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9031 | 65.25% |
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1191 | 8.60% |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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pokeyman posted:Bitching about Mario Kart is a bizarre, if popular, pastime. In my experience the better player wins the most matches out of 100, but won't necessarily win any given race.
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Apr 4, 2014 05:59
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japtor posted:Yeah if you're good enough you should generally win or at least finish towards the top pretty consistently, with a few outliers where you get completely boned. Course the latter is more likely to happen with a group of similarly good MK players, and I imagine there's a decent amount considering how long the series has been around and having sold a billion copies or so. One day competitive Mario Kart fans will rival competitive Smash fans. They will only want to play Luigi Circuit with bananas and green shells.
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Apr 4, 2014 06:07
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thetoughestbean posted:One of the tricks to deal with the blue shell(at least in DS and 7) is to keep an eye on the items. If someone has a blue shell, then it's time to slam on the brakes and let some other schmuck take the hit. Once the shell was launched in Mario Kart 7 it would go for whoever was in first when it was launched even if they dropped to second, which was complete bullshit.
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Apr 4, 2014 06:11
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Sire Oblivion posted:Once the shell was launched in Mario Kart 7 it would go for whoever was in first when it was launched even if they dropped to second, which was complete bullshit. Nah, that's only if its like right on you as you try to brake to second. If they launch it off and you brake to 2nd and its not caught up to you yet it'll go for the next sap. I really hope they eliminate the Flying Red Shell thing MK7 did whenever somebody shot off a Red shell from across a Hang glider gap and it flies across the gap just to hit you, oftentimes WHILE you're hang gliding. I mean, that's not really a balance thing, that's just bullshit. There's no reason a Red Shell should be allowed to travel like that just to smack you because Yoshi or whomever shot it off before they did the Hang Gliding segment. Hell, just have Hang gliding segments make you impervious to all shells, they already make it so you can't be hit by Lightning if you're in the air, or at least it doesn't make you stop and fall to your death.
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Apr 4, 2014 06:31
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Lightning not being able to hit you in the air sounds like a great thing since at least half of my hosed up MKWii 150cc cups have been because lightning would stop you in midair, and usually over a pit. It's also great that Mario Kart 8 isn't as flat looking as Wii was.
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Apr 4, 2014 07:28
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Spacebump posted:One day competitive Mario Kart fans will rival competitive Smash fans. They will only want to play Luigi Circuit with bananas and green shells.
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Apr 4, 2014 07:50
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I was wondering, in between now and the new Mario Kart coming out, is the refurbished $200 deluxe console probably the best deal I could get? I'm on the edge of taking the plunge, but I was aiming to be as thrifty as possible, especially because I never intended to get a Wii U in the first place. The allure of fun local multiplayer is becoming too much.
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Apr 4, 2014 08:23
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That's probably your best bet. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Mario Kart 8 bundle announced soon but you'd still get a better deal getting one at $200 and the game separately.
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Apr 4, 2014 08:33
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So NOE have confirmed a Super Smash Bros. 4 themed direct for the 8th.
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Apr 4, 2014 09:09
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Cool! That probably means a simultaneous broadcast for other regions, too.
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Apr 4, 2014 09:12
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Bummer that they are going with the new times for these things. Midnight local was better for me than 8am local is.
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Apr 4, 2014 09:23
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5PM is perfect for me. Really excited for this, hope we get some info on game modes/online play.
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Apr 4, 2014 09:32
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I'm hoping we get some more details on non smash related stuff due to release soon, because it's going to be weird if we go into E3 with the Smash games potentially being the only games we have a release date for.
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Apr 4, 2014 10:08
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The only problem I have with items like the blue shell is that you need to play the single player mode to unlock all the characters, karts, and tracks. Having to do the all cup tour from scratch because of some horrible luck during the final course isn't great.
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Apr 4, 2014 11:25
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e: nevermind
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Apr 4, 2014 13:33
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That loving Sned posted:The only problem I have with items like the blue shell is that you need to play the single player mode to unlock all the characters, karts, and tracks. Having to do the all cup tour from scratch because of some horrible luck during the final course isn't great. I consider myself to be a pretty decent Mario Kart player and really the only time the blue shell stuff bothers me is when I'm trying for stars on my profile. I'm so close to 3 on Mario Kart 7 but it keeps coming down to bad luck on the last few cups I need to star.
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Apr 4, 2014 14:05
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Spacebump posted:One day competitive Mario Kart fans will rival competitive Smash fans. They will only want to play Luigi Circuit with bananas and green shells. Dude, green shells can ricochet unpredictably and so make the whole thing random and no longer an ultimate test of skill. Luigi Circuit Yoshi only No items You probably liked tripping too...
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Apr 4, 2014 14:07
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Trent posted:Dude, green shells can ricochet unpredictably and so make the whole thing random and no longer an ultimate test of skill. Mario Kart 8 Tournament Degree in Chaos Theory REQUIRED
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Apr 4, 2014 14:23
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What in the world, blue shells are usually pretty easy to avoid you wimplings. Not knowing how to avoid the blue shell and wanting it out of the game completely sounds to me like an idea a beginner who isn't familiar with the game would come up with.
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Apr 4, 2014 15:27
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The Blue Shell seems easier to work with on the dual-screened games than it does on the big-screen games. For this reason, I have high hopes for handling them in 8.
