They could add literally any of the Mario RPG characters, any of the WarioWare characters...

They could add literally any of the Mario RPG characters, any of the WarioWare characters, any of the extended DK family and enemy characters. And what do they do instead? Add a fucking cow and hazards as playable racers because they apparently "ran out" of options.

Is this EPD team living in a bubble where no fan feedback is heard? Or are they actually unironically being mandated?

why do you retards always degenerate to stupid fucking rosterfaggotry instead of critiqueing anything that actually matters like the price or the boring road segments between every actual race or the inevitably piss-poor online functionality?

Fuck the spinoff series characters. Where the hell are the mainline Mario characters like Prince Florian/the Popplins, the Broodals, E. Gadd, Petey Piranha, King Boo, the Koopalings, Wart, and Tatanga?

King Boo

King Boo

He's right fucking there. He even gets costumes

none of them being the iconic Mansion one, of course.

No Nabbit no buy

Wasn’t a case of running out of options, they were just stumped on who else they could add to spice things up given how many they’ve added already. Cow was moreso a joke idea that surprisingly worked, and they just took that to the other npc drivers

what is DLC

I cant wait to play this game with Anon Babble

nigger it's mario kart. The only characters you need are Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Peach
Anything more than that is just bloat

Nope.

Fuck Genofags. I hope you niggers suffer for eternity.

Fuck you

no, fuck you

Roster-wise the koopalings were the most criticized aspect of MK8. Why they likely were cut, cause no one liked them

spinoff characters are locked in DLC jail

Why shit on Chargin' Chuck? I actually like him, he's a notable Mario character. I don't like the literally whos.

I will buy all DLC for Mario Kart World even if it ends up costing 500 dollars total or more.

But I like generic classic Mario characters, you cant explain why a goomba is worse than geno

So you're saying Super Mario Kart had bloat because of characters like DK Jr.?

I like Coin Coffer, but it would be better if it had a costume for the original look rather than the froggy look it currently has.

I just want Metal Mario to come back. Even a costume is fine.

The goombas know what they did.

Weh Link?

if you're actually expecting them to include rpg characters ever you're fucking delusional

You got Boshi, is that not enough?

The Koopalings are back to being shadowbanned from the franchise after all the bitching and moaning about them following their oversaturation in the NSMB games and spinoffs, and MK8 specifically was seen as "the last straw" when it came to them being excessively featured.

I'm not paying $80 to drive in a straight line and occasionally have my kart go vertical.

because nobody on Anon Babble actually plays video games

fan feedback

from all those games that sell a lot worse than the mainline games and Mario Kart

People loved the Koopalings then they decided they didn't, the moral of the story is never pay attention to retards and just do fuckall whatever you want.

Miyamoto is autistic, please understand.

What is getting the antijapan glowies so riled up this time anyway?
Yes they were sperging out during the switch 1 but not to this downright psychotic degree to the point of trying to attack ALL JP platforms with payment processors all at once.

I really like the weirdo picks in mariokart games, they're always fun
Still won't pay $80 for it but I like to see it

let's add in a bunch of generic enemies with no arms to drive carts!

What was their endgame here?

How the fuck is most of the list polluted with generic enemies.
This lowers the quality of the roster which lowers the overall perceived quality of the game.
If your going to do this at least only put the Real characters in the main selection, then add a "bonus" button and shove all the enemies and NPCs that no one asked for in that section.

Miyamoto

How many times does it need to be stated, that the mandate isn't ran by Miyamoto, it's ran by the shareholders and their Yesmen. This is why Mario gets more souless, there is literally no better way to sterilize Mario as a brand than to put out of touch board directors that just got there and have never played a nintendo game in there life, in charge of "what's best for the brand"

Saving sets of characters for paid DLC. I expect a Kong Pack to come out within a half year or so with Diddy, Dixie, Cranky and Funky. I hate it.

Well remember when everyone bitched about the Koopalings? That's how we got here. The funniest part is Mario kart was the best game bring them back. All the bitching came from when they got added to Smash as skins for Jr, then retards were like " why weren't the koopalings just skins like they were in smash!? Think of what we could have as in Mario Kart!". They were saying this knowing full and well each Koopling was in a different weight class in Mario Kart so they couldn't just be skins

Is this some new seething from genofags since they don't have smash threads to shit on anymore?

