| AZWification said: Dumbass hackers spamming blue shells out of their casual asses is worse than snaking. Sorry for the profanity. I REALLY hate blue shells. I hope they die one day. I HOPE. |
Hacking is your problem, blue shells are fine. First place is insulated from almost all the hectic madness of the middle of the pack. Somebody in the middle is at risk of getting hit by bullet bills, stars, banana peels, koopa shells front and back, and just plain getting rammed off the road.
First place really only needs to worry about red shells from 2nd place and blue shells, and red shells can be defended more often than not. Blue shells are essential to game balance, or first place would be completely unstoppable as long as he doesn't screw up, while the middle of the pack just fall further and further behind as they fight amongst each other.
And yes, snaking is tedious. Drifting loses all significance if you're doing it all the time. Imagine if the game gave you infinite koopa shells instead of infinite boosts, wouldn't you get sick of just mashing that "shoot koopa shell" button? The winner of the race being the person who spams koopa shells faster than anybody else? Or infinite mushrooms. Mushroom boost would simply become the new default speed of the game. Not blaming the player here, so no need to get defensive, it's just bad game design.
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