Mario Kart 9 thread

Fun gameplay.

>Cut characters:

Tanooki Mario
Metal Mario
Cat Peach
Pink Gold Peach
All of the Koopalings

>New Characters:

Kamek
Pauline
E. Gadd
Piranha Plant
Diddy Kong (back)
Dixie Kong
Funky Kong (back)
Cranky Kong

>Guest Characters:

Fox
Captain Falcon
Pikachu

>Returning Courses:

Kalimari Desert
Baby Park
Water Park
Mushroom Bridge
Coconut Mall
DK Summit
Toad Harbor
Koopa Beach 1
Mushroom City
Daisy Circuit
Maple Treeway
Piranha Plant Slide
Sunshine Airport
Dolphin Shoals
Mount Wario
Moonview Highway
Mute City
Animal Crossing
Hyrule Castle
Super Bell Subway

>New Courses:

Comet Observatory
New Donk City (can randomly be night or day. If day normal New Donk music plays, if night it's a party and Jump Up Super Star plays)
Steam Gardens
Yoshi's Island
Bramble Blast
Corneria
Saffron City

Rainbow Cup 1 and 2, where you play through all of the past Rainbow Roads.

Drop Mario Kart and do Nintendo Kart already.

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make the tracks less wide. Half the difficulty is gone if theres so much space to move around in

make a gimmick thats actually interesting. Gliders are fucking shit and anti-gravity in 8 was pointless

incorporate some new items, nerf the blue shell or make it hit everyone in front of the user instead of just targeting the guy in first

add actual characters instead of metal skins

oh yah, and bring back wii's drifting

Either remove 200cc or actually design the tracks with that speed in mind. No more breaking and skipping entire sections of the track bullshit.

Man its going to be very very hard to top the king that is called Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
The game is nearly perfect.

The only thing missing is a Story mode

Blue shells need to be buffed if anything. In 8, first place speeds off to the moon and the race becomes a fight for second place.

I like all of this.
This too

Go back to one item. A story mode ala Diddy Kong Racing would be nice.

diddy kong
k. rool
banjo and kazooie as separate racers

diddy kong racing and/or banjo themed race track

>cut the koopalings
>insert every irrelevant donkey kong character you can

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>wanting to keep around a bunch of fucking copy paste bosses that a rarely ever even used in their own series

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>Mario Kart Maker
I mean I want it but god damn aren’t we just doing 99% of Nintendo’s job for them?

Mario kart 8 deluxe is perfectly fine
Why do people keep saying were getting mario kart 9?

Replace koopalings and babies with unique characters.

Here's how Nintendo could make Mario Kart great again:

>remove fire flower
>remove boomerang
>remove piranha plant
>remove the boo item
>nerf red shells
>only one item inventory slot
>ditch anti gravity
>make gliding the way it was in mk7 or remove it
>make canons work like in mkw again
>get rid of 1 lap tracks
>have the game take track of your fastest lap in tt again
>have less wide tracks with tighter turns
>let me have my risk/reward shortcuts like every game before 8 had
>add mission mode with a main hub you can drive around in
>battle mode from mkds
>race timer in online modes
>let the host kick people from friend rooms

Hire me, Nintendo.

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Nope
Mariokart is just a brand
They could take out Mario and it’ll still be Mariokart

>New Characters?
steve

It's been 5 years without a new original Mario Kart, and that Tour shit looks terrible.

But if you haven't noticed, phone apps for Nintendo are advertising for their upcoming games, like Pocket Camp is for the Switch AC game.
So Tour is just an app to advertise Mario Kart. It wouldn't be crazy that they released MK9 in 2020 or 2021. Why wouldn't they? It's a franchise that prints money.

Delete tanooki, cat, dry, gold, babies and jr friends.

How did this little nigga not make it into the roster but baby rosalina did?

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Just save MK9 for the Switch 2
MK8D isn't even outdated

I think some sort of Mario Party-themed track could be nice. Maybe Minigame Island.

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Because waifus.

more clones

more smash crossover characters lmao

the rubberbanding and double items, plus useless coins hinder it

and antigrav is a stupid gimmick

I feel like people dislike the Koopalings mostly because there are too many of them, like if they were only 3 instead people would be fine with it.

But which Koopaling do you leave out? No one has ever been more important than the other and they are all equal, and they're more important to the Mario franchise than let's say Kamek for example since they appear as a Boss in various games actually and even made their way into Smash Bros, I think is better if you assume Koopalings aren't going away anytime soon.

There's no rubber banding in any Mario Kart past 64,
They went way over board with the items in mk8 though.

>make the tracks less wide. Half the difficulty is gone if theres so much space to move around in
Fuck yes. Keep the wide ones for the first few GPs then narrow them down

>make a gimmick thats actually interesting. Gliders are fucking shit and anti-gravity in 8 was pointless
Yeah, can do without it

>incorporate some new items, nerf the blue shell or make it hit everyone in front of the user instead of just targeting the guy in first
Sounds good. I hate blue shells

>add actual characters instead of metal skins
This too.

