Mario Kart games are all about blasting your friends away with power-ups as you race toward first place. The spiny blue shell changes that dynamic and turns the game into open warfare. Enough's enough, Nintendo.
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Nintendo will be shutting down the eShop for the 3DS and Wii U completely in 2023. Makes sure to check out these games before they do.
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Wait hang on where all the outrage? I swear when Sony tried to do this with PS3 last year. There was outrage from all corners of the gaming universe.
Why does no one care Nintendo is doing it?
There has been.
A lot of it.
Simply type in "3DS" in Google and tell me what you see.
Oh I have a fair few websites reporting on it. But where is the outcry on here? I remember their was 2-3 approved top voted articles when Sony announced they where closing the PS3 store. All slating them and not caring about customers.
I should of worded it better. Where is all the outrage on n4g?
N4G is a fanboy site, mainly frequented by only Sony.
Microsoft is their direct competition, so you'll typically only see articles that are made to rile up those fanbases.
Nintendo does it's own thing, so they're rarely brought up, aside from their fans. The most you get is the same typical two or three posters claiming Nintendo is only for infants.
If you come to N4G for educated discourse and reasonable discussion, this isn't the place. Sad as it is.
It's lame that it is shutting down. Now I feel rushed buying all the rpgs I missed out on the system.
You guys know that even archive.org has 3DS roms, and all other console roms. I'm downloading 846GB of 3DS roms and will add the best games to my soon to be soft modded New 3DS 😁. Might as well throw in DS and other emulators in there to. Guys this would be the best way to play and enjoy the 3DS. Just need to buy a bigger micro SD card and format it to FAT32, which you can if it's even 256GB or larger there are ways.
This should help if you want to soft mod it excellent guide and up to the latest and probably last 3DS firmware update: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I once got hit by one right before the finish line :(
But they are good, showing that anyone can win and not only the best person in the group that is always in the lead.
I wanted to see what happened if I got one, went into 1st place then used it.
I was disappointed with the outcome.
Kinda reminds me of when you play a Headshots only type of FPS match and call no noob tubes but when you are in the lead the people who are losing think it's funny to start using noob tubes...it's cheap and shows who really has the skill and who doesn't.
Now that's not to say I think the blue shell should go away, but definitely limit it's usage amount or to an extent its effect. Simply because if you are always losing then you should improve your skill and not rely on something to "even the playing field" specifically.
Blue shells are spite incarnate, especially given how they tend to be given to the person who's in last place.
"I might not be able to win, but **** you guy in first place, if I'm going down you're going down with me!"
It's crap like this that made me stop playing the new Mario Kart games... I just don't want to play a game where you can be, far and away, the best and then get screwed over, not by a mistake, by someone else getting a weapon... and the rubber banding. They ruin the game for me.