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Mario Kart 7 |OT| Rosalina is Fat, BBW Lovers Unite!
- Thread starter Chet Rippo
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Wow that is weird. Melody Motorway is way better just quietly. Also I was wondering before about you guys calling a kart the 'zucchini', which I can only surmise is our 'gherkin' lol.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
This game's soundtrack is possibly worse than the Wii one.
Seriously, MK music hasn't been nice since the Super Famicom og, but this is just cringeworthy.
Seriously, MK music hasn't been nice since the Super Famicom og, but this is just cringeworthy.
it's funny you say that because i think mkw has some of the best tracks in the series. probably right under the original smk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzBbtrv2VU <333
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
11 what? Pacific, GMT, CET.. AM/PM?
Anyway there's always people on. But I suggest you practice a bit before racing gaffers, they're ruthless
dr3upmushroom
Banned
Haha, sorry, totally forgot people would be in different time zones. I'm Pacific.
I'm going to hop online first thing and if I get my ass kicked too much I'll switch over to single player. I was always pretty good at the GC and DS Mario Karts against my friends so I'm excited to see how I do against GAFfers. Expecting to get my ass kicked at first just because I won't know the courses, hopefully I'll get decent though.
Do you get to choose a username just for MK or does it just go by your system name?
Just got this game tonight..
First race in, and it did exactly what I hate about this series:
I started off doing good, passing up all of the computers to make it to first place in the second lap. I maintain first place until the end of the third lap. Literally a second away from finishing, a blue shell hits me, knocking me into second place. Not a huge loss, but damn.
Scenarios like that are so silly to me.. it's why I stopped liking Mario Kart.
But eh.. not here to shit up this thread. Glad everyone else is enjoying it.
I'll keep trying it, though.
TBH, if you're really good you can easily outdo these problem, in my first run on the new tracks I got hit by 2 blueshells and 1 lightning and still I ended up first (at least if you're racing against the CPU).
Not at all.
Can you press stop just as you hit bananas to prevent spinout in this game?
Still trying to figure out how to power slide efficiently in this game. It seems the sharper the turn, the faster power boost activates? It makes me think about whether I wanna approach usually a small turn wide so I can be sure to power boost or just cut the turn as much as possible and not get the power boost.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I think the ideal scenario for most turns is cutting it as hard as you can while still making sure you have enough time to get the boost. It's the best of both worlds.
Wolfe
Member
So the other day I noticed the bug on Maka Wuhu where you can dive off the track in a specific location and get dropped down way ahead (while reading this thread) and figure I'll just try avoiding the track online. Then today I jump online for a bit and half the people in the game pick that level, and sure enough it gets chosen. Then while racing literally everyone else in the race with me exploited the bug, kinda lame.
I was way in front in the race for the first section and then all of a sudden, I'm 4th. I had to check around me to see if I was missing something. Still managed 2nd even if there were cheating bastards in the race with me.
Chet Rippo
Member
Really? Damn, and I like that track too...
The stars are a rating of how you did in the Grand Prix. I found that to get 3 stars you pretty much have to be in first almost the whole time in every race.
Be fast and come in first
Don't hit walls or bananas, avoid shells whenever possible, get shortcuts if you can, don't drive on the grass for long if you don't have an off-road kart.
butter_stick
Banned
I find he's the closest representation to myself in the game. He's my guy/genderless catapiller now
Yeah, it's a hybrid of the Wii's friend codes and a decent implementation which actually shows what they're doing. With MK7's communities you don't have to go through that whole process at least (which I've also not done just for that reason).
You get it on the home screen, the orange face icon at the top of the menu. It's only one code per DS this time, not per game.
Chet Rippo
Member
If you go to the 3DS home menu click on the orange smiley face and it should be listed there. That's also where you add friend codes.
Once you beat the time on the Nintendo ghosts you unlock the actual good ones.
Celery&Lager
Member
Can I change the Mii I use in the game?
MatthewB92
Member
Yea.
At the main menu go to the mario kart channel and from there click your Mii and you will see the option there.
Celery&Lager
Member
Oh gawd, the Tanooki Tail. In a GAF room last night we were in a GP consisting mostly of sandbagging tracks. What do I get from the last sets of item boxes? Tails, Bloopers, fuck, dead last.
I'd say just ignore the Friend Codes for this game and just use the community.
The Lamonster
Member
Is it just me or is 150cc much more difficult (see: cheap) this time around?
edit: compared to all the previous games
edit: compared to all the previous games
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
That's Mario Kart Baby!
I don't know about cheap, but the CPU is much better about shortcuts and catching up than they've ever been before. They don't seem to make as many of the usual driving mistakes when they're on-screen either.
Difficult? Yes, but I don't know if it's any cheaper than other MKs.
Oh I see. Yeah, that could be more efficient, I guess. Will do!
Better AI in terms of driving.
Not as crazy Item raping than the Wii version.
It ends up being slightly harder that way, but way less frustrating.
I feel like the Wii version was much worse. I haven't had nearly as many problems with 150cc this time around.
I can plat a few rounds, do we need to exchange codes with everyone?
zoukka - 1375-7562-6652
nah, just hop on the Gaf community.
Where da code?