Mario Kart Tour Hardly Became Less Infuriating
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Mario Kart Tour recently got a major update adding a whole new Battle Mode to the game and removing the vast majority of gacha elements from the game. I'm not the biggest fan of Tour, but did the new changes & updates make Tour a better experience?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:06 No More Gacha?
5:01 Battle Mode is unironically kinda fun
7:47 This is still Mario Kart Tour.
Music:
Peach Gardens - Mario Kart DS
Sky-High Sundae - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Wario Shipyard - Mario Kart 7
Tour Ninja Hideaway - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
GBA Sky Garden - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Maple Treeway - Mario Kart Wii
Waluigi Stadium / Wario Colosseum - Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Waluigi Pinball - Mario Kart DS - Hry
Can't wait until they announce the game's servers going down and then everyone starts acting like like Mario kart tour was this forgotten gem and the second coming of Christ
Not me lmao
@@SuperMarioT i know, but it will definitely happen with other people
I think if the tour tracks weren't in 8 then there would be a bigger uproar if the servers went down
But now that they are preserved there's no reason to really care
Hopefully it fares way better in unofficial preservation than, say, Sonic Runners
People are allowed to have their opinions yet people like you talk as if Tour is *objectively* bad lmao.
Tour is tho
I’m still playing Tour and I’m having some fun with it. I am pretty happy with the addition of Spotlight Shops. I do wish we’d get deeper cuts like Kooper and Fawful for examples.
I am not really having fun with Tour anymore. I cancelled my gold pass and I just play a lot less with the new updates. I actually like the Spotlight shop more than the gotcha system but the prices are still too high and I've noticed that I'm basically required to spend all my rubies to keep up in the ranked cup. Every week at least one course will give me no top shelf d/k/g's. I'm just burnt out and they aren't adding enough new content to be interested.
I disagree that they aren't adding enough content. They have been adding new tracks every tour when in the past we would get only a few tracks a year.
@@deadmeme739 I mostly mean the fact that they aren't adding any new racers or alts for characters besides Mario, Peach, and Luigi. And most of the "new" tracks they've added have been a million variants of the same courses. It's all repetitive and boring. I just want DK alts.
@@earthboundman5 I rather them add more tracks than a unless Mario alt. Also Lakeside Park and DK Mountain aren't variants
@@deadmeme739 no but they sure aren't good courses💀
@@earthboundman5 Hard disagree
Your first point is pretty much me with Fire Emblem Heroes. No matter how bad it gets with the power creep and dumb decisions, I’ve put nearly six years into it and it’s really hard for me to just stop playing it casually, even as a FTP player.
Because gotcha games are designed to keep you coming back daily for daily things. Otherwise, you will be punished when a new banner coming up with less resources, leading to whaling by real life currency.
Ask yourself if you're still having fun if theres something else you can play or do that is more fun, if yes uninstall and do those things
I suspected removing the paid lootboxes was probably a marketing tactic to get people who refused to play Tour due to its gacha mechanics, but i played anyway, and i gotta say, i should have thought twice before even playing Tour. Essentially, removing the paid lootboxes from the game is basically equivalent to pouring spoiled milk through a drainer back into a cup to remove the curds; the easiest to point out nasty elements are gone, but it's still rotten to the core.
I've been playing for about 6 weeks now, while attempting to ignore the pay to win mechanics, but even when playing casually, the game actively works against you. One thing i really don't like about Tour is the fact that all of the pseudo-online players (CPUs) start moving at the exact same time (which never happens with either CPUs or most real players in just about every proper Mario Kart), and it's complete luck as to if you'll survive what i like to call the "moshpit". Once you reach the first line of item boxes, everyone gets their items at the exact same time, and since they're close together and automatically hold items behind their karts, complete chaos ensues, and not in a good way whatsoever. Arguably the most annoying item is the Bob-Omb, and if a racer gets one, the entire moshpit will be nuked. If you're the one who had the Bob-Omb, you'll gain a ridiculous amount of points, if you're unfortunate to be within the moshpit, you will basically lose the race, as the item RNG in this game is incredibly broken (likely on purpose). When you try to bag in 8th place, you won't get beneficial items like stars, lightning, or bullet bills which will help you get 1st place AND get a good combo, but instead, 95% of the time you'll get mushrooms or mega mushrooms (both of which are completely worthless in this game). The way the game is set up at its core, even if you were to take out the gacha mechanics, lootboxes, microtransactions, grinding, etc., you still have a fundamentally broken and RNG-based game. I actually really like the idea of a score attack mode as a separate playstyle that could be selected in a console Mario Kart, but i don't want it to be programmed like ass and be the primary focus of the game.
What pisses me off to no end about Tour is the fact that it has a genuinely awesome character, kart, glider, and track roster, and that aside from a good chunk of the tracks, none of it is likely to be coming to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did add several great characters such as Bowser Jr., King Boo, and the Inklings on launch, but they didn't completely remedy the filler and shit-tier character roster of Mario Kart 8 Wii U. 8 Deluxe is still missing fan favorite characters like Diddy Kong, Birdo, Funky Kong, etc., and could REALLY benefit from Tour's new characters such as Pauline, Nabbit, Kamek, Dixie Kong, and the like. The unfortunate part is it doesn't look like Nintendo is going to be bringing over any characters from Tour to 8 Deluxe (despite the fact that, aside from the bike animations and a few texture/model touch-ups here and there, character porting would be piss-easy by Nintendo's standards), and that might be part of their goal, as it seems that both the removal of paid pipes and the exclusitivity of actually good characters to Tour is Nintendo's plan to pull in players of 8 Deluxe and other Mario Kart games to finally break and play Tour. I know that technically characters don't really matter, and that too many characters would result in a cluttered selection screen, but i truly want 8 Deluxe to visually be a great and fun game with lots of variety, not a game where almost a quarter of the roster is clones and babies, and where the online meta is japanese Waluigi Wigglers as far as the eye can see. It doesn't help that because of Tour, like you, i have been becoming noticeably worse at 8 Deluxe, mainly because of the slow, on-rails, grindy, and predatory nature of Tour.
Mario Kart Tour is, however, addictive. The game doesn't actively guilt trip you to keep playing, instead, with the way it's set up, you subconciously go back to it time and time again.
Mario Kart Tour is like a drug: Playing as characters like Pauline and Funky Kong while racking up points brings me joy, but then i play an actually good Mario Kart game and i suffer withdrawl in seeing the shrunken roster and the gameplay that requires actual skill. My only way to rehab will be either character DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, or Mario Kart 9 (which would be Mario Kart 10 according to Nintendo), both of which are unfortunately, equally unlikely.
Edit: So i turned out to be wrong on the character dlc part. Birdo is now in the game! Pauline and Diddy Kong aren't in yet but they may be holding on to them for Wave 6.
Your point about the rubie prices being mad expensive is how I feel about games with item shops nowadays. Games such as Fortnite, Apex Legends have item shops where you can spend real life money on their currency to get cosmetics directly, and while they do give you that option, the flip side is that they are unbelievably stingy when it comes to giving players who don't spend any money on those games that currency..making it feel almost forceful for people to cough up that bling regardless if there's lootboxs or not. I wish games would stop flocking to either extremes and start finding a balance between the two. Have a shop where people use premium currency to buy things directly so that they ALWAYS know what they're purchasing with their money, but at the same time don't neglect the part of your playerbase that can't or simply just doesn't want to spend money on your game either..it won't hurt Nintendo to be generous with handing out Rupies considering the amount of cosmetics in the game aswell as how much money they make in general. XD
You don’t have to pay tho. You can save up those rubies y know.
I was sceptical when the September Update came in with the gacha pipe removal, the Spotlight Shop prices were expensive and the game felt kind of empty at first glance.
But as time went on, I seemed to like the changes, well not exactly but close enough. The MKT team can give us new retro tracks constantly, but not actually make new character alts (that isn’t Luigi).
12:13 Why, you ask? Well ... As PAINFUL as it is to say... _The Roster_
Besides the reskins, the roster is -nuts- insane! Mario Kart 8's roster doesn't hold a candle outside of the guests like Link.
Mario Kart 9: *take notes*
@@therealjaystone2344 mkt is mk9 whether you like it or not.
I do agree that its still pay to win but for a beginner thats just starting out the game. I've literally not spent a single dime in MKT and got over 100 characters, tons of carts and gliders and literally have over 1million coins and over 2000 rubies. Yeah of course that takes time and depends on how much you play but for where i'm at right now in the game, I'm happy as can be and enjoy playing.
I honestly forget when I started I think in december 2019, and I was just excited to play a new Mario Kart game since playing MKDS. So seeing people calling it a scam or a ripoff even though it's a free game is kinda funny to see when you don't have to pay at all.
I just want King Mario. I swear to God Nintendo..Just give me the damn King Mario already. 😑
Question remains: How long will Mario Kart Tour servers will last?
Definitely not forever lol, probably sooner ow that the gacha is removed, the exact time is unknown
@@Thegamingwizard55 if there are less player base, the servers will shut down
@@therealjaystone2344 Oh yeah for sure, there's less active in the game these days ever since gacha is gone so it's no doubt closer to going away sooner
@@Thegamingwizard55 MK8DX BCP killed Tour further
@@therealjaystone2344 Yes, exactly a good point, The Tour tracks in MK8DX's BCP is further proof Tour will die.
Honestly, at some point I just didn’t care about the ranking system with ranked cups and it made the game way more fun and enjoyable when I could just play and not worry about beating whale scores, plus I’ve gotten so used to the controls that they aren’t also bad for me, plus I’m not someone like Zephiel810 where I HAVE to get every single character, kart or glider, so I save up a bunch of rubies for ones I want. I definitely do understand why other people including you still aren’t a fan of the game, but I’m also glad you don’t make fun of or hate on people who do enjoy it. Thank you for the free friend coins btw lol
I'm sure that the game will live until december 2023 because it's the end of the BCP where a majority of Tour tracks will be available.
At this point there will be no reason to go back in Tour except drivers selection (maybe)
The only thing that still keep me to play this game is the track selection : Riverside Park, DK Mountain, Sunset Wilds, Airship Fortress the cities which are not in 8 etc....
I hope a lot of these will be in MK8DX and not locked in forever.
Well, Battle Mode might at least mean 1 thing:
Possible Extra Battle Map Pack for 8 Deluxe
the point system sounds rly cool on paper and i feel like it would b if u took away some of the bonuses. the item bonus eliminates the essential defensive aspect of mario kart & character/kart/glider bonuses r so unfriendly towards players who dont like grinding. a good point system should reward u for playing well & encourage u to play more so u can get better but this just doesnt and it makes me sad
You're so small, man, keep making videos and one day you'll have a lot of subscribers. I love your rants!
We'll keep working on it, appreciate the support. 👏🏽
I’ve been playing Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent as of late. It’s a gatcha at its core. They do reward every little thing, but you’ll run out of first time rewards eventually and if you want a chance to get all travelers and their specific side quests, you may have to spend some money, especially when it comes to limited release characters. For those rare limited release characters, you’ll need to spend $100 on rubies for a 50% at the character. What’s annoying is there’s this special line of upgrades for each character (which is how you obtain more skill slots) in which you could use an in game currency to obtain along with character specific stones, BUT when it comes to 5 star characters, the most rare rolls, you can only use character specific awakening stones which are only obtained by getting the character again in a reroll. That all said, it’s a decent game. You still get a story and it plays and looks just like the original. The class of character neither breaks the game or makes it feel play to win so strategy is still essential. My one complaint aside being a mobile gatcha (it could tie in with the amount of characters), is it kinda loses the original Bravely Default appeal. There’s no dual wielding classes (possibly part of the reason they introduced an 8 character at once system), character building, or the feeling you’re working toward something. Just making said character stronger.
