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curl-6 on 21 September 2016
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pray4mojo said:
curl-6 said:

Even without the horn, the welcome nerfing of the blue shell in MK8 means its hardly a death sentence; a good player will be far enough ahead that it won't cost them their lead.

When I play that game, and nothing hits me, I win 100% of the time. Every. freakin'. time. And I'm not talking photo finishes, I'm talking half a lap or more ahead. When I get hit by some random item, or three, or four and I'm pushed back to 10th? If nothing hits me, and I get lucky enough to have a shell or something to hold behind me? I always work my way past everyone, slowly inching my way right back to the top spot... ONLY TO GET HIT WITH SHIT AGAIN. No matter how great I race, it always comes down to how lucky I am that my opponents don't have the right items at the right times as well as what I randomly get.

It's not a game built on skill. It's a game built on chance. In F-Zero, I know that when I'm winning? If I hit my corners and race a perfect race, nothing will catch me. There is nothing to hit me. Nothing to knock me back. It's just my reflexes matched against my opponents. That's how I like my "competitive" racers. 

Mario Kart is fun, but I can't take it seriously. Any game that allows the last place guy who's getting lapped to knock out the first place guy with a magical heat-seeking item, can't be taken seriously.

I don't think Mario Kart was ever intended to be "taken seriously", but blue shells in MK8 come an average of once a race, if that, and if you're half a lap ahead, it knocks you nowhere near enough to cost you that much of a lead.