SO. Funny that I would pull back on my Microtransaction statement, only to have this drawn to my attention. Take it how you will, it's not definitive, but still something to keep an eye on. www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/mario-strikers-battle-league-may-have-in-game-purchases-according-to-esrb-rating
Microtransactions in a $60 Nintendo game sounds like a disaster in the making. You just know they’re gonna cut the support off six month later. This isn’t like apex or halo where it’s free to play
My main takeaway is that It kinda sucks that the main gimmick of MK8 that being the anti-gravity will likely not be featured at all in these new courses. Not to mention some of the charm being taken out of the courses such as the coconut mall escalators being replaced with generic ramps.
Thank you for saying that All the rebranded courses in mk8 look like they belong in mk8 They change it Put more details and stuff But here its so barebones to the point its just lazy
I personally don’t mind this, 48 new tracks (which is actually doubling the track count), for 25 fat ones is a steal. I do completely understand the disappointment of Nintendo being lazy and I do agree with the criticisms about it. But personally I’m just happy to see 8 Deluxe finally get some new content!
Yeah, the quantity makes up for the quality. If this were characters instead of stages, it wouldn't be good. Courses are the meat and potatoes of the game after all, getting so many more is pretty sweet.
Yeah, the basic designs and layouts of the courses are good, and I think it’s a similar situation with the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl art style debate; some people are just gonna like it more than other people.
The official Nintendo webpage for the Booster Course Pass has Shroom Ridge listed as a 3DS course and not a DS course, clearly Nintendo put a lot of effort into this pack EDIT: THEY FINALLY FIXED IT LADS
@@MAJJASTAK Shroom Ridge was originally a ds track. You'd be thinking of Mushroom Bridge, which was a gamecube track. Very unique and extremely different names with absolutely no way to confuse them.
@@BUTT-BUTT yeah there was no 3DS version for either of the tracks, but you're mixing the names. The track that was from double dash and remastered on DS is Mushroom Bridge, while the DS original track that we've seen in the DLC is called Shroom Ridge. If you want to double check then you can search it up on the wiki.
Nowadays, it feels like every time Nintendo promises something hype and amazing, there has to be a catch to it, like with Mario, Pokémon, Nintendo Switch Online, etc. It can’t just be smooth sailing with what they give us, it has to not meet my reasonable expectations one way or the other, which is just to provide good content at a fair price. I remember being so excited for MK8’s original DLC on the Wii U, but these just feel like quantity over quality.
I'm glad someone pointed this out, Yesterday I was so excited that I was 100% on board with buying this pack without looking more into the video of the game showing. I would be joking if we almost fell into a trap of Nintendo's quick grab of money. I hope that we don't have to buy the expansion pack to be on the online mode of this game! Thank you Scrungus Mcbungus and Al for making this video into more depth.
Yeah it does feel like a trap. They could've just been honest and said they were porting over Tour tracks, but instead they were like, "We're remastering the old tracks!" Which isn't exactly wrong, but they were remastered for fucking phones...
No I think I think buying this DLC is worth it cuz you don't have to play f****** marquart to her what you already have two which is already paid to win
Personally, I think its a steal. 25$ for twice more content? Automatic buy that's 96 courses there. *_BUT..._* Nintendo may do the usual stupid thing and take our money, just to the next Mario kart game can have all the DLC Content for free... *_AGAIN_* not to mention... We won't get all the courses until the end of 2023, so its true that right now 8 courses isn't a priority, Kirby and the forgotten land is worth more.
@@ctpp64 well, "we're remastering the old tracks" is kind of wrong in the case of the Tour tracks... The 3 Tour original tracks in the first wave all look to be the exact same, not remastered
When I first thought about the way the MK8DX DLC looks, I came to the thought that maybe this DLC is being made by the Mario Kart Tour Dev team, rather than the mario kart team behind the original game. I am willing to bet with the success of mario kart tour, that the team got the greenlight to add DLC, while MK9 is developed by the original mario kart team. But thats just my theory
Lucky Wii I agree. The switch is still going pretty hard in terms of sales and there games are still selling pretty damn well. So I don’t think we’re gonna say MK9 until the next Nintendo console which I bet won’t be another 3-5years
I don't think it's fair to say "We could have just gotten another brand new more exciting entry in the Mario Kart series" when it seems pretty clear to me that EPD 9 is working on something else than Mario Kart, and is porting stuff over to keep the +40 million MK8D owners somewhat happy. A new Mario Kart would eat into those evergreen sales and them keeping this going until the end of 2023 tells me they don't have Mario Kart in the near future, this feels like a side project for a smaller team to keep Mario Kart support alive but on the sidelines. The casual announcement and quick explanation of it before the trailer in the direct really shows that I feel. Maybe EPD 9 is currently taking a shot at other Nintendo racing IPs to not eat into Mario Kart like DKR, Excite or maybe, just maybe F-Zero. Or maybe they're spending 4 years developing Arms 2, who knows really.
@@nappa3550 Makes sense, the Switch is in the middle of it's life according to Nintendo. We only ever get 1 Mario Kart per system. "WELL ITS NOT NEW" Imagine if Smash Ultimate got ported to Nintendo's next console and got new characters at launch and more DLC later. Do you think Nintendo would care that it's not a new game and have the Smash team be making another one for the same console behind the scenes as Ultimate DX continues to sell and be supported? No, probably not.
I would like to point out as someone who actively plays Mario Kart Tour Maybe for some its tour remastered but its been 2 and 1/2 years and tracks like Coconut Mall have not appeared in tour.
LOL this is exactly what I thought. I mod mk8 on my computer and it's almost exactly like this DLC. The only cool thing is you can play these courses online which (to my knowledge) cannot be done in modded mk8.
Yeah I didn't know they were Tour tracks at the time watching the direct, but even then I thought they just looked...weird. Too simple and cartoony for MK8's realistic art style
(Sigh) I feel like Nintendo should’ve taken the opportunity to add more characters to the roster. If Nintendo was to add more characters to the roster, they would add Funky Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, Kamek, Boom Boom, Pom Pom and Pauline.
If they did that it would lessen the monetary gain they get from adding more and more exclusive characters to tour. I'd venture a guess that they deliberately are avoiding adding characters to mk8 deluxe because of that.
I also feel like this is jumping the gun a bit. Not to denounce the commenter completely but we have literally only seen ONE wave of the DLC, with 3-4 of the tracks explicitly from tour and some of the others from older games using Tour version as its base. I don't think we should be making such a judgement until the second or third wave. Also I feel like "they look lifeless" is subjective here. That one track in the clouds, Coconut Mall, and the road along the cliff look great.
I definitely understand where the people are coming from about the textures, and yea I would've definitely prefered a new entry in the series, but I still think the courses look alotta fun and I've never played the tour courses, and the price for the pass isnt that bad, overall I think I'm gonna have alot of fun with the content (Plus coconut mall is in this so of course im gonna get it lol)
Its true that toads circuit textures are looking rough... Yet look at DK Jungle, playing that course is like an adventure! (If only Donkey Kong racing was a thing)
Personally, I’m pissed. These tracks are just pulled from tour and so they look bad compared to the other tracks. Plus the antigravity mechanic most likely won’t be in these courses if they’re just being ported from the mobile game. I would’ve preferred courses reimagined and built from the ground up like they were in Mario kart 8, you know the game that the dlc is being put in the first place.
