you mentioned the offshoot psp game but only mentioned the meta score for the PS3 version and Wii Mario Kart. When you consider the PSP version and DS Mario Kart, the quality gap is just as big as the sales gap.