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Mario Kart 8 Announced For Wii U
- Thread starter zakislam
- Start date
Hopefully, the item balance in 7 was mostly good.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Bikes rule!
I hated them at first, but now I love them.
The real problem that needs fixing. It's really annoying to get hit by 5 things in a row only to be pushed off the track.
soulassssns
Banned
Looks awesome. Day one.
Graphics Horse
Member
Banned.
except if you go in first since you only get banana and green shells. first place needs more mushrooms to avoid blue shells.
In his defense I think he's sorta right. Perhaps he undersold it, but clearly the foundation of the game is MK7.
GAF A60-Rim A
Banned
Did anyone else like the concept of the thunder cloud? Like a game of tag, mid-game.
I think it was a little over-punishing to the loser, but I enjoyed deliberately knocking into people to pass it on.
Well you also sometimes get the ever-useless super leaf.
Aaron Strife
Banned
seeing the picture i almost teared up since it looks like an F-Zero-styled track with those twists.
if there's an F-Zero cup in this game, it would be the megaton of the decade.
by that logic, MKWii is a souped up MKDS, which is a souped up MKDD.
this is not a series that requires a brand new engine that feels completely different.
Getting that thing in second and or when no one is around or getting one by lag was to darn annoying. The punishment outweighed the benefit....by a lot lol.
GAF A60-Rim A
Banned
Competition: come up with the best names for the 5 new courses! Bonus: your best guess what you think they'll be called)
(The mushroom figure 8, the city with the trams, the ghost house, the ancient ruins thing, and the wafer lollipop candyland course)
Prize: fun!
(The mushroom figure 8, the city with the trams, the ghost house, the ancient ruins thing, and the wafer lollipop candyland course)
Prize: fun!
8 Circuit, Trolley Town, Luigi's Mansion, Dry Dunes, Sweet Stadium.
Edit: Eh... Sweet Circuit instead. Stadium's too battle mode-y.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
In his defense?! He got EVERYTHING wrong, lol. He was a failure even as a guesser, just an attention whore troll.
He's permabanned anyway.
MKW actually pushed the Wii hard. Great graphics for the platform and 60fps 12 player online for a Wii game was nothing to scoff at. MK7 also is one of 3DS's graphical powerhouses.This doesn't even make any sense
Why does mario kart which has been one the weakest nintendo franchise visually, now Look Amazing and by far the best looking In-house game.
Outtrigger888
Member
You cant defend someone who claimed to have seen or known when he was only speculating.
No. I didn't like it. It meant being mid-field, it could be smart staying away from items. Which doesn't make sense.
nintendo found out how much street cred sony and microsoft were getting for pushing high visuals on racers and they did it themselves, just funny that their main racer is a kart game LOL. all of the kart games have actually been really great looking for the console they released on, shit like Double Dash only looks average in hindsight.
GAF A60-Rim A
Banned
Yes it's. I can still believe how great this game looks.
Always-honest
Banned
Wow.. This could very well be one of the best mariokarts ever.
Premature much? Yes!
Premature much? Yes!
JBtheHunter
Banned
This game is going to be a system seller no question. This is one of the most impressive looking games I've ever seen. It's honestly the first game that ACTUALLY looks Pixar movie quality, despite how many times that claim has been thrown around.
Many things to like here:
Just give me a good battle mode now, Nintendo
- The items seem to be scaled back to a basic rooster (didn't see any of the luck-items yet)
- The karts look like carts again and aren't super big monster vehicles
- game looks great!
- It already feels fast (most MKs debuted in 50cc only and felt slow as hell for it)
- the green shell is smaller and faster again
- It looks great!
Just give me a good battle mode now, Nintendo
Wolfgang Jr
Banned
I hope they add some animation to the powerups trailing behind the kart; maybe a small spark as it gets dragged along the tarmac or something - also HATE how you just drive 'into' the under water parts; I don't mind the fact that there's 'driving' underwater, but at least make the karts drop off a pier or something INTO the water - a wall of water is stupid.
Yeah man. Should be more spread out like Gears of War!
Tom Hatherford
Banned
I just want to say this looks real nice. Nintendoland nice with the lighting, and some great looking animation on the characters.
Its good stuff
I love that they made the roads smaller and the character bigger again too. Hated everything being over giant in MKWii
Its good stuff
I love that they made the roads smaller and the character bigger again too. Hated everything being over giant in MKWii
Graphics Horse
Member
All desert tracks look the same to me.
No longer with us thanks to those prophecies. Huh I've answered that twice on this page..
No longer with us thanks to those prophecies. Huh I've answered that twice on this page..
Got a link to that video?
lol.
King of the Potato People
Member
Looks ok, I like the look of some of the environments. The anti-gravity aspect looks like a gimmick.
Hours Left
Member
Toadette is back. All is well.
In comparison, Call of Duty has 8 games in one generation, and more coming.
soxinthebox
Member
Damn that looks good. I'm genuinely surprised.