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I felt like this thread had to be made. Discuss, though I don't feel like making a huge paragraph talking about it, personally.

The only thing I'd like to mention is that I'm very pumped for Mario Kart 8. Who else is?

Okay,my favourite is MK:Double Dash. Great invention for adding 2 players in one .

You know How I like Mario Kart 7? That was great,I am waiting MK8 to see this.

I own all parts that have been released so far. Really loving this series.
If I'm searching for some nostalgia and difficulty and fun, I like playing Super Mario Kart.
Mario Kart: Double Dash is my absolute favorite from the whole series for its graphics and the two-character-per-kart concept.
Mario Kart Wii is awesome because of the bikes and the 12 characters instead of 8, and in my opinion, it has the best track design together with Mario Kart DS.
Mario Kart 64, Super Circuit and 7 are not bad, but not extraordinarily good, either.

For the ranks, I'd say:
MK:DD > MKWii > MK7 > MKDS > SMK > MK:SC > MK64.

Really hyped for Mario Kart 8, by the way. The trailers and screenshots look amazing so far. As of right now, I'd place it between MKWii and MK7.

I'm a big fan of this series, too. I'm not particularly good at SMK, Super Circuit, or 64, but I can't think of anything with the other games that I have a problem with. Except no Vs. Mode in 7, but I'm pretty sure that's a popular complaint anyways. I really liked Double Dash though, as well as DS's Mission Mode. That kinda felt like Prankster Comets for Mario Kart. Just the idea of sectioning off part of the track (or using the whole thing, worked either way) and doing something entirely different with it that you had to complete was really creative and deserves to be revisited. The bosses were pretty neat, too.

Mario Kart 8 is going to be awesome, probably, and it'd better be since the Wii online is shutting down. Everything about it looks great so far, so I'm really looking forward to it. The HD graphics and anti-gravity mechanics look spectacular in terms of aesthetics.

Discounting online and retro races, Double Dash is almost certainly the best game in the series. It implemented everything from previous games flawlessly while also including a lot of new and interesting mechanics. I do prefer one guy per kart, though.

I am shocked that most people find themselves liking Double Dash more than Mario Kart Wii or Mario Kart 7, but here's a little story why I don't like it.

I got Double Dash quite some years back, and played a cup, and noticed I felt dizzy. I just thought it was my head after playing a video game, but turns out the next day, I play another cup, and I was having some depression and a headache, along with dizziness. This is peculiar, I thought, but still didn't think it was anything.

Conclusively, I figured out the reason I was reacting weird was due to Double Dash itself. It kind of damaged my eyes, and hurt my head and made me depressed. It's so utterly fast paced and there was too much stuff occurring at once, I couldn't stand it therefore I got rid of it. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is almost the same way; it makes my eyes burn but not much else. I am worried about Mario Kart 8, since the graphics are still improving in gaming, and eventually it's going to get so HD no one can stand it anymore.

Mario Kart Wii had terrible graphics, so it didn't mess up my eyes whatsoever; it looked like Nintendo 64, or should I say, a better polished Nintendo 64 but not quite Gamecube yet. Overall though, Mario Kart Wii was and still is my favorite Mario Kart game. I'm hoping Mario Kart 8 will surpass that, however.

Ahhh the Mario Kart series. My favorite has to be Double Dash, but I also like 7, DS, 64 and Wii. The SNES and Super Circut wasn't that good IMO. I've played all of them I can't wait to MK8. I'm planning to get a Wii U this Spring so I'll maybe get that one and 3D World.

Kep wrote:I felt like this thread had to be made. Discuss, though I don't feel like making a huge paragraph talking about it, personally.

The only thing I'd like to mention is that I'm very pumped for Mario Kart 8. Who else is?

I know, I can not wait for Mario kart 8. I so pumped I can cry.

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Blueoak wrote:MKDS forevererererererererererererererererer

Too bad Nintendo's ultimate screwover tactic is to take wifi connection away before Mario Kart 8's release.

What? The wi-fi was pretty terrible in Mario Kart DS from what I remember. Not to mention snaking. So much snaking… That ruined the game for me, seriously.

