/vr/ - Retro Games

it was a bit of a change but i liked how it played, karts feel a little weightier

Imo karts do feel a bit "looser" than in N64 but I personally like it more than N64 and ESPECIALLY snes (snes mario kart is pretty ass imo)

Wii and 8D are the best ones but DD is a lot of fun.

It's my favorite

Only thing i remember is not liking the music.

I rate it under 64 but to be honest I really like it. Best played with friends and beer, solo it's too easy even on mirror.

>>8755596
It's a bit boring. The SNES, N64, and Switch games are better. But Double Dash isn't bad. I'd probably play it over the rest

>>8755596
Two drivers is stupid

>>8755596
If you actually have/had a friend who liked playing backseat, it's a lot of fun. Luckily I had one.

Side note, apparently DD has a bad reputation these days? I was never big on MK even though I enjoyed it a lot and got a bunch of playing time on it, but DD got 9s and 10s galore when it came out and every time people came to my house, including the normalest of normalfags they always wanted to play it. I recall a great reputation on the internet too at the time.

>>8755806
Yeah I've always felt DD was considered by most to be the greatest MK of all time, even though I personally disagree (i think 8D is the best, especially with the DLC coming out). However, nowadays Wii has been making a huge resurgence, especially with all the mods and custom tracks. DD also plays quite a bit differently than the newers games in terms of how drifting works.

>>8755596
I remember playing Double Dash over my cousin's house in Arizona after going on vacation there 14 years ago. Good times...

>>8755596
It still has a bit of soul left in it.

>>8755828
DS is too high. Would rank it the same as wii

>>8755596
It's the best Mario Kart game.

The gimmick is very gimmicky but honestly good fun, particularly if you have friends. 64 is a classic but honestly the courses are too wide and open for good combat.

>>8755806
To me it seems like 64 and SMK have a really bad reputation on this board, and everyone loves DD.

>>8755637
>snes Mario Kart is ass
Zoomer detected.

Double Dash feels great and the items are unique and fun. The GP is just too easy.

>>8755828
On one hand MK Wii is pretty souless, the music is not that memorable and the menus and characters look sterile, I mean just look at that title screen. On the other hand look at what they did to Coconut Mall on the latest dlc, fucking negative soul. That really put things into perspective.

>>8755828
I'm going to guess you grew up with a DS

>>8755667
>Best played with friends and beer
The problem is you can apply that to most things and it'll be enjoyable.

Man I had so much fun with Double Dash

>I was the asshole that would use a combination of Diddy Kong and Daisy
>You could still get the giant banana in first place so I would just get in front, stay there, drop giant banana mines everywhere
>The only reason Daisy was there was so I could constantly switch drivers
>Soundtrackof the race: <monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY
>Friends: "You godamn motherfucker and your motherfucking bananas fuck you and your I am Daisy bullshit"

>Thought it looked ugly even back then
>Not just graphically but the Kart designs were ugly too to accommodate for two people.
>Having two characters in 1 Kart is neat in theory, until you realize how it limits your kart options
>You think you have a big roster, until you realize that you can't have character select repeats so god forbid you play 4 player there's no characters left since you have to have 8 characters selected
>Character specific items sound cool in theory, until you realize just how utterly unbalanced this makes the game. There are clear winners and clear losers in what item you want, especially when you unlock the toads. This makes the issue I noted above about the character select even worse because multiple people are going to be egging to pick the same view characters
>Kart handling was always the most awkward in this one

When Double Dash first came out I hated it. Still to this day I don't like it. Many consider it the greatest now, and I can understand why. It's extremely chaotic in all the right ways, especially with the character specific items. So I've come to appreciate it somewhat over time. But still, not really a fan.

Not retro

>>8755596
Its okay. The tracks just aren't that interesting and the two driver cart mechanic is a gimmick that just didn't work imo. It can be a bit of fun with a friend or two but there are better mario kart games out there.

>>8760972
yea it didnt have as much replay value as the first 2 games, tracks were lame, also the battle mode sucked

>>8759421
>Thought it looked ugly even back then
I can understand everything else about your post, but this? the game looks great.

>>8761516
When they were first showing footage of Mario kart Double Dash around the same time they were showing footage of Mario Golf Toadstool Tour. So that colored my perception a bit. Especially in regards to the character models.

