if you were dumb enough to buy a switch surely you're also dumb enough to buy mario kart 8 again
but who cares, D E F E N I T I V E M A R I O K A R T E X P E R I E N C E
i wonder if nintendo will make another mario kart again tbh
anyway who's ready TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Please call it by its proper trademarked name.
I won't warn you again.
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I never bought a Wii U so I can feel superior getting content worth $100 in 2014 for $48 woo
Plus playing it with gf will be coo
It's worth it for Boo
yeah but now you can't play mk8 with us though :'(
who's us, i'm buying this shit again bitch fuck that wii u baby shit IM AN ADULT
tho im leaving the country friday and wont be back to play this til wednesday dangit
You guys are leaving us poor Wii U suckers behind. Just like Nintendo did in 2015. :(
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on April 26, 2017, 07:35:17 AM
yeah but now you can't play mk8 with us though :'(
I will always be sad about that :(
But it was probably more fun for everyone without me winning all the time toothdood;
(Buy it again on switch pls)
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 26, 2017, 07:49:27 AM
who's us, i'm buying this shit again bitch fuck that wii u baby shit IM AN ADULT
tho im leaving the country friday and wont be back to play this til wednesday dangit
noiceeee let's play sometimes while drinking brewskis across the world
>buying a Nintendo sBitch™
Fool me once, YPR. Q('_' Q)
i'll probably get it as soon as there's some kind of discount available besides amazon prime, since i don't have any money right now lol
I'm the greatest kind of sucker for Nintendo products
So I have a Switch and bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tonight, even though I already have a Wii U with MK8 and all the DLC. Even worse, I got the digital version sillydood;
I just finished the 50cc grand prix with every cup. It's a lot more overwhelming to have all the DLC and updates included. At launch for MK8, perfect Grand Prix completion meant at least 128 races (8 cups * 4 tracks/cup * 4 engine modes) and only later did the final number end up at 240 races (12 cups * 4 tracks/cup * 5 engine modes).
Between adding the Boo item and giving you two item slots without the ability to swap them, I think it'll be quite a bit harder to stay in first place in this game than it was in the original. Your foes will be getting more red shells and lightnings than ever while the leader just gets more coins and can't consume one to make space without first ditching the good item which might disappear on its own anyway thanks to the boos and lightning.
I'm sure I'll play it with my friend next time she visits, though not too much since she's not super into mario kart or other racing games.
Yeah I wasn't too thrilled they brought back the double item boxes. Yay more blue shells........... ..
Quote from: YPargh on April 28, 2017, 07:14:04 AM
Yeah I wasn't too thrilled they brought back the double item boxes. Yay more blue shells........... ..
imo the lightnings are more annoying than blue shells now
I seem to get hit by lightning a lot more in this game than I was on the Wii U version, like almost once per lap on average, and it makes me drop both my items and be vulnerable to an impending red shell that just happens to be chasing me awdood;
but since I'm starting with the easier/slower grand prix difficulties, I can get hit with a blue shell followed by a red shell, a blooper, a lightning, and then another red shell all in a row and still be in first place n_n
...I had that exact scenario happen last night in 50cc.
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 04:08:17 PM
Quote from: YPargh on April 28, 2017, 07:14:04 AM
Yeah I wasn't too thrilled they brought back the double item boxes. Yay more blue shells........... ..
imo the lightnings are more annoying than blue shells now
I seem to get hit by lightning a lot more in this game than I was on the Wii U version, like almost once per lap on average, and it makes me drop both my items and be vulnerable to an impending red shell that just happens to be chasing me awdood;
but since I'm starting with the easier/slower grand prix difficulties, I can get hit with a blue shell followed by a red shell, a blooper, a lightning, and then another red shell all in a row and still be in first place n_n
...I had that exact scenario happen last night in 50cc.
That's the kind of crap that made me want to throw my 3ds across the room when I was trying to 3 star all the mirror mode cups n_n
oh yeah, I forgot that clearing 150cc gives you free trophies in 50cc and 100cc
so I guess playing 50cc last night was pointless, other than giving me coins for the vehicle unlocks sillydood;
This is the first time I have ever felt rumble while playing a Mario Kart game. I don't think I even realized the series uses rumble until today.
I never had an N64 Rumble Pak, I played Double Dash and Mario Kart Wii exclusively with the Wavebird, and I played Mario Kart 8 (U) exclusively with the Wii U Pro Controller. Switch's Pro Controller, in contrast, is the first time Nintendo's best controller for the generation actually supports rumble.
