Topic: Mario Kart World

I'm just trying to think of 24 racers on Baby Park. LOL.

Going off the reveal trailer that Nintendo showed off, the new Mario Kart looks pretty good. I already like the 50s-styled track too, haha. I wonder what the 24-player races are gonna be like when I try them out. As much as I loved 8 Deluxe and its DLC, I'm so happy that we're getting a brand new game after a little over a decade... outside Tour of course, which I didn't like. Definitely looking forward to seeing more deets about MK9, or whatever the game will be called.

Alright, let's talk roster. In terms of new racers, who do we hope to see? Here are my picks:

• Cranky Kong(to round out the DK crew)
• Professor E. Gadd
• Nabbit(Given his increased presence in Wonder, I'd be surprised if he wasn't included)
• Cappy
• Goomba(I see no reason why he shouldn't be included)

If they continue with the crossover characters, I hope they keep it to a small number - about 4 would suffice.

• Captain Olimar
• ROB(would be nice to see him come back)
• Kirby
• Pac-Man(a bit of a nod to the Arcade games)

Less is more when it comes to the amount of racers on a track.

@Banjo- I get where you are coming from from a brand consistency perspective, but honestly I'm much happier with the new Mario Wonder VA for Mario than with Chris Pratt's movie voice.

@Uncle_Franklin true, but you can't deny that 24 racer Baby Park would be the funniest thing video games have ever done

@N00BiSH Some of these guest characters are a bit ehhhh. Kirby makes a lot of sense. ROB maybe just because he was in DS, but he's not exactly a popular character. Pac-Man or any other third party character may be difficult because of licensing issues. Olimar could happen, but he's a tad niche so I'm not sure he's top of mind for guest characters. I would say the most likely candidates would be, in order of likelihood:

-Kirby
-Zelda
-Ganondorf
-King Dedede
-Meta Knight
-Waddle Dee
-Captain Falcon
-Samus
-ROB
-Olimar

Probably not all of those, 4-6 of those sounds about right.

My guess is all the old Mario kart characters except arcade and the variants with a few safe newcomers and a skin system

@Mothertroid Yeah, I like Chris but it's a weird choice for Mario. Not that I loved the movie, anyway. The worst character in there, in my opinion, obviously, is Peach.

@N00BiSH
Yeah one of the first things that came to mind after learning of the 24 racers was hoping that Baby park is in this.

@Bolt_Strike I'll agree to an extent with ROB and Pac-Man, but I disagree with Olimar being too niche of an addition, given that Pikmin's grown more in popularity after game 4.

Just gimme Monty Mole and I'm set!

@Dev-N Gosh, now that you mentioned it, I'd love to play as Captain Toad! He's adorable and I love his game too. Would love to see all the costumes make a return as well.

@Dev-N As far as characters returning from Tour, I want to see Pauline, Nabbit, Dixie Kong, and Kamek.

But characters are not what I most want to see return from Tour. I want to see Tour's mechanics (non-gacha mechanics of course) carry over. Tour does a lot of neat things that the main games can learn from.

First of all, there's the shop system. Being able to buy characters, karts, and kart parts is kind of a no brainer and should be the standard going forward. 7 and 8's system of having them unlock randomly at certain intervals has always been dumb and the shop system is what this should be.

Second, there's the track variants. Tour did a great job of creating twists on the various tracks and making them feel like new courses. R variants, T variants, R/T variants, RMX variants. I don't think they can quite do all of these, but at least R variants and maybe an RMX course here and there should at least be considered.

Then there's the Tour system. Having rotating sets of cups would definitely help give the game more evergreen content and keep people playing for years. I don't think they can quite replicate it in a more traditional Mario Kart game, but anything remotely similar would be an absolute positive for this game.

I would also say consider Tour's scoring system, it is pretty fun in its own right getting to chain actions together. Unlike Tour though, I don't think that this should be a primary gameplay mode. I think it should be a new kind of gameplay mode, maybe a new Score Attack mode?

Then there's some other smaller things Tour brought back from past games. Multiple items (possibly bringing back Frenzies, but IDK if that would be balanced in a traditional game), special items, mission mode, they all add variety and they should stay.

Tour was kind of controversial, rightfully so for the gacha elements, but there's actually some mechanics here that would improve over MK8D if carried over. This is part of the reason why I don't buy it when people think MK8D is peak/that the only way to improve on it is to just add more characters. No. We haven't reached peak yet when other games have this kind of mechanical variety. MK8D is a highly polished game with a wealth of courses, but mechanically there's still room for improvement.

@Bolt_Strike Yes on that last part. MK8D is a great racer, but it's also a safe one. Sure, it has the characters and courses, but not much else. As you say, bring mission mode back. Put extra race modes into the game, such as Tour's Score Attack. Which can also then be used as part of a challenge mode, much like Tour's special cups where players competed for the highest score on that cup. Could even expand on that, with other special conditions in which to complete a special cup such as longest time drifting.

There absolutely is a lot that could be done to make the next entry the peak of Mario Kart in terms of variety of content, not just quantity of it. And here's something else. Many people keep saying the tracks will need to be wider to accommodate 24 racers. I don't believe they do. The width of the tracks is absolutely fine. If the tracks are widened, they'll just feel empty after the initial opening rush once the pack has spread out.

I hoped they would go for a Smash bros kart this time, but nope just good old Mariokart. I am curious about that new DK design though...new DK game incoming? I really hope so! And I wonder how Diddy wil look, asuming he's also in the new Mariokart.

I'm coming off the long-run from left-field here .... give me Dion Blaster from 1080 Snowboarding as a driver!

i really just want to see kirby all puffy and cute in their little kart. thats ALL i want nintendo. please 🙁
on another note id love an open world story mode take on the series, and im already intrigued by the endlessness of Mario Bros Circuit (shown in the switch 2 trailer) and im hoping for more expanison on battle mode, which i think is such a underrated good time tbh 😹 also this is like in my wildest dreams but a mario maker like Track Builder would be sooooo cool to play with ^_^

@OctolingKing13 Kirby would be so cute ☺️. I understand that it’s Mario kart though and that they’ll primarily stick with those characters but one or two representatives of major series would not hurt (we already have Link and Inklings) this also made me think of playing as pikmin, wouldn’t that be adorable! People have been talking about an open world part of the game but as much as I think that’s cool I’m doubtful, what would they even do? I feel like that long stretch we see in the trailer will be an offshoot at the end of the last lap that leads to a black screen before coming up on the next race.

@Xenoblade-Fan i forgot about pikmin! omg that would be adorable, i hope they do especially after the success of pikmin 4. and the could do the nine color variations fir the little guys like with shy guy and birdo in mk8. i feel like toad is in desperate need of color variations 😹