Penny Arcade opinions on Mario Kart Wii and Grand Theft Auto IV

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naznatips said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Ahh, I remember '04. The epic battle between Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Halo 2.

Now the battle is a bit different, and I guess the responses depend on which forum you go to. If you went to Gamespot, no way in hell would Mario Kart be more liked by the community than Grand Theft Auto, although that seems to be the case here.

We have quite a battle here...

I'm sure many people's opinions will change once they've actually played GTA IV.

I'm fine with everyone saying that they enjoy Mario Kart more and GTA just isn't their thing, but to try and argue that Mario Kart is a better game....well "lol" kind of sums it up for me.

Very few people have called one a "better game" than the other because it's stupid to compare quality cross-genre.  Mario Kart is an arcade game.  Grand Theft Auto is a sandbox game.  Mario Kart should be compared in quality and features to other arcade games, and Grand Tehft Auto should be compared to the 6 3D GTA games before it which all play the same...

What this topic is about is which you have the most fun playing. 

Then it would make more sense to compare Mario Kart to the other 5 games in the series that play the same rather than other arcade games. This Mario Kart is one of the worst, only better than the GBA version. The tracks are the best in the Mario Kart series, the options for the battle mode are by far the worse and kill the game.

GTAIV I haven't played but I hear it's a huge improvement over the other titles. The kind you would expect with a real generational leap. Many of the ideas in the old GTA titles were good but weren't fully executed, this one is supposed to perfect those ideas. Probably why it's currently the highest rated game ever.