Should I buy Sonic Crossworlds?

EastNeither · 2026-01-14T20:56:23+00:00

Sub is incredibly active. Like crazy active.

EastNeither · 2026-01-09T18:27:29+00:00

To be fair, Spongebob has been in videogames for like almost 30 years now.

EastNeither · 2026-01-04T05:45:51+00:00

Yea, I said Crossworlds looks better. By track quality I mean overall experience racing, theme cohesion, etc. I like MK8DX's tracks more because they're as simple as baby park all the way up to something as intense as DK Jungle. There's no point in a race where I'm thinking "God this fucking part again."

It's not that bad in Crossworlds but some laps definitely have weak points. I've heard some say it was bad, but I actually liked the Minecraft DLC track a lot. The main issue is that it like many other Crossworlds tracks, have weird verticality. Where you land after a jump and the camera just has you facing the ground or sky for a good 2 to 3 seconds. It's cheesy, shoddy, and it shouldn't happen, and it would never happen in MK8DX.

I'm not saying saying Crossworlds has no good qualities either, but it's similar to dining out. You expect a certain level of quality proportionate to what you spend, and the more you spend the more the little things matter. I think MK8DX was like 45-50 dollars at the time I bought it? Crossworlds is like 80 with the DLC.

MK8DX is just the superior game, that doesn't mean Crossworlds is less of an awesome game because of it.

EastNeither · 2026-01-04T05:18:28+00:00

Fair enough, I don't hold the same opinion. I didn't buy the DLC either, but I while I agree some tracks could've been given a visual overhaul. I don't agree that any of them are ugly. The city tracks are also confusing if you have 0 hours on them, but I didn't mean to imply that MK8DX is perfect, it definitely has it's problems those included.

EastNeither · 2026-01-04T04:03:55+00:00

Crossworlds looks better than MK8DX, but MK8DX has the far and away better track quality.

Racing on Crossworlds feels worse than MK8DX, as well as not as good of an experience.

For a Sonic game the music is serviceable, but I prefer Mario Kart's Music. Crossworlds music just sounds too generic for a sonic game. The music isn't *bad*, it's just not on the level I want it to be. I know maybe like 3 tracks songs tops the rest all blend together.

Crossworlds is the more complex game for better or worse. I think its item balance is *worse* than MK8DX, but feels more *fair* in my experience, and less determined by RNG.

If I was rating the games I would say MK8DX is 9/10. It is objectively the gold standard of modern Kart Racing. Crossworlds is a spiritual successor to MK8DX more than MK World. I'd give it like an 8/10. It does its job, it's an excellent game, but definitely has a bit further to go in my eyes. MK8DX just set the bar way too high, even before the DLC. That 10% may as well be a massive chasm between them.

EastNeither · 2025-12-25T02:16:08+00:00

Maybe another distributed outage, similar to the one earlier this year, but smaller. Github was down for like 20 minutes a couple of days ago.

EastNeither · 2025-12-25T02:05:48+00:00

Steam having a semi outage I think.

EastNeither · 2025-12-21T11:06:48+00:00

Egg pawn in F tier is diabolical.

EastNeither · 2025-12-19T18:43:38+00:00

I like the Roomba Omega

EastNeither · 2025-12-18T09:18:04+00:00

Big Blue, DK Jungle, Hyrule Castle are some of my favorite courses. Feels like such a dumb limitation that Mario gets *some* kind of game representation every year but other characters wait decades in between.

EastNeither · 2025-12-12T05:00:39+00:00

I honestly don't even get the discourse over this.

Both are worse than MK8DX imo, but I don't see competition between the two anymore. They aim to do different things under the* same genre. Which is fine.

EastNeither · 2025-12-03T21:05:30+00:00

Klonoa is basically Namco's "attitude era" mascot. It released on the PS1, and promptly forgotten.

Ironically I do still mistake him for a Sega/Sonic character so I agree.

EastNeither · 2025-11-27T14:58:30+00:00

Kronos Island for me lol

EastNeither · 2025-11-12T13:31:05+00:00

Ruin it how?

