Mario Kart Tour

Dusk Lobber said:
thing is i can't find mario kart tour on this list

Top 10 Worst Mario Games

www.thetoptens.com www.thetoptens.com
it seems generally right as hated games like hotel mario, mario's time machine, sticker star, mario party advance, new soup 2 are at the top, whereas loved games like ttyd and odyssey are much lower down, but tour isn't there at all?
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none of these games have gambling and currency systems employed to exploit people for real money so it's probably in its own tier of bad
 
Why do people care about top whatever lists anyhow? The only time I look at such things is when I'm hunting for games I might like but haven't tried yet.
 
YoshiFlutterJump said:
I've got a ton of emulators on Wii U myself, mainly because Nintendo has shown that they are completely inept when it comes to releasing N64 and GCN games on Switch.
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You've got to understand that until recently, the GameCube was a black sheep. It sold poorly and when the Wii U came out, it was too recent to be nostalgic. By now, people who love the console are at an age where they can fondly look back on it, but that audience still doesn't rival that of the NES, SNES, or N64. I think Nintendo's gonna appeal to GameCube fans soon, but we're not quite there yet.
 
YoshiFlutterJump said:
I lost all respect for TheTopTens once I saw that King Dedede was both #2 for Best Kirby Characters and #1 for Worst Kirby Characters.
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Scuttlebug said:
I like how you continuously act as if this website is a definitive ranking of the opinions of people on the internet when it absolutely isn't. I'd at the very least trust a website that let's me see the amount of people who voted on the poll and for what, which this website seems incapable of doing. Even then, I doubt the number is very high, probably a thousand at most, which is nowhere enough to get even a somewhat accurate opinion on the general consensus of which Mario game is considered the worst.
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i don't treat it as definitive as there are often things which definitely don't seem right, e.g. iirc the list for worst paper mario games does have sticker star first, but colour splash is last, spm second last, pm64 second, and ttyd third, which doesn't match what the community thinks from my experience.

BUT if there is a general trend, then it probably means it's true e.g. bowser's inside story tends to always be pretty well respected across multiple lists so i think it's safe to say most people like the game (which does match my experience of the game's community reception otherwise)

Mcmadness said:
Why do people care about top whatever lists anyhow? The only time I look at such things is when I'm hunting for games I might like but haven't tried yet.
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to get a general view of what the community thinks, even though it's not reliable
 
I too have been playing quite a few mobile games as of late, and regularly play Mario Kart Tour. As in pretty much daily.

I genuinely think that the points and combo system is one of the greatest additions to Mario Kart gameplay in recent times. It's very satisfying to end up 1st with a Nonstop Combo, especially now that the game clearly tells you that. Reverse tracks were long overdue and I liked the return of Mission Mode through Bonus Challenges, many of them are well designed and fun. I don't even mind the amount of clones in the roster, I totally dig Yoshi (Egg Hunt) and if anything we had the return of Birdo and Diddy Kong, plus Hammer Bro and his other Bros are finally playable along with Pauline and... the Roving Racers (lolcheapness, they chose the easiest to implement original characters from Odyssey).

With that being said, apart from the disunctional controls and multiplayer, there is a huge, terrible issue: the monetization system. The Gold Pass is obviously the only one players are supposed to get, as is the only one with "sane" pricing, and that sanity is the price of Mario Kart 8 every year. It also paywalls 200cc, even in multiplayer lol.

The driver/kart/glider packs are a cruel joke, with Gold Dry Bones being paywalled behind a pack that costs as much as Mario Kart 7...

And then we have yet another gacha system. Granted, we can argue how Trading Card Games are gacha before gacha was cool, but at least the cards are tangible, this one is literally paying for a chance to get an immaterial object that can be enjoyed exclusively in this game. And you have to pay a lot, too: three digits of $ to empty a 100 items pipe, which is needed if one of the spotlight items you want is at the end of the pipe. And if you want a noncommon item that is in the pipes but is not a spotlight item? Good luck, you'll need it. And you'll likely need a lot of $$$ too. Granted, with a Gold Pass you get a lot of rubies to empty the pipe just by playing the game, and I got my Egg Hunt Yoshi without spending a dime, not even for the Gold Pass, but nonetheless those d/k/g packs and ruby packs are there to squeeze every dollar out of the whales, and it's risky, as even people who definitely can't afford being whales might spend a fortune there. And gacha is still eerily close to gambling.

If anything, Mario Kart Tour made me rediscover and reevaluate Super Mario Run, a little mobile game from Nintendo that sadly was review bombed by the players courtesy of its clear-as-petroleum premium pricing model (it rather looked like a fully free to play game instead of a fully paywalled game) with a price that was also pretty much double that of most premium mobile games. At the time it looked like a horrible deal, and it probably was. And still it's basically half the price of the cheapest of those weekly D/K/G packs in Mario Kart Tour lol. And Super Mario Run is a lot of fun too although maybe I'm praising just because I love Yoshi and in that sense the game is pure bliss:yoshi:.

So long story short: yes, I like some aspects of Mario Kart Tour and still play it, but I don't want to ignore how the monetization model is disgusting at best to the point of being grotesque in some aspects, I'd love for there to finally be a general regulation against this gambling-like gacha at least.
 
Link327 said:
I aggree, I like the game but who in their right mind pays 100 bucks for rubbes?
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People who have addiction problems, which include kids who don't quite understand the value of money yet. This is like asking, who would want to waste their life savings at casinos?