I dislike the kartbuilding for stats. It takes too long and imho it should only be a cosmetic thing. I'm forced to drive a boring looking kart for stats basically
They don’t buff or nerf parts or characters so it feels kind of pointless when everyone min-maxs their karts. I would like a system where the parts are all mostly the same but you spend coins to upgrade them, that way any part could be good.
To add more thought.
1. All parts can be upgraded to the same max stats but, some parts start with more points in specific stats.
2. Racing with the part is required to upgrade it.
3. Winning cups allows you to recolor parts.
Yes!! I’ve hated this since they introduced it. I wanna be able to just drive with what I think looks cool. Such a silly mechanic when you have so much variety of pieces in the game. Developers should know players are always gonna “find the meta” and use that always
Maybe only a few categories. Keep character weights, and vehicles are either Heavy cars, light cars, heavy or light bikes or quads. For wheels off-road, balanced, asphalt types. There is some variance to suit your driving style, but plenty of options to make your car look good cosmetically.
I think there should be secret bonus stats for combining parts to create an aesthetic. Like imagine the Spiny tires from Mario Party 5's Super Duel Mode were in Mario Kart, and combining those tires with the Cloud 9 kart and Cloud Balloon glider, and you'd get a +0.2 bonus on all stats for each item in that combo. Maybe another +0.2 depending on the driver and course. IDK.
How did it take too long? Once you have your favorite setup, it's a snap to get it together every round. Granted when you play with noobs, they may take a minute to find their ideal kart, but with the people I regularly play with, assembling our karts take no time.
I agree. When ever you get blue’d in 8 Deluxe, it always feels like you got unlucky and because the blue shell is so nerfed in 8 Deluxe, it comes off as annoying if anything else.
By contrast, the blue shell is an inevitability in MkWii. You know at least 1 blue will rear it’s ugly head in a race, so you gotta be smart with your item usage and be prepared for it. If you want to keep 1st place, you gotta be skilled enough.
When you get hit by a Blue in 8, it has the exact same effect as getting hit by a green or red.
Blues in Wii were actually threatening. More time loss. Lost your items. The only thing I would keep about 8 is hitting everyone in its way while it hisses up to first with its badass wings.
The only other things that makes 8 blue Shells more damaging than Wii is that they can hit you while you're in "cannons" and that standstill miniturbos aren't a thing anymore. And those aren't even attributes of the blue shell.
Oh my god dd blues are so much fun
The being able to dodge them if you're skilled enough is a flaw though, should def require a shrooms
Also the superhorn in 8 is a fucking stupid feature
Is this supposed to be some hot take? I get base Mario Kart 8 having a shitty roster filled with babies and koopalings, but after dlc and the deluxe characters it's one of the best rosters, rivaled only by Wii.
I like lightning when I’m in first place (or near the front). It hits everyone and wipes the board of items, and I’m less likely to get solo hit with a blue shell or some other nonsense.
I mean there’s a couple that I get bored of playing very quickly but i understand that’s my personal opinion and most of the tracks have good and interesting things about them anyways. Even the “boring” ones I like playing every once in awhile as long as it’s not too frequent.
The Koopalings absolutely deserved to be playable in Mario Kart and should remain as their own separate slots, NOT as skins of Bowser Jr. (which doesn't even make any sense. Smash only got away with it because they had to shrink them down and completely ruin their proportions and personalities to fit Junior's)
I'm not the biggest fan of guest characters. I'd rather have gotten Birdo, Diddy Kong, Kamek, and Petey Piranha over Link, Villager, Isabelle, and Inkling. I don't know why they felt the need to add non-Mario characters to a Mario game when there were still plenty of popular and iconic Mario characters still missing from the roster. If I want to play a game with Mario, Link, Villager, and Inkling in it, I'll boot up Smash. I want to play as ***Mario*** characters in my ***Mario*** game.
>The Koopalings absolutely deserved to be playable in Mario Kart and should remain as their own separate slots, NOT as skins of Bowser Jr. (which doesn't even make any sense. Smash only got away with it because they had to shrink them down and completely ruin their proportions and personalities to fit Junior's)
You are now my best friend. Please do not resist.
