[quote="Willsaber"]Mario Kart 7 had golden kart pieces as the ultimate unlockable, and Mario Kart 8 has them too. Having a golden character is [i]FITTING[/i]. This is a good feature.[/quote] It would been fine if it was only that character. But there's already 4 literal Mario clones, which makes it baffling. Does Nintendo have a very specific fetish for recoloured Marios? I really wish that Nintendo would make a skin system for literal clones as like Yoshi and Shy Guy skins.

[quote="Willsaber"]Mario Kart 7 had golden kart pieces as the ultimate unlockable, and Mario Kart 8 has them too. Having a golden character is [i]FITTING[/i]. This is a good feature.[/quote] No, it's [b][i]not.[/i][/b]

I really wonder why they added Gold Mario, but I know the only answer will be to pad out the roster a little more. *sigh* Why couldn't they have replaced some of the useless filler characters with other characters since they have so much time to add these recolors? In other news, five battle modes. They're really making an effort to perfect Battle Mode after their immense screw-up back in 2014. I like-y.

Here I am thinking about how cool playing MK8 on the go is or how fun the new Cops and Robbers mode will be, but meanwhile in this thread [img]http://i.imgur.com/kBUp3kL.png[/img]

When will Tatanga be in Mario kart? Or wart?

i like how people call the other marios "clones" when they have actual different stats from eachother. on a related note i can't see gold mario being any different stat-wise from metal mario so i'd assume he will be a skin for metal mario. if not it really doesn't matter, if you don't like him don't play as him.

i personally just do not see the point of yet another mario in the game, it seems wholly redundant and it's almost a trademark of mario kart at this point to have a lot of redundant characters it's not a detraction from the game, but i just fail to see how it's doing anything good for it either also i never got the argument "don't like them? don't play as them" or its many many variations, like yeah if i ever get the game believe me i probably won't play as gold mario, but it's more about the fact that they're doing this at all that is absurd, even for mario kart's roster standards (it didn't have very good ones to begin with is what i'm saying) complaining about complaining is still complaining :confused:

I wouldn't be against Gold Mario if more characters had outfit options. I mean who wouldn't want to play as Wario Ware Wario? Or Dr Mario? Or Mr L? Personally, Nintendo keeps dropping the ball on outfits and such in their games, Smash Bros would've been great with more characters with alternate costumes.

i agree that i'd love dr. mario or other kinds of outfits, but in the bigger picture there are people who enjoy playing as these characters. they're very few and far between, but characters like pink gold peach and baby rosalina do serve at least some purpose in the grand scheme of things. and by now metal mario's got his own decent following which i don't think anyone would've expected. would i take them over legacy characters like diddy and birdo? no. but they're new characters regardless and by extension options for people who want them. even with that being said we don't know if this is the entire roster or not considering in the one screenshot we've seen of the character roster, there's one space for a hidden character but neither miis nor gold mario were there. so unless gold mario is a skin for metal mario, we could be looking at another row of characters.

[quote="FieryExplosion"]I really wonder why they added Gold Mario, but I know the only answer will be to pad out the roster a little more.[/quote] That's the same argument that people used against Dark Pit back in the day, and it is no more valid than it was back then. If Dark Pit/Gold Mario wasn't in their game, there wouldn't be a different character in their place. The point isn't to pad out the roster, it's to give the player an option to play as this somewhat popular character. Dark Pit/Gold Mario are [i]cool[/i] to many people. Whether or not they are clones is irrelevant. I can definitely understand why some folks want Gold Mario as an alternate costume instead of a dedicated character, though.

Nintendo showed footage of the Battle Modes (that Renegade Roundup mode looks quite interesting to me): [video]https://youtu.be/AYeD1N_RRTc?t=4m24s[/video]

Hopefully the new game will gets lots of DLC in the way Smash Bros has. These games should really be platforms nowadays.

I had the original Mario Kart 8 and when my cousin came over it mysteriously stopped working. :(

I now have MK8DX It's good. No surprise.

I WAS mad about MK8DX, but tbh...there IS enough features to make it it's own game.

Can't wait to pick it up once I'm done with work. The new battle mode looks so good, I can't wait to try it out. I've never really cared about battle mode since Double Dash, but given they really put effort into it this time I'm very excited to play it. Shine Thief on Urchin Underpass will be the best thing.

I'm not buying Mario Kart 8. It's a racist game: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P27ZsrQ_wFE[/url] How can this be rated E for everyone? Nintendo should be ashamed of itself! From now on, I will no longer trust Nintendo when it comes to family friendly games.

I played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the first time yesterday. This was actually my first experience playing MK8 - and my first experience playing a Nintendo Switch. Fun was had. Maybe I should get my own Switch so I can actually play games like this.

Is it just me or does the CPU cheat more than ever in 150-200cc? Racing well isn't hard in itself but the RNG has to be in a good mood if you want 3-star Cup ranks. The CPU does manipulate the playing field in other MK games, but outside of maybe Super Mario Kart I've never seen it so blatant before. So many conveniently timed Blue Shells, Lightnings, immaculately-thrown Green Shells and Bananas, Boos that only ever target humans, and I swear to god they sometimes pull out invisible f**king Triple Bananas out of their asses to swat you away if you come up too close to them. Also, I [i]really[/i] wish they took the time to bump up 3/4 player framerate to 60fps. It was silly on WiiU but I feel it's just unacceptable on even better hardware.

[quote="[url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?p=509194#p509194]BullockDS[/url]"]Is it just me or does the CPU cheat more than ever in 150-200cc? Racing well isn't hard in itself but the RNG has to be in a good mood if you want 3-star Cup ranks. The CPU does manipulate the playing field in other MK games, but outside of maybe Super Mario Kart I've never seen it so blatant before. So many conveniently timed Blue Shells, Lightnings, immaculately-thrown Green Shells and Bananas, Boos that only ever target humans, and I swear to god they sometimes pull out invisible f**king Triple Bananas out of their asses to swat you away if you come up too close to them. Also, I [i]really[/i] wish they took the time to bump up 3/4 player framerate to 60fps. It was silly on WiiU but I feel it's just unacceptable on even better hardware.[/quote] Well, the items thing, everybody can carry two items again, so that's probably why that. As for 3/4 players at 60FPS, I mean, the console [i]is[/i] drawing three or four different viewports and having to render each one individually. They probably [i]should have[/i] included low-fidelity models and whatnot to get it to work at 60FPS but it's not really that huge a deal.