>Youtube hates intermissions
>Reddit hates intermissions
>Twitter hates intermissions
>Japanese players on YouTube and Twitter hate intermissions
>nearly every single lobby has 50%+ of the players vote for random to avoid intermission tracks
“You’re just in the vocal minority, most of us love this update”

You are trying too hard to dislike Mario Kart.

>>713734858
If it’s not fun, why bother?

so why do retards still call them intermissions when they've never been called that way by nintendo ever

This is actually the most unhinged game update I've ever seen. It feels actively antagonistic. They know that everyone votes random because no-one gives a shit about the intermissions outside of knockout tour. They know the number 1 thing everyone keeps asking for is a trad mode with 3 lap races. And then they do the exact opposite and force the meme highways. Craziest thing is they have an entire game mode in which they're well utilised and actually fun but they still try to force them into regular online and grand prix where they're just a diluted, boring version of knockout. They're actually fucking crazy at this point.

>>713735157
I say it because it pisses off the retards that like intermissions. I think it’s apt as well, it’s an intermission before you get to the actual good part of the game, which is the lap on the real course.

>>713735157
Because they're so forgettable and inconsequential that nobody even knows what to call them or cares to label them correctly.

>>713735157
>REEE THEY'RE NOT INTERMISSIONS THEY'RE REAL TR-ACK-S
yes goy please keep doing exactly what daddy nintendo tells you to do

>>713734759 (OP)
First time dealing with the ndf?

>>713734759 (OP)
OMG how dare you imply that Nintendo could ever be wrong about anything!
I played Nintendo games in my childhood and i am a proud Atheist whose room looks like a literal temple to Nintendo so how can i be wrong because Muh Childhood and Muh money invested in merchandise cant be wrong.

>>713734858
I think if you stop being so emotional and actually understood why a majority people don't like this update, common sense would be prevail!

>>713734759 (OP)
>he still thinks the internet is the majority of people IRL
>he doesn't hang out with normal people so he doesn't actually know what they think

>>713734759 (OP)
why did you buy a game about driving between the tracks if you didn't want to drive between the tracks
you can still play the old mario kart on switch 2 you know

>>713734759 (OP)
i quite literally dont care what intermission means in mario kart
if you are above the age of 17 and are playing this go ahead and castrate yourself

>>713735286
I can tell you're in a bubble because Tekken 8's update literally happened less than 3 months ago. That takes the crown as the most unhinged update of all time.

>>713734759 (OP)
Nintendo fans wouldn’t be this defensive if there weren’t so many bad faith attacks against the switch 2. But yes I agree this update is garbage

>>713736770
Look guys I’m pretending to be an ESL to discredit people criticizing the new MK update look at me!!!!!

>>713734858
That's what you get when you price your $45 game at $80.

>>713735286
What's the worst example of game dev stubbornness of all time? I mean this seems right up there but there's got to be worse examples.

>>713742656
Phil Fish cancelling Fez 2

>>713734759 (OP)
sonic kart is gonna rape this slop so bad

>i quite literally dont care what intermission means in mario kart
Yet here you are, above the age of 17 posting in a Mario kart world thread.

>>713736925
There was a lot of second guessing and benefit of the doubts when people started complaining about intermissions. People would either say intermissions weren't bad or that it would be possible to skip them. Then the game released and people found out that they really didn't like the intermissions AND online forces them on.

>you can still play the old mario kart
I love how this keeps on being the argument when it's just confirming this game is a step backwards.

>>713736965
Makes me wonder what age you are at telling people to castrate themselves on the internet.

i'm having a blast

>>713734759 (OP)
It's bittersweet
On one hand, I feel like neo dodging his first bullet by avoiding the switch 2
On the other, there's apparently millions of fuckers dumb enough to jump in within the first week falling for the hdr 4k meme

>>713737091
QRD?

SEGA were very clever with Sonic Racing Crossworlds. They actually did open network tests, and could fix the aspects people found shit -before- launch. And them supporting cross platform play and launching in September when people will be well over MKW ensures it will have a healthy start.

I have like 8000 VR and 60 hours and still don't know what intermissions are. I play Battle and Knockout. Races are over in like 2 minutes and you never catch up once you'te behind, so I don't know why anyone would play that to complain about them anyways. It's so boring to spend 2 minutes on a track after getting item fucked.If intermissions are the long stretches of track between knockouts than they serve a purpose in the long term to collect coins and strategocally hold items and use them at the best moment. It's not about hurr durr muh 1st place hold, it's about a threat to that to make the game more interesting than "make it half a lap ahead of everyone and then they all just compete for 2nd or 3rd."

>>713743728
I hope SRC mops the floor with MKW
>>713735286
It's DS/Wii all over again with mandatory stylus/ motion control shenanigans

>>713742656
Salt & sanctuary dev retroactively fuckjng the first game with his tranny friends balance advice, then turning around & fucking the sequel into a nearly unknowable oblivion with his new found "knowledge"

>>713734858
If you had paid $80 for this shit you'd be pissed too

>>713744568
Nah, this is worse

>>713735286
Nintendo hates tendies far more than I ever could.

>>713734759 (OP)
you know it's really bad when the japs and west agree on something

>>713742656
nintendo but just because they are retards that only listen when the japanese audience is the one making fun of them.

>>713734759 (OP)
Adding a classic 3 lap mode would be an admission that their highwayslop isn't all it was talked up to be.. the japanese can't have that.

It just a theory but if I had to guess the guy that came up with intermissions is the head dev trying to not get demoted by manipulating the data he feeds to his higher ups by forcing people to play these intermission courses.

>>713745074
No, it's just nintendo refusing to admit they missed with a gimmick.
The creators of video games and fun themselves couldn't possibly design something unfun.

>>713734858
8D is miles better, Worldfag.
KYS

>>713735157
>Only sanctioned Nintendo Terms™ are allowed.

>buying nu-MK slop when MK was already perfected nearly 20 years ago
Shiggy

What extra sucks is that the fundamental best character for these intermissions has no equal as in he shares stats with no one unlike every other character in the game who are all put in weight classes Bowser is literally in a class of his own

>>713746065
will there ever be a mario kart game where there are no meta tryhard kart that everyone has to get? is sad seeing all these screenshots where only that one is picked.

i think people would be less pissed about this if you still got to play 3 laps of the course once you got there

i think having interludes to break up the pack before the race starts is actually not a bad idea, but having to do them between every race only to do ONE lap of the actual course is retarded

i guess nintendo thinks genAoomers don't have enough attention span for a 5 minute race?

>>713744020
I hope SCW fucks up like this as well. SCW having cartoon slop on top of not having voices for them and SEGA property characters is awful. Miku is her voice. Why is she dead silent? Quit rooting for the "lesser" of two evils.

>>713734759 (OP)
rip mario kart world 2025 - 2025

>>713746253
People will find a meta in anything. Even if you removed all Kart and driver stats, people would do some stupid shit like playing the smallest character to minimize visual obstruction of the road a few pixels in front of them.

>>713734759 (OP)
Just in case anyone is wondering what bad news dropped to snoyim this time that there's yet another wave of anti-nintendo spam:
PiS5s are literally melting and the liquid metal is shorting the consoles.
Something people knew would happen since day 1 but it took 5 years of nogames for it to start happening.

>>713744020
>I hope SRC mops the floor with MKW
Not happening

>>713747045
>Something that pretty much everyone hates
>Guyz its just the snoys, this bullshit I just said with no proof proves it
For a board that cries about tendies so much, it sure does love to rush to Nintendo's defense.

>>713746515
They never said the SEGA characters would be dead silent, they just won't have special dialogue with the Sonic cast

>>713734759 (OP)
Contrarian website CHUD!!!!!

>>713747290
Kinds defeats the purpose of a crossover if there's no interaction.

>>713746253
>>713746669
it's funny seeing people shit on meta in games,
but then real sports have million dollar investments into finding the perfect shoes and clothing for the best performance. metafagging is anywhere there's any competition vs other people.

>>713747618
I honestly have no problem with metas, it's just visually boring to see everyone using the same character and kart.

>>713734759 (OP)
>everyone hates the direction they are taking the series
>Big Daddy Nintendo did NOT rike this.
>Big Daddy Nintendo VILL make you play the intermissions

>>713747618
I don't want games to suck as much as real life does. I thought we've been over this.

>>713747412
Fair, but the previous SEGA All Stars Racing games didn't have specialized interactions between members of the cast, just reused clips for the most part, so I get it. If they really do make the added characters be silent then I'll eat my words, but it's best to wait it out at this point, some people have already said you can literally hear Miku in her reveal trailer

>>713737091
i vaguely heard about this but forgot, mind filling us in anon?

>>713747829
that's true, at least in this game they did balance it a lot better. lightweight and heavyweight both have uses

but yeah they kinda fucked over all the karts and a lot of characters by giving them meme water and terrain stats. really not sure why they keep forcing these hidden stats, it's not unique and actually causes the opposite effect, of making lobbies all the same character/kart

>>713747412
Main base roster is said to have 500+ interactions amongst each other, Idk what you'd expect Spongebob to say when racing against Sonic other than some cringe ian flynn callback shit

Introduce an option
Make a Vs mode that is split like it is now, one with mostly intermissions, and one that is usually three lap courses.
It's so weird. Knockout exists to highlight the connectivity. Why are we forced to almost completely forgo classic races?

