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Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:52:55
aspro said:
travo said:

Microsoft announced a handheld. Meh

Yeah but not really. They are cooperating with ASUS, but there is no evidence that MS is working on their own handheld. In fact there were rumours last week that they stopped internal development and are waiting to see how the ASUS project goes.

They are a little bit lost it seems.  They want to commit everything to GamePass, but at the same time still want a hardware presence, and the two concepts cannot co-exist successfully.  If you are releasing everything on PlayStation and PC, then what is the compelling argument for Xbox hardware?

Even so I think it'd be smart for them to release their own version as a kind of baseline for OEM's.  Kind of like how they showed the way with the Surface tablets.

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Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:14:32

So I managed to play some MK World.  The minute to minute gameplay is great, although very different from that of say MK8 due to how the mechanics have been tweaked.  Everything seems to be set up to ensure as much mayhem as possible.  It's like Nintendo perfected how to translate the NPC rubberbanding into actual gameplay.  The whole game is set up to get the most out of this.

I'm not a big fan of what the open world brings to the table though.  Tracks are often wide with long straight stretches that are exhilerating when you're in the middle of a pack, but not challening at all when you're ahead.  Sometimes the track will open up to accomodate different routes, which is a lot of  fun as racers fly by everywhere and you're never quite sure what place you'll be in once everything converges again.  There's too much visual clutter, debris and distractions that were added to make things more interesting while driving around the open world, but serve no purpose in a race.  More than once did I find that the visual design didn't clearly communicate what direction I needed to be heading in, which will only become more problematic when playing MKW as a party game, with people who will not be familiar with the tracks.

We're all currently enjoying it a lot in our household, but I do feel I prefer the more curated and streamlined courses of MK8.  MKWorld would have been a better game if they hadn't gone for the interlinked open world, but had just created larger tracks to accomodate the 24 player frenzy.

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Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:05:55

I needed the open world for replay value.  Racing can only be fun for so long once my family tire of it, so the collection gameplay is great to me.

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