The future of Mario Kart

>>375717762
I could only see them going with Nintendo Kart from now on.

I mean, they might as well. With the Inklings in, Link, Isabelle and the Mayor and so on.. why not also have characters like Kirby or Pit? What's the difference.

Just add more characters. Having baby and metal variations take up slots was the worst part of the game.

They may decide to just completely shit the bed like the sports spinoffs did after peaking during 6th gen

>>375717762
Nintendo Kart.

Think something like a smash bros roster. Either that or have it a full blown car racer and forget the karts.

Adventure mode

>>375717873
This is the most realistic, but also imo the worst direction for them to go.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have Kirby than Pink Gold Baby Peach Wearing A Party Hat, but once you start adding Nintendo characters, there is a weird obligation to base the stages around those characters. Mario Kart stages are something I always admired for being consistently unique and doesn't rely too much on existing concepts, but look at the DLC tracks in 8. Once villager and inklings were added, suddenly we have tracks like "Animal Crossing" etc.

Tl;dr, too many franchise characters adds pressure to have franchise based stages which is super boring compared to original ideas

Full gimmick mode. I don't know what it could be, but they would need to make m 9 the most gimmicky and different in the series to distract from the fact that it has considerably less content (assuming they go back to the standard number of cups).

Maybe bring back double dash mechanics, maybe deepen the kart customization with different engines, steering wheels, propellers, etc that drastically effect gameplay. Hell, maybe just straight up copy Diddy Kong Racing and add entire sky maps or water maps

After that they can go back to the standard gameplay with the same number of tracks we always got, and everyone will have forgotten about how spoiled we were with 8Delux's track list

>>375718009
This. For the next game they should kick out:

- Tanooki Mario
- Metal Mario
- Gold Mario
- Cat Peach
- Pink Gold Peach
- Maybe 2- 3 Babies

And add:
- Birdo
- Diddy Kong
- Nabbit
- King Bob-Omb
- Pauline
- Hammer Bro
- Kamek
- Super Mario Odyssey Character

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>people miss Donkey Kong in clothes

They could use this generation to develop an F-zero title since Switch already has its own mario kart now.

>>375718593
I'm not saying to get rid of the variations. Just have them be costume options for the original character. Also Petey Piranha or bust.

>brings back double items
>can't swap them around

>>375718797
Luigi and the Koopalings all have unique animations though.

>>375718797
Because donkey Kong characters is the pinnacle of rediculous mk roster choices. Funkey Kong in Wii was such a left field inclusion how could you not love it?

Instead of weird fun inclusions like that, or like the Bee lady in Mk7, we just get reskins.

Also I see what your image is going for, but there is a huge difference between reskins and sharing a skeleton. Using Funky as am example again, he's obviously an entirely different character than dk and is still fun to pick. Nobody wants to pick metal Mario because it's just a fucking silver mario

>>375717762
Kick out metal characters and suits as seperate characters.

Give every character multiple skins that change their weight around.

Or just release Kirby's Airride 2 as the next racing game.

>>375718896
Fast RMX is F-Zero though

>>375717762
>What would Mario Kart 9 need to include to live up to this?
being on a console with analog triggers so it can control like a real video game

>>375718228
>>375717873
I think the director confirmed that the only reason Mario Kart 8 has other Nintendo characters is because they're DLC. So I doubt Nintendo Kart is going to be an actual thing in the future.

>>375717873
Imagine the cool items we could get if we got this
>Hookshot from Zelda
>throwable Pikmin
>Missile from Metroid
>leaf from Animal Crossing
Basically any item from Smash could be converted to work here.

>>375719171
Mario kart uses A to move forward. Always had, always will. What difference will analog triggers make?

Did you not know that or something? Looking for a reason to complain maybe?

>>375717762
2 weapons makes an already casual shitfest game even more casual. Mk8 is garbage all stars was more innovative. Anti gravity is useless

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auto and manual transmission

>>375719305
s-shut up I just wanted to shitpost because my console has no games

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>>375717762
>still no new Twisted Metal game


Just gonna let Mario Kart dominate the crazy car game genre huh??

>>375717762
This is a deluxe version with all DLC added for free. I dont think you should be expecting the next game to be equivalent to this. Maybe to the base form of 8.