>>713734858
I actually enjoyed the game for the past 3 weeks despite its shortcomings but this shit is too much. It's Nintendo at their most arrogant.

I genuinely dont understand why they didnt just make multiple game modes to make everyone happy
>Grand Prix (as it is now in World)
>Classic Cups (Classic Grand Prix with the groupings of trucks altered, unlocked via Grand Prix and Free Roam)
>Knockout Tour
Then for Vs Mode
>What we have now
>Classic Vs Mode (3 laps only)
>Knockout Rally
>Custom Rally (you can pick any six courses to compete in Knockout Mode)
Then bring back Bobomb Battle and Renegade Roundup and the game is perfect

>>713743678
>>713748225
>The community asks for more defensive options in season 2
>Devs in an interview said they will adding more defensive options when the season launches
>Patch comes out
>They make sidestepping slightly better
>But then they add a ton of homing moves to every character so it doesn't matter
>Buff 90% of the cast when people were mostly asking for nerfs
>Almost every character has a 50/50 stance mixup playstyle and characters like Steve lose their identity.
>Community is livid and Harada has to apologize and kick out the new team in charge of balance
>It will likely take a year at best to fix the mistakes of season 2

>>713735157
They were called intermissions in the menu screen of the demo builds at events. Probably the whole map thing for picking courses was added relatively late in development and until then you either turned on intermissions and got a list of connected tracks or turned them off and got all the tracks. Anyway, it is actually the offical term, or near as exists.

>>713749354
because modern games are intentionally gimped on release so the developers can get free marketing for "fixing" it

>>713749354
Because Nintendo is legitimately spiteful against their cultist fanbase. And the tendies eat it right the fuck up. Subhumans, the lot of them.

>>713734759 (OP)
Yes.

wtf i love nintendo now

>>713749354
It's nintendo. You play the way THEY want

Everyone saying they just need to add x mode that is 3 laps only. don't know that nintendo doesn't want to do that.

JP companies mentality are backwards when it comes to listening to the customer. you do it the companies way or you go elsewhere. and it will take a long time for them to make changes the customers have been wanting
Square enix is a very notable example of this. they refuse to make turn based final fantasy everyone wants again instead of actioncombat. and in XIV they continue the same expansion and content release trend for 10 years with minimal QoL upgrades and are confused when people are tired of it

>>713748267
>Prefer the Pipe Frame
>Look over these stats again
>Exact same Terrain, Water, Weight, and Handling
>Acceleration is only 2 less
>Land speed is a whopping 5 more
>Baby Blooper is literally just a better version of my favorite kart
That's fucked up, man.

>>713734858
That's right goy, you like that slop.

The real reason is simple. Nintendo wants the data for the levels people choose, and “random” is like opting out.

>>713734759 (OP)
One of the most based things Nintendo has done.

Nothing kills a game more than Minmaxing faggots who just shit the game up and completely ruin it for everyone else forever.

>>713750425
But enough about pc vegans

>hating intermissions
Zoomers can't handle long stretches of road.

>>713750598
Literally this. The only people upset are minmaxing troons upset because they can't dominate the game online anymore m

>>713749391
>It will likely take a year at best to fix the mistakes of season 2
god damn

>>713750598
>harder, daddy~

>>713750598
>>713750993

>>713750326
it really is a shame that stats are cosmetic. especially when they go so far to make hidden stats too. it's like they dont want people picking their favorites
newer mario party suffer this too, characters having unique dice. whereas before it was the same for everyone so there's no "advantage or disadvantage"

>>713735157
We don't have a name for them.

>>713735286
Because that and the soulless open world it's World's only gimmicks that "makes it better" than MK8, lol so of course they'd push that shit down every player's throat

>>713750993
>knowing the map layout makes you a troon

>>713735157
they should call it intercourse.

>>713748267
Glad I'm not a fucking autistic retard.

I picked Daisy so I can look at her ass. I picked the ROB bike because it has a low back end so I can see more of her ass jiggle.

I beat the shit out of every one just by being good and ass drunk.

>>713750751
Those games, barring Road Rash, have a good sense of speed. Even at 150cc MKWorld is a snoozefest.

>>713751268
Um. Dude. Characters in Mario Party haven't had character exclusive dice since Super Mario Party. Superstars and Jamboree don't have that at all.

>>713750598
8snoys had no answer to this btw

>>713751745
>Even at 150cc MKWorld is a snoozefest.

Try harder with the shitposting. This webm is 100cc on one of those "boring intermissions"

>>713751678
>pick something close to but not quite the meta combo
>convince yourself you're above it all when it still gets you results
At least you're having fun

>>713751845
oh based they reverted doing that? at least some branches of nintendo care

>People still pretending to be shocked that Nintendo puts casual enjoyment before sweats
How many times have we seen Meleefags crying about their wants not being met at this point

>>713752047
That did disprove what he said.

>>713752047
to avoid being a snoozefest it must be fun
whats fun here? getting hit over an over while you cant do anything about it? this is fun?

>>713752047
>straight line
:|
>straight line with item spam
:O

>>713752131
The casuals also realized what they were doing when they picked random.

>>713752234
Holy fuck its hilarious watching you cope

>>713752047
>driving in a straight line and getting item raped is… le fun?
Yeah maybe if you’re a literal child or a 35 year old stoner

>>713750707
You lost console soiboy. PC is growing in ownership every year.

Retards really think Nintendo would balance teh game around sweats?

>>713752047
Reminder that taking cleaner racing lines is faster than drifting back and forth if all you're getting is the Lv 1 blue miniturbo. You'd do better heading straight through the turns instead of going so wide for an ineffectual boost. That advice actually holds true for a majority of Mario Kart World's "tech," as you usually have to go out of your way to grind or perform tricks such that the boost you get doesn't outweigh the time you wasted getting them.

>>713752331
>getting item rape

Have you played a single Mario Kart game?

I would rather play all 202 routes in a single lap than ever touch the Tour turds that got dropped onto MK8D. Deal with it.
*farts*

>>713752076
I kinda assume NDCube probably took some notes after making Superstars since that was made as throwback to traditional MP with returning boards and minigames so bringing character dice would fuck with the flow of the original boards. Jamboree was a step in the right direction as far as a brand new traditional MP, but the biggest issue with it were the slow animations on boards with very few means to speed things up. A 20 turn game in a regular MP might be an hour if you are efficient. A 20 turn game in Jamboree takes 2 hours. Like I like Jamboree, but that really kills the mood for some along with not a very great minigame batch.

>>713752465
>Reminder that taking cleaner racing lines is faster than drifting back and forth if all you're getting is the Lv 1 blue miniturbo. You'd do better heading straight through the turns instead of going so wide for an ineffectual boost

Actual fucking gibberish

>>713752167
>did
I meant "didn't". Sorry.

>>713752491
It’s a bit different with 24 players all bunched up together

>>713734759 (OP)
I like intermissions because Shitting on Tendies is based. When Nintendo does it it's even more gigabased.

It could only be more based if it flashed signs as you drive in a boring straight line with such catch phrases as

>HAVING FUN YET ?
>REMEMBER, #3 IS GOING TO WIN WITH A GOLD SHROOM
>YOU PAID $80 FOR THIS
>THIS IS YOUR ONLY GAME
>IT'S OK BECAUSE WE SOLD 100 MILLION
Just to hammer home how incredibly fucking stupid it is putting all your eggs in the basket of one video game. If DK was out by now nobody would even care and they would just move on to the next game.

>>713752543
Filtered by Tour kino

I sold MKW and bought the Tamagotchi game

>>713752659
holy based I love mario kart and miyamoto now

maybe next time they'll sell cardboard in the shape of a middle finger and tendies will spend every thread coping about how it's an artistic statement kind of like how >>713752047 is coping right now.

>>713747045
who mentioned Sony and why do you assume anyone who is making fun of you retards owns a sony console?
I got an xbox, I play real games, I'm happy.

>>713752659
It’s not that deep bro, I’m just playing Yakuza 0 Directors Cut now at native 4K resolution 60FPS

>>713747045
Is anyone else starting to get tendie fatigue? I get it, Snoys were truly unbearable during the PS4 era with the gold face posting, but tendies have gotten far more obnoxious. And they don’t even have any funny memes like Snoys did with gold face and WHIRRRRRRR

>>713752648
Honestly 24 players feels like a downgrade to both online and single player

>Online is a complete mess of item spam
>Single player (and everywhere) loses out on better designed tracks as they have to be wide enough to compensate 24 people
People already hated bagging in mk8d and now it's more effective than ever, due to there being 23 people to get hit by

>>713752331
Is driving in a circle 3 times while getting hit by item spam honestly any more fun? Mario Kart was never good.

