Thread 714215437

Is the new mario kart worth the 80 dollars?

I don't value games by hours of content vs money spent.
But in terms of how good the game is overall? I'd say it's worth 49,99 dollars only.

>>714215437 (OP)
No but it was definitely worth the $50
I'm hoping updates will fix highways being 75% of online, and the Kamek unlock system which is pure AIDS

>>714215437 (OP)
I got it for $50 because I’m not a physical tard with multiplayer games

Racing with baby Rosalina!

No lol korok seed tier missions and long stretches of nothing getting in the way of the actual good courses

If /v/eekends last the life of the game then yeah

>>714215437 (OP)
>lust provoking image

>>714215437 (OP)
What does this look mean?

>>714215932
baby fuck

>>714215437 (OP)
yea

thoughts?

>>714215437 (OP)
Absolutely not. It wasn't at launch and it especially wasn't when Nintendo "updated" specifically to shit on everyone playing it the "wrong" way.

Yeah

>>714219058
Boo Cinema is the only memorable track.

>>714215437 (OP)
>>714215745
>>714219310
ok but seriously why do the babies have makeup

>>714219058
Raise up DK Pass and Choco Mountain to B
Raise up Crown City to and Moo Moo Meadows to C
Lower Starview Peak to F

>>714219408
It has amazing theming but it doesn't really utilize rail-grinding at all and doesn't really have any big shortcuts

>>714219058
rainbow road is only s because its intermission is basically the same but otherwise i think its C tier. wario stadium can probably bump up to A. koopa beach should go to F for being not only bad but also the worst intermission track

>can't 3 star the first rally
what the fuck am i doing wrong? I've been trying to 3 star this shit for hours and it keeps giving me 2 stars.

>>714219643
anon that tier list has nothing to do with intermissions.

>>714219676
what are the stars even based on in knockout? how many checkpoints you were 1st place at?

>Baby Daisy
>Mach Rocket
>Whistlestop Summit
Yep, it's gaming time.

Good
>Soundtrack, you pay for a $80 Mario jazz album that comes with a free game
>visuals, the game looks extremely clean and time of day/spectacle is really locked down
>Daisy's ass
>Knockout Tour, conceptually
>classic lap tracks are designed with a lot of care and love with tons of options for shortcuts and tricks
Bad
>open world is disappointing bare minimum mechanically, p-switch missions are alright but having to hunt them with no ingame tracker or map is just atrocious padding, the kinds of challenges they offer could just be offered from a menu and they'd be more fun
>classic Grand Prix mode is not available in any form, you are FORCED to run intermission routes which are incredibly boring by design
>there's only seven fixed Knockout Tours online which makes them really stale

I would say skip unless you really love Mario Kart or can get the bundle relatively cheap

>>714220696

You need first place in all races.

>>714221573
Oh that's fucking bullshit. Ugh even mario kart wii 3 stars wasn't this bullshit.....often

>>714219310
Holy shit how is Twitter reacting to this one?

>>714219058
The water part in RR ruins it

>>714222825
I like the water section :(. That part of the map is really strange though. Like It was made with free roam in mind but you can't explore the area at all.

>>714221404
>there's only seven fixed Knockout Tours online which makes them really stale
They really should let us make custom tours, it's almost absurd how little additional effort it would take for it to be implemented since the game already has a shit ton of connecting paths between different tracks.

>>714224204
they're probably saving that for the DLC like every other feature they left out

Should I join the lounge or no

It's a given this game is getting dlc. That aside, what's everyone's hopes/expectations for the dlc?

>>714226545
DK island and Crocodile isle feel like they will happen with at the very least more outfits for DK and Pauline.

would like them to add only mario adjacent crossovers from there like warioware daimond city and yoshis island/dinosaur land

>>714226545
>It's a given this game is getting dlc.
I sure hope so, but Nintendo can be really retarded when it comes to DLC, I was sure TOTK would get something specially because they didn't include the master mode on the base game and it never happened

>>714226545
Swimsuits for all the girls.

