The root of all evil

cool it with the antisemitism

Man it sucks being in 10th place, I hope I get the item that specifically fucks over the person in first place and no one else.

That's not whiteness though

>>715396216
it can hit other people on its way to first place in some games such as 8 and world for example

>>715396216
You've never played Mario Kart. Blue shell often fucks multiple people. Even when you're not first you have to drive wide so it doesn't hit you and the blast radius can hit 2nd and 3rd as well. It's an extremely a well designed item and makes it so you either have to frontrun really well so the blue shell hit doesn't affect you or hold 2nd place so you don't get rocked

>RNG decides when it shows up in the match to execute the person currently in the lead

>>715396665
>actually it's good because (excessive coping)
amazing

>Throws it on the 3rd lap
Nothin personal

>>715395787 (OP)
Wrong. That is a symptom. THIS is the root of all evil.

>>715395787 (OP)
blue shell is the only thing stopping the person who initially breaks out of the first item scramble from effortlessly winning. Mario kart is extreme crabs in a bucket where the safest places are last and first

>>715398235
I find it really hard to believe that a blue shell is the only way to deal with that.

what the FUCK is the feather good for
as far as I can tell it's ridiculously situational at best, you can't wallride out of it, and most of the time I'd rather not leap into the air like a dumbass and lose forward momentum

Try being 1st in Snowboard Kids ya fuckn casual. That is true suffering.

>>715398291
Have you played other kart games without blue shell equivalents? Racing games in general without rubber-banding? Once you reach a certain skill they are largely decided by who breaks from the pack or gets lucky first. You have to slow down the person in first or you speed up everybody behind him so the easy answer is slow down 1st

The blue shell is one of the best items in video games. NO ONE should feel "safe" no matter how far out front they are in the race. The whole point of the blue shell is to teach kids that no matter how good life looks at the moment, it can all come crashing down in an instant.

>>715398506
You can dodge red and green shells with it but that's it, is a very situational item.

>>715399037
Also to teach kids that the system will punish people if they get too far ahead.

>>715398839
Most racing games don't do the whole "people behind get things to help them catch up" shit. What I'm saying is when that philosphy is a given, surely there are alternatives to having a blue shell?

>You have to slow down the person in first or you speed up everybody behind him so the easy answer is slow down 1st
That's the thing, it's a racing game, wouldn't the latter be more fun?

>>715399238
it is near impossible in a game like mario kart because even with those tools like mushrooms, BB, big mushroom, star, etc. they only take you so far while you still eventually have to dodge the hazard hellscape that is the middle of the pack that #1 doesn't have to deal with. You aren't going to gain meaningful ground without slowing #1 down somehow

>>715399812
But the guy in 2nd isn't having to dodge that, what's keeping him from getting shit that helps bypass the guy in 1st?

>>715395787 (OP)
Real life needs one of these

>>715395787 (OP)
>mogs you effortlessly

This is why SRB2Kart is the best kart game. The "fuck first place" attack item follows you at just under your top speed, so it makes the leading player have to play perfectly to stay ahead.

>>715399238
A kart racing game with a much higher skill ceiling, CTR, has its own Blue Shell equivalent, but there are ways to deal with it if you're in 1st place. In CTR's case, a racer who is skillful enough won't ever have the orb catch up to him. In Mario Kart's case, a skillful racer will have ways to negate the Blue Shell or otherwise will be smart enough to not be such easy pickings. It's a good equalizer with plenty of counterplay in recent releases.

>>715399997
yes he does. Anybody who's ever been in 2nd knows how common it is for 3rd/4th to get triple reds among other things so you constantly need to have stuff to defend yourself from multiple waves while still trying to catch first. You see it all the time as 2-5 jockey among themselves as 1's lead grows. It's a much worse position than first who just has to defend from 2nd place items.

>>715400707
Yeah, 2nd place has to be the most stressful place in the game because you still have to deal with shit while trying to catch up.

>>715395787 (OP)
>le communist shell

>>715395787 (OP)
thats not THE FUCKING GODDAMN LIGHTNING BOLT THAT HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE FUCKING RACE AND FUCKS ME OUT OF USING A MUSHROOM EVERY GODDAMN TIME IF SOME FUCKASS BOO DOESN'T MAGICALLY SHOW UP

>>715399220

Happens at work all the time. You finish a project early? Boss gives you more work.

>miss the last set of items before the end line or the knockout cutoff
>immediately get gangbanged by everyone without any way to catch up

>be 11th out of top 8 required
>here's your coin box bro and also a golden shell, just in case you need more coins

>that fucking son of a whore who keep 3 red shells around him for centuries without throwing even though he's behind 6 guys but use it on you the millisecond you overtake him
>that faggot who do a 90° with the giant mushroom so he can crush you
>that third world with trash internet connection who play meta and avoid all damage to win because his connection is so bad the game can't tell if it hits him or not
This game makes me so mad, fuck this

>>715395787 (OP)
Single player on wii is so boring because of these niggers. Literally just a dice roll if the stupid niggershell blows you up in the last 30 seconds of the race or not if what determines if you win or not. I wish there was a way to turn them off in retro rewind

It's funny how as early as MK64 they realized how annoying the niggershell was and disabled it for single player CPUs but didn't do that for any game movintg forward.

It was perfectly fine in 64. I dunno why they felt the need to make it worse.

>>715396216
Man it sucks being in 7th place, I hope I get the item that is absolutely fucking worthless.

>>715395897
>antifeminism in current year
yikes

>>715396665
BS worked drastically better in DS with the live leaderboard/pickup list on the bottom screen.
It's one of the few things about 8 that bother me very much.

>>715395787 (OP)
It's the worst item in the world if you're in first place, or you are the one to get it.

It's the best item in the world if you're in second place.

the root of all evil

>>715404094
base 8 allowed item peeking with the gamepad though

>>715395787 (OP)
get rekt, serves you right for winning