Mario Kart World

While the site was down Nintendo had their MKW direct to give a better look at what the game has in store. Thoughts?
youtube.com/live/mq4uCJDwO9U?si=q4sI5lwUggWzLG1A

$80

Overview trailer pretending to be a direct for some reason.

missions coming back in free roam is cool but this didn't warrant a direct, could've just been an overview trailer upload

it was shit

even if it wasn't 90 yuroos I don't think I'd bother, the whole open world thing seems very poorly thought out

its confirmed now that the game is not getting DLC and they would rather put literal cows, limbless bonerfishes and crossover characters instead of putting Mario spinoff characters in this LITERAL MARIO SPINOFF.

this game is shit. if i want to buy a S2, it would be for Bananza. at least that game is not pretending to be something that is clearly not like MKW.

this is the only game I pre-ordered, everything else looks gay. where the fuck is my new mario?

I just feel like the dev time that went towards the open world could have gone towards more courses instead. Not every game needs to be open world.

where the fuck is my new mario?

it's called dk bananza it's coming july

Just because they don’t explicitly say so doesn’t mean it won’t happen. There was no word about splatoon 2 getting dlc when that happened, and even with MK8DX it got the booster course pack years after
Mario kart is their big system seller, no doubt with the millions who will buy they’ll wring out a few extra bucks with a bonus island or something

Correction, the Super Mario RPG remake came out in 2023, but my point still stands.

and not just that. what about Prince Florian, or the flower people from Wonder, or Cappy or the Broodals from oddysey? those are characters from the mainline games, arent they? by nintendo's logic they should be ok, and they dont even use them, so what the hell?

and no, if they dared use random enemies, most of which, dont have arms or legs, they can put Florian or Cappy in there too.

I get it for free with a console

Funny how everyone seeing playable mooks went from “hey, that’s kinda funny” to “wow, this is bullshit”

It's weird how little stuff from Odyssey and Wonder has leaked into the spinoffs.

Goomba and Koopa Troopa should absolutely be playable, and I like the cow as a joke character.
But who asked for these random irrelevant enemies over characters people actually care about?

Characters need to have been in more than one mainline mario game to qualify

mooks like the Goombas, the standard Koopatroopas, Lakitu or Kamek, Do make sense as playable character. hell! Koopatroopa and Kamek WERE playable before.

but when you go out of the way to just put whatever random thing you have instead of focus on characters people want, thats when it gets ridiculous.

outside the mooks, the mario franchise has dozens of actual named characters who would be better appearing here than any random mook, and thats only the mainline games. or do you or anyone really wanted for the moomoo meadows cow to be an actual racer?

The mario mandate is dead for mainline games and rpg spinoffs but is alive and well when it comes to mario kart and sports spinoffs.

Do we have any drawfags in this thread? Is there anyone willing to draw an OP artworkd for the Mario Kart Anon Babbleeekend threads that will undoubtedly happen?

Looks like slop. Plays like slop. But the bing bing wahoo crowd will be happy

The "direct" was useless. Nintendo needs to lay all their cards on the table.

I think they should add Tap-tap and Roger the Potted Ghost.

Speaking of

removed tournaments

no communities either

seemingly nothing to replace any of these

can only play with friends or rando’s

We may have to go back to adding people on friends list for Anon Babbleeekends if there’s no substitute

The "direct" really didnt tell us anything we didnt already know... With that said, the game looks really fun and Wario has a bee-themed outfit and there is a bee-lookin cart. Bee chads take a massive W woth this game.

Yeah, I had someone point this out to me before. I really hope that's just a kiosk demo oddity and not in the final game, that would be the lamest shit ever.

We may have to go back to adding people on friends list

I skipped MK8D was there a pool or something?

all these skins are a separate character slot

why? MK8 you could just pick costumes by picking the character like with the shyguy and Yoshi colors.

All these random generic enemies as racers and still none of the RPG or M&L characters

I still will never understand this shit, Nintendo are omega retarded with their own IPs.

Miyamoto
Just look at King Boo, he's forever relegated to have the Mario Sunshine appearance

MK8 had a tournament feature where you could set up online tourneys that could be held with their own rulesets and whatnot. It didn’t get much use and was largely forgotten of but for the purposes of playing with Anon Babble it made it easy to play with everyone as all you had to do was join the tourney and play when it was available

This has nothing to do with anything, but they should be saying "lower the price" or "reduce the price." "Drop the price" sounds very crude and uneducated. It's not the natural verb here.

Was kinda hoping we’d get a pool system like splatoon 3 has. Could’ve been fun as fuck

enter pool code

get dropped into free-roam with a bunch of other anons

can dick around free-roam alongside anons and race around instead of the world being empty

anyone can make an open invitation to start a race and others can join in when it opens up

can allow for custom rules instead of the default

That screenshot was from the direct with the full online menu, and if they were gonna add a feature like that it would’ve been mentioned in the direct beforehand. Even splatoon 3’s pool feature got a mention of being something they were gonna add even though it didn’t get added until 6 months later

Vivian

Even if she'd render threads unusable due to being ragebait in living shadow form, she'd be a cool addition. People just need to do what I do and ignore the demake entirely.

