Topic: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

i have a question if anyone could answer please - should i just get MK8 ? skipped wii u, & never played it on switch; my plan was to hold out until the next mario kart drops but at this point considering how many years 8 has been the current game and it’s recent update, should i just get this game ?

also another reason i held off from it is because of videos and gameplay i’ve seen over the years , i just knew i wasn’t going to like it how i liked mkwii, but again - i’ve been waiting pretty long to play a new MK and it seems 8 is going nowhere

It's been fun playing Mario Kart with @Sunsy, @Tyranexx, and @Vortexeo! GGs, hope you all had fun.

That I did! Even if the trolling from other players seemed way more intense than usual today. XD So. Many. Boos.

Hopefully we can do it again! You did pretty good @Sunsy!

@MarioLover92 @Tyranexx @Vortexeo Thanks! I had fun playing you three. Did have a couple of close calls running into Tyranexx, lol.

Thanks Vortexeo!

@Tyranexx Lol, I know that's happened to me as well... sometimes I'd be in a lobby, and I'd consistently place badly because of the sheer chaos the items bring. I think that's more common when you're around the middle/back of the pack, since everyone would have more powerful items. I still can't believe I did as well as I did in our session, lol. Glad you had fun nonetheless.

@Vortexeo @Sunsy Yeah we should set up another session sometime! Glad you all had fun. Looks like we were twins, Sunsy... since we both picked Peach!

@nomither6 At this point, I would think that 8 Deluxe is the Switch's premiere Mario Kart game, especially with the Booster Course Pass. The next one after 8 Deluxe is likely gonna be on the next Nintendo console. Did you not like Mario Kart Wii? They're pretty similar gameplay-wise and they both get chaotic if that's what you're worried about, but I think MK8D is the better game overall.

@Sunsy I am an equal opportunity troller in that game.

@MarioLover92 @Vortexeo We should indeed do this again sometime!

@MarioLover92 Definitely, in some races it was like you and I were the only ones as Peach.

@Tyranexx Indeed, meanwhile I was trying to chase you whenever I had the super star, lol. Fun times.

Wii is a better all round game tbh (nicer art style imo, auto drift mode for wheel users and i belive drafting is only in wii?) but 8/8dx is amazing too it has a huge track list but with bc pass you get tour tracks too

Cooling fans like psv2 are a must for vr going forward we need vr fog to end

I bet theres extra padding on ebay tgh but still ...

Psvr1 i loved but i owned 3 everytime i sold due to fog issue ... It was unplayable in summer for this reason but wow vr pressence was crazy

Its weird really vr is pretty much just a 3d hmd but the head tracking allows for the virtual play space feeling
I barely used earphones as my hearing is bad so i want to avoid loss of hearing but tv sound was still good

@NeonPizza I hope VR isn't the future unless they can fix the issue that makes a lot of people nauseous when using a headset "myself included". Plus I don't want that kind of immersion as it would make it too difficult to tell what's going on around you...

@Sunsy Well THAT explains why that icon came up a lot behind me! XD

What in the blue hell is going on with MK8's servers? I keep getting the "A communication error has occurred." I was just playing Splatoon 3 before and had no issues. My connection is wired too.

@Tyranexx Yup, that explains it, lol.

Whatever happens with the future of Mario Kart, there needs to be an overhaul on the online matchmaking voting system. The wave 6 DLC only came out 6 days ago and we're already in a situation where wave 6 tracks are rarely playable because like half the lobby picks tracks that came to MK8 8-9 years ago and the track selector picks one of those.

With 96 tracks now available, I'd say the old voting system (e.g. MKWii) would've been much better. The one where you could pick anything.

@Grumblevolcano On one hand, I appreciate that MK8 forces you to only pick from a few select tracks as I'm sure it motivates some to branch out and pick courses that they otherwise wouldn't. But I agree that now, especially with 96 courses, it would be nice if we were just able to pick the ones we wanted, MKWii style. Maybe have a system in place where you can vote for any course you want, but once it's chosen, you'll have a cooldown for voting that map again? That could probably help to work against people spamming the same maps over and over again.

Pauline's hair has become bugged in my game, it's only a small thing, but it's still happening even after turning the Switch off and on again.

I don't know what caused it, but now the physics are sometimes a bit wilder, though I actually kinda like how it looks on trick jumps.

You can tell if this has happened to you if you choose Pauline and then pick either the Mach 8 or Circuit Special, you'll see her hair is raised on one side, I think her hair is also slightly more curled when picking bikes too.

Okay maybe I'm just delusional and this isn't a thing at all xD Maybe I just didn't notice that her hair is raised slightly on one side with the Circuit Special and Mach 8? I doesn't look right to me though.

Anyway I guess you can probably ignore this then

@Sunsy @Eel Do you wanna play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with me on Saturday at 12 PM EST? Looks like @Tyranexx and @jedgamesguy will be joining as well.

Edit: Just updated the time.