What’s your favorite racing franchise?

[Scurrybt]

Mine are Forza and Need for Speed.

[Electric Cupcake]

It sucks that the Wacky Wheels remake turned out so poorly.

I always liked Extreme-G , even if people say it's just a ripoff of F-Zero.

[Scurrybt]

Origineel geplaatst door Devsman:

F-Zero dammit

Origineel geplaatst door MoonC A T:

geez people, NO MARIO KART? WTF?

I hate Mario Kart.

The freaking powerups piss me off so much. There was a track in Double Dash where I could call it to the second when the damn CPUs were going to throw a blue shell at me on the last lap when I had no chance to catch up, ruining my entire 150CC cup attempt because they did it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Then the time I tried to be sneaky and hang out in second place at that part on purpose... THEY DIDN'T THROW THE BLUE SHELL. But at least then, I only came in second, so it didn't ruin the whole cup. Literally intentionally not being the best racer was the only way to win that cup, and it was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I never knew someone could have the ability to hate Mario Kart with so much unbridled passion. You learn something new everyday…

[Tonepoet]

Everybody hates the Blue Shell. That's why you play Super Mario Kart first. The blue shell wasn't introduced until Mario Kart 64. Also, there are advanced tactics that can be used to dodge the blue shell hit.

[Scurrybt]

Origineel geplaatst door Tonepoet:

Everybody hates the Blue Shell. That's why you play Super Mario Kart first. The blue shell wasn't introduced until Mario Kart 64. Also, there are advanced tactics that can be used to dodge the blue shell hit.

I had no idea the blue shell wasn’t introduced until Mario Kart 64.

[Tonepoet]

Yeah. Super Mario Kart is unique in a few ways. For one thing it has a feather, which is a super jump that is useless on most of the courses, but allows you to take. some interesting shortcuts on specific ones. The most interesting shortcut that you needed the feather to take was the shortcut on Ghost Valley 3[nintendo.fandom.com], which allowed you take a bridge to skip the final turns on the map straight to the finish line.

The most detestable item in Super Mario Kart is the Boo, which turns you invisible and steals the other player's item at the same time. It is specifically designed to screw over the other human player in a game that could only have up to two human players. However, the Boo only appears in multiplayer, and it is not quite as detestable as the blue shell.

The blue shell is usually only given to the player in last place, and only ever targets the player in first place, so usually what happens is that it screws over the person in the lead for no apparent benefit to the player who used it. This is especially so if it's the last lap and the last place player has no chance of catching up to first place.

I like Super Mario Kart, but let's just say whomever came up with the whole blue shell idea was the worst kind of prankster in game design.

[GlaceonChireiden]

Origineel geplaatst door MoonC A T:

geez people, NO MARIO KART? WTF?

Because mario kart is a good party game, but not much more. It's something so simple that it's easy to get a group of friends to play it, but playing alone it doesn't provide much that you can't see elsewhere in other racing games.

MK is for multiplayer. Its singleplayer game is the bare minimum for a racing game (and even that's being generous). Plus its whole item mechanic aims to keep things balanced, which again is fine for a family party game, but as a result MK is a game that actively punishes skillful play by limiting your options tremendously.
If you're good at the game, you will never see any of the fun items and will see exclusively bananas, coins, and maybe a shell. Oh boy, the thrilling variety.

if kart racers are countable here though, Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed outbeats any mario kart no buts. Maybe tied with Crash Team Racing if you want a VERY skill-based kart racer.

[Electric Cupcake]

The original Mario 64 Blue Shell was nice, since you couldn't just fire and forget it.

If reflexively you shot it off the moment you get one, it's likely to just bounce off the nearest wall and be wasted. You have to give it some space to get locked on.

[skOsH♥]

F-Zero. I remember the very polished version on gamecube that made me feel like I wasn't really racing, so much as I was basically flying on an intense track at such breakneck speeds that I felt rushes of euphoria constantly playing it as a kid

Arcade versions were fun. But GameCube version was like...next level

[kilésengati]

Origineel geplaatst door Scurrybt:

Origineel geplaatst door kilésengati:

The Xbox version only has marginally better visuals due to slightly better reflections and lighting, but that's about it. The PS2 version is much easier to backup and I find it to be more available. But if you are playing on original hardware, that doesn't matter as much anyway.

It's a great game either way, though I prefer Revenge and Paradise. Burnout: Fairhaven finally had licenced cars and PvE police chases, but wasn't as good of a Burnout game.

Revenge is great too

All Burnouts are great, even Fairhaven.

[Logan]

Forza and Need for Speed, I love F1 games too as a big F1 fan.

[ValentB]

Take a wild guess.

Pity nobody mentioned it here.

[Devsman]

Origineel geplaatst door Tonepoet:

Yeah. Super Mario Kart is unique in a few ways. For one thing it has a feather, which is a super jump that is useless on most of the courses, but allows you to take. some interesting shortcuts on specific ones. The most interesting shortcut that you needed the feather to take was the shortcut on Ghost Valley 3[nintendo.fandom.com], which allowed you take a bridge to skip the final turns on the map straight to the finish line.

The most detestable item in Super Mario Kart is the Boo, which turns you invisible and steals the other player's item at the same time. It is specifically designed to screw over the other human player in a game that could only have up to two human players. However, the Boo only appears in multiplayer, and it is not quite as detestable as the blue shell.

The blue shell is usually only given to the player in last place, and only ever targets the player in first place, so usually what happens is that it screws over the person in the lead for no apparent benefit to the player who used it. This is especially so if it's the last lap and the last place player has no chance of catching up to first place.

I like Super Mario Kart, but let's just say whomever came up with the whole blue shell idea was the worst kind of prankster in game design.

Bingo. I did actually really like Super.

[kilésengati]

Origineel geplaatst door ValentB:

Take a wild guess.

Pity nobody mentioned it here.

Midnight Club? Shame only MC2 had a PC release - and that is no longer sold.
MCLA is a lot like GTA 5, but no shooting and you can't get out of cars. I really like it. Some mods for GTA 5 can kinda turn it onto an MCLA clone of sorts, but that can't beat the original.

[TwisterCat]

Gran Turismo. The soundtracks, the gameplay, the absurd amount of vehicles to choose from. Gran Turismo is more than a game, it's an experience.

[Electric Cupcake]

Anyone ever play Midtown Madness?

One of my classes had a LAN party for the last day before summer break back in HS.