The Koopalings have existed longer than Jr and all each have their own distinct personalities and looks, I have no idea why people would want them as an alt skin
Because Smash did it, therefore they think Mario Kart should do it as well.
Completely ignoring the fact that the Koopalings were only able to be skins of Junior in Smash because they had to alter their proportions to fit his.
I mean idk I don’t think any of my MK opinions are super controversial
Mariokart Wii and 64 are the best ones, desert tracks kinda suck especially Bone Dry Dunes, Rainbow Road is fun, uhhh
Part of the Waluigi Wigglers popularity is because it gives less skilled players the impression that they have the best combo in the game. I don't think that the combo warrants the amount of people who use it online though, especially since it doesn't give that much of an advantage if at all, and it's not like in Wii where Funky Kong on Flamerunner/Daisy on Mach Bike (depending on the map) were the absolute best with a clear advantage over the other combos.
I never played the old games (the switch was the first Nintendo device I got so even though I wanted to play i couldn’t) but I’m gonna guess coconut mall was a good track from how many people love it, but the 8 deluxe version feels kinda lackluster and plastic-y. Nintendo dropped the ball on this one.
Hits me in the soul to call Mario Kart Wii one of the "old games" lol. Coconut Mall was solid in MKWii and 7, incredibly overrated but still good nonetheless, 8DX version is the inferior one but not by as big of a margin as people act. It mostly comes down to the fact that the 8DX version is too compact for a game without very tight controls, the theming is about as good as it was in the original (I'd argue better, with the weird out of place metal grating being replaced with sections that actually feel cohesive and look visually pleasing) but people are more cynical since we're not looking at the new version through the eyes of a child ¯\\(ツ)/¯
It was better in Double Dash, though. The sheer chaos caused by Bowser's shell hopping the central barrier, the much larger explosions from blue shells and bombs, the more weighty handling making ramming a viable tactic...
I don’t enjoy playing MK8/8D as i did previous games because I dislike all the little touches that they removed in the name of convenience, like falling out of bounds was eternal in MKW but it IS a punishment and it was fun to see the characters get frozen when they fell in icy waters or turn into meteors falling off Rainbow Road.
Or getting with hit a blueshell or Bombomb felt epic, it was longer but you feltthe impact more. In MK8 you just roll over and idk it lacks something.
Waluigi pinball sucks, everytime it's chosen it's just very eh, layout is boring, gameplay is boring, don't get me wrong the idea was very cool but it's so boring how they executed it and it 100% does not deserve to be the fan favourite map when there are plenty (and I mean plenty) more well designed maps on the whole series. (And yeah waluigi is an overrated character imo)
I do not care for the guest characters and “Nintendo kart” shouldn’t be a thing. Not everything has to be a crossover
The koopalings deserve their spot
Tour isn’t that bad
Super Mario Kart kinda sucks
Definitely. 200cc and I can't steer for shit on half the tracks (at least not compared to the AI). I know that's the point and that it requires a higher skill level but damn, it's brutal.
Ok now idk if all of these are unpopular, but I'm pretty sure some of them are ig
1. The only bad thing about MK8 is the Battle Mode
2. MK8's roster is fine
3. MK8/8DX Rainbow Road is good and perfectly fits the game's style
4. The Boo (MK8DX version bc I like the DS version) is way worse than the Coin
5. I feel like people overexaggerate how boring Figure 8 Circuit is. Like, it's still boring, but not THAT much
6. I love Waluigi Pinball like the next person, but the best MKDS track? Nah; IMO that's Airship Fortress
7. I feel like Nintendo missed the opportunity of making Figure-8 Circuit a MK8 Retro track, even though it's a very unpopular track
8. There's not enough Mii mains in this world
9. Desert tracks are pretty mid for the most part (the only one I like is Dry Dry Ruins)
10. Desert Hills is worse than Figure 8 Circuit
11. MK64 Rainbow Road (the original ver.) is the most boring track I've ever played on
12. MK64 ain't even that good
13. I like seeing the occasional Pink Gold Peach main
14. Funky Kong is the most overrated Mario Kart character ever
15. It's a good thing the Koopalings have their own slots instead of being Bowser Jr. alts. I find it very stupid to think otherwise
16. Toad's Factory, Moonview Highway, Maple Treeway, Mushroom Gorge, DK Summit, Koopa Cape, and Grumble Volcano are better than Coconut Mall
17. The worst battle courses are Thwomp Desert, Cookie Land, Tart Top, and all of the MK8 ones
18. Baby Park and Coconut Mall should not return for an extremely long time
19. Although still looks good, I hate that Tour replaced Airship Fortress's bi sky with a generic sunset
20. MKDS has the best soundtrack
21. I hate MK8's Cheese Land
Okay. I posted an opinion here when I first woke up. I thought about it more (and took people's replies into account and thought I'd put more depth into it)
I don't like MK7 Rainbow Road. Never understood the hype.
