>try it out on the WiiU >gameplay's mostly good >karts

I'm pretty sure MK8 doesn't even use bloom, it's got a fairly clean look to it without much shader usage at all. I also disagree with this statement:
>tracks are made around this thing lose any uniqueness and most seem like a forgettable mess
>various times when using a ramp you overshoot the track and either run out of it or hit something you're not supposed to
you're supposed to use the brakes, the game even mentions this

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>>389869425
>I'm pretty sure MK8 doesn't even use bloom,
maybe you don't know what bloom means?

>>389869425
>you're supposed to use the brakes, the game even mentions this
yeah, try braking after ramping on a booster, go ahead (off the top of my head, the Excitebike track has one of these overshooting ramp boosts)

>>389869674
>pic
doesn't look like that in-game. Also what's with the unusual res/crop?

>off the top of my head, the Excitebike track has one of these overshooting ramp boosts
that course is randomised

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>>389869802
>doesn't look like that in-game.
what the fuck are you talking about? I can't even believe someone is saying that there's no bloom in MK8, but here, have some more screenshots, it's really fucking obvious in any daytime open areas track

>Also what's with the unusual res/crop?
I googled the image, how can you not even think of that possibility?


>that course is randomised
fine, that one with the piantas and the fruit market has a ramp that will overshoot the small boat in the middle of the jumps

>>389870434
huh, maybe it's just the switch version then, but those images are clearly not in-game, you can't angle the camera like that during play.

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>>389870924
jesus christ, whatever, I'll get youtube gameplay then
https://youtu.be/7BjGwXY_kwM?t=39

and Nintendo knows they overused it in the WiiU version, they even reduced the bloom a tiny bit in Deluxe

>>389871186
not a very good quality vid, but the only bloom I see is when he's facing the sunlight near the finish line, which makes sense.

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Kinda stinks we never really had any other new character for Mario Kart 7. No new DLC, no nothing.

You could even tell how fucking rushed that thing was.

>>389871715
that's because the effect is stronger there, the bloom is everywhere outdoors in that track, just reduced, and indoors you can see it in the kart's light and such

here's another video, bloom should be very obvious from the get go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GRjzJVDLbM

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>>389871921
the gameplay was tight, the tracks were great, I don't see the issues with it outside of no Waluigi and iirc you need 40 coins to get 3 gold stars, absurd

>>389872096
first track there is in broad daylight, no shit there'll be some bloom. It's not even remotely excessive so I don't see the problem. Excessive bloom would be like WWHD while outdoors.

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It must be ass being this jaded

MK7 didn't have SP VS mode so that alone makes it inferior by default. MK8DX is already the best game on the series alongside MKDS and the only thing it needed to take the throne was a mission mode.

>>389872487
I said that the problem was in open areas, and you could have just said in your first post that you fucking love bloomd instead of denying there was bloom in the game


>>389872579
are you talking about me, the OP? I said I liked the game, what are you going on about?

>>389872757
I don't like bloom if it's overused or exaggerated, but otherwise I don't have a problem with it.

>>389874061
well, that's my problem with it, to me it's overexagerated in MK8, but then again I don't think I've seen a game use bloom lightly for me to think it was fine, maybe Witcher 2, but even that looked better after I turned bloom off

>>389874407
well there's not much more I can say other than that I disagree, I don't find MK8's use of bloom exaggerated at all, it's used sparingly and even in the worst-case scenario (e.g. facing a bright source of light directly) it's nowhere near as bad as other games.

>>389874945
even on dark areas it still constantly shows up because MK8 loves to put neon glowy stuff everywhere, like that musical stage, all 3 Rainbow Roads, and Bowser Neon City or whatever it's called (but since the bloom is focused on the shiny things, it's more tame than the outdoor areas)

in any case, out of my complaints, that's probably the smallest one

>>389875216
that "glowy" look from the bloom is how light tends to look irl. Like I said, as long as its not exaggerated (which I don't think MK8's is), I don't have a problem with bloom. Some of the outdoor/open areas could do with toning down a little bit, but otherwise I think it'd look worse without the bloom.

>>389875612
I agree, I think bloom is fine but needs to be used more moderately, I know that light doesn't travel in straight lines