Iggy Waffles said:
Probably because the courses are giant. Natural Battle arenas are smaller and compact, so it doesn't become tedious.Raven said:
Anser said:
Marcia said:
Well, if you consider that there is no victory ceremony either, that the item system was meant to be a position-based one and changed to a distance-based one likely at the last minute (the PRIMA gudie still syas that it is position-based, and it was discovered that the distribution in MK8 are actually pretty much the same ones reported in that guide with just one getting a patch discovered so far), that the physics of 150cc had bugs exploited to enhance speed and lose less speed after boosts but only if you're not using inside drifting bikes (that have correct physics even in 150cc), that the Battle Mode has no arenas, that the HUD pales compared to Double Dash!! (no speedometer but also no timer in VS races!), that the game is not balanced at all with speed and weight-based combinations being clearly favored in 150cc you can see that the game has that "rushed" feel. I honestly am really happy with the Koopalings being in as it is the first time since they were introduced 25 years earlier that they have been playable, but there's no doubt that the roster has important holes (the ones you mentioned, that appeared in at least two other Mario Kart games), with Bowser Jr. being the worst offender since MK8 is the debut of the Koopalings.Anser said:
Well, not all tracks are jazzy: I wouldn't say that the background music of Mario Kart Stadium, Electrodrome, Twisted Mansion, Bowser Castle, Wild Woods, Dragon Driftway, Cloudtop Cruise is jazzy (the retro tracks have their original music remastered which is why I'm not counting them, as of course not many Mario Kart games had jazzy music before). I personally think it's a step up from previous games, and I would like the developers to focus on live performance music also for their next game.Anser said:
Well, a speedometer was hacked into the game and the results is that, if the units are in km/h as in Mario Kart Wii, the speed of 85/86 km/h is only reached with 10 coins. 10 coins are pretty much the equivalent of the speed difference between 1.0 and 5.75 speed, which is by itself around 7.5%, so the speed range is about 75 km/h - 80 km/h without coins and 80 km/h - 86 km/h with coins. So, without coins MK8 is slower than Mario Kart Wii and slightly slower than Mario Kart: Double Dash!!Anser said:
You're not alone in this. I actually like 200cc a lot, driving-wise is perhaps my favorite way of playing Mario Kart games and surely I am enjoying it a lot in worldwide races,, but I think it came too late.Anser said:
I too agree that double drivers with special items are an aspect that will have to be reconsidered, although I understand that, as of now, if even basic single driver mechanics are hard to master from a development point of view, double drivers would be insane (even just from a graphical point of view, just think how many animations Double Dash!! has for each driver! They even had to make a different set of animations for whether or not the driver on the back seat is holding an item or not!), so I'm not holding my breath on this aspect to return soon.Anser said:
Your proposal is interesting, but tier 1 and 2 acceleration probably already surpass 10 seconds to reach full speed! I suspect, though, that like in MKDD and MKW, when you start drifting your acceleration skyrockets. So the really critical part would be when you can start drifting (which is, by the way, the moment when smoke stops coming out from the exhaust pipes). The tier 5 acceleration combinations are really nice in this regard, because they can pretty immeditaly start drifting (this is especially useful in 200cc, where getting a wrong lines can result in your vehicle going off-road or falling off the track). Maybe the lower tiers should be more penalized. Also, when acceleration is high enough other factors start to become limiting, like the hitstun, which can be quite long in MK8, so probably also that should be tweaked for high acceleration combination.MnSG said:
Mister Wu said:
I would suggest looking at http://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart:_Double_Dash!!#Actual_stats and at http://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart_Wii#Actual_stats.MnSG said:
By the way, do you know if the hacking community already knows how to read the vehicle stats, the stats translation tables (those that convert the stats from 1 to 20 into in-game stats) and the item probability distributions?Baby Luigi said:
