Mario Kart World

[MnSG]

I'm happy that's gone because:
1. Whenever I played with others, they would take ages to make a kart because they needed to make 3 different selections

2. The best options were always the ugliest.

Ironically, in the original Mario Kart 8, the most abused online combos didn't even look all that ugly (such as seeing the Blue Falcon use the Slick tires). Of course, MK8's meta was speed focused, while MK8DX was mini-turbo focused.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Vehicle part stats add a fake sense of depth. I didn't understand why my friends were so concerned about statistics when they're subject to inopportune item luck or well executed sandbagging. I won't miss them this game.

That being said I'm not impressed that they're removing that aspect from the game rather than expand on it. At least make us customize these things, for once.

 

[Wittgenstein]

i've never had the slightest concern for "the meta" or whatever the most optimal combo was for that. Mario Kart has enough of a random element with its items that I don't feel like choosing the characters I like and the vehicles that look cool to me is a significant enough disadvantage.

The kart customization stuff was neat for aesthetic purposes for me, but honestly I'd rather just get emblems from MKDS back. That let me express myself much more personally than just choosing from a preset selection of things. It looks like they're doing something like that with sponsor labels, but sadly it's once again a preset selection of things therefore objectively lamer than what they had in MKDS.

 

[MnSG]

When you think it over, there's probably a good reason why custom emblems never returned; players could potentially make inappropriate images with the feature.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

People need to stop blaming the customization system for Mario Kart's terrible balancing. It's not the customization's fault Mario Kart can't balance for shit. Customization should have been expanded upon, not removed, and I'm a bit miffed that something like the Tiny Titan is stuck having tiny tires.

Hell a lot of the new vehicles just don't do it for me at all, and I'm someone who loves cars. They feel too much like kitschy toys than actual vehicles and some of the cars I do like, such as the Hot Rod, I don't really like its paint job at all (I want it looking more metallic than plastic, and a solid color) and guess what you can't change in this game...! The vehicle also looks way too small for Mario, giving it this toy look that I don't really like.

BTW for emblems, I don't want them returning and I think the new decal system is restrained bullshit that you barely see anyway. I want full blown decals you can decorate anywhere on the vehicle like this instead.

(this is not painted on or pngs, these were made out of basic shapes, and these are freely available for download)

When you think it over, there's probably a good reason why custom emblems never returned; players could potentially make inappropriate images with the feature.

Of course, this is 100% why we're not going to get any sort of user customization whatsoever, because they're too inept to moderate online, judging at how awfully they treat their Splatoon cheaters online, their restrained user pfps on the Nintendo Switch app, and the splurge of inappropriate games on their eshop.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Yeah, in spite of the argument that customizarion removal lends to better design, my sister and I don't dig the karts here most of the time. We find plenty of karts too... childish and kitschy, looking too small and overpowered by the relative size of the driver, like the roster is driving ride-on cars for children rather than actual vehicles.

Mario Kart always had the scaled down look for karts for sure, but this game seems pronounced here. Maybe these are bad screenshots with lighting and angling making their materials look like plastic, but yeah, none of the karts wow me this time. I could find plenty of karts in Tour I liked much more, on the other hand.

The bikes on the other hand, have overall better designs, I was drawn to a couple. Though I already have a preference for bikes and ATVs, I'm probably just biased or something.