At least they finally removed the gacha, but it was too late, the game’s reputation is still bad. At the time of writing this, a few weeks ago, Nintendo finally stopped adding new content to the game, and we could see the end of MKT in less than a year. Quite a disappointing game with its annoying grinding and it’s garbage bots that just combo and snipe you in impossible ways, or just drag their garbage item to hit you as they pass you. The only good thing about tour is some of the soundtracks/presentation in some courses like Vancouver Velocity, Sydney Sprint, Airship Fortress, etc. There are many cool reskins of characters like Rosalina Swimwear or Peach Vacation, Mario Sunshine, knight Luigi, Gold Egg Yoshi, and Gold King Boo; these are my favorites. I am definitely going to get into the booster course pass at some point and I can’t wait for MKT to shut down eventually. Nintendo straight up greedy it’s crazy with those character packs they have sold for real money when you could literally buy something of better value outside of MKT. You could get a great $50 game instead of rubies and a single character in MKT
Even 150 rubies are hard to get with the Gold Pass in 1 tour it's barely possible.
You can save rubies.
I'm just playing tour to have a first hand sneak peak at the Booster Course Pass.
I got Mario kart tour when it first came out and I played it for about a month. Then I got bored of it and deleted it and I haven’t touched it since
Did you know that gacha has been removed?
@@NCHLTII yeah I heard that it was removed but it didn’t really matter to me
@@barelyhere7200 Same here man, gacha was so bad and even after it was removed I won't play it either
Better than me. I only lasted about a week before never touching it again. That was earlier this year, too.
@@Extra_Comfy_Robot I also stopped around that time, mainly the end of last year and I haven't touched it since then, didn't even play it a lot anyways so yeah similar to yours too
I love this Mario Kart 🤘😍🤗 My favorite parts are restarting 100s of times until I get a frenzy item, driving around like a hockey puck, and racing down skinny corrodors with item boxes!!!! I also love it when I have a good run and an undodgeable blue shell or lighting comes!!!! That means I can restart and suffer I mean play more 😇😇😇😇 So realistic and fun. This game is obviously fan service that's why it's free and feels so good 🥰🥰🥰
The micro transactions, while annoying, weren't actually the worst part of the game to me...
It's the core game play itself...
Off topic, but did you finally get Sonic Frontiers?
At least the future of the BCP looks more promising than Mario Kart Tour.
The MKT community thinks the game is slowly dying : the devs had a lot of tracks per tour compared to before (2 retros or sometimes 1 retro and 1 city variant) and the good skins characters (which is the one of the most important thing from Tour) are becoming less frequent and original.
adding more tracks doesn't mean the game is dying
@@MP_Guz it means they will have less new tracks to offer in the future tours
@@MP_Guz but i prefer they add more tracks tbh it will diversify the tracks selection by tours
@@TheDarkThief692 that's not really a problem tbh, most tracks they add as a 2nd track are either SNES or city variants, but even with these there's countless datamined tracks alone
the only issue is the slots getting worse, but that's probably just a bad luck steak similar to what we had last year
Opening up a can of worms:
People who don’t follow the leaks don’t realize this, but there’s only 11 non Tour tracks left in the dlc, that’s it, waves 4, 5, and 6 will consist of 13 tour tracks lulz
Not really... getting 150 rubies is fucking insane just for 1 high end character.
I play MKT since day 1, and it continues to be fun for me. I know its problems, but i like spending some time on it everyday.
I got back to the game and got a welcome back log in after years off the game it has improved battle i freaking love it hops they add more battle like stages in the N64 Mario Kart but there are negatives pass still sucks and the challenge cards need to change have Ruby's man.
12:00 you answered your own question
How long did it take you to get to level 210? like....did you play this day and night non stop for 3 years?
At some point, I would play for several hours a day, that was pretty early on in the game’s life though & it was to get to 99 & get higher points. I did a lot less of that around the end of last year
I have a switch so this game is torture.
@@Thegamingwizard55 Nothing good about tour? We get lots of new content and more tracks then mk8 dlc plus your blue star shooter your opinion is always invalid.
@@Marko-pg8ms Yeah, that you will never own, just like the game itself
I like Marko Kart Tour but ehhh i think it's better to just buy BCP for Mario Kart 8.
Exactly! I couldn't agree more. It's arguably worth it to buy the BCP for MK8D than to waste it on virtual lootboxes. Plus in the BCP not only are more tracks getting added, the tracks are not changing every two weeks so they can actually be played as many times as one wants.
@@Thegamingwizard55 your opinion is invalid
Imagine how Writing Counting feels about this video
I’ve seen videos and people much worse than this guy.