>>713753196
>Is driving in a circle 3 times while getting hit by item spam honestly any more fun?
Yes

>"NOOOOOOO YOU NEED TO CHOOSE RANDOM SO I CAN SWEAT MY 3 LAPS AND DO WEEBLE WOBBLE FLIPPY TRICKS TO DUNK ON 7 YEAR OLDS!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!"
Have you considered that you can boot up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and do exactly that without ruining everyone else's fun?

>>713753196
I mean yes it is, but especially in MKW because you dodge a lot of shit by using the new trick/griding/wall riding features. Sadly, those features are totally irrelevant and in fact make you go slower on the intermission courses

>>713750598
>Screw over minmaxfags
>By…uhhh…not touching the karts/characters which can be minmaxed and instead forcing people to play Desert Bus 2

>>713753430
The new 80 dollar game should not have less options than the ancient 60 dollar game

>>713753196
There's a lot more shortcuts in 3laps. Yes straights have shortcuts and those are massive but you need a goldenshroom for them so it's kind of degenerate design, whereas the 3lap ones are do-able with no shroom or at least 1
Also a lot of items are more useful in 3 laps. Bananas stay on future laps, green shells have more to bounce off instead of disappearing into the sunset of open world

>>713734759 (OP)
It's such an obviously bad idea that I still can't believe it ever made it into a finished Nintendo game. Imagine any other competitive multiplayer game where you have to play a side mission in between every game just to get to the next level. It would be fun for the first 30 minutes, and then you would be looking for the "skip" button just to get to the next level already... and that's exactly what's happening.
>$80 game btw

>>713753857
Honestly some of the intermissions aren’t that bad, but it’s like 30% of the time they are cool and fun to drive and the other 70% just dogshit

>mario kart
>competitve
lmfao

>>713753976
It literally is. You can argue about how "serious" the competition is in a kart racing Mario game, but it is a competitive game in nature where you're racing against other players. You certainly aren't "cooperating" with the other racers, are you? retard

>>713753976
smash bros melee was designed to be a casual game and thats the biggest competitive game nintendo has besides pokemon lol
even pokemon is meant to be babymode still has a forced competitive scene.
stop being a dumbass, games can be both

>>713754136
>>713754180
Ok big guy, you can bing bing the toy cars better than anyone in your family, I'm proud of you

>>713754346
Aw thanks :3

>>713753976
Just look at how people get assmad when they got fucked by a blue shell 5 feet away from a checkpoint or something

>>713753593
It has over 200 track combinations but you're too autistic to experience something new.

>>713754346
you gotta work on your shitposting if you wanna match the meta shitposters bro. you can larp trying to be a casual but we know that's not true, you're halfbaked following metabuilds but don't have the skill to make it big time

Where does “3 lap = sweats/tryhards” even come from? Is literally doing more with the game than just holding A now considered tryharding?
If anything, the intermission tracks are the tryhard tracks since bagging is a great strategy there.

>>713754593
I'm sorry Nintendo marketer, I'll play the over 200 track combinations the way you want me to in Mario Kart World for the Nintendo Switch 2 system out in stores now.

>>713754593
At the expense of not being able to at least vote for a 3-lap course consistently. Imagine if in 8 Deluxe all but one of the available votes was a Tour city, and random had a high chance of picking a Tour city anyway.

>>713754637
I don't speak incel, can anyone translate this world salad?

>mario world
>no adventure or sights to be seen
>no spectacle at all
>no warp pipe zone
>JUST ROADS

You can tell this games going to milk dlc

>>713754734
here's an explanation how those tards think

mario kart = kids game
trying to win vs other people in a game about trying to win = bullying kids
3 laps = harder than straight lines
3 laps = tryhard mode for bullying kids

you SHOULD be playing straight line tracks and helping out the kids so they can win, not you!!!

>>713754734
They're either trolls or sheep vehemently defending Nintendo anon. No one with a logical functioning brain actually thinks that simply wanting to play the normal format every single Mario Kart game has had makes you a sweaty competitive fag.

>>713753857
You're paying for the apex of Japanese creative potential, filthy foreigner. You should be grateful they let your subhuman eyes witness such perfection, let alone play it.

>>713755265
This but unironically. Count yourself blessed you yellow-eyed jeet.

>>713752331
>maybe if you’re a literal child
uh yeah?

>ITT
>People defending filler tracks.
>Which are glorified corridors that exist solely to connect race tracks.
>Saying they're better than the real race tracks.
>Just to own imaginary "Nintendo enemies."
Can't you fucking assholes ever admit that Nintendo made a mistake for a change?

reminder that all snoys and 8snoys are brown

>>713742656
Tekken 8 just got destroyed with one of the worst balance patches ever made

>>713755595
>Can't you fucking assholes ever admit that Nintendo made a mistake for a change?
It's amusing since nintendo doesn't want to admit they made a mistake either. Instead of adding 3 laps as it's own mode after seeing everyone pick random, they enforced you playing the corridor tracks

>>713755596
and poor

>>713754734
The tryhards were the first to complain, so they immediately assumed it was a tryhard concern and came up with fake reasons exactly why this was the case, hence the arguments about time trial autism and the assumption that casuals preferred the open roads. It really doesn't matter to them if they're wrong or not, they just want to shit on the game and you for playing it.

All they have to do is make sure a single course in the selection isn't a connected track. The game has way more connected courses than normal courses so way too often only connected tracks show up on the selection.

>>713756018
They don't want to be fair they want World to be 8D 2, a balance would be ideal but random was being abused too much.

>>713756018
If they cared about people wanting 3 laps they wouldn't have changed anything lol. Random worked for it although not ideal
They want to shill the open world tracks because it's the new gimmick. It's as simple as that.

>>713735286
>he was having fun in a way that nintendo didn't approve of
uh oh!

>>713734990
It's literally more fun than every other Mario kart and everyone thinks that you are delusional
>H-HALF THE PLAYERS VOTE FOR RANDOM
>most people already voted random in mk8
Lmfao

>>713756169
If the intermissions were good this could have all been avoided. I love everything else about the game including the trick system, the music, the roster but I just can’t stand intermissions

>>713756018
They're not going to do that because they're not going to admit the open world design was a mistake.

>>713756018
Think it used to be like that when random picks a course that's far away from the current position. Now it just chooses 1 out of 3 interconnects on the map instead

>>713749354
so nintendo can put out a FREE UPDATE that adds in an option that should have been there on release.
You can't get mad at FREE CONTENT can you?

>>713756570
Don’t care, already deleted World and am playing Bowsers Furt for the first time

>>713756769
Cool protest tendie, you would rather drown than not hand over your money to shitendo huh

>>713752047

>>713756748
Furry princesses when?

>>713752131
How do we have so many idiots think this has anything to do with competitivefaggotry?

>>713756947
god forbid you aim to win in a game about trying to win vs other people. such competitivefaggotry. mario kart should be a co-op farming simulator game

>>713756845
Protest? Just because World is dogshit doesn’t make me a Snoy faggot, the game is already dying and people are returning to MK8D in droves, there is your protest

>>713756570
>most people already voted random in mk8
No they didn't.

>>713754980
As if that wasn't already obvious from how DK and Pauline have only one costume each

>>713756947
It’s the latest cope to defend nintendo
>”n-no, it’s to spite competitivefags like you!”
No, it was to spite (you), the consumer. You’re getting spat in the face and you call it a kiss because you can’t possibly imagine nintendo can do no wrong. Truth is they’ve been spitting on your face since day one with the $80 price tag

>>713757428
Nobody is returning to mk8 lol

>>713752047
Is that supposed to look fast?

>>713757451
yes they did one screenshot where 1/3rd of people picked random isn't a good argument either because it would mean that the majority of people that pick random in mkw just already did that

>>713757502
>try a game of MKW
>at best you’re getting 14 players, but NEVER a full lobby
>try a game of MK8DX
>full room every single time
>>713757573
You can just admit you’re wrong, you know

>>713752047
Where's the sense of speed?

>>713734759 (OP)
Just leave game dude, not like you're gonna get banned for that.

>>713757660
>You can just admit you’re wrong, you know
Okay so you are trolling or incapable of basic logic and reasoning skills

Remember chat the people that whine about this stuff are always a minority and always wrong
Happened with totk happened with mk8 too and look what happened with those

>>713757573
>one screenshot where 1/3rd of people picked random
ALL OF THE DAY BRO
> because it would mean
It would mean your claim was literally wrong dumbass.

>>713757660
>at best you’re getting 14 players, but NEVER a full lobby
????

>>713757668
It's back in Double Dash.

>>713753430
You can’t really do that in 8 Deluxe because there’s barely any tech or non-mushroom cuts in that entire game. Which is why it sucks that we can’t just pick 3 laps. I don’t even mind intermissions sometimes, but I don’t get why we have to have a group of friends or preset community just to race 3 laps online consistently.

>>713757660
>>try a game of MKW
>>at best you’re getting 14 players, but NEVER a full lobby
literally making shit up

>>713757825
Why are you pretending to be retarded

>>713734858
Yeah this shit is over blown. They cant even shit on the gameplay so they chose to try and shit on the tracks, THAT ARE STILL IN THE RANDOM SELECTION. Its obviously a Anti-Nintendo discord raid trying to use anything to shit on anything Nintendo related. Just let these retards burn themselves out, they have the IQ of a Monkey and the attention span of a toddler.

