Mario Kart 64 VC VS Mario Kart DD!!

Which one do you think is worth buying folks.

Mario Kart 64 VC.

Mario Kart DD!!

[Mendez]

Well the N64 one is a lot better, probably the best in the series.

Nintendo 64 is great man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So is GameCube 2.

[iNma]

I'm going to have to disagree with Mendez here, the N64 version is pretty awful, and hasn't aged particularly well either. The handling is loose when it should be direct, there is absolutely no incentive to play it single player, the 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds are dated beyond belief, the GP tracks are not very well designed, and to cap it off, the game has so many glitches it could be considered broken; it's simply the low-point of the series. If none of the things above get to you, the rubberband AI will the 100th time you're half a lap ahead only to have the computer magically drive past you without using an item.

The perennial complaint with the GC version was that it brought little new to the series beyond a questionable two-character dynamic, but in terms of the fundamentals like handling, item balance and handicapping, it's there or thereabouts. It's just as fun to play multiplayer as MK64 (no pangs of nostalgia required), much newer and prettier, and should cost not much more than MK64 if you buy it online or 2nd hand. No contest, as far as I'm concerned.

[Sektor]

The N64 one is cheaper, better, and well... better.
lol

[Makeda]

In it's day I would have said OMFG N64 one!1!!.
However, as iNma said; It hasn't aged well one bit, it looks blurry as hell and more importantly the wep's are inferior to the GC version. Just get a second hand version of DD and you will not be disappointed.

[neuzd]

Can't see the tech needed in N64...DD is of course different from 16bits classics, but tracks are really nice (NOT about of graphics) and even if it's less technical than SNES and GBA MKs it still gives yyou some satisfaction getting the right way to pass thru a series of corners.

Really, N64 tracks are very cheap, too large and well, I repeat it: there are no technical driving skills needed as there are in every other episode of the series.

My ranks:
DS
GBA
SNES
GCN

[Drake]

If you ask me:

MKDS > MKD!! > SMK > MK:SC > MK64.

Haven't played either arcade game, so can't comment on those.

[iNma]

Originally Posted by Drake

If you ask me:

MKDS > MKD!! > SMK > MK:SC > MK64.

Haven't played either arcade game, so can't comment on those.

You know, that's the exact ranking I would apply, with the proviso that there's a fairly big gap between MK:SC and MK64. But still, I agree 100%.

In all the Mario Kart games I like.

1: MKVC
2: MKDS
3: MKGC
4: MKSN
5: MKGBA

Have not played the Arcades.