I play games on emulators, I was playing the 1999 version of CTR and hmmm it’s way better than Mario kart 64 or Double Dash on GameCube from a gameplay mechanics, fun, enjoyability perspective. Anyone else think so?
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Diddy Kong Racing was the best racing game of this era and yes, I am most definitely willing to die on this hill.
I will join you to die on the hill, as long as the hill is made of Wizpig’s lifeless corpse…
I will fight by your side defending DKR. So many hours in co-op mode
We still play it to this day. Amazing multiplayer.
The single player campaign was also pretty fun.
I actually played that. Didn’t it have a boat mechanic where the karts would turn into inflatable tubes with rockets or something?
Essentially, yeah! There were three driving modes - kart, hovercraft, and plane. Some tracks only allowed certain driving modes and you would pick your driving mode before the race started. It was pretty novel for the era!
Oh wow, Nintendo was really early in that! I thought that was just introduced in MK7
I suppose it depends heavily on nostalgia.
I have no attachment to Nintendo brands nor Mario Kart in particular. My sister bought a Mario Kart Wii game a few years back and I didn’t care much for it. Having grown up with CTR on PS1, and Spyro and Crash as platformers, I immensely enjoyed the remake.
I like how the kart handles, and the turbo mechanic is a lot of fun and has a lot of depth. But I suppose that MK fans have other things they enjoy from their franchise.
Let me add that Mario kart is fun. I just feel CTR was more engaging
Was? No. It still is.
CTR has so much higher skill ceiling it changes the game completely when comparing to other kart games.
In Mario Kart difference between good player and great player is pretty minor and they can both enjoy playing against eachother.
In CTR good player can think they are playing perfectly, but still they are going to get lapped by great players.
I personaly loved CTR, but playing with friends that havent played it meant nobody is going to have goodtime.
Both my cousin and I had the game. Every time we get together we play Mario Kart (SNES) or CTR. CTR feels like Mario kart 8 in a lot of ways with the wide controllable drifts and triple boosts. It was ahead of it’s time for sure, especially for a first entry. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed the sequels as much. Even the remake does not play as well, especially on the sewer level from what I recall.
I keep hearing this reason. I like improving in games so to me it’s all fair game
I want to understand why the hell CTR is not on Steam already. The trilogy remake is on PC, Crash 4 is on PC, and CTR was even ported to the Switch - so clearly they have no trouble porting the game to weird architectures. GIVE ME CTR ON PC.
Good question
I’m just waiting for the release of Bubsy’s Wild & Woolie Racers
what could pawssibly go wrong?
You joke, but I would absolutely play that
I mean… I would too, which is why it was on my mind.
CTR feels a lot better. While I’ve had fun playing Mario Kart with friends, CTR feels a lot more fun to master and adds a lot more challenge to its courses.
“Does you feel”? Noes I don’ts.
Love it on my ps1
My experience was only playing at friends’ houses who had Play Stations, but I never felt like one was better than the other. I appreciated the mechanic of upgrading items helped to give a different element to the game instead of it being the same thing Nintendo was doing but with different characters. What we really played a lot with friends, though, was Battle Mode on Mario Kart. I don’t think CTR had that, or else no one thought it was as good. It really hasn’t been as good in Mario Kart either since the Wii version I’d say.
Funny you bring it up. When Mario Kart introduced the coins, I immediately thought of the Wumpa Fruits in even the first CTR.
I read it as Nintendo running out of ideas. But it seems the Switch 2 Mario Kart adding the cross country game mode is somewhat more novel than the coins.
Coins were part of the original Super Mario Kart, they disappeared after that
Just took 26 years. Lol Nintendo doesn’t put much effort into their games anymore. I checked out the new Pokemon game and it was so soulless
It’s better but it’s onboarding is worse. Figuring out the drift boosting is harder than figuring it out for Mario kart with the latter feeling like riding a bike and easy to get back into the muscle memory time and time again.
However, whenever you’ve got the feeling of how CTRs works, It feels better than Mario karts. Giving you more control and more engagement in the moment to moment.
Sometimes i bounce off CTR when coming back to it after a very long time going to just play it for a bit but fumble a bunch of drifts and feel like i can’t be arsed trying to figure it out again currently and just play something else with what little time i had currently.
Garfield Cart for the best
Maybe. If I could actually play it. But still no PC port.
No pc port of mario kart either
No port for anything Mario related at all, so that comes with the territory.
But we have the N’Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4 on PC… Why not also the kart racing game they made around the same time?
They are both great (MK64 and CTR)! Sonic Racing Transformed is a great evolution.
