papersleeves
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From that review:
Platform: Wii U
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Nintendo EAD Group No. 1
Released: May 30, 2014
Price: $59.99
Score: 10/10
Am I missing something?
Mario Kart 8 - Review thread
- Thread starter viveks86
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From that review:
Platform: Wii U
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Nintendo EAD Group No. 1
Released: May 30, 2014
Price: $59.99
Score: 10/10
Am I missing something?
Video games are all super serious. All of them.
Don't get me wrong. I am sure Mario Kart 8 is a great game, but if such things appear on a front page of a non gaming publication like guardian I bet there has been some money transfer.
As opposed to appearing on a gaming publication?
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal.
Lol wut?
thesolidshark
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kuroneko0509
Member
Mario Kart 8 multiplatform confirmed soon
/jk
Buddha Beam
Banned
I just found out about the lack of battle arenas (I've been keeping myself in the dark from most details). Ugh. I'm honestly reconsidering buying this now. Tell me it isn't true, GAF.
Sorry. That would be lying.
If you don't like kart racing, the game is probably not for you.
Buddha Beam
Banned
My soul is crushed. Battle mode has always been the main draw for me.
BubblegumCrisis
Member
then you haven't played a Mario Kart since what...MK64?
I think I played Battle Mode in Mario Kart 7 for about 15 minutes out of the total 200 hours I spent racing. There was a honey hive level, right?
Meanwhile I bet the new battle mode is way better than people are anticipating and will become a cult favorite.
Ubisoft has so fucking many employees I'm not even surprised
Dagobert Duck
Member
Countless hours battling each other on MK64...even the Menu told you its the superior mode by choosing it and Mario saying "Battleee?!" Oh boy...
Wiis battle mode isnt that bad, though its just who hit the most! (stupid teams)
Well multiplayer racing off and online will be perfect for me so its ok
Poltergust
Member
Not only that, but what it lists as the publisher should actually be the developer.
Hmm.. Ubi sent that check for watch dogs, not mk8...
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Two weeks.
How am I going to make it two weeks?
How am I going to make it two weeks?
Davey Cakes
Member
If you have a backlog, just focus on that.
While I'm dying for Kart, I have so many other games to play and barely enough time to get to any of them. It quells the pain a bit.
Don't get me wrong. I am sure Mario Kart 8 is a great game, but if such things appear on a front page of a non gaming publication like guardian I bet there has been some money transfer.
I think the Verge puts it best. They're a tech focused website that will occasionally review games that people in general are interested in.
A Mario Kart game is usually that. Zelda on Wii U will be a game like that, Smash will be a game like that.
Bayonetta 2, not so much.
That's why places like the Guardian is reviewing Mario Kart 8, because the series has gotten a notable foothold in the gaming landscape and its something their readers would like to hear about. Nothing more, nothing less.
(Probably didn't hurt that their reviewer got to play the game a couple of weeks before release).
Fine Ham Abounds
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AdmiralMikey
Member
Absolutely. I've been hoping for some kind of Super Smash Karts ever since Melee launched!
Davey Cakes
Member
I am against Super Smash Kart. We have one franchise mashup game, we don't need another.
If we want to talk about Nintendo "branching out" with Mario Kart, there's plenty of Mario-related material that can be explored. Think of all the characters and locales that have shown up in Mario Sports games, RPGs, and even in spinoff titles like Wario Land, WarioWare, Yoshi's Island, Luigi's Mansion, Donkey Kong, etc.
They can stick to the Mario universe only and still have an array of options.
If we want to talk about Nintendo "branching out" with Mario Kart, there's plenty of Mario-related material that can be explored. Think of all the characters and locales that have shown up in Mario Sports games, RPGs, and even in spinoff titles like Wario Land, WarioWare, Yoshi's Island, Luigi's Mansion, Donkey Kong, etc.
They can stick to the Mario universe only and still have an array of options.
MannyToons
Member
Too bad they don't seem to realize that.
yup, that part got me excited as hell, and i don't doubt it after seeing the videos
Nintendo finally went third-party.
You give a game a perfect score, and say the actual devs published it? Didnt Ubisoft Montreal make Thief? Ironic...
Especially Serious Sam. That guys super duper serious.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Two weeks.
How am I going to make it two weeks?
Transistor comes out on Tuesday.
Dat score... and dat developers geez. It's fixed now fill as Nintendo EAD Group No.1 aka The Wizards of Videogames.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Get ready for a delay and for it to come to PS4
Yeah, the RPGs have the best characters in the Mario Universe IMO.
So a Smash Kart isn't neccessary if those wells remain untapped.
TitusGroan
Banned
Don't get me wrong. I am sure Mario Kart 8 is a great game, but if such things appear on a front page of a non gaming publication like guardian I bet there has been some money transfer.
The Guardian has had a well-staffed gaming department for years, and often puts the newest videogame reviews on the front page. This isn't anything new for them.
It's bad enough when peopel claim that EA and Activision are funnelling money to the likes of IGN. As far as I'm aware, there has never been a single claim that Nintendo do the same. In fact, I seem to remember that when Rich Stanton got drunk on Twitter and revealed alleged money deals, Nintendo were the one publisher he went out of his way to defend as not being into corrupt moneyhatting.
https://twitter.com/RichStanton/status/255823056772145152
Smiles and Cries
Member
how many perfect scores has MK8 gotten so far?
5?
5?
Buddha Beam
Banned
That's good to know.