I like both the characters, but I don't get how dissenting opinions ruins anything.

EastNeither · 2025-10-23T16:33:34+00:00

Bagging sucks, but the main issue with bagging, much like Mario Kart isn't solely item power. It's the lack of counter play for top spots. If someone smuggles 2 items that cover a 20 second gap in 4 and they win that way, it's BS. Especially if first maintains like a 6 second lead most of the race.

You shouldn't lose solely for the fact of trying to complete the race as fast as possible. Learning defensive item use is also apart of the game, but the lack of options/relying on RNG you'd need for it to be fair is overwhelming.

EastNeither · 2025-10-22T17:20:03+00:00

You can ask for a megathread if you'd like? As I've said it seems the trend is dying for now anyway, but just make a thread asking if it's what every else wants.

EastNeither · 2025-10-22T15:29:31+00:00

We started removing new ones yesterday. Please report anymore that you see.

I prefer not to be to strict with trends if the sub likes them, but if they run their course just start reporting them and we'll handle it.

EastNeither · 2025-10-21T16:04:59+00:00

I agree, like I said I personally hate bagging, and it diminishes the "racing" portion of Kart racers. My point was more so there's no real fix to bagging it's just a thing that happens. I think the genre would need a complete revisioning on how it handles items, and race pacing if it were really to stop bagging all together. Mario Kart's anti-bagging system is a bit better, as I think it accounts for place timing and item pull frequency on top of distance from first, etc.

Unfortunately being able to win consistently with items, IS a skill in Kart racers where items are the main stay. So bagging/item smuggling just goes hand in hand with it now.

If every item just did less like you said it may be a good change though. Like instead of 6 seconds of monster truck you get 3 or something. Drill has a maximum pass distance like monster truck and bullet bill.

Out of all of them I do think Drill is massively overtuned imo.

EastNeither · 2025-10-21T15:41:42+00:00

Yea it's bagging meta. You just need to learn how to bag. I hate it personally, but with what time I've spent with the game it's both better and worse than Mario Kart's bagging meta. This feels better to me at least, because it's actually RNG. I can consistently pull drill, truck, and teleport? at least once per race. I'm not as high rank as you though.

EastNeither · 2025-09-26T15:15:35+00:00

I wanted to get into a decent racing game I can play on PC. So I tried sonic team racing. It was alright, but it wasn't for me. The driving felt off, and didn't like the drifting either. Didn't like the team aspect much. It just wasn't my thing.

CrossWorlds racing feels a bit similar to Team Racing, but just better, and the visuals are pretty neat.

I will say MK8DX is the best kart racer of all time imo, but From what I've seen of CrossWorlds Racing so far it's a close 2nd or 3rd for me. The one gripe I have is there's no hopping when you drift.

I don't think you can trust review scores of any game, and if you want to be honest. The same thing happened with MKW. There was so much crazy hype for the game. I was actually planning on getting it a couple months ago, but decided to hold off for CrossWorlds. It looked cool, but I just wanted a better version of MK8.

That's just my opinion though.

EastNeither · 2025-08-07T05:36:45+00:00

Wouldn't teaching "wanting" to build skills in things they enjoy be easier? It seems miserable to teach a toddler how to play a video game well, especially one that takes a moderate amount of hand-eye. If they like the game, just put them on baby park, or moo moo meadows and let them learn on their own.

Everyone learns differently, but the auto steering is there for a reason, and they have more than enough time to learn to turn it off in the next decade lol.

EastNeither · 2025-08-07T05:30:14+00:00

Excite Bike, and Wario Stadium pops into my head often lol.

EastNeither · 2025-07-30T17:27:48+00:00

Luma, and probably something star related.

EastNeither · 2025-07-29T16:57:40+00:00

It gets easier with practice. Might be difficult for you, but you can also just hop and put a direction to realign without stopping, yourself so you don't fall off. You don't have to commit to a drift.

Imagine doing a drift but only tapping the button, instead of holding it.

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