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 09:10:41 PM
This is the first time I have ever felt rumble while playing a Mario Kart game. I don't think I even realized the series uses rumble until today.
I never had an N64 Rumble Pak, I played Double Dash and Mario Kart Wii exclusively with the Wavebird, and I played Mario Kart 8 (U) exclusively with the Wii U Pro Controller. Switch's Pro Controller, in contrast, is the first time Nintendo's best controller for the generation actually supports rumble.
now you are officially a gamer
I had a customer ask me if he had to buy another set of joycons to play multiplayer in this.
I would HOPE you can use one of the systems defining features of splitting the joycons, to play the systems defining multiplayer port.
Man, you'd think that with all this Mario Kart promotion stuff going on at target, that Nintendo came out with a NEW mario kart game
Quote from: Big Goop on April 30, 2017, 06:56:11 AM
Man, you'd think that with all this Mario Kart promotion stuff going on at target, that Nintendo came out with a NEW mario kart game
It is NEW
in the same sense as New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 2DS XL, and New Super Mario Bros hocuspocus;
Quote from: bluaki on April 30, 2017, 10:27:19 PM
Quote from: Big Goop on April 30, 2017, 06:56:11 AM
Man, you'd think that with all this Mario Kart promotion stuff going on at target, that Nintendo came out with a NEW mario kart game
It is NEW
in the same sense as New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 2DS XL, and New Super Mario Bros hocuspocus;
yeah, "new."
The quotes are Nintendo's new marketing strategy
It's always the damn 3rd race in mirror and 200 where I get gangbanged right before the finish line. Every time I have a squeaker box I get hit by lightning right before the blue shell hits madood;
item balance in this one seems weird. like it's not like MKWii levels of terrible, but it seems more off than MK8 vanill was. probably has a lot to do with double item boxes tho. i seem to get pelted with red shells every fucking 10 seconds
this game is funzo i hope nintendo uses it as a platform and releases some more DLC track packs
honestly port every level from DS cuz that one had the best levels if we are being honest
Quote from: C.Mongler on May 05, 2017, 07:09:03 AM
DS cuz that one had the best levels if we are being honest
we are
waluigi pinball is the best racing course nintendo has ever made across any of their racing game titles
THAT
FUCKIN'
THEME
[youtube]TXglv5LIMZs[/youtube]
(i literally just realized wario stadium shares this music lmfao, but that's okay because that's probably the second best course nintendo has ever made)
fuckkkk i want a switch now
no you do not
Quote from: C.Mongler on May 05, 2017, 07:26:37 AM
waluigi pinball is the best racing course nintendo has ever made across any of their racing game titles
THAT
FUCKIN'
THEME
[spoiler][youtube]TXglv5LIMZs[/youtube][/spoiler]
(i literally just realized wario stadium shares this music lmfao, but that's okay because that's probably the second best course nintendo has ever made)
it really is amazing
and the mario kart 8 remix does
not do it justice
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt01mBZd-hY[/youtube]
it's just so weak in comparison to the original, and the main melody has been significantly simplified awdood;
Quote from: C.Mongler on May 05, 2017, 07:26:37 AM
(i literally just realized wario stadium shares this music lmfao, but that's okay because that's probably the second best course nintendo has ever made)
and wario stadium sucks because it doesn't live up to its music at all
i've always been disappointed when i end up wario stadium because it just reminds me that i could be in waluigi pinball
i can't triple gold star 150cc special cup for the fucking life of me god dammit i almost threw my switch into a wall last night
making a single mistake in lap 3 of bowser's castle or rainbow road leads to you getting cucked by items and finishing in 7th place its the biggest dick in the ass GOD DAMMIT i just want to add this shit to my 'done' list
does 8===D have 200cc mode like the original mk8 does
yeah but i consider that a meme mode more than anything as it was clearly an afterthought and some courses (lookin at you neo bowser) are a god damn cluster fuck trying to play or even have fun on in 200cc
ive gotten gold cups on most 200 cc's but trying to triple gold star every cup on 200cc seems like a fucking nightmare that i dont want to have
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on May 04, 2015, 10:18:39 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/lnTlXu0.jpg)
5thgrade;
also til you can brake while drifting lol goowan
lmao you're a fucking mad man m8
you did that without knowing you could brake & drift? how in the fuck lol
i didn't realize that until i was all the way in 200cc neo bowser city
so i had three-star gilded the other 44 tracks without knowing that's it's possible to brake during a drift lol
but it probably would have been a lot easier to perfect the other courses if i had known that sillydood;
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 02:23:54 AM
Between adding the Boo item and giving you two item slots without the ability to swap them, I think it'll be quite a bit harder to stay in first place in this game than it was in the original.
did this turn out to be true, by the way
i would have expected those changes to make staying in first significantly easier, actually
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 09:10:41 PM
This is the first time I have ever felt rumble while playing a Mario Kart game. I don't think I even realized the series uses rumble until today.
simply enlightening, isn't it
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on July 08, 2017, 04:12:56 PM
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 02:23:54 AM
Between adding the Boo item and giving you two item slots without the ability to swap them, I think it'll be quite a bit harder to stay in first place in this game than it was in the original.
did this turn out to be true, by the way
i would have expected those changes to make staying in first significantly easier, actually
Quote from: bluaki on April 28, 2017, 09:10:41 PM
This is the first time I have ever felt rumble while playing a Mario Kart game. I don't think I even realized the series uses rumble until today.
simply enlightening, isn't it
Having 2 item slot isnt that useful when odds are very high one will end up being a coin and the other green shell/banana (or more rarely squeakybox or bomb). Meanwhile people behind you have greater odds of getting blue shells, lightning, red shells, triple red shells that will fuck you up
So does it actually make first place less safe in MK8D? befuddlement
Quote from: YPargh on July 09, 2017, 02:47:42 PMand the other green shell/banana
but now you can use this to defend yourself, and in fact you have 2x the odds of getting an item that can be used defensively
in original mk8, you were limited to one item, and if it was a coin, then touch luck until the next item box, and god help you if you're in first by a small margin
First place is far far FAR less safe in MK8D. If you are in first, there's something like a 70%+ chance one of your items will always be a coin. The other item is typically a banana, which isn't a perfect defensive item (i.e. you can still get hit by angled shells). Green shell is like 50%.
The problem isn't really what items you get though, it's what other people get. Now people in 8th place have twice the opportunity to get GLOBAL item destruction items (lightning bolt and Boo). So you can't really hold on to your items to use defensively for more than half a lap in most cases. Got lucky with the 5% chance of getting a super horn? well tough shit some dude just got a lightning bolt and now it's gone. oh, and now the guy behind you got a triple red shell and then ANOTHEr red shell ontop of that. oh and there was already a blue shell on its way. OH and now you're in 15th.
i mean its still fine for the most part, like it's not horse shitting god fucking awful like MKWii was (that game is unplayble IMO), but it makes winning a race a lot more of a chore in RNG (and smart RNG maniupulation) than it was in the Wii U version IMO. Best strat is to coast 1000-2000 mario kart units behind the race leader and stack up a god tier of items and then get to first within the last lap of the race. which has kind of always been the case but there's just so many items being fired off all the time now lol
Ya what Cmongler said. I've figured out if you keep your coin and don't use it the odds of your second item also being a coin are pretty low. So I try to hold onto it until the next boxes if I didn't get a double box and then I'll use it after getting a shell/naner
But yeah like cmong said the problem is that lightning and boos jack your shit and blue shells can only reliably be stopped with the horn. Once you're hit you're a sitting duck and everyone behind you piles on with their items
Yeah I've used that strat too, seems to work p well. I think Boo should be removed from the game entirely lol, or at least be set to only take a higher tier of items and/or never items from the first place guy. Lightning bolt should be nerfed too, but idk how; i guess a lower spawn rate. honestly i wouldnt cry too much if it was removed too lol theres a ton more ways to get into first now and it is kind of a relic of MK64 when if you were in last lightning bolt was your only chance of salvation; i think bullet bill does a better job
people who whine about blue shell are losers, they spawn super infrequently and there's plenty of strats to avoid/negate the damage (i always toss myself off the course in the nick of time cuz latiku has a slightly faster reset time than blue shell explosion, i think lol). i just think it should have a wider hitbox or make more of an effort to hit other players besides just the first place person because it rarely ever hits anyone else on it's flight path. but i think its a decent control from giving the race leader too much of an insurmountable lead; after a certain distance red shells literally can't do anything because there's too much of a chance to collect defensives and/or course obstacles they could hit, lightning bolt affects the entire race so it's gap close net sum is negligble, blooper obviously is shit, and anything else is pure fucking luck that relies on 1st place to be a dumbass
on the note of blooper too, what the fuck is that item??? its super counterintutive and should never be in another mario kart game lol. its a worse item than a coin, and it ONLY affects noob players. everyone else has courses down to muscles memory, and can drive with a giant ink cock on their screen anyway. da fuck nintendo
Nah I've been hit by 3 blue shells in the same bloody lap.
