Mario Kart 9 - What It Should Be Like

J & Siph said:
I just remembered something else: triple bananas. I want them to trail behind the vehicle again instead of orbiting.
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Yes.

YES.

Y E S.

Nintendo must have lost their minds when developing MK8.

Princess Mario said:
The voices need to be good again. Mario Kart Wii and Double Dash had good voices (Mario Kart 7 reused most of those two). Mario Kart 8's voice is mostly rubbish, though Shy Guy and Baby Peach are good to me.
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Meh, the voices are fine.

Oh, I also want the multiple :yoshi: colors again.
 
you can't tell me the first few voice effects are fine

they are not


they sound like Mario's vocal chords got really wheezy and hoarse from excessive drywall powder inside a balloon that has been filled with helium


and this Mario is superior and when he gets hit he actually sounds like he's getting hit, not just making barely-audible short grunting noises
 
Baby Luigi's voice is good no matter the game.

Though yeah I do prefer the MKW and MKDD Baby Luigi
 
Eh, give Martinet some slack, dude is getting old and can't vocalize like he used to. Even his Wario voice is notably restrained these days compared to the early 00s.
 
I need to point out that Mario sounds fine in Mario Party: The Later Ones and Mario Tennis Ultra Smash.
 
Princess Mario said:
you can't tell me the first few voice effects are fine

they are not


they sound like Mario's vocal chords got really wheezy and hoarse from excessive drywall powder inside a balloon that has been filled with helium


and this Mario is superior and when he gets hit he actually sounds like he's getting hit, not just making barely-audible short grunting noises
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I'll admit, the first time I played the Wii U Mario games I almost went into shock hearing Mario's voice several octaves higher than usual. Also, as Mcmadness pointed, voice actors get old.

#dealwithit.
 
Are you really sure it's not the overall direction of the game? I think other characters sound off, not just the Martinez voiced ones. Donkey Kong, for example. Not to mention, I think some kart noises, namely the Standard Kart and Pipe Frame, are nails-on-chalkboard to hear.
 
it's clearly the game's direction.

Martinet can still provide his talents accordingly to each character including Wario to this day, proof being in Wario Gold were he got all the material to perform that he never got these years.

Also you can't tell me it isn't voice direction when Rosalina voiced by Laura sounds about right in 3D World but then in MK8 is terrible.

And this is popular opinion, i wish i was the only one that noticed that but that's not true. Most people have come to the conclusion that SFX, voice and roster wise MK8 has always been inferior to MKWii.

let's not lie.
 
There needs to be influence from Super Mario Odyssey. It's been a Mario Kart tradition for each installment to have nods to the main 3D (2D in the case of SNES and GBA) platformer of the same system.

Super Mario Kart had Donut Plains and Choco(late) Island from Super Mario Land.
MK64 had Peach's castle and Leslie Swan voicing Peach from Super Mario 64.
Super Circuit remade the SNES courses, just like the Super Mario Advance games are all remakes of SNES platformers.
Double Dash has Cataquacks, Piantas, Noki, Shine Thief, Bowser Jr., Petey Piranha, and a lot of music cues from Super Mario Sunshine.
MKDS has a bunch of bosses and voice clips from SM64DS.
MKWii has Rosalina, a Luma, and Star Bits from Super Mario Galaxy.
Mario Kart 7 doesn't really have much going for it aside from the Tanooki Leaf and the fake Goombas from 3D Land. Probably could have at least had a playable Boom Boom or Pom Pom or something.
Mario Kart 8 had even less in the core game. The Biddybuggy and the Boomerang item are from 3D World, but also from 3D Land. The Cat Cruiser and the Potted Piranha are the only things the core game that are solely from 3D World. The Super Horn does also look like something out of that game. They could have had a Sprixie Princess as a playable character. But yes, I realize that DLC provides Cat Peach and Super Bell Subway, from 3D World.

Here's hoping for Odyssey!