So, is this the best Mario Kart roster since Double Dash, Sup Forums?

So, is this the best Mario Kart roster since Double Dash, Sup Forums?

They should just rename it Super Kart Bros at this point.

Is there no birdo or am I retarded?

Pretty sure the brand Mario Kart is stronger than Smash Bros.

No it's shit
>Too many babies
>The fucking metal people
>The fucking cat people
>Every single koopa kid
>9 different shyguys
what a waste of slots

No Birdo, No Petey Piranha, No Wiggler.

But hey, every single fucking Koopa kid is right there.

>a billion koopas
>minor variations of characters that could easily be alternate skins
>mario mario mario mario mario

I honestly don't understand how some people unironically think this vaguely resembles a "good" roster.

>But hey, every single fucking Koopa kid is right there.
you say that like it's a bad thing

>Bowser Jr.
Fuck yeah.

...

WHERE THE FUCK IS PETEY

Do we know what weight class the Inklings are yet?

>Talking shit about metal Mario.

>they literally added one new character for the new version
what a load of shit.

They're not the problem, the babies are.

fyp

Nigga, like you would fucking be playing as Birdo. If Birdo is the dealbreaker for a Mario Kart game, a character who has only appeared in one proper Mario title, you're quite literally a fucking faggot.

Baby Mario and Baby Luigi are cool, but yeah the rest are just unnecessary.

Why did they forget this guy? He was kinda in Galaxy, he was in partners in time, he was in Sunshine.. But now he is nowhere.

Anons. We might already know. He went on a picnic with Samus.

LET ME UPGRADE TO THE DELUXE EDITION YOU FUCKS, IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR

King Boo, Bowser Jr., Dry Bones, and Inkling

Iggy is best. Rest are unnecessary.

That 3rd row down is pure trash and should be removed.

Sure.
That'll be $300 + $60 game :)

He was just in the Mario Party that came out last year

Fuck you dude, I only played as Birdo/Daisy in DD.
I haven't owned a mario kart game after that though, so I'm not really the target audience I guess.

This desu
I'm not buying the same game for $60 after I bought it on wiiu and paying for online on top of that.

Ah, haven't touched that series since 5th edition (and it was the first one).

Where is DK and Diddy

>characters from SMB3 are cancer additions

>No blue copper Luigi
D R O P P E D

>Toadette
>Baby Mario and Baby Luigi (Fuck the other babies though)
>Dry Bones
>Bowser Jr.
>Isabelle
It actually is the best roster we've gotten.

Removed all of the shit. I left Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and Dry Bones in just for legacy's sake (MK Double Dash and MKDS).

Replace the bullshit clone characters, redundant babies and gazillion Koopa Kids with some actual unique characters. Bring back ROB, bring back Diddy Kong, bring back Birdo. Put Professor E. Gadd in there. Hell, they could go right off the deep end and start adding some seriously unexpected shit, like characters from the WarioWare universe, or even Geno since lord knows he's never getting into Smash Bros (outside of a costume).

I don't think it's too much to ask for them to actually use the lesser-known characters from the Mario/DK/Yoshi/Wario universes before resorting to "Peach but with a funny shader on her" and "Peach but in a cat costume".

No Koppa Troppa
No R.O.B.
No Diddy Kong (seriously)

DK is right there

Diddy isn't, though

Babies that aren't Mario and Luigi are awful, having all the koopalings is a terrible idea and only really serves to pad the roster, PGP is silly, and many slots could be combined.

>villager being separated for gender instead of it being an option
>same for inkling
>tanooki mario/cat peach
>dry bowser

The options themselves are fine for existing, my problem is that the way they implement it just pads the roster screen. Also, where the fuck are Diddy and Koopa/Paratroopa?

Having 7 of them is, when they could just as well be alternate costumes.

one more for the road

Should've just made a different skin and given room to other unique mario characters but no we need the artificial roster size

guys

guys

what if

guys

what if

what if they added "Baby baby Rosalina"?

Man, that'd be great

Like

a foetus riding a kart or something

Shit roster, why are there non-Mario characters? It's become a thematic cluster fuck like sonic all Star racing. Unlike smash these out of theme characters don't add any new gameplay opportunities. A cart is a cart and Mario has plenty of interesting characters to fill a roster. Fuck I'd rather all new Mario characters over this shit.

who's the question mark character?

> DK is right there
O

>Diddy isn't, though
What the fuck, if we're never gonna get a Diddy Kong Racing sequel at least give us Diddy in MK

And don't get me started on the clone characters

>Entire fucking row of Koopa Kids
>Mario and Peach with cat suits
>Mario and Luigi babies are okay but why the fuck do we need princess babies and Metal characters
>No Petey Piranha
>No ROB since Mario Kart DS
>No Wiggler

It's fucking garbage. They wasted half of the roster with reskins. Why they couldn't think to just have one Koopa Kid, and then make the rest alternate skins, I have no fucking clue.

Dry Bowser and Baby Peach are also vets though

My kids always play with those characters

>but why

Nintendo has all the usage data for which characters people actually play with and that's why they're there.

Dry Bowser makes the cut then I suppose

Baby Peach is a fucking shit idea regardless of how much of a veteran she is

>why couldn't they just make the koopa kids alternate costumes
gee lets make the roster no fucking different in content but make it look like there's seven less characters just so one autist can feel like characters aren't there

Who plays Mario Kart for the roster?

