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Worst Mario Kart tracks?
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The Hermit
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Yeah, that track was bulshit
I'd love to believe that that's why he got banned.
And on the subject of Rainbow Road, another from the earlier life of this thread:
You can play Special Cup on 100cc. Not 50, though.
Top three worse tracks in MK8D
Neo Bowser City: I hated this map in MK7 and I hate it here. So many turns that don't have any flow to them and it basically baits you into hurling yourself off the track. Visually there's nothing really signifying specific segments of the track, everything looks the same which contributes to you essentially forgetting what comes next.
Sherbet Land: This map is a visual mess in terms of differentiating landmarks or signs. Everything is the same color and it's hard to see where turns are and which areas are off road. Not to mention many of the obstacles seem randomly placed. Furthermore, the last area is just a big open space so it's hard to tell where to go exactly.
Grumble Volcano: It has an alright gimmick of having split courses, but overall it's very boring and like the other two, a bit confusing visually concerning where you should be turning.
Neo Bowser City: I hated this map in MK7 and I hate it here. So many turns that don't have any flow to them and it basically baits you into hurling yourself off the track. Visually there's nothing really signifying specific segments of the track, everything looks the same which contributes to you essentially forgetting what comes next.
Sherbet Land: This map is a visual mess in terms of differentiating landmarks or signs. Everything is the same color and it's hard to see where turns are and which areas are off road. Not to mention many of the obstacles seem randomly placed. Furthermore, the last area is just a big open space so it's hard to tell where to go exactly.
Grumble Volcano: It has an alright gimmick of having split courses, but overall it's very boring and like the other two, a bit confusing visually concerning where you should be turning.
Luigi's Circuit is probably the worst first track in the series. Long and boring. (On the flip, MK8's is great and doesn't at all suffer from being track 1) But it's also a beginner track so I suppose I should cut it some slack.
Kalimari Desert is also rather unremarkable. Once you get over the train gimmick (which isn't even utilised that well) and the fact you can go down the tunnel (which is rather pointless) there's nothing much to write home about.
This was all rather highlighted in Mario Kart 7 where these two retro tracks do feel rather weak compared to the rest of the package.
Need to revisit a lot of the older games to judge their tracks fairly.
Kalimari Desert is also rather unremarkable. Once you get over the train gimmick (which isn't even utilised that well) and the fact you can go down the tunnel (which is rather pointless) there's nothing much to write home about.
This was all rather highlighted in Mario Kart 7 where these two retro tracks do feel rather weak compared to the rest of the package.
Need to revisit a lot of the older games to judge their tracks fairly.
I think it's an okay course, and that climactic sequence with the hairpin with boulders falling around is great - but yes, the visual is absolutely disastrous.
But Mario Kart Super Circuit has all the SNES tracks too!
There aren't any blue shells in the SNES iteration.
On which note, I think I'd quite like to see the old red shell AI back - not smart enough to follow the track, so aren't just fire-and-forget, but still a step up over green shells.
Indeed, I wonder if it'd work quite well with blue shells having their behaviour replaced with the new red shell AI
toastyToast
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Toad's Turnpike
Baby Park is a straight line?
Finale Fireworker
Member
I really don't like Yoshi Circuit from Double Dash, which is shaped like Yoshi.
Sometimes I really get into a flow that kill that track by perfectly drifting and boosting every turn, but most of the time I just mess up because there are so many swerves. I hit walls and drive onto grass so much in that track.
There's nobody to really blame but myself, but I don't like racing that track at all.
Sometimes I really get into a flow that kill that track by perfectly drifting and boosting every turn, but most of the time I just mess up because there are so many swerves. I hit walls and drive onto grass so much in that track.
There's nobody to really blame but myself, but I don't like racing that track at all.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Implying that I don't know how to use brake mechanic for 200cc. Unfortunately for all of you, I have been playing Mario Kart 8 & Deluxe with KartGAF ever since like few years, and I won first place few times on that map against pretty darn good players.
It's so weird that people who seemly don't agree with someone's opinions about the tracks, always assumes that they are pretty bad with the game like no skills or don't know how to use brake mechanic. Also people actually forget the fact that many (or all) tracks were designed for 150cc in developers' mindsets, not 200cc.
