Comments on: Editorial: Mario Kart Hate

By: DiceAdmiral

DiceAdmiral — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:19:15 +0000

Man, I was ready to say that this was still a GOOD game despite my many nitpicks (bad gamepad integration, no clock on races, splitting N64 Rainbow Road in thirds) UNTIL I tried “battle mode”. What a piece of crap that is. They didn’t even make new courses for battle mode! I played battle quite a lot on MKDS and a bit in MK7 and this is just awful in comparison. GAH! I miss Block Fort.

By: James 'Gyme' Pagel

James 'Gyme' Pagel — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:24:35 +0000

I am enjoying my time with Mario Kart 8, but I feel a great deal of that enjoyment comes from the fact that it is the first MK game I have played since MK64. While I agree that the chaotic nature of the game is certainly the source of the series’ charm, it is also serves as the biggest source of frustration. Getting nailed by a blue shell followed by a green/red shell (or three) in the last leg of a Grand Prix race is frustrating, but it is infuriating that such a series of events results in a second place finish. A second place finish in a single race would not be terrible, except you need to get first in all four Grand Prix races in order to get the three star ranking.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:10:40 +0000

And now that the majority of the dust has settled on the game I feel like Mario Kart 8 was held up as a game it never really was in the face of a severe software drought…

Exactly.

…for a system that still manages to keep an interested userbase.

If only *just*.