Re: Mario Kart 8 Discussion

April 22nd 2015, 5:46 pm

What the fudge?! The online servers are undergoing maintenance already?! Is it just buggy on my end or are the servers really down right now? Prinny

April 22nd 2015, 5:48 pm

Rukiafan wrote:What the fudge?! The online servers are undergoing maintenance already?! Is it just buggy on my end or are the servers really down right now?

Awesome sauce! Here we go! Very Happy

April 22nd 2015, 7:11 pm

Rukiafan wrote:The dlc launches at 2:00AM PST tonight!

Whoa...that's, like, 7PM my time! Surprised

April 22nd 2015, 8:48 pm

Can't wait for Amiibo costumes tomorrow and race as Mega Man

April 23rd 2015, 12:57 am

I'll be writing a first look article early this morning "roughly at around 4:00AM PST" so keep an eye out for that! Also @Gamergy will be reviewing the DLC within the next week or so as well!

April 23rd 2015, 1:06 am

W00t!!! The DLC is now live! victory

April 23rd 2015, 1:50 am

Rukiafan wrote:W00t!!! The DLC is now live!

Wait...what?! Surprised

April 23rd 2015, 12:13 pm

Awesome apparently you can earn stars above your username online by earning one or more stars in every GP and in every speed class in the game, just as you could in Mario Kart Wii. Wink

April 25th 2015, 2:08 pm

I think the Animal Crossing track is my personal favorite track of pack 2, but Big Blue is a very close second. Cheese Land, Ribbon Road, Neo Bowser City, and Baby Park are awesome as well. Wink

April 25th 2015, 5:21 pm

Okay, here's what I would name the three re-returning courses in both add-ons:

DS GCN Baby Park

DS GCN Yoshi Circuit

3DS SNES Rainbow Road

April 26th 2015, 7:35 am

Also if you beat a cup on say 100CC and get 3 Stars you apparently get 3 Stars on 50CC too... At least that's what I saw on miiverse

April 26th 2015, 11:43 am

These courses are amazing. Megatron Happy

The wife and I are enjoying the new dlc.

April 27th 2015, 11:41 am

Baby Park is really tough online! Prinny

April 27th 2015, 11:43 am

Rukiafan wrote:Baby Park is really tough online!

Oh god. I can't even place in the top ten on that course online. pale

April 27th 2015, 8:43 pm

The DLC is great, although I haven't unlocked 200CC yet since I barley beat 100CC yet Sad

I take too long and have too many other games...

April 27th 2015, 9:21 pm

I don't even play 150cc in most MK games, although the glitched-up race in Bowser's Castle (Mario Kart 64) last night with my parents sure felt like 200cc...hm...maybe MK64's glitches were Nintendo's inspiration for 200cc...!

April 28th 2015, 1:56 pm

I just reached 10,000 VR lol! Surprised

April 28th 2015, 2:21 pm

Whoa, congratulations @Aqua Cherry Blossom! Smile

April 29th 2015, 12:45 pm

Some courses are downright dreadful in 200cc mode. There are many places with invisible walls and solid objects that your kart can pass through that completely ruins the mode imo.

April 30th 2015, 4:29 pm

I just crunched some numbers, and the results are staggering. The Mario Kart series has a whopping 140 original courses, plus it also has 30 traditional battle arenas. That's a total of 170 unique stages!

79 courses have made return appearances, some more than once; with each variation of a course in every game, that's 91 retro course variations. Not only that, but 10 battle arenas have been remade as well. Mario Kart 8 has a special selection of 8 battle courses, which are eight courses modified into battle stages. Mario Kart 8 also has 5 special crossover courses. That's a total of 236 courses and 48 battle stages, or 284 courses and arenas!

Six games feature a Mirror Mode, offering 112 mirror courses, bringing the grand total to 348 course variants, or a humongous 396 total course and arena variants! This is what the Mario Kart series has provided us over a period of nearly 25 years. victory

May 3rd 2015, 2:08 pm

Is anyone up for some races tonight? Wink

May 3rd 2015, 2:15 pm

BEEP BEEP! VROOM! victory

^The answer to your question

May 3rd 2015, 5:43 pm

I'm online and ready to roll! ^_^

May 5th 2015, 2:29 pm

I love the squeaking mice in the Cheese Land music. Smile

May 6th 2015, 8:14 pm

Does anyone want to race a few GP's right now? Wink

May 6th 2015, 8:22 pm

Rukiafan wrote:Does anyone want to race a few GP's right now?

Well, yes, but I'm currently at my FLGS, so...I can't. :/

I played a 16-race tour last night, which included many of my favourite non-expansion courses in the game:

1: Mario Kart Stadium
2: SNES Donut Plains 3
3: Thwomp Ruins
4: N64 Toad's Turnpike
5: Toad Harbour
6: GBA Mario Circuit
7: Shy Guy Falls
8: GCN Dry Dry Desert
9: Sunshine Airport
10: DS Wario Stadium
11: Electrodrome
12: Wii Grumble Volcano
13: Bone Dry Dunes
14: 3DS Melody Motorway
15: Bowser's Castle
16: N64 Rainbow Road

I placed 1st overall, with 225 Points! victory

Welcome to the forum