>>714226545
Custom tracks, it's a fucking waste of an open world to not allow you to create routes and make custom tracks, specially when the game already has a system of dropping NPCs for an impromptu race with some of the P button missions, even better if those can be used online

>>714215437 (OP)
stop being poor, go and play mario kart advance in your emulator

>>714226873
maybe custom KO tours. track builder feels like it would be a waste of time to make at this point, but i could see something like mario kart maker in the future as a gimmick

>>714226780
There's the obvious answer of adding new tracks. No idea how they would be implemented though. A new island separate from the main one perhaps?
>>714226873
For love of god this. The potential for that is absolutely there

>>714226545
I want Samus as a guest character and she should be comically large and another heavyweight character

>>714227292
>track builder
Actually I was thinking of something way more simple than just, pretty much the same system of home circuit where you can drive a certain distance and it becomes a track, make it so if you close the loop it becomes a 3 lap one or you can just never close it and it becomes a segment one

For me it's bowser jr in the billdozer

>>714215437 (OP)
Worth the $50 for my machine. It's a game I always default back to between games I am playing so yes. /v/eekends and playing with friends is keeping the game alive for me. Not only that but the single player content is pretty fun to dig into.

>>714219058
my opinion hasnt changed much other than moomoo & desert hills are meme tier and spaceport at the bottom of decent

What I don't get is why the hell is there no knockout tour that ends with rainbow road?

>>714229924
I feel like it was the case that in execution it didn’t work well. Rainbow road is a massive course and if it’s the last leg of a knockout tour it would probably be boring driving that entire thing with only 4 racers. Could turn each segment into a checkpoint but then it’d be pretty boring with it only consisting of mario circuit, moo moo meadows, peach stadium, then the whole of rainbow road

>>714228390
Yep just like this, or I'll even take ZSS but keep her big and a heavy weight

>>714226481
Yes

>>714229924
RR alone is like 5 minutes long

>>714230460
>>714231809
>Too long
Yeah, I guess that makes sense. RR wouldn't really "flow" very well with how knockout tour is currently set up

The hate for connected tracks feels forced

>>714226545
Robo DK. the model already exists so why not? Give him the rainbow road train. Hell throw in the trex too if they can make it work.

It's a priceless work of art.

>>714232897
>DK outfits
You vill buy ze Amiibo, gaijin

>>714215437 (OP)
I hate when they waste slots on the faggot babies, do nippon really?

>>714233186
I mean as a separate character not a DK skin.
>amiibo
do those even work in this? Not like miis are around

>>714233281
>Baby Mario and Luigi have been veterans for 22 years
>Baby Peach and Daisy 17 years
>Baby Rosalina for 11 years

Let it fucking go.

Ichiban!

>>714234230
doesn’t change the fact no casual gamer gives a shit about them

Daisy's voice in this cute. It's still spunky but not ear shattering annoyingly loud like it used to be.

>>714215437 (OP)
>worth the 80 dollars?
What is the worth of anything? Are you worth $80? Would Nintendo pay $80 for you?

Hahaha okay so you guys aren't actually into babies right? They are like barely a year old. This is a funny joke right? Hahaha

>>714234906
My opinion of the babies goes no further than them being cute.

>>714234958
Seconding this. Just look at how cute and expressive they are in this game

>>714229420
link?

How come toddlercons get 99999 babus and we hebekings only get the inkling girl
Unfair

>>714215437 (OP)
BABY SEX

>>714229924
Why did they give black leggings to this baby? That's sexy as fuck, it's crazy.

>>714235378
That's how it is in this bitch of a world.
>>714215437 (OP)
>>714229924
Don't look at me like that!

>>714235631
Too late anon. Too late

>>714215437 (OP)
Had the most fun here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmnlHkcLcl0&list=RDfmnlHkcLcl0&start_radio=1

>>714227701
This is mario kart not nintendo kart. You had your chance in 8.

what went wrong with 8's rainbow road

>>714237319
You see them there, Toads. Toads fucked with space and ruined Rainbow Road's mystique by shoving space junk up there.

>>714237576
That does put the "rainbow road appears after a long absence" thing in world in new context. A new original rainbow road didn't magically manifest itself in 8 so they had to make one themselves.

