The biggest kick-in-the-balls since World Passes...
I have really been enjoying Mario Kart: Double Dash since I got it as a Christmas gift a few days ago. I was worried when I originally saw the vehicle designs for it, as well as the changes to gameplay and the appearent lack of Toad, but it turns out it's just another great kart game following in the tradition of it's ancestors.
I was really looking forward to LAN play with my fellow GC owning friends, both close to home and cross-country (thanks to the antics of warppipe.com). Imagine my disappointment then at learning the following fact:
In LAN mode, character selection is RANDOM.
WTF!? With that single realization, LAN mode just went from something really innovative and exciting, to a complete and utter novelty. Like it may be neat to try it, but it hardly seems worth the trouble of convincing my friends to drag their TVs over to my place. There should be a warning on all GC Broadband adaptors for people who might buy them just for MK:DD LAN play.
It just doesn't make any sense. What was so bloody complex about the character select screen that it couldn't be translated into LAN play!? They appearently had no trouble programming the network to send info about what all the racers were doing during a race, and I can't imagine anything more chaotic and complex. ARGH! I tells ya, this sort of shit wouldn't happen if Howard Phillips was still around...
I was really looking forward to LAN play with my fellow GC owning friends, both close to home and cross-country (thanks to the antics of warppipe.com). Imagine my disappointment then at learning the following fact:
In LAN mode, character selection is RANDOM.
WTF!? With that single realization, LAN mode just went from something really innovative and exciting, to a complete and utter novelty. Like it may be neat to try it, but it hardly seems worth the trouble of convincing my friends to drag their TVs over to my place. There should be a warning on all GC Broadband adaptors for people who might buy them just for MK:DD LAN play.
It just doesn't make any sense. What was so bloody complex about the character select screen that it couldn't be translated into LAN play!? They appearently had no trouble programming the network to send info about what all the racers were doing during a race, and I can't imagine anything more chaotic and complex. ARGH! I tells ya, this sort of shit wouldn't happen if Howard Phillips was still around...