I'm quite upset too. At first glance during the trailer for the dlc I didn't notice the graphical textures, but now that I saw videos pointing these out, they look so plastic-ly…
I'm baffled at all of these comments honestly. It's basically "yeah, the courses will be shit, but they will be playable and will cost 2 cents each!". I don't care how much these will cost if they are just poorly ported over from a mobile game. Since when did people stop caring about quality?? Integrity?? That's why half of gaming companies nowadays don't give a damn about releasing quality stuff, gamers are becoming so apathic to anything they release. If you wanna play cool ports and custom tracks just go play Mario Kart Wii CTGP, they probably have ports of all tracks in Mario Kart history and it's free. I'd prefer 4 new retouched, remastered, remade, carefully rebuilt courses than 200 shitty ports, coming from Nintendo. And that's not to mention those losers who actually bought a damn Wii U and played this game in 2013, like me. Am I supposed to buy that same game again because they refuse to release a new one??
I seriously hope that by some miracle they’re gonna polish all these stages up because they look really really empty. Choco Mountain looks pretty good (don’t think I didn’t notice those rocks being copy-and-pasted from Bowser’s Castle however), but then I look at Coconut Mall and see how awfully bland it is.
@@pixelraster9588 not with nintendo only with others developers. Thats like one of the only things I can give nintendo they treeat their employees and they make fucking good games that get better at release, the updating unfinished games thing is annoying but it doesn't happen as often as it's told.
I never played tour so for me a lot of the courses will feel new, plus I've always been a fan of stylized games so i actually like the way it looks. Sure would've been nicer if they looked as good as the rest but im more than fine with this.
The trees and less detailed grass in these new courses were a dead giveaway that these were from tour. Still gonna get the DLC as I'm at least excited to gives these tracks a proper go in an actual Mario Kart game, rather than a mobile one.
I know the “40 dollars for Diddy Kong?!” is like a big meme but… Diddy is free in Mario Kart Tour. Always has been, he’s one of the easiest characters to get
@@mono6518 Yeah, I had to drop like 400 rubies to get him yesterday. I’ve spent $165 over 2 years and 5 months and have like 116 characters and about the same number for karts and gliders so it could be worse
@@mono6518 and its even funnier that funky kong, the god tier driver on mkwii, sucks so badly on tour (bad selection of tracks, horrible especial item and overshadowed by other better drivers)
i played tour for a really long time, going full f2p, and i gotta say, tour's courses are really good, there's some mild stinkers for sure, but even then they are all pretty solid and fun, even compared to normal mario kart stages, they were still a blast however, its still pretty disappointing to not see any new characters or even alt costumes, king bob omb and monty mole already had models and animations done from tour, idk why they didnt reuse those too, very strange if you ask me
It's probably because they would have to make new models for them, and if they just ported the models from Tour then they would look out of place from the rest of the MK8 characters.
While I'm a lil upset of the tracks looking different from the original style, I'm still excited to play them cuz 8's controls are very good... If they bring back characters, new characters and skins( like King Boo from luigi's Mansion) then I wouldn't really care all to much of the tracks looking a little lower quality since they'll gives us characters as well... But we'll just have to wait and see if it's just the new tracks we are getting
I've played modded tracks from MKT in MK8 and I can confirm they play very well with 8's physics. Vancouver Velocity especially is very fun to play in the MK8 engine.
Can I just say calling your videos on sharing your “no so peachy” opinions on Nintendo this new title of “Curb your Nintenthusiasm” has been one of the funniest/wisest decisions you’ve ever made? Stick it to those Nintendo bootlickers who will (somehow) inevitably harass you on Twitter. XD
Man every time Nintendo gives us something we want or they think we want, it doesn’t feel like they care. If feels more like Nintendo going “uugh fine”
Tbh, we wanted more characters better than bowser kids nobody cares about and better gameplay (as in no online item lag, no repetitive coins in first and no slow blue shells on 200cc) but nobody asked for this, Nintendo just felt like they needed this for more sales, I mean... They are doubling the game for 25! What a steal! MK8 is currently in the top 5 top selling games now. But it will come at a cost... I bet the gameplay will still be bad... And very boring offline, but at least we get a nostalgic pack without getting a mod
The fact that these are just remastered tracks from Tour and not built from the ground up actually boosts the chances of a Mario Kart 9 being in development, making this DLC wouldn't draw away resources or budget from such a project.
This is why they called them REMASTER TRACKS, NOT REMAKE TRACKS, because IF they were call REMAKE TRACKS, they would get the remake treatment like all the previous retro tracks from the base game, but all the fans are so butthurt way to hard to believe the tracks will be remake tracks😂, But they completely ignored that the direct stated REMASTERING past tracks meaning they are just fixing and adding a little detail to every track that is different from Tour like the Airships in GBA Sky Garden in the Booster Course Pass trailer that Tour DIDNT used in its game.
Yeah, It's kind of strange that 3 out of the 8 courses in this first wave were Tour originals. They just need to make the textures better in my opinion.
I guess there’s a reason why they mentioned that the courses are “remastered”. Which also means that none of the courses will probably get anti-gravity sections.
I don't even think these courses look "bad" necessarily, but their art style is so different from the base game's that it's going to feel weird. I'm imagining playing online where the course is different each race and first I play on the F-Zero course and then the next race is on one of these simplistic mobile courses. It'll be jarring.
@@globingoblin8625 And Tour got close to those standards with its remakes of tracks like Sunset Wilds, Choco Mountain, and Cheep Cheep Island. It didn’t meet them entirely, but it got close
To be fair, the characters you showed off as examples in Mario Kart Tour are majority pallette/costume swamps and if we were to get new characters in the Booster Course pass, i rather it be nothing than a multitude of re-skins(though of course new characters would have been nice). Also, tracks are more important for a kart racer than characters in my opinion so it makes since the focus is on courses rather than characters, vise versa for fighting games.
Thing is, I suspect Nintendo recognized the ravenous demand for a new console Mariokart (which they likely won't be ready to provide until the next system) PLUS NSO Expansion Pass needing more value PLUS PLUS Their current evergreen high attatch rate titles not having touch base doled out content now that Smash Ultimate is done This DLC is a pretty economical move on Nintendo’s part. I don’t care enough about Mariokart to pay for this DLC (let alone their way overpriced online expansion) so it's no fleece of my nose. I just hope Nintendo EPD9 have been working on a new ARMS or anything non-mario related. Cause if they haven't, then they've been slaving away on nothing but Mariokart for 5 years and counting...
It looks like they rushed to put it together soo. I think they've been working on something else. Really, remastering the courses for MK8DX wouldn't take long at all, given they've already came up with them. Just touch up the texture and detail and refit and/or make areas to fit the game's mechanics and wolah.
I think they'll probably touch up the textures once the DLC actually comes out. And there will probably be more than just Tour tracks. Because I don't think there's nearly 48 courses in Tour that aren't already in 8.
