Mario Kart 8

Axis1500 wrote:

Nintendo just tweeted this game sold 1.2m in the first weekend. Impressive!
(Polygon recently predicted lifetime sales of 1.26m lol.)

Then they've nearly done it, go team Nintendo.... don't screw up and sell more.

The amount of advertising I'm seeing for this is heartwarming. Nintendo's really pushing the boat out on this one.

Hee hee hee hee!                      

That is all.




Actually it's not all. It's great. I've only had a chance to play local multiplayer so far, but that still means I've unlocked loads (or rather my once-again-much-better-than-everyone-else sister did). I don't know if I'll be able to join in regularly of a Sunday night, but I'd sure love to.

So, got this the other day but was out enjoying the weekend sun on some pre-arranged trips, so didn't play it. Returned to find my friends had played it all day for 10 straight hours in multiplayer! Did some single player myself last night (since everyone else I know is currently recovering from the weekends MK8 exhaustion: this made me quite sad!). Absolutely love it, the racing has never been better, the game looks and feels great and the track design is just sublime.
So glad it's selling well and selling Wii Us. Deservedly so I'd say!

Also, you've probably all seen this but Luigi be ridin'...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxDuNFBVj8

...dirty.

Received this a few days later than expected, but I'm now the last person who bought a Wii U before May 30th to own Mario Kart 8. Initial impressions (after the first four cups on 50CC mode): it's good. Bloody good. Like, Super Mario 3D World/Pikmin 3 good. It always seemed destined to be a Wii U great, but what I've played is extremely promising.

Zaphod_B wrote:

Also, you've probably all seen this but Luigi be ridin'...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxDuNFBVj8

...dirty.

"Luigi's Death Stare" is currently trending on KnowYourMeme.  That's when you know it's made it.

I'm not too bothered about the addition of the coin powerup anymore, having realised that everyone's affected by it. I've seen the AI pick up coins in first place a few times, and it's great to be able to blast them with a red shell rather than see that shell hit a banana instead.

I think generally given the items aren't as helpful as they once were (and the odds of getting top-tier items have fallen) the shift to make it harder to defend yourself successfully was a necessary one, particularly the removal of being able to stock up on items whilst using defensive items or even offensive items like the Piranha Plant.

And is it me or are the green shells more rouge now more then ever?

My two cents are as follows: it's certainly very pretty, and seems to control well. Although I'm dying to get on-line with it, I want to race on all the tracks first (I've done the Mushroom and Shell cups on 50cc!). Oh, and, whoever said Toad's Turnpike was the dullest course obviously didn't see the barriers that let you race on the walls - ah, wait, they're also irretrievably boring. Forget that last bit! 

I love Toad's Turnpike and you can all go slap yourselves.

The design of Toad's Turnpike is great. Its the fact they've tampered with the theme that bothers me.

Balladeer wrote:

I love Toad's Turnpike and you can all go slap yourselves.

Can do! 

More seriously, I remember it being a huge and twisting course, and having great difficulty sliding in between trucks and such. This morning's experience was nothing like that: a huge raceway meant easy overtaking and it all came to an end very quickly. An issue with this being the eighth Mario Kart game is that the finer retro tracks have already been reused in other games!

Toad's Turnpike seems to be one of the better tracks for Battle Mode because of all the cars and the road is wide enough to turn around fairly easily which makes me wonder if it was included just for that

There is currently a room open by Dusty if anyone would like to join us!

I'll be on very shortly.

Balladeer wrote:

...How?  I honestly don't see how you could.  Every games website I've seen has been building up to it in a big way.

Haha, I haven't had much of an online presence recently due to exams. Downloading the game now anyway!

Fair enough.

My Internet completely buggered up tonight, sadly. What was that wired thing you chaps were talking about? Any chance of a link?

MP was fun online shame I suck. I was using my Pro, so wasn't using my headset fro the chat, did catch a bit something about spammer, tobecome and the podcast that I try to explain American Football

Just done all the cups in 50cc, Now going to move straight to 150cc.

But am really enjoying it, on the whole,

I've never really liked Toad's turnpike, especially back in the day but now, it's not so bad but I still have a slight dislike for it so   

And here I am at my mum's, playing Clash of Clans and reading books. Itching to get back on the kart!

andyman949 wrote:

There is currently a room open by Dusty if anyone would like to join us!

I logged into it last night but it was empty. What time do you lot get on?

Drunkalilly wrote:

And here I am at my mum's, playing Clash of Clans and reading books. Itching to get back on the kart!

Why didn't you take the Wii U with you and play on the gamepad, if you can't use the TV.

A combination of politeness, bag space and a deliberate intention to read some books, play some 3DS games and, I suppose, interact with my family.

Saul Iscariot wrote:

I logged into it last night but it was empty. What time do you lot get on?

Evening, usually. People were on from 1900 last night.