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

[rocketpig]

Words Of Wisdom said:

rocketpig said:

I keep hearing how competitive MK Wii is and it sounds great. There was nothing wrong with the core mechanics in the MK series, it just started to get cheap with DD. There were too many times where you would be kicking someone's ass and watch them get a lucky streak of powerups and absolutely annihilate you. While it's nice to give players in the back an opportunity to get back into the race with power-ups, there has to be a limit to how badly the leaders get screwed over by said power-ups. DD bordered on 90% luck, 10% skill in many of the races I played. That's terrible.

Anyway, I might have to buy this game after hearing people like Penny Arcade rave about it. Those guys are about as straight-up as it comes in this industry.

Did you ever actually play any of the other Mario Karts?

Mario 64 was the same way. There were 2 winning positions and only two. The first was so far ahead that your opponent would need at least 3 blue shells in a row to even put you back within sight. The second was right behind your opponent picking up a Red shell or Red Shell trio and waiting till the end of the race.

 

Lemme see... I have owned every Mario Kart until the current release so yeah, you could say I played them all.

Adding the special attacks and spamming the dick-you-over-powerups in DD completely cheapened it. MK has always been about screwing over your buddy but it went to absurd levels with DD. There were multiple times when my wife would be in 4th place and then just activate the chomper and fuck everybody else in the game over. Sometimes it would happen multiple times in the same race. And that wasn't even including the constant powerups in the game...