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[TheGreatMightyPoo]

how does local multiplayer work? Do both players need their own cart, or can it run off one cart?

I think it runs off one cart but the player without the game has to play as Shyguy and has no kart customization choices.

 

[big_z]

Just saw the commercial for this game and it's awful. Nintendo should have brought back the mascot outfits they used in that smash bros commercial.

 

[Berordn]

huh I assumed it didnt have wings.

If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?

 

[Throwaway123456789]

You can't really see it in the videos, but the game looks very good. Even more so in 3D. And first person driving is surprisingly playable, except on the most wacky stages (Rainbow Road really).

Can't wait for online to fill up.

 

[Lonely1]

Huh? What's the story behind the threat title?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Huh? What's the story behind the threat title?

Rosalina is classified as a "Heavy" character in MK. Like Bowser and Donkey Kong and Wario.

 

[Throwaway123456789]

If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?

Yeah alright, it's wingless - it still flies AND takes out people on the ground though

 

[Zane]

Who created those awesome images?

(just wondered, what this was when the image loaded lol)

what...

what the hell is this

 

[watershed]

Just saw the commercial for this game and it's awful. Nintendo should have brought back the mascot outfits they used in that smash bros commercial.

Surely you don't mean this commercial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uP6_5N55I
because its awesome. I love it when NoA makes "if you were in the game" type commercials. 3D Land and Super Mario Galaxy had similar commercials and they were great too.

 

[diffusionx]

This is the first MK game I'm getting day one since MK64. I'm excited about it. Nintendo got the 3D down pat and I'm really looking forward to seeing it in 3D.

 

[Chet Rippo]

what...

what the hell is this

The full image is in the OP.

 

[Berordn]

Yeah alright, it's wingless - it still flies AND takes out people on the ground though

Sorry, wasn't trying to call you out on anything. I'm just wondering out loud about why they bothered to change the shell but not how it worked if it's still floating. Nintendo logic.

 

[Throwaway123456789]

Sorry, wasn't trying to call you out on anything. I'm just wondering out loud about why they bothered to change the shell but not how it worked if it's still floating. Nintendo logic.

No, you were right. I just hadn't bothered to actually check if it had wings or not. Usually too much going on :lol

 

[Emitan]

Do people really think this?

In case you were reading it wrong, I was thanking him for not writing the names of tracks plainly and putting them in spoilers. I want to be surprised.

 

[Kyzer]

Could I party with a friend online and we play together?

 

[evilromero]

Can't wait for this!

 

[EloquentM]

If you look closely in that video it doesn't, even though it is very clearly flying. Also strange since we've seen earlier footage where it runs on the track. Maybe it's course specific or they changed it at the last moment?

its supposed to start on the ground and the closer it gets to first place the more it starts to fly

 

[The Elite]

You can set four tracks in your "Edit Mii" config thingy on the Mario Kart Channel. I think it has something to do with Streetpass.

Also, people you race online will bring you gifts in Super Mario 3D Land.

Holy Shit! Skyrim dethroned as GOTY!

 

[Gravijah]

well it can also fly to get people gliding right

 

[the androgyne]

Are there any vids of the Mario Circuit 2 (SNES) and Royal Raceway (N64) retro courses yet?
On Mario Circuit 2, i hope it retains the feeling of using a mushroom before the final jump! Loved the feeling on the original where you could swing a skid out in mid-air to steal first place! And i'm curious whether they made anything official out of glitch in Royal Raceway (veer hard left off the big ramp and land on the river bank, skipping half the course).

 

[GameE]

Damn forgot this was so soon. My wallet is ready

 

[Berordn]

Are there any vids of the Mario Circuit 2 (SNES) and Royal Raceway (N64) retro courses yet?
On Mario Circuit 2, i hope it retains the feeling of using a mushroom before the final jump! Loved the feeling on the original where you could swing a skid out in mid-air to steal first place! And i'm curious whether they made anything official out of glitch in Royal Raceway (veer hard left off the big ramp and land on the river bank, skipping half the course).

Spoiler

Royal Raceway isn't in.

 

[entremet]

Rosalina is classified as a "Heavy" character in MK. Like Bowser and Donkey Kong and Wario.

Makes sense in the Mario mythos. Isn't she made of stars, which are super dense anyways.

I'm probably thinking about this too much.

 

[the androgyne]

Spoiler

Royal Raceway isn't in.

Mario Kart Wiki you've failed me!

 

[Kai Dracon]

Makes sense in the Mario mythos. Isn't she made of stars, which are super dense anyways.

I'm probably thinking about this too much.

Rosalina isn't made of stars, but she's magical. In the in-game story, she is a girl who got lost in outer space, found the little star guys, and felt responsible for them so became their "mother". She apparently gained magical powers and became a magical being. As a result, she's very tall; bigger than the other humanlike Mario cast.

So I suppose they were thinking more in terms of her scale than literal body weight. She's a "big" character.

 

[Codeblue]

I'd like to think that the bottom image in the OP is a commentary on how weak the 3DS launch line up was, since none of them are playing on launch units.

 

[MatthewB92]

Mario Kart Wiki you've failed me!

All the tracks are in the OP.

 

[The Elite]

Makes sense in the Mario mythos. Isn't she made of stars, which are super dense anyways.