The New Soup defense force is pathetic.

koopalings are all ugly and lame to be fair
the only good one is Roy

New Soup

They werent even apart of the NSMB rehashing until the very last game before they made Mario Maker. All of the hate on them is people projecting all of literally unrelated things that made mario sterile on to their attempts to bring back the koopalings, but all those things were killing Mario, way before the Koopalings were even thought about being brought back.

They werent even apart of the NSMB rehashing until the very last game before they made Mario Maker

fun

By that criteria Mario has always been sterile, the thing is that some retards try to push the narrative that Mario's mainline is something different from what it always been.

They werent even apart of the NSMB rehashing until the very last game before they made Mario Maker

Fucking faggot retard

"I want wario ware characters!"

Ok, we'll add some

adds Crygor, Orbulon, and 18-volt

"N-no, not like that!!!"

just say what you real mean, pedo

that's because if you want any of them, you're going to be getting all of them, and that's a full 7 characters most of which you will never pick.

after having played the mariomon pokemon romhack, I have appreciate all the weirdo characters of the mario universe

fun fact, the "original one" and the frog one are actually classified as two different enemies

When?

Agreed. Every Genofag I've ever met has been an insufferable faggot.

He's in

NTA but my first choice would be Dribble/Spitz with the taxi.

Odyssey characters outside of Pauline (who isn't even from Odyssey) are oddly missing from spin-offs.

Japs just didn't bend the knee

There are faggots like Capcom and shit but most stayed pretty clear they weren t bending over and Nintendo in particular has basically decoupled from the west in anything but squeezing them out of money

This has got the glowies seething to the poitn they are going mask off which is pretty rare to be so blatant

Couple that with their free manpower they get from anti ninty schizos since the switch 2 is basically guaranteed to be a hit and there you go

Never, white people will get mad about it again claiming it's a stereotype.

rosterfagging

>>>for a mario kart game

genuinely hang yourself subhuman

Why does Miyamoto hate him?

Add a fucking cow and hazards as playable racers because they apparently "ran out" of options.

I imagine it's more that they wanted a bunch of generic enemies that they could have driving around the open world and they decided to make them playable.

why do you think miyamoto is in any way in charge of what's being done with mario kart tour? I don't think he's directly worked on a game in over 15 years.

That wasn't even the controversy, you ragebait addict. It was about poncho/sombrero Mario on the cover, and it got Nintendo to replace it with a different pic even though only a single white woman was bothered.

No Dry Bowser this time? lame.

The Mario mandate

dude why are there so many literal whos on this roster?

Cause you can't sell season passes with literal whos thats why.
People will buy another Booster Course if that Booster Course comes with characters like Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Ashley, Link, Samus or Kirby. Less people will buy a Pass if they get characters like Pianta or Coin Coffer. Those basic enemy characters are in to bloat up the roster and give you something to talk about. The cow itself did half the marketing for this game already.

all those would require making new assets. The goombas and cows and shit were already in the game and required minimal development effort. it’s purely a matter of convenience

If that’s the case and they ultimately didn’t go through with this that would mean the roster total would be 26, in a game with 24-player races. Frankly it only makes nintendo look even worse

I wish there were more spin-off enemies in it, but I guess Alpharad and his imprisoned spriters will cover that in an inevitable sequel hack.

The roster is so fucking bloated

Everything here is better than the queen bee in 7.

I think I would take Queen Bee over Stingby. Just give her a bigger size and that would be ok.

The only upside to adding so many extra character slots is when modding the game it will be easy to replace the extra garbage with stuff we actually want.

Dry Bones doesn't get costumes

we riot

fpbp
At least with Smash rosterfaggotry makes some sense because new characters have new movesets.
Mario Kart characters are all the same underneath, they just change some stats around.
The track design matters a lot more and I haven't liked what I've seen.

