Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

I'm not sure what you mean by "those who have milked Mario Kart 8". Perhaps for us we want a new game but Nintendo probably believes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe IS the game, and why do anything about it when it's still selling? In terms of "long-supported games", GTA V (particularly its online, lol shark cards) comes really fresh to my mind of a super old game that's still getting support and is still selling like crazy and, along with Red Dead 2, Rockstar hasn't developed or published new games in a REALLY long time, something like Bully being in a limbo for well over a decade and a half (Red Dead 2 is also languishing update-wise). Skyrim doesn't count, that got constant re-releases in tandem with the updates. I suppose even Nintendo isn't quite on the trend of the other game companies when it comes to constant support... yet... since they ended support pretty early for Super Mario Maker 2 and they did seem to strictly end support for Smash Ultimate, but I also see little reason for Nintendo to make a new Mario Kart when the current one relatively recently ousted Mario Kart Wii for best selling Mario Kart game.

Yeah I figure it's just a track pass. It'll probably destroy the original point of the costumes if they were easily part of the battle content, the point being gambling fodder.
 
The shots look like most are directly taken from Tour's course thumbnails.
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Look at MKT's thumbnails
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And Sky Garden, Shroom Ridge, and Coconut Mall look like they are in-game screenshots from Tour.
The pavement makes it obvious (MK8D has darker pavement)
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Not crazy about how the tracks are basically just ripped straight from Tour, but there's a shitload of them to the point where it's basically an entirely new game for less than half the price.
 
this dlc pack or whatever it is has Quite the asking price for courses that arent even remade to match the aesthetic of the rest of the game. it just looks bad
did they not have enough time to make them look better, considering this pack has almost a whole two years to release fully? they ARE making a lot of tracks here so i wonder if they ended up picking quantity over quality
 
Additional tracks is more satisfying than more characters I'll give them that. I just really hope they upgrade the art before release.
 
I'm hoping for upgraded textures but I doubt they'll entirely rework tracks to better suit Mario Kart 8's handling. Even redoing textures seems like a lot of work and I can imagine only fans taking up that mantle.
 
Striker Mario Boogaloo said:
Even redoing textures seems like a lot of work and I can imagine only fans taking up that mantle.
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I've already seen talks about upgrading textures in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe modding server lol.
 
Honestly I don't mind the way the tracks look. They succeed in fitting the Mario aesthetic, even if there's a clear difference in level of detail. I'm more concerned that they didn't take the very obvious opportunity to bring over some of the characters too. I know a lot of them are just different costumes, but come on. Pauline, King Bob-Omb, Monty Mole, LM King Boo, are all worthy to be brought over into an actual not-gambling Mario Kart ffs.