I'm probably thinking about this too much.

I think you're right actually. That makes sense.

 

[GeekyDad]

Rosalina isn't made of stars, but she's magical. In the in-game story, she is a girl who got lost in outer space, found the little star guys, and felt responsible for them so became their "mother". She apparently gained magical powers and became a magical being. As a result, she's very tall; bigger than the other humanlike Mario cast.

So I suppose they were thinking more in terms of her scale than literal body weight. She's a "big" character.

You've obviously thought this whole thing through.

 

[Chet Rippo]

I'd like to think that the bottom image in the OP is a commentary on how weak the 3DS launch line up was, since none of them are playing on launch units.

Maybe... :]

 

[Boken]

Chet da usurper.

 

[Phife Dawg]

You can set a logo (pre made ones only), enter a name and description, choose between racing (50, 100, 150CC or Mirror) or the two battle modes and which items are available when racing (All, Shells, Bananas, Mushrooms, Bob-Ombs, None). No individual toggling for each item.

The communities are really more like rooms.

You join a community pre race lobby and can send out pre fabricated messages like the types of "OK!" or "LET'S RACE!". Noone is in charge of the community/room it seems, and I'm guessing the first one to join an empty one is made the operator (handing it down to the next one when he/she leaves).

Avatars are the peoples Miis, but you can race with the Mario gang. When you find people online it looks pretty much like on the Wii, with the globe and everything.

Also, I'd like to retract my previous Red Shell message. They do indeed follow the track around like in MKDD etc. when you fire it blindly.

Thanks for all the impressions and videos Fox. Maybe it has been answered but I didn't see it: Can you change the rules in communities after you have established them? I guess you register communities once and then can re-connect using the GUI? Is there a limit to how many communities may be stored if it is indeed the case?

She is not fat!

She is just big-boned!

 

[watershed]

Man after I buy this game I will have given Nintendo a ton of money in a 4 week span starting with 3D Land, then Zelda, then this.

 

[Gospel]

Man after I buy this game I will have given Nintendo a ton of money in a 4 week span starting with 3D Land, then Zelda, then this.

Haha yea, no doubt. I can't even remember the last time I've bought that many games in one period of time.

But in the meantime, i'm going to flunk out of college

 

[Gravijah]

Haha yea, no doubt. I can't even remember the last time I've bought that many games in one period of time.

But in the meantime, i'm going to flunk out of college

you can go to college anytime but games you have to play now

 

[Boney]

Haha yea, no doubt. I can't even remember the last time I've bought that many games in one period of time.

But in the meantime, i'm going to flunk out of college

me too man me too

 

[Box of Bunnies]

Man after I buy this game I will have given Nintendo a ton of money in a 4 week span starting with 3D Land, then Zelda, then this.

Nintendo's systems have been know for their droughts over the last few generations but when it rains with them, it pours.

 

[Gospel]

you can go to college anytime but games you have to play now

Yea, delayed gratification can kiss my posterior region.

me too man me too

.

 

[Poyunch]

I like how the title was a compromise.

 

[bodyboarder]

I think it runs off one cart but the player without the game has to play as Shyguy and has no kart customization choices.

Better then nothing I suppose.

 

[Gravijah]

I like how the title was a compromise.

you know nothing

 

[Poyunch]

you know nothing

._.

 

[dr3upmushroom]

Excited for this, even though all the new characters are lame and the option to individually exclude blue shells would have been amazing.

Does anyone know if MK gets AA if you turn 3D off? I really like it when games have that option. I played Zelda and Mercenaries in 3D probably 90% of the time but if I was in a moving vehicle or playing while I was watching TV or something and wanted to turn it off having AA is really nice.

Mario 3D Land looks pretty great but it's pretty jaggy, I would have loved to have seen that game smoothed out.

 

[Emitan]

you know nothing

don't be mean to pounch, he's one of us

 

[Gravijah]

don't be mean to pounch, he's one of us

wait that wasn't intended to be mean

 

[Throwaway123456789]

Thanks for all the impressions and videos Fox. Maybe it has been answered but I didn't see it: Can you change the rules in communities after you have established them? I guess you register communities once and then can re-connect using the GUI? Is there a limit to how many communities may be stored if it is indeed the case?

No rule changing after it's made. Not sure if there is a limit, but I doubt it.

 

[Emitan]

wait that wasn't intended to be mean

then i guess i don't understaaaand

 

[Gravijah]

then i guess i don't understaaaand

i was just busting his pounch

 

[Michan]

Excited for this, even though all the new characters are lame and the option to individually exclude blue shells would have been amazing.

Does anyone know if MK gets AA if you turn 3D off? I really like it when games have that option. I played Zelda and Mercenaries in 3D probably 90% of the time but if I was in a moving vehicle or playing while I was watching TV or something and wanted to turn it off having AA is really nice.

Mario 3D Land looks pretty great but it's pretty jaggy, I would have loved to have seen that game smoothed out.

I would have loved for that in M3DL. It's a beautiful game, and AA would have been a fantastic bonus.

I'm pretty sure MK7 is the same. All of the 2d videos and screenshots show jaggies

 

[sonikokaruto]

team rosalina represent!



will buy







just for her