@@pgj1997 Doesnt mean they'll do it here, probably is a far reach. And there are 48 courses to use. Coconut Mall and Shroom Ridge aren't actually in tour, but like well over 15 tracks, are datamined to be coming to tour eventually. Throw in all the tour remakes of fan favorites like 3DS Rainbow Road, Mushroom Gorge, Maple Treeway and the unique tour tracks, and you can easily reach 48. We'll probably get some of the tracks a few months before they debut in tour but they are definitely being made with tour in mind.
sorry to ruin your hopes but mario kart tour has about 48 tracks or a bit more than that (not counting variations) not present in mk8, so there is a big chance most if not all of the dlc will be tracks featured or that are planned to be released on mktour.
I don't know why newer Mario spinoffs don't have Diddy Kong in base game anymore. I love Diddy Kong, and think it's dumb that you have to wait for him to hopefully get released...
In spite of the reduced visuals for these tracks, I am sure be interested to get the dlc. It does worry me that the anti-gravity may be excluded entirely, but one can hope.
Something I'd like to mention is that we are getting 48 courses. Mario kart tour has 39 currently and tour has some that already exist in 8 deluxe so even if every course we got was from tour we would still have a good 2-3 ,cups worth of courses which would need to be full complete content
I’m still excited for the DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Sure I also notice the more simpler and toned down textures that everyone keeps mentioning but hey it’s still new Mario Kart content even if it is repurposed from Tour but who knows what the other tracks are and it’s reasonably priced plus I’m glad this wasn’t locked behind the expansion pack and we were given the option of buying it separately. Though I will I admit I would also have liked if they also new characters per wave like they when MK8 was on Wii U. Still, I’m excited for these tracks and the new Mario Strikers cause me and my brother loved playing it since the GameCube.
Look, I personally think that nintendo isn't being lazy just porting mkt courses to mk8. You have no idea how long programming takes. Plus, programmers take shortcuts when they can. If they built the new courses from the ground up (again) that would take even more time, plus, they still have 40 courses to make in two years. But the thing, no one is gonna pay attention to the detail while playing the game, so small details will get unnoticed. Also, they still have a month to touch up the first wave. I honestly think that the new courses are gonna be fun. I also like the simplistic design, but that may be because I play mkt every day...
The fact that returning courses will make up roughly 3/4 of MK8DX's course selection tells me that when Nintendo does eventually release MK9, maybe there will be a bigger focus on new courses. They might even double down on adding characters and courses from other Nintendo franchises.
What seems a little weird to me is that there are some textures from MK8 that they are using in the new courses, like the water in Choco Mountain and the road in Sky Garden. I also noticed that there are some differences in the courses in the trailer and in tour. I'm just hoping what we saw was just earlier footage and that they're actually putting in effort to polish things off.
Im glad their bringing over the tour tracks. I mean once the game shuts down those tracks are forever lost media. If this didn’t exist these would be lost media
I don't know. To me, as long as the courses aren't shorten, and have the same layout as the og courses, then im not to bumbed out about the situation. It will suck to have mobile graphics, but they don't look to shitty so I'm fine.
I knew all of this since basically the first time they showed this DLC, and frankly, while they *SHOULD* be on par with the rest of the game, and I don't blame anyone who has a problem with it, I personally think this price is a steal for 48 tracks, even taking into account the current polish they've shown us, and I'd rather play them on the GOOD Mario Kart rather than Tour, wich is riddled with mobile game standards
Can't say I mind too much. Tour had some neat tracks that were forever on a sinking ship thanks to mobile games requiring an always-online server to connect to. Now I can have them permanently downloaded to my Switch, and I can experience them without pay-to-win freemium bullshit.
I just want to say this, about the claims that nintendo is being lazy, they're not. Let me elaborate. Programming and 3d modeling takes a very long time. Making a single course in mario kart 8 from the ground up, would take weeks to make. They'd have to recreate a course using references, making sure the dimensions are right, and drawing all the textures. That takes a very long time. On top of all that, they'd have to position all the in-game objects (boost panels, item boxes, ramps, etc) correctly, while making sure to keep the objects in the same spot as the originals. I do also think that to speed up the process, they do have a visual editor to position them, but that still would take a while. Combine all this, it would (I assume) take weeks, or even months to do). Nintendo isn't being lazy, they're speeding up development by not going into the complicated process to remake courses when they already did that for mario kart tour. Remember, they're adding 48 courses, I just talked about the process of making 1. Also, they're releasing all the courses in a 2 year span.
$25 for 48 tracks is still a good deal, I personally don’t mind it, to be fair I do think they could look a little bit better, but personally I don’t really mind it
Fair points but they have the manpower and the money to not take the easy route and do things properly. Its no dealbreaker but it does make it sound a little less impressive in the grand scheme of things is all.
They are tho. Because while yes game development takes time, it’s fucking Nintendo. The guys who just recently sold 103 million Switches AND 43 million copies of Deluxe. They could have done way better but didn’t because it was the cheaper option. They 👏 were 👏 lazy.
I'm going to be honest, I really would've preferred an entirely new entry, regardless of whether or not we would have two MK's on the Switch, breaking tradition.
The addition of the pass to the ExPac more-or-less confirms what nintendo is planning by having DLC be free for ExPac subs in a similar bout to games being free for game pass subs
I wonder if people would complain less if the Booster Course Pass was called like the MKTour Course Pass instead, cause it's essentially what it is and I'm here for it
I still feel like it’s going to be a good value for the money. I would rather pay for Mario kart tour tracks and characters than gamble for Mario kart tour content
When I saw this on the direct, it set off a lot of the same alarm bells as the GTA """remastered""" trailer. With just a few years of experience in computer graphics, I was able to immediately tell that it was mostly just lower quality assets ported to a shiny new engine. That being said, I would say that this is better than the GTA trilogy, simply because it is not claiming to be a replacement. It is a little odd that they seem to be releasing another version of cloudtop cruise though.
Well, Cloudtop Cruise and Sky Garden are definitely different enough, since Sky is pretty much all on clouds, while Cloud is more on the airship and metal strip, but I get it. But i honestly think not every single one of the courses will be ripped from Tour, mainly cause Tour doesn't have every track in the series. So, naturally, they'll have to build a track or two that aren't in tour on their own.
Yeah, like Hyrule circuit and animal crossing, in fact, we need a new course that resembles 3DL/W, Mario party and even Mario maker (the good side of it I should say)
Mario Kart 64 fans will feel right at home with these tracks. They will defend these tracks and they will say the new tracks are better than the other tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Not mind? As somebody who refuses to engage in phone games of any variety, I'm actually really happy about those new courses being added. Sure, the artstyle might not be a perfect match with the rest of 8, but if the courses aren't buggy or something then I couldn't care less. Form follows function, and the main function I care about is having new places to race within the only racing game I can get my friends to play with me.
I can understand people being upset by this, but for me personally who wants more underrated courses from the past getting an HD makeover, I’m still okay with this whole “Booster Course” pass.
