Crash Team Racing or Mario Kart 64?

[darconi]

NYANKS said:

darconi said:
MK64 had more of a charm with how everything like how the level design and gameplay and weapons fitted with the Mario universe.

Never played CTR but judging from the video, it looked like a bit of a ripoff where the levels were designed the way they were cause it looked cool to the designer. I had the same problem with Diddy Kong racing and didn't like that game for the same reason.

 

Well, they may have taken the idea, but your love for everything Mario doesn't change the fact that the Crash game could be better. There is a history of ideas being taken from some companies and being improved upon by others. I'm arguing that this is one of those times. Ripoff or not, quality doesn't require complete creativity. I'm saying that everything MK did, CTR did better, or almost everything. Again, I'm not gonna sit here and say CTR can beat the nostalgia factor, because it can't. But if you take the two games and forget that one has a fat man in a red hat, that the facts would favor CTR.

 The overall level/character design for any game includes all the aspects, including a fat man in a red hat.  Would Halo 3 be the same without the signature characters/weapons?  Would Madden be the same without the name?  You can't just arbitarily take certain things out and they say, well if we don't account for that, this is better.  Everything goes into the impression of a game, including character design.  Just because CTR didn't have as strong of a character/story/world design as Mario doesn't mean it should be dismissed.