>tfw Rainbow Road's special final lap jingle plays on your descent back to Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5K6104Yns0

>>714238090
Would mean it was 14 years since rainbow road appeared in 7 (assuming the N64 and SNES retro ones don’t count)

>>714239754
The returning ones already existed so them showing up again can be excused. They all kept their magical vibes.
>rainbow space station so uninteresting that Deluxe uses N64 RR instead for the cover

>>714215437 (OP)
>>714240651
To the WINDOOOOOOOOOOOOW, to the Bottom!

How do tendrones get excited for this? Are you children?

>>714240040
N64 rainbow road was designed as the final course and given a big pretty showing as a finale, course they’ll use that as the cover

>>714240651
I don't think anyone disagrees with that. The game's fun but is bogged down by multiple small issues.

>No Tournaments
>No option to play just 3 lap courses offline with random
>No option for just 3 lap courses online or at least one guaranteed 3 lap course
>No MKTV replays
>Character select screen is worse than 8 which had sub menus to cut back on clutter
>Hidden stats are hidden yet again
>Stickers are useless
>there are unique track variants that are stuck behind intermissions or p switch missions
>No stats menu
>No Jukebox menu to listen to the music
>Less battle mode options
>Most intermissions are generally boring
>only 8 or 9 knockout tours
>no randomly generated knockout tours
>no 200cc

>>714222606
git gud

>>714240873
N64 Rainbow Road is boring to race on but it's sure as hell is more visually appealing to look at. I'm surprised world didn't get a retro Rainbow Road. I was really hoping GCN Rainbow Road would get its chance.

>>714241014
For how long this game was in development for, it's insane how lopsided and sometimes even underbaked it feels.

>>714241065
I'm half way there now. I didn't know you had to be in the lead for each checkpoint so I was bagging.

bros what does it mean if I get hard playing as baby peach, daisy, and rosalina?

>>714241169
Good
Remember you just need to beat the highest difficulty (mirror) and all other cups will be cleared too

>>714241101
Another rainbow road would’ve sullied that grand finale feel of the current one if there just so happen to be another
>I was really hoping GCN Rainbow Road would get its chance
If the last few games are anything to go by it would’ve been GBA Rainbow Road, given 7 got SNES and 8 got N64. It’ll be a while before GCN gets its showing

>>714241294
Its AWWWRIGHT!

>>714241014
200cc was not good

>>714241014
>only 8 or 9 knockout tours
So its one of the other? How can't you just fucking count to fucking 8? Oh that's right, your opinion is based on ecelebs instead of playing it yourself.

i do not understand the appeal of knockout tour
my last 3 i've been knocked out at the 8 people cutoff because blue shell

>>714241515
git gud

>>714241386
That's not the point. They added it as an option years ago on wii u, switch, and even tour. No reason it couldn't be in world unless they needed more time for testing.

>>714241101
It's greedy to want it after it was the last course in 8 Deluxe, but I want Wii Rainbow Road back already. It's just unfair to make that remix and not be able to play it whenever you want.

>>714241573
Fucking christ wario is fat

>>714241508
I don't care for knockout tour. It's not my thing. I ignore mario kart youtubers because it's mostly angry clickbait crap.

>>714215437 (OP)
Fuck No!

>>714241707
Seriously not knowing is just 8 track is baffling, like, pants on head retarded, your entire post is instantly disregarded after saying something so stupid like that.

>>714240716
PFFFFFTHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

>>714240651
>>714240716
Crossworlds will get a better score

>>714241774
OK

I paid $50 for it, worth every penny.

>>714241573
why are you in 1 degree place

>>714241858
People should be happy. They finally got smash kart with sonic.

Daisy’s ass is worth every cent

>>714241896
Its some international metric system thing, burgers would never understand

>>714242013
what the FUCK is a kilometer

>>714219676
The knockout thing? You MUST get 1st place in every checkpoint.

>>714242049
Kilo = Thousand
Meter = Insert into anus

This is one of those rare cases where cutting some of the content would have made it better.

Just cut out the open world, the highways, the new characters, the new items, the karts, the old items, the old characters, the courses, the visuals, and anything that responds to controller input.

