Decide on the EoFF Highscore Challenge for June!

[Dat Matt]

Greetings Nerds and Nerdettes!

So I've decided on the Highscore Challenge for June! With the upcoming release of Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U (Matt intensifies) the next Highscore challenge is going to be a Mario Kart Time trial contest. Players will be encouraged to submit time trial scores in order to acheive the fastest time. Here's the interesting part. I want all the details to be chosen by the players!

There will be a total of 3 polls over the next few days.

1. The game to play
2. The Course to race on
3. the Character to race as.

The vote above will decide the game that we'll race on, so feel free to get voting! Jinx had also suggested that future instalments should be suggested by players. I am up for this idea, so feel free to suggest games for future instalments of the High score Challenge.Inb4 Jinx Says Tetris

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I don't actually own any Mario Kart games (though, that is going to change with the new one for Wii U), but Mario Kart 64 would probably be the easiest for me to get a hold of. It's also my favorite of the Kart games I've played so far. I haven't played that many though.

As for future challenge ideas:
Galaga or Galaxian high score
Speed run of a FF game
Gradius
Helicopter Game

[Jinx]

Another future game idea: Tetris

[Dat Matt]

Another future game idea: Tetris

You should check that there full stop at the end of my first post Jinx. I left a hidden spoiler tag there just for you.

[Jinx]

holy trout matthew you got me good

[Dat Matt]

Truth betold, Tetris was one of the first ideas I had for the series. Issue was that I couldn't see any foreseeable "Ending point" in the standard runs. For example, someone could realistically play one really long game of tetris and get a stupid score. It's one of the gripes i had about the last challenge. I wanted to make the challenge shorter, but there was no point "i.e. highest score by world 2-1" that would be a good cut off. as it restricted people who wanted to use the warp pipes for example.

I like the idea of Mario Kart, because the races are short, it record a time and can be done in <5 minutes per run usually. I think we'll get a bit more participation for this one.

[Dat Matt]

There seems to be a constant tie breaker between Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. You kids sure like the retro

Here is was hoping for Mario kart Wii as well...

[Shauna]

If you don't see more votes, you may have to make the decision! :3

[Mirage]

I suggest one that can be emulated, so that as many as possible can join. Not everyone has a Wii, not everyone has a 3DS.

[Dat Matt]

I had considered that, and the two easiest ones to emulate are Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. I just wanted to offer the community the choice of all 7 if there was a great demand for Mario Kart Double Dash for example.

If we are still on a tiebreaker by friday, I'll make a call. Hopefully more people will vote by then though

[Aulayna]

If I still had my gamecube I'd be all for Double Dash, loves me some Rainbow Road... one of the few courses I could actually beat the dev ghost kart on.

[Dat Matt]

I seem to recall that you got Funky Kong on the Wii Version for beating x amount of Developers Time Trial scores. I made a point of beating them all.

For a spell of conversation (And to keep it so I don't need to keep bumping to thread xD) what is your favourite Mario Kart Game?

[Pike]

My favorite is Mario Kart 64 but since I'll be emulating my vote goes to Super Mario Kart. Since I refuse to play a 64 game without a 64 controller!

[Aulayna]

Double Dash! Mostly because it's the one I played the most, and also played the most with friends.

Oh and...



Chooooooon.

Do-do-do-do-doooooooooooo

[Mirage]

gamecube can be emulated pretty easily, and so can wii, when i think about it. so double dash and the wii thingie is fine too maybe