Is this EPD team living in a bubble where no fan feedback is heard?

yes. if game sells no matter what, there's no incentive to innovate or crowd please. Nintendo hasn't done anything signficant since Sakurai stopped securing insane Smash collabs.

I will wait before making any judgements about their open world. If they took they BOTW approach to the open world then this will be a barren wasteland with no substance. I don't have faith that they've meaningfully made any improvements to their online infrastructure. If they have it probably won't matter much because 90%+ of people will be playing on wifi.

i want koopalings and a lot of characters from odyssey and wonder

yeah
they really should have added the ones you listed
also the species from each kingdom in odyssey
the models won't even need a lot of work to fit in
i would main shiverians haha

because it's an $80 game with an underwhelming roster
they should have had a lot more characters and outfits to justify the price tag
also there isn't anything wrong with the tracks or the other content, it's okay imo

drybones is considered on par with sidestepper and coin coffer despite being a series veteran

finna kms

also HATE that the ui is gonna be flooded with seperate characters and outfits
these people are so fucking retarded honestly

That's what the stars next to the characters means? That fucking sucks, is it really so hard to put a pirate hat on an npc?

But will Dry Bones finally get his tank back? That's my most pressing concern. The Dry Bomber could drift so well.

Zero chance.

I only play as Luigi on every Mario spin off, i couldnt care less about the roster for these games

Orbulon and Jimmy T would be based

People will buy another Booster Course if that Booster Course comes with characters like Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Ashley, Link, Samus or Kirby

I mean it's how they handled pokemon SV

Make you only wear one of four school uniforms "to fit the theme"

Sell you real options in the DLC

the footage I've seen looks really pretty but why are all the roads so fucking big

Because technically speaking, he's a "Luigi's Mansion" character, not a Mario character, as he first appeared in Luigi's Mansion. At best you'll see his logo pop up, but nothing more.
Nintendo is very autistic about the kind of overlap Mario and its subsidiaries can experience, even in spinoff media.

to accommodate 24 players

Japan doesn't cater to jews and trannies and they're pissed about it. They can't subvert a mostly homogeneous country without infiltrating it first.

The roster alone is why I refuse to buy this shitty game.

And even if they correct their mistake and add desired characters again like Kamek and Funky Kong in DLC or even new characters like Dixie? Its the principle, quite a lot of these characters should have gotten into the MAIN console Mario Kart games years ago. Fuck Nintendo. Fuck them so much for this stunt.

I hope this game flops in terms of not selling as good as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I know Mario Kart World will sell good but I just don't want it to sell as good as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so that Nintendo thinks of it as a disappointment.

I really hope the characters themselves don't affect the overall stats, just the kart itself. A lot of the mooks look like they would be lightweight so they'd have shit stats regardless. I wanna pick goomba.

I enjoy mario kart, but I'm not hardcore into it by any means, but the roster doesnt really impact the game, does it?
Outside of your standard dudes everything else is just bonus.
Does it really matter if its Mario saying Wahoo after a jump or a side character from another game?

With fighting games, sure, I get that, but with Wahoo racing 9?

Sidestepper predates dry bones by several years

not in mario kart
dry bones is even in the middle of all other chars with stars there in that pic, it is literally the one one out

the tracks looks abysmal and the karts look slow as shit, wtf are nintendo smoking

it's just that there are so many other characters in the franchise that would have been much better picks
this roster is half trash, no offense to cow enjoyers or anything, but these should have been an afterthought
they should have prioritized adding important characters like koopalings, broodals, kamek, cappy, tiara, florian, monkeys first

Arent people fucking sick of the koopalings since New super mario bros?
People were complaining everytime those fuckers showed up in anything, and now that they're not there, suddenly we all fucking love 'em

yep
exactly
the roster is intentionally trash with half of them not even having outfits
they are gonna sell dlcs, don't be surprised if those dlcs are purely for characters and cosmetics, with no additional tracks
and people are still gonna buy it all because they know their customers are addicted

I doubt its all the same people
I don't really care either way its Mario Kart
Most of the enemies/hazards turned into karters were probably an 'eh, why not' situation. Characters barely need animations in a kart racer and half of the random fodder doesn't even have a full set of limbs to animate.

we

It's almost like Anon Babble is more than one person.

