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.
CTR also rewarded you for understanding the mechanics more. Some boost pads gave you a boost with a higher top speed (blue flame). If you knew how to maintain a boost, you could maintain that blue-flame boost indefinitely.
It’s just that to do that you had to hit nearly every boost pad, triple boost at nearly every corner, and avoid all the obstacles (including touching walls). It’s hard to maintain it, but even maintaining it for a little bit can really launch you towards the front.
Finished Diablo 3 Season 36. I was really hoping to fully fill out the Altar of Rites this time, but for the life of me and my necromancer, I could not get Ramaladni's Gift to drop. Oh well. This week I'll finally be starting Diablo 4's new season in-between Thief runs (yes, I'm still obsessed, lol).
When game developers noticed the market for GPUs is growing and processing in general are getting more advanced, they started to care less about optimizing their games. That’s literally it. It’s laziness.
There are still devs that do their best to really optimize their games but most studios, especially AAA ones don’t care.
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.
Moonring uses natural language for interacting with NPCs and progressing the game (though you aren’t actually controlling them, and there are different gameplay elements so I’m not sure if it would fit the bill?). It uses word matching, but has a really cool system where you’ll get bubbles with suggestions based on other information you’ve uncovered (and then there’s hidden stuff you can ask/say as well).
I’ve been grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Monk is a lot more fun than Demon Hunter, so I’m glad I made the switch. I’ve done basically everything for now, most of the quests in all the zones, and I’m at the gear cap. For now, there are raids to clear daily, which I’ll do, and clear Mythic+ dungeons over and over for that “infinite” power, which I won’t do. In a few days the second phase will begin, with more quests, a raid and other things, so I’ll keep playing, but wind down afterward (until the next phase).
Crash Team Racing is a great game, and I certainly enjoyed it more than Mario Kart 64 (I was never a fan of MK64 though to be fair). The campaign mode was super cool and kept the game fresh.
Oh yeah for sure. I still go back and play the main story mode of Crash Team Racing every year as a ritual, on the other hand I’ve literally never played mario kart so the answer is obvious.
I still wanted the new Sniper Elite game but didn’t want to spend $20… so I got 5 for $5! I haven’t done story mode, just the invasion mode where you try to kill other people while they play their story missions. Since it’s a 2022 game most of the people still playing are very good, but after a day I’m at 8 kills!
We’re also about halfway up the mountain in Baby Steps, it’s slow going with many falls
BF6 looks so dang good, I loved Operation Firestorm in BF3!
Played Fatal Frame I was really enjoying it up until the third night, where there’s a huge difficulty spike and I fear I’m stuck there due to not having resources. I might restart it some other time, but I’ve decided to play something else.
So I played Still Wakes the Deep. I found it to be pretty mediocre: the story and acting were fine, but I couldn’t really connect to the characters. The gameplay is so scripted and simple the monster encounters had no tension as they were basically on rails. Doesn’t help that the monster design is forgettable and they mostly look like flesh blobs.
I’m currently playing Resident Evil Village and Project Diva.
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