A Mario Kart with a unique solo campaign for each character, similar to Smash Bros, with item and kart upgrade rewards and continuous online challenges would be a great way to switch things up.
The closest we ever had to that was double dash, there was no solo campaign for each character but each character had an exclusive item. Which was a great touch as it gave you a reason to pick other characters. That’s until you win mirror star cup of course, because king boo and petey piranha have every item
I want the double dash team ups back. I wanna play with my buddy online as a team. Be so awesome. Switching seats on the fly if one of us isnt driving to hot on a course.
@@alibabaschultz352 I think it’s nuts to say Mario Kart 8 is a lessor game than Double Dash. Like bonkers crazy. I like Double Dash as much as the next person but Mario Kart 8 blows it out of the water. Plus, the character specific items were completely unbalanced.
I just want to have a double dash mode. You can play single or double. That way you double the content right away, beating all the cops on all the cc.’s, both single racer and double racer mode.
@@leeartlee915what u on about? It’s a very fun mode of co-op that the fans like the best out of all Mario Kart games. They haven’t made a double dash mode ONLINE, either… lots to be done, it seems the obvious way to go.
I always imagined the next Mario kart would incorporate a feature where the tracks would change via a portal at the finish line mark kind of like how smash bros let you set up 2 stages to switch between. Or there could be a level editor like Mario maker. or even now the wonder flower would be a brand new item to debut that would completely alter preexisting tracks entirely.
I want to see airplanes and boats as another “kart” option similar to Diddy Kong Racing, which would open doors to more unique track layouts. Also maybe having certain item blocks that are tougher to access ALWAYS having a top tier item as a reward for taking the road less traveled. I also like the idea of a proper story mode or campaign.
@@karnovrpg Kinda hard to imagine a campaign with a big hubworld when the game (Odyssey) doesn't really have one and mostly rather small levels. oO DKR and CTR have no huge open worlds, they just let you drive around a bit. It's nice to have, but nothing that special or game changing. In the end you mostly go from one race to the next anyways.
@@Ray_2112 I don't think you played the same DKR I did, I'm pretty sure you could drive around the hub and collect things, even talk to a few NPCs. Or Mario Odyssey for that matter. I wouldn't call those worlds small at all. Mario Kart has none of that.
Hopefully they bring back old items, new ones and to make it even more frantic,increase the number of players. They’ve gone from 8 to 12. Imagine there being 16-20 at once. The horror of coming in 20th place 😂
What I think we need: Story mode - as big as possible, maybe a brand new villain Less crossover characters - there’s like 50 mario characters already that are fan favourites in the games, so adding a bunch of characters from other games would be overshadowed by the amount of Mario Wonderflower mechanics - wacky 3rd laps? 15 player races - having 15 racers at once adds to more chaos, and we still have the classic get 60 points to win
My thoughts for the next Mario Kart: Campaign Mode - see Diddy Kong Racing for inspiration Specialized Items - have items specific to certain sets of characters, but also include some items that are specific to certain tracks or groups of tracks Unique item interactions with tracks - Have some items that can cause specific effects on a track, either in addition to or replacing their current effects. Team Racing - Have a setup where you've got teams of 2, 3 or 4 racers competing for a cumulative top score. Would also work well with things like drafting, and possibly allow the team to select a 'team item' that replaces the character-specific items Dynamic Courses - Have course changes that are triggered by specific actions, which can modify the course for future laps (or future runs of that course, in campaign mode) More options - lap count, items, and course state should all be customizable Anti-Gravity - Make better use of this. Right now, most courses just use it as 'hey, your track now goes up a wall', with no change to how the race functions. Give us stuff like the cylinders in F-Zero X where you need to come out of it on the right side or get flung off the course, spots where you can swap gravity by hitting some jumps, and give us items that can interact with the antigravity mechanic more.
Here is what I would love for Mario Kart. Title: maybe SUPER Mario Kart Double Dash or something like that. Customization: customization for each combination of characters and vehicles should be different from others, having their own unique parts to choose from. No two combination sets being alike. Each two characters get a variety of parts and paint jobs to choose from. Coins: Still function in the racing like in 7 and 8, but also, all the coins you collect in the race will also be used as currency to buy more parts and paint jobs. Courses: Like in 7 and 8, but also maybe add in eventually almost if not all the courses from all past games. And maybe some courses if not all of them go through changes during races Special Items: Special items should return. Like the bros' fireball bursts and Bowser's giant shell and maybe new special items for each character like Mario having a cape feather to fly over everyone and gain a good boost in speed. But it would only last shortly or til you slam the ground blowing away all around you. X3 Stats: Stats should also be able to be tweeked some after you select your vehicle parts. Like say if you want to reduce your weight for the sake of more handling or your traction for better acceleration. But only a limited amount to keep the game balanced. We don't want the speedy cool vehicles like b dasher and P wing to suffer like they did in 8 Deluxe Trophies: For More difficult classes you finish and win, the trophies should get bigger, shinier and more detailed. And If you get a perfect score in a cup, instead of a gold trophy, you oughta get a SHINY SPARKLY FANCY DETAILS PLATINUM TROPHY. Most importantly, it needs to have all karts bikes mtvs and combos worthy of being awesome in competitive online. Speed vehicles being REALLY speedy to make up for low acceleration. And MAYBE a decent mini turbo in case they get slammed alot. Also keep 200cc and all cup tour
I don’t think they’ll ever really do a big ‘competitive’ mode beyond time trials and custom rooms. The current formula is too iconic to change and I doubt they want to risk splintering the player base off into a casual and competitive group beyond what it already is.
The one thing I loved about the booster course was the fact that the track layout would change with each lap like for the tour tracks so I hope they keep that and expand on it and I also hope that when they do retro courses they expand retro courses
I just hope the next Mario Kart is INSANE. Like actually, just crazy. 48 tracks become the new standard and 16 battle mode tracks, retro tracks reaching levels like we haven't yet seen, all new kart options like planes and hovercrafts (which would also open up to new course designs and sections too), mission mode comes back, a story mode thay serves as a more interesting option to unlock everything, a smash bros style classic mode, special items, a double dash racing style option that's ALSO usable online (yes, I do believe single and double racers can be balanced correctly. It might actually lead to more visual interest when playing too! This would bring back double dash drifting for the user as well), Mario Kart Wii online tourneys come back! Just everything crazy we haven't seen in years as well as all the brand new stuff.
I think kart customization needs to be cut down a bit. Maybe get rid of wheels as a separate part and just have karts and glider options? Also more gliders, perhaps that function differently. If wheels were to stay they need to be way more different in handling
- The 2 player per kart concept from Double Dash needs to come back as its own mode. - Some sort of campaign or story mode - Online multiplayer needs to have a social matchmaking playlist and a separate Ranked/Comp style matchmaking playlist.