Roster faggots are subhuman

After all these years of 8, Im all in for a change, which seems to be the case youtu.be/mpI0U-8Jp-g?si=TGMJk1ulv0cUJm5a

This is going to be a damn hot take, but NSMB is more soulful than Wonder.
Wonder's clearly trying too hard to be fun and whimsical. While NSMB makes no attempt to hide it's cookie cutter nature. That rawness is infinitely more soulful than attempting to be otherwise.
It's Soulfully Soulless, so to speak.

and the karts look slow as shit

That makes me sad. The one thing I wanted from a new Mario Kart was more speed. I love playing on 200cc and wanted 250 or even 300 for the next game

Oh thank fuck an actual mechanics video and not just blatant rosterbating from retarded anons. I'm hyped for the grinding and wall riding. Like others, I hope there's more curves/drifting than we've seen, but I always like when new tech gets added. Really hope they went all in on alternate paths that take advantage of it.

hot take

Everyone agrees that NSMB (the first one) is the good one, it’s the following iterations that that lose the soul

doesn't really help that NSMB 2 and NSMB U were released within a month of each other

unironically quoting Game Dude

kill yourself

not unless Square says its okay :^)

the charge jump spam on the surface of the water is probably going to get patched, it seems like an oversight

Regular tracks have more bends, but thats not really the focus, the idea is to chain tricks. Apparently it does take some practice to start chaining stuff so thats how better players will stand out

I think it's more so if you include the koopalings you gotta include all 7 and that's a lot of slots but it's also the fact that nintendo start spamming them in every game for a while and people just got tired of them

The hate for this game sounds so inorganic and impotent to me now and I've only watched the first three minutes so far.

I'm just happy with donkey kong and pauline desu

it's forced as fuck, Mario has always had "wide tracks" so why bitch about actual roads between tracks?

You can expect to see the same thingin the next Smash Bros.

because it's new and autistic retards hate change

Would be unironically based.

1 costume each

Thankfully I'm not a rosterfag so I just pick whichever character looks fun to me

Bouncing on top of other players for a trick/boost is going to cause a lot of ragequits.

if only they'd give pauline a micro-bikini outfit

I would laugh so hard my whole body would fall apart as a result by the time I was done laughing. The idea of so many 3rd parties being removed and we go back to pre-brawl style roster would be amazing.

I'm no AAA higher up but I don't see a version of events where Smash's roster doesn't get cut down after Ultimate. The only way to avoid that would be to make an Ultimate Deluxe, and that'd be lame as fuck.

smash desperately needs a reboot, who really gives a fuck if shitters like banjo or purse owner don't come back
especially if it means new movesets from the ground up for the mainstay characters

the most likely scenario is a new smash with a lot less characters

Here's the OFFICIAL Anon Babble character tier list
Sorry I don't make the rules

--Based Line--

King tier - I kneel

Wario, Pianta, Koopa, Dry Bones, Chuck

Based tier - You are firmly based

Shy Guy, Hammer Bro, Monty, Piranha Plant, Dolphin, Penguin

Acceptable tier - You're the minimum level of an acceptable pick

Bowser, Waluigi, Wiggler, Pokey, Peepa, Rocky Wrench

--Shitpost Line--

Shitposter - You pick this character to piss off others

Any baby character, nuDK, Goomba, Nabbit, Spike, Coin Coffer, Cheep Cheep, Cow, Biddybud, Sidestepper, Snowman, Cataquack, Fish Bone, Conkdor

Item Bait - You have awful taste and deserve to get kart'd

Any baby character, Mario, Luigi, Toad, Toadette, Bowser Jr, Lakitu, King Boo (because it's not LM), Swoop, Stingby

--Gooner Line--

Waifufag - Coom

All the girls

--Nigger Line--

Fag - You're a fag

Yoshi, Birdo

Who says they won't add all of that? I'm hoping there's so many unlockable characters that it's insane. It'd give reason to explore and do the random little missions you find. Maybe they're showing off the oddball background characters cause the cooler ones are meant to be found?