Pseudo-dino wrote:What? The wi-fi was pretty terrible in Mario Kart DS from what I remember. Not to mention snaking. So much snaking… That ruined the game for me, seriously.

yeah my wifi didnt even support my ds

mk ds had the best quick race option and battle mode, and challenge mode was pretty cool
mk wii had the best gameplay and tracks
mk 7, love the car customization, but too bad there is no quick race, and the sprint races were too short, they should make it 2 laps (and srsly why metal mario over waluigi)
mk super circuit was pretty fun because it difficulty

i really fucking hate blue shell

Oh yeah, I forgot about the mission mode in Mario Kart DS. That was really great. So were the battles in that; too bad you couldn't battle on wi-fi. I'm not sure I know what you mean by "quick race" though.

I have:

Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii

More not, yeah... kinda a short list I have but that is pretty much it. What I really like is Mario Kart Wii but Mario Kart 64 gives me Memories but not with the whole CPU stuff.

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Yeah, the CPUs are really, really awful in the earlier games in the series. At least Mario Kart 64 lets them collect real items; they couldn't even manage that in Super Mario Kart.

fff might getting wii u just because of this

This and SSB4 have been some of the greatest highlights we've had this year for Nintendo. A large amount of content, amazing visuals everywhere, some of the smoothest gameplay I have seen in my life, etc. And even despite their hardships with delays, these two games will make up for it(at least for me).

I've been a fan of Mario Kart since Super Mario Kart. I even got Super Circuit for the GBA. The only one I really skipped on was Mario Kart 64... I bought it later on Wii VC and I regret that decision. I just don't like it.
Double Dash was the definitive one that dragged my family and friends to the TV. It was the first one where each new iteration of Rainbow Road would legitimately BLOW MY MIND with each first experience. Honestly the only negative that I feel about Double Dash is how the blue shells were changed. I thought it was a super cool item at first... AT FIRST. But only mainly because I liked the explosion and it was fun to use on other people. When I started becoming GOOD at the game, and started being the one keeping first, it got annoying as hell.

Then I got Mario Kart DS and that game is absolutely the best for almost every single possible reason. It was the best possible handheld successor to an already excellent Double Dash. I have almost zero complaints with it... balancing aside, but I couldn't play online anyway because of my router's encryption. Snaking never concerned me, then. But unique Karts? YES. Make your own logo? YES. Play a bunch of single-player missions? YES. Portable multiplayer, no link cables required? BABOOOOOOOOOOOOM (head exploded)
Also almost the ENTIRE track listing for Mario Kart DS is superb. I don't think I'd change much.

I never fully played through Mario Kart Wii feeling like it was a step back from DS in terms of a lot of things. They may have fixed snaking and brought the experience to Wii, but they single-handedly ruined battle mode for me, they removed local multiplayer options that were in both MKDS and Double Dash that I vastly preferred, they didn't bring back the single-player missions, they never fully implemented a Double Dash mode (though I guess I never actually expected that much), and it just felt like things were way too chaotic with 12 players instead of 8 and it seemed THAT much harder to stay ahead long enough not to get exploded by a blue shell. It's also unnerving being used to looking at a touch screen to determine how to dodge an incoming shell or attack of any kind instead of pressing the rear view button. A lot of this is probably immaterial because when you get older it's not as easy to gather four people into local multiplayer anyway, and I definitely don't expect them to host servers for timeless mutiplayer battle modes. It's just disappointing is all.
I DID play Mario Kart 7 a lot more due to the track choices and having a friend online to race with, and racing on the old SNES Rainbow Road online was always a treat.

Mario Kart 8, though...
I dunno.
After everything, I'm just not excited at all.
I'll still probably get it, but there's just not much to it that really impresses me. It feels like the Madden 2014 of Mario Kart. It seems like they've settled into a formula since the Wii version that they're sticking to for the most part.