>>713749403
>They were called intermissions in the menu screen of the demo builds at events.

Source?

>>713752047
So where is the rail grinding and wall riding tech people were cumming over when the game first came out?

>>713758757
there isn't one, it's a made up reddit meme that they repeated until it became "common knowledge"

>>713758797
There was an electric wire you could grind up, and you could hop onto the guard rail for more grinding, and all the canyons and valleys serve as walls you can jump onto. This webm alone actually has a ton of opportunities like that.

>You're a compfag if you like 3 lap tracks
So every Mario Kart before World was a tryhard competitive game?

>>713759018
Is it faster though?

>>713734759 (OP)
they will still cocksuck nintendia and they deserve to be scammed

>>713734858
good morning bhai, thanking yous for making this post
these bloddy bastard snoy dalits are to be making a very hard time for us, yes

>>713759108
Lol no. The fastest way to go on those intermission tracks is just to drive normally and take shrooms shortcuts.

>>713759108
Of course not. Those little bends are barely worth drifting on. The fastest strat is to just go straight. There's a reason Baby Blooper and it's 7 Road Speed is the meta right now.

>>713735286
it's funny how the easiest fix for it is to keep grand prix locked to 3 laps per course and have knock out tour be intermissions only

>>713759018
Yet none of what you described is worth doing

>>713752659
kek

>>713759219
Even the slight turns on those tracks aren't worth drifting on. You're literally better off just driving and slightly turning
I don't know how people can defend those tracks when you don't even use any of the mechanics or features of the game in them

>>713753857
that's what happened with zzz, that shitty gacha game by craphoyo
instead of the actual levels and combat, you had to spend half hour (or even more) navigating through an array of tvs and it turned people off from the game
now the developers are trying to revive the game but it's already too late
it makes less revenue than the other two big hoyo games, especially star rail, which requires less development effort than zzz

>>713759764
Isn't ZZZ like the 2nd biggest one just behind Genshin? I don't play any gachas but that's the impression I get

>>713758797
>Nintendo actually makes some amazing courses for World
>you wanna race on them online? Fuck you!
It's not fair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WBrGOCjYP4

>>713756014
Yeah those screenshots where everyone picks random tend to people with 8600+ ratings

>>713759836
it went through several low revenue patches compared to star rail which requires less development budget and is older than zzz
zzz requires much more budget due to having more animations for the characters, enemies, plus tons of shit in the overworld like unique props and textures in each area
blows my mind how badly they screwed up one of their best looking and feeling games with the most idiotic gameplay decisions

>play knockout tour
>get hit with one (1) green shell
>go back 15 spots and get knocked out
wtf this shit is worse than a blue shell

>>713744020
>It's DS/Wii all over again with mandatory stylus/ motion control shenanigans
Neither of which you’ve played

>>713753430
Of course, everyone who liked the old games for 30 years is now suddenly a sweaty tryhard for liking them.

>>713734759 (OP)
but what do actual kids think about about intermissions?

>>713734759 (OP)
I dont hate intermissions, I hate that we cant pick a 3 lap course normally online and that we cant do intermission + multi lap

>>713752047
just tuck me in and turn off the light

>>713760609
they're busy playing knock out tour instead (the superior version for intermissions)
why would you want to have your race interrupted for 2m to select the next track? when you can run 6 intermissions back to back in knock out tour

which brings the question why they're enforcing intermissions in the other online mode too, when knock out tour already does them so well

>people have serious opinions and arguments over mario kart
huh. i mean, i guess

>>713760803
>people want their $80 game in a 30 year old series to be good

>>713760803
>serious opinions and arguments
This but with tr*nime

>>713761147
like, it's a party game, what do you expect

>>713749973
It’s funny because Japs love Todd games and are very prolific modders for games like Skyrim

>>713761238
All we ask is for there to be a good skill to luck ratio. The intermissions are simply too luck based. The strategy is to intentionally stay in the back and hope you get a good combo like bullet and giant mushroom. Bagging always was a strategy but it wasn’t THE strategy

>>713761238
Everything can be a party game.

>>713734759 (OP)
dont care, im still voting for boo cinema if its available.. otherwise i agree

>>713761238
Why does it always have to be Nintendo games that make people say retarded shit about not caring for the quality of the game?

>>713761958
There’s a difference between Nintendo fans (people that enjoy Nintendo games and call out shit like this latest MKW update) and then tendies, the kind of people that demand Nintendo of America and the FBI to investigate Palworld, and bought Labo and the Mario alarm clock

>>713761238
guaranteed the average mario kart game has a higher skill ceiling than whatever it is you're serious about. You can make many choices and press buttons at the right moments in order to win consistently-- thats why players have scores to show how often they win.

Also, it being a party game (fun at parties) doesn't ever mean it's meant to be a no skill slot machine. Skill is emphasized in every title. That's why there's drifting, shortcuts, kart stats, character stats... you shouldn't be reductive about things you don't know shit about. It adds nothing AND makes you look stupid.

>>713734759 (OP)
>Maybe are we out of touch?
>Of course not! It's the players who are wrong!
I can feel the seethe from the ancient, stubborn 60 year old japanese developers burning with rage people don't like their redudant gimmick.

Reminds me a lot of the Wii U era where a ton of games like Starfox Zero came out that had strong premises but a dumb forced gimmick tanked the whole thing down

>>713757451
>>713757825
man, it's just sad at how much of a failure online matchmaking is

>>713748267
>pipe frame gets shafted again
Does Nintendo hate the classic MK games or what?

>>713761238
>just consume the slop without question bro!
As technology improves, so do our standards. Paying $50-$80 for a game that has less options than a WiiU game is simply absurd, and should not be encouraged as a new business practice.

>don't know what this is, don't play it
>look into it out of curiosity
>people are calling those who don't like it "propaganda machines"
lolwut???

>>713748267
>Rosalina
>Weight 8
What did they mean by this?

>>713757660
That shit literally only happens when you're at like 9k VR and it's not because the game can't fill a lobby

>>713748267
>roselina
>bowser jr
>waluigi
>all my favorites have water stats
WHYYY

>>713765207
Rosalina has been a fucking heavy weight since wii 17 years ago. It's not special anymore.

>>713765083
You should probably dial it back a bit and recall just how few options there were in that Wii U game at launch. Nintendo LOVES the dripfeed model nowadays and it's only so jarring here because after years of dripfeed it's easy to forget what it was like originally.

>>713765207
It means she's in the large sized karts but on the lighter end of them. The next closest weight class is considered medium sized. That said, it feels like Pokey and Snowman are backwards; I'd consider Pokey large and Snowman medium.

>>713765926
the dolphin is lighter than the fucking penguin

>>713760803
MK is the one game I'm okay with being a filthy casual for. Feels good to just drive and throw shit at people and make it at least top 5. Even more entertaining to watch people spurg over the baby game.

>>713765393
I mean i’m only 8800 and still get issues with lobbies

>>713746065
>Playing with assist driving
top fucking kek

>>713766158
The dolphin floats and those penguins can get fucking BIG

Literally all Nintendo had to do was make it 2 laps around the track at the end and the bitching would go down by 80%

>>713766953
No because intermission tracks are complete ass and only make sense for Knockout. Even then Knockout would probably be better on traditional tracks.

>>713767084
3 laps of a track into 200cc intermissions would be pretty fun knock out tour material desu

>>713759848
>that one swoop in a sea of babyfags
godspeed

>>713746515
>I hope SCW fucks up like this as well.
lol Sonic Team actually listens to and takes feedback, something that Nintendo has been adamant against doing for decades
>cartoon slop
no one is forcing you to buy the DLC pass, you can get the free SEGA DLC as it releases you fucking spastic

>>713766953
there's still the problem of the most effective strategy being bagging on the roads. No point in playing the roads normally because you'll just get fucked over while the baggers zoom to top spots before the finish line.

>>713735286
first time?

>make a system where every track can connect to 3-4 other tracks
>have a special mode (knockout tour) where they they can utilize this
>its 8 predetermined routes instead of being randomized

why would they do this

>>713765580
dont have shit taste

>>713767868
Because those cups weren't just routes mashed together they actually made setpieces for each cup and shit, and there's 202 routes so there's no way they'd have the time to utilize it all.

>>713768120

they had 11 years

>>713748267
>all the water vehicles massively outclassed by every other vehicle because they were minmaxed for segments that are 10% or less of all tracks
>so bad that no one even uses them for water courses in time trials
what were they thinking

>>713768336
They also had to start over when the Shitch 1 became unstable, so that timespawn isn't entirely accurate.

You WILL play like Nintendo wants you to play

No one is going to give a shit about this in a week or two

When will Nintendies learn that they are not Nintendo's target audience?
When will Nintendies learn that Nintendo despises your ilk?
When will Nintendies learn that they can bitch, moan and piss their pants all they want but Nintendo won't listen to them?
When will Nintendies learn that they can bitch, moan and piss their pants all they want but they will pay and play it anyway?

