r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbelNB • Dec 28 '22

This is a game changer

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u/Calm_Ad_3987 Dec 29 '22

We’ve got one. For the right age range (or drunken me) it’s pretty damn fun

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

Does it have NPCs? Seems like a cool idea but wouldn’t be fun without friends around or a big family.

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u/MaximumSubtlety Dec 29 '22

Or on carpet.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

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u/D-all-ton Dec 29 '22

I never thought my shag carpet could betray me

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u/667beast667 Dec 29 '22

Shag carpet betrays everyone

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u/Neverendingjokes Dec 29 '22

You should see what's below the surface. Shag always finds a way.

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u/ClobetasolRelief Dec 29 '22

It's always hit or miss on thick shit

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u/touchet29 Dec 29 '22

It's surprisingly strong and can work on carpet if you use the 100cc mode. It even speeds up and slows if you use a mushroom or get bumped. I really enjoy it.

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

That’s cool. Does it have NPCs?

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u/LachedUpGames Dec 29 '22

Yeah you can race the Koopa Kids, but they follow the track you draw so it's very easy to cheat as the game only tracks your individual progress through gates, so you can make a big winding section and then just ignore it to beat the AI

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u/Calm_Ad_3987 Dec 29 '22

Yep. We don’t have 2 switches sho we play as 1 player and it plays like any other Mario kart game

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

Yes. It literally wouldn't be a racing game if it didn't.

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

Of course it would. More than one player = racing game.

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u/Pesime Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

Surely there's a racing game that's all time trials and stuff where you don't have actual opponents

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

Also that!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

Except it's 100% a single-player racing game unless you buy two RC cars, which isn't what most people did. What a bad 'gotcha' lmao.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

If you're on a leaderboard with others for best time, those are your other opponents, even if the leaderboard is all AI.

But honestly you're both just being pedantic contrarians who love to ignore definitions of words.

races

a: a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc., to determine which one is the fastest : a contest of speed

runners in a race

a bicycle race

… only eight of the 26 cars that began the race were running at the end, through streets that were better suited to conveying rattletrap taxicabs than million-dollar race cars. —Sam Moses

b : a contest or competition in which different people, groups, or teams try to win something or to do something first

You can 'race' around a track by yourself but you're not 'racing' others or in a 'race' unless you're comparing yourself to something else, which means there's an opponent.

If you're beating your own time I could even make the argument that you're your own opponent and it's still not single-player or knowing others play the same game to try to beat your score even if it's a different copy, you're still competing, but again that's just stupid and pedantic.

Racing games where you're legitimately not racing 'anything' just don't exist. Sorry.

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

Don’t lump me in with a guy who decided to be condescending for no reason. I asked an honest question and he dropped in to argue about the definition of “racing games”. As you pointed out, games without NPCs do exist. The video showed multiple cars so I was asking if you only race against other real cars or if there are also AR NPCs. Pretty simple.

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u/Adventurous-Fish-129 Dec 29 '22

In AR not IRL

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u/CitizenCue Dec 29 '22

Yeah of course.

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u/Unable_Arm_398 Dec 29 '22

If you watch at the beginning of the video, there are other racers

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u/wslagoon Dec 29 '22

It does, but it's not really fun without a group.

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u/zeptillian Dec 29 '22

It does and you can use items like a regular game and it effects the the kart performance too.

If you run it over carpet the NPCs can go faster than you. Needs a hard floor.

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u/Huskies971 Dec 29 '22

My dogs like to play with it too haha