
The Mario Kart franchise has never really been particularly 'difficult', per se - at least not when you compare it to something like F-Zero - but there are undoubtedly moments when it feels like the whole world is against you. Indeed, the games have occasionally been labelled as "unfair" thanks to moments of relentless bad luck. Thankfully, these incidences are rare, but goodness, it can feel completely debilitating when it happens.
Take the below short clip from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for instance, posted on X by user @ArtistRemaining. Taking place during a race on the N64 'Yoshi Valley' track, the player takes a cheeky shortcut on the third and final lap, however the speed boost from two mushrooms lying on the bridge causes the kart to careen off the side and into the void.
After being plonked back onto the course by Lakitu, the player gets knocked off not once, not twice, but three more times in quick succession, swifly losing pole position and landing all the way back down in 12th place.
The mishap reminds us of an infamous video from Mario Kart Wii in which a player gets hit by a blue shell, a red shell, a kart, another red shell, and a final kart to fall off the track. Oh, and then a Bullet Bill knocks them off again.
It's a harsh reminder that, regardless of how good you claim to be at Mario Kart, incidents like this can happen to anybody. All it takes is one false move before the rest of the pack sends you, well, packing.
Has anything like this happened to you on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? How do you deal with such complete humiliation? Let us know with a comment down below.
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Get gewd. Only the strong of heart and soul survive.
In my experience, MK8 is always like that. I get hit by one blue shell and one lightning at minimum, per race, when in single player
That's funny. I've suffered some real harsh moments but not to that extent.
Mario Kart 9 is long, long overdue. Hopefully it's a Switch 2 launch title.
🤣 It's not just Mario Kart 8. I've experienced similar things in Crash Team Racing Nitro Fuelled as well.
this happens a lot
that's mario kart for you
I've seen a fair share of harsh moments in Mario Kart in general, not just 8 (Deluxe), but this has to be one of the harshest ones for sure as it's absolutely relentless!
oof. I think I’d snap my Pro Controller in half if that happened to me lmao
Wow, what a terrible stroke of bad luck!
Online play can be brutal, for sure, but it really feels like something also changed dramatically in 1-player somewhere during the booster course pass. When playing solely against the computer, it's now just a relentless onslaught of items. I'm not exaggerating when I say there are literally often up to 6 lightning strikes per race, 3 or 4 blue shells, endless red shells, and green shells just falling out of the sky on you with no racers around. Am I imagining it? I swear it wasn't like that before the new DLC.
How is he not falling all the way down before being picked up?
@OorWullie yes a.launch title would be great, that along with mario game, metroid 4 and maybe a couple of NSO game cube and 3ds games, and a couple of 4k updates for switch 1 games. That would be a strong opener for sure!
Well at the expense of being "that guy," this never would've happened if they had only accounted for how the mushroom would effect their turning speed.
I guess what I'm trying to say is... git gud. 😬
It's funny when it isn't happening to me!
No, I've had it way worse in that game!
1st place entire run. a couple of feet from the finish line and get slammed with a Blue shell, then a Green, then a Red, followed by another red. Wasn't able to move at all between hits. Finally start driving again, and get smacked with ANOTHER Blue shell and at this point, racer 11 speeds past me and i now am in 12th!
You should see the stuff that happens in SRB2Kart.
That's what she gets for choosing a very light weight character, of course I would come and hit her down that pit too.
Skill issue lol, mario kart 8 is actually the most forgiving of the bunch
Once I was playing MK Wii, having a rough time, and I got annoyed with one opponent in particular. I pledged to make things miserable for this player. On the next race, Sherbet Land, I immediately rolled triple red shells and a mushroom, and hit the brakes.
Miraculously, the entire pack swept by me without disturbing my rotating shells. More miraculously, the last person to pass was my sworn enemy. I had him in my sights.
I let fly the first red shell. Direct hit. I waited until my opponent had recovered from the attack, then let fly the next shell. Direct hit. By this time all the other racers were well out of sight. I fired the third shell. Direct hit. Then I accelerated, used my mushroom for a speed boost, and slammed into my unfortunate prey as I went.
After so many frustrating losses that day, it was very cathartic.
So many times to me playing online.
I just laughed. 🤣
Why is this an article? (just curious)
It's not nearly as bad as MK Wii. The original game's 150CC special cup and Wii's rubberbanding AI are the only things to make me ragequit a Mario Kart title.
Do you find that stuff never happens to 1st place when you're 2nd?