THEY SHOULD ADD EITHER: PIT STOPS. So basically your kart actually takes damage when hit etc, and as a result starts to slow down (not dramatically, more like the difference of 0-10 coins) the strategy would then involve going down a pit lane (f-zero style where you maybe done actually have to stop) but whereby you go a longer route to “fix” your kart. So you’d need to decide whether to keep pushing in the fast lane on a slower kart, or go the longer pit stop route to get your kart back up to max speed. OR WONDER FLOWERS. Last lap, transform into a completely alternate course or maybe transition completely into a new course Smash Bros Ultimate style.
Rather than general Nintendo guests I want the next Mario Kart to have characters from Mario spin-offs including those made by other studios. Characters like Rabbid Peach, Geno, Goombella, Edge and Ashley. A bit like how we get a few Donkey Kong characters, and on that note King K. Rool should be there too.
Here's my idea - mario kart with elements from the mario party series...instead of laps, have an open area where a star appears across the map and everyone rushes to it. Once someone gets it, the star appears somewhere else. Winner has the most stars at the end of the round. Karts race over to the star across any terrain or any route they want. Items slightly change to allow warping, swapping positions with other players, changing the map like opening and closing access points, such as drawbridges, etc. In short, an open map instead of a set track, and gameplay adapted to that idea.
A day/night cycle would be fun. Changing weather conditions between laps would also open some fun possibilities (e.g. rain would cause the karts to move differently, and may flood parts of the course, even opening a different, underwater, area). And I'd love to see true flying sections as well as boating sections rather than underwater ones.
Excite Truck for the Wii had a "Mario Kart Wonder" type element where the track would change if you went through a ( ! ) symbol. Short cuts opened, little jumps became HUGE jumps, it caused avalanches and eruptions and all kinds of cool stuff that Mario Kart would have a blast with.
Maybe you have to collect multiple wonder coins to get the wonder effect. I think a stylised artstyle like tour or Mario wonder would fit more to this unconventional game. I think they will eventually find a way to incorporate the effect into every Mario game. I feel like maybe a safe sequel wouldn’t happen after the ‘Wonder era’ even though I’d want Mario kart 9 and another NSMB.
I personally want more DLC tracks. I mean they took so many from Mario Kart World Tour but not a single track from Mario Kart Live : Home Circuit??? Make it right Nintendo!
Driving through a whimsical representation of a bathroom that's really just a solid track with a bathroom skin, sure, no problem, good idea. What the OP seems to be requesting however is *actual* tracks from peoples houses.
Mario Kart 9 could make Coins more useful by upgrading your kart's stats such as speed, drift, defense, acceleration, traction, etc. and even buy new kart parts like the body, wheels, and gliders. Maybe include a "Retry" option in the middle of a Grand Prix race as long as you have 1-UPs, kinda like in Super Circuit.
Uhhh nah man, upgrades would be the easiest way to ruin online for everyone. If they were to do something like that, it would need to only work for local play. Which would not sit well with a lot of people
Upgrades I don't want. Instead, I would love it if the coins could actually be used in a store for car parts, and if they did not cap at 10. Also, achievements or missions could be included in some way and unlock characters.
@@leonro that's pretty much how they work, you get so many coins and unlock a part. They cap at ten because they effect your speed, if you could just keep getting them the better drivers would end up driving at 200cc speeds in 50cc races.
@@n1nj4l1nk And my point is that the cap should be increased to, let's say, 20, and the speed boost you now get at 20 could be about the same as the one you get at 10. And a hit could make you lose 5 coins instead of 3. The cap could even go up to 30, but any more and I feel like you'd need more coins on the tracks. As for the store, the idea would be that you get to choose what you unlock, and you now know easily how many coins you have to save up. I dislike the current system of having to look up online how many coins you still need, and only finding your current coin count in the stats screen.
I really think some kind of Diddy Kong Racing adventure mode is a must. It's silly that they've gone this long without even trying to add anything like that, as you said, closest we got was the mission modes in Mario Kart DS, which themselves never came back after that game. As for the Roster, the only reason why I want "Smash Kart" to happen ( under a name that lets them keep brand identity, seeing as how that's the only argument I ever hear againt it ) is because they never do anything interesting with their roster. Mario Kart, and every Mario spinoff, should be a huge celebration of the entire Mario franchise, including it's extended universe in the Wario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Princess Peach, Captain Toad, Luigi's Mansion, and yes even the RPG spinoffs, and they should be celebrating all eras of Mario too, not just the contemporaries. Give me Wart, Foreman Spike, Wanda from Mario vs Wario, Stanley the Bugman, things that we haven't seen in years. If Honey Queen can get in, I just don't see why they can't either. I'd much rather have this than them making up new characters to fill roster slots like "Baby Rosalina" "Pink Gold Peach" and "Wa Luigi" ( I'm kidding about that last part, he's one of the few good original creations of the spinoffs ) but this isn't exclusive to the roster, the best DLC track in my opinion was the Yoshi's Island track. There should be a higher number of tracks based on other Mario games, with lots of nods to that game. I don't want any truly kooky mechanics. I still want the core gameplay to be the same. But I want new items, courses, racers, and modes.
