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Mario Kart 8 : new trailer
- Thread starter L~A
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Happy to be of service.
I do hope his decision was more informed than just clips of one game.
Mario Kart 64 nostalgia is powerful as shit.
ArcaneFreeze
Member
Can we get Sunshine HD now please.
MannyToons
Member
Don't worry, the entirety of the chat turned into a discussion about upcoming Wii U games and games that they wanted to play that have been released. He's already ordered more games to play.
The rest of the chat... well, I'm sure they'll be getting their Wii U's around MK8's release.But that's the second worst Mario Kart!
Freezie KO
Banned
Please don't put any blackboard-esque sales expectations on it. That path leads to disappointment.
Let's just enjoy what may be the best Kart yet.
keisuke999
Member
This and Smash.... plz plz plz plz
And I don't get it. It was my first Mario Kart and I consider 5th gen to be my favorite home console generation, but it sits at the bottom of my Mario Kart ranking. It's slippery and drifting is kind of not needed and overall it didn't introduce anything great to the series IMO. I still love it and the soundtrack is superb, but still.
You know, I always hurt on the inside when I see this opinion but in all honesty? I know it's true. There are just a few little things about MK64 that add up (music, atmosphere, item handling, momentum when grazing walls versus the hard stops in Double Dash on, easier to digest items, satisfying collisions [knocking people off over gated tracks is still the best] when you have stars/shells, battle mode, blue shells weren't stupidly oppressive, vehicles didn't come with innate perks so as to make one entire type of vehicle obsolete) and make it a game that sits fairly higher up than it should in my own mind especially versus Double Dash and Wii. I still wish if they didn't do such a radical departure from the track lengths in 64 though while also leveling up on their stage hazard, unique shortcut and track dynamics (ramps, half pipes, etc) in later games.
DS & 7 were better games at launch (and better than DD and Wii which were very off putting in big ways) and given that 7 addressed all of the little issues I had with the games since Double Dash in spades, I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Kart 8 became the game that makes me move on from 64 once and for all.
A good portion of forumgoers are of the age wherein they grew up on the N64, and therefore Mario Kart 64. Nostalgia's a powerful thing.
But yeah, it's barely above Super Circuit to me. It was its 3D transition, and unlike some of the other Nintendo franchises it was a sloppy one. Music is still great, of course.
Here, random Gamexplain off-screen .webm:
http://a.pomf.se/flzdgm.webm
My personal mystery regarding Mario Kart fans is how anyone can simultaneously love or champion Super Mario Kart but not like Super Circuit. The latter is basically a love letter to that kind of game with some really catchy ass music and it also packs every one of the SMK levels into itself.
Is it because it was on a portable or something?
Is it because it was on a portable or something?
Quoting my MK ranking from other thread
And good lard I love these neo-GIFs of Mario Kart. This hype makes me want to play some MKWii online, especially since it'll be an offline-only game in a little over a month.
MannyToons
Member
My personal mystery regarding Mario Kart fans is how anyone can simultaneously love or champion Super Mario Kart but not like Super Circuit. The latter is basically a love letter to that kind of game with some really catchy ass music and it also packs every one of the SMK levels into itself.
Is it because it was on a portable or something?
Mario/Luigi/Peach Circuit had some gooood music. The MK8 remix is freaking superb.
Ribbon Road, Cheese Land, the Bowser Castle levels, Sky Garden, Sunset Wilds, Yoshi Desert... Damn just thinking about this for a bit has made me want to find my GBA and get a race or two in before I go to sleep.
Quoting my MK ranking from other thread
Meh... DD has still been my favorite so far, and I prefer 7 over DS. Hopefully 8 will become my new favorite, but it'll depend on how quickly it goes from "I'm playing a new Mario Kart game" to "I'm playing Mario Kart".
Dion Blaster
Member
I enjoyed the drifting and car handling in 64 more than DD/Wii. Didn't it introduce the drift boosts? Just felt more fun to me. I also hated the art style used for DD/Wii.
DD is pure awesome. It might not be my number one but that's by virtue of being a huge fan of 7 and especially DS. But those double karts, tracks and character-specific items, it was amazing. And the most out-of-the-box MK game yet, I don't think we'll see Nintendo experimenting with the series like that anytime soon since it's such a safe money maker these days.
Drift boosts didn't feel right IMO until Super Circuit, though. And again, I just feel like you don't even need to drift in MK64 most of the time.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
You forgot the best feature: co-op! It's what tied everything together, and it was amazing. That, combined with 16-player LAN support. No MK's topped it since.
Freezie KO
Banned
Best handling - DD
But for online, track selection (16+16), racing depth, kart customization, item selection, and balance, Mario Kart 7 is the best one in my opinion. That's why I'm excited for MK8. They seemed to learn a lot of what didn't work in MK Wii.
But for online, track selection (16+16), racing depth, kart customization, item selection, and balance, Mario Kart 7 is the best one in my opinion. That's why I'm excited for MK8. They seemed to learn a lot of what didn't work in MK Wii.
Double Dash only gets points for Baby Park/Wario Colosseum, the actual double kart mechanic and some of the nuttier individual items. Doubles' Karts legitimately should have been in every Mario Kart afterwards as an optional mode though.
Beyond that though? The game is really ugly looking with plastic like blocky models, the music took a nosedive, tracks started to get more and more compact, the handling felt off somehow, introduction of losing items on hit/falling off a course, introduction of the stupidly overpowered Winged Blue Shell, driving off road felt like you were trying to haul a load of fabric across a field of sandpaper, minor grazes against the boundary walls or gates in the game would halt your momentum completely, and you absolutely couldn't pause unless you were Player 1.
Beyond that though? The game is really ugly looking with plastic like blocky models, the music took a nosedive, tracks started to get more and more compact, the handling felt off somehow, introduction of losing items on hit/falling off a course, introduction of the stupidly overpowered Winged Blue Shell, driving off road felt like you were trying to haul a load of fabric across a field of sandpaper, minor grazes against the boundary walls or gates in the game would halt your momentum completely, and you absolutely couldn't pause unless you were Player 1.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Fixed and Agreed.
Freezie KO
Banned
DS definitely had tighter controls. DD had a more bouncy, just-barely-in-control feel. I loved those physics. It was very arcadey, but that made racing downhill on tracks like DK Mountain more of a rush than similar moments in other games. The game also really penalized you if you went off course, which made it even more important to keep control of the bouncy karts.
The next step in MK side stuff might be some kind of "build-a-kart" thing like Lego Racers 64 had. It wouldn't be good enough to distract from the main karts, but would still be really cool.
And you could share them online with other people. And people could download your designs. And stats would be determined by size/pieces used. And you could collect these pieces by challenges or something. And...
well, maybe for the next MK.
And you could share them online with other people. And people could download your designs. And stats would be determined by size/pieces used. And you could collect these pieces by challenges or something. And...
well, maybe for the next MK.
Oni Link 666
Member
I'm really fpeeling the hype for MK8 after all this new stuff. I even started playing MK7 again.
DAT AIRPLANE.
The airport looks so beautiful. Nintendo has to make a new Star Fox game now. ;_;
Dion Blaster
Member
No argument on the first part since that's pretty subjective (I love wiggling the analog to speed up the boost in 64 but I can see how others would find it annoying).
I'm no competitive karter but how on earth did you win any races without drifting? Getting those boosts seemed to be the key to success.
See, Double Dash was the first one I really got into (I rented SMK way back in the day and had 64 but never really got into either much and never really had friends to play with until DD), so a lot of these things you listed here are things I'm too used to for them to be negatives. The compact track design, the overpowered blue shell, and the way off-road handles have always just felt like parts of the game to me. Ultimately everything pre-Double Dash just feels weird to me in its handling (64 less so).
My preference is:
DS>7>Wii>Double Dash>64>SC>SMK
But 7, Wii, and Double Dash are pretty much interchangeable. I like Double Dash a lot but the lack of Retro Courses and Online that the games from DS and on had bring it down for me. Wii has a lot of issues as well especially in terms of item balance, but the online is superb and I like the track selection honestly. I know in my heart 7 is better than Wii and Double Dash but I never really got into it, I dunno the tracks just didn't really hook me and I hardly played online at all. I always keep wanting to go back to it but then I remember I have a huge backlog.
But DS is clearly the best, as I said earlier. Best engine, best featureset, best course list, just the best in everything. It's the only game in the series I'd say even comes close to being one of my favorite games period.
It is a retro track in MK7.
My personal mystery regarding Mario Kart fans is how anyone can simultaneously love or champion Super Mario Kart but not like Super Circuit. The latter is basically a love letter to that kind of game with some really catchy ass music and it also packs every one of the SMK levels into itself.
Is it because it was on a portable or something?
I don't think the music was as good as is being suggested. And the course design was almost inspired TOO much by Super Mario Kart, it didn't even remotely come close to being its own thing.
It sorta felt like it was trying to emulate Mario Kart SO MUCH that it felt... inauthentic. Later handheld versions got it right, but SS felt like it missed the mark.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
Agreed with all this. I didn't like the controls much either, and the reused 64 sprites felt cheap and weren't nearly as charming as the original game.
I so agree with this. Maple Treeway + online + Wheel in MKWII = ridiculous amount of hours spent raging at the screen / dancing with joy
man, MKWII had some really amazing tracks now that I think of it
Good. Now make your friends get one.
As much as I think the Wii U is a terrible system, when Nintendo says they're delivering 60 fps, they'll be delivering it damn well. Looks fluid as fuck.
Their EAD teams really put out some great stuff, technically. If they went 3rd party
their games would certainly be amongst the best when it comes to graphics.
Their EAD teams really put out some great stuff, technically. If they went 3rd party
and I really, really don't mean this in a mean or trollish way, I'm hoping so hard that this will happen even though chances are practically zero
I think you should challenge your belief it's a terrible system. Maybe then you wouldn't have to Nintendo beg.
Well, that backfired. not sure why you think it's a terrible system but it's your opinion so there you go.
peace out.
plank
Member
Late but, plz see my previous posts I'm using Firefox. Also I had to stop the extension cause the WebMs were buzzing my CPU. :/
Business
Member
You made me feel like we are back in school. My friends would now rather spend it on hookers.
Sounds like there's no voicechat at all in the game, which is frustrating. I can understand Nintendo not wanting to offer it in random matches given they're quite safety-conscious about their young audience, but it'd be great to have in matches against friends where the back-and-forth is part of the fun.