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Chrizum on 10 April 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
Chrizum said:

ALL of these things are NOT true. IGN lied. MK Wii features all options you'd expect from a AAA Nintendo game. And that's surprising, considering Mario Kart never was an AAA franchise. MK Wii is the best Mario Kart EVER.


And what is that supposed to mean? Mario Kart has one of the most beloved and widely-loved games in Nintendo's arsenal since the SNES days.


True, but it never had great production values. All Mario Kart titles felt like they were handled by smaller development teams with smaller budgets, compared to other Nintendo franchises. In other words, the games lacked content and polish to be AAA.

That isn't to say the games weren't fun, MK is probably my favorite franchise ever.



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Thatmax on 10 April 2008

did i hear correct that you can alter what items appear? cos first place bombs are too common for my liking.



supermariogalaxy on 10 April 2008

^ Really, the only thing I heard was that you can set it to 3 options: Recommended, something else, and something else... (1st something else = many items and very good ones (or something like that)) (2nd = pretty bad items (or something like that ))



 

Chrizum on 10 April 2008
supermariogalaxy said:
^ Really, the only thing I heard was that you can set it to 3 options: Recommended, something else, and something else... (1st something else = many items and very good ones (or something like that)) (2nd = pretty bad items (or something like that ))

Correct, you can set it to recommended (standard), frantic (easily get overpowered items) and basic (seldomly get overpowered items: more boring than it sounds)



shams on 10 April 2008

Sounds awesome, really can't wait.



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Words Of Wisdom on 10 April 2008
Chrizum said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Chrizum said:

ALL of these things are NOT true. IGN lied. MK Wii features all options you'd expect from a AAA Nintendo game. And that's surprising, considering Mario Kart never was an AAA franchise. MK Wii is the best Mario Kart EVER.


And what is that supposed to mean? Mario Kart has one of the most beloved and widely-loved games in Nintendo's arsenal since the SNES days.


True, but it never had great production values. All Mario Kart titles felt like they were handled by smaller development teams with smaller budgets, compared to other Nintendo franchises. In other words, the games lacked content and polish to be AAA.

That isn't to say the games weren't fun, MK is probably my favorite franchise ever.


I don't think they lacked polish or content at all.  The original introduced a lot of new or relatively new concepts (and did amazing things with the SNES).  About the only thing that could steal thunder from the original was F-Zero but F-Zero was pretty no frills for its day. Compare the two and you'll see just how much polish Super Mario Kart had with active environments, weapons, short cuts, battle mode...etc.

I doubt you remember the hype levels for Mario Kart 64 but they were huge.  You couldn't open a magazine without finding at least one article about Mario Kart 64 before and after it hit for quite a while. 

As a result, Mario Kart is probably one of the most famous racing games in the history of gaming.  It is almost the very definition of AAA.



supermariogalaxy on 10 April 2008

@Rol

Oh, nice...I'll probably be using frantic to annoy racers online with my might red shells :)



 

Ajax on 10 April 2008

Chrizum,


what I find striking in the trailer and movies I've seen,
is that bullet-item

is it an automatically controled bullet?
it looks as a too strong item,
being invulnerable, going very fast, faster than a star it seems, and it stays quite long on too


and another question is
you say

''al catch-up is gone''

so you don't get better items when you are behind the rest?

''Hadouken!''

Thatmax on 10 April 2008

8 hours left XD!!! for me anyway



Ajax on 10 April 2008

so if that only happened in the N64 version, those insane boosts
and not in Double Dash, then why is it gone when it wasn't their last time? :P


I can't wait to play this game

but Rol,
is the game hard enough in it's hardest setting?

no secret 200cc mode yet discovered?



''Hadouken!''