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Apr 4, 2014 15:32
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Isn't the whole point of the blue shell to punish players who get half a lap ahead of everyone else? In a game about giving everyone at least a shot at winning that's never been crazy to me. Mario Kart Wii blue shells were insane, but that was because the AI cheated like crazy on higher difficulties and your only choice was to work on your lap times or get lucky.
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Apr 4, 2014 15:36
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I know it isn't directly related to the WiiU but seeing as this is the closest thing we have to a Nintendo thread: This was today on the entrance to my university (medschool)  Edit: And of course whats is Link without Samus? 
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Apr 4, 2014 15:47
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papasyhotcakes posted:I know it isn't directly related to the WiiU but seeing as this is the closest thing we have to a Nintendo thread: ...Quick tell Nintendo, see if they'll buy it.
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Apr 4, 2014 15:48
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That looks neat, but why was it there?
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Apr 4, 2014 15:58
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One of the Professors is a big fan of LOTR, Star Wars and Nintendo in general and apparently one of the perks of being a neurosurgeon is having a lot of money to do what you want. Said professor is also one of the people in charge of the PreGrad program, and sometimes he brings his collection of sculptures to the school for us to gawk at.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:05
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papasyhotcakes posted:One of the Professors is a big fan of LOTR, Star Wars and Nintendo in general and apparently one of the perks of being a neurosurgeon is having a lot of money to do what you want. Said professor is also one of the people in charge of the PreGrad program, and sometimes he brings his collection of sculptures to the school for us to gawk at. That's awesome. That thing must've been crazy expensive though.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:12
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Nah, that's only if its like right on you as you try to brake to second. According to the wiki you need to drop out of first before it's launched.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:16
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Sire Oblivion posted:According to the wiki you need to drop out of first before it's launched. I think you get a little bit of leeway if its jut been fired, but if its started giving you the "shell approaching" warning its too late.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:23
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Some kind of Tropical Freeze patch came down last night, anyone know what that's about?
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Apr 4, 2014 16:24
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Artix posted:Some kind of Tropical Freeze patch came down last night, anyone know what that's about? There was a glitch on world 2-5 that sometimes made the map not fill out after you beat it, making progress impossible.
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Apr 4, 2014 17:04
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whaley posted:What in the world, blue shells are usually pretty easy to avoid you wimplings. Not knowing how to avoid the blue shell and wanting it out of the game completely sounds to me like an idea a beginner who isn't familiar with the game would come up with.
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Apr 4, 2014 17:48
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whaley posted:What in the world, blue shells are usually pretty easy to avoid you wimplings. Not knowing how to avoid the blue shell and wanting it out of the game completely sounds to me like an idea a beginner who isn't familiar with the game would come up with. How are they easy to avoid? When you are running first, you don't get mushrooms. Unless it is getting to you right as you have some sort of boost available, you can't avoid them.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:21
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papasyhotcakes posted:Edit: And of course whats is Link without Samus? Of course it's Other M Samus...
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Apr 4, 2014 18:26
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whaley posted:What in the world, blue shells are usually pretty easy to avoid you wimplings. Not knowing how to avoid the blue shell and wanting it out of the game completely sounds to me like an idea a beginner who isn't familiar with the game would come up with. That strat really only makes sense if you're in a lobby where nintendo's shitawful matchmaking system somehow managed to organize a group of similarly skilled players, and you're not half a lap ahead of 2nd place. Regardless, "try not winning for a bit" as a strat is dumb, and trying to rationalize a dumb item they made worse every iteration (i have not played the 3ds mk so maybe they made it less dumb there???) is even dumber. The best strat to avoiding blue shells in mkwii is to just hope you're on a track with a lot of midair poo poo or about to go through a cannon or some other device that makes you invincible for the duration. Minidust posted:Yeah, if you want to see a multiplayer game that is really broken by a single item there's Tetris Axis on 3DS. There's an item that makes you switch the entire playfield with your opponent. It effectively ends the match any time it shows up, because you can just sabotage your own playfield and then send it to the opponent so the next piece kills them. And of course, in that game, items are an all-or-nothing deal, so you're stuck with vanilla Tetris if you don't want to deal with that one hideously unfair item. haven't mp tetris games w/ items always had a field flipping item
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Apr 4, 2014 18:33
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Apparently MK8 drops from 60fps to 30fps if more than 2 people play locally. That's according to NintendoLife.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:37
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Quest For Glory II posted:Apparently MK8 drops from 60fps to 30fps if more than 2 people play locally. That's according to NintendoLife. That's uhhhh kind of a big deal. What happens when 4 people play locally? Does it just poo poo itself?
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Apr 4, 2014 18:43
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It's 30fps for 3 or 4 players. Also Mario Kart TV is similar to demo recording in PC games, rather than capturing and uploading video. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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Apr 4, 2014 18:44
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Louisgod posted:That's uhhhh kind of a big deal. What happens when 4 people play locally? Does it just poo poo itself? From what I hear it drops some graphics features (Not as long a draw distance I think) and it goes from constant 60 fps to constant 30.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:44
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Louisgod posted:That's uhhhh kind of a big deal. What happens when 4 people play locally? Does it just poo poo itself? Hopefully it doesn't go Mario Kart 64 mode and take away the music.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:45
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Spacebump posted:Hopefully it doesn't go Mario Kart 64 mode and take away the music. Yes, that was the problem with mario kart 64 multiplayer. not the frame skip actually speeding the game up and making racing awful.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:47
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