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[kunonabi]

Later Mario Kart games have way more tracks thanks to the "retro" courses. The AI rubber band is really noticeable and very annoying. It has the most boring Rainbow Road.

How is it better than Mario Kart DS or 7 or 8?

Genuinely asking.

It's not so dependent on items and actual racing skill matters. It also has the best battle mode in the entire series.

 

[Shadowstar39]

The only game where I feel the devs accomplished what they set out to do, both graphically and artistically, was Mega Man 64:

Wait is this a port of megaman legends? I didn't even know this was on the n64. Although I'm sure the control scheme is crap.

The legend series is my favorite and it bothers me everyday that Capcom doesn't port them to the switch.
This right here shows they aren't stuck do to some contract with Sony.

As for best graphics. Wave race is great and Forsaken. I just played that the other night for 1st time and it's the closet game outside of overload on PC that comes close to the Descent games. They need ported too.

 

[nkarafo]

It's not so dependent on items and actual racing skill matters.

Not in single player though. No matter how good you are, no matter how far behind you left the CPU after you hit them, the CPU will always speed boost in order to hover around you and try to steal 1st place. It's actually a matter of luck if they don't steal it so you need to have a last minute item to make sure they don't.

There is no other Mario Kart game that does this. Sure, in later entries the CPU will throw a blue shell at you 100% of the time but you can still win only with your skill. You can either stay at close second place to avoid it or let it hit you and reclaim your position. And if you are good enough, you should have enough distance to tank the shell without losing first place. Because if your driving skills are high enough you can even leave the CPU a long distance behind, since the rubber banding isn't as strong (but it's still there). You can basically win without ever using any items most of the time, by just your skills alone.

You can't do that in Mario Kart 64, which makes it the least dependent on driving skills actually. Because skill can't help you beat the cheating CPU without items.

Yes, they did this so high skilled players aren't bored when playing the single player mode. Some people may prefer this but it doesn't change the fact that a high skilled player will never be able to hold distance from the CPU.