While sure, we're all mad that they are just Mario Kart Tour ports, keep in mind that what we were shown in the trailers likely be not exactly the same when it is released in terms of graphics; just ask Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
I noticed the Tour similarities when I saw the tracks myself, but honestly I’m not super upset about it. I’d much rather play Choco Mountain in MK8DX that MKT
3:03 What!? The Max Pack in Super Kirby Clash is much cheaper than that, and it's a much better deal considering Mario Kart Tour isn't offering you a supply of 2000 Rubies a day unlike what Super Kirby Clash and Team Kirby Clash Deluxe did with Gem Apples. Edit: I was thinking of the UK pricing of Gem Apples, which I think is around £35 for the Max Pack, but it probably costs the same amount as the Diddy Kong Pack in Mario Kart Tour, which offers much less for the same price.
Interesting enough Coconut mall and shroom ridge is not in tour as of date (only data mine) plus the sky garden road is not the same as tour as the portrait of the course uses the tour version meaning the final version of the course selection is not finalized (coconut mall’s course selection is not 1 on1 with trailer) even if the DLC includes all of tour track is only 36 track (not including RMX courses )
On the one hand I’m really glad that the mobile game content made it because it felt like a waste to have it on mobile and not on the console where more people are going to play it. On the other makes me wish they put that resource into another Mario Kart and build more on that.
I mean....modern Nintendo has some content rich, finely tuned, and well crafted games though, not just quick, cheap, safe games and content. I don't mind the DLC but a part of me does wish we got a new game honestly.
Not all of modern Nintendo sucks. But a much higher volume of it is lazy and cheap feeling than ever before. Too much of their modern catalog falls into the "Mixed Bag" category imo.
@@UncleAlPlus Hm...most of those I can think of that fall into that are either a couple of ports (which even that is arguable), some mobile games, or some Mario spin offs like Super Mario Party and Mario Golf Super Rush. There are titles that seem unfinished at launch like Splatoon 2, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Tennis Aces, and Animal Crossing New Horizons...but at least for those they got updates and improved over time.
To be honest I find this preferable to the Nintendo Kart idea that went around for a couple months, and its cheap enough content wise to not get mad about, and I'm sure Ill have a fun time in a good chunk of these levels (probably not the ones from Tour but those seem to be a focus, 3 out of the first 8 racetracks we get in March are specifically from Tour), but this overall kinda encapsulated my view of Nintendo as of recent. If theres something in particular that the fans want, they'll maybe sometimes meet us halfway, and several years later at that. It removes a lot of faith I have in their newer stuff that I would have been hyped over the moon for if it weren't for how Nintendo is now. Though I need to say that Im really bummed that were not getting the Tour characters or items (Diddys banana cannons come to mind). Diddy, Funky, Dixie, Pauline and King Bob Omb are literally better than 50% of the characters they included in MK8. Id pay a few bucks just to play as them instead of Baby Rosalina : ^ )
The courses don't look that bad even, I think it's just the sharp contrast between the high detail of the base game and the simplicity of what we've seen of the expansion pack that's jarring. Ultimately though this is a game where you don't really spend very long looking at the scenery, and the majority of these tracks are tried and true classics that'll still play great. Definitely worth my $25 but that's about the most it's worth imo.
I actually theorized that a bulk of the tracks featured are ported over from Tour. I was right. I'll still get this pass since I never really touched Tour since the first year the game was out, but still for those who committed to that game it must be a huge slap in the face.
I don't see why tbh were getting sky gardens in tour (February 22) before it releases in Mario Kart 8 deluxe (March 18). In that time frame we could get shroom ridge and the other tracks. Most tour players I see are still excited.
SO. Funny that I would pull back on my Microtransaction statement, only to have this drawn to my attention. Take it how you will, it's not definitive, but still something to keep an eye on.
www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/mario-strikers-battle-league-may-have-in-game-purchases-according-to-esrb-rating
How to ruin hype 101: Pay to Win Micro Transactions
Isn't that what DLC is?
Oh damn.. hope this isnt true..
Microtransactions in a $60 Nintendo game sounds like a disaster in the making. You just know they’re gonna cut the support off six month later. This isn’t like apex or halo where it’s free to play
i really hope it’s DLC or they’re referring to NSO
My main takeaway is that It kinda sucks that the main gimmick of MK8 that being the anti-gravity will likely not be featured at all in these new courses. Not to mention some of the charm being taken out of the courses such as the coconut mall escalators being replaced with generic ramps.
Also probably no miis in coconut mall :(
i dont like the gimmick anyway so im good but i get what u'r trying to say
I know right? I didn't even recognize coconut mall because they replaced the escalators.
@@ego-lay_atman-bay ok well that seems like a only you thing
Thank you for saying that
All the rebranded courses in mk8 look like they belong in mk8
They change it
Put more details and stuff
But here its so barebones to the point its just lazy
I personally don’t mind this, 48 new tracks (which is actually doubling the track count), for 25 fat ones is a steal. I do completely understand the disappointment of Nintendo being lazy and I do agree with the criticisms about it. But personally I’m just happy to see 8 Deluxe finally get some new content!
Same
I wonder if Tour’s original tracks will fair better with 8’s higher speed.
Yeah, the quantity makes up for the quality. If this were characters instead of stages, it wouldn't be good.
Courses are the meat and potatoes of the game after all, getting so many more is pretty sweet.
Yeah, the basic designs and layouts of the courses are good, and I think it’s a similar situation with the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl art style debate; some people are just gonna like it more than other people.
just doesnt feel like MK8 but rather mobile MK game on the Switch but alas
The official Nintendo webpage for the Booster Course Pass has Shroom Ridge listed as a 3DS course and not a DS course, clearly Nintendo put a lot of effort into this pack
EDIT: THEY FINALLY FIXED IT LADS
Isn't Shroom Bridge a Gamecube track ?
Or maybe they took the *3DS* version and that's why they call it like that ?
@@MAJJASTAK Shroom Ridge was originally a ds track. You'd be thinking of Mushroom Bridge, which was a gamecube track. Very unique and extremely different names with absolutely no way to confuse them.
@@MAJJASTAK there is no 3DS version of Shroom >r
@@BUTT-BUTT yeah there was no 3DS version for either of the tracks, but you're mixing the names. The track that was from double dash and remastered on DS is Mushroom Bridge, while the DS original track that we've seen in the DLC is called Shroom Ridge. If you want to double check then you can search it up on the wiki.
Typos happen
Nowadays, it feels like every time Nintendo promises something hype and amazing, there has to be a catch to it, like with Mario, Pokémon, Nintendo Switch Online, etc. It can’t just be smooth sailing with what they give us, it has to not meet my reasonable expectations one way or the other, which is just to provide good content at a fair price. I remember being so excited for MK8’s original DLC on the Wii U, but these just feel like quantity over quality.
All I gotta say is
*>Five years for DLC for a re-release of a nearly decade old game*
I'm glad someone pointed this out, Yesterday I was so excited that I was 100% on board with buying this pack without looking more into the video of the game showing. I would be joking if we almost fell into a trap of Nintendo's quick grab of money. I hope that we don't have to buy the expansion pack to be on the online mode of this game! Thank you Scrungus Mcbungus and Al for making this video into more depth.
