I never really liked the way the cars handled in 64, and the rubber banding annoyed me.

For it's time it was alright and set a lot of series standards, but compared to the Mario Kart's of today it's pure garbage!

It's pretty boring being just a big featureless circle with nothing on it... nothing except those god damn trains from hell! This track was the bane of my existence when I first started playing this game, and those troll trains constantly deciding to randomly screw me alone over whether I was in the lead or in last are to blame! Made getting that already difficult 3 Star Ranking so tedious, had to restart the leaf cup so many times! The final nail in the coffin was that one time I was in first place on the final lap with triple bananas and a mushroom in reserve (didn't know how to shroom dodge yet but I'd atleast be able to get back up to speed with it), and then the troll train came... Everyone was right behind me so I could not afford to stop, thus I dropped all my bananas and attempted to shroom boost my way through. Needless to say I didn't make it, instead was knocked into the train tracks between the guard rails and then was hit by the train again. I turned off the game after that lol.

And this epitomises why Baby Park is such a success. It was the course that levelled the playing field in Double Dash. Anyone could win it, rather than just the "best".

However yeah, I can see why that sort of design would ruin tournaments etc. But again, it just levels the playing field and makes the other races more important.

I feel after Double Dash, Mario Kart really lost it's "skills mean wins" factor anyway as Wii in particular really strategy went out of the window in favour of praying for the best item drops.

Mario Kart 8 sees the series going back in that direction but it's always nice for everyone to have a glimmer of hope.

Yeah that's why I stopped trying to drift, felt so awkward and it actually made me do worse.

Rubber banding is why Mario Kart's so gewd though!

lol You're just unlucky, you should have waited for the train then boosted as soon as it past lol. I don't understand how the train screws people over, its got a set timing that you get if you play enough.  Its also pretty easy to stage a come back with a triple boost/ golden mushroom.

Yeah I never said it didn't succeed at what it was trying to do, I just don't like that it did is all!

Why do ya feel that? Skill is definitely as important as ever if not moreso in the later games. Like I said earlier, no amount of items will help you consistently do well if your skills aren't comparable to the rest of the competition.

Notice how I said consistently, because unless against AI (and even then), you can't win 100% of the time no matter how good you are, as that luck factor still exist, so yes anyone has chance in any given race, that's the joy of Mario Kart!

Like I said, didn't want to risk being screwed over by the AI and thought I for sure could make it! Not sure about a set timing, but naturally I wasn't going to play the track more than I had to to find out lel, and even if I did know, that doesn't necessarily mean I can do anything about it. Also prior to MK8 there are hidden requirements towards getting a 3 star ranking, one of which being how long you're in first place for, thus comeback victorys are not an option as you basically have to be in 1st from start to finish each race.

That's true but as long as you park close enough to the train you'll be in first and then you could have boosted and gone ahead. You took a risk it didn't pay off that's pretty much it. The one thing I do dislike about the kalamari desert remake is that I can't drive on the tracks through the tunnel anymore. I used to enjoy screwing around like that in the n64.

Its an OK track. I'm just tired of it always being picked now. I don't need to play it 5 times in a 30 minute session.

Uh except the AI would have killed me. This is besides the point anyway, being that the track's literally only feature are troll trains that have screwed with me far too many times!