Waluigi Stadium is great. It’s got nothing on Dino Dino Jungle though.
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Well, there's only 15 course slots left, with Squeaky Clean Sprint being part of wave 5 thanks to that recent Nintendo Direct. I'm not sure how much more of Tour's course roster will make it into 8 Deluxe... I'm guessing they're just gonna bring over the ones that recently came to Tour? We don't know that however, this is Nintendo we're talking about here, they're insanely unpredictable. Daisy Circuit is honestly one of my favorites from Mario Kart Wii because of the beautiful music and atmosphere alone, and I'll be a bit sad if that doesn't make it to 8 Deluxe. Same with stuff like Daisy Cruiser, Airship Fortress, Rosalina's Ice World, and Moonview Highway. And I'd really rather not play them on Tour... I've tried that game a couple years back, and I didn't like it one bit, I thought the controls were awful. Hopefully they'll make it into 8 Deluxe, we just have to wait until Nintendo puts out their wave 5 trailer.
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@MarioLover92 I just feel that the signs of a Booster Course Pass 2 are starting to pile up. There's a bunch of retro tracks in Tour which look too good visually to just be for Tour like Wii Daisy Circuit and GBA Luigi Circuit. The number of non-retro tracks are increasing at a pace such that unless retro tracks are pretty much being avoided for the last 2 waves there won't be enough room for the non-retro tracks.
Currently there's 6 non-retro tracks that aren't in MK8 Deluxe yet:
Vancouver Velocity (released in Tour in 2020)
Los Angeles Laps (released in Tour in 2020)
Athens Dash (released in Tour in April 2023)
Rome Avanti (releasing in Tour in June 2023)
Piranha Plant Cove (released in Tour in February 2023)
Squeaky Clean Sprint (confirmed for wave 5, will probably come to Tour in July 2023)
Also Nintendo's kind of trapped themselves in a corner unless the Switch's successor doesn't have backwards compatibility in the sense that any Mario Kart 9 would automatically be a downgrade from MK8 Deluxe. They have a similar issue with Smash after Ultimate.
@Grumblevolcano I'll be happy to have a second Booster Course Pass, so I hope you're right about that. We'll see if Nintendo wants to make another one while the Switch is still around. I wonder how they're gonna top MK8D with the next game... that's a pretty tall order considering how much courses this game has gotten. I'd like it to start out with at least 12 cups for its base content, and while I... kinda hated Tour, I did like how all the characters had all those cool alternate costumes. So I'd like those in at least the next console game as well, without those dang microtransactions and loot boxes, please and thank you.
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@Grumblevolcano Not one bit. There are 5 tracks with Tour prefixes (we're only missing one city now, and it's most likely Madrid based on datamines), and 4 that are blank, with 2 being taken up by Squeaky Clean Sprint and Piranha Plant Cove
@MarioLover92 Yeah, I think the only path for a sequel would be a Mario Kart Ultimate. Every track, every character etc. from every Mario Kart. That would make it a worthy successor to the incredible 8 Deluxe.
I think there's plenty of stuff they could do to differentiate MK9 from MK8D. It just might not feel as beefy a package.
I do think they'll take some inspiration from Tour; costumes are a near certainty surely, race layouts that vary (I'm not a big fan of the "different track every lap" way they present the Tour courses but the general idea that there are 3 or 4 very different layouts built in to one course is not a bad one), Splatoon style "event" cups etc.
Personally I'd like to see more single player focused content and one or two different novelty race modes. A "collect the special coins and also win" mode like DKR had for instance or a Metropolis Street Racer style "kudos" system mode where you get points for things other than just finishing first.
Whatever - I trust Nintendo's designers to know what I might want before I know myself.
Adding onto @StuTwo 's suggestion, I think a good course of action for Nintendo to take with Mario Kart (and Smash by extension) is to use the opportunity provided by their Switch entries essentially being the 'ultimate' renditions of their respective series to completely re-invent their series from a gameplay perspective. They'd have smaller roster yes (heaven knows you aren't beating the quantity of 8 Deluxe and Smash Ultimate anytime soon), but it would hopefully in turn allow them to go absolutely BONKERS on stuff like gameplay, mechanics, stage design and other superfluous stuff (maybe the return of Mission Mode from DS in Mario Kart's case?). With the stuff many junior devs at Nintendo have come up with on Switch (namely in games such as Mario Odyssey and BOTW), I think it'd be a great way of moving the series forward
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We need a Splatoon 3 Splatsville track. Or a track that spans splatsville & alterna rocket launch site. But I bet they save new splatoon mario kart content for next gen Mario Kart.
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