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Which do you prefer?

Sonic 42 15.05%
 
Not Sonic 237 84.95%
 
Total:279
Rogerioandrade on 27 April 2015

Both are excellent games!

I have to say that I enjoy Mario Kart 8 more than Sonic ASRT, becauseI I feel that MK8 controls work better. Sonic flying controls/paths sometimes confuses me with its hypersensity, but not so badly to take away the fun.

Some Sonic races are amazing, like the Out Run and After Burner tracks.

My recommendation for anyone who wants a race for WiiU would be: get both!



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Ljink96 on 27 April 2015

The DLC puts MK8 over the friggin' top! I mean, the DLC has more details than the original courses and that's not saying much because both sets of courses, new and old, are full of detail. Tried to play Sonic ASR but it just didn't appeal to me. I liked Sonic R much better XD



FarleyMcFirefly on 28 April 2015

While it is undeniable that Mario Kart 8 is more polished. Sonic is just more fun. The controls are so much better. It has fewer tracks yes, but like some say, the single player campaign is stellar.

And to those who say even faster than 200cc, I think so yes, and definitely more controllable at high speeds than 200cc.

I hope that the series continues, because it has become my favourite racing game of all time. Wreck-It Ralph is a bonus too :P

I'm glad at least 22 people agree with me haha.



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LipeJJ on 28 April 2015

MK8. This shoudn't even be asked.



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Faust on 28 April 2015

they are pretty much the same, but i give the edge to MArio kart 8 cuz the rooster is more apealing



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the_dengle on 28 April 2015

I do like how the tracks in Sonic change from lap to lap, pieces of them falling apart to become boat or plane sections. It made the tracks feel more dynamic. It really did feel like a successor to Diddy Kong Racing.

But I think MK8 is better overall.



curl-6 on 28 April 2015
FarleyMcFirefly said:

While it is undeniable that Mario Kart 8 is more polished. Sonic is just more fun. The controls are so much better. It has fewer tracks yes, but like some say, the single player campaign is stellar.

As someone who liked Transformed, I did not enjoy the campaign. It kept asking me to perform tedious tasks when all I wanted to do was race.



Volterra_90 on 28 April 2015

Sonic is a very good racer, I admit that. I would say is better than some MK games. But it's not better than MK8. Music, track design, graphics, controls... MK stands out in a lot of aspects. Sonic works as a Diddy Kong Racing succesor. I like how the tracks evolve and how you change between vehicles, that's cool. But MK8 is more polished and fun. And, one thing that bothers me (it's not developers' fault) is that I don't find people to race online easily. And I have PC and WiiU version of the game, but it's hard to find a good and crowded race.



Cubedramirez on 28 April 2015

MK8 outshines it in every possible way. But the most damning fault of ASRT is that in some tracks you can get trapped in areas which entirely kill the flow of the game. That's a cardinal sin in the racing genre.



Never on 28 April 2015
Teflon02 said:
Samus Aran said:

MK8 did it much better. It's like saying Galaxy copied off Sonic Extreme... Mario Kart 8 had some crazy level designs thanks to the anti-gravity feature. You also get speed boosts if you bump into each other while driving on these anti-gravity sections. Crash Nitro Kart didn't have the crazy level designs or the speed boost mechanic. It was a half assed feature in the game.

Being able to spam boost drifts isn't a good thing by the way. Mario Kart DS and MK: DD had that and most people are glad snaking is gone.

Because it doesn't work for Mario Kart... Which is why I don't like it as much. Snaking is a tactic that wasn't an original intent. Rewarding you for choosing to drift a corner, doing a jump or fliping your vehicle is entirely different than snaking. Hell snaking doesn't have any advantage in those either. 
Mario Kart isn't the same game as those, they work with different mechanics. Look up some videos and see if Sonic Transformed or CTR is bad because of those. 

Also doing antigravity better than another game doesn't give the right to act like you're the first to do it. Which everyone acted like. How well it's done isn't relevant. Mario can mimic anything and it's fine Sonic Transformed was attacked for Copying MK7 lmao and it wasn't even close, it actually could be said it was copying DKR though but ppl didn't really, but MK8 does something exactly like in another game it got a pass lol. My point.


Who is this person that claimed Mario Kart 8 did antigrav first? I have never heard a single person claim that. It's not even the first Nintendo racer with antigrave.

As for snaking, I'm one of the few that actually liked the snaking in MKDS. It was an issue on levels that were wide open tracks where you could snake all the way through like baby park.

Snaking damaged the game only because it was hell in a handful of tracks. It was fine snaking a little bit in the wide parts of Delfino square before skiding skillfully through the narrow coriddors. That was fun and worked.