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Forums - Nintendo - Played Mario Kart 8 Today!!!

RCTjunkie said:

-I was the oldest person there, the next one being 13. Maybe Nintendo IS for kids... :/


When people reach adolescence they tend to be more shy without drugs....

.....or peer preasure.



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RCTjunkie said:
How come my thread got locked but this one is okay?

I'll post my impressions a THIRD time....

Hey, guys! I got to go to GameStop today and try out Mario Kart 8! I didn't get TOO much time, but enough for general impressions.
Here's the courses I played:
Sunshine Airport
Electrodrome
Water Park
Sweet Sweet Canyon

Here are the positive impressions:
+ Lots of options for the vehicle parts, and they all make a HUGE difference
+WiiU gamepad controls are intuitive and easy to jump into
+Courses are as fun and amazing as I anticipated
+CPU's are at a reasonable difficulty, and item balance is much better than reviewers are stating
+Mario Kart TV is also super cool as expected
Here are the negative impressions:
- The control of your kart can take some getting used to. The style is akin to Mario Kart 7, but feels completely different. Will take getting used to
- It seems like overall stat balances favor bigger characters and they'll be overused for their higher speed AND acceleration at only cost of slight amount of control stat
-I was the oldest person there, the next one being 13. Maybe Nintendo IS for kids... :/

Anyway, if you got to try it out, comment below your impressions, or if you have any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them

Yeah not very fair, report it to mods. I don't think we need a new thread for every person that played the game. That's why your one was closed.



RCTjunkie said:
How come my thread got locked but this one is okay?


I asked to claim the rights to MK8 impression threads trololol!

 

But seriously, I doubt there was any good reason for your thread being locked. =/

As for your impressions, while there are way more vehichle parts than MK7, there are actually less different stats a part can have. A lot of parts have the same stat changes as other parts, such as the Mach 8, Circuit Special, and Sports Coupe, aswell as all the inward drift Bikes. Also heavy weights have less acceleration than lighter weights, and using speed boosting parts will reduce that acceleration further. Most everything else I agree with though, except I found the computers to still pose no real threat, but this is only 100cc of course!



KoopaKid said:

Really? I went and there was 6 adults and only 2 kids plus a couple more adults came in to play 


There was a pretty good mix at mine! Also this one kid actually dominated against me! In my defense, he was a kid, so naturally I was gonna take it easy on him! xP



Einsam_Delphin said:
KoopaKid said:

Really? I went and there was 6 adults and only 2 kids plus a couple more adults came in to play 


There was a pretty good mix at mine! Also this one kid actually dominated against me! In my defense, he was a kid, so naturally I was gonna take it easy on him! xP

I brought a friend of mine who's 21, and he got his ass kicked by a 5-year-old asian kid. Needless to say, I laughed a good while from that. The kid even put down the gamepad immediately after finishing and walked away with style. He's going places. 



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Did you punch a kitty from happiness?



                
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AZWification said:

Did you punch a kitty from happiness?


Naw, but I did destroy a ton of cargo crates on Sunshine Airport! Dunno why, just had something against them. I even stopped right before the finish line one time so I could look back and throw a shell to destroy one last cargo crate! xD



RCTjunkie said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
KoopaKid said:

Really? I went and there was 6 adults and only 2 kids plus a couple more adults came in to play 


There was a pretty good mix at mine! Also this one kid actually dominated against me! In my defense, he was a kid, so naturally I was gonna take it easy on him! xP

I brought a friend of mine who's 21, and he got his ass kicked by a 5-year-old asian kid. Needless to say, I laughed a good while from that. The kid even put down the gamepad immediately after finishing and walked away with style. He's going places. 


lawlz! Btw congrats on getting Rainbow License!



Did you count pixels to know if this is 1080p or 720p? A question VGC really needs to know



crissindahouse said:
Did you count pixels to know if this is 1080p or 720p? A question VGC really needs to know


Ain't no one got the time for that! Plus I'm already convinced that it's native 720p just like with most of Nintendo's other games.