>punishes you for playing the game well
It's a party game. You're not meant to take it seriously. It's just for fun.
As time went on I stopped having the patience for getting Mario Karted. I didn't move on to other racing games, I just stopped playing Mario Kart.
>>727734256It doesn't even help the person who gets it, thats the real problem.
How's World doing?I went back to 8D
>>727734524Sometimes just spreading the pain is enough.
>>727734256>makes you schizophrenic
>>727735234on block fort, definitely.
>punishes you for playing the game at all
>punishes you for playing the game right
>>727734429>block the first one>think I'm safe because I have another shield >third one incoming >serve around a bus thinking that will work>Get hit>loseI HATE RED SHELLS IF YOU FIRE You're cringe if you fire all your red shells at 1 fucking person
>>727735591>Heh, nice try, kid...
>>727735234These fuckers have been coming at me from the absolute wildest angles in World, always around my shield, I swear I could be in 1st on a straightaway and still get smacked right in the face with one from god knows where. I'm not schizophrenic, they really are out to get me
>>727734256My favorite item besides lightning and being last place. God I hate this game so much I love it.
>>727734256If you're actually good, you can deal with it.This is the mid-wit filter.
Is it safe to assume that anyone who gets hit by a blue shell more than once and still gets first place is 100% cheater? Because I find that very unrealistic, no matter how good they are at mario kart.
>>727735865what are you supposed to do besides mag dump on the guy in front of you? let someone pass you and then shoot them for daring?
>>727737334no. skill issue. git gud, faggot.
>>727737334Not really, although how easy it is depends on the game. In MK8(D) for example the middle of the pack is such a bucket of crabs that it's pretty easy for whoever was able to pull out front early on to create a really sizable gap since they're under so little pressure.
>>727737334Probably depends on the course and kart combo.A baby character in a light vehicle could get back up to speed in no time at all and still enjoy long mini turbos. They could maintain a lead.A heavy, high speed character could take a while to get back up to pace....I have no actual data on this shit. Maybe it evens out in the end and I just presume that high acceleration characters recover more quickly while it's more devastating to heavy characters.
Isn't it faster to just fall off the track and respawn than to get hit by it in the newer MKs?
>only get coins in firsti want to behead the one who thought coins should be an item
>>727737334you're supposed to be close to the second placer, that way you can let him get hit while you dodge everything else.
>>727734256Come home, anon. Play a game with actual fun item design.
>>727734256just mushroom as it hits you, it gives iframes
>>727742487>souls mechanics in marryo kartjust end it all
>>727734630this guy gets it
>>727734256This is basically babbies introduction to left wing politics.
>>727734256>anti-perspirants
>>727746386Man you are fucked in the head.
>>727734375>pulling out the $80 playschool see and say at a "party"yeah no, you're a faggot-adjacent manchild playing with autistic losersyou're playing to have any kind of dopamine instead of having sexand even children know this shit is nip slanteye bullshit
>>727734256if you're actually playing well you should have one of these bad boys in your arsenal to stop it
>>727747461u mad
>>727747798>if you're actually playing well There's no "playing well" in a game where items are functionally random and the only good counterplay to items is other items.
>>727737401One of my friends often tries to try-hard and minmax in Mario Kart so I always do exactly this. I intentionally race sub-optimally so he will barely pass me, and then red shell him. He tries to shit on our other friends for not taking optimal max speed and acceleration, which obviously works great if you have zero opponents, but when he plays with us, he doesn't have zero opponents.
>>727734375Yeah that's why the game is full of rubber banding mechanics. Like getting better weapons and driving faster the further behind you are.
>>727748639>driving faster the further behind you are.Only the AI does that.
>>727734375I personally don't have fun with games where my own personal skill doesn't matter at all. There's a difference between "choosing to do stupid shit because it's fun" and "the only option is stupid shit because personal skill barely matters at all".
>>727748064this is very true and this thread is completely wetawded
>>727746716filtered by reality. Blue shells are communism
>you're in first place and want an item to defend yourself with?>fuck you, you get nothing, enjoy being hit
>punishes you for playing
>>727734256blue shell is fine, it can feel annoying but it is a well-designed part of the overarching item game and has counterplay. the problem with mk is that the racing part is both shallow and punishes you for doing well. item part is not ideal but considerably more functional.
Honestly Golden Mushrooms and Mega Shrooms are more annoying in MK World than the Blue Shell.
>>727750568The issue is that the only counterplay to the Blue Shell is items, and items are random, which means counterplay is effectively just luck, so there's not actually any meaningful counterplay at all. It's just a binary "do you have the counter" check. Mario Kart is incredibly against driving skill mattering in any meaningful way outside of Time Trial mode and the Bullet Bill item is proof of this.
>>727750721Slowing down to second place is a counter, and so is getting a big gap and just riding it out. Again, MK's item game is flawed, but Blue Shell is one of the better-designed parts of it, most of the problems with the items are double items resulting in spam and viable bagging stemming from items being based on position rather than gap to first. The real issue with MK is that it's utterly inept as a racing game, disable the items and it's borderline unplayable.
SNES Mario Kart has a rear view mirror.
Dodging a blue shell is borderline automatic in World. If you have a mushroom the timing is extremely generous.
>>727735591This. Its the only item i genuinely hate for breaking all momentum unavoidably.
>Rewinds in your pathThey ruined the fun of the blue shell with that.
>>727734256>>727735591These are meant to bring the drivers closer together. Being close together = more fighting and slowdown. Otherwise the first place has it easier to slip away since he is away from all bumping into each other and items
>>727734256>see blue shell approaching>back up to let 2nd place go ahead of me
>>727752553Bringing the drivers closer together by forcibly dragging people further ahead back feels like shit.
>move forward in game>encounter enemies and obstacleswtf why is the game punishing me for advancing??
>>727752984they already have an unfair advantage
>>727749386Putting coins back in the games after super circuit makes me seethe to no end. Complete waste of an item slot and 80% of the time what you’ll pick up if you’re higher than 3rd
>>727752693does that work these days? i think it used to lock on to a player the moment it was fired.