I'd like quite a few things or have ideas to mix it up: 1) Revamp the item system. The current one is great, but we've had most of the same items for a long time now. I don't hate the current one either, but I'd argue that items are indeed a big part of what makes Mario Kart fun and different from say a cartoon version of Need 4 Speed. I'd love to see some new, fun item ideas and them maybe even bringing back some of the character specific items like in double dash. 2) Double Dash Double Dash explored a fun mechanic with the two players. I'd love to see that back as a second mode. I know it's a lot to ask for, but having the current technology and knowledge available and seeing how it could make a big difference from MK8, I think it would be a fun idea to introduce it back into the mix, even just as a fun mode. 3) Missions I know not everyone liked them in Mario Kart DS, but I think they were a great source of fun and challenge. A full fletched campaign would also be great, but I like simple missions. 4) A "mission system" Hated in a lot of games, I could actually see myself liking it here. Hitting 5 different players in a Grand Prix with red shells or getting 3 purple drifts in a row could be stuff I could get behind, especially in a campaign. So similar to point 3 kinda. But I'd like it more of an achievement system aswell. 5) Change up the themes. Tour showed us pixel-characters between 3D-Models and I'd love for them to play with these visuals. Make stages completely 8 bit or 2D segments like in Odyssey. Mix up playstile and visuals during the game. 6) Take Battle Mode seriously I think this one is self-explanatory. Give it some love, create some actual maps for it and reinvent the wheel here. There have been plenty of other car-racer battle modes and I think the one from Diddy Kong Racing DS stuck with me the most outside of MK itself. 7) Track mechanics and interconnected tracks This one is similar to the "dynamic tracks" point you brought up. I want the tracks to be interactive. Driving through a desert is great, but timed mechanics like the falling sand in MK Wii or the bridge in the new Yoshi's Island track are great scene assets. When I drive through a city, I'd love if it wasn't only scenery, but also actual stuff to do. And especially in the shortcut department I think it would be amazing to have much more path variations and hidden paths. Think about the drop down path in Yoshi's Island for MKDD or splitting paths in Yoshi Valley. But more balanced of course and more rewarding when you decide to take a longer route. Also, connect tracks. Allow us to see other tracks from eachother, like Daisy Cruiser was visible from Peach Beach in MKDD. 8) Fan service I loved the Wuhu Island tracks. Not just because I thought they were a fun idea, but because I love Wuhu Island. So instead of only creating new scene assets and interpretations around themes, I'd love to see more of a "race through Nintendo history" kind of vibe on at least a few tracks. create a track through Peach's Castle from M64, a 1-1 themed Level (similar to the visual idea before), let us race on the Comet Observatory from Mario Galaxy or up / down the hill from BobOmb Battlefield. Throw in more Yoshi Island like themes. I.e. by using iconic places like New Donk City. But don't just show them to us in the background (like galaxy assets in RBR) but actually enjoy them as a track itself! 9) Being back performance based rewards In MKWii you had to beat certain ghosts to get karts or get a certain ranking to unlock certain characters. It felt good, because not only was it sometimes a bit secret and fun to find out but also because it rewarded you for playing good. Coins are fine as well for steady progress, but a blend would be nice. 10) More "weird" vehicles Make the difference between different vehicles bigger. I'd love to see a kart looking like a plane that glides further, a Monstertruck that actually is noticeably bigger, a kart not using wheels but tracks and so on. Customization is cool and should stay, but I want to see them experiment with the way these parts look, feel and work. Making a monstrosity like the baby buggy with track wheels and putting giant Bowser in it sounds fun. Maybe expand on this idea and make kart specific items? Or give them different powers like jumping extra high when initiating a drift or something? Idk, but I want to see more significant variation in theme and playstile.
It's easy to think what they do next: The next MK is 10 or X in Roman numerals, X can also mean crossovers which is something they toyed with in 8D. MKX will be completely based on crossover stuff. Split Second is amazing and the course changes are triggered by the players after building up a three stage meter. You full the meter by drifting, drafting and near misses. It's well worth a play even today and in my opinion the racer from that era most deserving of a remaster/remake/sequel.
100% agreed about the title, people seem to forget that in a technical sense Tour is MK9, so it's most likely that the next one will be 10, hence MKX. Also hard agree on crossover elements having a big focus, it's the logical next step after 8 dipped the toe in the water with Zelda, Animal Crossing etc.
1) Mario Kart Maker -The next Mario Kart needs to have a Mario Maker element to it so random people online can make courses for the game. This insures the game can never be boring. Then you can download the highest rated courses. Maybe there's even competitions where the best fan made courses make it into the game.. 2) Every Retro Course Available - There was also a Wii modded version of Mario Kart that had literally every single course from each version of the game. It was very cool playing through all of the SNES courses/cups back to back... instead of just a few retro courses here and there. Full retro Cups would be awesome. 3) RPG Mode/Campaign - Like Street Fighter 2 where each character has a different ending and cutscene for beating the game. It could also progress like that one RPG where you race in 8bit, 16bit, 64bit, and modern. 4) More unlockable secrets/customizations if you beat aspects of the game...along the lines of the gold kart, wheels, 5) Every course needs a shortcut...with the expansion waves a lot of the courses don't really have shortcuts 6) Pixel mode - Where you can shift to more retro pixellated versions of the game like SNES or N64 maybe just a more retro look but with modern gameplay. Kind of like how Dragon Quest XI had a mode where you could play in pixel mode or modern 3d 7) More interesting character animations. Mario Wonder really shows what is possible just in adding more animations to make the characters seem more alive. 8) Bring back the Miis (ideally with Wii Sports Resort). There could be an arcade in the Sports Resort where you could play Mario Kart.
It's funny how much I disagreed with a lot of the earlier ideas haha 😅 I really don't want Nintendo Kart, and I think character specific items would be a nightmare in a game with so many racers. But I generally liked all the other ideas shared. The puzzle collaboration stuff especially sounds awesome. Here's some ideas I've had. Some I came up with recently, others I've been thinking about for years! ==Retro Revamps== Retro cups should absolutely stay in the game. Mario Kart is huge, and loads of people love playing courses they played when they were younger. Especially casual players who don't play many other Nintendo games! So they gotta keep them. BUT, bringing back MK8 courses like Toad Harbor wouldn't be that exciting... So what if we changed something about it? What if sky is cloudy and there's a windy rainstorm. There are knocked over crates, puddles of water, the music is more frantic! There is so much random stuff they could do if they change small parts about different courses. Delfino Square but it's during a festival! Broken Pier but it's being repaired by mischievous ghosts! Dry Dry Ruins but it's night time and mummies are roaming about! ==Sequel Courses== We've already seen this with stuff like Moo Moo Meadows. It's basically a sequel of Moo Moo Farm. We can revisit ideas from past courses but with a fresh layout and twist. You could do this with literally any course. One of my favorite ideas is Waluigi Pinball 2.0! ANOTHER giant pinball machine, but with a different vibe, crazier layout, and even crazier obstacles. This could even apply to battle maps. Pipe Plaza? More like Pipe Pantheon! A full on pipe maze with different colored pipes that lead to different parts of the map. ==Choose Your Kart== Mario Kart Tour didn't let you choose tires-- you could only choose karts and gliders. I think that's a good idea, but I have a compromise! Karts should have custom tires that are _themed_ around the kart. Here's my example, Mario Kart Tour has an awesome kart called the Combo Cruiser. Its tires are literally burgers, and it's awesome. But wait... if the tires are themed, then we can't use other tire types, right? WRONG Instead of choosing individual tires, you'd choose a tire _TYPE_ instead! Combo Cruiser's standard wheels would be burgers. Its rollers would be sliders. Its slim tires would be a burger without buns. Its monster tires would be mega burgers bursting with toppings. This puts emphasis more on karts instead of tires. Tires would change how the kart plays, but they wouldn't be as important. Different karts would play better with different tires and weight classes, etc. It opens up a new level of strategy and allows you to spend less time kart customizing! ==Character Cups== Each character would have their own challenge cup that consists of 4 courses that fit them (potentially only 3 + a challenge/mission!) Maybe characters could have certain objectives or twists like Smash Ultimate's classic mode. Completing the cup would unlock an alt costume for that character. I think most characters would only have 1 alt, but it'd still be fun. Speaking of alts... ==Racing Outfits== Each character should have a specific "racing" alt costume. This is probably a huge undertaking, but imagine if every character had their own custom designed racing suit. Mario has one in Mario Kart Tour and it looks awesome. Everyone could have one. It'd be what most of the girls with dresses wear by default on bikes, and the helmet could be toggleable. And speaking of Racing suits... ==More Mii Customization== I HATE the Mii Racing Suits in Mario Kart 8. They're all well designed, but you never get to see your mii's head. It's barely like you're driving as them! What if you could unlock clothing pieces like in Super Mario Maker 2? Or.... what if you could design your own racing suit! You could decorate it with stickers, use other characters' racing suits as a base, and just do whatever you want with it! ==Other Personal Customization= Splatoon 3 has lockers and splashtags... Mario Kart should have Garages and licenses. Design your Mii's driver's license, and spruce up your garage with furniture and your favorite kart parts. I could go on and on with ideas, but I gotta stop this somewhere. I'll end it off with my idea of how a story mode could go. You start with customizing a character. You can use your Mii, or you can accessorize a Toad, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Penguin, Pianta, or Hammer Bro or something like that. They'd have a bunch of basic options for colors and expressions and stuff, but you'd basically be able to create your own OC to race. The story would be that your character won a contest and is being allowed to participate in the current Mario Kart Tournament. Or maybe you just play as anyone from the main roster! That might be better. Who knows! But some villain has taken over! Maybe a returning villain like Wart, or maybe a brand new villain! You'd have a series of hub worlds to race around in and practice within. The hubs would be in the background of certain new tracks, and there'd be big pipes that lead to the other hubs. You'd run into other characters who you'd race to recruit to your team and face the villain. Maybe whoever you pick determines which characters you are able to recruit! Or maybe the characters you can recruit all are working for the villain, and you have to convince them to join you after they see how great you are at racing. Anyway, it'd be kinda like the baseball story modes. Sluggers' specifically, because it has hubs and characters to talk to. That's it lol. Sorry for such a long comment!
I really think the biggest question shouldnt be ao much modes, levels or characters which everyone likes to focus on but what new style is going to be introduced. We have had two players one kart, bikes, under water, gliding, anti gravity. What is the next step in the evolution here that they can do. I am not a creative so i dont know but i think this is what they need to focus on so its not just another booster course park for 60 plus dollars. I would however like to see all previous courses return. All characters return and then the standard 16 new courses and maybe 6 new characters. I think unlocking costume and kart variants like tour will probably be a thing too, hopefully with an emphasis on both single player challenge content and splatoon style online event weekends to keep the community engaged. Maybe make the dlc completely into a smash style roster with each character getting their own themed track while being added to the game. I see Kirby, and maybe samus the only no brainers at this point though. Who else they would first party wise idk.
The whole "no items" / "only these items" online game mode already exists in MK8. Its called tournaments. And there's almost allways one or more active open tournament with all sorts of rules. And its just like playing normal online, but with these extra rules. I've tried 200cc no items multiple times before. Also i'd love to see the double dash system back. That sound really fun. Tho i think the 2 character system is lowkey nececary to make it work. Unless the kart/kart parts help contribute to what items you can get.
I think a map-maker mode would work really well especially if it was restricted to SNES-style layouts. Don't get me wrong, the graphics could be as good as (if not better than) the SNES Donut Plains 3 remake in MK8, but the overall design could remain flat and fairly simple (reflective of actual traditional go-kart courses). More advanced terrain, obstacles, etc., could be unlocked. Themes would include SNES-style: Circuit, Plains, Valley, Beach, Choco, Vanilla, Castle, Rainbow, plus GBA-style: Park, Desert, Cheese, Sky, and special DS style that needs to be unlocked: Stadium, Square, Gardens, and Pinball (each of these has a large pre-built start/finish line area, and you have to connect the loose ends of the track. (Pinball would be a special case where your layout (from the top of the launcher to the bottom section) will automatically tilt downwards. That's a total of 16 different themes so you can actually create a full suite of 4 cups of 16 unique tracks and share them online/with friends.
If there's anything I know about Nintendo, they're wizards when it comes to thinking of new ideas and gimmicks for future games, and Mario Kart is one of those franchises that fits that category. I can definitely see Nintendo bringing back the double-driver mechanic from Double Dash as well as incorporating side games like Mission Mode from Mario Kart DS. If I were to think of a new gimmick for Grand Prix, I could see a feature where there's this specific item/ability you can get that's not received through an item box that will transform whatever kart, bike, ATV, you're driving into something completely unexpected that will impact the race in some way that could potentially benefit you and other players or vice versa. I don't necessarily know how that would all work during Grand Prix, but at least it's something. And yes, regular items would still have their uses. In fact, what if this special ability can only be activated when using a specific item? For example, if you hit 3 to 5 racers with green shells during a race, you randomly get an ability from a selection of abilities that focuses solely on green shells that could either aid you or hinder you depending on how skilled you are at using the ability. This would also apply to other items like blue shells and whatnot. So instead of a blue shell only going for the first-place driver, three blue shells could potentially go after whoever's in 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Of course, an ability like this would be rare.
Sorry mate but Nintendo does not come up with new ideas. They find a recipe and run that sucker to the ground lol. Every once in a while they will find a diamond in a rough and they will make it apart of the new standard lineup for new consoles :-)
Future possible Mario Kart features: mirrored surface tracks where the player has to switch from light to dark, switching from top to bottom of the track to dodge items, obstacles. Add a user friendly make your own racing track. Add a Vigilante/Twisted Metal like mini battle arenas mode - Think similar to Rush 2 and Rush 2049 Stunt Modes. Add a chain linked together race mode where two karts are chained together with a stretchy energy cord that they can work together to boost, swing, slingshot, rail balance and more. Add a SNES graphics mode but Mario Kart for 50 racers online.
I'd love to see a campaign mode to unlock kart customisations, and could put in some "boss battles" where you have to outrun something or catch up to it, or chase an enemy while damaging it with items. And it could be fun to have hp for the kart, like if you get hit too many times your kart just breaks and you're out of the race. And then you could have pit stops or alternate routes so you need to decide if it's worth losing some time to heal your kart. And of course it would be great if characters has their own unique items they can pull from boxes
I think an interesting mechanic would be to include item boxes where instead of a question mark you can actually see what the item is inside. It can be used to entice drivers to take different routes or to aim for specific boxes
You guys mentioned the game Blur - what that had and MK doesnt was awesome stat tracking, head to heads in the races with rivals and revenge 'kills' called out as you played, also awards for most aggressive, most on target, fastest lap as well as comprehensive tracking course by course against all your friends. The blur equivelent of the blue shell was better as well it added electric areas in front of the lead car making the course harder for those in front, made the whole track harder for all of the front players so it wasnt just targeted to first place.
The main thing to consider is what sort of new gimmick they could add to the new Mario Kart and is probably the reason why we’re not gonna be seeing a new Mario Kart for a while. But I want to see the Double Dash mechanic back. They struck gold with Double Dash and it’s kinda annoying that they never went back to it. Especially since they got SO many characters to choose from now since Double Dash released. They could even introduce new ones. Also, it would be pretty cool if we saw tracks have like variations. Make it so the track aesthetic is the same but the track design would be different. This would be especially cool with the retro tracks. It’s funny too because they kinda already do this in Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 so I’d like to see this with the console games. Maybe they could make a more robust kart customization system like maybe you can fine tune your engine or add off-road capabilities with your wheels. I still want to have different types of models, wheels, and gliders but I want to custom mod these. Take it one step further.
Where do we go from here? Tracks based on actual Mario locations in the main series. The Yoshi island track is a great example of what they can accomplish. Who wants a Rogueport track, I know I do. I don't mean inspired by a location like coconut mall Peach Beach, I mean actually racing on Isle Delfino. It doesn't have to be a 1 to 1 recreation but as close as possible. Or focus on making a New F-Zero game.
Boss battles. It’s Battle mode but instead of playing against other characters, you’re trying to defeat a big enemy. This is either a solo mode but also multiplayer. You may have balloons as your health bar. Maybe even competitive boss fights where after the boss is defeated, the player who dealt the most damage is the winner. As a catchup mechanic, the player who’s dealt the least damage can get a blue shell which will just hit the boss no matter where the player is on the map. If all your balloons are popped you don’t die, you respawn but it takes time to come back. However if you fight bosses solo, you do have to start over.
Mario Kart 9 is a launch title, because it's the #1 selling series. Mario Kart 8 is 9 years old (2014), so they had years to complete development of MK 9. The main team probably never made any DLC tracks etc.
@@thesupermayoreo Yeah and the main developer haven't done much since Wii U besides 2 phone games. It's clear that they have some big secret game in the works.
Random ideas: - Weather - Rain, lightning, thunder, snow, hail, temperature changes (could affect the kart - make them overheat, and you have to go a little slower) - Run through stages based on past properties (like SMB 3 stages, world, etc.) - Dynamic lighting (if possible) - affects visibility of the track/other racers
One thing I’d love would be a sort of Double-Dash-inspired racing and battle mode. The player at the front of the car would drive, and the one in the back could have ability to aim and throw whichever object they get FPS style, using a mix of joystick and motion controls like in Splatoon. If they wanted to switch positions, they would both have to hold a specific button at the same time (maybe the “-“ button). This mode would even feature character specific items (like in Double Dash) designed for shooting in the FPS viewpoint. The main racing and battle modes would still be single-player versus each other, the Double Dash mode would just be an alternative. All of the karts’ bodies would have standard and Double Dash versions (maybe except for bikes, because that would make aiming a nightmare for the player in the back).
Make courses like Diddy Kong racing with flying carts as well, but also give planes, 2, and 4 wheelers distinct advantages and disadvantages. As someone who ”family good”, who wouldn’t touch a competitive online game knowing I soul get crushed, the difference between 2 and 4 wheelers is so insignificant that it only feels aesthetic. Also - give an option for account-wide unlocks. My 8 year old got interested in playing and she’s unlocking karts/wheels/parachutes that I unlocked long ago. Similarly, if we 3 star a Grand Prix, I don’t want to feel annoyed knowing I have to do it all over again. As you guys kind of mentioned, bringing back the partners, but with unique combos. Even if it was based on “class types” and visual only, I would love to drop a flaming banana (DK + Mario) or a heart-shaped shell bananas (Princess + a Koopa). I think redoing so many tracks between Wii and Wii U/Switch, either ONLY redo half and they are all tracks NOT YET redone or all new. I think it would be cool to bring back long karts, but also short tracks with 6-8 laps. It would be cool as well if you had three unique items (short, normal, single lap) for each of those. On a short track, swap the red shells for a purple shell that automatically hits the person in front, medium track, make lightning a POW 3 use POW block that spins everyone out, and long track gets a three pack of the crown mushroom turbo.
Maybe courses for boats or planes, or dynamic tracks like Sonic All-Stars Racing. Multiplayer matched for same ranking players. I'm now in lobby's where I don't stand one chance...
Having alternating routes on each lap was a pretty smart way to adapt the Tour city courses, and I’d love to see future nitro courses designed around that.
Personally I think they should triple down on making tracks based off of entire video games, similar to the spectacular Yoshi's Island course from the DLC. Imagine courses and maybe even entire cups based off games released throughout Nintendo history full of easter eggs, from the Mario Bros. games to Donkey Kong to Kirby, and maybe even some Metroid being the backdrop of the harder stages.
The weird idea I had was trying to bring in some Nintendo adjacent third party levels. Can you imagine an Octopath Traveler 2 HD 2D level? Also with day and night mechanics?
@@aaronr7238 Nintendo can flex their creative muscles by utilizing different art styles and color schemes depending on the courses they are racing in. Imagine an HD-2D style course for Octopath, and then in the next level have the anime-esque animation for Wind Waker.
Double Dash ‘Mode’ with more unique weapons, character combos and new karts such as boats and plains along with unique water/air courses respectively to go with them like in Diddy Kong racing.
If you want a no item racing game, that is what F-Zero is all about. I prefer Mariokart being the game series where items continue to be its identity while F-Zero is for people that want to play a more serious racing game. I think F-Zero 99 and it’s skyway mechanic is a great way of adding a balanced comeback mechanic that isn’t completely ridiculous and rage inducing. When it comes to new Mariokart ideas, they should make the kart transformations be more interesting and change the way you interact with the game rather than simply being the same kind of racing that you usually do, but very slightly different because it is underwater or traction is different because of antigravity. For example, instead of having a glider that pops out of your kart, literally make the kart physically transform into a submarine or a plane and therefore change how you control the kart. It could be really cool with courses that have several different course sections. Then you would be able to have courses without ground!
Mario Kart X. It will have other first party characters from Nintendo, such as Kirby, Captain Falcon, Samus, Fox, etc... And also, third-party characters like Sonic, Megaman, Pacman, etc... The game will feature a new box for items that are character exclusive, making each character feel unique. And also, each character, either first-party or third-party, will have atleast one stage themed with that character's franchise with a proper song. And Mario Kart X will become the new game where ppl will be hyped about what character will be added into the game, alongside items, stage and music. And it will get atleast 2 character pass after its release.
The most fun course is Baby Park. There is a lot you can do with shorter tracks and more laps, more intensity. MK DD had more intensity in the course design and I really think MK8 is a bit like going sightseeing. The CC difficulty settings just has stuff going faster and don't really simulate a more powerful engine.
wonder flower themed baby park track at night 300cc massive goomba swallows randomly and spits you into racing backwards reversed upside-down all shrunk to tiny karts as the goomba spits out mario enemies to dodge and you have to keep racing that track till someone picks up the key to exit the ghost door that suddenly appears then you're back and everyone has a 1 use ability to shrink like a sticker to slip under other racers.
I had some thoughts on this: - Single player career mode: Mario and crew get pulled into a tournament that they must race themselves out of? - 2 Worlds Mechanic: each track has 2 versions of it, one in the regular 'mario' world and another in a twisted alternative dimension that changes up the track, adds things, removes things, twists corridors etc. This is incorporated into races where a portal will randomly appear on a lap and racers will go through it and race in the twisted alternative track before being pulled back. Alternatively it could happen at any time and the track could switch to the alternative dimension. - Wonder Flower: Building on the alternative dimension idea, the wonder flower could be an item that switches up the track, it could need 3 players to activate it, 2 to hit the smaller wonder seeds and one to hit the flower, it then produces the wonder effect for that track. - Actual powerups: Rather than item boxes, power-ups are instead scattered across the track, pick up a fire flower, mario gains the white cap and white cart, can throw fireballs for a limited time. Tanooki suit power allows him to jump over other carts and hover for a moment, perhaps using it to cross a shortcut? - Bring back special items: double dash had special items based on the character, bring these back - More interesting battle modes: Make battle more interesting, have an actual cops and robbers on a race track instead of an arena? -More varied tracks: the tour stuff in the expansion was okay at best, bring back the creativity of the tracks to the same quality that they were on launch, give us a luigi's mansion inspired track, some tracks inspired by older super mario games like world or galaxy
I thought of the portals Idea too, but it would take you through random areas of other tracks, and sometimes the portals could be optional for shortcuts. As for Battlemode what if they tried the Fortnite approach and you start out in a large area that slowly shrinks for the final showdown,
An idea I have for courses is that after one lap, the track changes randomly to the next lap of other track. So there is more of an uncertainty so no one can be like “I just have to repeat this lap, or I know how this second lap goes”.
I think its time for a new iteration of double dash, its been a long time, and with more and more characters id love to see special items return. Just bring some chaos.
Maybe they should take a page from Sonic Riders and create character type specific shortcuts. So in the case of Mario Kart it would be based on weight class. Also, I would love to see them return to the 2 character karts.
i need the double dash mechanics back so bad. 2 racers per cart and being able to switch between them, along with unique character specials. It’d be awesome to have that function back
I'm all for the thing literally every Nintendo fan on the planet has come up, making a 'Smash Kart'. And for good measure, bring back the Double Dash feature of allowing two players on the same kart, as an option in single player and also for coop. Call it Mario Kart X. The X can refer to the 10th in the series (including Tour), and can also be used as a 'cross' symbol for all the different franchises being added. They can have Smash-style announcement for new franchise with the splash screen Mario Kart X [insert other franchise]. Each franchise adds a new cup, new vehicle customisation options, at least two new characters, and a new item, all of course being inspired by the source franchise. You could even add some unique interactions between characters if you enable the double mode (although these will be more of an easter egg rather than an expected feature). It'd be great. As for Nintendo franchises they could take from, there are so many obvious ones, not even including Mario-adjacent franchises: - Zelda - Splatoon - Pokemon - Pikmin - Metroid - Animal Crossing - F-Zero - Xenoblade - Fire Emblem - Star Fox - Kirby And countless third-party possibilities. They could update the game for years with Smash-style reveals and content drops.
I would like to see the karts actually receive damage with their performance degrading as they are damaged. I think a setting where this can be turned on or off depending on the player’s preference would be needed.
Mad max style with customisable vehicles with a greater enphasis on combat during races. This would also make a potential campaign mode work with upgradeble vehicle pieces. That would be awesome.
I think it’d be cool if they had some sort of “mashup” between courses that changes or is random every time. You’re driving through bowsers castle, pass through a portal or something of sorts, and now you’re in a segment of rainbow road. This could make every race unique.
To expand on Alex's point about terraforming courses in Mario Kart, you do have the P Switches and the ON/OFF switches where you could do those options easily and you can set them up to shoot items at OR drive over to do it. your mentioned Wonder Flower idea could be good too. I think weather could be a thing...snow, rain, fog, day/night change while racing, wind, sandstorm ect... Personally, I am neither here nor there on a story mode/mission mode. I am in favor of the character specific items coming back. Like MKDS and MKDD, I wouldn't be opposed to character specific karts come back. They need to fix battle mode--more arenas, more options. It used to be one of my favorite modes in the series, but it's taken such a huge downturn over the years, I don't even care to play it anymore. The next one needs to have better customization options like CTR. MKT proved alt skins are there, do it. Customize kart parts ala CTR--all those colors and designs. More differentiated kart parts--a lot of the parts are the same stats... make more different ones. There are way too many characters to name, but MKT hit on the right ideas with how many NEW racers they put in. Use the coins you get in the races to buy stuff out of a shop... add different colored coins that are worth a higher value for other things. New modes? Mirror was a good starter, 200cc was good evolution, move on to a higher cc? A trick mode with more obstacles/jumps/ect? Higher speed Mirror? Custom Cups? Go for platinum trophies which would be 1st place for all tracks in a cup. Return of All-Cup Tour out of MKDD. With Nintendo's focus on co-op Switch play, a MKDD mode ought to come back. On interesting thing here would be like you guys were talking about, old vs new, and considering the Booster Course Pack is a thing....how do you do the main game and the DLC? DO we get get Mario Kart Ultimate.
8:30 is the best comment. Either reduce the racers to 8 and keep the items or keep the racers at 12 and reduce the items by half. Between 4th and 10th you just keep getting hit. 10:50 is a bad idea. That creates a meta and double dash has an awful meta. Dks, bowsers, babies are worthless. Wario/waluigi, princesses, yoshis, are just meh. Koopas, Mario bros, toads are good, and boo/piranha are excellent. Don't need that again. They also need to stop the cheaters online. Playing online is no fun when you hit someone with a star, and they are tumbling just as fast as you are going, and yet when they get back on their wheels you still can't pass them. That happens ALL THE TIME. These things kill Mario kart the most with me. The tracks are almost always great, minus the tour tracks. They should also get rid of the bullet bill.
I just want a double dash mode. Keep solo karts as the default, but adding DD with a control mode where you connect a pair of joycons (assuming theyre a thing), but still share them between players; you can have 8 players on one console then.
I guess 14:53 imagine level 1 base form items then a level 2 option you gotta drive through the item box and try and pull it again for added effects. A lot of noobs just sit back and bag at back of the map I think the chance to level up basic items like green shells bananas coins and much lower odds for the specials items. Maybe you can build a kart from scratch with set amount of points to the kart and then an added slow builder for an ultimate for an extra ability to use sometimes example. Grapple hook to fire on players to be pulled towards or on a bend to come round faster and safer to power slide. A light wind screen for ink or 1 lighting protection roof to stop rng or another is a booster to have slightly longer time mushrooms. Maybe karts take a bit of damage to effect stats one power up could use 10 coins to block a shell shot or another could make blue shells take a tiny bit longer to lock and and seek you out? they should also do a double dash mode from 100cc -200cc Leaving 50cc as a beginner course optional and 100 being normal and 150/150 mirrored being the main. Bring back some boss challenges mode also Imagine they did the new one kinda edgy graphics like Mario strikers building a car from scrap like Lego racers for online getting parts by racing and collecting you could also get blue prints to build cool og designs of karts Also better battle maps and modes take some inspiration from Mario party but with karts 200cc isn’t cannon it’s a silly party mode to try different ways to use the map you can tell the game wasn’t built for it they added maps that could adapt to it but it wasn’t main. Just a way to do it like Gyro controls isn’t main.
13:30 Fun fact, there is actually a bootleg NES game called Kart Fighter made by the same people who made Somari that steals the roster and title screen of Super Mario Kart and is a fighting game. All of the characters also have very strange proportions!
I know what the new feature should be During a race, there’s special portals that will all you to teleport to different maps, like the first lap could be Mario circuit, the next bowser’s castle, and the third rainbow road. 3 maps turns to 21 different combinations
With the idea of it being that you choose a character and not have to worry about stats I think what crash team racing works really well where in that game you character and kart doesn’t matter and you then choose a class to be from speed, drift, acceleration for example
A Mario kart that brings back dual carts, and with that the option to have one player only control one character in a cart. Also make it smash cart… bring in everyone. Release some as dlc themed packs if need be. Maybe make some add ons if you buy other Nintendo products (unlock Zelda link and gannondorf if you buy whatever the new Zelda game will be) Bring back character specific items, and allow anyone to use them. But make the characters themselves more likely to get them when they’re between a certain set of places. (Toad in first don’t need 3 mushrooms, but toad 6th+ might) Make auto steering and driving stronger: the only way my wife and kids can beat me is if I also use auto steering/driving, and I don’t drift That idea of enhanced comeback mechanics is golden. Unless I’m getting hit with an item wombo combo, with a side of star power from the driver in 8th, a blue shell isn’t really going to take me out of first (tho, a well timed lightning strike with a lakitu that takes me backwards might). Courses that change for drivers that aren’t in first. Maybe narrow some parts of the map and have a bridge spawn boost pads for each player that crosses after the first one, or the first three. Maybe reduce slowdown when off the track depending on how far back you are.
I feel like a great way to generate maximum hype for the franchise is to release a Mario Kart All-Star kind of game with characters from different series. Kind of like Smash Bros. You could race on tracks based on Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid and so forth. You could even bring in third party characters.
If anything i could absolutely see them adding a track editor to make your own mario kart track (would be the natural step forward to continue from the insane track list we got now in mario kart 8 deluxe, just add the potential for infinite tracks)
With MK8D Booster Pass DLC recently ended I had an idea for a Nintendo Kart idea since it sounded cool idea to me I even thought up of a hypothetical roster if it were happened one day. Roster (First Party): Mario (Super Mario) Luigi (Super Mario) Peach (Super Mario) Daisy (Super Mario) Yoshi (Super Mario) Bowser (Super Mario) Bowser Jr. (Super Mario) Roselina (Super Mario) Toad (Super Mario) Wario (Super Mario) Waluigi (Super Mario) Koopa Troopa (Super Mario) Ashely (Wario Ware) Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong) Diddy Kong (Donkey Kong) Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong) King K. Rool (Donkey Kong) Link (Legend of Zelda) Zelda/Sheik (Legend of Zelda) Ganondorf (Legend of Zelda) Skull Kid (Legend of Zelda) Tingle (Legend of Zelda) Samus (Metroid) Ridley (Metroid) Kirby (Kirby) King Dedede (Kirby) Meta Knight (Kirby) Fox (Starfox) Pikachu (Pokémon) Mewtwo (Pokémon) Team Rocket (Pokémon) Ness (Mother/Earthbound) Porky (Mother/Earthbound) Captain Falcon (F-Zero) Marth (Fire Emblem) Lyn (Fire Emblem) Tiki (Fire Emblem) Villager (Animal Crossing) Isabelle (Animal Crossing) Tom Nook (Animal Crossing) Olimar (Pikmin) Inkling (Splatoon) DJ Octavio (Splatoon) Riki (Xenoblade Chronicles) Pit (Kid Icarus) R.O.B (NES) Ice Climbers Takamaru (Mysterious Mursame Castle) Miis Third Party Characters: Sonic (SEGA) Mega Man (Capcom) Pac Man (Namco) Rayman (Ubisoft) Bomberman (Konami) Tracks: Peach's Castle (Super Mario) Mute City (F-Zero) Castle Siege (Fire Emblem) Delfino Plaza (Super Mario) Distant Planet (Pikmin) Dream Land (Kirby) Onett (Earthbound/Mother) Gaur Plain/Cloud Sea of Alrest (Xenoblade Chronicles) Hyrule (Zelda) Icicle Mountains (Ice Climbers) Kongo Jungle (Donkey Kong) Living Room (Chibi Robo) Galaxy (Mario Bros) Splatsville (Splatoon) Village (Animal Crossing) New Donk City (Mario Bros) Skyworld (Kid Icarus) Various Pokémon Cities (Pokémon) Wuhu Island (Mii) Yoshi's Island (Yoshi)
I would like something a little different like what they did with Double Dash. Since Nintendo refuses to make a new Wave Race maybe add some watercraft vehicles.
A Mario Kart with a unique solo campaign for each character, similar to Smash Bros, with item and kart upgrade rewards and continuous online challenges would be a great way to switch things up.
Not gonna happen, but I would love it if it did
What would that even be about? All you could do is race lol.
@@CasepbX That didn't stop Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong Racing from having an actual plot haha.
The closest we ever had to that was double dash, there was no solo campaign for each character but each character had an exclusive item. Which was a great touch as it gave you a reason to pick other characters. That’s until you win mirror star cup of course, because king boo and petey piranha have every item
Nah just an up to date double Dash Mode will do.
I want the double dash team ups back. I wanna play with my buddy online as a team. Be so awesome. Switching seats on the fly if one of us isnt driving to hot on a course.