>>8762510
>>8761516
i sort of agree, i think to a point the gamecube Mario aesthetics got really tired... especially with all the spin-offs. DD, Mario Partys 4, 5 and 6, Tennis, etc, etc etc. Compare that to the Mario Party 64's arttstyle which was great.

>>8755596
the majority of the tracks are shit

oh and also the fact that the CPU doesn't randomize partners in single player is laughable. It's boring when I pick a team of say daisy and yoshi, and every other cart has their default pairing except for 1 cart that are forced into using peach and birdo, the default partners for the characters I picked.

>>8762984
I think they do randomize in mirror mode or maybe in all cup

>>8761028
The thing that bothers me the most about this game is how you can't freely chose any track to race in single player, you have to choose the full cup. This option should have been implemented since MK64 and it would've made the game much more replayable.

Mario Kart peaked with the DS that's for sure.

>>8765329
it's a shame the AI is so laughable. I've never played an easier Mario kart where I'm not even trying, I stop drifting and I'm STILL lapping the other racers.

>>8755953
It's true, gba and snes are abhorrent

>>8755596
I recommend trying Double Dash again. Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Yes, it's different, especially from 64. Adjusting will be hard as it's an entirely different style of Mario Kart from Kart control to the item system. You have to master switching items and such as well as learn to adapt to the chaotic nature of the specials. It's a fun game, but to say you'll glide right into the new playstyle is just incorrect. Give it time and learn the nuances. While you're spending time adjusting to the control and new systems, take some time to appreciate what Double Dash borrows from Sunshine. Double Dash's environments share a key trait with Sunshine's in that you can see one course from another. Mushroom City can be seen below rainbow road, Daisy Cruiser is in the ocean around most levels with a visible ocean, and there are advertisements for other courses in the courses. Double Dash's world is very lived-in. Play around with your strategy too. Each set of characters has their own unique special item so mixing and matching to have the items you want in your arsenal. Character selection goes a very long way in this game beyond how fast you go, it determines your offensive and defensive powers. If you really sink your teeth into it and invest in learning how to really play it, like you did with 64, I'm convinced you'll find something special.

>>8765530
all of those courses suck dick i dont care if i can see them from one another

>>8765593
You type like those copium breathing fags who cry about 6th gen not being retro. Hope you aren't the OP because I'd hate to have wasted my time typing a thoughtful response for someone as closed minded as you.

the thing I like about DD is at least it contextualizes having double items, later games letting you do low-cost defense like green shell drops was a mistake.

>>8765719
sorry i thought your response was copied directly from redditt.

>>8765805
Go back to /v/ if you wanna schizopost about your reddit boogeyman, you fag. /vr/ is for people who want a real discussion.

>>8765883
All of the tracks you listed are basically squares, they aren't fun. The Mario Sunshine aesthetic that runs through the game is awful and not fun and not mario like. but that's just a difference of personal opinion on both our parts so that doesn't really matter. the two driver system isn't nearly as deep as you make it out to be, it's all a matter of hitting a powerup box with one character, and then switching to the next character before you hit the next powerup box so you have two powerups. it's not complicated whatsoever and like in every other mario kart game you main the characters with good specials and ignore the rest, so there really is no strategy in driver selection. yeah you can go back and play it, but as others have said you can't select individual courses, so you are stuck playing a bevy of poorly design levels just to play one good one, so what is the point when you can play the good courses in other versions, there is no need to go back to this one.

>>8755596
The only thing I wasn't big on with Double Dash was that you couldn't hold a banana/shell behind you for protection.

>>8766030
hold down and the item button at the same time

>>8766047
It doesn't work in Double Dash

>>8766092
i'm literally doing it right now

>>8755596
If you play coop, it’s the best. If you don’t, it’s not the best.

What's going on in this thread, homies?

>>8766093
Bullshit. I was literally trying it right now, and it did not have it on my to my kart for protection. Only made them go backwards.

>>8766098
hold the gas button moron

>>8766103
Are you trolling?

>>8766108
are you? holding down on the joystick doesn't make you reverse in that game.

>>8766112
> holding down on the joystick doesn't make you reverse in that game.
What the fuck does that have to do with holding an item on the back of your kart for protection?

>>8766115
what part of "hold down and the item button at the same time" didnt you understand?

