Only time Blue Shell can really seriously hinder you in a heated race is if it’s on the last stretch and you get hit with it right near the finish line with people on your ass. Otherwise now there are ways to combat and or lessen the damage it does to your place especially if you’re consistent.
Now that I think about it…having 2 item boxes in MK8D is probably going to make this easier as you can probably more easily hoard a mushroom for first place.
You’ve got two items in the new version? That’s cool but my main gripe with the items in 8 is there’s too many and the rng on them is not tweaked correctly. All too often you get something that isn’t very useful, and it ends up just being 2nd and 3rd fighting it out with each other.
If there people on my ass with a blue shell, I sometime slow down so they also get hit by the impact
Hahahaha SMK isn’t hard either what a laugh.
Depends upon the situation really. If you have a pretty sizeable lead then it’s better to take the blue shell if you don’t have a way to avoid it and just try to right yourself before 2nd place takes advantage. Most of the time I don’t even bother trying to slow down unless I feel for certain that I can get the blue shell to hit 2nd place since there’s been times I’ve attempted that and it’s backfired and I still ate it. Especially if it’s against people who are aware of the situation and immediately notice that 1st place is slowing down for what seems to be no reason.
The only challenge in SMK is the computer straight up cheating and learning that heavyweights run the show on 200cc.
Wouldn’t matter because I’m not buying Mario Kart anyways on Switch. Again, I’m not interested in playing Wii U games on my Switch, other than Zelda. If I wanted to play Wii U games I would have bought a Wii U.
It’s unfortunate that All-Stars Racing Transformed didn’t become the new standard for kart racers, since it blows Mario Kart out of the water in every possible way.
Faster speed. Better drifting and the ability to snake. Items that are significant but not dominating. Sky/Sea/Land transformations that actually change how the game plays. Characters that aren’t Pink Gold Peach.
OK, Ges, we get it, you don’t like Nintendo. So why are you in a Nintendo thread?
At least purbeast actually owns the Nintendo products he criticizes…
Why are you in the Videogame General thread when you hate videogames? 
You know that’s not true.
I hate most games(since they’re mostly remakes, or made by Ubisoft), not all of them.
Ironically, outside of that Ninja Storm collection, this year has been fantastic for gaming.
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All-Stars Racing is garbage
Speed and the ability to snake has nothing to do with it. All transformations are a gimmick anyways.
It boils down to one thing, is the game is fun and compelling and you would want to play it again.
Both serious hardcore and casuals players both tell you the game sucks if it gets boring.
I have set down pro gamers, small children and non gamer adults to the same race in Mario Kart games and they all had fun.
I can’t speak the same for All-Stars Racing Trashformed
Make that your signature.
Pretty much ANY racing game that is multiplayer can be fun if you sit down in a room with 4 people and all play together. I just prefer my games to be challenging and as non-random as possible, which is one of the big draws to me about fighting games. When you lose, it’s because the other person outplayed you and nothing other than that. It’s not because of the AI, it’s not because of random spawn points, it’s not because of the random weapon you got, etc. It’s just a preference I have with gaming.
I can have fun with party games like every other MK game after SMK, but they just don’t have any kind of lasting appeal because they are nothing more than party games and are only fun when played with other people in the same room.
Then the whole go-kart sub genera and any racer with a combat mode or combat function is not for you.
If you wanna talk about transforming being nothing more than a gimmick, look no further than Mario Kart, where gliding lasts all of five seconds per use and water sections are literally just like driving on land, but even slower than the game already is. You can take those out of Mario Kart entirely and almost nothing would change.
Meanwhile, boats in ASRT evoke strong memories of Hydro Thunder with how they handle, and planes change the racing dynamic completely, shifting from an emphasis on drifting to one of last-second dodges for extra speed boosts. The different types of vehicles are built into the core of the experience, instead of just being a nice feature to put on screenshots.
Whenever I sat down to play MK8, it just made me wish I was playing All-Stars Racing Transformed.
You hate nintendo so no wonder
All-Star Racing Transformed is better than the Mario Karts, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun with it. I wish ASRT on consoles was as solid as awesome as the PC version, though…
I respect their second-party studios.