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I get why people ask for it, the new characters are bad. Recently we started the baby craze, then we got the wiggler, the bee and the cloud, thousands of Peaches and finally the crowd of koopalings. But I don't think smashification is the answer, there are many good mario characters that hasn't been used yet. Fawful springs to mind, and I'm sure especially the RPG games have many more.



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More Mario characters really seems the way to go. Why so many baby characters? THE KOOPALINGS? PINK GOLD PEACH?!

Maybe we need some Evil Luigi Overlord character (?)



It can still be Mario Kart if it's primarily Mario characters.



I think they should have a few "guest characters" each game, but not a full blown Smash Kart type thing.

Like they could add say Toon Link, Fox McLeod, Olimar, and Captain Falcon and then have a 5th Cup that's unlockable which has a Zelda WW stage, a Star Fox stage, a Pikmin stage, and an F-Zero stage.

I would be cool with that.

4 unlockable "guest" characters per game each with a corresponding stage (makes a 5th bonus Cup) would be OK. 



But if you go online you'll see that that many disagree, and that's why we're gonna keep getting these types of characters unfortunately. Thankfully I don't care as long as they have my main man Lakitu! ^_^



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Lakitu is the one character addition that I am happy about. He's my second - Evil-eye Luigi is still my main.



Salnax said:

I personally think that the Greater Mario Universe has enough characters to populate future installments. Heck, I think MK8 could have had a roster without babies, Metal characters, or Koopalings.

Plus you have various WarioWare, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi-themed characters. As well as characters that I forgot about.

Point being, Mario Kart could easily have 45+ franchise characters with no babies.

 

This is not to say a cameo or two would be unwelcome. However, they would have to be the exception to the rule, like 3rd party characters in Smash Bros games.

Add Wart, final boss from Super Mario Bros. 2, to the list.



"On my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind I am a game developer. But in my heart I am a gamer." - Satoru Iwata

It's disappointing there are five baby characters and two metal characters, but as others have argued, they don't need to go outside the Mario franchise to have more variety.

Petey Piranha, King Boo, Wiggler, Birdo and Diddy Kong could easily return. Fawful, E.Gadd are great suggestions, as are Goomba (how would they steer, though?), Hammer Bros, Kamek etc. You could go for the obscure fan service with characters like Geno.

I think Nintendo are going to be adding to Kart's roster list with dlc, really.



I think they should make like 3-4 unlockable for other franchises. Where you have to work really hard to unlocke them (IE you can't unlock every character in two days). And dress them in a mario costume or something.

I think the main problem is they added too much crap characters as well. If they wanted to add only popular characters and not other smaller ones. Other nintendo franchises would have been preferred. The more interesting mario characters not used would have been preffered as well. They basically picked really bad variations to add to the roster.



its called MARIO kart. As far as I am concerned it has WAY to many characters. Should be just mario.