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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
If this was idle thumbs it would be a bird noise instead.
No...they just do fart noises now.
SteveWinwood
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a few years ago a friend and i whipped out his old ps1 stash
we played crash team racing and toy story racing
toy story racing was better
but it still sucked
But isn't he supposed to do that at Giant Bomb? Like, it's been his job since he started GB?
CAPTAIN, WE'VE GOT A RECURSION SPIRAL INBOUND!
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Or maybe you should take a break from GB.
I don't understand the recent Jeff criticisms to be honest. Have people not been following the site or his work at GS? He loves to shit on games he either doesn't care about, doesn't like, or objectively thinks are bad games. It's one of the many reasons I go to GB, people like Jeff being honest and shitting on games he doesn't like.
Dr Duncan Steel
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davidsaurus
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Except basically everything Patrick writes is not boring.
GlamFM
Banned
Right in the feels
That really freaked me out when I was on Twitter just now. I audibly said "what the fuck?" When I saw that "Ryan Davis" had tweeted before I read it.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Watching the Mario Kart quick look and lol at the Jeff criticism.
Jimmyfenix
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As someone who does not care about mario kart yes crash team racing was superior.
Happy birthday ryan <3
Happy birthday ryan <3
The whole issue of what should/shouldn't happen to your digital life after you've died is a strange one.
bigwinnerx
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Alex was pretty great through the Quick Look. I have no doubt he and Vinny can do some good stuff in New York.
Haunted
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Greatly underrated line from Drew right there.
The man doesn't get his dues on this Bombcast!
Jimmyfenix
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Last year it was Sunday. It should be the same this time around.
Have to admit I also totally cracked up at this line.
A guy I went to high school with died in an accident. His mom has access to his Facebook account and will occasionally post things (including pictures) from his account.
It is never not weird.
Hot Coldman
Banned
CTR, Sonic Transformed and Mario Kart DS are my holy trinity of kart racers. Sounds like MK8 probably takes DS's crown, though.
Yeh that was a great line.
Mookie1515
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I've been a long time supporter of Drew. Glad to see him coming into his own, he had nothing but an uphill battle being a defacto 'replacement' for Ryan (because, come on, there is no such thing), and happy to see him carving out a niche.
TriangleOfCorruption
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While I quite like the kart customisation stuff, I wish the characters' weights weren't a factor. I just want to pick Yoshi, don't make second guess myself, he's my character dammit.
Freedom = $1.05
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They have to do something about that battle mode in MK8, though. It was the thing that kept me coming back to MK64 back in the day even if the tracks weren't the best or the game felt slow in general.
at least it was better than that gamecube mk garbage
TheBaronOfNA
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They realized that parts had stats differences?
Same here.
The game tries so, so hard to give the impression that there's awesome shit happening all around, that it's often cleverly disguising the dull-as-rocks core racing mechanics.
Who cares about skilled driving when a randomized powerup can negate everything in a millisecond. Who cares about taking out the other karts when they are still going to be rubber-banding their way to the pack regardless. It's a dumb romp 'till the final round, because that's where everything is decided anyway.
Jeff said it right, it takes the Mario Party approach to racing games.
Accessible, sure. But is it fun beyond a day or two? Not to me. Not without a couch full of friends.
That's a big improvement over Sonic Transformed which was boring to me no matter what way I played it, aside from the references.
I feel like what a kart racing game needs is some kind of skilled way to negate homing missile power-ups through fancy driving or something. I don't have a good idea of how you'd do it though. Frankly, in racing games there's nothing more boring to me than the lap where you're just clearly ahead of all your opposition; it's way more entertaining slamming it out for position at the head of a tight-knit pack. But I don't know how you'd do it...
Mario Kart is what would happen to Soccer/Football if you gave the trailing team a penalty kick every 6 minutes.
Mario Kart is what would happen to Basketball if you gave the trailing team a free throw to start every possession.
Mario Kart is what would happen to Baseball if you gave the trailing team a free baserunner every inning for each run they were behind.
Sure, the more skilled teams would still manage to win more often than bad teams, but the sports wouldn't be taken seriously anymore.
Mario Kart is what would happen to Basketball if you gave the trailing team a free throw to start every possession.
Mario Kart is what would happen to Baseball if you gave the trailing team a free baserunner every inning for each run they were behind.
Sure, the more skilled teams would still manage to win more often than bad teams, but the sports wouldn't be taken seriously anymore.
EmCeeGramr
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If only there was some way to play with humans without there being a full couch of people, where there's no AI rubberbanding. Hmmmmm
This isn't eKarts yo
Still doesn't account for, 'here's your super item because you're in last place. No one's a loser in Mario Kart!'
EmCeeGramr
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Except for all of the people who lose, because they're worse at the game than the people who win?
Seriously, the comparison to Mario Party is completely overblown. The overwhelming majority of the time, the guys who win or even place at Mario Kart actually win because they drove better. This isn't 2003 and playing Double Dash on 150cc against the cheating CPU.
NumberThree
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So the last few posts have reached the unimaginable conclusion that Mario Kart is at its best as a couch multiplayer game that isn't taken seriously.
It's a game.
As a game, it is as broken as the changes I listed would make those other games.
Except in MK8 it's 'hey you're 11th, have a mushroom' or 'hmm 9th, a green shell will do'. The item distribution is nothing like it used to be. Do your research!
SuperSonic1305
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CTR is easily the best kart racer.
Hydranockz
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I don't think Mario Kart or indeed Mario Party are games people are supposed to take seriously...
I agree, which is why I don't buy them.
TheBaronOfNA
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I'm conflicted, the wish of Jeff that Mario Kart becomes competitive is horrific but also is the comparasion with Mario Party.
Neither is Smash but that doesn't stop people from trying.
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