Sheikah

Wow. Utterly speechless at the same tryhards defending Iwata again. It's absurd to believe anything the man says.

Razor sharp. Razor sharp...

Their Vita isn't doing well and the PS3 is now last gen so that probably goes some way to explain the drop in hardware sales. Handhelds are pretty fucked now that smartphones and tablets are here though. Success is usually judged by looking at the home console as opposed to handhelds and the PS4 is making Sony appear really good right now.

Your opening line, I very almost said the same thing. I'd be interested to see how often he plays the game and how good he really is seeing as his answer has often been 'you're not using it the right way'.

Even using them for shortcuts, you're looking at maybe a 5 second maximum saving and you have to hold onto the mushroom for up to a whole lap to reach the point of greatest usefulness. It's really not much use if you're back in 8th-10.

Dang. And there I was, thinking you understood the complaint. You didn't have a bleeding clue. It's not that that people want the game to remain the same as one they knew before, it's that they fundamentally changed something that was needed for balance purposes.

The Vita version of this is back down to a normal price on Amazon for those wishing to get it: £22.85.

Good. Now we're getting somewhere, my confused friend. Now, taking everything that has been said on the matter thus far, are you able to correctly understand the problem many people are reporting, or do you still need more clarification?

Deal with it.

But nowhere near the level at which they performed in MK Wii. That is the issue.

Second one looks better, I agree.

After fuck knows how many Mario Karts, I certainly know how to use mushrooms properly, thank you very much! The problem is that the boosts they provide have been severely gimped (look back to the MK Wii video I posted), while offensive items if anything have got more powerful due to the reduced protection you now have with 1 item/coins. If you get sent to like 10th at the beginning when playing with people as good as you due to a clusterfuck, the items don't really help you out too much.

That has to be my favourite ridiculous scene in the series. They melt gold, in a simple cooking pot over a fire, in a matter of seconds.

It's not just University where you should give sources. :p As a general rule, it's good to give sources for figures unless they're so obvious or well known already that they don't need them. Seeing as it doesn't take much effort to list the URL I don't think liger was being unreasonable asking for it.

"I am NOT Link!!" Fucking awkward. Fucking epic. Imagine something like the Goht boss battle from Majora's Mask, with Mario Kart. We can dream.

I doubt Sony will find it too depressing, given they are back on top. :P

Have to agree there. It might not be the end of the world, but ca'maaan. 1 hour or so and disconnection is not good. I'd also prefer it if you could pick 2 or 3 tracks at a time. Going back to the track selection screen really slows down the game.

It wouldn't. People who like vs come for the vs. People who get tired of vs have the campaign to give them something to do. MK has missions on the DS and they were fun. It's all about satisfying different player needs.

How do you figure that? Since when does Smash campaign stop people from coming back later for regular VS mode?

So the guy goes from 11th to 1st at colossal speed and you think that is exactly the same as how the gold mushroom is now?

@Zechs Merquise I think your ostrich photo could also be directed to this guy. :p Come on, same as it has always been? You obviously didn't watch the video I posted.

Oh I see. Does real life also have golden mushrooms and blue shells? That's a really stupid answer. This kind of game should be designed to be fun and fair, not emulate real life in ways that don't need to be.

Skip to 00:41 to see some guy use the golden mushroom in MK Wii. I'm not saying the golden mushroom should still be this powerful by any means, but you can definitely see it has been nerfed to kingdom come. Whereas offensive items have pretty much stayed the same/got more powerful (owing to weaker defence from having 1 item/coins).

Online is more the catching up issue (as people of the same skill level of you can be really hard to catch up to if you get randomly punted in the first 20 secs or so). And being red shelled while frantically trying to grab anything other than a coin, sometimes. Offline, I can catch up again on 150 CC providing I'm not near the finish. Of course, if you're like half a lap from the finish on some courses and get smacked, the rubber banded NPCs will scoot past you fairly often and take the win. Pretty frustrating in either experience, although if you're reasonably more skilled at driving than the other players online then you can win it back, if you have time. Agreed, I never understood why winners start at the front. It should be random.

It isn't, because like Zechs said, items put you in a low position, but don't get you out so well. In that respect, it makes it more of an item fest than before. Especially in terms of red shells anyway. I was in first place before and got the coin 5 times in a row, and red shelled twice in that time. A bit mental really. Items below like 5th place should be powerful anyway. Once you get to 5th/4h, that's when skill comes into play, since there aren't really many good items around there.