Magician wrote:I've been a fan of Mario Kart since Super Mario Kart. I even got Super Circuit for the GBA. The only one I really skipped on was Mario Kart 64... I bought it later on Wii VC and I regret that decision. I just don't like it.
Double Dash was the definitive one that dragged my family and friends to the TV. It was the first one where each new iteration of Rainbow Road would legitimately BLOW MY MIND with each first experience. Honestly the only negative that I feel about Double Dash is how the blue shells were changed. I thought it was a super cool item at first... AT FIRST. But only mainly because I liked the explosion and it was fun to use on other people. When I started becoming GOOD at the game, and started being the one keeping first, it got annoying as hell.

Then I got Mario Kart DS and that game is absolutely the best for almost every single possible reason. It was the best possible handheld successor to an already excellent Double Dash. I have almost zero complaints with it... balancing aside, but I couldn't play online anyway because of my router's encryption. Snaking never concerned me, then. But unique Karts? YES. Make your own logo? YES. Play a bunch of single-player missions? YES. Portable multiplayer, no link cables required? BABOOOOOOOOOOOOM (head exploded)
Also almost the ENTIRE track listing for Mario Kart DS is superb. I don't think I'd change much.

I never fully played through Mario Kart Wii feeling like it was a step back from DS in terms of a lot of things. They may have fixed snaking and brought the experience to Wii, but they single-handedly ruined battle mode for me, they removed local multiplayer options that were in both MKDS and Double Dash that I vastly preferred, they didn't bring back the single-player missions, they never fully implemented a Double Dash mode (though I guess I never actually expected that much), and it just felt like things were way too chaotic with 12 players instead of 8 and it seemed THAT much harder to stay ahead long enough not to get exploded by a blue shell. It's also unnerving being used to looking at a touch screen to determine how to dodge an incoming shell or attack of any kind instead of pressing the rear view button. A lot of this is probably immaterial because when you get older it's not as easy to gather four people into local multiplayer anyway, and I definitely don't expect them to host servers for timeless mutiplayer battle modes. It's just disappointing is all.
I DID play Mario Kart 7 a lot more due to the track choices and having a friend online to race with, and racing on the old SNES Rainbow Road online was always a treat.

Mario Kart 8, though...
I dunno.
After everything, I'm just not excited at all.
I'll still probably get it, but there's just not much to it that really impresses me. It feels like the Madden 2014 of Mario Kart. It seems like they've settled into a formula since the Wii version that they're sticking to for the most part.

Thanks for your constructive comment, Magician.

However, I would like to know why you are not excited for Mario Kart 8. There are a lot of retro tracks announced thus far that seem totally innovative, the graphics are exquisite to my perspective, the mechanics look flawless, the character selection is neat (Koopalings? Heck yeah!); already just watching trailers and keeping up with Nintendo announcements I could immediately say it's better than the following games:

Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Mario Kart DS
The Mario Kart Arcade series

Every single Mario Kart games except Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7.

The fact that you like Mario Kart Wii and 7 a lot more than I do shows that your opinion comes from a difference in taste, though.

They're all excellent games. I can admit that not being excited could simply be due to inflated expectations, given the track record, but to me the game doesn't strictly speaking look better than anything. It just looks prettier. It looks almost obligatory, as in it was a necessary creation since the the Wii U came out, whereas other titles within franchises owned by Nintendo would only come out when new, relevant ideas expanded them to a reasonable degree. Compare it to Smash Bros, for example, which by contast is loaded with content that is actually new and exciting to me. The only thing that I noticed about Mario Kart 8 that I like (and is unique) is the boomerang. That's pretty much it. The Koopalings are a nice addition; still better than just Metal INSERTNAMEHERE or Baby INSERTNAMEHERE but that's superficial stuff to me anyway. The gravity stuff is cool I guess, but I was more impressed by the leap from Mario Kart Wii to Mario Kart 7. Mario Kart 8 is like... WELL, WE ADDED FLYING AND UNDERWATER. WHAT'S NEXT? LET'S DO THAT THING THAT GALAXY DID. It's like... sure, okay, I'm not against it, but I'm not impressed by it either.

I'm not one to say it'll actually be better or worse than anything until I play it, though.