Can someone give me a reason why there isn’t an option to just race on the 3 lap traditional courses? That way everyone could be satisfied, both the fans of the new intermission courses and the fans of the traditional course structure

Because nintendo spent 8years making those intermissions so you should respect the value

Because Sakurai didn't direct it and he's the only Nintendo-adjacent developer who believes in players having full control of game settings.
>Reminder that in 2003 you could fully select lap count from 1-9 in Double Dash, a feature that has never returned

I'M GAYMAN ON MY SWITCH

>>713717627
They give us options for knockout tour and battle mode though

>>713717434 (OP)
play mk8, this is mkw.

>ree why does this open world game have open world tracks

>>713717434 (OP)
Because 3 laps are fake and gay, intermissions are the straight choice.
Get a woke snoy consol if you don't like it.

>>713717786
play the better game? I think I will!
>*MKW online dies*

>>713717627
>9 laps
>Frantic items
>Co-op driving
Final Destination

>>713717898
please do
and in the future don't be retarded with your money

>>713717961
you don't have to tell me twice, I already sold MKW

>>713717434 (OP)
>I hate people picking random, I want to see the intermission courses :^(
>also the only people that don’t support this are a vocal minority online
Kek

>>713717559
It's really just this. I feel like Nintendo will relent eventually, but they're going to try everything else but that first.

Honestly, if they're so insistent on people playing the intermission tracks they should at least add an extra lap to the actual track when you get there. The entire commute just feels like a fight for your starting position in a single lap race that ends before it can really even begin.

The only intermission track with any real substance is that wall leading to Airship Fortress.

>i didn't buy the game but i'm complaining as if i were an owner of the game
lol
lmao

>devs: we consent to releasing this fun update
>players: we consent to playing this fun update

>faggot 4chan anon: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NONE ONE ASK ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>713717953
u forgot
>LAN mode 16 player (2/kart)

>>713717434 (OP)
Just a reminder that people are returning their Shitch 2 and that the Shitch 2 will be Nintenfag's last console.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yY1Od-4sKQ

>>713718181
Go check the replies of Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account. Go check the r*ddit. Everyone is up in arms and only a tiny, tiny minority of extreme Nintendo worshippers are defending this

>>713717898
>delusional retard babble

>>713718362
>Just a reminder that people are returning their Shitch 2 and that the Shitch 2 will be Nintenfag's last console.
NINTENDOOMED (TM)
>Since 1889

>>713717434 (OP)
Can you explain why it's a problem?

>>713717434 (OP)
the Japanese think they know better than their customers and go out of their way to force retarded decision on them. basically it's spite for you not liking the new features.

>>713717434 (OP)
>we work hard on rarry courses you wirr rike them or we'rr make you rike them
typical nip dev shit

Race has so much downtime. Knockout Tour is the superior mode.

>>713718481
Sure!
-Driving in straight lines isn’t fun
-There’s barely any opportunities to use the new trick/grinding system, let alone in a creative way
-It’s prone to extreme levels of item spam
-all the shortcuts are just patches of grass you mushroom through
-you can only do one lap on the actual course

Now are you able to explain why you think connecting courses are better than the traditional courses?

>>713717434 (OP)
>You'll crave what's missing enough to pay for it as additional content later.
Screenshot this pls.

>>713718060
Ironically intermissions don't support the other new mechanics of rail grinding and wall riding often. So either way you're ignoring half the game. This wouldn't be an issue if intermissions were well designed

>>713718060
Just play knock out tour

>want to play courses without intermissions when you want?
>wait for someone to make a room which requires you to have an already established community because we removed tournaments
I don't mind the occasional intermission, but this is ridiculous. Guess I'm sticking to Time Trials and /v/kends.

>$80
>can’t do cups online
Nintendo dicking down their subhuman supporters will never NOT be funny.

>>713717434 (OP)
Splitting up the community like that is never a good idea. In fact, they should remove that pointless battle mode as well.

>>713717627
What the fuck are you talking about? Sakurai is THE posterchild for trying to force players to play his games a specific way.

>>713717786
>open world tracks
you mean the straight lines?

