Makes me wonder if there is going to be another unannounced item :p

Makes me wonder why they thought it was a good idea to leave in the coin item. Do they think it's fun to get a coin from the item box, cause I would bet no one finds that fun. If they had fixed the item balance I would have atleast considered getting MK8D, but as it is I'll stick with the version I can play for free. I'm sure by now that they do know what's wrong with it and are just waiting until MK9 to implement the fixes.

No game is without flaws, especially not one which just had some of them pointed out.

That 2nd place can get stuff as good as a Crazy 8 while 10th can get a single Green Shell is laughably imbalanced. This is unfortunately possible because the items you can get are heavily based on how far away you are from the next racer in front of you, rather than what position you're in. This combined with some of the following issues makes it hard to change positions making races more boring and stagnant.

The Coin is simply unimpactful thus unfun no matter what place you're in. Also, you don't get a boost from getting a coin. Come to a complete stop then use your coin item and see for yourself. They do increase max speed a bit, but getting a measly 2 coins (which are all over the track) is not worth being unable to do anything and left completely vulnerable. Getting a coin is nearly the equivalent of getting nothing, which is especially bad when there's already an item like that being the Blooper.

There are plenty more issues than that though. Boost items are indirectly nerfed due to most tracks lacking good shortcuts, again making comebacks hard to pull off. The Star was directly nerfed as it barely even increases your speed now. Red Shells are too strong due to the aforementioned Coin item helping leave people wide open often (well also cause of the 1 item at a time thing which has been fixed in Deluxe). Blue Shells are less frequent which furthers promotes frontrunning from start to finish instead of dynamic races.

This post is getting too long so I'm just gonna speed through the rest. Lightweights are significantly inferior again, Karts are superior to Bikes even without the firehop exploit (dunno if that's still in MK8D), less possible stat combinations than MK7 despite way more parts, Acceleration tiers still being a thing, Gliding is mostly just a visual gimmick now, and that's all just off the top of my head.

You might not think the game has flaws, but thankfully Nintendo likely does seeing as they fixed the battle mode and backtracked on the one item thing, so I wont be surprised when more gets changed up in MK9.

What the new amiibos do in BotW



Also another one for unreleased amiibos, which could be potentially spoiling (not to the game, but to what the amiibo is):

https://sickr.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/zelda_amiibo_infographic.png

Reggie says Nintendo will “have a big E3 this year”, showcasing games for both Switch and 3DS

http://nintendoeverything.com/reggie-says-nintendo-will-have-a-big-e3-this-year-showcasing-games-for-both-switch-and-3ds/

I don't have the Switch so I wasn't able to participate in the Splatoon 2 Testfire, so I would like to hear your thoughts for people who did

https://www.twitch.tv/2ggaming

Dude. Top 8 with only 1 Top 10 player. Link, Falcon, DK and Ryu in Top 8. What is this.

It's Smash 4 being strategically balanced, those rankings are nothing but numbers on a paper at this point as the so called elite got shown whose yard it is.