Well let's talk Wipeout. Right and left air breaks, tracks with tight corners designed so you have to use them, not just boost over to skip hard corners. Strafing, boost placement, jump boosts too a la Mario kart. Then there's how you direct your craft, nose up or down. That's before you even bring in other players, weapons. That's all in the core game, that's what non speed runners have to master. Then in addition to that you have sequence skipping, for speed running.
Now are you really trying to tell me that has less depth than f zero?
First of all your first mistake is to assume i said the bolded. I just had something against the constant downplaying of F-Zero's mechanics, that's all. The only thing where I implied by vids F-Zero tops WipEout is speed and that was it before people came in with the "unsophisticated" crap.
Second:
-There's one more air break, yes, you're right.
-There are a lot of tight corners in F-Zero you can't skip by boosting. The only ones you can skip are by using the high ground that comes before them or some curve you have to ramp off in a very particular spot.
-Strafing is in both, no idea what you mean by boost placement since in F Zero you have to evaluate when to boost yourself, risking to get blown up. And comparing something to Mario Kart to make an argument for complexity is... bold to say the least.
- Yeah the up and down thing is only utilized in F Zero while in mid air.
- Other players as in npcs? F Zero has 29 of those.
- Weapons: Again, something that Mario Kart get's critizied for because it removes skill from competitive play. Why is this a good or complex thing in WipEout? I'd rather have the strafing and whirling attacks in F-Zero that you have to use good timing for and only are usable against opponents in your direct vicinity.
-And if we are comparing them now i might add that there's no snaking in WipEout, which is a huge reason why F-Zero can get so fast. Again, all other vids (that all didn't get quoted by the gotcha dude) I posted were done without the assist tool. And i could post more without too much sequence breaking but high skill snaking if i could be bothered, but it's not like that stuff seems to interest you so...
Will definetly go to sleep now.