It was started by ESLs

Your green text story is shown almost verbatim in the direct

This shit doesn't look worth $80

It's just an extended version of the other one; why the fuck would anyone waste two weeks for the same shit?

Splatoon 3 got the pool system like 6 months into its life, they could always patch something in down the road.

90€

Pathetic. They gave Mario Golf a story mode and not Mario Kart. They made an entire world and didn't add a story mode. They should have at least had different islands for different Nintendo properties and a huge underground area with Metroid themed tracked.

MARIO kart not Smash kart
If you want to drive around another Nintendo IP, play Kirby Air Riders.

he doesn't think they removed it from the main game to sell it as DLC just like they did with the Zelda and Animal Crossing tracks in 8

lmao

we WILL get crossover characters as DLC while Kamek, Petey, Diddy, and Funky are left on the wayside once again barring another Booster Course DLC thing ten fucking years later

The tracks look so boring, 24 racers was a midtake and every road is as wide and empty as a hooker's pussy. I want Double Dash track tightness where everybody's slamming into each other again

I don't want Smash kart. I just want Penny, Ashley, Jimmy T., Mona, Diddy, Dixie, Goombella, Vivian, Rawk Hawk, Evil Queen Peach, and Doopliss.

The gimmick in Sonic CrossWorlds where the tracks connect together through portals is way more interesting than the open world in Mario Kart. I'd rather play Sonic, it's probably going to have more interesting single player content anyway.

still 30 fps in splitscreen

Told everyone, the game industry entered the soulless era a long time ago. Nintendo is publicly owned and some of it is by Blackrock. it was bound to happen eventually.

This would've made it perfect for another crossover racing, but too bad Sega missed the mark there.

stfu loser the cow is epic for the win

$50 for me. Sounds like a skill issue.

$0 for me. Emulation for the win.

kids think Yuzu/Ryujinx are magically going to work

Uh-huh, good luck emulating a Switch 2 game let alone its multiplayer features.

I want a massive Mario RPG that has the player go on a journey across all the landscapes from every spin-off series. Would be amazing so see how villains interact with other villains and Kongs teaming up with Beanish

Sonic CrossWorlds is looking to be the better racing game.

That's cause people want more to explore. The enemies are just parts of the Kamek item, they don't even have alternate costumes like the main cast does. Mario Kart World should have a story mode and missions that you find through integrations with NPCs throughout the map. P Switches were you just collect coins will get old and they can't be super difficult cause there's no way to arrange the order in finding them.

Having characters like that show up would imply they're going to be some sort of mainstays with more appearances down the line, rather than cool one-offs who were part of a grand RPG adventure Mario had that one time.

It didn't show anything crazy new but game looks fun, I like the trick system and I am looking forward to people falling off trying to wallride

already seething that we'll save money not having to buy another door stopper

This looks so fucking boring.

How much for the console d'équipe.

Will the game have any unlockable characters?
It would be disappointing if it doesn't, I need my nigga back

I love Phone posting desu.

We have seen the CSS with different numbers of pages. Outfits and some enemy characters are unlocked (though seemingly through random chance)

highest speed is 150cc

nobody gives a fuck about Geno, he's dumb and gay

There are pieces of ROB hidden throughout the map and if you get them all you unlock him, trust the plan

I paid like $140 (in February 2025 dollars) for Mario Kart back in the 90s and I like Mario Kart 8 but I don’t play MK8 enough to think I want more Mario Kart so soon
I’d rather play Xenoblade Chronicles X and 2 and Splatoon

I give a fuck about Geno, he's smart and straight.

Geno is owned by Square Enix though.

Anyone?

I'll post mine while I'm at it.

wario has his horrible new voice i hate it. might be my biggest complaint about all this. it just doesn't fucking sound like wario it is genuinely rage inducing how shit this new guy is at wario. vinny can do a better wario.

Now that you mention it, with Charles gone they’ll need a new waluigi voice as well. This’ll likely be Kevin’s first crack at voicing waluigi

treehouse gameplay shows all of MK Worlds cards

the game is a slow straight line simulator with the tracks being some of the most cookie cutter casual tracks imaginable

retro courses that should be hype like toads factory turn out to be mini half baked versions of the original

yeah this game looks boring as fuck

wait for le direct!!

15 so mins of showing off everything we already knew

this direct was supposed to be nintendo showing us why MKW is worth the price and hype

Honestly the only thing that I can give a thumbs up for is the cool unlockable costumes with this game. Ill just stick with 8dx until switch 2 emulators come out. You have to be pretty gullible to slobber this open world meme slop up for 450 + 80 + 50 + tax + tip.

I don’t care that Vivian is a troon/trap/whatever. I just hate her annoying fans.

paper mario characters in non paper mario game

has this ever happened before? i strongly feel like nintendo would never do this

They put the Star Spirits in Mario Party 5, Whackas in 6 as board cameos (for Snowflake Lake), and Bowser's Castle from Paper Mario 1 is in the background of Super Circuit's Rainbow Road.

idk i paid $50 for my copy, maybe yours is just broken?

