Countdown to Mario Kart!

[A Black Falcon]

I thought I made it clear I was talking about normal races... it should be very obvious if you read that post of mine... but my comments apply just as well if altered to battle mode too. Its just that games without many comps in multiplayer is a thing that I find really annoying... take, for instance, F-Zero GX. Great game? Yes. Really great. But the multiplay? 'Lacking' is being nice. No difficulty options. No option to have over four cars. No nothing! L-A-M-E. For instance... some of my cousins are here for Thanksgiving now. So today we got to play Gamecube. F-Zero GX is first, since F-Zero and Gauntlet Dark Legacy are my two new games... now note my cousins don't have a Cube, but they do have an N64 and both Gauntlet Legends and F-Zero X, and have played both a lot. So we play F-Zero for like half an hour... fun in the sense that the game is great and the tracks are fun. But fun in the sense that its a great multiplayer experience? Absolutely not. Without the full field that makes F-Zero F-Zero the multiplay in GX is just as stupid as it was in X... why they didn't improve it from X really mystifies me, given how bad it was in X...

And then we played Gauntlet Dark Legacy for two hours.

As for battle mode. If 3DO can do it, so can Nintendo. Oh, sure, BattleTanx isn't exactly Mario Kart, but its a game with a mode where you drive around in vehicles and shoot eachother... :) And BattleTanx: Global Assualt has a GREAT multiplayer mode. Four players, any combonation of humans and comps... if 3DO can do it, not to mentiopn better developers like Midway and Rare, why in the world not Nintendo? "Time" is a very bad excuse when lesser developers can do it...