Gaming Mario Kart 8 Discussion Thread

[FanLuigi]

From Digital Foundry:

"Upon analysis we determined that the game suffers from extended clusters in which a duplicate frame is displayed every 64 frames. What this ultimately means is that, during normal gameplay, Mario Kart 8 continually drops down to 59fps. This may not seem like a big deal - most will probably not notice it at all, and it has zero affect on playability"

Yes, I cherry picked that quote.

I had read that, that's why I'm asking if Nintendo would fix this.

 

[Terenigma]

^ picked up 6 item boxes online. 5 of them were coins. GET RID OF THE DAMN COIN ITEM *Cries*

 

[Jiehfeng]

Hmm, the way you said one, sounded like Morgan Freeman.

 

[phanteon]

guys, theres an online tournament going on on august 31 in this latin american website, they asked to share the link in some forum/community where people could be interested, so that what im doing.

no spamm intended

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Welcome back Mario Kart 8 it's good to have you full on active with new content!

Bundle 2 will be available next year.

 

[Jiehfeng]

For anyone who didn't see it yet:

 

[Bladexdsl]

zomg the triforce tires make yoshi an even godlier drifter!

 

[WiiCube_2013]

It's safe to say that Wii U now technically has two F-Zero games.

 

[MarioFanatic64]

So even though Australia never got a specified release date for the DLC, it's out now. I assumed it would have been out Saturday since we tend to get things a day after Europe and they're getting it on the 14th.

Now it's 11PM and I don't have the funds and am getting withdrawals of not having new tracks to play on for the next day at least.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Question: Those who don't have the DLC content can they still play with people who do?

 

[Bladexdsl]

i think you do only online though.

link is gonna be the new brosie

 

[Jiehfeng]

Question: Those who don't have the DLC content can they still play with people who do?

Maybe there's an update for that.

 

[AdamBrunt]

Question: Those who don't have the DLC content can they still play with people who do?

No. If all the racers have the DLC then the DLC tracks can be selected online. If just 1 racer does not have the DLC then they are not available. Though, according to nintendolife.com, there ahould now be a 'DLC only' lobby which you need to go to to play the DLC tracks online

Questions to those who have played it already ...

a) what are the new 'themed' tracks like ?
b) how big is the download ?

 

[midnight1001]

No. If all the racers have the DLC then the DLC tracks can be selected online. If just 1 racer does not have the DLC then they are not available. Though, according to nintendolife.com, there ahould now be a 'DLC only' lobby which you need to go to to play the DLC tracks online

Questions to those who have played it already ...

a) what are the new 'themed' tracks like ?
b) how big is the download ?

I'm from Australia and it was just released over here a few hours ago. I've been testing out all the new tracks and I think their great. Loving the zelda track! Haven't had a chance to take them online and probably won't until the rest of you have them.
The download was about 700mb so it was actually smaller than I was expecting.

 

[Bladexdsl]

the new yoshi track is a real bastard. gonna have to do some serious time trials on that track to master it

this might as well be called super nintendo kart now

 

[WiiCube_2013]

the new yoshi track is a real bastard. gonna have to do some serious time trials on that track to master it

this might as well be called super nintendo kart now

Better yet: Super Smash Kart!!

Nintendo really needs to change the title of Mario Kart to something else or at least have a subtitle than just a number as it doesn't look very creative.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Better yet: Super Smash Kart!!

Nintendo really needs to change the title of Mario Kart to something else or at least have a subtitle than just a number as it doesn't look very creative.

I personally love the "8" though.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it's not mario kart anymore though now that link and later animal crossing is in it

 

[WiiCube_2013]

I personally love the "8" though.

People thought it was going to be Mario Kart: Infinity because the 8 could go either way.

 

[mightymuffy]

Questions to those who have played it already ...

a) what are the new 'themed' tracks like ?

I suspect unless you were a big fan of the original, SNES Rainbow Road will probably be the worst of the bunch (not for me though, I LOVED that track back in the day!)
Excite Bike track is good fun but maybe a bit gimmicky, I suspect once I've had a few more goes it'll get boring....

The rest of them though, well they range from fabulous to off-the-fukkin-radar - Mute City just needed a loop and it would probably have been perfection: Dragon Driftway? Oh dear lord is that a heap of awesome..... Hyrule Circuit is not quite up there with the best ones, but still a worthy track!