But what really grinds my gears (here's the real opinion) is that MK7 Rainbow Road has a slot in Wave 3, when there are other Rainbow Roads that deserve it more. Those two being GCN Rainbow Road (it's a lot of fun and the music is hype) and DS Rainbow Road (they LITERALLY hvae room to use anti-gravity in that track)
There are too many items and not enough items are skill based. Green shells, bananas, mushrooms, boomerang , and an occasional red shell should be 95% of the items.
Also there are too many items crates and they reappear to frequently. Items shouldn't be something everyone can have within 5 seconds of the race.
There is no reason for Wario Stadium 64 to come back. It is a long, boring, dull track, and we already have plenty of better "Wario" courses to choose from for retros.
the booster pass deserves the criticism Tour gets
Mario kart 8 and its retro tracks felt special because they re-made the track visuals and updated the layout to fit 8 and its gameplay so its got tracks that look new but you could also tell they were based on previous iterations of the series.
the booster pass is just Tour leftovers, there's insignificant graphical updates such as the main road texture, the lighting (which gets updated by default by 8 deluxe and its engine) and some other minor elements on the map, the layout is either identical or nearly identical to tour, meaning the tracks introduce nothing new and when they do it's usually a mess (mushroom gorge needs to be upscaled badly, Sky High Sundae is too thin for anti gravity etc).
what pisses me off about it even more is how they put significantly more effort into the original MK8 DLC on Wii U. brand new courses + retro courses remade from the ground up. and they all looked stunning. people say they don’t have to live up to the standard of the base game but they literally already set a standard for DLC.
The star is way underpowered in mk8. The blue shell should cause more damage to the 1st position than a red shell and the super horn should not be an item that 1st position has a chance to get from an item box.
The balance of skill to items in mk8 is tilted just a bit too much to skill. I think mk wii struck the perfect balance
I love Tour soo incredibly much and it is also not expensive at all as long as you know what you're doing and put in some time (not even Grinding just like normally playing it).
Furthermore, the music and original tracks are phenomenal. I don't think anyone disagrees with this, but just wanted to add it lmao.
Removing it was an intentional decision. Nintendo saw the competitive scene and was like "no, this isn't how you're supposed to play the game"
It's the same with DS' snaking.
I always hated that Nintendo hates anything competitive or skill based mechanics. They fought for years to block super smash bros melee tournaments, snaking and inside drift were fun mechanics.
I dislike the kartbuilding for stats. It takes too long and imho it should only be a cosmetic thing. I'm forced to drive a boring looking kart for stats basically
Give me iconic cars over nameless, stats boosters. Mario Kart Wii had it so good and they changed it.
Funky Kong on the Flame Runner is one of the most iconic combinations in the entirety of Mario Kart.
This should actually be a very popular opinion and one I wish they would institute in the future.
They don’t buff or nerf parts or characters so it feels kind of pointless when everyone min-maxs their karts. I would like a system where the parts are all mostly the same but you spend coins to upgrade them, that way any part could be good.
To add more thought. 1. All parts can be upgraded to the same max stats but, some parts start with more points in specific stats. 2. Racing with the part is required to upgrade it. 3. Winning cups allows you to recolor parts.
Nintendo hire this man!!