Also, add more downhill type courses.
A new highway type course

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>remove the boo item

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Keep the characters mario. fuck smash kart/nintendo kart. Also fair online match making, why the fuck am I at 1000 rating facing 10000+s?
That is all I ask for.
>switch (pun intended) between 3D and mode7 sections
this would be neat too

In terms of characters, Diddy and Birdi need to come back. Their omission in 8 was bizarre. Pauline is an obvious include and Nintendo has been pushing Spike in spinoffs a lot, so he's probably in. Only cuts I'd want are less babies, costume characters, and Pink Gold Peach. Kooalings are fine.

For returning courses, I made a list ages ago but I can't find it right now. All I really want is for them to take advantage of more SNES and GBA tracks than what they've been doing for the last game or two.

Remove underwater and gliding sections, fuck those.
Revamp the mechanics, make a fucking new game. Tired of this drift-waiting shit we have since Wii. Maybe steal ideas from other games, like they could had a turbo meter or something similar.
I want a game with only new items. Mario universe has enough shit to pretend something else is a red shell.
I want a starting roster with only the original 8 and a lot of alternate costumes ( and maybe being able to change their colors like in smash ) AND ONLY THEN add DLC characters with as much possibilities as the first 8. Mario universe characters are so trash and undiverse that the only way to have a cool roster with them is costumes. Don't talk about RPG characters because most of them are reskins of basic ass enemies, which ost were already playable in mario kart at one point.

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An option to edit which specific item can be used during a race. FUCK LIGHTNING

>anyone suggesting character removals
This is the dumbest shit. With few exceptions every character fits into a specific set of stats so the differences are almost all visual.
They should just go buck wild and add back in every character that's ever been in one of these games, even ROB. Cutting characters would do absolutely nothing but satisfy your individual bias.

YES!

Green shell only races fuck yeah.

adventure mode

Now that the horn exists to help with Blue Shells, Lighting is undisputablely the worst item in the game. Hope they fix or remove it. It's literally No Fun: The Item.

just go back to the basics like mario kart 64. i'm tired of roster obsession.

many will probably be against this but i wouldn't mind them experimenting with the formula and trying new things.

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Because the amount of characters in this game is becoming asinine, and if they can improve in other areas by cutting shitty characters that nobody wants to save space and allocate it to something else, or to put in characters that people actually want without decreasing space for another aspect of the game, then that's what they need to do.

Honestly just give MK8D some more DLC. The game is perfect. The next Mario Kart has to be something ambitious and do something crazy.

>nothing should be able to effectively target me if I'm in 1st
git gud, lightning is not an issue

>entire thread complaining about shit they don't like about mk8d
>"mk8d is perfect guise!!"

Basically what said.

I hate people who assume that you can just add infinite characters, without there being space problems and possibly decreasing the quality of other game functions. Even Sakurai stated that the next Smash is probably never going to have this many characters again. It's too much work, on top of taking up a lot of space.

I'd like Double Dash back, but let's get some fun interactions
>Bowser/DK hold Peach/Pauline when racing with them
>All women are disgusted to be near Waluigi/sad to be near Luigi
>Princesses ride on Wario's lap, facing him
>Rosalina's ass doesn't fit in her suit
>Birdo's cloaca leaves a snail mail when dragged behind the car

I can see this being a gimmick that Nintendo actually uses for the next game

>cutting shitty characters that nobody wants
According to who?
I've been happy that Birdo hasn't been in the last couple games, I hate that godawful ugly thing and the less I have to see it the better, but if someone wants it I wouldn't stop them.
Every character, even Baby Rosalina, even Pink Gold Peach, even goddamn Honey Queen, has their fans. To go, "well I don't like it, they shouldn't be wasting space" is some prime asshole shit and arbitrarily removing characters isn't going to immediately result in a better project.
Nowhere in any of Nintendo's development teams is one man going to go, "wow if we got rid of Baby Daisy we could make everything better"

Stop making character specific stats. The little bit of ""role play"" weight invokes don't compensate for the fact that 3/4 of the roster is unusable if you want equal chance with tryhards.

Yes, but they do look at shit like, "MAN IF THE FUCKING ROSTER WAS SO GODDAMN HUGE, maybe we would have had more time or space to add this thing or do more with this thing." So don't pretend like adding more characters without ever cutting any is always 100% going to be a good thing, without some sort of drawback.

Stupid idea. Tryhards (tryharding in mario kart, YIKES) will always abuse whatever is the best shit is to squeeze out every ounce of advantage they can regardless of what you do. The remaining 90% of players aren't impacted by character specific stats, there is no reason to remove them

I hope it turns into Nintendo Kart instead. Mute City and Big Blue are the best tracks in the game, tied with Mount Wario, Sunshine Airport, and Toad Harbor.

Would love to have stages based off of Wario Land/World, Yoshi's Island/Story/Woolly World, Donkey Kong Country (especially Tropical Freeze), Metroid Prime, and especially Xenoblade.

