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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
KCF0107 02/06/21 5:49:48 PM #8:	#55 Crash Team Racing (PS1, 1999) Now you could also consider this a placement for the Nitro-Fueled remake as from a gameplay standpoint, it is the definitive version, but I wanted to highlight the original version because the remake has a poor unlock system and relative to the time the game came out, the original is the more impressive game to me. After seeing a bit of a kart racer craze in the first few years of the N64/PS1 era, Naughty Dog looked at the best of what they offered and combined them to make not only their best game in their 35+ year history but also the best kart racer to this day. CTR took the adventure mode from Diddy Kong Racing, and while the world isn't as cool or detailed and lacks the secrets, it is paced better, and the boss races are far more fun and balanced. They also took a vast item system full of offensive, defensive, and support effects like DKR, Mario Kart 64 and many others and produced what is probably the most fair item system in a kart racer in terms of item probability based on positioning and opportunity rate to defend yourself against attacks. Racing felt phenomenal then, and it still does now. It truly is remarkable how well ahead of its time the game felt as it basically took the looseness of Super Mario Kart and refined it to a degree that the level of control the player has is simply incredibly. I never was attached to the Crash series, but I was appreciative of the wide variety of characters and the level selection is superb. I of course prefer some more than others, but they are almost all of high quality, and with racing being my favorite genre, I can be a stickler with it comes to course design. The kart racer may be my least favorite among the main racing sub-genres, but I'm up for any and all racing games, and I find it sad the genre is mostly dead outside of Mario Kart, a licensed game or two every now and then, and a few indie games. With the success of the remake, maybe we can get another revival or two of some of those that I enjoyed over the years. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu <cite>KCF0107 posted [p:950353160] in The Board ... [t:79281225]...</cite> <quote>#55 Crash Team Racing (PS1, 1999) Now you could also consider this a placement for the Nitro-Fueled remake as from a gameplay standpoint, it is the definitive version, but I wanted to highlight the original version because the remake has a poor unlock system and relative to the time the game came out, the original is the more impressive game to me. After seeing a bit of a kart racer craze in the first few years of the N64/PS1 era, Naughty Dog looked at the best of what they offered and combined them to make not only their best game in their 35+ year history but also the best kart racer to this day. CTR took the adventure mode from Diddy Kong Racing, and while the world isn't as cool or detailed and lacks the secrets, it is paced better, and the boss races are far more fun and balanced. They also took a vast item system full of offensive, defensive, and support effects like DKR, Mario Kart 64 and many others and produced what is probably the most fair item system in a kart racer in terms of item probability based on positioning and opportunity rate to defend yourself against attacks. Racing felt phenomenal then, and it still does now. It truly is remarkable how well ahead of its time the game felt as it basically took the looseness of Super Mario Kart and refined it to a degree that the level of control the player has is simply incredibly. I never was attached to the Crash series, but I was appreciative of the wide variety of characters and the level selection is superb. I of course prefer some more than others, but they are almost all of high quality, and with racing being my favorite genre, I can be a stickler with it comes to course design. The kart racer may be my least favorite among the main racing sub-genres, but I'm up for any and all racing games, and I find it sad the genre is mostly dead outside of Mario Kart, a licensed game or two every now and then, and a few indie games. With the success of the remake, maybe we can get another revival or two of some of those that I enjoyed over the years. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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