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Mario Kart 8 getting 48 remade courses as DLC - $24.99 or included with NSO Expansion Pass
- Thread starter Lant_War
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There's a reason why everyone gravitates towards "Smash Kart" when talking about the next Mario Kart. Like, what do you even DO to get the masses excited for the next game?? And no, turning Mario Kart into Diddy Kong Racing or Crash Team Racing won't do that. Nobody bought a WiiU, so MK8D is basically most people's generational fill for Mario Kart, and it's a damn fine one at that.
Love the aggressive pricing. I guess the last DLC must have done well enough for them to take a shot with this.
Love the aggressive pricing. I guess the last DLC must have done well enough for them to take a shot with this.
Yup. They're very good. Almost 8DX quality.
Ninja Hideaway is a sublime course.
I still play Mario Kart Tour religiously by the way. I absolutely love it.
This is neat but like... 4 years too late for me to care? This is what I wanted at launch, not years later after I realized we wouldn't actually get a new Mario Kart game for a decade :'0
Splitting the expansion pass with my wife and a friend getting even better. Already felt like a good deal with us all getting the AC expansion and n64 stuff. This is a ton of icing on the cake.
Curious if it's truly all old tracks (the way they said you'll recognize SOME of these tracks from previous games or something was vague enough). Was expecting some characters, like tossing in Samus or something. Still kinda they'll end up including some new characters like the last DLC and just mention it later. Even if they don't 48 new tracks is so bonkers I laughed out loud when they said it.
Curious if it's truly all old tracks (the way they said you'll recognize SOME of these tracks from previous games or something was vague enough). Was expecting some characters, like tossing in Samus or something. Still kinda they'll end up including some new characters like the last DLC and just mention it later. Even if they don't 48 new tracks is so bonkers I laughed out loud when they said it.
The key art for this has them in anti-gravity mode so I think some will be reworked to include it
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HOLY SHIT I JUST SAW THIS WTF!
I love MK8 but I haven't played it in years. Just recently I've been thinking about how I've missed it and it seemed like fun to play, and this news comes out of nowhere. What the hell.
It's pretty damn cool as I think Mario Kart 8 is already basically the best kart racing game, and this will just full cement it and take it over the top. Basically the definitive MK experience. I just wonder how they'll now follow it up...
I love MK8 but I haven't played it in years. Just recently I've been thinking about how I've missed it and it seemed like fun to play, and this news comes out of nowhere. What the hell.
It's pretty damn cool as I think Mario Kart 8 is already basically the best kart racing game, and this will just full cement it and take it over the top. Basically the definitive MK experience. I just wonder how they'll now follow it up...
It's a fucking company. And how is this bad? 48 damn courses for $25.
Audibly cheered at work over this and honestly only this announcement.
No kiddiN I was in the dumps till this hit.
I mean even as a warriors fan this dirext was low tier. Hyrule Warriors dlc season in 2022? Nope. When Fire emblem Warriors showed up i said "Just shit directly into both my eyes nintendo".
Then mother 1 and 2 again and still no 3. No Metroid prime 4 but by god 1 hit die mode and boss rush dlc which is so nothing it may as well not exist. Not botw 2. No fzero. No culdcept. No star fox.
Then this hit near the end.
48 courses. From past games. Mall is immediately shown.
You son of a bitch Nintendo. I'm in.
No kiddiN I was in the dumps till this hit.
I mean even as a warriors fan this dirext was low tier. Hyrule Warriors dlc season in 2022? Nope. When Fire emblem Warriors showed up i said "Just shit directly into both my eyes nintendo".
Then mother 1 and 2 again and still no 3. No Metroid prime 4 but by god 1 hit die mode and boss rush dlc which is so nothing it may as well not exist. Not botw 2. No fzero. No culdcept. No star fox.
Then this hit near the end.
48 courses. From past games. Mall is immediately shown.
You son of a bitch Nintendo. I'm in.
For real, I really thought we would get MK9 on this console, but fuck it if I can have another 48 tracks, because that's the bulk of what I really want out of the sequel any damn way. Just give me remakes of tracks from earlier in the series remade for this game and Im absolutely happy.
I can't wait for this. The pricing and nso expansion is just icing on the cake. Game of the forever man.
Lose them like a ps plus game
you always have the option to purchase the expansion outright
In addition, 3 of the first 8 tracks (Paris Promenade, Tokyo Tour Blur, Ninja Hideaway) are from Tour and I think most of us haven't really played them. Sky Garden is also very, very different. So for a lot of us it won't just be tracks we've played to death lol
I'm really starting to wonder where Mario Kart goes next after a 50+ million seller game with 96 tracks. The only thing I can come up with is they plan to keep Mario Kart 8's engine and mechanics as the "core" going forward, porting every past track in the franchise to it and the entire back catalogue will be available for a subscription fee, like how Just Dance keeps releasing new games with a catalogue of old songs you can sub to.
this is absolute best kind of DLC i could've asked for, for mk8. 48 tracks is a fever dream of content
Can one of you that's posting about being interested in the expansion pass tell me how you see that as greater value than just buying the season pass? Why are you chill with losing content one day?
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If I had to guess, this is trying to bridge the gap for MK9 on the Switch successor.
IMO the $25 price point just makes the expansion pak an even worse value since you'd have to pay for the sub up until the last wave is released end of next year.
Maybe once all the waves are released
Maybe once all the waves are released
A grudge?? So making a joke about bad journalism means holding a grudge?
We're getting new content for a 8 year old game, no grudges only love ( except if you throw me a blue shell, please don't)