You don't need expansion pack, you can get it separately also
Yeah it does feel like a trap. They could've just been honest and said they were porting over Tour tracks, but instead they were like, "We're remastering the old tracks!" Which isn't exactly wrong, but they were remastered for fucking phones...
No I think I think buying this DLC is worth it cuz you don't have to play f****** marquart to her what you already have two which is already paid to win
Personally, I think its a steal.
25$ for twice more content? Automatic buy that's 96 courses there.
*_BUT..._*
Nintendo may do the usual stupid thing and take our money, just to the next Mario kart game can have all the DLC Content for free... *_AGAIN_*
not to mention... We won't get all the courses until the end of 2023, so its true that right now 8 courses isn't a priority, Kirby and the forgotten land is worth more.
@@ctpp64 well, "we're remastering the old tracks" is kind of wrong in the case of the Tour tracks... The 3 Tour original tracks in the first wave all look to be the exact same, not remastered
When I first thought about the way the MK8DX DLC looks, I came to the thought that maybe this DLC is being made by the Mario Kart Tour Dev team, rather than the mario kart team behind the original game. I am willing to bet with the success of mario kart tour, that the team got the greenlight to add DLC, while MK9 is developed by the original mario kart team. But thats just my theory
At this rate, MK9 won't exist until the switch dies, and also at this rate... As long as MK8 is ranking up cash, the switch era may expand
Lucky Wii I agree. The switch is still going pretty hard in terms of sales and there games are still selling pretty damn well. So I don’t think we’re gonna say MK9 until the next Nintendo console which I bet won’t be another 3-5years
I don't think it's fair to say "We could have just gotten another brand new more exciting entry in the Mario Kart series" when it seems pretty clear to me that EPD 9 is working on something else than Mario Kart, and is porting stuff over to keep the +40 million MK8D owners somewhat happy. A new Mario Kart would eat into those evergreen sales and them keeping this going until the end of 2023 tells me they don't have Mario Kart in the near future, this feels like a side project for a smaller team to keep Mario Kart support alive but on the sidelines. The casual announcement and quick explanation of it before the trailer in the direct really shows that I feel.
Maybe EPD 9 is currently taking a shot at other Nintendo racing IPs to not eat into Mario Kart like DKR, Excite or maybe, just maybe F-Zero. Or maybe they're spending 4 years developing Arms 2, who knows really.
But that would mean we probably won't be getting another Console Mario Kart until like 2026.
@@nappa3550 Makes sense, the Switch is in the middle of it's life according to Nintendo. We only ever get 1 Mario Kart per system.
"WELL ITS NOT NEW"
Imagine if Smash Ultimate got ported to Nintendo's next console and got new characters at launch and more DLC later. Do you think Nintendo would care that it's not a new game and have the Smash team be making another one for the same console behind the scenes as Ultimate DX continues to sell and be supported? No, probably not.
Let’s wait until 2029 to get the next Mario kart
I would like to point out as someone who actively plays Mario Kart Tour
Maybe for some its tour remastered but its been 2 and 1/2 years and tracks like Coconut Mall have not appeared in tour.
I said out loud during the direct: "This looks like it was done by modders."
That's the best way I can describe the whole thing.
That’s because modders HAVE put Tour tracks in 8 before
LOL this is exactly what I thought. I mod mk8 on my computer and it's almost exactly like this DLC. The only cool thing is you can play these courses online which (to my knowledge) cannot be done in modded mk8.
Yeah I didn't know they were Tour tracks at the time watching the direct, but even then I thought they just looked...weird. Too simple and cartoony for MK8's realistic art style
HAHA SAME
(Sigh) I feel like Nintendo should’ve taken the opportunity to add more characters to the roster. If Nintendo was to add more characters to the roster, they would add Funky Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, Kamek, Boom Boom, Pom Pom and Pauline.
But still, 48 courses is so cool!
@@JacobFiveash Heck yea! 48 courses is A LOT of tracks, and it effectively doubles the track count up to 96
If they did that it would lessen the monetary gain they get from adding more and more exclusive characters to tour. I'd venture a guess that they deliberately are avoiding adding characters to mk8 deluxe because of that.
@@gunned_ exactly. who would be dumb to see exclusivity as a sin?
Pretty obvious they're just just filling out content until the next game
I also feel like this is jumping the gun a bit. Not to denounce the commenter completely but we have literally only seen ONE wave of the DLC, with 3-4 of the tracks explicitly from tour and some of the others from older games using Tour version as its base. I don't think we should be making such a judgement until the second or third wave.
Also I feel like "they look lifeless" is subjective here. That one track in the clouds, Coconut Mall, and the road along the cliff look great.
Yeah I was gonna say.
It's a bit too easy to sh- on Nintendo for things these days. Plus these courses are clearly not finished yet.
I definitely understand where the people are coming from about the textures, and yea I would've definitely prefered a new entry in the series, but I still think the courses look alotta fun and I've never played the tour courses, and the price for the pass isnt that bad, overall I think I'm gonna have alot of fun with the content
(Plus coconut mall is in this so of course im gonna get it lol)
Dude you’re gonna love Ninja Hideaway.
Its true that toads circuit textures are looking rough... Yet look at DK Jungle, playing that course is like an adventure! (If only Donkey Kong racing was a thing)
F zero fan here, it least you guys get some thing.
Personally, I’m pissed. These tracks are just pulled from tour and so they look bad compared to the other tracks. Plus the antigravity mechanic most likely won’t be in these courses if they’re just being ported from the mobile game. I would’ve preferred courses reimagined and built from the ground up like they were in Mario kart 8, you know the game that the dlc is being put in the first place.
I'm quite upset too. At first glance during the trailer for the dlc I didn't notice the graphical textures, but now that I saw videos pointing these out, they look so plastic-ly…
I'm baffled at all of these comments honestly. It's basically "yeah, the courses will be shit, but they will be playable and will cost 2 cents each!". I don't care how much these will cost if they are just poorly ported over from a mobile game. Since when did people stop caring about quality?? Integrity?? That's why half of gaming companies nowadays don't give a damn about releasing quality stuff, gamers are becoming so apathic to anything they release.
If you wanna play cool ports and custom tracks just go play Mario Kart Wii CTGP, they probably have ports of all tracks in Mario Kart history and it's free. I'd prefer 4 new retouched, remastered, remade, carefully rebuilt courses than 200 shitty ports, coming from Nintendo.
And that's not to mention those losers who actually bought a damn Wii U and played this game in 2013, like me. Am I supposed to buy that same game again because they refuse to release a new one??
I seriously hope that by some miracle they’re gonna polish all these stages up because they look really really empty.
Choco Mountain looks pretty good (don’t think I didn’t notice those rocks being copy-and-pasted from Bowser’s Castle however), but then I look at Coconut Mall and see how awfully bland it is.
Tbh I felt like Sky Garden looks good as well with this artstyle
Yeah sky garden and Choco mountain look pretty good. But that’s about it
Hoping only the first wave is like this
They were so based to use Tour’s version of Choco Mountain
We also have no idea how far in advance this footage was recorded so we dint even know if this is even close to the end product
Hopefully these courses are still in progress, but when has that ever been the case.
