IMO the newest Mario Kart (Switch 2) is the first one that’s probably better than Double Dash. That’s three consoles in a row where I think the GameCube game’s better than the newer offerings (and that’s not even a nostalgia game for me—that’d be the original, and the N64 one, neither of which is very good).

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packetlost 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'll second this. DoubleDash was _so good_ that it really hasn't been beat since (I haven't played MK World, the latest, so can't assess that yet)

	▲	yepitwas 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The ordinary game is pretty damn good, but all the tracks exist in one "world" and your character + kart are racing around it on autopilot in the background of the main menu. You can press a button to dismiss the menu and take over the kart, and start a free-roam mode of the entire game-world with all kinds of challenges and such to select from. I'm not quite sure it displaces Double Dash as far as straight-up obsoleting it, but it's the first I've seen that brings enough good new stuff to the table that I'd at least sometimes choose it over DD, all else being equal. Every other one I was like "this is OK but I'd sorta rather just be playing Double Dash".

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mvieira38 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Melee is widely regarded int he community as much better than the successors, too, and it's pretty much the only game that survived its sequel in the whole series

	▲	yepitwas 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I've played more Mario Kart than Smash Bros. and am only a very-casual player of either (... but this surely describes the overwhelming majority of people buying and playing these games?) so I wouldn't claim with some kind of authority that Melee's the best Smash Bros., but all the ones since have felt way too fiddly for me and I didn't enjoy them at all, despite really liking the first two entries in the series (and especially Melee). Another case where my "nostalgia" one is the N64 game, not Melee, so I don't think it's a nostalgia thing making me prefer the Gamecube version.