I expect the next game to ditch anti gravity and come up with a new twist to racing, but probably keep double items

>>375719313

I noticed imediately how casualized this one was. It's not too distracting, but after playing double dash all my life, it's definitely noticable

>Double items
>Auto-steering default on
>Lakitu picks you up and moved you way too fast
>Beating cups in one CC beats it in all easier CCs too

There were other things I noticed too that aren't coming to me now. I'll reply to this post when I remember.

>>375719486
They didn't ditch underwater and gliding, why would they get rid of anti-gravity?

>>375719486
Unless they want to throw away 80% of Mario Kart 8's tracks, antigrav is here to stay. I suspect it will be kept as a feature that they don't really advertise like Mario Kart 7's introduction of paragliders and underwater segments.

>>375719509
I agree. It's definitely a bit too easy. The only thing against it is how your momentumn stops completely if you hit a wall.

Also, the extra boost

>re-skins as one character, possibly changing their characteristics/stats
>more intricate differences between similar characters
>new characters, possibly from other Nintendo franchises
>more kart customization options
>tweak the driving/drifting/physics style like always
>new maps, some throwbacks
>a couple new "features" (tricks off jumps, anti-gravity, for example)

They don't need to do much. Just let MK8D live a full life and release new when the time is right.

>>375719509
Double Dash is overrated as fuck lad, enjoy your OP special items like fucking Bowser shells and chain chomps.

>>375719567
Some things became natural additions, and some didnt.

They didnt ditch gliding or water segments, but they did ditch two person carts, double items, and special items. Also the half pipe tricks of the Wii version. Or 5 cups like in the GBA version

>>375719605
They could just be altered the same way Wii's tracks are in later games.

I do agree that it has a chance of staying, but I dont think it's a guarantee.

>>375719461
What if Nintendo made their own Twisted Metal?

>>375719509
Oh yeah
>Picking up a second single item box gives you a second item
It felt much more balanced in DD when you needed a double box to get the second item

>>375719624
I wasn't really going to include the extra boost because it feels like it's there to make things more interesting, not exactly easier

>>375719715
I will.actually, that's something I wish they would bring back. I loved exclusive items for characters

>>375719843
It would be amazing.

>>375719567
Underwater and Gliding adds more possibilities for maps. Now you can make maps that go underwater/stay in the air long time. It's a direct upgrade from only driving on ground

Zero gravity on the other hand requires tracks to be designed around it. There is no direct benefit. More of a cute gimmick than upgrade

skateboarding tricks

>talking about casualization when Mario Kart 8 is the only game with 200cc
I agree that its 150cc is pretty easy though.

>>375720097
Mario Kart Wii already did this

real life mario kart with actual built tracks

>>375720125
200cc shouldn't even count as a normal difficulty level. It feels more like a gimmick like mirror cup. Anyone who is in the mood to play Mario kart is going to chose 150

>>375720307
>anyone
I only play 200cc so your post is invalidated.

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>>375717762
9 can be amazing if it's literally just 8 with a better roster. Remove all the koopalings except for bowser jr. and two others, remove all babies except for baby mario, remove pink gold peach, and add some actual fucking mario characters that don't have the spotlight yet.

>>375720430
>I only play 200cc
You are me so your post is invalid

>>375717762
Have battle mode included from the get-go instead of needing a port to the next console solely for this and nothing else at all

Have all of the Mario characters anyone would want. By now there's no fucking reason why you can't just have ALL of the mario characters in one game. That way you don't need shitty fluff like Baby Rosalina or Pink Gold Peach. Stuff like ability suits or metal forms can be alternate costumes, then you could have that as its own set of unlockables.

Every Mario Kart track from the entire series. Again, it's a modern game, on a modern console, it should be able to handle it. Even by Nintendo's standards, this is assuming Mario Kart 9 comes out on whatever their next console will be.

More detailed Kart customization; customizing colors, paint style, change the horn, etc.

More complex battle modes, maybe some stuff like Capture the Flag or King of the Hill.

Bring back unique special items; diverse enough to give each character their own unique thing, but not so much that any one is the single best.

Besides that, I dunno. That's what I imagine to be the very upmost innovation they can do without changing the series as a whole.

>>375720125
>implying its hard to drive in 200cc
the physics were way more fun in dd/wii and wii was filled to the brim with technical shortcuts.

>>375720596
>9 can be amazing if it's literally just the same game with different characters
Maybe if you're a drone who buys anything thrown at them, sure. But for a game to be a sequel it kinda has to add onto the gameplay.

>>375718228
There's a lot of potential for great tracks based on Kirby. You could have a track with 3 sections like Mt. Wario or Big Blue based on the Revenge of Meta Knight or one based on the mechanized Dreamland from Robobot.

