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Mario Kart 7 |OT| Rosalina is Fat, BBW Lovers Unite!

big_z

Member
Just saw the commercial for this game and it's awful. Nintendo should have brought back the mascot outfits they used in that smash bros commercial.
 

Berordn

Member
huh I assumed it didnt have wings.

If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?
 
You can't really see it in the videos, but the game looks very good. Even more so in 3D. And first person driving is surprisingly playable, except on the most wacky stages (Rainbow Road really).

Can't wait for online to fill up.
 
If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?

Yeah alright, it's wingless - it still flies AND takes out people on the ground though :p
 

Zane

Member
Who created those awesome images?

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(just wondered, what this was when the image loaded lol)

what...

what the hell is this
 

diffusionx

Gold Member
This is the first MK game I'm getting day one since MK64. I'm excited about it. Nintendo got the 3D down pat and I'm really looking forward to seeing it in 3D.
 

Berordn

Member
Yeah alright, it's wingless - it still flies AND takes out people on the ground though :p

Sorry, wasn't trying to call you out on anything. I'm just wondering out loud about why they bothered to change the shell but not how it worked if it's still floating. Nintendo logic.
 
Sorry, wasn't trying to call you out on anything. I'm just wondering out loud about why they bothered to change the shell but not how it worked if it's still floating. Nintendo logic.

No, you were right. I just hadn't bothered to actually check if it had wings or not. Usually too much going on :lol
 

EloquentM

aka Mannny
If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?

its supposed to start on the ground and the closer it gets to first place the more it starts to fly
 
Are there any vids of the Mario Circuit 2 (SNES) and Royal Raceway (N64) retro courses yet?
On Mario Circuit 2, i hope it retains the feeling of using a mushroom before the final jump! Loved the feeling on the original where you could swing a skid out in mid-air to steal first place! And i'm curious whether they made anything official out of glitch in Royal Raceway (veer hard left off the big ramp and land on the river bank, skipping half the course).
 

Berordn

Member
Are there any vids of the Mario Circuit 2 (SNES) and Royal Raceway (N64) retro courses yet?
On Mario Circuit 2, i hope it retains the feeling of using a mushroom before the final jump! Loved the feeling on the original where you could swing a skid out in mid-air to steal first place! And i'm curious whether they made anything official out of glitch in Royal Raceway (veer hard left off the big ramp and land on the river bank, skipping half the course).

Royal Raceway isn't in.
 

Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Makes sense in the Mario mythos. Isn't she made of stars, which are super dense anyways.

I'm probably thinking about this too much.

Rosalina isn't made of stars, but she's magical. In the in-game story, she is a girl who got lost in outer space, found the little star guys, and felt responsible for them so became their "mother". She apparently gained magical powers and became a magical being. As a result, she's very tall; bigger than the other humanlike Mario cast.

So I suppose they were thinking more in terms of her scale than literal body weight. She's a "big" character.
 

Codeblue

Member
I'd like to think that the bottom image in the OP is a commentary on how weak the 3DS launch line up was, since none of them are playing on launch units.
 

GeekyDad

Member
Rosalina isn't made of stars, but she's magical. In the in-game story, she is a girl who got lost in outer space, found the little star guys, and felt responsible for them so became their "mother". She apparently gained magical powers and became a magical being. As a result, she's very tall; bigger than the other humanlike Mario cast.

So I suppose they were thinking more in terms of her scale than literal body weight. She's a "big" character.

You've obviously thought this whole thing through.
 
You can set a logo (pre made ones only), enter a name and description, choose between racing (50, 100, 150CC or Mirror) or the two battle modes and which items are available when racing (All, Shells, Bananas, Mushrooms, Bob-Ombs, None). No individual toggling for each item.

The communities are really more like rooms.

You join a community pre race lobby and can send out pre fabricated messages like the types of "OK!" or "LET'S RACE!". Noone is in charge of the community/room it seems, and I'm guessing the first one to join an empty one is made the operator (handing it down to the next one when he/she leaves).

Avatars are the peoples Miis, but you can race with the Mario gang. When you find people online it looks pretty much like on the Wii, with the globe and everything.

Also, I'd like to retract my previous Red Shell message. They do indeed follow the track around like in MKDD etc. when you fire it blindly.
Thanks for all the impressions and videos Fox. Maybe it has been answered but I didn't see it: Can you change the rules in communities after you have established them? I guess you register communities once and then can re-connect using the GUI? Is there a limit to how many communities may be stored if it is indeed the case?

She is not fat!
She is just big-boned!
 

watershed

Banned
Man after I buy this game I will have given Nintendo a ton of money in a 4 week span starting with 3D Land, then Zelda, then this.
 

Gospel

Parmesan et Romano
Man after I buy this game I will have given Nintendo a ton of money in a 4 week span starting with 3D Land, then Zelda, then this.
Haha yea, no doubt. I can't even remember the last time I've bought that many games in one period of time.

But in the meantime, i'm going to flunk out of college
 
Excited for this, even though all the new characters are lame and the option to individually exclude blue shells would have been amazing.

Does anyone know if MK gets AA if you turn 3D off? I really like it when games have that option. I played Zelda and Mercenaries in 3D probably 90% of the time but if I was in a moving vehicle or playing while I was watching TV or something and wanted to turn it off having AA is really nice.

Mario 3D Land looks pretty great but it's pretty jaggy, I would have loved to have seen that game smoothed out.
 
Thanks for all the impressions and videos Fox. Maybe it has been answered but I didn't see it: Can you change the rules in communities after you have established them? I guess you register communities once and then can re-connect using the GUI? Is there a limit to how many communities may be stored if it is indeed the case?

No rule changing after it's made. Not sure if there is a limit, but I doubt it.
 

Michan

Member
Excited for this, even though all the new characters are lame and the option to individually exclude blue shells would have been amazing.

Does anyone know if MK gets AA if you turn 3D off? I really like it when games have that option. I played Zelda and Mercenaries in 3D probably 90% of the time but if I was in a moving vehicle or playing while I was watching TV or something and wanted to turn it off having AA is really nice.

Mario 3D Land looks pretty great but it's pretty jaggy, I would have loved to have seen that game smoothed out.

I would have loved for that in M3DL. It's a beautiful game, and AA would have been a fantastic bonus.

I'm pretty sure MK7 is the same. All of the 2d videos and screenshots show jaggies :(
 
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