I don't expect this but I think it's a possibility and I hope I'm right. Just throw every conceivable Mario character/enemy at the roster, then let dlc be Nintendo characters like Samus or third party like Sonic.

Can I at least keep Ridley?

bro the best mario kart game (64) has an 8 character roster. Roster size is mostly irrelevant.

I really do despise whoever decided "lets just keep adding more racers". they never should've gone over 8, the course design just suffers more and more as you add more racers. Also the item balance goes to shit, nobody wants to be in 6th and still getting mediocre items like a red shell because "lol you're in the top fucking quarter still".

smash desperately needs a reboot

No it doesn't.

Real talk - Wario Land needs at least something even its one common goon. A Dr. Mario game on the 64 has given Wario Land more love than spin off after

depends on if prime 4 flops or not

If anything, they just need a GC virtual console port of melee and a switch 2 upgrade for smash ultimate. That's it. The series has had 5 iterations. Let it rest and let the devs develop something else.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION GRORIOUS MIYAMOTO-SAMA

ARR GAIJIN MUST DIE

That didn't come out in Japan.

NSMBU is the best one, objectively.

Kinda
Got slapped into Puzzle Collection on the gamecube

oh yeah put link and cranky kong in the game and save crab and cow for dlc genius

The first one influenced all the others though, can't single out any of them for that.

Smash is next to Mario Kart as Nintendo's multiplayer money printer, Sakurai can retire but they will find a new director if it means keeping the series alive.

Yes, because all starred characters are characters who aren't Kamek unlocks (or NPC drivers as they put it).

Because he's a stand-in for the normal Boo who are always items in Mario Kart.

I'm no AAA higher up but I don't see a version of events where Smash's roster doesn't get cut down after Ultimate. The only way to avoid that would be to make an Ultimate Deluxe, and that'd be lame as fuck.

Oh, 100%. No way they're keeping all these characters. That was a once-in-a-series thing. I also don't see a world where they port a Smash game, even with new stuff added. Even when Nintendo was doing badly, they made a new smash game.
Not a fan of the idea of a full-on reboot for Smash. I think they got a good thing going here and should just focus on adding new modes and such. Mainstay characters don't need a reboot to get updated movesets, you could just give the games longer dev times for that.

Because he's a Luigi character, not a Mario character.

you can't play as a block of bricks from mario 1

absolutely unnacceptable and rude to all those toad victims.

You mean 24.

Generally speaking, they were more concerned with expanding upon and changing everything else rather than simply throwing in more characters with the usual Mario Kart set-up.

Considering the state of the actual smash community currently, I don't think Nintendo is as high on it as the community thinks. They don't value esports the same way if anything. Yeah, it sold well and has cultural relevance, but so did splatoon. They have a multiplayer fromsoft game coming soon, Air Riders, and a port of SF6 with amiibo support, and two new pokemon games. They have multiplayer games covered in the short term. Even with a new director, it would be like trying to follow up who framed Roger rabbit too.

This. And Samus and Kirby. And I don't want to hear a single fag accuse me of smash faggotry when we're getting goddamn fucking swoop

They'd sooner add the Deku Babas and Keese than an actual crossover character just to keep in line with the theme of "most new characters are track hazards" that's going on.

Will she be DLC Anon Babble?

Here's your 3rd party Mario Kart guest character Anon Babble!

If anything, I think Nintendo would rather avoid having one of their titles be THE multiplayer esports title considering all the shit that goes on within multiplayer esports communities (and would probably want to downplay the esports influence).

all this smash faggotry

Swoop is based and you better wash your mouth before talking about him

2 is the only soulless one. The rest are good-great

I'd unironically take it.

2 is unironically the most unique of them.

Agreed. I probably had more fun with 2 than I had with the rest, besides New Super Luigi U.

so the characters will have their name on these bikes instead of just their logo? that's pretty cool

No, it’s the same as in 8 where karts/bikes have several different “skins” that change between characters, it just so happens that swoop has their own brand used on this particular bike. In trailers you can see the same brand on the bike with bowser jr. for example

We don't know what's in

I interpret it as sarcasm