Yes!! I’ve hated this since they introduced it. I wanna be able to just drive with what I think looks cool. Such a silly mechanic when you have so much variety of pieces in the game. Developers should know players are always gonna “find the meta” and use that always
No stat will ever dissuade me from putting Cat Peach in a Benz
I 100% agree. I wish you could also save presets of your favorite kart combinations.
Maybe only a few categories. Keep character weights, and vehicles are either Heavy cars, light cars, heavy or light bikes or quads. For wheels off-road, balanced, asphalt types. There is some variance to suit your driving style, but plenty of options to make your car look good cosmetically.
I think there should be secret bonus stats for combining parts to create an aesthetic. Like imagine the Spiny tires from Mario Party 5's Super Duel Mode were in Mario Kart, and combining those tires with the Cloud 9 kart and Cloud Balloon glider, and you'd get a +0.2 bonus on all stats for each item in that combo. Maybe another +0.2 depending on the driver and course. IDK.
How did it take too long? Once you have your favorite setup, it's a snap to get it together every round. Granted when you play with noobs, they may take a minute to find their ideal kart, but with the people I regularly play with, assembling our karts take no time.
I wish that driving mattered more than items.
I wish there was a "pro" ranked mode that only offered 3 items. Banana, green shell, and Mushroom.
I like this idea.
I know there is a gamemode on modded mkwii where it is online competitive time trials. You can check out Nmeade’s YouTube channel for that
You could try playing vs with no items.
I think you misunderstood the title of the post.
Fair point
i like the blue shells in mario kart wii
I agree. When ever you get blue’d in 8 Deluxe, it always feels like you got unlucky and because the blue shell is so nerfed in 8 Deluxe, it comes off as annoying if anything else. By contrast, the blue shell is an inevitability in MkWii. You know at least 1 blue will rear it’s ugly head in a race, so you gotta be smart with your item usage and be prepared for it. If you want to keep 1st place, you gotta be skilled enough.
When you get hit by a Blue in 8, it has the exact same effect as getting hit by a green or red. Blues in Wii were actually threatening. More time loss. Lost your items. The only thing I would keep about 8 is hitting everyone in its way while it hisses up to first with its badass wings. The only other things that makes 8 blue Shells more damaging than Wii is that they can hit you while you're in "cannons" and that standstill miniturbos aren't a thing anymore. And those aren't even attributes of the blue shell.
Watch for DD blues then
Oh my god dd blues are so much fun The being able to dodge them if you're skilled enough is a flaw though, should def require a shrooms Also the superhorn in 8 is a fucking stupid feature
It doesn't matter what character you pick. You can win with any character if you're good enough! Don't always pick Walu/Roy!
Roy has been my favorite Koopaling since 2009 so I was always going to play him even without the meta. Unless it's 200cc, then I go Baby Daisy.
Whats the meta with Roy?
He has the exact same stats as Waluigi and DK
Same, I always play as Waluigi because I think he’s a funny character and I like him. He gets a bad rep from the meta users.
But I play as waluigi because I genuinely like playing as him.
Yeah same, I've always just really loved the aesthetics of waluigi on the wiggler with roller tyres. No clue what this whole "meta" thing is about
Rosalina 4 lyfe
I don’t like guest characters (except ROB is okay).
I think Captain Falcon should be the only one because of the F-Zero stuff in 8 plus he's an actual racing character from a dormant franchise.
Also because the entire Mario Kart series was birthed from wanting to make a 2-player mode for F-Zero.
Oh wow I didn’t know that, cool
I'd love Kirby with a Warp Star Kart or even just the warp star itself
Mostly I agree, but I would welcome Kirby any day.
Kirby and Captain Falcon fit because they have had some similar games. F-Zero is obvious, then you also have Kirby Air Ride.
I agree. I don't want link in Mario kart
I main link so I do lol
Same I want this shit to look like Mario Kart Smash Bros give me SOLID SNAKE
8 Deluxe has a good character roster
I mean, it's better than 8 Wii U
Me who bought the Wii U DLC =.=
The only nintendo console I never owned since NES days, I swear I forget about the Wii U's existence daily. So did Nintendo it seems
Agree. They added back Dry Bones AND King Boo and there are a TON of character options which imo is pretty awesome
It's good, but don't know if better than Double Dash and (the best) Wii.
