[QUOTE="burgeg"][QUOTE="Chemical_Viking"] It's the gold standard.Chemical_Viking
No it isn't. It's simply the most popular, and thus the majority simply don't understand there are multiple kart racers that raised the standard. Crash Team Racing came out over a decade ago, and it's STILL miles better than any Mario Kart game in almost every single way. That's pretty pathetic considering how popular the series is and the budget Nintendo is capable of putting in to a Mario Kart game. CTR raised the standard. Unfortunately MK has kept its standard just as low ever since. But that's ok. Some other kart racers these days actually do put the effort in. Just look at how Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed is turning out. Mario Kart is a victim of it's own success. Nintendo knows no matter how lazy they are, Mario Kart games will continue to sell. Nonsense. All of the pretenders aspire to be MK. It still drives the kart genre. CTR was good for its time but there's a reason they're not still making them.:lol:They don't make CTR games any more because the Crash series itself lost popularity when the series quality declined after Naughty Dog lost the franchise. CTR is great to this day. Go play it and dare to come back and tell me any MK game is better. If you can honestly say any MK game is better, you either love the complete luck based BS of Mario Kart for some very strange reason, or you're a fanboy.
It's not even just CTR. That was one example. Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing was miles better than Mario Kart. Transformed looks even better. In fact Transformed will probably top the mighty CTR as the best kart racer ever. Hell, even Modnation Racers was better than Mario Kart. Not so much with LBPK though. That game sucks even more than MK(largely because unlike MNR it tried too hard to be Mario Kart as opposed to being its own thing like MNR).
Raise your standards and actually play other games in the genre. Want to know why Mario Kart is so popular and "drives the genre"? Because it came first. It invented the formula and made the formula popular. It's why no sandbox game will ever be as popular as GTA, regardless of quality. Not to mention the recognisable characters in Mario Kart gives it a certain appeal in that regard with the masses over others. And last but not least, MARKETING! Nintendo markets the hell out of Mario Kart. Everyone knows when a new MK game comes out. Not so much with new Sonic kart racers, which will slip by unnoticed by the masses, although still sell reasonably well. It drives the genre in popularity. In quality the standard of the series has been low for a very long time. Thankfully we've got developers like Sumo Digital around to raise the standard.
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