Can we also talk about awful this track name is? It's like they knew they were committed to using as much cutesy alliteration as possible but thought for some reason that using Banshee as a synonym for Ghost was a good idea. Why not just Boo's Boardwalk?
I hate that new desert map in MK8 (sand that slows you down everywhere), and honestly, the new Bowser's Castle as well.
I didn't like the Wii Rainbow Road either, though I think that's more to do with the fact that that was back when you could vote for any track you wanted online which resulted in Rainbow Road being picked literally every single time and I got sick of it.
That's 200cc in a nutshell, though.
I didn't like the Wii Rainbow Road either, though I think that's more to do with the fact that that was back when you could vote for any track you wanted online which resulted in Rainbow Road being picked literally every single time and I got sick of it.
That's 200cc in a nutshell, though.
Vital Tundra
Member
This is coming from the same people who went with "Music Park" for the US instead of the far more excellent "Melody Motorway". They don't make sense some times.
CharminUltra
Member
Baby Park is a turd dipped in diarrhea and topped with hangover puke.
yanipheonu
Member
I'd put my vote towards Grumble Volcano as well.
In a game filled with visually colourful and diverse tracks, this track is just so uninspired.
"hey so we have this volcano level. Should we do something cool like an antigrav track going around the volcano, or maybe add some colourful elements to keep the track interesting?"
"Nah just make it drab brown and red."
I forgot about Ice Ice Outpost. Yeah, it looks more like a track out of one of the HotWheels PS2 games (which incidentally MK8 stole a lot from. The optional perpendicular sideways wall sections of tracks are ripped right out of them).
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
To be fair, it's a retro track, so they were stuck with the original design. With that said, I think there's much greater potential with a volcano track for sure
tryagainlater
Member
All the Double Dash tracks. And Luigis Raceway. Hate whenever that gets picked when playing 7 online.
Sylverstone14
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MemoryHumanity
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Toad's Turnpike. Total garbage.
If you're talking about the winding section at the end with the Piranha Plants, I treat it like a straightaway, bisecting the turns. You can minimize turning there while staying on the road.
Frankenstrat
Member
Yep. Just gotta focus on the left coming up. I would also nominate Todd's Turnpike. Always groaned whenever it came up but at least it wasn't as dull as Dry Dry Desert.
uncelestial
Member
Really, bruh?
LegendofLex
Member
Mario Kart 8: Every track from the GameCube game, especially Dry Dry Desert but also including Baby Park which is pretty boring in MK8 outside of frantic mode. They don't even have atmosphere and music going for them, which saves many otherwise boring tracks (like Toad's Turnpike, Rainbow Road, and many other N64 tracks). Also Excitebike Arena and Grumble Volcano.
All Wario-themed tracks that aren't Wario Colosseum or the Shipyard from MK7.
N64 Choco Mountain and Frappe Snowland
Can't really think of any others that I dislike--I may be indifferent to them, but that isn't dislike.
All Wario-themed tracks that aren't Wario Colosseum or the Shipyard from MK7.
N64 Choco Mountain and Frappe Snowland
Can't really think of any others that I dislike--I may be indifferent to them, but that isn't dislike.
Octavianus
Banned
Those are some of the best tracks though.
anon_mastermind
Member
Sticking to MK8...
Water Park - just uninteresting all around
Electrodrome - I want to like it, but the track design is poop
DS Wario Stadium - feels like no matter your skill, items decide the result
Excitebike Arena - I like it in concept, but it's very boring
Water Park - just uninteresting all around
Electrodrome - I want to like it, but the track design is poop
DS Wario Stadium - feels like no matter your skill, items decide the result
Excitebike Arena - I like it in concept, but it's very boring
Dagobert Duck
Member
Excitebite Track..it's like Baby Park but even longer and with jumps...
Metaternal
Member
SNES: Donut Plains 3. That stupid ass second broken bridge. Both later versions fixed the fuck-up so that's nice.
N64: Wario Stadium. It has several jumps that invalidate the track's length, kinda like Rainbow Road but with worse music. And that stupid ass gap near the end.
