The Mario Kart Thread

[Rayl]

Good point, i'll get on that little oversight.

[Police Girl]

I'm going to hold off on getting the rest of the characters for now as I simply want to race.

I'm available anytime that isn't the morning.

[Solar]

Is anyone going to play in like an hour/half an hour?

[Protoman Blues]

Sure I can play some

[Solar]

Alright, I'm on the community if anyone wants to play.

Posted on: January 10, 2012, 09:44:46 PMAnyone else joining? PB is kicking my ass here >.>

[Protoman Blues]

Yeah, come on people! Join in on the fun!

[Solar]

Ok, someone explain how I managed to beat PB twice in a row after being destroyed for the past 12 or so rounds.

[Police Girl]

I'll be on in a second.

I will automatically make it my goal to beat you if you play as Yoshi, I can't stand that [tornado fang]er in this game. He seems to be a consistent thorn in Single Player for me.


EDIT: I'm on, you must be in the middle of a race or something.

[Protoman Blues]

We finished a while ago actually!

[Police Girl]

Oh, alright. I'll try to catch the next game then.

[Hypershell]

I know I said I'd be there guys, but this week is turning out freakishly busy for me.  And I still need to rip myself away from the computer long enough to take care of the wonderful real world of bills and check recording by the end of the night.

Ugh.  I'll try for tomorrow; promise.

[VirusChris]

Wow I can never find any of my RPM buddies online... maybe because I join too late at night? :/
Well I'm mostly available after 10pm EST every night, so if anyone is willing to race me I'm be glad to do so! I want to race you guys!

Still... I need to unlock the rest of the Kart parts, I'm only 840 coins in and it seems I need 5000 coins to unlock mostly every Kart part. Why was 10 coins a limit per race? Takes so long to unlock certain parts and at random too!

[Solar]

I'm pretty sure it does count the coins you get after the 10 coin limit, otherwise it would've been impossible for me to have gotten my first part right after doing only one cup.

Also, I'm up for racing right now if anyone wants to.

[VirusChris]

Cool! That's good to know! By the way, if a connection error happens do you lose VR points? Because I believe so as I go down on VR because I have DSL connection and the connection isn't the best (I notice that I'm in 3rd place in my game with a guy tailing behind me, but when I finish I'm in 4th place instead when the game says I was 3rd place and ahead of the game. The lag sucks.)

I'm up for a race! Online right now!

[Mirby]

Got MK7 yesterday. Just jumped into a race on mirrored Neo Bowser Park with Hypershell. Got DC'ed on the last lap (grrrr), but I was in fifth before that!

EDIT: Jumped on again, got in 3rd right behind Hypershell on Kalimari Desert. Much better finish.

[Police Girl]

I'm going to have to stop playing this game for a while.

I'm having a hard time enjoying trying to finish getting the rest of the characters/parts as it seems the game simply doesn't want me to do so. I'm sick of the constant Item Spam by the CPU's, when I think about it its not much better than the issue with Mario Kart Wii's Item Spam. Granted Cloud AIDS and Pow Blocks are gone, but Blue Shells and Lightning still doom anybody who simply wants to race.

I don't recall Mario Kart 64 EVER giving the CPU the Blue Shell, I think they got lightning but it was rare. Skip ahead to Wii and the CPU got the Blue Shells and Lightning more often than the other Items. Its becoming very hard to enjoy a game when all that happens is you get hit by a lot of items and all you ever seem to get is Triple Mushroom.

So I guess the best thing is to hold off on Mario Kart until Nintendo understands what balance is.

[Hypershell]

The CPU throws a lot of crap at you, but it's not anywhere NEAR as bad as on MKWii.  Wii's CPU in 150cc was considerably more evil than even online matchups. 

Triple Mushroom being a favored low-rank item does get annoying, though.  Especially in Neo Bowser City, where it's such a pain to find a straight enough piece of track to put them to use.  But it could be worse.  Bloopers are probably the single most useless item in the game when you're up against actual human beings.

Also...anyone besides me wondering why they took the Boo out?

[Police Girl]

Well, I can understand it when I'm playing with Humans, since that's part of the challenge.

When its the CPU it just feels like the game is being an [dark hold].

[Mirby]

I dunno, I had that issue at first but the game does let up sometimes. I'm gonna try some more, but I already know this game doesn't make me rage as bad as Wii did (and even Double Dash had some pure RAAAAAAGE moments in there too)

[Hypershell]

Well, I can understand it when I'm playing with Humans, since that's part of the challenge.

When its the CPU it just feels like the game is being an [dark hold].

The thing with the CPU is that while you are sometimes subject to lousy timing/luck, you will nowhere NEARLY be as frequently gang-banged.

As I continue to try and bite and claw my way up to that coveted 10,000 VR mark (damn my completionist instincts), I find myself more and more raging at this game's lack of any mercy invulnerability time.  It's not any one item; it's the fact that when you're hit, you're a sitting duck for further punishment.  It's not uncommon to take 3 or even 4 hits in a row, or for somebody to ram you off the edge while you're stunned.  That really shouldn't happen.  In MK64 it wasn't an issue because of the low number of human players.

Oh, and the Blooper has to either be cut or demoted to a "common" item like the Banana Peel, because it is USELESS.  The only reason it's worth jack against the CPU is because it causes them to swerve.  I can't tell you how frustrating it is when that thing pops up in your item box while you're in 5th or 6th place and everyone around you is getting Stars, Triple Shells, and Gold Mushrooms.

Finally, any timed item that continues to occupy your item box while in use needs to have a kill switch.  At least with the Fire Flower you can use up your ammunition, but it's annoying as heck when a Tanooki tail or Bullet Bill gives out JUST AFTER the items.

[Akamaru]

Who is up for some races!? I am online almost all day, 

[Phi]

I'm up for it. Let's use the RPM community (11-8755-8490-3348).

[Akamaru]

Alright, I am in.

Race 1: Wow, that was laggy. Nice 1st place though.
Race 2: No lag.
Race 3: Close neck to neck on the final lap...
Race 4: I caught up... Thank you Golden Mushroom and Fire Flower...

How many points do you want to go up to?

[Phi]

cheeeeeap last race lol

it was lagging for you?

lol of course blue shell. good races

[Akamaru]

...

Race 5: What the f***, I sent a blue shell at myself.
Race 6: Damn my kart for not being able to go underwater or off course.
Race 7: I totally am cursed this round.
Race 8: Finally won...