Is Nintendo going to right direction?

[NJ5]

RolStoppable said:

tabsina said:
Dragon, i think what NJ5 was saying about the powerslides (something i didn't even know until just now, which is a prime example of how a skilled player can difer from a novice player such as myself) is that depending on where on the curve of a track you powerslide, the boost is powered up faster, thus giving the skilled players a second or so at every turn, which can mean a lot in 12 player races.. hopefully you now understand what he was trying to say when you replied "noone knows what you are talking about" because i understood, and now i have a new tactic when i go online, of course i'll have to perfect it first

Don't believe NJ5 about the powersliding, he is a novice himself.

It doesn't depend on where on the curve of a track you powerslide, it depends on the direction you are steering in during the powerslide. Inside = good, outside = bad.

Yeah, in fact I'm crap myself at Mario Kart, never got my score over 6500 yet :P

However, I definitely noticed my boosts started charging faster when I did them the way I do. Either they could get even faster, or I'm subconsciously doing it correctly without truly knowing the reason why they got faster.

Don't you hate it when you write a nice post and it gets largely ignored due to being last in the thread's page? Since that happened to your post, I'm copying it here:

RolStoppable said:

That's too bad then. By any chance, do you have a friend who owns a Wii and Mario Kart?

The thing where reviewers are wrong is that they say that the whole game has been simplified to a point where luck is more important than skill which simply isn't true. They were just looking for an easy way to blame the game, because they were incapable of beating 150cc Grand Prixs on first try. Can't win races, must be the game's fault, not the lack of skill of the person who plays it. Sure.

The powerslide mechanics themselves have been changed, the learning curve is the same as before or maybe even longer if you consider the problems that game journalists had with the game. Instead of quickly steering to the outside of the corner twice to charge the miniturbo in Double Dash!!, the charge works automatically in Mario Kart Wii, but if you steer inside in corners it charges faster, if you steer outside it charges slower. The difference in time to charge a single turbo is more than one second, comparing doing it right to doing it wrong.

Due to the vastly different controlling vehicles it takes a good portion of skill to approach every corner in the game in an angle which let's you steer to the inside of the corner the whole time. Not only do you save time by taking the corner sharp, you also charge your miniturbo faster. There are a lot of little things you can do in Mario Kart Wii to save time and if you are aware of them, a skilled player usually finishes half a lap ahead of an above average player, despite the less skilled player getting mushrooms and other good stuff.