>>8766121
I understood it perfectly. It doesn't do that in Double Dash.

>>8766098
Just realized I borked my wording here
>and it did not have it on my to my kart for protection
should be
>and it did not have the item on the back of my kart for protection
and
>Only made them go backwards.
should be
>Only made the item go backwards.

>>8759404
have me a hearty kek anon, good shit.

>>8755596
I love DD but MK Wii was better overall. I think DD was just a solid game with no faults and it's why people loved it.

>>8766097
Much better

Double Dash is the only Mario Kart I've been able to get into. I liked playing 64 battle mode at friends' houses, though.
The waggle-to-fast mechanic in MK Wii makes me never want to play it

>>8766097
Soulful but also terrible to play. CTR is so much better.

>>8755828
Other than saying MK:DS has soul, graph is pretty accurate. Double Dash had some fun gameplay gimmicks, though. It’s still a good game. Probably most on the board would put MK64 at the top, if not for objective reason, then because most people in the typical age range here played it the most.

>>8755596
Double dash is the best mario kart with the best physics

>>8759404
Daisy has become one of my favourite Mario characters for exactly this reason, my friends hated Daisy's constant screeching.
God bless you, anon.

Mario Kart 64 is the only good Mario Kart game, which is strange because it's also the only good N64 game.

>>8755596
After the N64, Nintendo's standards dropped.

MK64 is shit. It's barebones and barely has anything going for it. This is coming from someone who played it again as recently as 2 days ago. Even reviewers of the time did not think it was a masterpiece.

>>8772457
You are mentally ill.

>>8772530
People who believe that Nintendo didn't fucking go full style over substance trash with their crappy "we promise we'll eventually release our rushed console with no actual specs except we promise it'll be so much better than everything else which is actually a lie" console with a laughably bad controller and mostly 3d shit games with bad controls and gameplay are mentally ill.
Further proof that /vr/ should be 8/16bit games only and that N64 and forward should join the style over substance pool of shit that is /v/.

Anyone here ever LAN party this bitch? I doubt many people ever did, considering you needed those elusive broadband adapters, but I bet it would've been a blast.

>>8772539
>this Twitter screencap by @someguy69 proves you wrong

>>8772540
I think you can now do it with Nintendont on a Wii without much hassle.

>>8772540
yup I did once or twice.

>>8768465
You literally never have to waggle in MKW if you play with a gamecube or classic controller

Hate DD. Worst in the series.

>>8755596
It has its place

>>8755596
it's cool, but hard as balls

>>8755596
Game controls well but the two drivers gimmick doesn't really add much. Then locking certain items behind "specials" saved for pairs of drivers is incredibly unbalanced and also makes the number of items you can get fairly small making the game a bit boring.

It's the one I grew up with so I'm biased.

>>8755596
Funs

>>8762984
They do if you play on 150 CC or Mirror mode

Better engineering Han super circuit

>>8759404
>Soundtrackof the race: <monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY<monkey scream>IAMDAISY
lol

>>8765449
Zoomer detected.

DS > 8D > DD > 7 > 64 > Wii > SC > SMK

>>8759404
I always heard it as HI I'M DAISY. One of my friends used to spam the shit out of it, too.

>>8755806
>apparently DD has a bad reputation these days?
Seems like every lauded GC game has been getting a bad rep that I feel it's due to nostalgia wearing off with a bit of ironic contrarianism mixed in.
/v/'s sung DD, Sunshine and Sonic Colors' praises for years as well as other games, but people are noticing the cracks or when an e-celeb points them out so now the tides have tabled.

The reverse is also true too, since now you have people likely Zoom Zooms defending games like Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Heroes.
It's gotten really sad at this point when the only way for kids to get attention now online is to knock a glass jar off the table and SWEAR you didn't do it because ironic counter culture. ;^)

>>8772541
You should hunt down and read that article for a good laugh. It's a seething nerd shitting on the most highly rated games. I think a few other he shat on are MGS, Tomb Raider, Half-Life or Halo.

>>8783308
Back in like 2009 I remember most of /v/ shitting on DD and lauding the Wii one

>>8755596
This is 16 player right

>>8759404
for me its a combo of diddy kong and bowser jr, you can get giant bananas and giant shells in first place and demolish people