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ElGranCabeza on 27 November 2011
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Torillian said:
ElGranCabeza said:
Torillian said:

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.

What a load of crap, it's a bomb because you remember it being hyped, never mind the sales or that it's getting a sequel or that it almost definitely made Sony money, still a bomb.  LBP2 can be a bomb if you're comparing it to how the first did, but MNR has no such comparison.  How can a game that made the studio money and got a sequel be considered a bomb?

Why does the metascore for the PSP version matter if you don't care about it for the PS3 version?  I'm perfectly willing to admit that the PSP version wasn't as good, and never said otherwise, I only mentioned it in response to your claim that the PS3 version bombed.  Now are you willing to recognize that MNR was actually a great game and just as good as Mario Kart Wii?  

Definitely not. If it was, sales would have followed, which they obviously didn't.

The game bombed and I don't know why that's so hard for you to admit. It's been in the market for almost 2 years and still hasn't sold 1 million copies. That's a bomba if I've ever seen one. Mario Kart does that in half a day! You also keep saying the game make money, I would like to see some evidence to back up your claim.

You brought up the PSP version of the game, so accept the fact that it was mediocre and not even worth mentioning in the same sentence as Mario Kart.