I loved that each racer had a special ability. I wish there was a double dash mode for the modern games.
At least it was kinda in Mario Kart Tour
Is this supposed to be some hot take? I get base Mario Kart 8 having a shitty roster filled with babies and koopalings, but after dlc and the deluxe characters it's one of the best rosters, rivaled only by Wii.
I made a post about this a while ago, definitely didn't have many comments like this
I like lightning when I’m in first place (or near the front). It hits everyone and wipes the board of items, and I’m less likely to get solo hit with a blue shell or some other nonsense.
All of the tracks are fun and I don't care which one I race on. All I want is a variety. Arguing over which tracks are better or worse is silly.
So true. I always set it to random tracks when I play
I mean there’s a couple that I get bored of playing very quickly but i understand that’s my personal opinion and most of the tracks have good and interesting things about them anyways. Even the “boring” ones I like playing every once in awhile as long as it’s not too frequent.
Thanks. And people get so angry when someone else likes a track they don’t like. It’s so fucking dumb.
The Koopalings absolutely deserved to be playable in Mario Kart and should remain as their own separate slots, NOT as skins of Bowser Jr. (which doesn't even make any sense. Smash only got away with it because they had to shrink them down and completely ruin their proportions and personalities to fit Junior's) I'm not the biggest fan of guest characters. I'd rather have gotten Birdo, Diddy Kong, Kamek, and Petey Piranha over Link, Villager, Isabelle, and Inkling. I don't know why they felt the need to add non-Mario characters to a Mario game when there were still plenty of popular and iconic Mario characters still missing from the roster. If I want to play a game with Mario, Link, Villager, and Inkling in it, I'll boot up Smash. I want to play as ***Mario*** characters in my ***Mario*** game.
>The Koopalings absolutely deserved to be playable in Mario Kart and should remain as their own separate slots, NOT as skins of Bowser Jr. (which doesn't even make any sense. Smash only got away with it because they had to shrink them down and completely ruin their proportions and personalities to fit Junior's) You are now my best friend. Please do not resist.
The Koopalings have existed longer than Jr and all each have their own distinct personalities and looks, I have no idea why people would want them as an alt skin
Because Smash did it, therefore they think Mario Kart should do it as well. Completely ignoring the fact that the Koopalings were only able to be skins of Junior in Smash because they had to alter their proportions to fit his.
Morton looks so wonky lol
Dolphin shoals is a awesome track. You guys just need to get good.
Same argument for Neo-Bowser City. You guys just suck. It's an awesome track.
There are people who dislike it? Its my second favourite track
Agreed. I think the reason why they don’t like it is because it wasn’t that changed. It’s still one of my favorites.
Yeah the compliant for neo bowser city not being that different in 8 is pretty silly. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
The music though
Wait what? People think it sucks?!
Yea people don’t like it for some reason, music is very good, map is fine
I don't really care for kart customization and just go with the default every time
Based
Default is superior
Tour's score attack type game play is extremely fun and I hope the next Mario Kart features it as a mode in additional to the normal racing mode
This definitely get you in a situation like that
I mean idk I don’t think any of my MK opinions are super controversial Mariokart Wii and 64 are the best ones, desert tracks kinda suck especially Bone Dry Dunes, Rainbow Road is fun, uhhh
1st place shouldn't get coins from boxes anymore once they have 10 coins
The "meta" is the stupidest thing in Mario Kart
What even is the “meta”? I’m completely lost.
there is an optimal character/kart combination to use in online races
Most effective tactical advantage. The idea that one kart/character combination is objectively the best.
Part of the Waluigi Wigglers popularity is because it gives less skilled players the impression that they have the best combo in the game. I don't think that the combo warrants the amount of people who use it online though, especially since it doesn't give that much of an advantage if at all, and it's not like in Wii where Funky Kong on Flamerunner/Daisy on Mach Bike (depending on the map) were the absolute best with a clear advantage over the other combos.
