Mario Kart Wii

Originally posted by Smasandian
But if the time it takes to get pulled out of the water is longer than the amount of time it takes to recover from the blue shelll, whats the point of hitting the water?

No point at all.

He simply asked for a way to prevent to get hit by the blue shell, and this is a way. However ridiculous and stupid it is.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yeah, any other racing game with shells and banana skins.

Clearly you didn't see my point. Mario Kart is a driving game in the sense that you drive a kart. It's hardly a game of skill. It's learn how to play the game and then play it and hope you get weapons.

The only thing you can argue is knowing when to use certain weapons or tracks to your advantage, which others can learn also.

I just fail to see how one underhanded tactic is worse when the game is about underhanded tactics.

-AC

a. Because snaking is not random, like all other such tactics- it is used continuously

b. It was not intended for players to get speed on straights, it was intended to get speed boosts on corners

c. It looks absolutely shit, having all the racers zigzag epileptically around the course.

Snaking was a pile of horse manure, not in the slightest bit comparable to any other tactic in the game (which is indeed highly random), it is not what Nintendo wanted, it ruined the DS online game and all that is why Nitendo removedmit.

Morridini, thanks for the excellent advice on how to avoid a blue shell. I've worked out some more of my own along your lines:

- Turn off the TV just before I get hit, wait a second or two, and then turn the TV back on pretending nothing ever happened.

- Smash my head against the wall when I feel a blue shell approaching, wake up a few hours later, and totally forget about the blue shell incident.

- As the warning signal sounds, pick up my Wii and throw it out the window.

- Decide I feel too dirty at the approach of a blue shell, take a shower, and return after shower has been taken to continue the game.

- Throw a chicken at the TV as the ubiquitous shell appears and concentrate on the feathers falling everywhere. When they're settled, carry on the game.

Anyway, I hope anyone looking for ways to avoid a blue shell can use some of these ways that Morridini and I have come up with. They're really good.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
- Throw a chicken at the TV as the ubiquitous shell appears and concentrate on the feathers falling everywhere. When they're settled, carry on the game.

Ahh, good ol' classic.

But on a more serious note, are anyone else always dssappointed at getting a blue shell when you are hanging back at 8th place? Why would I care about hitting the first place? My concerns is with the 7th, 6th and so on.

Also, how many players at a time is it on the Wii?

Yeah, I hate getting the blue shell near the end. It is kinda of pointless.

In my opinion, they should remove it. It's really cheap.

But my favourite move to use the blue shell against the computer is when you hear it, and you see that a guy is coming near by, I slow down so he can get hit by the blast too. What happens usually is that I win, or still stay ahead because I'm just a bit further and I usually have a really fast accelerating guy. Or, if its near the finish line, both of us lose but the third place guy gets first which helps in the standings if your playing 150cc.

Why are people moaning about certain shells now?

It'll be Gran Turismo when you people are finished complaining.

-AC

Because the blue shell is annoying.

Red and Green shells are awesome, blue shell annoying.

Blue shell is awesome when you're in last place.

i can imagine 😬

Originally posted by BackFire
Blue shell is awesome when you're in last place.

Well, to laugh at somebody yes, but its probably best for the guy in 2nd.

all this talk is making me play MK 64 again 😛

Originally posted by BackFire
Blue shell is awesome when you're in last place.

No it's pure shit.

If I am in last place I absolutely hate to get that darned blue shell that don't help me at all. At least in the older versions it ran on the ground,a nd had the ability t hit everyone, but now it flies directly to the first place...

No, it's awesome.

Because it pisses off the guy in first place.

I still don't see why I would like that over a Star or ightning. I don't care if the first place gets a 10 sec delay.

I think his point is that firing a blue shell at the guy in first place makes him laugh because he knows he wont go anywhere, but atleast he can **** the guy in first place.

It's more of amusement than actually gameplay.

It works when playing splitscreen, or online because you know the guy is cursing like hell but against the computer, its ****ing annoying because they do tend to get blue shells all the time for me when Im in first, but not when I'm in second.

I think I got hit by a blue shell three times when I was playing last night. It made me wanna punch the screen, West Side, Baltimore-style.

The blue shell was better on Double Dash, as you could save it for a while.

The Blue shell still offers amusement to this day.

My favorite thing to do when I'm in first is, when I hear a blue shell, hit the breaks so my friend goes in first and gets hit instead. Then I speed by him with ease. Ahh, many a curse was thrown at me back in the day, haha.

Originally posted by Morridini
No it's pure shit.

If I am in last place I absolutely hate to get that darned blue shell that don't help me at all. At least in the older versions it ran on the ground,a nd had the ability t hit everyone, but now it flies directly to the first place...

it 'should' smack everyone all the way up to first place.. but whatevs.. I'm not sure mario kart was ever about skill anywho... aside from snaking..

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So, may I ask, whats different about this mario kart, aside from being able to drive a motorcycle?