Video isn't working for me.
@scoot You're absolutely right, it happened when they shortened the time it takes for an item box to respawn, it was during one of the last booster course updates. The game is so brutal now
Looks like a classic case of getting Mario Karted. We've all been there.
And that’s why I preferred Diddy Kong Racing back in the day
reminds me of that clip from mario kart wii where daisy kept getting hit and falling off.
That's 100% my luck whenever I try to play Mario Kart.
You know, games usually don't make me upset. I play old school-hard games and never even flinch, but Mario Kart gets me steamed. Not to the point of cursing and throwing stuff, but I have to take long breaks from it.
Well, This is Mario Kart, there are days that literally the races are a calm walk in the park, but...
There days where literally you are the focus of hatred and survival instinct is you unique friend, or... , only you, and only you in the he... .
XD
Well, You just have to keep trying and not give up.
Dude just served up a Commodore’s reference in the subheader…
lol 👍
I saw this clip today and thought it was funny. MK Wii is a far more challenging and technical racer I have to say. I simply like it more to, MKWii is like Melee is to smash and MK8D is Brawl.
"All it takes is one false move before the rest of the pack sends you, well, packing."
Stuff like this can and does completely happen even if I'm playing perfectly. 😐 It's a flaw in the game, imo. The OG lineup of weapons was perfect (red shell is the OG blue shell) and what's been added is nothing but BS that makes the game unfair to play.
Mind you, I've still put in hundreds of hours on this game on multiple consoles, and double dipped obv. ✌️. A great game would and easily could be made even better with the inclusion of some global weapons settings a la Smash 👍
@OorWullie I'm totally convinced, that the next Mario Kart will be a) a launch title for the Switch successor, b) an open-world-game and c) therefore called "Mario Kart World" or "Super Mario Kart World". You've heard it here, first.
Okay, I'm a little unsure about c). But the first two points are a given in my world. We'll know in under a year.
Probably no longer had a telly after this clip.
@ArtistRemaining is not the original poster of the clip, for the record. Saw it on r/mariokart last night, and OP took notice of it going viral today
https://www.reddit.com/r/mariokart/comments/1eqk593/some1_posted_my_clip_on_twitter_and_it_gone_viral/
https://www.reddit.com/r/mariokart/comments/1epx6tt/first_time_taking_the_bridge_route_in_yoshis/
Nearly everytime I play online I get shell spammed constantly when I'm on the home stretch. I'm not going to lie here it makes me get really angry but that being said I'm good at hiding it and I just finish the race instead of choosing to disconnect like a baby.
That's all Mario Karts as far as I'm concerned. I've been through that, and I've been thorough lucky streaks of 12th to 1st. That's the joy of it all. Keep racing.
This is evergreen:
https://xkcd.com/290/
@-wc- It is refreshing to hear someone else claim that the OG items were the best! I still believe that MK SNES is still the best MK. The red shell didn't even work all the time. You had to be a competent racer and try to get as close as possible to the next racer before you can fire that shell.
This is why I quit playing MK8D online. Too many items, OP items, and racers. I put about 200 hours into this game and just under 10k multiplayer points on 150cc, so I am pretty decent.
This is an item management game not a racing game. When the game favors the losers (6th-12th place) then why try to be 1st? I hate this gaming philosophy.
Ahem... https://youtu.be/OEfiVLnidgI?si=ilaTbEScrKIr4T5N
@Blofse That would be a fantastic launch. I think a 3D Mario releasing near launch is a given. We're overdue one and they'll want a huge title to launch the console with, like BOTW launched the Switch. Not sure they'd release both 3D Mario and Kart alongside each other though. We might need to wait a few months for one of them.
@Migoshuro That sounds good to me. I have a feeling myself it won't be called Mario Kart 9 after the direction they took with MK8D. I think it'll be a reinvention of what we expect from a Mario Kart game.
@norwichred In MarioKart 8/Deluxe Lakitu grabs you immediately, rather than there being a black screen in between the fall and your revival. (As someone who only plays Wii and 7, I was thrown off too lol!!)
I don't know who thought this was easy. I'm pretty sure I've only won one online match, and it was so long ago I don't even remember how it happened. And that's over the course of two consoles.
Mario Kart is a game that punishes you for coming first and not coming first at the same time. I do enjoy it but the SNES version seemed the most balanced. If you were good you could lap pretty much everybody.
Now there is an over reliance on items, drifting techniques and cheap AI. It has become more of a party game than a serious racer.
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