Mario Kart 8 News from Nintendo Direct Plus Mario Maker Release

[Colonel Angus]

Nintendo is adding a 200cc class to it's races & moving the release date for DLC pack 2 up to April 23rd.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...oming-in-april

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...g-a-200cc-mode

Also of note, Mario Maker is getting a September release date.

[Skyblade]

Yeah. You actually need to brake on 200cc, apparently.

Raise your hands if you forgot there was a brake button.

[Colonel Angus]

I know I'm not going to do well in this.

I wonder if this is going to change the speed in Time Trial (hope not).

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Soon they'll have 500cc or even 1000cc options.

The future of Mario Kart.

[Mirage]

Yeah. You actually need to brake on 200cc, apparently.

Raise your hands if you forgot there was a brake button.

You mean there are other ways to slow down than letting go of the accelerator?

[Skyblade]

Yeah. You actually need to brake on 200cc, apparently.

Raise your hands if you forgot there was a brake button.

You mean there are other ways to slow down than letting go of the accelerator?

Obviously.

Running into things and getting hit by items.

[Skyblade]

Pardon the double post, but there's a Japanese trailer showing off the eight new courses. More F-Zero incoming (complete with music).

[Mirage]

Amazing.

I like how isabelle uses a scooter

[Skyblade]

200cc races. With the Blue Falcon. On Mute City or Big Blue.

It's not a new F-Zero game, but I guess it's close?

[Mirage]

At this point, instead of making an actual F-zero game, it is probably easier to just make a F-Zero DLC with all the tracks and vehicles, and 500cc. Perhaps some more f-zeroish mechanics for that mode too.

[Colonel Angus]

I see Nintendo added the pink haired girl.

[Mirage]

they did. two villagers.

In either case, 200cc is hard. i might have to drop the heavyweights for that class.

[Randy]

200cc is insanely hard. I've only managed to win 1 race on it so far.

I kinda like that it's incredibly anti-Nintendo in the sense that it's just brutal mayhem.

[Endless]

200cc is insanely hard. I've only managed to win 1 race on it so far.

I kinda like that it's incredibly anti-Nintendo in the sense that it's just brutal mayhem.

You must be young.

[Randy]

200cc is insanely hard. I've only managed to win 1 race on it so far.

I kinda like that it's incredibly anti-Nintendo in the sense that it's just brutal mayhem.

You must be young.

Haha, alas no. My first gaming device was a Commodore 64. You can guess the rest.

I didn't mean it was anti-Nintendo because of difficulty. I meant in terms of being unconstrained and chaotic. Nintendo tend to like their games to be very well-oiled machines, even when they're difficult. Whereas this 200cc mode feels like it was made by an indie dev who just slapped some ideas together and toggled a few values and thought "yeah, this looks badass".
I appreciate its existence as an add-on. But it'd be terrible if it was the default.