Mario Kart 8 Official General Discussion

[Jinglefruit]

Oh my GOSH that was just too much!

Last race of the night, I pick Yoshi Circuit because I figured ah who cares it's the last race it probably won't eve-BAM, picked, frantic.

Last lap, nearing the end of the course. Only Yoshi's boot to go. All of a sudden, Jingle Bullet Bill's into 1st, bypassing all who cross his path. Suddenly, a Spiny Shell appears as if from no where and chases him down. Within a split second I get a Bullet Bill and shoot forward. Knocking through 5 people in front of me, I reach Jingle, when suddenly, BOOM, Spiny Shell socks it to 'im. Fast as light I flash through untouched still going strong with the Bullet Bill. I return to normal state right in time for the item boxes, plowing through in first and I get a MUSHROOM of all things (I'd say those are pretty rare). Nothing left to stop me, I joyfully drift up to the finish line, use my mushroom, do a little jump-hop, and whoosh across. Not only did I hit a bunch of people, a Spiny Shell hit first, and I also bypassed and still got a mushroom.

Like holy wow was that intense. Especially in the replay because you can see the screen flash white in slow motion, then slowly see Larry flip in agony as a Bullet Bill skims right passed him, showing mercy.

[vid=youtube;ClxHDAavideo]

I'M SORRY MANDA DON'T KILL ME.

But that was really fun! Thanks again! I had a (SpinyShellBulletBillRedShellRacingMushroom) BLAST!

That was a crazy end. The game clearly wanted us to win though.
I need to remember to clear out my recordings so I can upload more vids. ~ though doesn't it save the last 12 races? Might have to lok through in the morning.

No problem! : ) It was fun!

Thanks all of you for joining! I had a great time tonight. lol And I'm glad you enjoyed the mirror/shells only---but you're probably the only one. XD

There were so many people tonight, though. Crazy!

xP I don't know how people don't like mirror, it makes the tracks feel brand new again, and it breaks habits of driving certain paths so you experience new bits of tracks. Shells only was a little too frantic to play all the time though.
And yah, I guess everyones hitting excitement for May DLC early and wanting to play?

 

[Amissapanda]

xP I don't know how people don't like mirror, it makes the tracks feel brand new again, and it breaks habits of driving certain paths so you experience new bits of tracks. Shells only was a little too frantic to play all the time though.
And yah, I guess everyones hitting excitement for May DLC early and wanting to play?

Shh. Zig's post doesn't even exist.

Anyway, I admit I'm not much a fan of mirror, because once I learn something, to turn it backward screws with my head a little. And then even if I get comfortable with it, going back to normal, I have to swap all the directions again and it gets a bit confusing. lol Shells only was something I only did once in a stream and that was murder. XD But I've done bombs only a bit too much, so I figured I should try something different. Mushrooms only was pretty interesting to try, too. It was nice not to have to worry about getting bullet-billed in the butt, hit with starmen/shells, etc.

Hmm, I suppose it could be. Or maybe a lot of people just had a free night to play. lol I wasn't expecting that big of a turn-out, but it was a grand time.

 

[LaBelleFleur]

Thanks for the stream!

And special thanks for the mirror shells cup!
Because I love races with random rules, and because "The race ended because you were too far behind." being displayed at me John and LabelleFleur when we were still only about 75% of the way through lap 3 and being lapped made me laugh harder than I have all year.
I was trying so hard to finish but we kept all getting triple reds and hitting each other, and Nintendo must have thought we were doing so bad that we had to be trolling. xD

That was too funny. I honestly didn't even realize what was going on until the screen came up, I looked over, and was only on lap 2/3 hahaha. I didn't notice anybody pass me because I kept crashing trying to get onto the bony rib bridge part, since I'd never played that course in Mirror Mode before. xD I was completely focused on not crashing and not getting hit by the endless stream of shells.

GCN Yoshi Circuit getting picked as the last course had me literally laughing out loud. It was too perfect.

