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?
Love it on my ps1
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
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
Something to remember is that CTR came out three years later than MK64. That was a lot of time for that generation of games.
That said, I remember not liking CTR as a kid because while it had more depth, the friend who had it had put a ton of time into the campaign so I had no chance of keeping up with him trying to pick it up casually through the occasional multiplayer match.
CTR had two methods of play:
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Casually playing a kart game and using fun items.
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Learning the mechanics of nitro reserves to maintain a high top speed for as long as possible.
You start at 1 until you realize 2 exists.
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Was? No. It still is.
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
CTR had much more depth.
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.
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.
The story did actually try
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
I’m just waiting for the release of Bubsy’s Wild & Woolie Racers
You joke, but I would absolutely play that
I mean… I would too, which is why it was on my mind.
what could pawssibly go wrong?
“Does you feel”? Noes I don’ts.
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.
CTR did have that. I don’t remember how it compared to Mario kart though.
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.
Maybe. If I could actually play it. But still no PC port.
I know right? “The Karters 2” on steam feels very similar though!
No pc port of mario kart either
