Hmm, true.
For one thing I still actually tried to win so I rarely did more than slow down a little to hit someone with a tail or fire a single shell backwards.
Some of these guys, on the other hand, will throw a green shell at you and then, as you're recovering, throw another behind them to hit you again even though there are several people right in front of them. Or will go well out of their way to ram you with a star even though you went way out of your way to avoid them. Or will fire all their fire flowers backwards at you even though there's a crowd in front of them. Or will use their Lightning when half the room has invincibility and you're only at the beginning of Lap 2 so there wasn't really a need to do that unless you wanted to piss off the few who didn't have invincibility.
It makes for some... interesting... races.
I knew most of GAF was going to be a test of my patience/serenity when I noticed that everyone will double up on you without a second thought. It's bad enough that you hit me with something tossed behind you and shattered all my items, why wouldn't you save that extra boomerang toss/those additional shells for defense or catching someone else nearby? Nah, we just hit the dude we hit 2 seconds ago because "fuck yo' couch nigga!"
I was caught in an especially hilarious moment of this last night watching Heath in my rear view mirror literally weave the full width of SNES Rainbow Road behind me just to ram me with like the last three milliseconds of his Star. I was straight up at a loss of words seeing it happen.
Let's not even talk about Hypno intentionally running into my Bob-omb where there was no human reason for that to go down when I was scrambling with him and Roo to get first and took the water route on the last half of GCN Sherbert Land. Or Hypno doing anything really.
That's some weak ass shit. Coin item while getting hit by a red, that's some standard MK8(tm) stuff. Then you got hit by other items? That's Mario Kart(tm). Please don't imitate greatness if it isn't close to it.
I got hit by a Blue Shell as a baby, which is also standard MK(tm) stuff. Now I decided to go along my merry way to get at least some okay position, but some Pink Gold Peach thought it would be perfect to drag my red shell now and the music note thing that jump and I just happened to land on it... Okay, did not expect that to happen, I can still place higher bottom half positions I thought, but then I drove forward and get squished by the music note.
It was at that point I realized the game was out to get me. I was broken. ;_;
I don't give a fuck, I was first and literally winced when I got that coin. I hardly ever get offensive items in Frantic (something I've noticed more and more recently is that I'll get really mild items or triple reds that I have to hang onto for dear life most times) and interestingly enough, coins are a
rarity for me in first in the lobbies, so that just hurt me, especially after doing so much work to try and weave through everyone else's bullshit. :lol
Tangent: The Yoshi Egg on Yoshi's Valley can create some really silly unblockables/unavoidables if you ever get knocked into it.
