Best racing franchise

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mountaindewslave on 21 September 2016

mjk45 said:

Diddy Kong . why ? it should be plane to every body why it is.

I actually adore Diddy Kong Racing, its probably in my top 10 favorite games of all time. The 3 vehicles drive extremely well and it was unique for the time to have such variety in a racing game (hovercraft, place, automobile), the levels are clever, the bosses are clever, the overworld is clever (and was copied by Crash Team Racing), the control of the vehicles is fantastic.

hugely underrated game. Rare was just killing it back then

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last92 on 21 September 2016

As of today, probably the Forza franchise in terms of quality.

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Nemesis1993 on 21 September 2016

Gran Turismo franchise
single game Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005)

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mjk45 on 21 September 2016

mountaindewslave said:

mjk45 said:

Diddy Kong . why ? it should be plane to every body why it is.

I actually adore Diddy Kong Racing, its probably in my top 10 favorite games of all time. The 3 vehicles drive extremely well and it was unique for the time to have such variety in a racing game (hovercraft, place, automobile), the levels are clever, the bosses are clever, the overworld is clever (and was copied by Crash Team Racing), the control of the vehicles is fantastic.

hugely underrated game. Rare was just killing it back then

Wholeheartedly agree with everything you said.

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pray4mojo on 21 September 2016

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If you're in first place in MK8 and the last place player throws a blue shell, you're fucked unless you just so happen to have a super horn but that would be a case of having... luck.

I don't want to come off as someone who hates Mario Kart. I love Mario Kart. But you can't take it seriously due to random chance.

Even without the horn, the welcome nerfing of the blue shell in MK8 means its hardly a death sentence; a good player will be far enough ahead that it won't cost them their lead.

When I play that game, and nothing hits me, I win 100% of the time. Every. freakin'. time. And I'm not talking photo finishes, I'm talking half a lap or more ahead. When I get hit by some random item, or three, or four and I'm pushed back to 10th? If nothing hits me, and I get lucky enough to have a shell or something to hold behind me? I always work my way past everyone, slowly inching my way right back to the top spot... ONLY TO GET HIT WITH SHIT AGAIN. No matter how great I race, it always comes down to how lucky I am that my opponents don't have the right items at the right times as well as what I randomly get.

It's not a game built on skill. It's a game built on chance. In F-Zero, I know that when I'm winning? If I hit my corners and race a perfect race, nothing will catch me. There is nothing to hit me. Nothing to knock me back. It's just my reflexes matched against my opponents. That's how I like my "competitive" racers.

Mario Kart is fun, but I can't take it seriously. Any game that allows the last place guy who's getting lapped to knock out the first place guy with a magical heat-seeking item, can't be taken seriously.

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curl-6 on 21 September 2016

pray4mojo said:

curl-6 said:

Even without the horn, the welcome nerfing of the blue shell in MK8 means its hardly a death sentence; a good player will be far enough ahead that it won't cost them their lead.

When I play that game, and nothing hits me, I win 100% of the time. Every. freakin'. time. And I'm not talking photo finishes, I'm talking half a lap or more ahead. When I get hit by some random item, or three, or four and I'm pushed back to 10th? If nothing hits me, and I get lucky enough to have a shell or something to hold behind me? I always work my way past everyone, slowly inching my way right back to the top spot... ONLY TO GET HIT WITH SHIT AGAIN. No matter how great I race, it always comes down to how lucky I am that my opponents don't have the right items at the right times as well as what I randomly get.

It's not a game built on skill. It's a game built on chance. In F-Zero, I know that when I'm winning? If I hit my corners and race a perfect race, nothing will catch me. There is nothing to hit me. Nothing to knock me back. It's just my reflexes matched against my opponents. That's how I like my "competitive" racers.

Mario Kart is fun, but I can't take it seriously. Any game that allows the last place guy who's getting lapped to knock out the first place guy with a magical heat-seeking item, can't be taken seriously.

I don't think Mario Kart was ever intended to be "taken seriously", but blue shells in MK8 come an average of once a race, if that, and if you're half a lap ahead, it knocks you nowhere near enough to cost you that much of a lead.