[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Magewout

1) It's not because something isn't found in the instructions manual, that it's automatically a 'bad' thing to do it. I mean, lots of games have manuals that don't speak of certain techniques, which you have to find out for yourself. Further, I'd like to see you beat the staff ghosts in MKDS without snaking.

There's an enormous difference between an advanced technique and an abuse of an intended feature.

And the "wah, the game is too hard if we don't have this nonsensical unintended tactic". Remember: if the CPU doesn't do it on the hardest difficulty setting, it almost certainly was not an intended feature.

2) If you can't beat them, join them. Basically, what you want, is to take out something that requires skill (snaking), and give more weight to pure luck (items). What's the fun if you're obviously the best racer, but get hit by 2000 blue shells just before the finish? At least, when you're both snaking, you know you've been beaten by someone more skilled than you.

Is there no way to race someone without items? How about this: only play seriously against people you have an agreement with to not touch items. When playing others, take things lightly and don't worry if you get beaten out of pure luck, SINCE ALL THINGS IN LIFE, YOU WILL LOSE OCCASIONALLY JUST DUE TO BEING UNLUCKY.

And who cares if it requires skill WHEN IT MAKES NO SENSE. How would you feel if they made reversing go faster than forward as an intended feature to make recovering from mistakes easier, then other people abused it by reversing through the entire map? Would you really expect the next installment of the game to not do anything about the problem of people abusing it?

Like, ok, it's one thing to embrace the tactic when it's needed just to get by in online play, but to be mad about this problem being fixed is just stupid. It's OBVIOUSLY been proven an unintended feature. I don't care if you think they secretly put it in and didn't mention it in the manual and also didn't program the AI to use it, because guess what. With them officially making it impossible in the Wii game, they're saying in as few words that they had not intended this in the previous games. The same can be said of wave dashing in Melee; unintended feature is proven to be unintended in that it is removed in the most recent version of the game.

3) The max speed also applies to mini boosts. A 1/5 kart will have a slower boost than a 5/5 kart. This is why, on different courses, top MKDS players will use different karts, to have the best handling(and acceleration) vs. speed for that particular course. Otherwise, every world record would have been achieved with Dry Bones + Dry Bomber. But no, people are using the Yoshi Egg, and the Poltergust more and more, even though they have worse handling.

How does this matter? The tactic is has been proven to be an exploitation of the game's mechanics by the fact that it has been purposely avoided in the most recent game. Even if you can dispel the idea that it breaks game balance (which you didn't really do, by the way), it's still an unintended tactic that gives an unfair advantage compared to those who don't use it.