The answer as always is never

>>713768523
8snoys will still spam strongly worded tweets at NoA interns while "threatening" to play MK8D (another Ninteᥒd𐐬 title) like they did this week. World's playtime will mysteriously continue to rise on their profiles.

the lightning bolt and the bullet bill should instantly and automatically activate the moment they enter your inventory. They are supposed to be "helping little timmy catch up" items, not "le ebic bagging play!!!" nonsense.

Triple mushrooms should be time trial only. They become double mushroom for normal gamemodes instead.

Golden mushroom removed from the game entirely and the developers who decided to buff it from it's mk8 version should be doomed to stream the game for 48 hours straight using only high "water" stat vehicles and characters.

>>713768523
this whole thing is just a content farm tendie troontubers, ragebait always results in engagement no matter the platform.

it's okay if it's boring because.........
>it's for toddlers who will like anything because.... they're young
>it's just not meant to be good okay
>you're meant to play it with stoner friends who don't care anyway
>it owned the chuds who like the game

>>713768901
not a bagtranny so it's not boring to me

>>713768901
it's ok if you find it boring because it's not for you

>>713735286
You should've experienced the Tekken 8 season 2 patch if you think this is unhinged

>>713768380
I feel like they got the Baby Blooper backwards and it was supposed to have a huge advantage in the water. Its lopsided stats would make far more sense in that context, plus it's based on a fucking BLOOPER, the SQUID.

>>713746065
except when he gets knocked down by a simple red shell and takes for fucking ever to get back up to full speed. balanced speed and acc is best for intermission tracks if you play online

>>713752659
It's Mario kart, man. If you're taking it seriously, you deserve to be pissed off

>>713768951
It’s for retards and toddlers, not people who like good Kart racers, we know

>>713768901
You call it boring and yet you are going keep playing it not matter what because of sunk cost falllacy lol

>>713768750
They didn't buff the Golden Mushroom. It actually works exactly the same as it did in 8. It's just that they nerfed literally everything else that the Golden Mushroom being exactly as it was in this new context makes it stupidly good.

I don't understand why there isn't just a like normal grand prix mode where you do each track 3 times.

>>713768750
>complaining about bullet bill when it literally stops working if you get into the top 4 spots, its useless to hold on to
>lighting only works for those in front of you, trying to hold on to that is a waste as well

>>713769142
That's not the gimmick this time. The gimmick is interconnected tracks in the open world. Interact with the gimmick. It's a gimmick game. You will like the gimmick.

>>713769063
>ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD
THEN WHY ADD 3 LAP RACES IN THE FIRST PLACE? WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ADD THE TRICK SYSTEM AND RAIL GRINDING AND WALL DRIVING MECHANICS THAT LET YOU DO COOL TECHNICAL SHIT? THE GAME IS GOOD IF YOU JUST LET US PLAY HOW WE FUCKING WANT. I WILL NOT DRIVE IN A STRAIGHT LINE.

>>713769298
>WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ADD THE TRICK SYSTEM AND RAIL GRINDING AND WALL DRIVING MECHANICS THAT LET YOU DO COOL TECHNICAL SHIT?
For exploring the open world, in free roam.

>>713769298
you will and you will like it

>>713742656
The cubeworld guy who torpedoed his game in one update and then never fixed it.
Biome torches.
Forever Winter's water system. A looter shooter with a mechanic where you had to continuously collect water out in the field or your hub village would collapse and you'd lose all your upgrades and resources, and it counted down IN REAL TIME, like some fucking mobile game. You originally were only able store enough water for a couple of weeks max and you had to continuously play the game or lose all your work, no breaks, no waiting for updates. The entire community revolted, repeatedly. They defended it as an "artistic choice" cause "war isn't supposed to be fun" and the eventually broke down and removed it just in time for everyone to have already left.

>>713769175
With lightning it’s only a waste if you don’t shock who you want. Sometimes you just wanna screw only a certain sect of people

>>713758652
>an entire game mode was essentially removed because of how rare it is to now get non intermission tracks and this fucking retard thinks the complaining is overblown
jesus fucking christ, imagine if ANY other game removed the most popular way to play it. how fucking dumb can you be?

>>713769432
problem is you can get ghosted and have it stolen easy since ghost can only get the best items from those in front. its hard to hold on to lighting for long

>people blame the "meta slaves" for picking random in lobbies to play 3 lobby tracks
A supposed super minority would not have the raw numbers to force the casuals to also play only 3 lap courses via random, too. It wasn't just the competitive players using random to play 3 lap tracks online

>>713734858
famitsu sisters... these replies are KILLING us...

>>713769497
oh yeah... imagine...

>>713769497
Go play MK8 then.

>>713767138
Honestly intermissions should be 1000cc

>>713769357
Bullshit it works so much better on the actual courses you really only use that shit for the occasional peach medallion.
>>713769361
No I won’t I already uninstalled

>>713735157
Because they're an extended break from the parts of the game that people are actually interested in playing

>>713744568
QRD? I put a couple hours into it a few years back but how bad will it be if/when I jump back in?

>>713769645
>"we have a game for that, it's called mario kart 8"
not really the greatest of arguments if history is anything to go by.

i just want the intermissions tracks to have more events happening
the ones with the cars fucking with you are the best

>>713744568
What did they do to Salt and Sanctuary?
I never liked that game. Controls like ass

>>713735157
>>713749403
People misinterpreted what "Intermissions" option in the rule settings were. People thought you could turn them on/off, but it was actually a setting for the time between races. But because there doesn't seem to be an official name for them, the name stuck anyway.

>>713745349
Just beat this. Any good mods?

>>713769753
Yeah, I'm familiar with the Xbox One. Go play the old one if you want to play the same slop you've been playing for a decade. This at least tries something different.

>>713734759 (OP)
Fuck doomers and casuals on this God forsaken board
if you actually care about vidya just come discuss VIDYA
https://discord.com/invite/NN5fVCwP
fuck troons, fuck faggots, fuck niggers, fuck jannies

so is everyone just going to jump to crash team racing nitro-fueled? they got the 3 lap races everyone wants

>>713769990
overwatch 2 also tried to be different. maybe pick better arguments than ones used for some of the most hated moments in gaming.

>>713770086
pc version never

>>713770086
I would if the PC version actually comes out

>>713770208
There was a rumor it was happening. I hope they put it on battle net so I can buy it with my Bnet balance. I have like $300 from selling WoW gold

Non-Switch 2 owner here.

I think MKW looks fun, but the lack of playing options and being forced to play the game how Nintendo wants me to play puts me off wanting to invest in a new console plus an up-charged $80 game.

I know most people ITT likely don't care about my perspective, but that's how I feel as a consumer. All this drama unfolding has basically convinced me that it's best to just wait a few years to see if Nintendo sorts all this out as I'm nit really missing out on anything.

>>713770120
I would be fine if this game completely dies. I am not a hardcore Mario kart player, it's not something I'm going to be playing six months from now. I am happy that it tries for something different, I find it infinitely more interesting than just another Mario kart game.

thank god i only play with friends
get to pick all the 3 lap courses i want

>>713747618
The difference is that in real sports you can break the meta just by collecting the right combo of genetic freaks.

>>713734990
Heh, you tell 'em, Reginald.

>>713770538
>i liked it better when it was shit
Daring today are we. May as defend double dash

>>713770403
It's always best to wait a few years on a console launch in general. Look how barren the game lineup is right now.

>>713770086
Mario Kart is unshakable. You'll get some disgruntled autists moving on to different games, but the average joe and his kids will stick with MK no matter what. At worst, they'll just be playing 8 Deluxe instead of World.

>Youtube
>Reddit
>Twitter

>>713770683
I honestly wasn't interested in the Switch 2 at all until the Duskbloods trailer revealing it was Switch 2 exclusive. I love Bloodborne and Bloodborne 2 seems neat. Then I learned it wasn't exactly that, now I'm curious, but it's still my main reason was being interested in the console at all.

>>713770665
That's not what I said. I find this game more interesting than just a by-the-numbers Mario Kart 9. The only mode I play is knockout tour and I find it enjoyable. This board used to complain about rehashes all the time, so I don't feel bad at all for saying I respect this game for trying to have its own identity.

I like double dash very much, thank you.

>>713771107
It's just a shitty open world mk.

>>713752917
The demake? Good job faggot

>>713734759 (OP)
>he buyeded the game

>>713769616
Yeah I hate how Melee forced coin battles.

>>713771161
Name 3 other open world mks

>>713744807
Kek

>>713754593
it'd probably kill some of these people, given how many frequent the weekly salesfag thread.

>>713773456
meant for >>713755595

This is like Nintendo releasing an update for Smash that removes all stages except Final Destination

>>713749391
>Community is livid and Harada has to apologize and kick out the new team in charge of balance
But nintendo won't apologize; there is no mistake from their view. intermission tracks are nintendo's vision for this game.

>>713770789
>4chan

>>713746515
>SCW having cartoon slop
Reminder that the paid DLC is the cartoon characters while the free DLC is vidya. Even SEGA knows no sane person would want cartoon slop in their game. Only dipshits would actually buy them.

Thank god online is finally playable

>>713769497
>>an entire game mode was essentially removed
Except it wasn't, you dumbass. Take your overblown clickbait garbage elsewhere

Has Nintendo ever backtracked on an update after immense backlash before?

