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This is the first Mario Kart with an Anti-Blue Shell item right? E: Yep, and what a welcome addition. GOTY
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Technically in some of the other games you could avoid the blue shell by using a mushroom (or otherwise boosting) right before it hit you to outrun the explosion. It required super precise timing so it wasn't very practical, but it was awesome as hell 
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May 8, 2014 13:15
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Is anyone buying a Wii U for this game?
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bonzibuddy64 posted:I'd buy a Kong-themed DLC pack with some Kongo Bongo tracks and Diddy & Funky as racers in a heartbeat Except Kongo Bongo was from the DKC cartoon series. What I mean to say is, that DLC would be rad as all hell.
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Holy moly, that sky track looks amazing. At first it was like "oh eh, just some clouds and bowser air fleet, seen that before". And then the cannon shoots you into a spiral and you end up inside a storm cloud and it's pouring and there's lightning. Then you get out of the cloud and the giant beanstalk that's been in all the trailers is actually coming out of a giant "?" block! That's so cool! edit: Oh wow is Mount Wario all one big long downhill track? So each lap is different? Macaluso fucked around with this message at 13:51 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 13:32
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Shall we compile a group of people's Wii U username? That way we can have a solid group of goons to play with on day one.
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Macaluso posted:Holy moly, that sky track looks amazing. At first it was like "oh eh, just some clouds and bowser air fleet, seen that before". And then the cannon shoots you into a spiral and you end up inside a storm cloud and it's pouring and there's lightning. Then you get out of the cloud and the giant beanstalk that's been in all the trailers is actually coming out of a giant "?" block! That's so cool! Yep. Starting from a cargo plane, you go aaaaall the way down to the finish line - your character even gets to actually stop and turn once the race is done. Rather than driving on till you hit next track.
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May 8, 2014 14:08
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The_Frag_Man posted:Is anyone buying a Wii U for this game? Not just this game, but the trailer a few weeks back finally pushed me over the edge.
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Champeenship posted:Except Kongo Bongo was from the DKC cartoon series. Metal Bluster Kong in MK8  Also, OP, you should also mention that Europe gets two more MK8 bundles, one with the Blue Shell and the other which is a Luigi-version of the Mario-themed Wii U-bundle.
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Endorph posted:The power-ups were what I loved about the Sonic racer. The bee thing was loving amazing - it harried the person in first a little without just loving them over like the Blue Shell does, and it affects everyone in the front of the pack, not just the dude in the lead. It could feasibly lead to the person in last place coming in from behind, as opposed to the person in last place arbitrarily letting the person in second win. I honestly sort of hate Transformed. I'm probably too taken in by Mario Kart to the point that it clouds my judgement, but the vagueness of the items, the way that the handling felt more like you were controlling the character control the kart then you were the kart itself, and how everytime I got to play a new course meant bumbling around for the first playthrough, because with the courses changing so dramatically, there were times i'd have no idea where I was supposed to go, I was really soured on the game itself.
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May 8, 2014 16:31
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The_Frag_Man posted:Is anyone buying a Wii U for this game? I bought mine a couple months ago specifically because I knew this was coming. I was curious about other games but with no MK8 I wouldn't have had much interest. MKWii is among my favorite games ever.
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Endorph posted:It could feasibly lead to the person in last place coming in from behind Not really. They should have been more aggressive with that powerup. I feel like no battle racers out there seem to really get that balance between annoying rubberbanding and actually keeping first place engaged with the rest of the pack. Too many times i felt like first place was just playing a single player game by the time we hit the second lap. I remember when playing the blur beta, it was a bit better - you knew the powerups coming up, and you all could choose to use the bee / blue shell equivalent (which was more challenging and stacked up well with multiple people using it). And all the other weapons were designed with offensive and defensive uses! moron izzard fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 18:34
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Sonic Transformed's enormous campaign mode with full co-op is something I really wish the Mario Kart series would duplicate. I don't like that Mario Kart separates the modes that let you unlock things from the modes where you can play with other people. Still getting this game though because of the 2-for-1 deal. I've been meaning to pick up Pikmin 3 since I got a Wii U.
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May 8, 2014 18:39
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The_Frag_Man posted:Is anyone buying a Wii U for this game? Yes. I don't have one now and will probably ice out the bundle as soon as it is available. MK wii was like the only thing I ever played seriously on my wii.
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May 8, 2014 18:44
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Aw yeah, Amazon Germany is getting this beauty as an exclusive. Lucky for me, that includes Amazon Austria. 
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:Sonic Transformed's enormous campaign mode with full co-op is something I really wish the Mario Kart series would duplicate. I don't like that Mario Kart separates the modes that let you unlock things from the modes where you can play with other people. Grand Prix allows 4-players this time, I'm not sure if multiplayer Grand Prix unlocks stuff, though it probably does. No idea if characters stay unlocked across all profiles on the system, though. horriblePencilist posted:Aw yeah, Amazon Germany is getting this beauty as an exclusive. Wow, that's nice. I'm still annoyed that NoA went through the trouble of giving Mario Kart 8's US release a red case but not bothering to make the blue Wii U banner at the top red to match, like New Super Luigi U does with its green case and Japanese mature titles do with their black cases. I'm gonna have to do some photoshop when a good clean scan of the entire US cover art shows up online. Truxton fucked around with this message at 19:15 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 19:09
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There'll be a limited edition featuring a Blue Shell-figure exclusively at Nintendo World!
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horriblePencilist posted:There'll be a limited edition featuring a Blue Shell-figure exclusively at Nintendo World! Just don't put it next to your airhorn.
