06-17-2014, 02:00 PM
(06-17-2014, 01:54 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: Well, technically, there IS quite a competitive Mario Kart community. If you don't believe me, there is a reason AGDQ always winds up with a Mario Kart All Cups speedrun (though I wish they would finally do a MKDD run in AGDQ, it's so broken with two players one kart). And character unlocking does come into play there.
For example, your most often used combo in time trials in the competitive community is Funky Kong/Flame Runner (I'm more of a Daisy/Mach Bike man myself) in MKWii. You do have to unlock Funky Kong.
It's very small compared to Super Smash Bros, but look at the way SSBB was released and advertised. Not as a true fighting game, but a party fighting game. Not that SSB4 is that, but I feel Nintendo still views it more that way.
Oh believe me, I know a bit about competitive Mario Kart. I enjoyed my time with Funky Kong/Flame Runner, but I hated that I had to unlock him. I didn't even know he was in the game until I found out about competitive Mario Kart.
On the subject of Daisy/Mach, I tried using that but she was so annoying whenever you did a trick that I just stopped.