If this game was like Splatoon, you'd open the game and be forced to play the same two maps of coin runners for the next two hours.

>>713758652
>They cant even shit on the gameplay so they chose to try and shit on the tracks
its a racing game you dumb faggot the tracks ARE the gameplay

>>713777707
No dumbass, thats not how it works. Try again.

>>713777930
are you implying the ideal line changes every time you play a single track?

>>713769497
It's not an entire game mode and arguably by choosing random people were trying to keep the proper Mario Kart World races hostage. Many people want to play the game for the new kinds of tracks, not just how it was in Mario Kart 8.

>>713778372
>New kind of tracks
>It's a straight line

>>713777003
You could say that Smash 4 was a half-hearted apology for the random tripping and slow physics in Brawl

>>713752047
>tendies actually think this is better tham mk8 or wiikart
HAHAHA THIS GAME IS SUCH DOGSHIT IT DOESN'T EVEN UTILIZE THE NEW ABILITIES AND HAS YOU RACE IN STRAIGHT LINES ITEM SPAM NO REFUND LMAO

>>713734759 (OP)
The internet doesn't reflect reality because the loudest people are heard the clearest. Irl everyone I played with preffered the intermissions and turned down my offer to try out more 3 lap races

Switch 2 has caused so many foxes to cry about soure grapes it's unreal

>>713749354
Because they spent all of their time and resources on the map. Open world has poisoned another franchise.

>tendie cope so bad their resorting to calling mk8 players 8snoys

>>713779157
I got called a meleesnoy here once for saying it's still gonna keep living.

>>713771056
look man, if its one third party game, you should probably just pirate it and find another way to give the devs money (like buying another one of their games a second time)

>>713779157
Oot snoy

>>713734759 (OP)
>Didn't get MKW with my Switch 2
I was expecting to have caved by now, but avoiding this game has actually been really painless.

I don't care about your retarded intermission arguments, post erotic screenshots, preferably of the princesses and pauline

>>713734759 (OP)
Nobody has such complete and utter contempt for Nintendo fans like Nintendo does.

>>713734858
judging by these responses there are really people here that actually boughteteded (sic) a switch 2.

>>713734858
Good morning sir

>>713734759 (OP)
>switch 2 had game selling 1m in japan in first 2 weeks
>after 5 years, ps5 doesn't have a single game coming close to that number, even mh wilds bombed in japan

>>713735286
Nintendo went all in on the open world gimmick and they're arrogant enough to think they can force you to like it. They won't back down either. They know exactly what people want and were having fun with and this is them saying 'no. you're doing it wrong. I demand this is how you play my game that you bought for $80 and I changed after the fact knowing you weren't playing it the way I want you to.'

>>713735286
>It feels actively antagonistic.
It IS actively antagonistic. Nintendo knows exactly what they're doing. They saw everyone liked playing in a way they didn't approve of and they shot it down thinking everyone will just keep buying and playing it anyway.

>>713749391
>>Community is livid and Harada has to apologize and kick out the new team in charge of balance
That already makes it far better than this situation. Steam lets people review bomb the shit out of games to make their voices heard in a way that can easily impact sales. And Nintendo will never apologize. If they roll this back, which I highly doubt because that would be admitting they're wrong, it will be quietly.

I'm playing right now and no matter what you choose, you're getting open world straight lines 90% of the time.
Fucking hate this shit so much

>>713734759 (OP)
>WAAAH STOP CRITICISING MY MULTIBILLION DOLLAR CORPO

>>713782316
>Completely measured take in the image
>inane all caps strawman in the post
Odd.

>>713782316
lmao of course kingk is on bluesky
what a faggot

i like mario kart world and i dont mind the straightways, its been very fun 2 play

mk8dx players are ruining my game. just fuck off back to mk8dx and let me have fun

>>713751562
Hehe

When I first heard of the race to the next track feature, I assumed it would be a race where you would be able to take any road that you wanted to. Huge disappointment for me when I learned it was just a designated path.

>"racing" game feels like a 3 hour car ride during a family trip as a kid
>can't even pass the time with raindrop racing or pretending a guy is running on next to the car jumping over stuff

>>713778930
why is the map so barren then?

>>713783893
They made the mistake of only making the "roads" the only really drivable part of the open world as intermissions.
At the same time, the rest of the open world isn't designed at all to be as interesting as the circuit races so even if you had tracks that actually used the whole open world, it wouldn't be good.

>>713734858
Nintendo shills need to be butchered honestly

I kind of knew the game was dying before it actually did. The /v/ lobbies just didn't have the same energy and knockout tour is only fun for long since you get bored from starting off in the same course all the time. They should've been randomised

>>713753167
i dislike 24 players, but i don't really feel the shortcoming of wider tracks?
Most tracks have enough narrow sections or trick sections where you have to be precise to compensate for the open stretches

>>713753972
Yeah, generally the ones at the northern end of the map are good since they are winding mountain roads or skyways, but all of the center map and water routes are dogshit

Nigga can't afford a Switch 2

>>713787279
If the sections are too wide any potential hazard has no real threat.

>>713752659
>how incredibly fucking stupid it is putting all your eggs in the basket of one video game.
whew good thing that's literally not what happened

>>713745349
If we ignore the huge latency issues at the time that made collision detection a constant gamble which in turn made the cloud broken as fuck, maybe?

>>713782316
>so that mature adults can engage with it
Bro is doing Mario Kart videos lmao

>>713773045
Name 3 other match3 mk games

>>713759018
>drive to a canyon wall
>Lakitu stops you halfway
>drags your ass back to the highway
>takes your coins and your items as a retard-tax before patting you on your ass and telling you to drive within the lines
It's like you're a corgi in a dog show, and the owner needs to pick your fat ass up and re-direct because you got distracted by a toy or food on the centerline-walk.

So did the devs take an 11 year vacation after mk8 and full benefits retirement after mk8d success?
That's for to be the reason why this game is so lackluster

>lobbies not filling in japan
it's over

>>713789204
>Game designed to let you find shortcuts forever
>You can play the games for years trying to shorten 1s of time
>lackluster
You are not the target audience, and it's ok

>>713782316
>I can't handle discourse that's different than my own opinion, so I'm just going to disengage with it for a bit until things get better and I'm validated in my thoughts
And then he finds some way to sneak "Hey guys did you know Trump is a madman and #NotMyPresident" into the video, along with shilling a video platform little to no one uses.

>>713789351
>Invalidates your shortcuts by hoarding lightning and golden mushroom till the last item set
Thanks for the 1st competitivechud

>>713789290
When you piss off home nation players, they tend to get pissed hard. Gacha learned this the hard way with Chinese and Korean players holding straight up murder threat grudges over impure waifus and inane bullshit like the pinch motion, and Japan is seeping into the same levels of seethe when their developers royally fuck up.

>>713789290
>lobby was obviously made less than 6 secodns ago against screenshot
>almost full
>this is bad somehow

>>713789754
Nikke girls literally have sex both with player character and side guys for fun, because sex with attractive people is fun, and it's still prints money, schizo

>>713790014
Nikke revenue is bad. Same with other waifu gachaslop like blue archive despite how much fan art they get. Only the 3d action shit does well these days, that's why there's so many clones upcoming

>>713743728
i hope the leaked DLC roster of stupid nick characters no one wants to play as sinks crossworlds just like it sank nick brawl 2.
besides that, crossworlds is a boring, derivative game with no identity of its own. sumo's games, even the shitty last one, had their own style distinguishable from mario kart, but crossworlds is just a mario kart clone. a competent one, but there's no reason to play it over actual mario kart.
sega can take their $70 store brand clone game with day one DLC and a season pass and shove it far up their ass. don't make another sonic racing game for 10 years, you don't know how.

>>713789952
>lobby was obviously made less than 6 secodns ago against screenshot
How did you come to that conclusion?

>>713745349
I've tried four different adapters but I just can't get my wii to work on my TV ;_;

>>713750751
Those are for normal car racing games. Mario kart is a kart racer

>>713734759 (OP)
>Youtube hates intermissions
>Reddit hates intermissions
>Twitter hates intermissions
Based Nintendo making games trannies hate.

>snoys are trying to start a controversy over Mario Kart having race tracks
I didn't think it was possible for something to mind break them more then the Switch but the Switch 2 pulled it off immediately.

>>713734759 (OP)
theres maybe a handful of 30 year old autistic mario kart players who actually care about this update
the rest of you are trying too hard youre too obvious
its just a fun little mario kart game.

>>713759098
Funny looking beaver

>>713734759 (OP)
Why do they want players to drive in a straight line for at least 50% of the time so hard?

>>713757573
People in that screenshot picked random because they wanted a random track over the given options, people in world pick random because it (was) the only way to get a normal 3 lap track.

>>713735286
I think companies becoming antagonistic towards their customers will become more common, even though its already too common.
Why have the "the customer is always right" motto when you can condition the customer to being treated like shit.

