Topic: Mario Kart World

So I finally got to play this a little tonight and my initial thoughts are generally positive. I'm not really a racing game fan and probably wouldn't have even gotten it if it wasn't basically free in the Cyber Monday deal. My biggest concern coming in was that with having 24 racers, the tracks would be too wide in order to accommodate all of them and it wouldn't be as crazy or chaotic and easy to fall off the track as Mario Kart usually is. And that is pretty much true. But you know what? The tracks were just fun. They look cool and have fun changes and it's just enjoyable. And I've only done early races so they'll probably get crazier. I will definitely have more fun playing this with my family than I anticipated.

CUSTOM ITEMS WE ARE SO BACK

@WaveBoy as someone who also just didn't really care for MK8D, World is an absolute blast! Of course, I also love MKWii, so YMMV here, but I still recommend it!

OK, everyone, I just played the new Routes, and tried some Kamek Orb-only matches. The new Routes are 100x better, even if they still have the downsides of normal Routs. However, Cutsom Items are a gamechanger. I didn't realize what a ridiculously goofy item the Kamek Orb is, since it rarely showed up. But now? It's genuinely my favorite item in the series! It's just so fun!!!

@CaleBoi25 Tried this yesterday and it's hilarious. Now we just need them to add baby park to the game so we can have the true ultimate chaos mode.

@Bigmanfan Yes! KTB is just not the same, BP's walls just make it that much more claustrophobic!

Mario Kart with 24 racers?! + Kamek item only?! + Baby Park?! + maybe also 200 CC?!

Average younger Mario Kart player:

Mario Kart Veterans (and me, for some reason):

Hey, all! I heard the new update added a section where you can fly a helicopter... But I just played all the Routes to and from Koopa Troopa Beach... And I didn't see a single copter!

They need custom knockout tours, all 30 tracks can be linked together in connected vs mode. Would be awesome to have a knockout tour with them all

I haven't done it yet, but if you do a vs race- I think you can choose
Whistlestop -> Desert -> Mario Bros Circuit -> Shy Guy Bazaar -> Wario Stadium -> Airship Fortress -> Toads Factory -> Bowser's Castle -> Dry Bones -> Mario Circuit -> Acorn -> Boo -> Dandelion -> Star View -> DK -> Sky High -> Salty -> Peach -> Great Block -> Dino -> Faraway -> Koopa -> Spaceport -> Crown -> Choco -> MooMoo -> CheepCheep -> Peach Stadium -> Rainbow Road

I think there are connecting tracks between all these

@tux_peng absolutely agree! This alone would be one of the best things for the game!

After testing out some custom item combinations online, I found the best one for chaos to be the following: Blue shells, bombs, kamek orbs. Peak chaos mode. Another fun one is golden mushrooms and blue shells, since it's basically first trying to outrun the blue shells, which is super fun.

@Bigmanfan another fun combo is Kamaek Orbs, Blue Shells, Bullet Bills, and Dash Foods! Or Blue Shells, Orbs, and Boos!

@CaleBoi25 I think I might have tried that second one actually. It was fantastic from what I remember

I'm not sure if this was brought up already, but I found out something. I unlocked mirror mode recently, and I've been playing it. In Grand Prix, I had a 2-star rank in the 150cc Mushroom Cup from when I first played the game. As a little experiment, I played the cup in mirror mode, got 1st in all four races, and got a 3-star rank. Now it shows that I also have a 3-star rank on 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc, so getting the highest ranking in mirror mode overwrites any lower ranking that was acquired in the other engine classes. So in other words, I don't have to do 150cc again now, haha.

On a side note, getting a 3-star rank in Knockout Tour seems to be really tough... I don't think I got one in that mode. I'll probably give it a try soon, though I want to do mirror mode first.

When do you guys think DLC will actually become available? 200cc, more tracks(etc). I havent touched MKW yet, but many seem to echo the same opinion in that it just feels, well, kind of incomplete. or that the main interconnected Stages are too wide and lacking in diversity.

Still, 1440p, HDR, HD Rumble 2, livelier stronger art direction & visuals(Those water effects) than MK8 Deluxe, the SNES feather item making it's return, new characters & Stages, and of course 'Knock Out Tour' have spiked my interest. Still wish i could play MKWorld with a Steam Frame VR headset in 3rd person VR, using it's 6GHZ dongle for wireless connectivity to NS2. I would throw down a grand to experience that.

@WaveBoy It's really difficult because this will be Nintendo's 'killer app' whether we like it or not so you would think that they would take a Splatoon-style 'live service' approach with it and drop new content at a regular pace.

If this was a 'normal' Mario Kart game and it was just a case of adding new tracks then I think the ball would already be rolling by now. But this is Mario Kart World where everything is connected and fully traversable. That takes quite a bit of doing and while I think trying to cram more courses in the existing world seems unfeasible, creating new archipelagos around it will also take some doing.

New characters and particularly costumes on the other hand feel almost too easy to incoporate. This feels like exactly the sort of thing that can be sold for 70p on the eShop (Mii fighter style) although I wouldn't really like Mario Kart to become too micro-transactiony.

Kosuke Yabuki alluded to 200cc just before the game came out and it basically sounded like they were working on it so it probably is coming.

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if 2027 is when we start getting a big paid DLC for it.

I would imagine they would make another world map to put more courses into the game, that might be the most feasible way to do it. And I have an idea on how you'd get there. In the first race of the first DLC cup, you'd race on Daisy Cruiser while it's on its way to a different world map.

@WaveBoy The feather was brought back in 8 Deluxe, but is restricted to Battle Mode. I wish it was in World too as it is the worst item in Mario Kart history LOL.

@Nintoz
It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the game (and the Switch 2) have only been out for a whopping 6 months.

And if you look back, they've actually modified this game quite a lot already: constant rejiggering of the online course selection fiasco, added map markers for the collectibles in free roam (that was HUGE at launch), completely changed the way trick boosting works (which threw course records into chaos at the time), added entire new rulesets, modified entire course routes (crazy when you think about it), etc.

They've done a lot. I think they're close to have a good baseline of tweaks before they start adding the stuff we're all expecting: new characters, new courses, new modes, maybe even new parts of the world.

@tux_peng I agree 100%.

A "World" knockout tour would be insanely good. Or even a 20-track race with 1 player eliminated per track, then leaving the final 4 to race it out on the final track.

Knockout tour online is THE best mode for this game, I can't stop playing it, it's just so much fun and makes me laugh. The other day I was 1st place for almost an entire track, then I was about 2-inches away from the finish line and someone ran me over using a giant mushroom and stole it from me lol it was so funny.

I don't know about anyone else but I'd like the ability to choose which weapon to use when I have two items, and as for DLC maybe they could add a Moon track from Odyssey, no need to expand the island, lets go a space and even subterranean

Heck, they could do a "Mario Kart World + Nintendo World" expansion that adds more islands with tracks from other IP's, like Link/Zelda and Hyrule Island, or Samus and racing around a space ship etc.