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friendlyfamine on 17 April 2018
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Lonely_Dolphin said:
friendlyfamine said:

I haven't played the 2nd one but judging by the gameplay maybe they're referring to the fact that the game is less balanced due to a wider variety of weapon options. I've watched a match of Splatoon 2 with a recently added map and a player was spamming with a certain gun and going close to the opposite team's spawn point. It wasn't effective but they managed to still get kills. I don't think you can just do something like that in Splatoon 1. 

I agree about the Mario Kart point though as I've actually played MK8. I don't understand why they got rid of wheelies, drifting on the spot, etc. Items are unreasonably balanced to the point where your skill on the track is hindered by item luck. I mean, you can get triple reds in like third place. There's no recovering frames when you get hit either, so you can get repeatedly demolished. As an MKWii player none of these problems existed. The only track that was garbage for competitive play was Luigi's Circuit. No skill required, all luck.

Meanwhile, in MK8 I can only find skill to be slightly favored in 200cc. But even then, 200cc is flawed since it functions horribly on a stage like Rainbow Road.

If he truely believes in what he's saying he'll provide his arguments, if not we can just assume he knows he's wrong. Anywho, spawncamping was a thing in the first game aswell, and evening the playing field is the point of Mario Kart.

I've played the first game, spawn camping was not a thing. It only became a thing if one team dominated the map enough to the point where they could stop the other team from making progression by guarding their spawn point. A single player could not spawn camp effectively in the game, or, it isn't really a good tactic to go for if you're playing against good players. Rather, just regularly trying to ink the map per usual. And I'm pretty aware Mario Kart is about evening the playing field. However, MK8 takes it to a new level. It was already at a pretty sufficient level with MKWii. Yeah, MKWii is kind of "boring" with the balancing as such, but it was indeed better for competition. I'm not saying these games are better than the Switch installments overall, I'm just saying the Switch installments have kinda put competitive aside even though Nintendo has tried to enforce competitive gaming since the Switch's release.