Oh? Say that to some members here like Rol and amp, or even some of my friends.

You'll lose the majority of the races against them.

I did say it them. And ill do it again. Even if they beat me 100 times. If i stay in back ill most likely rubber band to the front if i am lucky. And if you stay in 1st play, good luck lol. 

I'd argue it wasn't "pick up and play" enough.

Common thing between LBP, NSMB, and Mario Kart?  You can get in and start playing with nary a load screen at all.  That is key for a game to be popular amongst a more casual audience.  Accessibility and ease of use.   Excruciatingly long load times and an unintuitive menu can kill a game like this.

Plus, I wouldn't exactly call the characters in MNR charming.  They just looked goofy to me, and don't have the appeal of Sackboy or Nintendo's mascots.

^^^^^ i can see that

It was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too hard at release and they took way too long to release the difficulty patch.  Add to that long load times and it's no surprise that people didn't generally like the game.

With Mario Kart, anyone can pick up and play it and have fun.  The general person can play through the career and do decently well while being bad or at least struggle through the first cup.

With ModNationRacers, it's absolutely unforgiving in its difficulty.  I couldn't get past the third race in the carreer (and I know I'm not along on that, the fact they made that patch proves it) and that's bullshit.  On a casual game I shouldn't get stuck like that on the third race, especially when I breeze through the first two and even complete most of the challenges.  I tried for hours to get past the third race and just couldn't do it and vowed to stop playing the game.

I could have gone online and played but the game made me think I was so bad because I couldn't finish the third race I just assumed I was way too bad for online. 

So yeah, extremely difficult unforgiving gmae that discourages people from playing online.  It just couldn't decide if it wanted to be casual kart game like Mario Kart or a hardcore racing game. 

Why are people confused again that this game didn't do well?

well one reason is that Its hard, which i liked myself , but not when i play with other people who aren't that good in racers.

Yeah, I hate those open HUB worlds that so many people just think are the best thing ever.  Sometimes, I just want to play my game, not wander around a world.  I don't really understand why people think playing a not-fun game to get to the (hopefully) fun game is a good idea.

By the time they fixed that with the patch along with the difficulty, I had already decided I hated the game.

hahah No I dont think you did them, but I also dont think yours was first was it? If it was my bad, this should have been in another thread, but this was the 3rd I saw in almost a day.

@twestern  normally id say that you suck and dont blame the game but in this case id have to agree, this game was brutal, even though i manage to beat it, b4 the patch, ill tell ya it wasnt ez.The online is not that bad, unless you suck really bad you can compete. I usually place in the top 3, but then again i played the game alot. As for the hub world, yeah thats kind of corny. I think Sony was just trying to turn something casual and add a some more depth, iMHO i think they succeeded, I can see how some people were turned off. But i welcome the chanllenge, Mario Kart & Sonic & Sega allstars were kind of ez for me

Great game. I played the crap out of it, including even a bit of online and track/character creation. Haven't been back to it for a while after moving on to other games. But I'm sure I'll crack it open again some time. I've still got a bit of unfionished business with the SP mode, and while I'll never platinum the game I do need to get me a gold trophy for me to feel like if mastered the game sufficiently for my own satisfaction.