"Jaffe: You know, honestly, I've been too busy recently trying to figure out why the fuck go-karts shoot banana peels."

That quote is made of win.

Since when does Mario make sense on any level?

YES! I love Jaffe.

The drivers of the karts THROW the peels.
Harumph.

To shoot people. Duh.

the better question would be, why do turtle shells fling from cars, and sometimes home in on other people?

@bigman88zz:

The red and blue shells have gaydar :p

Yeah... why DID Miyamoto put shell launchers and banana peels on go karts? Sounds a little hypocritical, doesn't it?

Haha awesome.

I hope you like David Jaffe Luke... to me you yourself come across as a bit of a Jaffe, but you suppress that side of yourself for the sake of your very-easy-to-upset readers...

Because we all know Mario is the answer to all logical thought in the universe.

Guns protect people... banana peels just cause suffering. Why Miyamoto hate ppl?

@BD: Since he started eating the shrooms.

As to why they shoot banana peels... obviously to make the other carts slip. How something that has 4 wheels can slide crazily out of control after hitting a very small easily destroyed banana peel is another issue all together.

Because guns don't kill people, bananas do!

Miyamoto = most over rated game creator of all time....meh.

Harmless hinderance is the reason why. Do I win anything?

Better than getting hit by explosive blue turtle shells <3

it is because we can and it is funny

Ok. I'm starting to see the appeal of this Jaffe fellow.

I'm glad someone will publicly call out Shiggy and the crap he spews.

It's because in Mario Kart each CPU Kart only had one weapon (DK Jr's was the banana peel, Yoshi's was an egg, etc) but the player was allowed to use any of the weapons. So the bananas are because of DK Jr. Jaffe ought to know the classics better.

@BD: Exactly.

A dinosaur with unbelievably balanced driving skills, similar to Michael Schumacher.
A plant that can drive even though it doesn't have eyes. (Yeah dude, Petey's effin' blind, WTF, unsafe!)
Mushrooms that somehow convert into nitro in under a second.

Never made sense in the first place. But isn't that why we love Mario Kart?

That is quite moronic from Miyamoto's side...

Seriously......?

Are we seriously having this discussion?

Does somebody actually spend time thinking about how the "physics" of Mario Kart relate to real life?

Sorry but I'm too busy actually enjoying the game I paid for.

Nothing wrong with guns on cars either ;-)

Jaffe needs to chillax

Since there is a giant monkey in the game obsessed with bananas, gorilla likes bananas, bananas are thrown from go kart.

What would an competitive monkey throw? Napalm.The only thing interesting is the fact that, the concept of a monkey throwing bananas some how mystified Jaffe, but then again the guy runs his mouth more than he makes games.

He had that awesome game last year that everybody was talking about it was......Oh wait Jaffe didn't have jack squat last year. Yes yes.

I think everyone's overlooking the fact that the mariokart games are a 'tad' more successful than the Twisted metal series.

The question is: Why would you NOT you put guns on cars?

/me wants a GOOD Interstate '76 sequel. Funk + V8 + guns attached = win

/me also thinks of her two most favourite rigger characters who drove a nicely equipped Rolls Royce Phaeton/VW Integra SP (third most favourite rigger drove a Saab Dynamite and was more laid out for speedy getaways).

Even though I don't like Jaffe, that is a pretty funny response.

Best headline I've seen on a news site in years.

@gaiking: LOL

Yeah man, what did Miyamoto ever do?

Why the hell not?

@bastardcake: Now, David Jaffe, that guy's a legend.

When Twisted Metal sells 1/10 the number of copies as Mario Kart, the guy will have a point.

@gaiking: Then you = most hated poster on Kotaku.