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May 8, 2014 20:19
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So as someone who has played Mario Kart 64 a lot, and the other Mario Karts not that much (I had the DS one for a while when it first came out and that's it) and stuck with Toad/Peach/Yoshi, what are the advantages to going with like Bowser or Wario? As characters I love them, but they just felt slow and sluggish and never really used them.
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The heavier characters have slower acceleration but higher top speed. In the newer games anyway, 64 was kinda weird. Mario and Luigi actually had the slowest acceleration in that game.
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I used to wreck poo poo with Bowser in Double Dash. You have to be more careful planning out your turns because if you crash into a wall or something it'll take you a while to get back up to speed but if you're playing well you can completely outpace everyone.
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I've had my Wii U turned off for months now...bought it at launch  Now there will finally be a reason the actually hook the thing up. So far this looks fairly awesome.
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The Taint Reaper posted:You're going to lose a shitload of races then online. They made him the worst possible character choice(again). Explain this bullshit.
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Macaluso posted:So as someone who has played Mario Kart 64 a lot, and the other Mario Karts not that much (I had the DS one for a while when it first came out and that's it) and stuck with Toad/Peach/Yoshi, what are the advantages to going with like Bowser or Wario? As characters I love them, but they just felt slow and sluggish and never really used them. This post just brought to mind an old memory that's relevant to Mario Kart 64. I can remember entering a Nintendo Power contest where you had to try to set the best time with Yoshi on one of the tracks. Man, I must've raced that thing 400 times and even though I thought I had a really great time, it was way slower than the winning times. Come to think of it, I probably haven't played a Mario Kart game extensively since 64. I definitely played Double Dash a bunch of times with other people, but not nearly as much as I've played 64. Really looking forward to the new game. Waluigi better not be as lovely as everyone is saying. He's got that spindly racer's body, he should be pro tier.
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Wow the soundtrack for this game is really fantastic.
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The Crotch posted:Explain this bullshit. About character stats: Link in case some people don't want to know for whatever reason. Basically, there are 7 weight classes. Grip, Handling and Acceleration are highest for lighter characters and Speed and Weight for Heavier characters. No idea if this makes Waluigi (along with Rosalina, Roy and Donkey Kong) horrible. They at least seem better then the Metal Racers (Weight gain with loss of acceleration and grip compared to the Waluigi Class). They were calculated based off of Kart stats people were posting for Standard Kart/Wheels/Glider. pichupal fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 9, 2014 |
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I dunno, a lot of the new tracks seem to miss the point of anti-gravity stuff. The advantages it brings are in stuff like, you know, driving in a cave amongst stalactites and avoiding holes in the ceiling, or driving on the buildings to the side of a busy downtown avenue, or driving along a crazily angled pipe or something. But here it's usually just random ribbons of racetrack stuck everywhere for no real reason, or an otherwise regular set of terrain bent at a 90 degree angle. The result is that most of them don't have much of a feeling of spatial awareness and like, progressing through a distinct area, and more like an F-Zero track where the setting is more of a skybox than an environment that has influence on the features of the track itself. Toad Harbor, Shy Guy Falls, Dolphin Shoals, and Mount Wario avoid that kind of thing because the anti-gravity sections make sense to be anti-gravity and use them to do interesting things, and Toad's Turnpike applies that well to the retro tracks, but all the rest sorta fall flat in my opinion. The new Rainbow Road in particular, the space station angle is kinda neat? But more definitely should have been done with it, and it looks unambitious and easy compared the the previous long and challenging ones in 7 and Wii. ...also why Pink Gold Peach and Baby Rosalina and not...i dunno, Dry Bowser and Dry Bones?
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The_Frag_Man posted:Is anyone buying a Wii U for this game? Yep, bought it first week of April.
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Timall posted:I definitely think we should organise some goon tournaments for weekends. Maybe some at different times to account for time zones. I had a blast playing MK7 with goons and this game looks amazing. Rule 1) No one can play as Waluigi, since everyone wants to play as Waluigi Rule 2) One goon per character Rule 3) 100cc Rule 4) Defending champion chooses courses
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CaptainYesterday posted:Rule 1) No one can play as Waluigi, since everyone wants to play as Waluigi 100cc? Hahaha. No using blue shells, either? Also, why would anyone want to play as Waluigi?
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pichupal posted:About character stats: Glad it's been explored this much. Happy to stay with Waluigi.
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May 9, 2014 01:07
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FINALLY, a reason to get a WiiU. can't wait for this
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Does this support any co op campaign? Also private second screen player two? As if any response will stop me from getting this.
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Junkie Disease posted:Does this support any co op campaign? Also private second screen player two? As if any response will stop me from getting this. You can play the grand prix with four people and online with two. No private second screen player two. Stubear St. Pierre posted:FINALLY, a reason to get a WiiU. can't wait for this If anyone is going to pick up a Wii U for this, there's a really good deal on refurbished 32GB Deluxes w/ Nintendo Land for $200 on Nintendo's store.
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SeANMcBAY posted:If anyone is going to pick up a Wii U for this, there's a really good deal on refurbished 32GB Deluxes w/ Nintendo Land for $200 on Nintendo's store.
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SeANMcBAY posted:You can play the grand prix with four people and online with two. No private second screen player two. well shiiit. At least the 2 player doesn't turn the world into pea soup.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Here's what the phone app is going to look like: So this app is pretty much "We want to do this with Smash Bros but we're new at it so we're testing it out on the one other game we make that people play online," right?
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A new game mode has been added to the Custom Track mod for MKWii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N732P9bQaq8 I figured it was worth sharing, it basically combines battle mode with racing. This guy's also looking into creating replica servers to keep MKWii and custom tracks online
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