After playing this again, World is sadly better (in terms of gameplay)
Obviously the structure of the online/GP modes in 8DX is better but the gameplay's just so much smoother in World

>>713936280 (OP)
okay

>>713936280 (OP)
World and 8 have nothing on wii though, this is easily the best mario kart and there's no real competition

>>713936280 (OP)
8 was already fucking trash and the game that started all the casualizations? what is your point?

>>713936549
I mean yeah this is also true
Double Dash might be a little better but it has no online

>>713936549
That's correct. 8 removed Wii's Lakitu boosts, reduced hit reactions (hitting walls or especially traffic), removed wheelies, standing turbos, jump drifts, made item boxes respawn instantly so you can no longer tactically steal them, added a bunch of invisible walls to prevent shortcuts, removed items that require skill like the cloud or the tanuki tail, generally made drifting even easier and tracks wider (all those lazy phone tracks), etc.

And just btw. but when people say they love 8 they mean 8 Deluxe which fixed a lot of 8's issues. Wii never got a Deluxe version

Wii pretty much just perfected the formula, gave us fun bikes, a near perfect track selection (new and retro) and the best roster yet). And it didn't force us to play shitty phone tracks

>>713936704
>removed items that require skill like the cloud or the tanuki tail
i think it also removed the fake item box for some stupid reason. these are the kinda items you want in mario kart because there is some kind of strategy involved

>>713936280 (OP)
You didn't have to play World to find that out, 8 was trash even when it came out.

A Mario Kart where bananas spin around you like shells isn't a real Mario Kart.

>>713936549
crazy how a game can be so soulless and soulful at the same time

>>713936975
Sometimes things that are soulless at the time (the Wii's menus) can become soulful later (when the particular corporate artstyle they used goes out of use more generally)

>>713936975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YVhheN8O8

>>713936704
>Wii pretty much just perfected the formula
I actually think 7 did that. Not sure why it gets so much flak.

>>713937176
if i could ask for one pc port with native online it probably would be 7. wii is good but items can be chaotic and frustrating af

>>713937176
because it's boring and slow and gay and doesn't have wheelies

>>713936561
All Mario Kart games are casual. Getting punished for doing well is the opposite of skill.

>>713937298
It's not slower than other MKs and it has some of the windiest tracks with shortcuts and obstacles everywhere. Going back to 8 players probably helped because Nintendo seems to think they have to make tracks wider than a football field when there are more than 8.

>>713936280 (OP)
no its not.

>>713937610
>make huge tracks to support 24 people
>online lobbies don't actually fill up to 24, Knockout fills up with CPUs and Race just goes with ~12
WHAT WAS THE POINT

>>713936280 (OP)
MK8's anti-gravity gimmick is retarded and does nothing but render all verticality in track design pointless. MK needs more vertical tracks and upward mountain trails

It just felt like a graphicsfag game to me and my friend so we dropped it pretty early on

>>713937765
Literally just marketing I'd guess, new flashy thing for the sake of new and flashy.

>>713937298
>wheelies
it doesn't have bikes anon

>>713937805
I'm so glad they got rid of that shit in World [/spoiler]because that makes it easier to recreate World's tracks in Kart Wii! [/spoiler]

>>713936549
>>713936704
wow it's crazy how the best mario kart game just happens to be the one that was popular with kids 15 years ago at any given time

>>713937805
I'm so glad they got rid of that shit in World because that makes it easier to recreate World's tracks in Kart Wii!

>>713938294
>Acting as if the wii isn't good
Name another mario kart or console where you could get literally everyone to enjoy themselves, literal 80 year old dementia patients could play this and it wouldn't take away from the enjoyment from some of the more hardcore players

>>713936280 (OP)
Opposite for me went back to 8DX and I don't want to touch World anymore