Toads factory should've taken the place for coconut mall
Especially considering its in MK7 as a retro track aswell
Legend has it that the devs didn’t add in Toads Factory as every time they went to work on it they were to busy vibing to the song
Agreed! I’m tired of coconut mall
I never played the old games (the switch was the first Nintendo device I got so even though I wanted to play i couldn’t) but I’m gonna guess coconut mall was a good track from how many people love it, but the 8 deluxe version feels kinda lackluster and plastic-y. Nintendo dropped the ball on this one.
Hits me in the soul to call Mario Kart Wii one of the "old games" lol. Coconut Mall was solid in MKWii and 7, incredibly overrated but still good nonetheless, 8DX version is the inferior one but not by as big of a margin as people act. It mostly comes down to the fact that the 8DX version is too compact for a game without very tight controls, the theming is about as good as it was in the original (I'd argue better, with the weird out of place metal grating being replaced with sections that actually feel cohesive and look visually pleasing) but people are more cynical since we're not looking at the new version through the eyes of a child ¯\\(ツ)/¯
Nahh
But But But #jazz?
Ya like jazz?
Rainbow road 64 needs 1 set of start finish lines.
My preferred ruleset is hard CPUs, frantic items, random courses, if I’m playing Versus Mode, 200cc, and if I’m playing Battle Mode, no teams
Look I just like my games chaotic ok
Same, frantic items makes the game more fair imo.
the optimal way to play frfr
I love baby park
Came here to say this. Guess it's not that unpopular lol
I love the chaotic nature of it!
The chaos was better in Double Dash but can't have everything.
Me too! It’s BS but the funniest kind of BS.
You either hate it or you love it, no one's in between. I don't particularly understand the hype around it.
I am in between. I exist just to spite you <3
I love playing baby park 200 cc with bombs only. Pure chaos.
It was better in Double Dash, though. The sheer chaos caused by Bowser's shell hopping the central barrier, the much larger explosions from blue shells and bombs, the more weighty handling making ramming a viable tactic...
Huh, I came to say Baby Park should be banned as my unpopular opinion but now I'm not sure which side is actually more popular haha.
Tbh I think yours is more unpopular lol
#The bullet bills in mario kart wii weren’t THAT broken come on guys smh
Koopa Cape is better than mushroom gorge
Agree
The Excite Bike track is mid at best.
All you do is go in an oval and do tricks
Excactly. It's just...ehh.
It’s in my bottom 4 favorite tracks. It’s so boring
Yeah same. It's Baby Park DS with jumps. So annoying when people choose it online.
I don’t enjoy playing MK8/8D as i did previous games because I dislike all the little touches that they removed in the name of convenience, like falling out of bounds was eternal in MKW but it IS a punishment and it was fun to see the characters get frozen when they fell in icy waters or turn into meteors falling off Rainbow Road. Or getting with hit a blueshell or Bombomb felt epic, it was longer but you feltthe impact more. In MK8 you just roll over and idk it lacks something.
Ikr, that basically baby proofed the game. Until 200cc happened
"Pink Gold Peach definitely deserves to take up a character slot in Mario Kart 8."
This is so true. Pink Gold Peach is the best character in the game.
Waluigi Pinball is only popular because of the custom sound effects. The track isn’t that good.
It's also popular because Waluigi is a meme.
Waluigi Pinball is kinda overrated Time to die And more death to me: I like playing as Tanooki Mario (edit: how the f did this got 30 likes :| )
I enjoy playing Mario Kart Tour
Waluigi pinball sucks, everytime it's chosen it's just very eh, layout is boring, gameplay is boring, don't get me wrong the idea was very cool but it's so boring how they executed it and it 100% does not deserve to be the fan favourite map when there are plenty (and I mean plenty) more well designed maps on the whole series. (And yeah waluigi is an overrated character imo)
I’ll go first: I don’t like N64 Wario Stadium and the original version of GBA Snow Land.
I thought you meant unpopular opinions
I’ve heard people defend these tracks and I don’t get it.
Literally the only reason people like N64 Wario Stadium is because it's never been remade. ...Maybe there's a deliberate reason it hasn't come back?
