I still haven't played the new tracks. I guess I should do that at some point.

@Zero

They're great! Go for it!

@Zero

Any of them? Then you're in for a treat.

I've noticed that your results in 200cc don't give you credit for the other speeds (the way that three-starring 150cc would give you 3 stars for 100cc and 500cc). I guess it makes sense, as the physics are different, making it kind of its own mode in the same way that the mirrored tracks are. But it's still a little bit annoying. I find the AI a bit easier to beat on 200cc than 150cc, and I was hoping to cheat.

@DrFinkelstein @ludist210 Nope nothing was busy pretty much all weekend.

And, nevermind I'm not going to bother getting Gold Trophies. I was playing a cup and I already failed to get first place on the first race. The second race I was hit by two blue shells in the first two laps but still managed to keep in first place. After that I got the horn and thought that there was little chance of a third blue shell. As I was closing in to finishing the race with the horn in hand I thought I'd be fine. But the A.I. had other intentions. First they shot a red shell from close up so I didn't have time to react. Just as I manage to recover from that another racer bumps me and immediately hits me with a backwards shot green shell. I just turned off my Wii U at that point.

@ludist210 I'm afraid I don't see how my post was mostly negative, I listed several positive things and several neutral things. As my first impressions, it was just a sort of stream-of-consciousness thing I had going. The positive things include that I overall like the new tracks, I like the AC characters, I'm glad there's a new ATV and the retro tracks were better than I was expecting. I see that I forgot to flat-out say 200cc was a nice addition, but it could be inferred that way since I just listed one thing I found unfortunate about it. I don't think the DLC pack is great, but there are a lot of levels between "bad" and "great."

Perhaps my writing style may not make it clear enough what I consider positive, neutral, and negative, I've been trying to work on that.

The Roy Koopa Pimpmobile is getting destroyed by 200cc.

Alright tried them out. Impressions...

Crossing Cup

Baby Park - Not quite sure what they were going for here. I liked this course in DD but it seems a bit less crazy now? Maybe I need to play it with humans.

Cheese Land - A decent retro course. Probably one of my favorites from the GBA game, brought back in good form.

Wild Woods - This is probably my favorite in Crossing Cup so far. Just like the theme and the execution and everything.

Animal Crossing - Seems ok, although I'm not entirely sure what about it stands out outside of the theme. I notice four seasons in the icon... does it change based on season?!

Bell Cup

Neo Bowser City - Probably one of the better retro courses, lots of fun twists and turns and such.

Ribbon Road - Oh. My. God. They took a good but not amazing GBA course and just made it nuts. So awesome on every level.

Super Bell Subway - I like this concept and it's pretty fun, but it seems like it should be a bit longer?

Big Blue - Obviously love the theme (and music), and it's a pretty wild track so I love that. Almost too wild to get a good sense of in my first play though, was just constantly hitting walls.

Overall I'd say Bell Cup is definitely my favorite. Ribbon Road, Super Bell Subway and Big Blue may be my 3 favorite new tracks, and they're all in Bell Cup.

@Zero

It changes season every time you play it.

After a bit more play I think the new version of Ribbon Road may be one of my favorite Mario Kart tracks ever. Definitely one of my favorite in 8.

I also tried out 200cc on the easiest cup. It wasn't too bad, but I can see how on harder cups it could be wild.

@Zero

I hold similar views. Definitely try 200 on later stages. It's much more challenging.

Braking does NOT come naturally to Conzo.
A passer-by would swear I've never played this game before.

Edit: spelling does not come naturally to Conzo either: breaking? Get it together man.

A small update was just released, version 4.1

Apparently, all this patch does is auto-unlock Mirror and 200cc for GP mode. The reason seems to be that this was causing problems with some user's data, such as 200cc failing to open up.

Everyone who didn't feel like getting golds in 150cc, you can now play the 200cc GPs.

@Mop it up

I came here to mention that Mirror and 200cc were unlocked. I definitely like the increased speed but I would love a GP mode without items. But that would require Nintendo to program decent A.I..

@gojira

You can do Versus mode without items against the computer, but maybe you already knew that.

@canonj

Maybe I'll try that out. After a race or two I just get bored with Mario Kart so I've never delved too deep into the game.

edit: Played a few Vs. races without items. With normal difficulty I never saw another racer after getting ahead at the start. On hard there were one or two opponents who were in it to the end. Playing that on the F-Zero tracks was fun but mostly made me wish there was a new F-Zero.

Just finally played the "new" DLC tonight.

And by "new," I mean the stuff that came out in NOVEMBER as well as the stuff that came out a few weeks ago. Played on the Mrs_'s account, and she has a whole heckuva less stuff unlocked than I do. Had to try some different karts out. The Tanooki one is the pits. Played with the Mercedes GLA which wasn't too awful. And then, it happened...

AMIIBO MEGA MAN FIRESUIT

Ran with the roadster looking kart that is blue with yellow highlights. Not sure what its called, but I looked like the f'n Cat's PJ's. Mega Man with a heavy beard is a good look. I've SEEN it.

So this game is still our most played game according to the Game Database… is that because people aren't updating it or are the Negative Worlders still going hard at this?

Who is still playing and who isn't? Also, use this as a reminder to change your games playing in the database!

DrFinkelstein said:

Who is still playing and who isn't?

Does anybody wanna race sometime? I don't have the DLC for this game, but I got the game with me and a good attitude!