>>713717434 (OP)
I want to be able to que for both at the same time non exclusively.

They’re just differentiating this title compared to the other games. I feel like modern day live service and forever game is rotting peoples brain. Every game now needs to satisfy everybody. Has every option. Every mode to play.

This is all great but that is muddying the waters between games. Increase dev cost among other things.

Nintendo is dead set on making this game this game. That game is that game. Not everything needs to be a launcher. Mario Kart World doesn’t need to be like Mario Kart 8.

Also, them cutting all the collab characters was already a sign that MK is its own thing not Smash Kart or Nintendo Kart. They value the distinctness within the brand.

uhhh intermissiontrannies, this breaks our narrative doesnt it?

>>713721130
lol are you seriously digging through japanese twitter to find 1 dude who will suck nintendos balls no matter what?

>>713721103
Everyone here defending this update = pic related

>>713721130
Here you go Tendie.

>>713718362
>already posted another video
this unprincipled cuck is not going anywhere

>>713721624
Backlog, he has recorded it in advance.
Shortcat is gonna do the same thing he did in 8 Deluxe, aka play Lounge.

>>713721624
Of course not he paid 520 dollars or more to play Mario Kart you think Nintendo slapping him after shitting on his mouth is going to turn him away?

all i know is that all us real players are going back to mk8d. Sorry intermissionschizo, You lost.

I hope the next Smash launches and the only way to play online is 8 players with all items on.

>>713717434 (OP)
because you Split the fanbase and wait times get longer

>>713722541
Even with 1v1 no items it's always going to be shit with nintendos awful servers.

>>713722795
I think Mario Kart will survive with 4 playlists dude

>>713721950
then go, nobody cares

>>713722804
keep coping lmao, you fucking lost

>>713717627
the stuff you guys put up with from nintendo seems alien to me. it's like the opposite of pc.

>>713717434 (OP)
It is actually so difficult to just play a 3 lap race without specifically selecting it that it's making me wonder. Consider all this:

- Regular Cups have one 3 lap race, followed by three 2 intermission laps + 1 track lap races.

- Knockout Tour has no 3 lap races by design

- Online has 3 lap races but are probably the least likely option to be chosen for any given race following the new update

- Open World only does pseudo-3 lap races for the SNES tracks built into the overworld.

Therefore the only modes where you regularly play 3 lap races would be Time Trial or offline versus if you go out of your way to only select those track options. I hardly know any of the actual track layouts because of this, and a lot of them are only because they're returning tracks. I currently have no mental image of how Whistlestop Summit or most other new tracks are laid out as I haven't put any time into Time Trials yet.

>>713723663
The only things we're putting up with are great games, great hardware and great sales.

I don't understand why they don't just keep that shit in knockout tour. If I pick grand prix it's because I want to race regular courses.

>>713727146
accept the new normal, go play 8 of you want things like they were

>>713717434 (OP)
I still think they should just add a separate mode for classic races, but considering MK8 fully works on the Switch 2 I kind of understand wanting MK World to be different. It's not like this style of racing game is unheard of either. It kind of reminds me of arcade/rally style racing games, just with mario kart chaos thrown in.

>>713717434 (OP)
There is an option for it in private lobbies.
And if that's not enough, the real answer is that they probably want to make the road courses more engaging so that players do not feel the need to vote random and to do that they need to get feedback/data from how they pan out right now.
Most of the feedback is
>straight lines bad and have no tech (from people that do not know how to draft and miss all of their green shell tosses and do not know how to banana trap)
>you can't use the wall riding or grinding (from people that don't realize you can wall ride on the buses and trick off of them and that you can grind the rails on the side of the roads)
>you get hit too much (from people driving in the middle of the fucking action every time w/ webms posted, where that's where the nearly indestructible Gold Shells are and where people who are trying to collect coins are, or from people driving close to the areas where Mega Mushrooms and Stars are taking cuts)
The only genuine feedback I can see from most discussions is that mushrooms are too OP because of the cuts you can take offroad in this game, everything else is just because this game has Mario Kart in the name so people are playing it like they have been for the past decade.