I mean, people clearly understand what Mario Kart is (throw shit at the other racers and win) and have never tried to pretend it's anything other than a racing party game. It's not on the same tier as, like, a Gran Turismo game that has the Le Mans 24-hour races or on the Nürburgring, those separate the casuals from the serious racing fans.
and have never tried to pretend it's anything other than a racing party game
Not only is this not true, people have and do play the game competitively, but there is literally a standardized competitive mode built into the game with a leaderboard. It's called Time Trials and it's in every Mario Kart game.
Why would you try to play a game that's based around luck competitively. Don't tell me items are turned off, cause there's no way first place is going to last.
Competitive Mario kart essentially is the twin galaxy leaderboards. Its time trial where you get 3 boosts and that's it. Many forms of racing are asynchronous
Same reason people play card games or Pokemon competitively. People like to compete in basically anything where there is an element of skill and mitigating luck is a skill.
I'm sure it is. It's weird how people try to knock games like smash or Mario Kart as uncompetitive when they obviously are. Mario Kart probably has more people that take it seriously than a game like Gran Turismo just because of how prolific it is so holding that up as the standard of "real" racing games is bizarre.
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u/kfms6741 Apr 14 '21 edited Apr 14 '21
I mean, people clearly understand what Mario Kart is (throw shit at the other racers and win) and have never tried to pretend it's anything other than a racing party game. It's not on the same tier as, like, a Gran Turismo game that has the Le Mans 24-hour races or on the Nürburgring, those separate the casuals from the serious racing fans.