It was my first time playing with you guys, and I had a ton of fun, thank you so much! I'm not very good at MK8 but it's fun all the same. I'll definitely be back next week, hopefully I'll continue to improve and maybe win a race one day.

 

[Zigzag991]

I swear I don't even know what it is literally every time I pick it as a joke thinking it won't get picked, it gets picked.

Speakin of DLC, I don't know why I'm curious but I wonder if the Wheetle guys from the Galaxy games are gonna be on the tree course. (However part of me feels like they're clearly visible in the picture and I forgot)

I'm just really excited to see what they do for the Animal Crossing track!

 

[Javocado]

I swear I don't even know what it is literally every time I pick it as a joke thinking it won't get picked, it gets picked.

Speakin of DLC, I don't know why I'm curious but I wonder if the Wheetle guys from the Galaxy games are gonna be on the tree course. (However part of me feels like they're clearly visible in the picture and I forgot)

I'm just really excited to see what they do for the Animal Crossing track!

Bob is on the Animal Crossing course.
Which means I'm gonna lose every race on that course because I'm just gonna drive up to Bob and admire all that he is.
<3

 

[Amissapanda]

That was too funny. I honestly didn't even realize what was going on until the screen came up, I looked over, and was only on lap 2/3 hahaha. I didn't notice anybody pass me because I kept crashing trying to get onto the bony rib bridge part, since I'd never played that course in Mirror Mode before. xD I was completely focused on not crashing and not getting hit by the endless stream of shells.

GCN Yoshi Circuit getting picked as the last course had me literally laughing out loud. It was too perfect.

It was my first time playing with you guys, and I had a ton of fun, thank you so much! I'm not very good at MK8 but it's fun all the same. I'll definitely be back next week, hopefully I'll continue to improve and maybe win a race one day.

Darn. XD Kind of sad that I missed what was going on back there! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun terrorizing each other with endless shells. Hahahaha.

Yoshi Circuit can still die in a fire though.

I'm glad to hear that you had fun! : ) You're welcome to join any time you would like. We'd be happy to have you in the races again. Everyone starts somewhere, so no worries! Mario Kart is as much a game of duck as it is skill! I'm sure your time will come. lol And in the meantime, it's all in good fun anyway!

 

[Zigzag991]

Since each new course had a specific gimmick, I'm wondering if they'll do the same and give every new course a unique style. Something for Animal Crossig can be that the course changes depending on the time you play.

 

[LaBelleFleur]

Darn. XD Kind of sad that I missed what was going on back there! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun terrorizing each other with endless shells. Hahahaha.

Yoshi Circuit can still die in a fire though.

I'm glad to hear that you had fun! : ) You're welcome to join any time you would like. We'd be happy to have you in the races again. Everyone starts somewhere, so no worries! Mario Kart is as much a game of duck as it is skill! I'm sure your time will come. lol And in the meantime, it's all in good fun anyway!

Definitely! ^^ I just hate missing all of the action up front while I'm fighting CPU Ludwig for 10th place, haha.

 

[Cress]

Anyway, I admit I'm not much a fan of mirror, because once I learn something, to turn it backward screws with my head a little. And then even if I get comfortable with it, going back to normal, I have to swap all the directions again and it gets a bit confusing.

In Mriokart Wii I played 50% of courses in Mirror, and 50% in 150CC, so I don't even remember which layout is the normal one. I play a lot more of 150CC here though since that's pretty much the only way you see tracks online.

 

[Jinglefruit]

Shh. Zig's post doesn't even exist.

Anyway, I admit I'm not much a fan of mirror, because once I learn something, to turn it backward screws with my head a little. And then even if I get comfortable with it, going back to normal, I have to swap all the directions again and it gets a bit confusing. lol Shells only was something I only did once in a stream and that was murder. XD But I've done bombs only a bit too much, so I figured I should try something different. Mushrooms only was pretty interesting to try, too. It was nice not to have to worry about getting bullet-billed in the butt, hit with starmen/shells, etc.