I hope he never dies. Yes, I said it.

you know, I love Mario Kart as much as the next person, but I will agree he has Jaffe has a point. I mean, the question shouldn't really be, "Why would you create your game this way?" Shouldn't it instead be, "Why WOULDN'T you create your game this way?" Creating arbitrary confines like those Miyamoto would adhere to really goes a long way in removing the elements of the game which the populace might consider fun. So to answer miyamoto's question, well.... because it's fun? Because the success of the Twisted Metal franchise indicates that there are some players out there who like that kind of thing? I don't know...

Ummm doesn't the player get the banana's out of the item boxes and then drop them. So there's no banana gun or anything. It's like if you dropped a banana peel out the window as you drove down the hwy.

geeez...

@FranUnFine:

Ha, beat me to it!

@gaiking: easy bro. anyone who can fart out Mario, Zelda, DK, StarFox, and Nintendogs from nowhere AND raise the video game franchise from the dead (Super Mario bros.) is in NO way overrated. The man was gardening one day and was like "Damn, I think I'll make Pikmin." Boom! Million seller!

I think Jaffe can be seen as overrated, depending on opinion. God of War, the game that made him a celeb, was awesome but it only seemed to aim to perfect action games, not revolutionize them. I do, however, love the way he speaks his mind in interviews, which is why he's gotten so big. If comapanies with the same pedigree (Infinity Ward, Bungie or Irrational (2K Boston?)) had a hilariously obnoxious spokesman like him I'm not sure we'd be paying too much attention to him right now.

Yeah, those banana peels? No sense whatsoever. The pink thing that shoots eggs out of its face? Well, that's normal.

That's perfect, what a comeback. Though if we're faulting the Mario universe on lack of realism, we'll be here for a while. Starting with the sentient walking mushrooms you stamp on, then the mushrooms you run into/eat to gain magical powers, then the fact that a dragon/tortoise thing has kidnapped a princess (who is ruler of a mushroom kingdom despite being human and being called peach) and you send, of all people, a plumber in coveralls to save her. In the style of a bad James Bond villain, he let's his nemesis go so he can return to capture the princess again at the earliest opportunity. Then they chase each other round a track in go-karts. I'd say the karts firing banana peels is about as sane as it gets.

@gaiking: Miyamoto = most over rated game creator of all time....meh.

Someone had to say it, and you know, In am kinda in agreement. Does that make me not a hardcore gamer? Or a anti-nintendo fanboy? I dont know. But as I get older, and miyamotos very polished shovel wear continues to fail at innovating, I am starting to doubt him as the creative genius he is touted as.

Because it makes for a more interesting play mechanic than shooting random fucker #23000? I dunno haven't played MK since the SNES, but I'll still take it over any iteration of TM. I dunno maybe I'm just old.

He's batshit insane, but I admit to a bit of a mancrush for Jaffe.

You know, Jaffe, I've been too busy recently trying to figure out how the fuck a clown can drive an ice cream truck while his head's on fire.

@kennyd1: Is the issue of realism really the point? Again, I think this is Jaffe's way of saying Miyamoto shouldn't act as though he's the patron saint of game design. Jaffe knows that neither case is very realistic, but that doesn't mean you can't do it regardless.

@steel_pelican.
"You know, Jaffe, I've been too busy recently trying to figure out how the fuck a clown can drive an ice cream truck while his head's on fire."
awesome.

I've got a better question....why did the anceint greeks leave green health orbs in boxes everywhere?

Dave jaffe: Sitting oin a glass house and playing iwth a slingshot.

I will now love Jaffe forever for 0wning Miyamoto.

@BD:

I believe thats the point. Miyamoto questions the method behind others designs when his make the least sense of them all.

I mean, a mushroom that makes you grow to giant proportions?

That said, its the wacky and out-of-this-world ideas that I usually like the most.

I think it was more of a comeback than his actual opinion. Jaffe is smart enough to realise the similarities between the titles, and I'm sure has nothing against MK.

@sedaris: Good to know someone else read it the same way as I. Too many people being way to defensive about the quote, as if Jaffe was insulting Miyamoto rather than making a point.

Riiight. "David Jaffe's about to make you his bitch. Suck it down."