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d21lewis on 01 November 2009

Dammit.  I haven't made a double post in the last 3000 posts.  Now, I have to start all over.



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Kasz216 on 01 November 2009
Lostplanet22 said:
Naum said:
So CTR just copied MK64 and put in some extra stuff?...that sounds kinda sad...

Meh only it sounds very negative in your sentence. When playing it you back in the day you wouldn't thought the game was just a copy of MK64.

Anyway with every new game you find people commenting that it is a copy of an other game.

Quantum Theory: 'Wow it looks like Gears of War'

3D Dot game Heroes:  'ZELDA!!'

Shadow Complex:  'Super Metroid copy without Samus Fail!

Etc.

i played it back in the day and basically thought it was a copy of MK64.  Though they did change the items.

It was part of Sony's sad "We can be just like Nintendo" phase... when they ignored the unique and better aspects of the console by trying to make Crash Bandicoot the next Mario.



Lostplanet22 on 02 November 2009

Well it is not easy to make a kart game without being called a copy of mario kart. In my opinion the original one is still the best (with MK DS close second) during the generations nintendo struggled to make Mario kart better Double Dash, including Bikes in MK Wii but those were not features that made mario kart better.

In fact I think Rare with Diddy Kong Racing and Naughty Dog(Universal) with CTR are still the best contenders kartgmes who ever come close in quality with Mario kart.



 

d21lewis on 03 March 2010

Just checking to see if CTR is still better than Mario Kart 64.

*checks*

Yep! It still is!!



cAPSLOCK on 03 March 2010

HAY GUYS WHICH IS DA BETTA GAME GREAT GIANA SISTERS OR MARIO BROS??? TIA!!!11~~ ;*

Joke thread? There is no "kart racing" genre. There's Mario Kart and then there's ripoffs of Mario Kart.

Was CTR a good game? Yup. But it could be better than the best Mario Kart game and it will still never be anything more than a ripoff. A Fauxlex watch, a Soni tv, Levy jeans, Nicke shoes, a Polystation, a Vii. Just the Sonic and Sega All Star Racing of 2 generations ago.



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d21lewis on 03 March 2010
cAPSLOCK said:
HAY GUYS WHICH IS DA BETTA GAME GREAT GIANA SISTERS OR MARIO BROS??? TIA!!!11~~ ;*

Joke thread? There is no "kart racing" genre. There's Mario Kart and then there's ripoffs of Mario Kart.

Was CTR a good game? Yup. But it could be better than the best Mario Kart game and it will still never be anything more than a ripoff. A Fauxlex watch, a Soni tv, Levy jeans, Nicke shoes, a Polystation, a Vii. Just the Sonic and Sega All Star Racing of 2 generations ago.

Don't you dare mock my Nicke Air Jardon sneakers.



NYANKS on 03 March 2010
cAPSLOCK said:
HAY GUYS WHICH IS DA BETTA GAME GREAT GIANA SISTERS OR MARIO BROS??? TIA!!!11~~ ;*

Joke thread? There is no "kart racing" genre. There's Mario Kart and then there's ripoffs of Mario Kart.

Was CTR a good game? Yup. But it could be better than the best Mario Kart game and it will still never be anything more than a ripoff. A Fauxlex watch, a Soni tv, Levy jeans, Nicke shoes, a Polystation, a Vii. Just the Sonic and Sega All Star Racing of 2 generations ago.

Hey man, theres no shame in progress. Yes Nintendo might have made the first kart game ever (not even sure that's true), but for that brief moment Sony made it better. P.S. I love how this thread refuses to die. Awesome.

kibebr on 03 March 2010

CTR is the best!!!!!!!!!



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cAPSLOCK on 03 March 2010
NYANKS said:
cAPSLOCK said:
HAY GUYS WHICH IS DA BETTA GAME GREAT GIANA SISTERS OR MARIO BROS??? TIA!!!11~~ ;*

Joke thread? There is no "kart racing" genre. There's Mario Kart and then there's ripoffs of Mario Kart.

Was CTR a good game? Yup. But it could be better than the best Mario Kart game and it will still never be anything more than a ripoff. A Fauxlex watch, a Soni tv, Levy jeans, Nicke shoes, a Polystation, a Vii. Just the Sonic and Sega All Star Racing of 2 generations ago.

Hey man, theres no shame in progress. Yes Nintendo might have made the first kart game ever (not even sure that's true), but for that brief moment Sony made it better. P.S. I love how this thread refuses to die. Awesome.

Progress would be making your own game, not ripping off someone else's ideas.  We're not talking about a genre like FPS or RTS. We're not even talking about a subgenre, we're talking about a specific game that is popular enough to warrant 3-4 ripoff games a generation.



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d21lewis on 03 March 2010
cAPSLOCK said:
NYANKS said:
cAPSLOCK said:
HAY GUYS WHICH IS DA BETTA GAME GREAT GIANA SISTERS OR MARIO BROS??? TIA!!!11~~ ;*

Joke thread? There is no "kart racing" genre. There's Mario Kart and then there's ripoffs of Mario Kart.

Was CTR a good game? Yup. But it could be better than the best Mario Kart game and it will still never be anything more than a ripoff. A Fauxlex watch, a Soni tv, Levy jeans, Nicke shoes, a Polystation, a Vii. Just the Sonic and Sega All Star Racing of 2 generations ago.

Hey man, theres no shame in progress. Yes Nintendo might have made the first kart game ever (not even sure that's true), but for that brief moment Sony made it better. P.S. I love how this thread refuses to die. Awesome.

Progress would be making your own game, not ripping off someone else's ideas.  We're not talking about a genre like FPS or RTS. We're not even talking about a subgenre, we're talking about a specific game that is popular enough to warrant 3-4 ripoff games a generation.

What the heck, man?  Would you want to live in a world where Tetris is the only puzzle game, SSX was the only snowboarding game, and Mario was the only platforming game?  Just because Mario Kart did "Kart Racing" good, that doesn't mean that nobody else should take a stab at the genre (and it IS a genre).  Heck, some people who owned a PS1 didn't own an N64.  Would you deny them some Kart Racing goodness?

 

Oh, and progress is taking an existing idea and making it better.  That's what CTR did.  It's better than Mario Kart 64.