I think Nintendo already has paid dlc in the works that emphasizes the intermission style courses, they need people to get used these courses

>>713789290
the greatest mk8dx player has spoken
https://youtu.be/0hVqEeRpwmc

>>713792245
>>713792245
Nintendo bans consoles for wrong nicknames

>>713792779
shitendo is going bust very soon.
>japan is not having children. sales will dry in their primary market.
>nostalgia baits will stop working as millennials are getting too old for games
>gen-z and alpha will never have any nostalgia for shitendo games
>no 3rd party

>>713793230
thanks I needed to add "shitendo" to my filter

>>713792973
Only reasonable comment I've seen all week about this commotion

>>713792973
A lot of them need more design to them to get used to in the first place. Sure, some of the intermissions are good. But others are held back because they were clearly made to fit into the game’s world instead of being actually fun to race on. The game’s design decisions in general feel at odds with itself. They add more choices to the paths you can take on the tracks, then restrict your choices in how you want to race. They add all sorts of tricks and cuts to cater to a more hardcore crowd, but then make the item buttfuck parade even more chaotic with even more players and even more lopsided item selections for casuals on top of buffing the blue shell.

>>713793515
You'd think with a fantastical world like Marios' they could've made highways more interesting and interactive than pretty much mirroring real life high ways

ANY TIPS FOR SPECIAL CUP IN SMK?

>>713778372
The new tracks have no skill expression or ways to get ahead when the intermission tracks are so basic, the meta is to sit back and then use your catchup items at the very end to get first. You are decentralized from playing the game like you're supposed to if you want to win.

It's a shit game mode, that's why people are already sick of it and wanted to play 3 laps on tracks instead where you could get ahead with skill and have a lead where items might not fuck you over as much as the intermissions.

Anyone still okay with them hasn't played the game enough to realize that they suck and that's why everyone was voting random to not play them. Just because something is new doesn't mean that it's good, there's countless examples of this in video games.

>>713790716
you are aware that its possible for fans of a company to have criticism on that company, right?

>>713751678
watch porn retard. or player a porn game

>>713757668
Nintendo released F-Zero GX 20 years ago and it had so much speed it scared Nintendies to death, so Nintendo swore to never make a speedy game again.

>>713752047
>drifting on a straight road
artificial fun

>>713752917
you're saying this like it's technically impressive. it's a PS3 game from 2015. yeah? it would be cause for concern if it could not run at 4K60.
i heard it has the original jap version's licensed music worldwide which is pretty nice, previously you needed mods on PC to get that in the english version. but the new cutscenes are retarded. and i'm skeptical it's uncensored, most of the yakuza remasters have been, but i haven't seen any reports of censorship in this one yet.

>>713793894
>how DARE you enjoy beauty! good looking women should only be in porn, outside of that everybody should be ugly!!!
what did anon mean by this?

>>713793757
>You are decentralized from playing the game like you're supposed to if you want to win.
My bad, that should be "You are decentivized from playing the game like you're supposed to if you want to win.".

>>713753013
there's 20x more annoying underage console warrior retards here now than there were a few years ago and i don't get it. any negative sentiment about nintendo gets you accused of being a snoy and any negative sentiment about sony gets you accused of being a tendie. how hard is it to discuss the merits of different games and hardware without becoming an insufferable retard the moment someone disagrees with you?

>>713793973
now try reformulating your counter-argument without strawmanning and coping. if you want to stare at asses play stellar blade or something. mario kart is a game for kids and daisy has no ass

get some standards

>>713751517
the whole wall running/rail grinding/jumps setup are much more satisfying gimmicks, and the intermissions practically ignore all that

>>713794115
>daisy has no ass

Switch 2less troon.

>>713760803
Ah the usual tendie cope
>BING BING WAHOO IS GREAT! A MASTERPIECE!
*criticism comes over your way*
>Uhhhh who cares?????????? it's a toddler game, c'mon, what are you doing trying to theorize on a child's game!

>>713768652
>8snoys
this website is for 18+ english speakers, please act like one.

>>713792779
"Customer is always right" was always bullshit so I'm happy to see a bunch of smug illiterate dipshits get BTFO. Your fault for buying a Switch 2 in the first place.

>>713794176
both are flat, the right one is just fat.

>>713752917
Legitimately play it elsewhere, the new content actively ruins the game by retconning some big things.

>>713792973
This is what I thought also. It seems obvious they probably have an entire content roadmap already planned out and mostly ready to go with all the work already being financed and completed. Seeing the negative reception to the intermissions probably got them panicking so now they're trying to double down.

>>713734759 (OP)
$500 well spent for this amazing experience!

>>713793632
The best part of the intermissions is the traffic, mainly the special cars. Ramps, mushrooms, that one asshole that randomly shows up and tosses around bananas and bombs. That’s actually fun and is a good way of making players improvise. And the new stuff, while inconsistent, is sometimes better to go for because even one of the Crown City WRs would jump onto a car for a boost. But that’s not a typical experience you get. On top of that, the cuts you can make feel more harmful to the game instead of helpful, because you absolutely need mushrooms or some special item to make those cuts. You get to ignore the traffic and the chaos on top of just saving a lot of time.

>Play Counter-Strike
>Exclusively play 5v5 competitive
>Valve releases an update where you have to play team deathmatch for 10 minutes before you can play the 5v5 mode
People would be furious if that happened, but Nintendo has somehow convinced millions of cocksuckers that this is a good change.

Cry about it.

This game is designed in such a contradictory and weird way. The new gimmicks arguably raise the skill ceiling higher than it's ever been and the VR system is also more punishing than ever. Yet at the same time they insist on the straight lines and featureless tracks. Almost feels like two different teams worked on it.

They want to differentiate 8 and 9 because they want people to keep playing 8. They don't see 9 as a replacement for 8, rather they see them as different but equal products.

I wont be shocked if they just make a sequel to 8 later in the switch 2's life either. They've got 8 years, they could do 2 Mario Karts.

>>713794597
They're not really separate but equal, World is 3/5ths of 8. Arguably less than that when it has 1/3rd of the tracks.

>>713794485
that would be unironically based, most serious player do 10m warmup in dm anyway. as long as it's once per session of course

>>713794573
It's so silly the main tracks have some of the most difficult shortcuts of the entire series and you'll rarely get to attempt them.

>>713794597
You're giving them too much credit. They just got high off of their own supply and throught this would get the same reception for Mario Kart as BOTW did for Zelda.

>>713794407

>>713794934
>bro just grind these shortcuts in time trials until you get them down
>okay now do it for real but only for 1 lap
Legitimately what the fuck were they thinking?

>>713794975
>They just got high off of their own supply and throught this would get the same reception for Mario Kart as BOTW did for Zelda.

How did Nintendo's business strategy work out for them?

>>713790716
That's the thing. It has race tracks but Nintendo wants us to play in the freeway instead.

A racing game where they actively try to stop you from doing actual laps around a track, not even GT7 shit the bed as hard as this.

It is the sticker star of Mario Kart

>>713795224
>It has race tracks but Nintendo wants us to play in the freeway instead.

It's all race tracks you delusional fuck. I doubt you have even played the game.

>>713760054
it amazes me brain sick retards like you can say that with a straight face while ignoring the fact that all gacha gameplay is trash and is basically pachinko with enough soulless grind and drip feed to keep you addicted.

>Nintendo tries to turn Mario Kart into another Bore of the Mild
>people don't like it cause an open-world kart racer is fucking stupid
>Nintendo doubles down and forces players to play the game the way THEY want them to.
Seems Nintendo forgot that forcing stupid gimmicks into their products regardless of whether they fit the product or not was one of the big reasons the Wii-U failed.

>>713795449
Driving from one place to another is not a track. You don't do laps, you don't do shorcuts bigger than cutting slight offroad and you don't drift to more than a blue miniturbo.

It's transportation, not Kart racing. At most you fuck around with items.

>>713795290
This seems more like the Super Paper Mario, where the old stuff is still kinda there along with some neat new things but it's obscured by a new format people don't like and some easily exploitable tricks, and then the next game will attempt a 180 and double down on what they thought people liked about the older games, resulting in the blandest and most dumbed down Mario Kart ever.

Why did people buy the game if they don't like the idea of the intermission tracks? I'm not even sure if before release that we knew it would be possible to play traditional 3-lap races online, they were pushing the intermission tracks as the main way that the game would be played.

>a major issue with open world games is that they're full of pointless filler content that gets in the way of you going from point a to point b
Think about something like Elden Ring where you have to ride around until you find the fun and there is vast stretches of nothing. Mario Kart World truly is an open world game, you have to drive around on straight roads to finally find the fun for a single lap and then repeat that over and over again.

It's a great example of why open world games fucking suck, the fan base realized that and then found a way around it, and then Nintendo patched out the fun to add more open world tedium. MKW is legitimately everything wrong with modern gaming, or it will be once the paid DLC drops. Don't forget to pay to use your own internet to play it online!

>>713742656
Helldivers 2 shortly after launch
they kinda redeemed themselves tho

>>713795845
>hurr how can you expect that the $80 flagship title has a feature that was the main point of every single entry in its series???? hehe gotcha!
retard

>>713795770
I find it hard to believe they can get more dumbed down from 7.