The strats are all out of your hands requiring items or to be near a ledge. Or have second place be close enough to pass and dumb enough not to also hit their brakes. Fuck blue shells
I would prefer to race no items fox only final destination if possible :|
i've seen three blue shells in one race a single time in the entirety of playing mario kart 8 lol; you would have to have been riding in the sweet spot distance gap for a while to get those sort of odds for a single lap
almost every course has easily accessible ledges/out-of-bounds access. it's not guaranteed sure, but it's an option more often than not from what i've experienced as long as you're paying attention to what items are out on the playing field
i wouldn't mind that being an option but it'd probably be just as broken as mario kart with items tbh lol
basically you would have to all be near equal skill levels to have a chance of winning, and then the winner would be determined by who fucked up the least after that lol. but i guess tis how it goes with traditional racers, but i wouldn't know i really only play mario kart. I would say such a mode should include 3 mushrooms per racer for maximum strats.
my one wish is for nintendo to just bring back snaking that shit was silly but it was fun lol
Well you dont even 200cc bro douchedood;
I don't agree that the player who messes up the least winning is "broken" that sounds like the logical conclusion to me lol. But ofc Mario kart is a party game that's meant to give everyone a chance and i get that. Doesn't make me any less infuriated when I lose lol
i mean then play forza if ya wanna play forza
and i still contest 200cc is a meme but i play it online regularly lol
200cc in original mk8 is gr8
but it sounds like it'd be an absolute nightmare in 8D myface;
Quote from: C.Mongler on July 10, 2017, 11:42:23 AM
i mean then play forza if ya wanna play forza
and i still contest 200cc is a meme but i play it online regularly lol
real cars are boring and I suck at the controls I want pretty colors to fulfill my childish wants and needs
We should play for boyah championship of the world
Quote from: YPargh on July 10, 2017, 12:00:03 PM
real cars are boring and I suck at the controls I want pretty colors to fulfill my childish wants and needs
this is the truth
now if only mk8 and mk8d were cross-compatible online :'(
the new cops 'n' robbers battle mode is fun
Quote from: YPargh on July 09, 2017, 02:47:42 PM
Having 2 item slot isnt that useful when odds are very high one will end up being a coin and the other green shell/banana (or more rarely squeakybox or bomb). Meanwhile people behind you have greater odds of getting blue shells, lightning, red shells, triple red shells that will fuck you up
Adding to this, not being able to swap them (unlike Double Dash) is a big deal.
If you're holding onto one shell, then you run into an item block, you'll probably get a coin in the second slot. If you hit a double item box, you'll usually get one coin, and it'll be in the second slot half the time. You can't toss/consume the item in the second slot without losing your first item too.
If you really want two defensive items, you can risk it by tossing both and re-rolling at the next double item box. If you don't, someone in second place might have 2 red shells at once, or a Boo might steal your shell.
Even with double item boxes, occasionally you'll get zero defensive items thanks to Coin+Bomb.
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on July 10, 2017, 11:44:04 AM
200cc in original mk8 is gr8
but it sounds like it'd be an absolute nightmare in 8D myface;
Why would anything MK8D changed make 200cc in particular harder?
The AI is pretty much the same level of challenge in both 150cc and 200cc, so the item changes are equally significant in both.
Quote from: Majorana's Mask on July 10, 2017, 12:18:16 PM
now if only mk8 and mk8d were cross-compatible online :'(
MK8 isn't even cross-compatible with itself online iirc. DLC owners play with other DLC owners.
just popping in to say mk8 is still the best, tbqhwyb
It's right up there with Mario Kart DS. wub;
[spoiler]
how's """deluxe""" tho ugly;[/spoiler]
Deluxe is just 8 + DLC but as a base game. It's great. I compltely agree with your post. 8 > DS > DD > who cares
get deluxe and play with us tec