Nintendo has a FUCKload of characters at their disposal and they seriously come up with this?

Was it a funding problem or is it some fucked up decision by the higher ups who decided that the game should have terrible characters?

>not liking the Koopalings
reddit

Fixed it.
Look how much space they have for unique characters.

Wii had the best roster.

If they're going to add non-mario characters, they should've added Kirby.

I hate all koopa kids and babies

When do I get to play as pink gold baby rosalina? Or tanooki baby luigi riding black yoshi?

>We'll never get another Mario Kart with R.O.B.

>this autism
By that logic, the entire roster should just be alternate costumes of Mario.

zero suit samus when?

I want to ride the bike with her

I miss ROB.

iite i fixed it

But the Koopalings still had unique models, animations, stats, and voices. Putting them in one roster slot isn't suddenly going add more characters, since they already spent tine on the koopalings. Besides, let's say they have one slot for the koopalings, and cut Cat Peach, they would just erase one row.

>Mario
>Tanuki Mario
>Metal Mario
>this counts as three separate characters

The fucking babies as well, what the shit

>retards who think there are "slots"

I think it's a combination of three factors

Firstly: Despite the illusion of Nintendo operating as one big unified company, it's difficult for teams to get the rights to characters of other first and second parties. This is why you don't see, for example, Pokemon furniture in Animal Crossing, and why every single "guest character" in Mario Kart so far has been from Nintendo EAD themselves (Splatoon, Zelda, Animal Crossing) instead of any other Nintendo IPs. Smash Bros's Sakurai has made note in the past of how much of a bitch it is to work with characters from other teams. This, basically, sums up why we don't get characters from the Mario RPGs, the extended Wario universe, and why Funky Kong was a pretty fucking big deal in Mario Kart Wii

Secondly: Petty internal politics at play. Some developers literally just dislike certain characters, and really like others. For example, Wario and Daisy never showing up in a mainline Mario game. Miyamoto once claimed this as being due to "clashing art styles" but that sounds like bullshit to me. Certain Mario and Nintendo characters probably didn't make the cut in Mario Kart 8 because the director simply did not like them on a personal level.

Thirdly: They're lazy cunts. It's easier to put a metal shader on Mario and Peach than it is to actually model two new characters. Simple as that.

To sum up, it's a combination of Nintendo having a stagnating corporate structure, them generally just being assholes, and being lazy to boot.

>Baby Mario
>Baby Luigi
They've been around for 20 years so they get a pass.
>Baby Princesses
Have no reason to exist for the sake of lacking light characters.
>Metal Mario
Has been doing this since Mario Golf and is a staple in his own way.
>Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach, and Pink Gold Peach
Have no reason to exist despite Pink Gold being one of my mains along with Metal Mario.

Dry Bones
Boo
Ludwig Von

fuck yeah it's the best!

Where's the Mii's? I know that they're in the game because GameXplain made a video of all the different Mii costumes in the game (which now include the Inklings).

I'd rather a Boom Boom than the 7 Koopaniggers or 5 BAYBIES.
I'd literally rather a Goomba or Hammer Bro. Why the fuck isn't Kamek playable? Where the fuck is Diddy Kong and Petey Piranha? Let me play as one of those Mario Sunshine tree fuckers or Toadsworth or E. Gadd.
Fuck this gay roster.

Under the ? icon. They're probably gonna revamp them somehow or something and that's why they're not showing them yet. Maybe changing their name to make them feel more integrated with the Switch or something? Dunno, Switchers?

I play baby Peach and Rosalina exclusively. Ask me anything.

How does it feel being a pedophile

>Maybe changing their name to make them feel more integrated with the Switch or something? Dunno, Switchers?
I don't think so. They're already put miis in two generations of consoles and a mobile game. They're the avatars for their My Nintendo shit, too.

>Boom Boom
>not Pom Pom
Really?

>My Nintendo
Jesus Christ, can they fix that fucking garbage while they're at it too? Please?

I wouldn't know. I only like 2D

Boom Boom has the same nostalgia points the Koopalings do. Both are from Mario 3.
Boom Boom needs more love. I wonder why he wasn't in Paper Jam or Smash.

Regular Rosalina or baby Rosalina?

Well if you remove all the recolours, gender-swaps and age variants...

Why did they add splatoon characters but not Kirby and his warp star?

Because Kirby is technically not a Nintendo character.

>implying Lakitu isn't a Koopa variant
Also that's basically Super Mario Kart + Nintendo.

That thing that ate the Quagmire Triplets

fixed it easy

WHERE'S DIDDY

Was honestly expecting him to join after that one rosalina trailer for smash. Guess i had high hopes

In the next DLC pack.

I mean, how many franchises can you REALLY say are "Nintendo" franchises when we apply that kind of logic?

>thinking e. gadd is ever going to be in a game ever a gain when they're phasing him out of everything

user it's time to give it up

I really REALLY hope it's because they're working on Air Ride 2 and they don't want people to think "oh he's in marlo cart i'll just get that"

I think I only let Lakitu slip in because of the old days in MK7 with mkweekends.

Replace Metal Mario with Honey Queen and it's perfect

Kirby is owned by HAL. Nintendo doesn't have full control of the character.

He's still in Weegee's Mansion

so, which non mario characters you want to see in?

No one played Luigi's Mansion 2.

>no Wiggler

I really fucking hate how bland the selection screen looks

>those sticker potraits
>that generic background

Why can't they just use square potraits instead of this?