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Slownenberg on 03 April 2025
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RolStoppable said:

I am a bit wary of the open structure in this game. I didn't like other racing games which tried this, like Midnight Club. Proper race courses all have their own twists and well-designed layouts whereas going from point A to point B any way you like ends up being pretty boring, and that could be worse in Mario Kart World if you can just go off-road without penalties to your speed.

Makes me also wonder if there will be any good courses in this game or if the tracks end up similar to the Wuhu Island courses in Mario Kart 7 where a plain street layout is repurposed to a couple of racing tracks. Then again, Mario Kart World might offer courses from previous games which should only be playable in their proper form. Considering the high price of the game, I am optimistic that World will include an obscene amount of content right from the start, potentially more than 100 courses from older games. The title 'World' itself also suggests that this could be similar to 'Ultimate' for Super Smash Bros.

In any case, Mario Kart World will get its own Direct soon.

As they introduced it at first I was worried too about it being open, but by the end of MK video, seeing all the content and modes and gameplay, and that there are still standard courses it's not just a free form world (I'm assuming you can also choose to just race individual courses when you don't want to do an open multi-course race) I think it just adds a lot of content. Plus just everything about the game looks incredible. Usually I'm just like 'yep another Mario Kart game', but this game actually blew me away. Too bad it was the only mindblowingly awesome game they showed off for next gen.

Hopefully yeah they also include a bunch of old courses as they've done for a while now. I mean at $80 they better be including a ton of old courses along with this huge open racing world. With these insane game prices I expect paid DLC to be a thing of the past so that even if old courses aren't there for launch and come later on it should be free (or at minimum all DLC comes with the NSO expansion pack, but really it should just come free for all games considering the prices).

If Nintendo hadn't totally screwed up the pricing of everything I think this game alone would be enough to make me be looking for the system in stores once it's out, even if I'd likely be waiting months until the second game I would buy would come out.

I was hoping they'd include more non-Mario content cuz that would be incredible and is the next logical step for the series after World, because as good as MK8D is it feels like the same basic thing I've been playing for decades, but I gotta say the World concept hits it out of the park and totally satisfies me. I can wait another gen until they expand MK into a larger field of Nintendo characters/courses/items. World kinda came out of left field as the less obvious of the two huge things they could do to expand and reinvigorate the series, but I'm totally happy about it.

Last edited by Slownenberg - on 03 April 2025