The first pack is a month away so I HEAVILY doubt any noteworthy changes will be made between now and then
I mean, luigis mansion 3 got a massive upgrade in graphics in between reveal and further marketing, but that time gap was not 6 weeks….
Remember what luigis mansion 3 ORIGINALLY looked like?
From what I’ve seen, these things usually get worse upon release
@@pixelraster9588 not with nintendo only with others developers. Thats like one of the only things I can give nintendo they treeat their employees and they make fucking good games that get better at release, the updating unfinished games thing is annoying but it doesn't happen as often as it's told.
I never played tour so for me a lot of the courses will feel new, plus I've always been a fan of stylized games so i actually like the way it looks. Sure would've been nicer if they looked as good as the rest but im more than fine with this.
The trees and less detailed grass in these new courses were a dead giveaway that these were from tour. Still gonna get the DLC as I'm at least excited to gives these tracks a proper go in an actual Mario Kart game, rather than a mobile one.
I know the “40 dollars for Diddy Kong?!” is like a big meme but…
Diddy is free in Mario Kart Tour. Always has been, he’s one of the easiest characters to get
It's characters like Funky Kong and Chargin' Chuck that Nintendo want your cash for tbh
@@mono6518 Yeah, I had to drop like 400 rubies to get him yesterday. I’ve spent $165 over 2 years and 5 months and have like 116 characters and about the same number for karts and gliders so it could be worse
@@duby3292 It's funny. I literally played the game for the first time in years last night and got Chargin' Chuck on my first roll of 45 free rubies.
Yeah, can’t believe that 3 year old image that is laughably outdated is still being used to dunk on Tour
@@mono6518 and its even funnier that funky kong, the god tier driver on mkwii, sucks so badly on tour (bad selection of tracks, horrible especial item and overshadowed by other better drivers)
i played tour for a really long time, going full f2p, and i gotta say, tour's courses are really good, there's some mild stinkers for sure, but even then they are all pretty solid and fun, even compared to normal mario kart stages, they were still a blast
however, its still pretty disappointing to not see any new characters or even alt costumes, king bob omb and monty mole already had models and animations done from tour, idk why they didnt reuse those too, very strange if you ask me
It's probably because they would have to make new models for them, and if they just ported the models from Tour then they would look out of place from the rest of the MK8 characters.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions just yet to assume the entire course roster. Let's just see what Wave 2 and 3 have in store before we have concerns.
Exactly, I'm not going to buy it until I see some of the other tracks
While I'm a lil upset of the tracks looking different from the original style, I'm still excited to play them cuz 8's controls are very good... If they bring back characters, new characters and skins( like King Boo from luigi's Mansion) then I wouldn't really care all to much of the tracks looking a little lower quality since they'll gives us characters as well... But we'll just have to wait and see if it's just the new tracks we are getting
I've played modded tracks from MKT in MK8 and I can confirm they play very well with 8's physics. Vancouver Velocity especially is very fun to play in the MK8 engine.
Precisely. The gameplay will for sure be good. And there are some amazing Tour Tracks. Ninja Hideaway belongs in a mainline game
I'm surprised no one noticed this until now. It was painfully obvious Nintendo was just reusing the remastered levels from Mario Kart Tour
Can I just say calling your videos on sharing your “no so peachy” opinions on Nintendo this new title of “Curb your Nintenthusiasm” has been one of the funniest/wisest decisions you’ve ever made? Stick it to those Nintendo bootlickers who will (somehow) inevitably harass you on Twitter. XD
I do like that Al feels he can be honest about how opinions and bring up valid points. As long as he keeps off twitter what can go wrong? Lol
I’d be happy to pay 50 for a whole new games worth of content if they redid these tracks ground up
Man every time Nintendo gives us something we want or they think we want, it doesn’t feel like they care. If feels more like Nintendo going “uugh fine”
I mean, do they need to?
Tbh, we wanted more characters better than bowser kids nobody cares about and better gameplay (as in no online item lag, no repetitive coins in first and no slow blue shells on 200cc) but nobody asked for this, Nintendo just felt like they needed this for more sales, I mean... They are doubling the game for 25! What a steal! MK8 is currently in the top 5 top selling games now. But it will come at a cost... I bet the gameplay will still be bad... And very boring offline, but at least we get a nostalgic pack without getting a mod
The fact that these are just remastered tracks from Tour and not built from the ground up actually boosts the chances of a Mario Kart 9 being in development, making this DLC wouldn't draw away resources or budget from such a project.
This is why they called them REMASTER TRACKS, NOT REMAKE TRACKS, because IF they were call REMAKE TRACKS, they would get the remake treatment like all the previous retro tracks from the base game, but all the fans are so butthurt way to hard to believe the tracks will be remake tracks😂, But they completely ignored that the direct stated REMASTERING past tracks meaning they are just fixing and adding a little detail to every track that is different from Tour like the Airships in GBA Sky Garden in the Booster Course Pass trailer that Tour DIDNT used in its game.
Yeah, It's kind of strange that 3 out of the 8 courses in this first wave were Tour originals. They just need to make the textures better in my opinion.
I’m just happy that more people will get to experience Ninja Hideaway, seriously it’s one of the best tracks in the series
I guess there’s a reason why they mentioned that the courses are “remastered”.
Which also means that none of the courses will probably get anti-gravity sections.
Yup... Sad, cool, but not as cool
I don't even think these courses look "bad" necessarily, but their art style is so different from the base game's that it's going to feel weird. I'm imagining playing online where the course is different each race and first I play on the F-Zero course and then the next race is on one of these simplistic mobile courses. It'll be jarring.
To be fair, remember Mario Kart Wii and 7 retro tracks? They literally looked identical to the original race tracks just slightly more HD
Yeah, but 8 set a higher standard
@@globingoblin8625 And Tour got close to those standards with its remakes of tracks like Sunset Wilds, Choco Mountain, and Cheep Cheep Island. It didn’t meet them entirely, but it got close
@@modernkiwi6447 Not really
You can't have people begging for Mario Kart 9 if they're too busy asking when the next wave of DLC releases.
Wow. You really wanted us to curb All our expectations.
To be fair, the characters you showed off as examples in Mario Kart Tour are majority pallette/costume swamps and if we were to get new characters in the Booster Course pass, i rather it be nothing than a multitude of re-skins(though of course new characters would have been nice). Also, tracks are more important for a kart racer than characters in my opinion so it makes since the focus is on courses rather than characters, vise versa for fighting games.
Thing is, I suspect Nintendo recognized the ravenous demand for a new console Mariokart (which they likely won't be ready to provide until the next system)
PLUS NSO Expansion Pass needing more value
PLUS PLUS Their current evergreen high attatch rate titles not having touch base doled out content now that Smash Ultimate is done
This DLC is a pretty economical move on Nintendo’s part. I don’t care enough about Mariokart to pay for this DLC (let alone their way overpriced online expansion) so it's no fleece of my nose.
I just hope Nintendo EPD9 have been working on a new ARMS or anything non-mario related. Cause if they haven't, then they've been slaving away on nothing but Mariokart for 5 years and counting...
It looks like they rushed to put it together soo. I think they've been working on something else.