>>713795845
I just got it in the bundle because I was interested how it'd mechanically play, and for what it's worth, the game drives as smooth as a baboon's ass, it's real good to play, but the way the online's handled just bites is all. If Nintendo provides some options going forth for traditional 3-lap racing and custom knockout tour setups, in which you can route the courses you want to play, it'll be great, for now, it's mediocre. I hate MK7 for the way it plays and its general soulless feel, and even I'm thinking it's better than World now, because World's been feeling openly hostile towards the playerbase with stuff like this patch.

>>713796004
I'm not the one who bought a game that was advertised as primarily racing in a straight line and then is upset that there's too much racing in a straight line.

>>713796004
worked for zelda. you wanted to explore dungeons in botw? too bad lmao.

I played online for around 4 hours last night. On average it seemed like we got a 3-lap track every 5-7 races. Everybody votes for it when it shows up but the weird thing is that it seemed to keep repeating the same ones. Like it gave Boo's Cinema and DK Pass as 3-lap suggestions each more than once which seems improbable if the new "far away" picks are truly random.

>>713795040
Don't bother, they don't care. It's all just bait.

>>713796004
What feature is it missing?

>>713751562
heh

>>713734759 (OP)
Wasn't one of the advertised features during one of the directs the ability to play classic 3 lap courses if you wanted?
Before this drama I was sure there was an online mode dedicated to that, now that I'm finding out this is not the case my fomo for purchasing this game fell to rock bottom

>>713743079
Fez 2 was never a thing.

>>713742656
dontnod making flopped wokeshit for the last 10 years instead of making another cute lesbian kino

>>713795040
>posts an actual course and not an in-between road
great "gotcha" you got there bud

>>713796823
You can, in private rooms. But because tournaments don’t exist, you can’t just have one consistent place for people to go to, you have to make a new room eventually.

>>713797370
do private rooms disband when the person who created it leaves or do they persist as long as someone is in it?

for me it's kooper trooper beach
yes I said it with a hard r what are you going to do about it
look at these thrilling skips
I spent 5 hours in time trials perfecting them

>>713797649
As long as someone is in, they do last.

>>713798125
It's just a multiplayer chaos track same as Baby Park. It's hilarious online.

i discovered that in jp bowser is called kuppa and the koopa troopa is called nokonoko

thoughts?

>>713734759 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MugiOkCj9g

>>713792779
>>713794309
The best part is how people leave out the important second part of the quote:
>"the customer is always right in matters of taste," meaning that businesses should prioritize customer preferences, even if they seem unreasonable. This approach aims to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Nintendo doesn't have to do that anymore after how people ate up the Switch 1 in its first few years, their brand loyalty is so strong that Switch 2 had the most successful console launch in history.

>>713798645
>"the customer is always right in matters of taste," meaning that businesses should prioritize customer preferences, even if they seem unreasonable
What if only vocal minority demands something, and pandering to them will be harmful for everyone involved in the future.
Look at any mmo that pandered "hardcore" players while ignoring casual ones, like wow, it went to shit the second focus shifted to hardcore minoriry who shit up forums.
Same goes for literally every game, fuck, even souls games now have garbage like "boss floating in the air for 30 seconds baiting for panic rolls to instantly slam down"

>>713752047
>not even top 4
KWAB!

>>713743474
above the age of 17 retard

>>713753430
>>713752453
>>713752131
What forced meme is this?

>>713798426
with 24 players, every track is a multiplayer chaos track. Having a small multi lap track feels superfluous

I told you.
Tendiea will soon become like pokemonfags
Eating anything they shove down Your throat.
I TOLD YOU.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8xY59wDlMOck
it's over

>>713752047
>get hit by like 5 things and don't slow down at all
wowie zowie

>>713735286
>Hey! Remember when we fucked up battle mode and we had to fix it for the switch release?
>let's fuck it up again! Why not?
>Hey! A lot of people are opting to not play this stuff we implemented and doing everything in their power to avoid it
>let's force them to do it, problem solved!
It's fucking Mario Kart, a crowd pleasing money making machine. Why are the devs being such divas over this slop?

Why is Nintendo so anti-Consumer now? This should not stand.

>>713742656
Overwatch and role queue

>>713734759 (OP)
They have created a problem and now they're about to sell you the solution with some low effort paid DLC that adds a "classic mode" or something. Nintendo fans will rejoice and pay for it like good little piggies.

Rally chads stay winning
Circuitloids stay losing

>>713734759 (OP)
>Nintendo doesn't listen to retards and just makes the game they want to make
Based honestly

>>713758120
>resorts to that because he can't make an actual argument
Pathetic.

Ah yes, finally us intermissionchads can pl- wait, where is everyone?

>>713734759 (OP)
Why is there so much astroturfed hatred against nintendo lately? Yeah the price increase was understandable, but everything since seems manufactured.

>>713802298
Loaded question

>>713799728
Kek you're too embarrassed to even say what the actual age is.

>>713734759 (OP)
Genuine question. Since you are someone who has admitted that you've never played the game before, why do you make so many threads about it? There's a difference between simply thinking simething looks like shit, and shitposting 24/7 desperately trying to convince others it's shit.

If the game was as bad as you say, why are you the only one making hourly cope threads about it?

>>713802298
>Yeah the hate for the price increase is understandable, but why the hate for the lower specs, bricking your $500 for minor offenses, and converting the one game on the Switch 2 into Desert Bus 2?

>>713802041
I had an 18 player lobby last night.

>>713795040
Wow is that one of the 30 actual courses you won't see online as opposed to the 120 straight lines

>>713751562
Lets plot a course.

>>713802643
He isn't because made one last night and plenty of other sites have been complaining too

>>713802298
Because it's been one poor decision after another with Switch 2 era Nintendo

>>713799478
>What if only vocal minority demands something, and pandering to them will be harmful for everyone involved in the future.
It's usually easy to tell. especially with how people around the world are having trouble finding 24 player lobbies in MK World.

>>713752047
same energy, unironically

>>713782316
is it sigma klim in there or hagAkane? probably sigma, only zoomers would be this stupid

>>713803418
Even the climbing segments in Deltarune had more complexity to them.

>>713798125
Are you at least doing the wall-ride on the 3rd shortcut?

>>713803347
>It's usually easy to tell.
No, it's not
This alone clearly tells how you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
>especially with how people around the world are having trouble finding 24 player lobbies in MK World.
Sub 10 seconds is "having trouble getting full lobby" now?

>>713800431
'fraid so

>>713795946
>dev stubborness
not
>publisher goyery

>>713742656
it's too early to call this stubborn. if they don't revert this or find another solution in a few months then yeah it is. otherwise it might've just been an out of touch misstep based on data analysis.

>>713769595
People are more likely to vote for what they think will win then what they actually want. This is a well documented phenomenon, people don't like to "lose".

>>713749403
if you know this, you need to go outside and stop playing videogames for a while.

>so fucking excited to race on wario stadium
>can't wait to see if I can still do the old shortcuts
>get to wario stadium
>the race ends
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

Nintendo probably saw that in their metrics that random is selected near 100% of the time.
To not get random, there would need to be more people choosing a track then the combined total of those who hate intermissions + people who don't like either track option + people who pick random every time on principal. You probably never saw a track actually pass voting.

It's okay tendies. I'd be mad too if I spent $500 on the worst MarioKart ever made.

>>713804034
People complained that N64 Wario Stadium was too long back in the day, so they "fixed" it.

MK8snoys

>>713802041
Oof. Not a good look for a launch title and the sole exclusive for 2 months

>>713803903
>it's too early to call this stubborn
Anon it hasn't even been a month since the game launched and they pushed out this patch as a direct response to the online discourse around voting Random to get classic style of racing instead of the intermission rallies Nintendo wants everyone to play, if it isn't stubborn then I don't know what it is.

>>713734759 (OP)
Does anybody have a webm of that one fuck awful intermission to Peach's castle where there's vehicles the 1st and 2nd place racers can grab that give the immunity to damage and pretty great speed while the track is all just ocean streight aways?

>>713805190
>they pushed out this patch as a direct response to the online discourse around voting Random to get classic style of racing instead of the intermission rallies
where's the proof for that?
they could've also just looked at their internal statistics, seen that an unusual amount of people vote random, seen that random didn't work as intended and corrected their mistake without realizing the consequences.
i'm not saying they aren't retarded and you are wrong. but how does anyone know why they did what they did without more time passing to actually see their next step or lack there of.

>>713805817
>they could've also just looked at their internal statistics
Exactly what they did
>seen that an unusual amount of people vote random, seen that random didn't work as intended and corrected their mistake without realizing the consequences
Random was working exactly as intended, whether or not Random resulted in a full race on one course or a drive to the course itself depended on how close the Random course was to the other ones offered, they made it so Randon is more likely to pick nearby courses resulting in a rally race. Their mistake was not making rallies engaging enough to not feel repetitive or skill-based enough to not strongly reward the strategy of just hanging back and hoarding Power Items until the last stretch of the race.

>>713805817
they are not blind to online discourse. even the japs were asking for a separate track-only queue

dlc will fix it

will the jap tendies bend the knee?