Threi said:
Snaking isn't like linking powerslides in Crash Team Racing (superior karting game, but that is for another thread =P) is it?
Ha, we agree on Crash Team Racing.
And no, snaking isn't like CTR because CTR has time based boosts (have to wait a certain amount of time before you can boost). Only Super Circuit for the GBA had this mechanic I believe.
The problem with MKDS was that, because boosts on certain karts lasted so long, you could immediately go into another power slide and pull off another boost just as the first one ended, so that you'd never ever slow down. You ended up going so fast that it was impossible to keep up unless the course made it impossible for snaking, which never happened (all those people that said they beat people on other courses,
especially Sky Garden, have only been playing against bad snakers. Tracks like Sky Garden could easily be snaked the whole way through, including through the cloud shortcut. If you don't believe me, go look up Time Trials).
The other thing, as someone mentioned, was that power slide boosts equated to mushroom boosts, so you could drive over everything and never slow down, allowing you to take every shortcut out there that normally needed a mushroom (well, at least in 150cc).
I miss CTR...
Sweedishrodeo said:
theres alot of hate on this game already, damn. itll probably be alot of fun and ill probably play the shit out of it. i still really enjoyed the GC Kart game even though it was definitely the weakest link. we'll see. exciting trucks was the bomb though so im looking forward to the controls.
ps baby park better be one of the tracks.
youre right. maybe i just dont understand the big deal. its easy to do and it makes you go faster. i used to play the DS version constantly and snaked whenever possible. no complaints here.
I'm still surprised at how many people feel this way about Double Dash for some reason. I'll admit items were quite a bit more powerful than before, but I still felt like the worst Mario Kart was Super Circuit for the GBA. Then again, it's probably loved more since it's most like the original, coins and all.