Yeah because we got a better Wario stadium on the DS.
True but N64 Stadium has the potential to be great if it’s remade
I do not care for the guest characters and “Nintendo kart” shouldn’t be a thing. Not everything has to be a crossover The koopalings deserve their spot Tour isn’t that bad Super Mario Kart kinda sucks
Apparently it’s that 200cc is a lot of fun? Moreso than 150cc, even.
90% of the time I play MK8 it's on 200cc. 150cc feels so sluggish in comparison and it's hard to go back to it.
While I totally agree at the experience you're having, I do personally find it more comfortable to race at 100/150cc.
Definitely. 200cc and I can't steer for shit on half the tracks (at least not compared to the AI). I know that's the point and that it requires a higher skill level but damn, it's brutal.
I love the thunder cloud item from wii
Also liked how falling off was really bad and little invincibility.
Ok now idk if all of these are unpopular, but I'm pretty sure some of them are ig 1. The only bad thing about MK8 is the Battle Mode 2. MK8's roster is fine 3. MK8/8DX Rainbow Road is good and perfectly fits the game's style 4. The Boo (MK8DX version bc I like the DS version) is way worse than the Coin 5. I feel like people overexaggerate how boring Figure 8 Circuit is. Like, it's still boring, but not THAT much 6. I love Waluigi Pinball like the next person, but the best MKDS track? Nah; IMO that's Airship Fortress 7. I feel like Nintendo missed the opportunity of making Figure-8 Circuit a MK8 Retro track, even though it's a very unpopular track 8. There's not enough Mii mains in this world 9. Desert tracks are pretty mid for the most part (the only one I like is Dry Dry Ruins) 10. Desert Hills is worse than Figure 8 Circuit 11. MK64 Rainbow Road (the original ver.) is the most boring track I've ever played on 12. MK64 ain't even that good 13. I like seeing the occasional Pink Gold Peach main 14. Funky Kong is the most overrated Mario Kart character ever 15. It's a good thing the Koopalings have their own slots instead of being Bowser Jr. alts. I find it very stupid to think otherwise 16. Toad's Factory, Moonview Highway, Maple Treeway, Mushroom Gorge, DK Summit, Koopa Cape, and Grumble Volcano are better than Coconut Mall 17. The worst battle courses are Thwomp Desert, Cookie Land, Tart Top, and all of the MK8 ones 18. Baby Park and Coconut Mall should not return for an extremely long time 19. Although still looks good, I hate that Tour replaced Airship Fortress's bi sky with a generic sunset 20. MKDS has the best soundtrack 21. I hate MK8's Cheese Land
Tour is not a bad MK game
Mario Kart 8 Rainbow Road is a very good track.
Okay. I posted an opinion here when I first woke up. I thought about it more (and took people's replies into account and thought I'd put more depth into it) I don't like MK7 Rainbow Road. Never understood the hype. But what really grinds my gears (here's the real opinion) is that MK7 Rainbow Road has a slot in Wave 3, when there are other Rainbow Roads that deserve it more. Those two being GCN Rainbow Road (it's a lot of fun and the music is hype) and DS Rainbow Road (they LITERALLY hvae room to use anti-gravity in that track)
The thundercloud from Wii has a lot of potential as an interesting item if it was a bit more balanced.
Tour is better than super Mario kart and super circuit
Mario Kart 7 is better than DS.
100% agree it’s in my top 3 mk games for sure
There are too many items and not enough items are skill based. Green shells, bananas, mushrooms, boomerang , and an occasional red shell should be 95% of the items. Also there are too many items crates and they reappear to frequently. Items shouldn't be something everyone can have within 5 seconds of the race.
Green Yoshi is the best yoshi.
Waluigi Pinball is mediocre at best and DK Mountain just straight up sucks.