The soundtrack is worth $80. The game is dog shit.

Anyone else notice a distinct bias towards MK8 in terms of the music remixes? All the other MK games got choice remixes of their most notable tracks and themes, meanwhile 8 got a remix of literally every single one of its tracks and even its fucking theme song. Hell, most of said tracks even got 2 versions
Even outside of that a lot of the other remixed tracks from other MK games were of tracks that were featured in 8 as retro tracks

>>714215437 (OP)
damn 4chan with its 4MB limit

>>714242339
>most sold mario kart gets special attention
not that surprising.

>>714215437 (OP)
yes, the baby characters are banger this time

i solely play baby female characters, especially baby daisy because i like her smug smile

It's up to you. 32 high quality courses and two major game modes to play them in (grand prix and knockout tour). If you're into local or online multiplayer, probably. If you want a single player game wait for Donkey Kong.

>>714242418
Moreso meant in the sense of it being the most recent one

>>714219058
none of the mario kart world maps hold a candle to mario kart 8 deluxe maps like:
wild woods
ticktock clock
wario's gold mine
haunted mansion

it's actually quite disappointing

>>714242454
You forgot about LAN mode

>>714219439
to seduce men

>>714242339
It's probably easier for the Mario Kart Band to work with music originally performed by the Mario Kart Band. And I don't know if it's fair to say they're remixing too many tracks that appeared in 8 when over half the tracks in the series are in 8.

What tracks were you hoping to get remixes of but didn't?

>>714242339
Maybe to make up for having zero retro tracks from 8

>>714242987
Someone will mention sky high sundae but that was a tour track first.There's no logical reason for there being no 8 retros. Can't even say anti gravity because world's Rainbow Road completely defies gravity in the space station and final section

>>714242891
>I don't know if it's fair to say they're remixing too many tracks that appeared in 8 when over half the tracks in the series are in 8
Suppose I should’ve prefaced it by saying what I meant by MK8 tracks would be those from the original 32 + 16 DLC, don’t count the booster pack. That aside I suppose that’s a fair point
>What tracks were you hoping to get remixes of but didn't?
Off the top of my head I can’t really name any specific ones since the few I would’ve liked got them, hell even fucking DS Rainbow Road got a remix, I figured that was forgotten
I guess I would’ve liked a remix of Wii Bowsers Castle, miss when the bowsers castle’s had a foreboding atmosphere. MKWii channel theme would’ve been kino too, love that one

Why the fuck do they bother putting me in a knockout tour room with EIGHT people? Do I look like I'm playing online to race 15 NPCs?

>>714242357
That reminds me, sometimes I love lightning.

Regional racing when? they were comfy in 8 once worldwide became nothing but japanese players teaming.

>>714243878
As far as Bowser's Castle goes, I just wanted them to bring back the leitmotif that originally appeared in Double Dash. It felt like 8 and the Booster Course Pass were intentionally avoiding it.
https://youtu.be/Ju1NYcaB8s4

>>714243270
>There's no logical reason for there being no 8 retros
My guess would be that they figured people would be sick of 8’s tracks after 11 years of them and wanted to go with something more fresh, which I don’t blame them for
>Can't even say anti gravity because world's Rainbow Road completely defies gravity in the space station and final section
To be fair you’re in space so they could probably get away with some of it, and besides functionally you’re still racing relatively normally compared to the anti-grav shenanigans in 8

>>714215437 (OP)
This game isn't worth $70. The open world is fine but gets boring after like 4 hours. The intermissions sucks which is why Nintendo forced it back onto players who dared to pick random so the perceived value of the game seems higher with "200"+ intermissions. Battle mode sucks ass and is a regression in every way since the maps blow and there's only 2 modes. Sandbagging is even WORSE than MK8. The character select menu is needlessly stretched out to include every costume instead of having it be selectable with the character.