This guy pretty much explains why this game is going to be trash. His video on the Switch 2 is also worth a watch.
youtu.be/bjj7fUQ-7mo

He already voiced Waluigi in Jamboree.

2025

the 'hot girl' character has to be in a pose showing her whole ass like a whore

a pose they would never put a man in

I thought we were past this, Nintendo... shame...

All switch 2s are sold out everywhere

tendies never learn

not watching your video, fag

Doesn’t change the fact it looks like shit, but go ahead and keep defending nintendo

So you're not denying it.

It’s a good video, anon.

looks good im gonna buy it

This hasn't been debunked. Mario Kart World can still justify the price tag

Eh, kinda a good thing the direct didn't sell me on being another $80 in the red.

Thank you Nintendo, so pro-consumer!

The seamless open world IS the twist. I don't think any other kart racer is like that, or at least not a popular one.

I didn't watch it, do they have a classic mode for GP? I think driving from track to track is cool but I would also like to have the option to just do the classic 4 track format.

They do have the classic format for individual races, not sure about Grand Prix

Mario Kart 9 in active development, will feature a "new twist": ANAL

Genuinely extremely depressing that they did so much creative shit for Odyssey / Wonder and literally the only thing that references is the fucking Mario x Minecraft DLC crossover pack
The Shiverians seem like they'd be perfect shill bait ala Piantas or Lumas as literally just a bunch of cute cuddly seal-bears but this fucker right here is the only time it has EVER shown up past Odyssey

Yea, weird how odyssey got zilch in terms or being referenced in spinoffs, whereas something like sunshine was shoehorned into fucking everything and still is being referenced to this day
Explanation i’ve heard is that it’s because of odyssey taking place around the globe and wonder in a completely different kingdom that they obviously aren’t referenced because they’re foreign to the mushroom kingdom (which the spinoffs often take place in), and thus have no reason to be present, but that sounds like bullshit if i’ve ever heard it

>paper mario characters in non paper mario game

Also King Goomba/Goomboss in SM64 DS, etc. Nintendo had everything in everything in the old Mario days without issue.

Haven’t played Mario Kart or any Nintendo games in a decade. I’ll give it a shot

That's obviously bullshit since Sunshine and Galaxy don't take place in the Mushroom Kingdom either.

Don't worry, youll be paying the $80 for Zelda,3DMario,Smash,Pokemon etc ;)

Looks like a PS2 game.

It’s on a 1080p screen, kinda have no choice to make their games low-quality

zelda

not if its another botw clone

3d mario

yeah i'd pay $80 for that

smash

they won't make another smash game

pokemon

lol i havent bought a pokemon since B&W2 and thats never gonna change unless gamefreak actually puts in effort

Honestly same, it’s kinda refreshing not feeling pressured to day-1 a new Nintendo release for once. Might actually wait for a sale for once (lol as if they’d ever discount it).

DROP THE FUCKING PRICES

I would love if they did dlc packs based around different games

i hope to see a lot of characters from the mario franchise including koopalings, broodals, and even smaller enemy classes
personally don't care for any collab characters from other nintendo franchises because some of them just don't fit in visually

has anyone confirmed how many total characters there are? also if the game allows players to pick copies? (like if someone already picked mario, will other players be able to pick mario as well or will the choice be greyed out for the rest)

has anyone confirmed how many total characters there are?

Supposedly it’s about 50 unique characters minus skins. More than 8DX’s albeit with significant cuts, with said cuts being replaced by mooks

also if the game allows players to pick copies?

Save for the early entries mario kart doesn’t do this

I've been thinking that if they do DLC, it'll be like this

wave 1: Core Mario stuff (Odyssey, Wonder, etc.)

wave 2: Other kongs, maybe loli Pauline, MAYBE K. Rool if he returns in Bananza

wave 3: Wario Land/Ware (the games already have small references)

wave 4: All guests from MK8 return, plus one or two new guests

I don't like crossover characters :/ that's smash's gimmick.

finally a fellow anon that hates the fucker before it became cool

its confirmed now that the game is not getting DLC

If you're going to complain, at least don't lie. Nintendo isn't going to talk about DLC before release if it's not necessary

Those are just characters. It confuses and annoys me how much Anon Babble rosterfags for Mario Kart when it really doesn't make a difference. I'm much more interested in how they could integrate new dlc tracks into the open world

Is there going to be a race that goes around the whole island? Pointless being open world if there isn't.

You can create that race if you want. There will probably be some kind of p switch challenge for that too, maybe, depending on how intense they get

If they announced DLC right out the gate you pearl clutching faggots would complain anyways.

wow, that's a very small number especially considering there are 24 players at a time

agree with the other anon
give me everything but crossover characters
couldn't care less for link or zelda or isabelle or squid kids
they just don't fit in

I don't want the Smash Kart nonsense to continue either, but Nintendo would be foolish not to sell back the MK8 guests, people play as and care for them.

people want a new smash

ultimate basically cannot be improved besides adding more characters

no smash in sight

people want smash kart

new kart is Mario only

sakurai is also making a kart racer

sakurai usually makes smash

hold up...