Mario Kart 8

Balladeer wrote:

noticeable frame rate judders in four-players?  Booooooooooooo.

I haven't read many reviews, but Matthew Castle and Chris Schilling both said on Twitter that the multiplayer frame rate was slower, but consistent.

Local multiplayer will always be more fun than online. It's just harder to organise.

Balladeer wrote:

To be fair, Mr. Scullion says that the split-screen is nowhere near as juddery as in MKWii...

Read the whole thread, Rum!

Balladeer wrote:

Balladeer wrote:

To be fair, Mr. Scullion says that the split-screen is nowhere near as juddery as in MKWii...

Read the whole thread, Rum!

Yes, I already saw that - "nowhere near as juddery" implies "still a bit juddery" - and Matthew's tweet stated that the frame rate was consistent, not juddery.

Balladeer wrote:

Au contraire, Jas, you're doing local MP wrong!

Nah I just don't get to do it a whole lot these days.   

Yup, that is a problem. I have the benefit of living in the capital. Couldn't you organise a GNamer Scottish Mario Kart-In or something?

Rum Rapture wrote:

Yes, I already saw that - "nowhere near as juddery" implies "still a bit juddery" - and Matthew's tweet stated that the frame rate was consistent, not juddery.

Fair enough. So did Mr. Scullion. I have a tendency to underexaggerate.

Talking about local multiplayer street pass somerset are having a Mario Kart 8 event along with streetpass of course on the 31st, so maybe they could do the same in Scotland. Unfortunately I'm in work so can't go 😭.

Where Balla thinks I live.



Where I actually live.

Forget about inviting the Scottish contingent: I want to come to your house now! (I'll bring the trebuchet.)

As long as we can organise on-line races that I can consistently attend, that will do nicely. Local multiplayer is next to impossible for me. 

The_Jaster wrote:

If you think online MP is less fun then you're doing it wrong.   

masofdas wrote:

With online there's a lot you can do and from what you guy's have said MKWii has a decent online following, so if this can be improved on that with voice chat, so I can shout you scottish @#%& to Jas after he blue shell's me that's great as after winning all the GP's in SP this is where I will be spending all my MK8 time.

Sadly the voice chat is only allowed in the pre race lobby if I remember correctly, this is where skype comes in handy though.

So we can't heckle each other during races? Rubbish.

yep, though depending on what the quality is like it could be a blessing that its not possible in races.

Reading the reviews, nobody seems to have a good word for the battle mode. I'm hoping Nintendo plan to patch this and add battle arenas later to sustain the life of the game.

Personally, I'd just want Battle Course 4 from the Snes.

Also, looking at Mario Golf's dlc with extra courses and characters. I'd love Mario Kart to do the same. I'm reminded how Burnout Paradise was updated and given new dlc, that really prolonged it's appeal and relevance.

Kieron wrote:

Personally, I'd just want Block Fort from the N64.

Fixed. Broadly, though, I agree. I'm happy with DLC so long as it's not day one: then it's taking the mickey.

Balladeer wrote:

Kieron wrote:

Personally, I'd just want Block Fort from the N64.

Fixed.  Broadly, though, I agree.  I'm happy with DLC so long as it's not day one: then it's taking the mickey.

That's weird… I missed out on playing Mario Kart 64. But I must have, it says it right there!?

I know what you mean about day one dlc. But as someone who trades games in very quickly, it's the only time I get to play additional content.

I know day 1 DLC sounds iffy but they've obviously finished the game by the time it launches and sometimes (particularly if it's not large DLC) they might just have managed to get it made before it comes out. I think that's an important line between day 1 dlc and on disk.

Damn Racisits

shanks wrote:

Damn Racisits

Oh fuck you! See also: everything Japan has ever produced

EDIT: as in, fuck you article, not fuck you Shanks

 

Was going to say. Yeah I more or less had the same thought when I read that

Ugh. I don't even...

Did get a local multiplayer session in earlier. With drinking, natch. So 8 ought to be fun.

Come to think of it aren't the toads technically, red, blue, yellow in color?

Quote :

14 are human (including Toad and Toadette

erm.....they aren't human, they're Toads.

wiki wrote:

While Toad is the name of an individual, it also refers to an entire species (much like Yoshi and Birdo). However, in Japan, the species name is sometimes called Kinoko-zoku (キノコ族?), literally "Mushroom People"

Trouble is, it's true.  Japanese videogames (and most anime, manga...) are racist and sexist.  And I find it hard to be angry, or even annoyed, about it because I've become inured to the whole thing.  But you can't deny the truth of it, blatant bandwagon-hopping though it may be.

The thing is though you'd still be talking about a fantasy world where mushrooms make you bigger, leaf's that give you the ability to fly etc so in my book real world problems/issues just shouldn't apply.

Can't agree with that. Fantasy worlds are depictions of the creators' mindsets in the end. If they're almost entirely white for as long as the Mario Kart series has been, that says something about those mindsets. You can't divorce fantasy and reality when one is a product of the other.

Do agree that the Toad thing is stupid, though. Although I do now want to see a black Toad...

I don't think it necessarily means that those mindsets are racist though, I do see where you're coming from though.

balladeer wrote:

Do agree that the Toad thing is stupid, though. Although I do now want to see a black Toad

That might well be a slippy slope to go down, I'd feel if they done that it'd somehow just be spun into a negative depending on how it was handled.