>>714243270
There are some tracks that have the anti-grav and/or underwater sections as a huge/significant part of the tracks and would be difficult to re-add without radical changes, if not outright impossible
Sure, Toad Harbor, Sunshine Airport, and Thwomp Ruins would be fine, but others like Shy Guy Falls, Dolphin Shoals, and Electrodrome would pretty much be outright impossible. Hell I don’t even know how you’d reconcile Mount Wario with the section with you driving alongside the dam

>>714244730
Choco Mountain and Wario Stadium are barely even recognizable. They could easily have made little changes to Dolphin Shoals, Electrodrome, or Mount Wario. And they'd have to be making changes anyway, because >>714244260 is the only decent argument against retro tracks from 8.

>>714243970
Most dead console launch yet

>>714240716
Jesus

>>714219439
makeup is hot

>>714245045
Those changes are mostly in regard to their aesthetics, but otherwise for the most part they still play the same. While you could make the case for Mount Wario requiring minimal change something like Electrodrome would require a wario shipyard style overhaul since it has you drive alongside the walls and everything. Dolphin Shoals on the other hand would be outright impossible since shit like the underwater cave would be impossible without the whole thing with the floatier underwater physics for the pipe section and being able to drive on the eel. It’s the one track that I see as impossible to bring back without the underwater segment

No

Knockout tour is cool, but nintendo gimped online random races forcing everyone to race on a stretch for 2 sections to reach their course instead of just making vs races actually fun

We're also missing a lot from MK8DX if you count the DLCs, many have already returned to it post 1.1.2

>>714246015
They already gave Wario's Shipyard a Wario's Shipyard style overhaul. There's nothing stopping them from doing the same for Electrodrome. I'll remind you that this game was in development for 8 years.

I don't think you have to be underwater for Dolphin Shoals to feel like Dolphin Shoals, as long as you're surrounded by water. If there's water below you, and waterfalls to the left and right, it'll feel the same. Those pipes should be shooting out even more water, and the eel… yeah, okay, you'd have to replace the eel.

regular grand prix is a dogshit mode where someone will hold onto lightning until the very end to squirt out a win. knockout is really fun, but the tracks are too limited

>>714234958
I love Baby Peach because she's super cute and her existence is at least justified in her debut game.

I'm neutral about Baby Daisy, she makes no sense but I like her funny dance animation in MKWii.

I don't like Baby Rosalina because she makes no sense, feels like cheap filler and undermines the sanctity of the Mario Galaxy storybook.

I had a dream they added the blue people from Interstella 5555, and the floating stadium where they sing One More Time.

no one knows what im talking about and I'm insane

>>714241014
Don't forget
>sound sliders to deal with engines or want to listen to the music? nah, you have one sound slider

>>714219058
I like rainbow road but it gets tiring after a while. Too long. Whistletop just sucks. Boo Cinema turned out to be a disappointment and what the fuck were they thinking with Desert Hills? I'd rather do an intermission than that boring ass track.

>>714249910
that's not even an obscure music video of course i know what you're talking about

>>714251176
>Whistletop just sucks
You're gonna have to explain because it definitely seems to be the most widely liked track besides ? Ruins.

>>714232437
>The hate for connected tracks feels forced
These tracks encourage the most degenerate passive style of gameplay because nothing else works. You don't want to frontrun because you'll get punished for it but even if you were to frontrun it doesn't matter because you can't do anything to get ahead of the pack on a straight line. There's no skill shortcuts and you won't get any good items. And since you're not punished for going in the back until the lap at the end for 80% of the track nothing matters but holding A.

>>714241573
blue shell dodge animation is a downgrade from 8.

>>714215437 (OP)
>Is the new mario kart worth the 80 dollars?
no

>>714237017
dumb underaged child

ive been playing splatoon 3 more than mario kart, in fact i might buy splatoon 2 and finish that instead of playing mario kart

every time people defend against the complaints about the shit intermissions, they operate entirely on vibes and "well i had fun, shut the fuck up"
no one can refute this

No Diddy Kong nor Funky Kong?

Screw this; I´m sticking to Mario Kart Wii

Still the king

>>714257828
.. of the shittiest game competition

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>>714215437 (OP)
I'm crying from 3 eyes

>>714258034
Fanfic is the worst form of slop imaginable. At least create your own degeneracy.

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