Star Fox, Pikmin, Metroid and F-Zero would also have great optipns for tracks. Nintendo just went with the worst series, Animal Crossing, to do a DLC with.

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>>375721859
>Nintendo just went with the worst series, Animal Crossing, to do a DLC with.
This, it boggles my mind that they went so heavy with the fucking animal crossing crossover. Animal Crossing's relaxed, more subdued style doesn't mesh that well with Mario Kart but Kirby would've fit perfectly. Racing as Kirby and DeDeDe would kick ass, and there's tons of track potential.

>>375721859
That's exactly what I'm saying though. If Kirby was added, we would get a map based on revenge of meta knight or a robobot stage instead of something totally original like Electrodome or Neo Bowser City. Let Mario Kart keep original tracks and designate franchise based stages to Smash Bros

I wouldn't mind TOO much if they did something like "Meta Knight Caves" or something and only have it relate to the franchise in name alone (similar to Daisy Cruise and Wario Mines), but I know that isn't what the would do based on the dlc tracks we have which are literally "Big Blue", "Excitebike", and "Animal Crossing"

>>375717762
>8D

go back to gaia yah FAG

>>375722330
I understand what you are saying and I also think Nintendo Kart is a bad idea but Big Blue did the idea right, it's a really original track in it's own right.

>>375717762
I could see them introducing more courses with multiple paths, while also bringing in sailing or something along those lines.

>>375717762
>flying gimmick
>definitive
El o el

>>375722281
It's because new leaf was just coming out iirc

>>375722448
>tfw gaia outlived club penguin

Is 200cc any better in Deluxe? It wasn't really my thing in the original but now that it's in ranked online I hope I like it more.

>>375717762
Mario Kart 8 Super Deluxe releasing summer 2020

>>375722840
You can break while drifting now so yes it's heavily improved

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>>375717762
>Where the hell does Nintendo take the franchise from here?

Third party characters.

>>375720668
>Have all of the Mario characters anyone would want.
It would take time to make animations for every single one. Part of the reason I suspect we have so many babies and metals is because they're so easy to make. This isn't the Gamecube/Wii era where Nintendo has a stockpile of models lying around.

>Every Mario Kart track from the entire series. Again, it's a modern game, on a modern console, it should be able to handle it.
Not at the level the Mario Kart 8 retro tracks are at, it could.

>Bring back unique special items
It would be a nightmare to manage with a roster this big. The reason Double Dash got away with it is because half the roster shared items and one pair just randomly got everyone elses'

>More complex battle modes, maybe some stuff like Capture the Flag or King of the Hill.
Renegade Roundup seems like a step in the right direction. Hopefully, Nintendo comes up with more from there.

>>375723031
Would it be out of the realm of possibility for them to straight up release a "Mario Kart Arcade Pack" for the switch? Is there enough content for them to?
I only played one of them a couple times as a kid and all I remember is the tracks feeling super uninspired. Would it be worth it?

>>375720668
>>375723201
Capture the flag would be fucking amazing.

Anybody know how many copies of the game you need for 12 players? If I hook up a bunch of switches together, would it be possible to do download play with every switch with only one copy of the game?

>>375723242
Doubtful. Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 is pretty much the first game's "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe". Mario Kart Arcade GP switches around a few characters and karts, but the tracks are pretty much given a facelift to swap what they look like/which character they belong to and keep their overall layouts.

Fuck your roster autism. Give me some deeper driving mechanics, sonething that would give the game some longevity.

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>>375722605

ViRTUAL REALITY KART

>>375719013
Skeletons are not the same as animations
Skeletons are the framework
Animations are how the skeletons move

>>375723870
The image says same skeletons AND animations, but saying that Luigi is still a Mario clone is fucking retarded either way.

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>>375717762
I can't imagine them building over 48 tracks from the ground up at launch for the next game. It's impossible to be anything but a step down in content. If vanilla 8 launched with a proper battle mode, it would have still beaten every Mario Kart to that point.

>>375719217
>leaf from Animal Crossing
>It's a hard to see leaf on the ground
>Explodes into a random piece of furniture when you run over it
>It has a chance to be something that wont slow the racer down
Pls

>>375719509
>Beating cups in one CC beats it in all easier CCs too
I can agree with everything else but there's absolutely no fucking reason to play 50cc ever. Barely any for 100cc (intoxication). I certainly don't want to have to clear 24 snorefest cups

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>>375724458
>This is a ploy to ease you into accepting his eventual obsession with inkling girl

>>375719509
>>375724783
This. If you complete 100cc or 150cc first, playing the easier ones would be just tedious.

