Comments on post #2828653

@rizegreymon33 on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2019-07-11T10:17:50-04:00

NegativeSoul said:

It's basically a joke about how the AI, specifically in Mario Kart Wii, has a tendency to have it out for you. In other words you're assaulted by bombs, shells, bananas, power-ups, and the racers in general more often than not. Almost to the point that unless you are really far in first place one attack can send you all the way to the back of the pack.

Sounds better than 3 heat seeking rockets followed by 3 warp orbs during CTRNF online play.

@ExtreVile on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2019-03-31T17:29:08-04:00

EternalForger said:

The crate and bomb remind me way more of Crash Team Racing.

That's because it is a reference to Crash Team Racing... I'm hype for the remastered version coming out soon.

@natartnat on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-22T03:45:40-04:00

NegativeSoul said:

It's basically a joke about how the AI, specifically in Mario Kart Wii, has a tendency to have it out for you. In other words you're assaulted by bombs, shells, bananas, power-ups, and the racers in general more often than not. Almost to the point that unless you are really far in first place one attack can send you all the way to the back of the pack.

thank you for your explaination

@Saladofstones on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-22T00:01:02-04:00

This font though, it looks really aliased (if that's even the right word).

@EternalForger on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-21T17:41:55-04:00

The crate and bomb remind me way more of Crash Team Racing.

@NWSiaCB on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-21T14:15:53-04:00

NegativeSoul said:

It's basically a joke about how the AI, specifically in Mario Kart Wii, has a tendency to have it out for you. In other words you're assaulted by bombs, shells, bananas, power-ups, and the racers in general more often than not. Almost to the point that unless you are really far in first place one attack can send you all the way to the back of the pack.

That's pretty much how it's always worked from Mario Kart 64 onwards. (In the original, the AI players didn't get regular items, but launched character-specific attacks, like Yoshi laying banana peel-like eggs around regardless of what place he was in.)

Rubber-banding in the races means that if you're far enough ahead, other racers will drive at impossible speeds to catch up, while they go slower if you're far enough behind. Likewise, the AI gets more severe weapons (blue shells, anyone?) the further ahead you get.

Because of that, it's sometimes a better strategy to just purposefully drop to 3rd or 4th place, get some red shells, struggle up to 2nd without items, then blast the 1st place guy right before the finish line to nab 1st before the AI can start pulling blue shells on you. (Alternately, in co-op, for the purposes of getting all the trophies, have one player be the designated winner, and the other be the bodyguard who hangs back at 4th place and murders the competition.)

Wii is only different because that's when they made it all presume the main mode was online play, and hence made the bots more aggressive like regular players, instead of having a few trailing losers that are always gimped so that you have to have no idea what you're doing to actually wind up in last place.

@NegativeSoul on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-21T14:02:48-04:00

natartnat said:

I didn't play that. So, why?

It's basically a joke about how the AI, specifically in Mario Kart Wii, has a tendency to have it out for you. In other words you're assaulted by bombs, shells, bananas, power-ups, and the racers in general more often than not. Almost to the point that unless you are really far in first place one attack can send you all the way to the back of the pack.

@natartnat on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-21T14:00:25-04:00

NegativeSoul said:

She better hope this ain't Mario Kart Wii.

I didn't play that. So, why?

@NegativeSoul on post #2828653 (artoria pendragon, nero claudius, nero claudius, artoria pendragon, and helena blavatsky (fate and 2 more) drawn by keita_naruzawa)

2017-08-21T13:45:59-04:00

She better hope this ain't Mario Kart Wii.