Mario Kart Wii (cheap gameplay)

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windbane said:

Gnizmo said:

Ajax said:
that is only right if your the only good player on the track brawl4life and the rest are n00bs cause if there are even just one or two other good players, the moment you get nuked so heavily 2nd and 3rd will take over.. so you can stay behind the number 1 waiting for it's imminent doom.. anyway, I need to play this game much more myself before I can comment better about it..

If you are in a race of people with equivalent skill then yes this can be true. Notice the disclaimer though. The more skilled racer will always win. The claim I am disputing is the game is too random and skill is not the ultimate determining factor.

It is absolute bullcrap that the person with the most skill always wins. If people are close in skill it can often come down to luck. You can constantly be trailing a guy for 2 and a half laps and all the sudden that person gets nailed by blue turtle shells and you win. It's been that way for several karts. I have heard from several souces that this Wii version has more ridiculous rubber-banding. brawl4life: yeah, I miss the custom items in DD...

Yes I agree.  It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest it all comes down to skill.  But it's even more ridiculous to suggest (as some reviews do that it all comes down to luck).  I played against TWROO (Larry Lion) last week and I was in total shock at how far ahead of the rest of us he was in most races.  That was all down to his skill.  But at the same time there was a race where he finished only 4th or 5th despite being far better than the rest of us.  And that is all down to the blue shell.  I think items work perfectly to balance the game out but blue shell really should not be in this game.  You can lead the whole race, be hit by blue shell just before the line and be overtaken by two others.  That's just to random and unfair.  And to suggest you can always be so far ahead of the pack that blue shells are irrelevant is rubbish.  What if you are playing against 11 fantastically good players?  Or what if as in the case of TWROO you are on a short track where getting so far ahead of an even average pack is not that easy.  Other than the blue shells I think the catch up works perfect.