GBA: Lakeside Park. Mainly because I had so much trouble getting wins and keeping coins with those stupid ass rocks.
GC: Peach Beach. It's basically a bigger, less chaotic Baby Park. That's no fun. The Cataquacks might as well not even be there.
DS: Figure-8 Circuit. It was mentioned earlier, but it's completely obsolete now that 8's Mario Circuit exists. Even Toad's Turnpike was more interesting. GCN Baby Park was nerfed to 5 laps so that's my worst retro track from DS.
Wii: Wario's Gold Mine. Stupid ass bats. Stupid ass carts. Stupid ass hills. Stupid ass music. MK8 fixed two of these. For the retro side, GBA Shy Guy Beach can fuck right off with those stupid ass cannonballs.
3DS: Rosalina's Ice World. Stupid ass name aside, the half pipe would've made this a better Wii track than a 7 one. And there's not much going on here besides that. 7 in general has the problem of not much going on but it's probably at its worst here. Worst retro track would be GCN Dino Dino Jungle, but that's really only because it's the worst of the ones they brought back with no big changes (jumping the train in Kalimari for example).
Wii U: Bone-Dry Dunes. This is mostly for aesthetics. I don't like the color scheme or the sand. And that last turn gets on my nerves. For retro tracks, GCN Dry Dry Desert is my worst. They took everything interesting about the original (which wasn't much) and nerfed it, while adding water. Water's fine, but did you have to take out the tornado? Did the colors have to look so washed out?
N64: Wario Stadium. It has several jumps that invalidate the track's length, kinda like Rainbow Road but with worse music. And that stupid ass gap near the end.
GBA: Lakeside Park. Mainly because I had so much trouble getting wins and keeping coins with those stupid ass rocks.
GC: Peach Beach. It's basically a bigger, less chaotic Baby Park. That's no fun. The Cataquacks might as well not even be there.
DS: Figure-8 Circuit. It was mentioned earlier, but it's completely obsolete now that 8's Mario Circuit exists. Even Toad's Turnpike was more interesting. GCN Baby Park was nerfed to 5 laps so that's my worst retro track from DS.
Wii: Wario's Gold Mine. Stupid ass bats. Stupid ass carts. Stupid ass hills. Stupid ass music. MK8 fixed two of these. For the retro side, GBA Shy Guy Beach can fuck right off with those stupid ass cannonballs.
3DS: Rosalina's Ice World. Stupid ass name aside, the half pipe would've made this a better Wii track than a 7 one. And there's not much going on here besides that. 7 in general has the problem of not much going on but it's probably at its worst here. Worst retro track would be GCN Dino Dino Jungle, but that's really only because it's the worst of the ones they brought back with no big changes (jumping the train in Kalimari for example).
Wii U: Bone-Dry Dunes. This is mostly for aesthetics. I don't like the color scheme or the sand. And that last turn gets on my nerves. For retro tracks, GCN Dry Dry Desert is my worst. They took everything interesting about the original (which wasn't much) and nerfed it, while adding water. Water's fine, but did you have to take out the tornado? Did the colors have to look so washed out?
Frankenstrat
Member
You're right, I should have said that I diasgree and that was what I get out of it. It definitely becomes way more tense about the driving. I can respect the difference in opinion since I seem to thrive on stress and mild irritation in games. Definitely did not mean to imply you had zero skills because that course is one of the few in 200cc I haven't been able to run through without braking.
On topic, I would probably be nominating more Super Circuit tracks if it hadn't been my first Mario Kart. Peach and Mario circuit are a one-two punch of dull that I somehow still appreciate.
MisterGrey3000
Member
I gotta jump into say that the baby park level is the worst thing ever.
THE.ABSOLUTE.WORST.
Getting hit by a bajillion items every 2 seconds while racing around a short, flat course just isn't my idea of fun in an MK game.
UGH, I can't stand this level, especially when the speed increases. Those sharp turns become a nightmare! T.T
THE.ABSOLUTE.WORST.
Getting hit by a bajillion items every 2 seconds while racing around a short, flat course just isn't my idea of fun in an MK game.
UGH, I can't stand this level, especially when the speed increases. Those sharp turns become a nightmare! T.T