What new things should Nintendo add in Mariokart 9 (Next Mariokart)

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We have Dry Dry Desert and Dry Dry Ruins. Let's add more tracks based on Paper Mario 64 locations!

Lavalava Island! Mt. Lavalava! Shy Guy's Toy Box! Cloudy Climb! Pleasant Path! Shooting Star Summit!
 
Dry Dry Desert and Dry Dry Ruins have nothing to do with the Paper Mario versions though.
 
Plus you got it backwards, Dry Dry Desert in Mario Kart came first.
 
Mcmadness said:
Plus you got it backwards, Dry Dry Desert in Mario Kart came first.
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Wasn't Dry Dry Desert originally in Double Dash, which came out after Paper Mario?
 
I've been thinking about Hammer Bro. and co. in Mario Kart... I think that it might actually be plausible to have other Bros. as palette swaps without too much faffing around. They share the exact same basic structure, which saves making new models per Bro., and much of the same colour scheme, so I think if you carefully plan the texture sheets, you can probably put all of the colour changing parts on one sheet and only change that one. I also think it would be possible to do it even if they had a trick which involved throwing a projectile in the air, though it would take a bit more work then. All of the projectiles have a circular throwing motion about a central point, so although different models would be required for each projectile, the same movement could be used, and I don't think the movement points would need changing, unless you want to be fancy with the ice and fire balls.

I'm not 100% sure about all of that, I don't know much about modelling, it's just the stuff I've picked up from around here mainly. But I think that'd be how it'd work.
 
Byakuya Togami said:
Mcmadness said:
Plus you got it backwards, Dry Dry Desert in Mario Kart came first.
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Wasn’t Dry Dry Desert originally in Double Dash, which came out after Paper Mario?
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You're right, I'm thinking of the train Mario uses to get there.
 
Kalamari Desert's name IS Dry Dry Desert in Japanese though.
 
Rantarou Amami said:
Location themed circuits rather than character circuits. Imagine if, instead of Mario Circuit and Luigi Circuit and all of those again, we got Bonneton Circuit, Tostarena Circuit, New Donk Circuit. They would be much more creative and fun than just another generic track.
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In the meantime, Mario should get themed track that isn't a circuit. Even a romp through the underground sewers with the aesthetics of The Dump will be a fresh change from the circuits he gets. Luigi gets a mansion, Bowser gets a rainy city, Yoshi gets a valley, Wario gets a mountain, Waluigi gets a friggin' pinball, Mario gets... generic race tracks.
 
Mario has nice race tracks in the Mario Kart: Arcade GP games, but they're only a small step above the horribly boring Circuits.

Have something like Mario's Gay Castle again.
 
i want to play the AGPDX game and hear the announcer say blah blah blah ROSETTA! first place and such

Namco seems a bit more inspired than Nintendo sometimes.