>>375718797
lol this image
I guess games like CoD where every character has the same rigging only really have one character

>>375718797
You can't fuck off Luigi though, he's nearly as important as Mario!

>>375724783
It just adds replayability. I don't like that it says I beat something when really I didn't.

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>>375725050
>It just adds replayability
Going back and playing the game on easy mode after you've beaten the game isn't "replayability" you fucking moron.

>>375724931
It shouldnt be required to unlock gold Mario, but the ability to see whether or not you finished the easier ccs and with how many stars should be in the game.

Some people like me enjoy casually strolling through 50cc just to get that 100 percent complete save

>>375725172
Yes it is. If I beat all the cups on 50cc while making my way up to mirror/200cc, and after I finish the game I want to go back and get 3 stars on the 50cc cups I may have gotten only 2 on, I should have the ability to do so.

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>>375718228
>>375717873
>>375718121
>>375719217
>>375721859
why would rebrand it into something that would inferiorly sell compared to many Mario spinoffs?

you guys aren't any better than people saying F-Zero would magically sell if they made it into God Hand: Smash Bros Falcon edition.

>>375725290
Guess what? You still have the ability to do so and everyone who isn't an autist doesn't have to waste their time with 50cc.

>>375725353
Who cares about sales?

>>375725290
Games that make you unlock medium hard, etc are constantly criticized as needlessly padding out game length faggot. Neck yourself

>>375725389
No I don't, because the game automatically updates it with my 150cc score. Why is this a problem for you people? What is wrong with each CC having its own trophies instead of sharing them?

>>375725396
nintendo, presumably

>>375725474
But everything would still be unlocked. It would just show which cups you did the best on per CC, instead of the whole game

>>375725175
Don't you guys know that you 150cc placements take the spots of you 100cc and 50cc placements?

>>375725513
Luckily we're not Nintendo

>>375725562
I'd still have to play it all. 50cc and 100cc are ass. fuck off.

>>375725504
I didn't realize it did that and you're right, that is dumb. If each CC had it's own trophies that would be totally fine but beating 150cc should give you the unlocks for beating the lower ccs as well.

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>>375725728
No you wouldn't because nothing would be locked behind beating them. It would just be a different list of trophies

This isn't a complicated concept

>>375719159
Only superficially. It doesn't actually play like F-Zero.

They could make a more interesting single player campaign. GPs are fine, but still a little bit outdated and too simple for our current era.

>>375725660
no but they make the videogame

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Crash Team Racing-tier hubworld and light story.

Why the hell not? Disperse the different tracks around the world and only organize them into cups for multiplayer.

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>>375717762
Make bikes great again.
>>375726024
They should bring back the competitions they had in mkw. Those were fun while they were new, and with patches and DLC being a thing, they could keep adding more of those.

>>375726431
MKWii isn't welcome on /v/

>>375717873

I'm honestly surprised that this hasn't happened already desu.

>>375717873
Yeah, I can't wait to see people sperging out about Ridley not making it into Mario Kart either.

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>>375727352
>Ridley gets in
>as a race track
I CAN'T WAIT

>>375724458
>You can get Gold Mario with smart steering
Why? What's even the point of the reward then?

>>375717762
They should expand 8D. Maybe more dlc. Like a 8====D version

>>375729714
Yhey should add more DK characters, so they can call it Mario Kart 8====D Expand Dong

>>375727352
worse

cheap ass devs begging for some indie trash to appear

"nintendo kart" dosent sit right with me.
i want "super smash kart"

>>375727001
>>375732760
>Smash sells inferior to Mario Kart and many other Mario spinoffs
>dumbass wonders why Nintendo Kart rebranding never happens'

>>375717762
I am still waiting for a Fury Road style co-op battle with giant boss where everyone tries to take down an objective before a time limit.It would be glorious

>>375719897
>It felt much more balanced in DD when you needed a double box to get the second item
No, you just needed to briefly swap in the other character, then swap them out.

>>375719509
>Beating cups in one CC beats it in all easier CCs too
I beat almost every cup in Mirror and 200cc, and I don't see them completed in the other 3. Got any proof?

>>375733981
Mirror and 200cc it doesn't happen to because they are the gimmick ones. Beat a cup on 150 and see for yourself