HAY GUYS

Omnislash124 · Apr 6, 2008, 10:17 AM

This sounds pretty awesome so far. Can't wait for April 28th. I probably won't be picking this up launch day though since a lot of other games are on my radar and I'm pretty sure they have a much shorter shelf span than Mario Kart Wii, which I can probably predict to be selling well into 2009 and probably 2010, for the same reason why I could easily walk into a Best Buy today and find Mario Kart: Double Dash!! at the retail $29.99.

As for the controls. I'd still probably use the GCN unless there are A LOT more gimps coming. And if there are, I'd revert to the Nunchuck+Wiimote as I'm pretty sure only the GCN and the Classic controllers are gimped. Nunchuck+Wiimote still feels like a traditional controller, except detached from each other and the motion controls will still be there. I could live with that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Omnislash124 · 08:03 AM

So I tried online a bit earlier with my cousins, but we tried only two races and both races ended within 5 seconds and I was declared the winner. I'm assuming I was disconnected?

As for my opinions on Mario Kart: I find it pretty fun, but only with more people. I like the new tracks, but I think 12 karts is a bit too chaotic. What it really means for the guys up front is that A) Shitloads of people are bunched up right behind you (unless you are godly) and can overtake you easily with a single red shell or B) even if you are godly, there are more people who could screw you over, not to mention more screw-over items that affect more than one person (Lightning, Powblocks, Squids, and in this game, Bullet Bill, which is deadly considering how close together everybody is, and finally, of course, the Blue Shell.) I've seen myself get hit 5 times consecutively by so many items, usually starting with a random banana or fake box, followed up by a blue shell, then some red shells, and then a bullet bill for the icing on the cake.

Also, for more people, I'm not sure if it's just me or if anybody else noticed, but 3 - 4 players is choppy as hell, even locally. It's definitely not running at full speed with that many people. I don't know, overall, it feels like an unfinished product that they rushed out the door to me. I think it probably would have been better to work on this a bit more, personally.

But otherwise, solid game. I had fun playing it. I generally use either the GCN controller or the Wiimote+Nunchuck combination. They both work very well for me. As for Bikes vs. Karts, I generally like to go Bikes because I like the better handling on them. My character is usually Baby Peach, reason being that I like to piss everybody else in the room off with her voice. Fun times. I also use some of my random Miis occasionally. Seeing Miles Edgeworth in the middle of a race is funny.

There's nowhere I can't reach.