I'll admit that nothing has ever surpassed 64's Battle Mode in my eyes. Wii's Battle Mode was alright, though. The courses felt too big, I thought. I felt like I would have trouble finding opponents sometimes.
HolyBaikal
Banned
It sounds like some people are kind of negative about this game, but I'm still pretty excited about it. Sadly I'm kind of used to the fact that Nintendo's online support could be better. The game sounds wonderful and I can't wait for it.
Aaron Strife
Banned
I do remember there being something of a stink over (I believe) Donkey Konga 2 getting only like a 3 from somewhere, then the review was taken down and uploaded again with a 6. Penny Arcade thought Nintendo interfered but maybe it was just office politics.
Thank god. I was this close to cancelling my pre-order. Anything below 89 Metacritic is unacceptable.
dark_prinny
Banned
Nintendo will save videogames again. As usual.
At first I was like yeah, they should. but now I am not sure how I would feel seeing Link and Sheik, and Samus riding around in Karts. I feel it would just cheapen their image a bit. Them fighting in Smash makes sense because thats tough and cool and already fits their character.
Maybe they could have Zelda character on horses, hot air baloons, birds or Cuckoos. I dont know.
All this metacritic buy/don'tbuy...is making fun of a particular someone or just a jab to gamers in general?
I think "Nintendo Kart" would be a bad move. It works so well for Smash Bros. because Smash Bros. is all about the characters. Having different characters with different abilities and fighting styles is extremely important to the core of Smash Bros., and that's why including all kinds of Nintendo characters makes sense there. Mario Kart's not really about the characters, thoughit's all about the racing. The characters are pretty insignificant, all things considered. Sticking to a single universe in Mario Kart helps the game be more cohesive and focused. If they were to add other Nintendo characters to the mix, it would muddle things up quite a bit. You'd have to introduce different karts, different items, etc. And while I'm sure that would excite many people, I think it would harm the game's identity.
I feel similarly about Sonic & All-Stars Racing. I feel like the game would have been so much better if they had just focused on a single universe. It's not like there aren't enough Sonic characters to go around, after all. The inclusion of all these other SEGA characters really felt off to me, and it always came off as an unnecessary inclusion just to be more different from Mario Kart. Say what you will about the gameplay (I know a lot of people praise it very much here, and I think it's a great game, too, but I wouldn't consider it better than Mario Kart for a number of reasons, at least not compared to Mario Kart 7 and 8), but I think the game was harmed more than it was benefitted from being a crossover game. The items all feel entirely dull and uninspired, for example.
If there is to be another Nintendo crossover game featuring multiple franchises, I think it would have to be a game in which the characters are at the very core, like Smash Bros. I just don't think Mario Kart is the game to do that with.
I feel similarly about Sonic & All-Stars Racing. I feel like the game would have been so much better if they had just focused on a single universe. It's not like there aren't enough Sonic characters to go around, after all. The inclusion of all these other SEGA characters really felt off to me, and it always came off as an unnecessary inclusion just to be more different from Mario Kart. Say what you will about the gameplay (I know a lot of people praise it very much here, and I think it's a great game, too, but I wouldn't consider it better than Mario Kart for a number of reasons, at least not compared to Mario Kart 7 and 8), but I think the game was harmed more than it was benefitted from being a crossover game. The items all feel entirely dull and uninspired, for example.
If there is to be another Nintendo crossover game featuring multiple franchises, I think it would have to be a game in which the characters are at the very core, like Smash Bros. I just don't think Mario Kart is the game to do that with.
Nintendo RPG.
HolyBaikal
Banned
Oh my goodness, I wish I didn't click that review of Mario Kart where the person was complaining that there weren't enough people of colour in Mario Kart.
I definitely think that it would be great to have more dark skinned characters in Nintendo franchises. But I think it would be better to focus on other Mario games like maybe Paper Mario or the Mario platform games for that kind of criticism. I also think that people should be more aware that when they're criticizing Japanese developers about this sort of thing, that they are criticizing people of colour for their aesthetic and artistic decisions themselves.
By the American definition of what a person of colour is, Japanese people are people of colour. That's not to say that Japan and other Asian countries shouldn't be accepting of brown and African people. But I think that this sort of thing can and should be approached from a slightly different perspective than it is in white dominated countries like America.
What the writer of the article said wasn't too bad. Just I feel like not quite the time and place since this is a spinoff Mario game. To have brown skinned people for the Mario Kart games, it would be good to have more brown skinned people in Mario games to begin with.
The comments are the thing I regret most. While it's true that the criticism may have been a little bit out of place. People were using it as an excuse to be awful racists and I stopped reading them immediately. Really awful.
I definitely think that it would be great to have more dark skinned characters in Nintendo franchises. But I think it would be better to focus on other Mario games like maybe Paper Mario or the Mario platform games for that kind of criticism. I also think that people should be more aware that when they're criticizing Japanese developers about this sort of thing, that they are criticizing people of colour for their aesthetic and artistic decisions themselves.
By the American definition of what a person of colour is, Japanese people are people of colour. That's not to say that Japan and other Asian countries shouldn't be accepting of brown and African people. But I think that this sort of thing can and should be approached from a slightly different perspective than it is in white dominated countries like America.
What the writer of the article said wasn't too bad. Just I feel like not quite the time and place since this is a spinoff Mario game. To have brown skinned people for the Mario Kart games, it would be good to have more brown skinned people in Mario games to begin with.
The comments are the thing I regret most. While it's true that the criticism may have been a little bit out of place. People were using it as an excuse to be awful racists and I stopped reading them immediately. Really awful.