Now that Smash Bros. Brawl has shipped in Japan, Nintendo has turned their attention towards their next big title, Mario Kart Wii. Japan's biggest gaming mag, Famitsu has the details (thanks to IGN for the translation)
32 courses. 16 remakes of old tracks, and 16 new courses
Tricks will give your kart or bike a turbo dash upon landing
12 person online multiplayer, which will make use of your friends lists
A Mario Kart Channel on your Wii dashboard
You will be able to use your Mii as a racer
Expect to see much more on Mario Kart Wii after Smash Bros Brawl drops here in North America.
This may be the game I'm most excited about right now. Hurry up and announce a date Nintendo!
The original post seems to be sort of deceitful. Dr. Finger makes it sound like the online is friends list only. But that is only one option. You can race anyone in the world and they don't have to be on your friends list.
Yet another Nintendo first party game. Which is great, to be sure, but more and more I'm looking at the Wii and thinking "is there anything really good besides the usual Nintendo 'brand' titles?".
Other interesting feature:
- online league and a global world ranking
- send and receive time attack scores online, online ranking for time attack as well
- upload/download Ghosts
Yet another Nintendo first party game. Which is great, to be sure, but more and more I'm looking at the Wii and thinking "is there anything really good besides the usual Nintendo 'brand' titles?".
Whose fault is that, Nintendo or the third parties?
Yet another Nintendo first party game. Which is great, to be sure, but more and more I'm looking at the Wii and thinking "is there anything really good besides the usual Nintendo 'brand' titles?".
Thank you. It's good to know I'm not the only one really, really, really tired of the 8,000,000 version of Kart/Smash/Mario/Zelda.
I guess it's not so much that I don't like the games it's the way they announce them every time. As if they are something new, improved and innovative. The way Nintendo fanfolks lap these games up, all Nintendo has to do is say: "New Mario Kart. Go buy it." That's it. They could save a lot of money on marketing that way.
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Thank you. It's good to know I'm not the only one really, really, really tired of the 8,000,000 version of Kart/Smash/Mario/Zelda.
I guess it's not so much that I don't like the games it's the way they announce them every time. As if they are something new, improved and innovative. The way Nintendo fanfolks lap these games up, all Nintendo has to do is say: "New Mario Kart. Go buy it." That's it. They could save a lot of money on marketing that way.
But you see - the reason the fans buy it is because it is still fun!
FYE (a local entertainment store) is selling preorders for a May release date - not that I believe that has any bearing in reality, but it might!
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Yet another Nintendo first party game. Which is great, to be sure, but more and more I'm looking at the Wii and thinking "is there anything really good besides the usual Nintendo 'brand' titles?".
You should totally tell Nintendo to stop making games. I'm sure they'll listen to you. They have to be sick of their gigantic piles of money by now.
I guess it's not so much that I don't like the games it's the way they announce them every time. As if they are something new, improved and innovative. The way Nintendo fanfolks lap these games up, all Nintendo has to do is say: "New Mario Kart. Go buy it." That's it. They could save a lot of money on marketing that way.
As hard as it might be for you to understand, not everyone has been playing games or paying attention to games as long as you. Every new Nintendo title brings new gamers to Nintendo systems because of all that advertising. There ARE such things as new and young gamers, you know.
You should totally tell Nintendo to stop making games. I'm sure they'll listen to you. They have to be sick of their gigantic piles of money by now.
I'm not saying they shouldn't. I'm saying they should try doing more than just their established brands with only the odd "new" attempt every few years (see: Pikmin).
Crash Team Racing had a mechanic where bigger airtime = bigger turbo boost when you land. It worked really well because you'd do slide turbos into jumps, etc. A smooth run would chain several boosts from airtime and sliding together, and it felt awesome pulling it off right. hangtime boosts are still one of the major reasons I still see that game as surpassing the MK series.
If better tricks can be performed with better hangtime, resulting in bigger boosts, this might bring some CTR over to Mario Kart, but I could see inputting the same small set of tricks repeatedly getting a little annoying. Hope they implement it well.
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I'm not saying they shouldn't. I'm saying they should try doing more than just their established brands with only the odd "new" attempt every few years (see: Pikmin).
You obviously don't own a DS. And I guess Wii Sports, Play, Fitness, Music, etc. just doesn't count.
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I think the tricks are a bad idea. There's already too much insanity on the course, we don't need more bullshit thrown into the mix.
I'm not sold on the tricks yet either, but almost everything else about the game (with the exception of Mii racers) has me excited, so I'll be willing to give it a shot...who knows, I may like it! More than anything, I'm just glad they're keeping in the online play; I thought that was one of the best parts of Mario Kart DS.
I'm really interested to see what the Mario Kart Channel will do, though I suppose it could just be used to show those scores you can swap online - if they show how you and your friends have improved on a graph, it would be a bit like the Wii Fit Channel (which draws from Brain Age and the like, of course).
