[Starscream Gaga]

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Originally Posted by Klonoahedgehog

I hate having to play as characters i don't like to get 100% in a game, in this case Rosalina in Mario kart 8.

Why do you have to use Rosalina outside of just winning a single cup to unlock her stamp?

I 100%ed everything with Lemmy and just used my favourite looking Kart and Wheels rather then actually good ones. You only need 1 Stars on all Cups for the Gold tires which is fairly easy (although I got 3 Stars on all Cups) and the Time Trials are pathetically easy.

The only thing I don't have is the 10,000 Coins for the Gold Glider but me, my brother and partner play VS 16 races every night so we should get it soon.

Anyway, I'm gonna rant now.

Mario Kart 8 looks very pretty, play well, good new items and gimmicks and has EXCELLENT courses (probably the best set of 32 in the series' history) but almost everything else is ludicrously half-assed. I am amazed at how this is considered acceptable from a major game like this.

The roster is objectively worse then Wii's when it comes to variety. MK Wii came out 6, almost 7 years ago. 9 Newcomers accompanied by nine cut characters and the newcomers are so much worse then those cuts it's not even funny. 7 Koopalings (all of which are fundamentally similar and can be represented by a single characer in Bowser Jr), Baby Rosalina (a slight remodel of Baby Peach who is an OC that literally nobody wanted) and Pink Gold Peach (Are f*cking with me?) VS Birdo, Bowser Jr, Diddy Kong (all of which have been staples for about 12 years), King Boo, Honey Queen, Dry Bowser, Dry Bones, Funky Kong and Wiggler? Come on Nintendo. A roster that more then half of is taken up by 7 Koopalings, 5 Babies and 2 Metal Recolors is just stupid for a Wii U and 9 cuts is just not acceptable for a next Gen game. I think its safe to say everyone expected better. Birdo is even alongside the other female characters who weren't cut (+ Wendy) on the Royal Raceway banners just to remind us how crap the roster is.

Item distribution. People whined and whined about how Wii was too "Crazy" or whatever, but the distribution in 8 is just stupid. Basing it on how far you are from 1st makes it unfair for pretty much everyone who isn't 1st, 2nd or 3rd and what you can get in which place is BS at many points. I shouldn't be getting a Coin in 5th when my brother in 2nd has a Golden Mushroom. That should not be possible. I'm hoping a patch comes out for this because from what I've seen its pretty unanimous that their attempts to fix the distribution just didn't help, I often find that if you ever drop lower then 7th you'll be very lucky to hit even 3rd by the end of the race even if you continue the race flawlessly.

Options. And by that I mean the fact that there is absolutely no Options/Setting Menu anywhere in the game. Anywhere. This is 2014, that is just insanely archaic. Related to this, the decision to put the map ONLY on the Game-pad is just too much stupid to comprehend. For a game's that's main purpose is Multi-Player, restricting the map to ONE player assuming that someone is using the Game-Pad instead of one of the other 5 or so possible controllers is ridiculous. And that's not even taking into account the fact that during a race you have to take your eyes off the screen to view it. Come on. In every other game they'd put the option to put it on the main screen or something but again, there's no options in the game.

And last but definitely not least is Battle Mode. I mean, What the **** is with this? This is one of the most undeniably lazy and half-assed thing I have ever seen in a major video game. The fact that it was an afterthought is so painfully obvious that its just sad. Absolutely zero effort has been put into Battle Mode and its just pathetic.

And those are the major ones. There are so many minor nitpicks that just stack up as you play. No Expert Staff Ghosts. No recognition for 3-Starring every cup. No way to check how many coins you have despite needing 10,000 to get the final Glider.

Mario Kart 8 is massive fun and me and my friends have spent many hours on it, but it is impossible to not realize how many mistakes were made with this game. The thing is though, Nintendo will get away with it because they always do. The fanboys will always pretend like its the best thing ever and downplay any legitimate complaint as "trolling". Nintendo are starting to put in less and less effort with every game. As great as this game is, there is always this nagging feeling that it just isn't completely finished. I know it sounds like I hate the game, I don't, but it should have been better and there's really no excuse for why it isn't. It could and perfect.

But its OK because now Nintendo are turning that insanely boring mini-game from SM3DW into a full game. Ugh.

/end rant

I'm still enjoying the game, but I'm very ready for Bayonetta 2, Smash Bros, Pokemon AR and OS and Hyrule Warriors to arrive. Then after that I think its PS4 time.