Hmm, I suppose it could be. Or maybe a lot of people just had a free night to play. lol I wasn't expecting that big of a turn-out, but it was a grand time.

See I love mirror, but I think it's because I can memorise the tracks pretty quickly, and tend to always take the same path, but mirror wrecks this for me, and drags back all the randomness and fun of not having a clue what you're doing.
Mushrooms only is good for tracks with lots of mushroom only shortcuts. It's like having items off but with a chance of actually overtaking people. When we raced with items off entirely before it was a bit boring because you only overtook if someone infront messed up, and if you messed up you'd drop 5 places.
Then you have bombs only and bananas only which are great unless you're in 1st place in which you don't see anyone, or have a boring race until the last lap when there's suddenly bananas littered everywhere.

That was too funny. I honestly didn't even realize what was going on until the screen came up, I looked over, and was only on lap 2/3 hahaha. I didn't notice anybody pass me because I kept crashing trying to get onto the bony rib bridge part, since I'd never played that course in Mirror Mode before. xD I was completely focused on not crashing and not getting hit by the endless stream of shells.

GCN Yoshi Circuit getting picked as the last course had me literally laughing out loud. It was too perfect.

It was my first time playing with you guys, and I had a ton of fun, thank you so much! I'm not very good at MK8 but it's fun all the same. I'll definitely be back next week, hopefully I'll continue to improve and maybe win a race one day.

I actually did get the recording! Apparently we dragged CPU Link down with us, so there was 4 racers that didn't even finish. xD I thought the Link was someone else doing well. xD Both Aarons were so far ahead though, and I spent a laughable amount of time either nose first into walls or stuck in the off road sand. Lap 1 has a ridiculous scene of about 6 of us all flailing around the pirahna plant and trying to find a way onto the rib section. xD

^The final scene of this, you're just forced to stop racing and then the scores come up showing that you didn't finish, but still got 10th. xD It doesn't show the brilliant message of the race taking too long though. Dx And you can't upload with map display showing how spread apart every except us 3 are.

 

[n64king]

Okay this is pretty much killing the game now that 7/10 rooms have someone cheating with over 20k points and no way to catch up to them almost immediately. Someone needs to ban Australia all together because that's where it seems to be coming from the most. People are slowly not even putting up with it anymore, if they find someone unbeatable soon enough the whole room leaves and you gotta go find another room with a 20k person.

 

[Cress]

If you don't want to play with people from Australia, then choose regional online instead of worldwide online.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

Regional is boring. Can you imagine being stuck with only your region during certain hours? It would be dead or really slow. Some hours I only can find rooms with Japanese players because everyone went to bed!
Hey that is weird they are from australia often, why is that?

 

[n64king]

Regional is boring.

Yeah. That's why. Being stuck with just North America is very slow and hardly ever yields a full room. I rarely get a full room with just America/Canada/Mexico anymore.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

There are barely any people from Mexico playing.

 

[n64king]

Actually, tbh I'm not sure if Mexico is thrown in with North America or if it's Latin America. Pretty sure it's NA but I do rarely see Mexico thrown in with US & Canada, hazy memory right now.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

How come when some people get hit they don't really slow down but others get hit and they take forever to start driving again? More hacks!?

 

[Zigzag991]

Pretty sure that's just the lag. They don't actually get hit on their screen, so they don't slow down. It still seems to break the item though, which sucks.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

Aww that's no fair. It looks like it hits them but they barely slow if at all. They lose coins too. Guess it's just all screwy.

 

[Tao]

Okay this is pretty much killing the game now that 7/10 rooms have someone cheating with over 20k points and no way to catch up to them almost immediately. Someone needs to ban Australia all together because that's where it seems to be coming from the most. People are slowly not even putting up with it anymore, if they find someone unbeatable soon enough the whole room leaves and you gotta go find another room with a 20k person.

I really don't understand why people even bother cheating online.

I've not come across any yet in Mario Kart (or any that I've noticed) but what's so fun about winning because you cheated? Surely because you're good is more satisfying?