Really, remastering the courses for MK8DX wouldn't take long at all, given they've already came up with them. Just touch up the texture and detail and refit and/or make areas to fit the game's mechanics and wolah.
It might cost $40 to buy Diddy Kong, and only $25 for the Booster Pass, but does the Booster Pass have Diddy Kong?
No.
It does not.
I think they'll probably touch up the textures once the DLC actually comes out.
And there will probably be more than just Tour tracks. Because I don't think there's nearly 48 courses in Tour that aren't already in 8.
This is Nintendo
Do you think they'll do free updates for a DLC
@@unquestionableexistance8704 I mean, Smash Bros...
@@pgj1997 Doesnt mean they'll do it here, probably is a far reach. And there are 48 courses to use. Coconut Mall and Shroom Ridge aren't actually in tour, but like well over 15 tracks, are datamined to be coming to tour eventually. Throw in all the tour remakes of fan favorites like 3DS Rainbow Road, Mushroom Gorge, Maple Treeway and the unique tour tracks, and you can easily reach 48. We'll probably get some of the tracks a few months before they debut in tour but they are definitely being made with tour in mind.
@@pgj1997 Smash sells DLC as standalone characters
Here no way they update the art style
sorry to ruin your hopes but mario kart tour has about 48 tracks or a bit more than that (not counting variations) not present in mk8, so there is a big chance most if not all of the dlc will be tracks featured or that are planned to be released on mktour.
Keep in mind, the tour stuff seems like a large majority of the first wave. We don't even know what will be in the next waves yet.
They will probably fix the graphics for all of the tracks if there’s a lot of concern
From the intro and the soundtrack, I detect a fellow curb your enthusiasm enjoyer
Yeah that mi biggest complain with the DLC it looks very mobile like.
Also Mario strikers not having Diddy Kong is and absolute loss
I don't know why newer Mario spinoffs don't have Diddy Kong in base game anymore.
I love Diddy Kong, and think it's dumb that you have to wait for him to hopefully get released...
He might just be an unlockable character this time like in the last game
@@thewapikmin280 I hope that's the case... I miss him
In spite of the reduced visuals for these tracks, I am sure be interested to get the dlc. It does worry me that the anti-gravity may be excluded entirely, but one can hope.
Something I'd like to mention is that we are getting 48 courses. Mario kart tour has 39 currently and tour has some that already exist in 8 deluxe so even if every course we got was from tour we would still have a good 2-3 ,cups worth of courses which would need to be full complete content
I’m still excited for the DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Sure I also notice the more simpler and toned down textures that everyone keeps mentioning but hey it’s still new Mario Kart content even if it is repurposed from Tour but who knows what the other tracks are and it’s reasonably priced plus I’m glad this wasn’t locked behind the expansion pack and we were given the option of buying it separately. Though I will I admit I would also have liked if they also new characters per wave like they when MK8 was on Wii U. Still, I’m excited for these tracks and the new Mario Strikers cause me and my brother loved playing it since the GameCube.
I'll just be patient and wait for the release.
Look, I personally think that nintendo isn't being lazy just porting mkt courses to mk8. You have no idea how long programming takes. Plus, programmers take shortcuts when they can. If they built the new courses from the ground up (again) that would take even more time, plus, they still have 40 courses to make in two years. But the thing, no one is gonna pay attention to the detail while playing the game, so small details will get unnoticed. Also, they still have a month to touch up the first wave. I honestly think that the new courses are gonna be fun. I also like the simplistic design, but that may be because I play mkt every day...
That, on top of the fact that this trailer was probably recorded several months in advance, so they might look even better by the time they come out.
@@modernkiwi6447 that is true.
Interesting.
Now that this new information has come to light I might just wait until the expansion is complete before buying it.
Scrungus McBungus enlightens the Moncus: The Rising of Monk-E
I guess this makes the title "Curb Your Nintenthusiasm" more fitting than ever.
The fact that returning courses will make up roughly 3/4 of MK8DX's course selection tells me that when Nintendo does eventually release MK9, maybe there will be a bigger focus on new courses.
They might even double down on adding characters and courses from other Nintendo franchises.
Uncle al making some fire content as usual
I’m surprised not many people noticed this, I noticed this immediately during the announcement.
What seems a little weird to me is that there are some textures from MK8 that they are using in the new courses, like the water in Choco Mountain and the road in Sky Garden. I also noticed that there are some differences in the courses in the trailer and in tour. I'm just hoping what we saw was just earlier footage and that they're actually putting in effort to polish things off.
Im glad their bringing over the tour tracks. I mean once the game shuts down those tracks are forever lost media. If this didn’t exist these would be lost media
it’s their 2nd biggest mobile money making machine. i wouldn’t worry for a long, long time…
I don't know. To me, as long as the courses aren't shorten, and have the same layout as the og courses, then im not to bumbed out about the situation. It will suck to have mobile graphics, but they don't look to shitty so I'm fine.
On the bright side this leaves the door open for nintendo epd 9 to work on something new
I knew all of this since basically the first time they showed this DLC, and frankly, while they *SHOULD* be on par with the rest of the game, and I don't blame anyone who has a problem with it, I personally think this price is a steal for 48 tracks, even taking into account the current polish they've shown us, and I'd rather play them on the GOOD Mario Kart rather than Tour, wich is riddled with mobile game standards
Can't say I mind too much. Tour had some neat tracks that were forever on a sinking ship thanks to mobile games requiring an always-online server to connect to. Now I can have them permanently downloaded to my Switch, and I can experience them without pay-to-win freemium bullshit.
I just want to say this, about the claims that nintendo is being lazy, they're not. Let me elaborate.
Programming and 3d modeling takes a very long time. Making a single course in mario kart 8 from the ground up, would take weeks to make. They'd have to recreate a course using references, making sure the dimensions are right, and drawing all the textures. That takes a very long time. On top of all that, they'd have to position all the in-game objects (boost panels, item boxes, ramps, etc) correctly, while making sure to keep the objects in the same spot as the originals. I do also think that to speed up the process, they do have a visual editor to position them, but that still would take a while. Combine all this, it would (I assume) take weeks, or even months to do). Nintendo isn't being lazy, they're speeding up development by not going into the complicated process to remake courses when they already did that for mario kart tour.
Remember, they're adding 48 courses, I just talked about the process of making 1. Also, they're releasing all the courses in a 2 year span.
$25 for 48 tracks is still a good deal, I personally don’t mind it, to be fair I do think they could look a little bit better, but personally I don’t really mind it
Fair points but they have the manpower and the money to not take the easy route and do things properly. Its no dealbreaker but it does make it sound a little less impressive in the grand scheme of things is all.
Are you forgetting it took them five years to announce DLC? You're telling me they couldn't have done exactly that within the span of 5 years?
They are tho. Because while yes game development takes time, it’s fucking Nintendo. The guys who just recently sold 103 million Switches AND 43 million copies of Deluxe. They could have done way better but didn’t because it was the cheaper option. They 👏 were 👏 lazy.
@@AidenHilton981 they probably just didn't come up with the idea until one or two years ago.