Bear in mind that when I type comments and replies I’m only talking to the people who have little to no idea what they’re talking about, with like 2019 or 2020 knowledge of the game. (Or dumb nit-picks) At least this guy’s video seems more informed.
I’ve seen MKT videos like under 5 minutes from people who don’t even mention the good things about Tour. And people who talk shit about the 8 deluxe dlc simply for including Tour tracks. It’s the nonsensical shit like that, that I tear apart. I don’t just hate anyone who hates Tour lmao
Most of this guy’s criticisms are just “reaching level 400 is too time consuming” and “I can’t beat every challenge” also “I can’t beat everyone at ranked”, just things of that nature. Dude believes you need to beat **every thing** in order to “beat the game” when…. JUST IGNORE RANKED LOL! Play causally and *stop* biting more than you can chew would be my advice to him. Though like I said, I’ve seen people much worse than him, his opinions feel a lot more informed
@@WritingCountingOriginal Personally, it was mainly my bad experiences with early Facebook games that already soured me on anything remotely involving “free to play microtransactions”, because while yes, the most egregious part of it is gone now, Tour still shoves and dangles all this other microtransaction stuff in your face, that while technically optional, is very annoying to deal with and is deliberately designed to tempt people to spend consistently
It doesn’t help that some of the overall changes to the game design to fit in more with the free-to-play mobile formula are just… strange and make the game not as fun as a regular Mario Kart game
Honestly, even with the loads of genuinely great ideas Tour introduced to the series (which should absolutely come back in a future game by the way), I don’t necessarily blame people if the free-to-play microtransaction mobile game model turned them off the game alone
Hell, I’m pretty sure the main reason I’m playing Tour right now is so that I can get a sneak peak at future waves of the Booster Course Pass, and not much else
I am going to get alot of hate for this, but Mario Kart Tour is the worst video game I have ever played in my life. Worst then Sonic And The Secret Ring (which used to be the worst game I've ever played), worst then Big Rigs, worst then E.T. 2600, worst then Superman 64, I can go on and on. I can never have fun with anything with it and the controls leaves me with carpal tunnel after a half an hour back when I first played it. I really can't wait for the game to go offline for good one day. I'll just stick with the other Mario Kart games
I agree 100% bud, Mario Kart Tour is absolutely my worst game of all time, it's just so infested with poor gimmicks and even though the gacha is gone, it doesn't make the game any less worse. Even the older games are still better simply because they actually play more enjoyably and control better plus no lootboxes either and tracks can be selected by choice as many times and whenever. I still can't wait for Tour's servers to inevitably go offline for good. Gacha is predatory.
You aren’t alone
@@therealjaystone2344 Thanks man
This is a good point. Even after the contentious gacha has been removed, I still can't bear the evil and predatory mechanics it had until September 2022. This is arguably my worst game of all time and I can't bear the thought of how infuriating it is, hence the title. Never have I hated microtransactions more than ever. Glad the gacha was removed for good and can't wait for the whole game to go away forever for good. I simply can't take another minute with this notorious game. I'm sticking to the older games, sure they don't have a lot of content but they are properly playable and ownable, plus they don't have stupid gacha luck, also the content changes every two weeks, the tracks are different so playing one track is only in specific tours, which removes the fun of playing them. Why do that when MK8DX has fixed tracks you can revisit all you want? Tour is a disappointment in the series, its gacha is gone and the servers will go offline for good one day.
I agree 100% bud. Never in my life have I hated a game as much as Tour. The controls hurts my hands to no end, the timed tracks which is just stupid, and everything else is terrible and awful about it. Glad I don't have to worry about that with the other Mario Kart games, even 7.
@@ToadBradley24 Absolutely bud, Mario Kart Tour is my absolute worst game of all time and I simply cannot BEAR the thoughts of this game at all. I used to hate Mario Party on the 3DS, even Mario Party Advance and even Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, but in 2019, nothing became worse than Tour and it has been so notorious since then. I hate everything about it to no end and it's so janky and awful. I'll happily revisit Super Mario Kart even if it's got only 8 drivers and 20 tracks, far better than a stupid gacha game with hundreds of paywalled items and gambling. Tour will inevitably go away for good one day.