Mario Kart Wii “snaking” is wonderfully impossible to do
Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 8:55am by Jack
Guess what snakers? You’re out of luck when Mario Kart Wii hits shelves in April. Boo-hoo. Too bad so sad.
The second big difference (in Mario Kart Wii compared to the rest of the series) is the removal of snaking. Ever since the N64 game, practically every Mario Kart game has included the ability to get a speed boost by waggling the controls left and right as you powerslide. This has finally been scrapped, and now your speed boost is determined by how long you can hold the slide.
Some considered it a skill, I just considered it being an [Edited out by Infendo scrubbers]. Regardless, it’s been eliminated — that is until some hardcore nut finds a way to exploit the game in some new, more annoying way.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
sweet. i never could figure out how to do this so i always got owned in online on mk ds.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Woo-hoo!
March 17th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I figured out how to do it, but by that time the game was so rampant with hackers, so I quit after about my 6000th race. If it’s been fixed for this version, though, there might be hope. But if the online for Kart is as bogus as Smash, I’m not even gonna bother. Think I’ll just keep working on my CoD OCD.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Eh, I never got competitive enough on MKDS to really notice snakers or to become one myself, hypothetical heaven forbid. But it seemed pretty lame to me.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Snaking is probably the only reason I got so far in the F-Zero GX game’s impossibly hard missions, but I’m glad to hear Mario Kart’s been rid of that plague so that now it all goes back to skill (and a bit of luck) as opposed to cheating.
Happiness for all!
March 17th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
If you try hard enough, and practice long enough, you will always find a way to exploit a glitch or a special move in a game… So, don’t count on getting a free lunch on this one, either: you will almost always lose to a gamer that has been living and breathing the game every day since it launched.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Well said, InvisibleMan.
I think this is a good move by Nintendo, making the game (especially the online part of it) a little more accessible to everyone.
But snaking is not cheating, it’s pure skill! I’m much more concerned about real cheaters that play with modified versions of the games, that can really ruin the fun.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
If the online game works well not like the Brawl :s
March 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I have faith that Nintendo will get the Brawl online smoothed out and be ready for the new influx of rabbid mario kart fanboys come the end of April
March 17th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
So whats going on with Brawl online? I haven’t been on yet since I am dedicated to finishing SSE. After all, this is my first Smash game.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I played brawl online for about an hour the other night with a friend. No problems whatsoever. Are the problems only affecting random matches?
Back on topic: I can snake but I choose not to. It’s repetitive and boring. I say good riddance. Although I’m sure you can abuse this system too, somehow.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
@Pnut: many matches have been troubled by lag, for non-friend matches the match making software isn’t working right so you will often sit for very long periods while the system is “searching” for opponents, you’ll get dropped from from the match for seemingly no reason.
Basically it’s a bunch of problems that stem from not being able to load test the servers/software with the number of people that are trying to play brawl right now. IMO they just need a little bit of time to work out the bugs that the popularity of the game made apparent all at once instead of over time.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
This is good news.
You know, for all its restrictions and limited options…Mario Kart DS is still an absolute blast to play online with friends and family. And as long as Nintendo allows me to play online with the people I care about, I am pleased with their online service.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Yes!!!!! No more hecka faster people than me and no more sore hands!! =D =D
I’m diggin’ this!
March 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I _can_ understand when it seems like opponents have an unfairly comprehensive knowledge of a game’s mechanics (oh wave-dashing, how I hate thee).
But I was introduced to snaking very early on in Mario Kart 64. In fact, it was presented to me as a built in feature required for success, not an exploit. So I’ve never had a problem with it. Is it really that hated?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
i think this is better.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I don’t consider it an improvement.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Meh. Nothing wrong with snaking, just the people who complained about it.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am
This will make online a lot more fun!
March 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
YES!!!