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

[Words Of Wisdom]

rocketpig said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

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...

It was a retorical question... I knew the answer before I even asked.  ^_^

I disagree about Double Dash doing it worse.  My character choices were Baby Bowser and Baby Donkey Kong.  I'd spend the entire racing sitting in first place dropping giant bananas and tossing Bowser Shells backwards (since those are the only two small super power-ups you can reliably get in first place).   Chomper never mattered to me.  Either I was so far ahead that the opponent could never get within range of me with it or I was right behind the other person enjoying the carnage.