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I'm still watching it.
To give a counterperspective to the baby hate, my niece (6) recently complained that there weren't enough babies in the roster and she would've liked to see more.
He's not wrong, even though it's understandable why it was kind of lame always getting bananas in first/second place in the older games but the constant coins in MK8 make that look like a treat. Super boring item when you can't even play defensively.
OdysseusVA
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Can you grab the video link?
ShockingAlberto
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It seems to be designed to not want you to play defensively. The answer to almost every conundrum in MK8 is "Hey, race better." They don't want you out in front holding on to three green shells and then a banana peel if that runs out and they compensated by making spinning out/falling take far less time.
I can understand preferring it another way, but they had an intentional goal with it that wasn't just leaving a hole open.
Incandenza
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"First Mario Kart is best" confirmed.
Keyser Soze
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I'm sorry.
Alex hates [character] was the gold mine no one saw coming
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OdysseusVA
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Hot Coldman
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Jeff sneering at people playing MKDS in their lunchtimes is the equivalent of somehow going to an arcade in 1992 and sneering at people playing Street Fighter II
Infinite Justice
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Early feasting tonight :O
Chance Hale
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"I haven't played a mario kart since they introduced flying"
Oh Brad
Oh Brad
The 3DS game before the Wii U one introduced flying
Don't really want to jump on the hate train conducted by the MK8 QL, but there's something about Brad and needing to mention how long it's been since he paid attention to a particular established franchise or game that I've noticed recently.
It's like Jeff is mad at Mario Kart for existing.
I'm not really surprised that people are able to predict reasonably well what their opinion of the game will be after watching them play games for 6+ years.
What do you want him to say? It's not like he's bragging about it, he's just saying it like it is: He hasn't kept up with the franchise since the DS.
Hot Coldman
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Mario 2 can show up once we get Diddy Kong back. Wario Ware characters are long overdue too.
Anything would be better than metal and baby versions of characters that don't have any real reason to exist.
Baby Mario and Luigi were an actual thing, and so was Metal Mario, but at this point it seems like we'll end up with Metal Baby Daisy at some point.
ShockingAlberto
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I think the biggest bummer is that this is a quicklook for a four-player game and there are only three people in it and one of them works across the country. That says a lot.
EmCeeGramr
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The Mario Kart that introduced flying was the last Mario Kart before the current one.
ShockingAlberto
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Every time I see people bitch about how badly Mario Kart screws them and they played perfectly and it's not at all their fault they lose and fuck this game, I remember the time I shot a blue shell at my buddy's girlfriend and she dodged it. Repeatedly. And how an entire race of twelve people could not catch her in any race except one where she got 2nd by less than a second.
Or the girl who lives in my dorm in college that won drinking money by beating us all at Mario Kart consistently. No number of pity items made it so the less skilled person won.
Or the girl who lives in my dorm in college that won drinking money by beating us all at Mario Kart consistently. No number of pity items made it so the less skilled person won.
Hot Coldman
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Baby Peach was a thing too, in fairness. Yoshi's Island DS. The annoying thing is that YIDS also introduced Baby Wario, who has NEVER been in a Mario Kart game. If you're going to have 5 (!) babies, at least include the best one.
ShockingAlberto
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Baby Wario was an abomination
I'm not saying that he knows a lot about the franchise here.
Hot Coldman
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He's too creepy to be neglected
If he played the Mario Kart that introduced planesthe one before this onethen why would he make it sound like he hadn't touched the franchise for a long time?
If he didn't play the Mario Kart that introduced planesthe one before this onethen why would he make it sound like he played it?
It could just be a simple confusion, but then that relates to what I was saying initially.
Here's my final card (as a link, so you don't get spoiled or whatever):
http://i.imgur.com/HWSvOP7.png
http://i.imgur.com/HWSvOP7.png
Hot Coldman
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Everything was unlocked though
I don't remember the conversation well enough to say either or about that really. I think it's more confusion than him having to point out that he hasn't played Mario Kart in forever because that's the cool thing to do or whatever. Brad even sat in on the MK7 Quick Look, so he at least got some of the game from that.
He might just not care about Mario Kart, and therefore it doesn't occupy much mental real estate. That's where I stand, and holy cow this thread got annoying.
Where did you watch it? I don't see it up.
Sure, that's where I stand as well.
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