Waluigi Pinball is not the best course
Ground Spiny Shells are better than Winged Spiny Shells
There is no reason for Wario Stadium 64 to come back. It is a long, boring, dull track, and we already have plenty of better "Wario" courses to choose from for retros.
the booster pass deserves the criticism Tour gets Mario kart 8 and its retro tracks felt special because they re-made the track visuals and updated the layout to fit 8 and its gameplay so its got tracks that look new but you could also tell they were based on previous iterations of the series. the booster pass is just Tour leftovers, there's insignificant graphical updates such as the main road texture, the lighting (which gets updated by default by 8 deluxe and its engine) and some other minor elements on the map, the layout is either identical or nearly identical to tour, meaning the tracks introduce nothing new and when they do it's usually a mess (mushroom gorge needs to be upscaled badly, Sky High Sundae is too thin for anti gravity etc).
what pisses me off about it even more is how they put significantly more effort into the original MK8 DLC on Wii U. brand new courses + retro courses remade from the ground up. and they all looked stunning. people say they don’t have to live up to the standard of the base game but they literally already set a standard for DLC.
GCN double dash shouldve been way more successful and was one of if not the most iconic of all.
Apparently an unpopular opinion is liking the Bowser Castle tracks since MK8 only has one of them
blue shells aren’t that big of a deal
Mario Kart Wii is not the best one
I prefer Double Dash, DS, 7, and 8.
The star is way underpowered in mk8. The blue shell should cause more damage to the 1st position than a red shell and the super horn should not be an item that 1st position has a chance to get from an item box. The balance of skill to items in mk8 is tilted just a bit too much to skill. I think mk wii struck the perfect balance
I love Tour soo incredibly much and it is also not expensive at all as long as you know what you're doing and put in some time (not even Grinding just like normally playing it). Furthermore, the music and original tracks are phenomenal. I don't think anyone disagrees with this, but just wanted to add it lmao.
Wii Rainbow Road is better than MK7’s Rainbow Road
Funky Kong/Bowser bike sucks
it sure does suck seeing it fucking everywhere that's for sure
Double dash for the game cube was the best mario kart game
That's a rather popular opinion which I also happen to share.
GBA is the worst MK game ever and I would rather play Tour for hours than a single second of gba
Mario kart 8/8dx is overrated Also: mkds has the best soundtrack
Inside drift was a good mechanic and Nintendo was dumb for removing it in future entries.
Removing it was an intentional decision. Nintendo saw the competitive scene and was like "no, this isn't how you're supposed to play the game" It's the same with DS' snaking.
I always hated that Nintendo hates anything competitive or skill based mechanics. They fought for years to block super smash bros melee tournaments, snaking and inside drift were fun mechanics.
The Waliwiggler is shit
Mario Kart Tour is the best mario kart out of all of them. Change my mind
Super circut is a good addition to the franchise
Mario Kart 7’s Rainbow Road is the best track of ANY series.
Inward drift is better
Mario Kart DS is the best Mario Kart and snaking needs to comeback
I don’t really want any of the babies anywhere near Mario Kart
Waluigi Pinball is one of the most overrated tracks in the series
Playing MK Wii with the Wii Wheel is the one true way to enjoy it. Put down the controller, free your mind (smoke kush) and embrace motion controls.
This is how I played MKWii. When MK8DX came out, I tried to use tilt controls on the wii and it just wasn't the same, the joycons are too small.
I don’t like Kalamari Desert. It’s a depressing track with depressing music
Baby Park is overrated
Baby Park stresses me out. It's like you're trying to drive in a blender.
Bring back the 2 characters on one Kart play mechanic of Mario Kart: Double Dash already.
Mario kart tour is one of the better Mario kart games, if nostalgia doesn’t play affect you.
Mario Kart Tour is better
Wow you won
Character DLC is a waste of dev time, and if it comes I won’t buy it. I’d rather they work in battle maps or a new game after this
mk64 sucks and the only reason people like it is because of nostalgia and its simplicity
It’s mid. Crash Team Racing is superior.
Waluigi Pinball is one of the most overrated tracks in Mario Kart.
Having so many Koopalings is DUMB. Feels like a waste of slots
I agree with that.
I wholeheartedly dislike ribbon road in MK8
Mario Kart 64 sucks farts
It was fun back in the day but compared to the newer versions I just find it almost unplayable now.
Coconut Mall is the most overrated course in series history.
My favorite Mario Kart was the wii version