We're doing this already? The game isn't even out yet...

I'm game for chattin' it up!

Details for the online seem pretty scarce so far, and that's sort of the thing I'm buying this game for (1P is pretty by the numbers, which is kinda lame, but expected). I hear that the VR works as sort of a combination of MKW's and MK7's.

What I didn't like about MK7 was that you ONLY gained VR points. While this alleviated the frustration of losing a ton of points when having a bad race (like in MKW), it made points kind of...er, pointless. Like, if you get points for every game raced, they really don't mean anything at all--just that you played the game a ton. In MKW, a high VR score meant you had to play well, and maintain it, buddy!

The good news is that VR goes to 9999 again, with you losing some if you do poorly (like MKW), but the number of VR points lost is much lower than in MKW, so losses aren't quite so devastating. This is a good change, IMO, when in a game like Mario Kart, you're inevitably going to have bad luck, so it stinks whenever you get a HUGE penalty equal to 5 or 6 wins at that point.

So I'm looking forward to the online...however! I hear that you can no longer pick your course online...? Like, you can choose random, or one of three randomly-generated courses per match. Sounds...limiting. I get that they probably did this because of track spammers in the past, but you can work around that by simply locking out the most recent track (or two), rather than limiting the choices so much.

Anyway, if anyone's got other details on how the online works (or if I've got any of this wrong), I'd love to hear it.

Oh thank God they brought back the MK Wii rating system.

Who's got the karting fever? Here's everyone who has the game:

(Negative World Username) - (NNID)
Abdooooo - Abdooooo
Anand - AnandX
anon_mastermind - Mastermind85
Brick - Brick20
Brook - Ice-Insignia
canonj - canonj
carlosrox - carlosrox
chrisbg99 - chrisbg99
chrisguy - chrisguy
Cooliocuneo - Cooliocuneo
Cryojin - Cryojin
Cubed777 - C77777
DeputyVanHalen - DeputyVanHalen
DrFinkelstein - a00link
Earendil - Ear3ndil
EagleC83 - EagleC83
GameDadGrant - GameDadGrant
gamewizard65 - gamewizard65
Guillaume - Pandareus
Hero_of_Hyrule - Deku_Scrub
Jargon - Hendrik
-JKR- - JKRiki
kgtennispro - kgtennispro
kriswright - kriswright
legendofalex - Alistair
ludist210 - Ludist210
MasterSandman II - MasterSandmanII
Mop it up - Mop_it_up
Nate38 - VictorVonPlugman
Octorockin - NoseyTengu
ploot - Realploot
PogueSquadron - PogueSquadron
pokepal148 - pokepal148
Rebonack - rebonack
Scrawnton - Scrawnton
SeVeN CDN - SeVeNCDN
Shadowlink - Shadowlink1984
Smerd - Smerd20
Stratos - Chronocast
stephen - stephen087
Super_Conzo - Super_Conzo
thefly - LeaveLuck2Heaven
TheOldManFromZelda - OldManFromZelda
TK_Thunder - The_Trish
Tranquilo - Arponare
VofEscaflowne - VofEscaflowne
Zero - negative_zero

Mop it up said:

Aw, I was going to create this thread. I wanted to make a tally of everyone's NNID who would have this game.

Looks like Fink's got more work cut out for him than he bargained for!

@Mop it up

Sorry about that Mop It Up! I wish there was a way to share a thread with someone. I think certain game discussion threads should act as a main hub for the game on this site anyway and this would be a perfect example.

If you'd like, I can do that in the OP or if you'd like to still keep a tally on that post here on the first page I can be sure to edit it in as often as I can. Just let me know what you'd like to do. I'll be sure you get the credit for it as well. You know, I could link in the OP to your post with the same reference link. This would prevent the OP from getting too long but also allowing for you to do what you so kindly wanted to.

Will be best MK since 64 for me, and I loved DD and really liked MKW (though something about it felt wrong, especially the awful music).

Wanna see something lovely? 60 FPS vids! Those of you on media blackout should avoid them. Otherwise, enjoy because it sure looks butteryyyy~

@TriforceBun

Yessssss, they sure as heck look buttery! Now where is my toast. I'm hungry!

@TriforceBun Is it that spoilery? I've seen trailers but am out of the loop since the last Direct basically.

You guys have to watch this slo mo video! It really awesome & beautiful. Seriously, watch it & several times as you'll probably miss a some cool stuff going on. Don't worry about spoilers as far as tracks or whatever. Make sure to change video settings to 720p, as youtube always defaults videos to 360p. Enjoy!!!

@PogueSquadron

Not really, except that it does show some later courses (but you can pick which course you want to watch). You might want to do what I did and just check out the first 30 seconds of a couple or so.

@gamewizard65

That's neat. The animations in this are really solid.

@TriforceBun

Yes sir! I love all the cool particle effects as well. If you look closely, esp. watching in HD, when the video cuts to Luigi, flying near the end in the DK stage, you can see the wind causing ruffles in the clothlike material of the balloons that are used for hovering. Sooo cool! That just shows the amount of incredible detail and how meticulous Nintendo is when developing their games. Something that tiny in detail really did not need to be added since most people playing the game would never notice small stuff like that, esp. while in the heat of playing.

@TriforceBun

You lose VR points when you do poorly in Mario Kart 7.

@GameDadGrant
I think you lose one or two points when you are dead last, and maybe second-last. It's a HUGE change from the Wii's scoring.

@ploot

Yeah, in MK7 you gain maybe 20 points for finishing 1st, and lose a point or two when last. In MKWii, the amount of points gained or lost depended not only on your place, but also the VR of all the other people playing. It made a whole lot more sense, since you gained a lot of points if you beat really good players, and likewise, you'd lose a ton of points if you lost to poor players.

@DrFinkelstein Well, you guys could make me a moderator and then I could edit the opening post. Hee hee hee.

AH HA HA HA HA HAWR!

Ahem. But seriously, it's fine. Which of your ideas do you think would be the easiest to manage and have people find? I'm not sure which one would be, so we can go with which one you think would be.

But yeah, I wanna get the ball rolling so I can be ready to go when the game gets here. Who's going to be getting this game, who wants their NNID in this topic's list, and who wants to add me? I have some of you from playing MH3U, but that ain't all of you.

Me me me! Super_Conzo. Me ME!

@Mop it up

Take your first post in this thread and make that your tracking list. I'll link/copy directly to that so it's always visible from the first page of the thread and try to keep it updated as you make changes. That would be best IMO.

Also, I'M IN! So so far that's Super_Conzo and I.

I'm in.... I'll be playing it on night one...after 9pm EST probably.... I'll be downloading it in the early morning hours though..