No snaking in Mario Kart Wii

by Ross Miller on Mar 17th 2008 8:00PM

There has been a love-hate relationship with the ability to snake (no, not him) in Mario Kart. For those unfamiliar with the (in)famous technique, it involves using the drift-boosting over and over again, causing a snake-like movement pattern across the tracks. It has been in the game since Mario Kart 64.

It appears that might have changed with the upcoming Mario Kart Wii. Go Nintendo reports on a passage from the Official Nintendo Magazine UK's review of the game, where it says, "[Snaking] has finally been scrapped, and now your speed boost is determined by how long you can hold the slide." IGN has also corroborated the lack of snaking with their build, although to us that sounds like racers will simply find a way to slide through the entire course as we did in back in the Super Nintendo Mario Kart.

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Tags: mario-kart, mario-kart-wii, snake, snaking, Wii

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Well, I guess I'll be buying the game now.

My sentiments exactly.

Agreed. Because if I can't win at a video game there's just no reason to even play it.

Hey, it's not about the winning. Snaking was something which broke the balance of the game, simple as that. The best player should win, not the player who knows that repetitiously doing a power slide is an automatic victory.

It's not about winning, it's about a bs exploit.

THANK GOD!
Snakers ruined the DS game for me.

"Snakers ruined the DS game."

better.

Well, it ruined the matchmaking with strangers, but the single player and friend matches were still fun.

Right again, it ruined Online play, which killed the games replay value

Agreed. Online w/ random people was no fun because if you couldn't snake, there was no way to be even remotely competitive. I'm very happy about this change in MK Wii.

You're SO going down Fernando!!!!

Snakers were never an issue for me, but then again I rarely played using Nintendo's WFC.

The thing I don't understand is that snaking made the game such a hassle to play and yet people still did it. When people were beating me left and right online in the DS game I learned how to do it, and I pretty much won every match from then on (my record to this day is like, 1,000 wins and 40 losses), but it made the game a lot less fun to play. I mean, at least don't snake when no one else is doing it; anyone who gets any kind of satisfaction from doing that every single match shouldn't be playing games in the first place.

Well said, my friend. Well said.

As stated above,snakers basically ruined the DS version of the game.

And wave dashing, and Lcanceling. Opps wrong game.

Wavedashing, perhaps. L-canceling, however? Hell no.

I had mario kart for the DS (Until my ds and all of my games were stolen), and it was fun, but I now realize why I lost almost every online matcdh.

Awesome, another game besides Smash Bros. to beat Fernando in! :)

Seriously, though, old news. Why is this making rounds now? It was already confirmed long ago that the analog flicking-style boost was scrapped in favor of a timed boost system.

Hey, FoK. Add my Brawl code? Alright?

i want this game even more than brawl. this just adds to the want

GET RID OF THAT AVATAR.
*nightmares*

http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/2382.jpg

Snaking isnt cheating. If it was, then why is it in the game? Its just a skill like L-cancelling or wavedashing.

True, isn't really cheating, is more like exploiting a game feature.

So it's a great thing that it has been removed altogether.

It's not a cheat like you said, but it is however not the way it is intended to be played.

which depending on who you speak to means it is cheating...

Like camping outside a respawn point in Tf2,is not cheating but is annoying. (It never bother me tho')

Snaking was in 64, source I say, source!

Exactly. I do not remember any snaking in 64, especially to the level of DS. 64's boosting was also determined on how long you could hold your slide.

I have nothing to say about your comment, but you get a +1 just for the avatar. Killer Instinct is made of pure win. Where's my next-gen version?

Snaking's been around since the original MK on the SNES. It was definitely in 64 as well.

Just because your buddies never figured it out doesn't remove it from the game. ;)

I've never seen it done in the 64 one in GENERAL. The shortcuts for every track I've seen just never snaking.

If you feverishly flicked your analog stick whilst in a slide in MK64, the white letters emanating would change from white, to yellow, to orange. Then on orange you could release and get a boost.

When drifting in the 64 version you just had to flick the stick to the outside of the corner (not feverishly) twice to get a boost.

Man I wish that game were online.

When I used to play mario kart ds online, I went by the name snake=d/c. Of course, I stopped playing the game altogether after a few instances of losing by 2 laps against snakers. This is great news.

Sad fact of the matter is that if something is possible to do in a game, legit or not, people will use it.

Awsome,these is really a plus for these game,i was gona buy it anyway but with other good games coming too,idk WHEN i was.

But oh well cant be that good right? i guess that while snaking is out,wheelies or some other gay thing will get in.

Snake... Snake... SNAKE!!!!!

Seriously, good riddance.

Thank God! Those cheating fuckheads can go to hell.

As a serious snaker, I have to say that hackers ruined the DS game for me.

damn beat me to it.

but seriously, i loved snaking... when used how the developers intended. snaking an entire race was crazy, but i for one will not decry the skill to do so. snakers were just playing the game using what was there. but try playing MKDS online now... its all action replay whores...

Even if you don't think snaking is cheating (it's an exploitation, and a big problem, but not cheating) you have to admit it turned a game about cartoon characters racing with tame weaponry into a chore. A game shouldn't feel like work, and if it does, the game fails.

Good riddance to snaking.

What are you saying ? It's like people who win in Street Fighter or Mortal Combat by just sweeping the legs continuously... Learn to defend against it and that'll stop your rampant crying. Remember... What makes people who master a skill dangerous is the fact that they also learned how to counter it. Learn the game full circle and not half ass and then you'll stop begging the makers to make an easier version for you to win. Peace.

Who's complaining that I kept losing? I can snake, I can win by snaking. Doing so makes for an unfun game, so I stopped playing online. I don't beat my head against a wall, it was poor game design (or play-testing) that made Mario Kart DS a chore. A game that isn't fun is a bad game, and snaking isn't fun and isn't skill.

Hence, good riddance to snaking.

Finally!!! In Mario Kart DS I would see that these people snaking the whole race., but when it came Rainbow Road.. I left them in the dust... Snaking is a total joke to compensate for a lack of skill. Now Mario Kart is back to basics again.

goood job Nintendonald's! dumb down the game even further for your precious casual audience.

here's a solution: offer both modes online: a "snaking" mode and a "normal" mode? hows that for solving the "problem"? way to piss off all the pro-snakers. they might not even buy the game because of this.

Nintendonald's: dumbing down gameplay since November 2004!

Waah! I have to learn to play a game now!

If they have a snaking mode and a non-snaking mode even the snakers won't play the snaking mode since the only reason they do it is to slaughter the 95% of people who don't want to snake. They don't want to have races against a bunch of other snakers, since that's a level playing field, they do it for an advantage, not for fun. That's what Nintendo are doing, taking out something that was annoying, not something to make the game more casual. I don't know a single 'hardcore' gamer who'd be angry about snaking being taken out, like someone said above, it's just like spawn camping in an online FPS game.

chris,

i've played months of MKDS online races snaking against other top snakers and they would rarely disconnect. infact, the anti-snakers would disconnect much more frequently than the pro-snakers.

seriously Nintendonald's, if you ever end up releasing Mario Kart Wii 2 or something, include both online modes. it will only increase sales of the game for you.

oh and a big LOL at xenkylm. from my experience, most pro-snakers have mastered the non-snaking skills/techniques of MK which really dont require a PHD degree to learn. infact, alot of them even know how to dodge blue shells which i bet you didnt even know was possible.

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