Awesome
Some of these track’s aren’t even in tour and coconut mall definitely looks like the original coconut mall
My friends and I do a biweekly drinking and driving MK8 league so we are all ECSTATIC to have more tracks
I have never played MK 7 or tour so this is a nice addition
All we can hope is that the graphics shown in the trailer are just base graphics and they'll be more detailed like 8 deluxe when it gets released
I'm going to be honest, I really would've preferred an entirely new entry, regardless of whether or not we would have two MK's on the Switch, breaking tradition.
The addition of the pass to the ExPac more-or-less confirms what nintendo is planning by having DLC be free for ExPac subs in a similar bout to games being free for game pass subs
I also caught onto this immediatly! I really hope it's just a temporary design. It really contrast the rest on Mario Kart 8D
I wonder if people would complain less if the Booster Course Pass was called like the MKTour Course Pass instead, cause it's essentially what it is and I'm here for it
We could use some more Nintendo criticism.
For strikers, I think they’ll do what they did with aces. Adding a new character every once in a while
Too bad aces is dead... And now super rush may be next to die
I still feel like it’s going to be a good value for the money. I would rather pay for Mario kart tour tracks and characters than gamble for Mario kart tour content
i dont mind very much because you don't need to buy the maps if you don't want to but you still have the option.
When I saw this on the direct, it set off a lot of the same alarm bells as the GTA """remastered""" trailer. With just a few years of experience in computer graphics, I was able to immediately tell that it was mostly just lower quality assets ported to a shiny new engine. That being said, I would say that this is better than the GTA trilogy, simply because it is not claiming to be a replacement. It is a little odd that they seem to be releasing another version of cloudtop cruise though.
Well, Cloudtop Cruise and Sky Garden are definitely different enough, since Sky is pretty much all on clouds, while Cloud is more on the airship and metal strip, but I get it.
But i honestly think not every single one of the courses will be ripped from Tour, mainly cause Tour doesn't have every track in the series.
So, naturally, they'll have to build a track or two that aren't in tour on their own.
This dude just called sky garden one of the best gba tracks, cloudtop cruise.
Epic
I would've gladly paid more if the courses were as polished and detailed as the previous DLC courses.
Yeah, like Hyrule circuit and animal crossing, in fact, we need a new course that resembles 3DL/W, Mario party and even Mario maker (the good side of it I should say)
It's possible that the Mario Kart tracks will be touched up a bit more before launch. Not saying it'll definitely happen, but it's possible.
Honestly i could tell since the new track styles clash with the made-for-MK8 tracks
Mario Kart 64 fans will feel right at home with these tracks. They will defend these tracks and they will say the new tracks are better than the other tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
You can start to feel that Doug Bowser influence. Nintendo is legit starting to feel more like EA
Not mind? As somebody who refuses to engage in phone games of any variety, I'm actually really happy about those new courses being added. Sure, the artstyle might not be a perfect match with the rest of 8, but if the courses aren't buggy or something then I couldn't care less. Form follows function, and the main function I care about is having new places to race within the only racing game I can get my friends to play with me.
in my opinion dlc would be far more worth it if there was a Gex Car.
I can understand people being upset by this, but for me personally who wants more underrated courses from the past getting an HD makeover, I’m still okay with this whole “Booster Course” pass.
They really should have packed in a character with each wave...
I don't mind personally
I'm glad to play the "new" Tour tracks finally as I was never going to play them if they remained relegated to the mobile game
While sure, we're all mad that they are just Mario Kart Tour ports, keep in mind that what we were shown in the trailers likely be not exactly the same when it is released in terms of graphics; just ask Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
People: *Anger*
Me: "as Nintendo fans we are all going to buy it anyway right?"
People: *less loud anger*
I noticed the Tour similarities when I saw the tracks myself, but honestly I’m not super upset about it. I’d much rather play Choco Mountain in MK8DX that MKT
3:03 What!? The Max Pack in Super Kirby Clash is much cheaper than that, and it's a much better deal considering Mario Kart Tour isn't offering you a supply of 2000 Rubies a day unlike what Super Kirby Clash and Team Kirby Clash Deluxe did with Gem Apples.
Edit: I was thinking of the UK pricing of Gem Apples, which I think is around £35 for the Max Pack, but it probably costs the same amount as the Diddy Kong Pack in Mario Kart Tour, which offers much less for the same price.
I would rather have a new game with all the maps from every game along with new ones and with new characters(even non mario characters)
Interesting enough Coconut mall and shroom ridge is not in tour as of date (only data mine) plus the sky garden road is not the same as tour as the portrait of the course uses the tour version meaning the final version of the course selection is not finalized (coconut mall’s course selection is not 1 on1 with trailer) even if the DLC includes all of tour track is only 36 track (not including RMX courses )
On the one hand I’m really glad that the mobile game content made it because it felt like a waste to have it on mobile and not on the console where more people are going to play it. On the other makes me wish they put that resource into another Mario Kart and build more on that.
Also love your content, love hearing your opinion.
I mean....modern Nintendo has some content rich, finely tuned, and well crafted games though, not just quick, cheap, safe games and content.
I don't mind the DLC but a part of me does wish we got a new game honestly.
Not all of modern Nintendo sucks. But a much higher volume of it is lazy and cheap feeling than ever before. Too much of their modern catalog falls into the "Mixed Bag" category imo.
@@UncleAlPlus Hm...most of those I can think of that fall into that are either a couple of ports (which even that is arguable), some mobile games, or some Mario spin offs like Super Mario Party and Mario Golf Super Rush. There are titles that seem unfinished at launch like Splatoon 2, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Tennis Aces, and Animal Crossing New Horizons...but at least for those they got updates and improved over time.
To be honest I find this preferable to the Nintendo Kart idea that went around for a couple months, and its cheap enough content wise to not get mad about, and I'm sure Ill have a fun time in a good chunk of these levels (probably not the ones from Tour but those seem to be a focus, 3 out of the first 8 racetracks we get in March are specifically from Tour), but this overall kinda encapsulated my view of Nintendo as of recent. If theres something in particular that the fans want, they'll maybe sometimes meet us halfway, and several years later at that. It removes a lot of faith I have in their newer stuff that I would have been hyped over the moon for if it weren't for how Nintendo is now.
Though I need to say that Im really bummed that were not getting the Tour characters or items (Diddys banana cannons come to mind). Diddy, Funky, Dixie, Pauline and King Bob Omb are literally better than 50% of the characters they included in MK8. Id pay a few bucks just to play as them instead of Baby Rosalina : ^ )
The courses don't look that bad even, I think it's just the sharp contrast between the high detail of the base game and the simplicity of what we've seen of the expansion pack that's jarring. Ultimately though this is a game where you don't really spend very long looking at the scenery, and the majority of these tracks are tried and true classics that'll still play great. Definitely worth my $25 but that's about the most it's worth imo.
You guys realize this didn’t even HAVE to be done….. right….
I actually theorized that a bulk of the tracks featured are ported over from Tour. I was right. I'll still get this pass since I never really touched Tour since the first year the game was out, but still for those who committed to that game it must be a huge slap in the face.
I don't see why tbh were getting sky gardens in tour (February 22) before it releases in Mario Kart 8 deluxe (March 18). In that time frame we could get shroom ridge and the other tracks. Most tour players I see are still excited.