Double Dash is fine, its the Mario cart title that added having a 2nd item to hold into the mix
Mario Kart Wii was a wreck for a multitude of reasons besides motion controls. Which were optional anyways #classiccontrollerlife
- Bikes were stupid good. There was literally no reason to use a Kart.
- If you didnāt use Funky Kong or King Boo on Bike you basically didnāt play. They were far and away the best two characters.
- The rubber band effect was at its absolute worse for MKWii.
- Online was essentially unplayable due to all the hacking. Youād see as soon as the Green light flashed someone or multiple people with star power already on and/or youād constantly get hit by lightning.
Legit the worst mario Kart in the series.
MK8Deluxe not letting you swap your items is a travesty. That was the whole point of having the option in double dash. Item/Driver swapping based on the situation.
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I wouldnāt call it a travesty, but it would be nice to have.
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There have been an incalculable amount of times and situations where Iāve played MK8D and either wanted to swap items for the situation that was happening or get rid of the secondary item cause I didnāt need it In hope of getting something better.
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I have to say that after CTR, i couldnt really go back to MK.
The driving mechanics never felt engaging in a fun way for me.
Of all the Cart games in the market that came out before CTRNF, the only ones that i liked were ModNation and Little Big Planet raicing, and mostly because the customization and for being able to make your own tracks than for their gameplay.
I played MK mostly because it came with the WiiU i won when i was linving on El Salvador, and because it was fun when playing with my friends while drinking 
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Oh thereās been tons of Kart racers over the years that have been better or on the same plateau as that generations MK. Just no one really cares or doesnāt want to play them cause the learning curve is too high.
Iād rather play Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed, Konami Krazy Racers or Chocobo Racing to name a few. But MK is just more universally know and more universally accessible.
Itās why itās always one of the top 3-5 selling games on whatever hardware itās on and why itās seen by a lot of people as the standard barer for Kart Racers.
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The most overrated game is the entire Legend of Zelda series, but Ocarina of Time most of all. Iāve never played a Zelda game I could stand to finish. Theyāre all so generic and vastly outdone by other games in other areas. I think the series gets by on nostalgia.
Grand Theft Auto is another series Iāve never been able to stand. I donāt care how much freedom I have if I donāt have fun doing any of the shit the game allows.
Then again, I like Final Fantasy, so I donāt really get to yuck anyoneās yum.
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oh yeah, GTA V; as mentioned several times before; Iām forever puzzled why this continues to be top of the sales charts FOREVER, as if it was just released yesterday. (*also seems like thereās something fishy going on there but I try not to go into Conspiracy Mode too much about it)
Half-Life is another oneāit doesnāt look terrible, but thereās a legion of fans that hold it up as something thatās truly legendary. Everything about it looks fairly boring or just āokā at best, imo.
X-Men the arcade gameāit was tough to get into it back in the day simply because of the character designs. They were based off older versions of the characters. I was more familiar with how they looked in the 1993-era cartoon. That 90s-era look is always what comes to mind first when I think of those characters.
and the real deal blasphemy, of courseā the entire Dragon Quest franchise. That old-ass turn-based combat, manā¦ itās just something that will never be my jam. Also the music in the most recent one sounded terrible. (I watched a few re-streams of our olā pal āDarksfadilā playing it)
I had tons of fun playing MK Wii online. I think I used a kart with Funky the most. Never could get into the bikes in any MK game. Iād be on that game for hours into the late night, couldnāt put it down.
ALttP is my favorite Zelda, by a large margin. I actually just played it a little bit to try out the SNES library on my Switch and got caught up in it. Yup, itās still good. Iāll probably go ahead and beat it again.
I wish theyād release ALBW for Switch. I could stand to play through that again, too. Might dust off my 3DS when Iām done with ALttP, since Iām playing in portable mode anyway (way easier to get a little session in while the baby is sleeping and still be available when she wakes up).
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Konami brawlers in general are like that. Theyāre total ass to play, I doubt anyone would have cared about them were it not for the licenses we all liked as kids.
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As someone else who loves SotN, it has been beaten at its own game over and over since release (barring the music, of course). Itās one of those games that I think you really have to have played when it was new to get the full impact of. Someone who starts the āmetroidvaniaā genre with newer games isnāt going to be as floored.
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Tokyo Game Show online will be in late Septemberā¦
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Oh yeah, I wanted to say Ocarina of Time is overrated asf too.
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Do you consider games that aged poorly overrated? People are saying OoT, and I would say that itās not the best 3D adventure game by todayās standards, but itās 23 years old, and i still would say itās NOT BAD.
in 1997 that game was bananas.
People do still say itās amazing today, which i would not agree with. So if the common thought is that a game is āstill amazingā but it really aināt, does that mean itās overrated?
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Symphony still has better VIBE than most games and thatās where it wins I think. And sure there have been better metroidvania games since, but itās still the game that defined the genre much like sf2 did for fighting games and while aspects of it donāt necessarily still hold up, the things it does right it does REALLY right.
Being an old school Castlevania fan, that game took awhile to grow one when I first played it. I always preferred the n64 games and still do in some ways.
I was today years old when I found out they not only made a Last of the Mohicans game, but that itās also popular enough to be overrated 
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The funniest thing though if some executives had given a particular X Men pilot the green light in the late eighties these would have been the designs the characters would have been rocking when they first dropped on TV. Imagine such a world where Dazzler might be a household name and Storm would be known for her skimpy outfit instead of the classic silver one.
lmao @ new Cyberpunk trailer
Keanu just says āfuckā and it ends
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Time is a cruel mistress. I remember OoT being one of the GOAT titles that I have played. Still a solid title, but more modern game design spoils us.
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Well there are games from back in the early 3D days I still consider some of the best, so no.
OoT was a good game, but I think itās still overrated and def not the GOAT Zelda game. LTTP holds that spot for me.
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