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Man. I just love it when all we do is add characters and don't bother removing any.

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With the way weight classes are set up now there's really like eight different characters, effectively. This isn't like a fighting game where a roster has to be fine-tuned and the characters have to be individually balanced. This is a racing game where a turtle and a dead turtle are essentially the same character but they have different models and animations.

r8 retro track lists

>Luigi Circuit Wii
>Daisy Hills 3DS
>Boo Lake GBA
>Thwomp Ruins WiiU

>Koopa Beach 1 SNES
>Toads Factory Wii
>Rock Rock Mountain 3DS
>Mario Circuit DS

>Mushroom City GCN
>Sunshine Airport WiiU
>Lakeside Park GBA
>Wario Stadium N64

>Vanilla Lake 2 SNES
>Cloudtop Cruise WiiU
>Bowser's Castle GCN
>Rainbow Road GBA

Deluxe is just a port of the Wii U game with some very minor changes. Not enough to warrant spending $60 on, even if I really want to play Mario Kart again.

Get rid of holding items behind you. That shit is so annoying. You're basically just waiting for someone to get a blue shell.

Except they have started tuning specific characters outside of just their weight. Also, models, voices, and animations take up time and space.

There are still stats for karts you dumbo. I don't see any argument in your post. Restricting player choice is never a good idea.

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Mario kart sucks

>toads factory
Instant 10/10

my hopes would be
>bring back double dash karts while keeping the custom karts
>give us some characters we would not expect and bring some veterans back from older series
>have guess characters make sense to why they would be in mk9 ( id say around 3 to 4 be the best limit )
>have all rainbow older roads be remastered ( mainly mkds, mkDD, mk7, and mkwii )
>REMOVE THE BLOOPER ITEM
i believe that would be it i don't know what else to think of

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That's what I thought, then I caved and bought it. I don't regret it.

How would you design a Mario Kart game that didn't have rubberbanding AI and had the same item probabilities regardless of position?

>the same item probabilities regardless of position
This sounds absolutely retarded.

>Restricting player choice is never a good idea.
Then why force every character to use the same stats instead of each having unique ones?

It used to be good back in the day

Because stats in mario kart are not balanced properly. Some characters are strictly inferior to other. Don't tell me you like to lose, that's not an argument.

Mario Kart Horizon

Spotted the shitter who needs his star, lightning bolt, and blue shell crutches.

But you're the one that wants more of those items.

I didn't say you have to give everyone the same blue shell probability as 8th place. You can give everyone the same probability as 1st place (or whatever the smallest non-zero probability is).

Then balance the stats better?
The vast majority of players will not be at a severe disadvantage because they picked their favorite over the meta. Tryhards gonna tryhard, they will always use the most gamebreaking shit and constant rebalance patches are just a dumb idea for a kart racer

I would be legitimately mad if they don't bring back R.O.B. for MK9. Just bring everyone back please. I want to relive 11 Funky Kongs and 1 Daisy online again.

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This

For me, it's Morton Koopa.

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bring back big shroom and lightning cloud from mario kart wii.
Remove coins. Give characters a special that loads up with metres. Add some characters from smash or long dead franchises like starfox. Swordfaggots have to keep out

Special cars like the guardian from breath of the wild as unlockables which override the driver special ability with the cars ability.

Add a way to defend against items. An sonar that displays a key combination. If pressed correctly turn the blue shell into a dud.
If you drive closely behind a character that is in star mod or bullet bill long enough steal a fraction of his status.

Add the freaking autumn map from the wii version.

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We'll get Mario Kart Ultimate instead

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Why not make Mario Kart 9, Super Mario Kart: Allstars.
Make it the super smash of Mario Karts.

Characters from all IPs. (Banjo actually gets in)
Items from all IPs.
Stages from all IPs.
Cry when there is 15 Fire Emblem characters.

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>Banjo actually gets in
its time to let go

Make ATV's actually useful for offroad shit.

I want F-Zero instead.

Just keep going in MK8's direction. It did just about everything perfect, from the tight gameplay, to the completely reimagined retro tracks, to the beautiful art style, to the amazing live soundtrack.
In short, don't fix or change what isn't broken. That's all that I ask.

There were some missteps with Deluxe. The game isn't balanced nor designed with 200cc in mind. This either needs to be removed or the tracks need to be created with it in mind. Remove random engine class from online quick match making. Keep it at 150cc or nothing.

Go back to one item. Two items is bullshit and doesn't need to be a thing.

Hopes for Mario Kart 9
>64 Wario Stadium finally gets a retro track.

Cut the Mario and Peach reskins along with the Koopalings. Put in actual unique characters.

I think they just need to do a different gimmick besides antigravity

Except every since NSMB Wii they all have had different fights not to mention they all have very different designs. Yeah they have slightly similar appearances because they're all koopas but for the most part they all have unique designs and personalities.

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Different but hilariously exploitable due to having similar patterns (Especially when hit). It's basically the same shit as SMB3 but every boss is now Iggy or Wendy.