Milly Osworth
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When Nintendo does well the reaction to that is always amazing to read 😂
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe review thread
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Baleoce
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The first sentence is simply untrue. If you like Mario Kart, this game is an essential purchase. Whether you have purchased and played the original is a decision that's down to the individual. The game has to be assessed on its own independent merits.
System needs to be in stock first for it to outsell but still has a road ahead of it to go. We'll get a better idea on how well it is doing by next year though.
this is my first ever mario kart :O
I do think there's a bit of a "GAF bubble" when it comes to criticising MK8D for not adding much really new for owners of the Wii U version. Sure, plenty of people on GAF own Wii Us. It was a popular system for the hardcore with a great collection of titles. However, outside of the "GAF bubble" very very few people, in the grand scheme of things, bought a Wii U. For those people, MK8D is going to be absolutely HUGE. It will sell systems in a pretty big way. I mean Pokemon Sun and Moon have, I believe, sold more copies than Nintendo sold Wii Us.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
How have you lived bruh. My childhood was defined by playing Mario Kart against my brothers to Marvin Gaye
Baleoce
Member
That additional detail xD love it
You are in for a treat. Sadly you will never experience Block Fort in its heyday.
Found this on Twitter:
Herb Alpert
Banned
Yeah of course, nothing so far could lead us to think that it could beat WiiU numbers.
Come on
Baleoce
Member
You are in for a treat. Sadly you will never experience Block Fort in its heyday.
Found this on Twitter:
Deluxe DLC Believe. And yeah, Block Fort on the n64 was something else. So many good memories.
GiantBreadbug
Member
You might be ruined on future MK titles because 8 was already the best one in existence and Deluxe seems to somehow make it even better
LFMartins86
Member
It's not truly essential due to lack of games, Eurogamer doesn't review games like that.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe isn't just the Wii U game with the DLC, it improves the resolution to 1080p, resolves the frame rate issue, adds 8 new battle tracks and 4 different battle modes that weren't in the MK 8, adds 5 new characters, 3 new vehicles, 2 new item types, the ability to hold 2 items instead of just 1, a third stage of drift boost and a Smart Assist for new players.
When Nintendo does well, people go crazy.
CaviarMeths
Member
"Almost everything" means the same thing as "damn near everything."
And it's not any more accurate. Yes, Zelda and Mario were both rated Essential by EG. That makes 2 out of the 7 Switch games that EG has reviewed so far.
Hell, "damn near nothing" is significantly more accurate than what you're trying to spin here.
SinCityAssassin
Member
If they do it at the price scheme as the last one, it'll be perfecter.
You are in for a treat. Sadly you will never experience Block Fort in its heyday.
Found this on Twitter:
That's an average of almost 13 hours a session.
MK8 was released 1,058 days ago. - 9999 hours is 416 days.
So that's spending literally almost half of your days (including sleep) playing Mario kart 8.
so thereby fake, i guess?
A new DLC half a dozen new characters (including non Mario/Donkey Kong characters), 8 new tracks (some based on other Nintendo IPs), 8 retro tracks and 4 or so new battle arenas (including block fort) please. I'll even let you charge a couple of bucks extra for it Nintendo since you're including some extra battle arenas.
Maybe he just left it on? Something you can now do with the Switch's sleep mode INFINITE MARIO KART FOREVER
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DELUXE for Switch 2.
I doubt there will be any DLC for this though. You'd think they would want to save a lot for Mario Kart 9.
As long as it doesn't rip a hole in time and space we're good to go then.
Just gonna follow up my own post to say that unfortunately a couple of reviews do mention that it's more chaotic now and there are more blue shells. I guess there's a higher chance of getting a super horn, too, but I enjoyed the lower item frequency of MK8.
Shame that they changed it. Sort of cancels out most of the other improvements.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Umm there's like 3 layers to block fort you could very easily do it just make the individual forts a bit larger.
Herb Alpert
Banned
"come on it's just a fad"
My main hope is that we get the same DLC support as we did with the original release of MK8 with it priced the same way (which was a bargain), but with the addition of 2-4 battle tracks per DLC pack. So by the end I want the game to have 64 race tracks (which sounds awesome) and 12-16 battle tracks.
Just some wishful thinking.
Just some wishful thinking.
Charles Brandon
Member
Did similar calculations. Preposterous.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
What on Earth are you on about? A game that scores a 94 on Metacritic would be essential for any system. Hell if it was PS4 it would be the highest scoring game of the year maybe even two years. There's like litterally nothing to your argument.
kitchenmotors
Banned
You're delusional. The Switch is nothing like the Wii U and is on track to outsell it.
FlutterPuffs
Member
Would love this game, but gotta wait and see if there's a good amount of SEA/JP switch players to make it worthwhile.
Some console multiplayer games are DOA in Asia
Some console multiplayer games are DOA in Asia
Would love this game, but gotta wait and see if there's a good amount of SEA/JP switch players to make it worthwhile.
Some console multiplayer games are DOA in Asia
Just play in worldwide mode ?
On WiiU I kept being matched with japanese players so I think it'll be fine either way
My review is finally up, it's quite good. (the game that is)
http://www.vooks.net/mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch-review/
http://www.vooks.net/mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch-review/
Eurogamer and reviewers in general don't rate games on a "is there anything else to play on the system or not" basis. If they rate MK8D as essential, that means they think it's an essential game to play, regardless of the system it's on or the size of that system's games library. End of story.
Twenty7KVN
Member
5 years later
"Nintendo got lucky"
Could just leave the Wii U on for the same result I guess.
CaviarMeths
Member
And every success is just "lightning in a bottle."
Twenty7KVN
Member
Mario Kart 9 Deluxe review thread:
"It truly only is essential due to the extreme lack of games"
Vampirolol
Member
I think that if a game sells more than a million (something that will easily happen here) it's probably an essential purchase.
Also, being a damn good Mario Kart helps a lot.
Also, being a damn good Mario Kart helps a lot.
Gotdatmoney
Member
Naw it's already pretty obvious what the result is going to be. It will surpass the WiiU with ease.
tiredheadcrab
Member
Very happy with the reviews of this game. I havent bought the console version of a Mario kart game since 64 and my parents got me that for my birthday. I did own the GBA, DS and 3DS versions however. This will be my first console MK game since 1997.
It isn't like they are producing low stock. They are selling as many as they can make, and they are shipping quite a lot. It's selling incredibly well.
TheFuzz
Member
Are you being serious? It's nearly gotten a third of the Wii U install base in 6 weeks.
It'll be at 8mil by next year, we don't see need to wait until then to see if it will outsell the Wii U.
Some of the people here are delusional. It has two must-haves within 8 weeks of launch and more games coming every week. The thing is going to be a success.
PSFan
Member
Not for me. Unlocking everything was the major fun point of any MK for me. But in MK8D, everything is unlocked already. So no point in me buying it at all.
Resistance100
Member
Kart upgrades aren't.
momshotdad
Member
Just paid off my preorder. After 70hrs of online for Wii U, I cannot wait for some online battle mode. This will probably end up being my most played game on the Switch.