Meh, that’s been done. Let’s have something new happen.
@@leeartlee915 Its an iteration, not a gimmick. Its like getting rid of holding 2 items. The series stepped backwards after Double Dash.
@@alibabaschultz352 I think it’s nuts to say Mario Kart 8 is a lessor game than Double Dash. Like bonkers crazy.
I like Double Dash as much as the next person but Mario Kart 8 blows it out of the water. Plus, the character specific items were completely unbalanced.
I just want to have a double dash mode. You can play single or double. That way you double the content right away, beating all the cops on all the cc.’s, both single racer and double racer mode.
@@leeartlee915what u on about? It’s a very fun mode of co-op that the fans like the best out of all Mario Kart games. They haven’t made a double dash mode ONLINE, either… lots to be done, it seems the obvious way to go.
Keep the ability to hold 2 items, but add the ability to fuse both items together to make unique new items.
nice unique idea.
This would be sick
I wonder what a Blue Banana shell would do?
Blue Lightning Bolt Shell,
Fake Red Shell, 😂
I like the potential of the combinations,
4:10 the timing with the audio there is perfect
You can thank a hard working editor who really cares about what they are doing.
I always imagined the next Mario kart would incorporate a feature where the tracks would change via a portal at the finish line mark kind of like how smash bros let you set up 2 stages to switch between. Or there could be a level editor like Mario maker. or even now the wonder flower would be a brand new item to debut that would completely alter preexisting tracks entirely.
I want to see airplanes and boats as another “kart” option similar to Diddy Kong Racing, which would open doors to more unique track layouts. Also maybe having certain item blocks that are tougher to access ALWAYS having a top tier item as a reward for taking the road less traveled. I also like the idea of a proper story mode or campaign.
Just gimme my Diddy Kong Racing Remaster/Remake.
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Yes please!! Air racing!! Yes! Diddy Kong racing was amazing, and it deserved more love and sequels
I rather see a new diddy kong game, its about time and it would be refreshing instead of all these remakes and remasters
Idd much rather see a new Diddy Kong game. I remember ordering that game off eBay when I was a kid and waiting a month for it to arrive😂 worth it
An adventure mode just like CTR would be cool
Open world story mode
I’d really love a campaign that has an over world, Similar to Diddy Kong Racing. Kinda blows my mind nintendo hasn’t done that yet
DKR's campaign was the best. Main reason I prefer DKR to MK64.
Imagine a campaign with the scope of Super Mario Odyssey.
I can see that happening. Mario Kart Infinite. Make it open world campaign CTR / DKR style.
@@karnovrpg Kinda hard to imagine a campaign with a big hubworld when the game (Odyssey) doesn't really have one and mostly rather small levels. oO DKR and CTR have no huge open worlds, they just let you drive around a bit. It's nice to have, but nothing that special or game changing. In the end you mostly go from one race to the next anyways.
@@Ray_2112 I don't think you played the same DKR I did, I'm pretty sure you could drive around the hub and collect things, even talk to a few NPCs. Or Mario Odyssey for that matter. I wouldn't call those worlds small at all. Mario Kart has none of that.
Yeah and sort of like challenges or license challenges like Mario Kart DS.
The day vs. night course variants is a great idea. They did that with New Pokemon Snap and I liked the way they did it in that game. 18:15
Hopefully they bring back old items, new ones and to make it even more frantic,increase the number of players. They’ve gone from 8 to 12. Imagine there being 16-20 at once. The horror of coming in 20th place 😂
What I think we need:
Story mode - as big as possible, maybe a brand new villain
Less crossover characters - there’s like 50 mario characters already that are fan favourites in the games, so adding a bunch of characters from other games would be overshadowed by the amount of Mario
Wonderflower mechanics - wacky 3rd laps?
15 player races - having 15 racers at once adds to more chaos, and we still have the classic get 60 points to win
My thoughts for the next Mario Kart:
Campaign Mode - see Diddy Kong Racing for inspiration
Specialized Items - have items specific to certain sets of characters, but also include some items that are specific to certain tracks or groups of tracks
Unique item interactions with tracks - Have some items that can cause specific effects on a track, either in addition to or replacing their current effects.
Team Racing - Have a setup where you've got teams of 2, 3 or 4 racers competing for a cumulative top score. Would also work well with things like drafting, and possibly allow the team to select a 'team item' that replaces the character-specific items
Dynamic Courses - Have course changes that are triggered by specific actions, which can modify the course for future laps (or future runs of that course, in campaign mode)
More options - lap count, items, and course state should all be customizable
Anti-Gravity - Make better use of this. Right now, most courses just use it as 'hey, your track now goes up a wall', with no change to how the race functions. Give us stuff like the cylinders in F-Zero X where you need to come out of it on the right side or get flung off the course, spots where you can swap gravity by hitting some jumps, and give us items that can interact with the antigravity mechanic more.
Here is what I would love for Mario Kart.
Title: maybe SUPER Mario Kart Double Dash or something like that.
Customization: customization for each combination of characters and vehicles should be different from others, having their own unique parts to choose from. No two combination sets being alike. Each two characters get a variety of parts and paint jobs to choose from.
Coins: Still function in the racing like in 7 and 8, but also, all the coins you collect in the race will also be used as currency to buy more parts and paint jobs.
Courses: Like in 7 and 8, but also maybe add in eventually almost if not all the courses from all past games. And maybe some courses if not all of them go through changes during races
Special Items: Special items should return. Like the bros' fireball bursts and Bowser's giant shell and maybe new special items for each character like Mario having a cape feather to fly over everyone and gain a good boost in speed. But it would only last shortly or til you slam the ground blowing away all around you. X3
Stats: Stats should also be able to be tweeked some after you select your vehicle parts. Like say if you want to reduce your weight for the sake of more handling or your traction for better acceleration. But only a limited amount to keep the game balanced.
We don't want the speedy cool vehicles like b dasher and P wing to suffer like they did in 8 Deluxe
Trophies: For More difficult classes you finish and win, the trophies should get bigger, shinier and more detailed.
And If you get a perfect score in a cup, instead of a gold trophy, you oughta get a SHINY SPARKLY FANCY DETAILS PLATINUM TROPHY.
Most importantly, it needs to have all karts bikes mtvs and combos worthy of being awesome in competitive online.
Speed vehicles being REALLY speedy to make up for low acceleration. And MAYBE a decent mini turbo in case they get slammed alot.
Also keep 200cc and all cup tour
Having trick combos would be cool. Having a reason to do different trick directions to increase the boost would add variety to jumps.
underrated idea that next to nobody talks about. at least not on youtube videos I've seen.
Mario Kart 9 as a Switch 2 launch title, calling it right now
Oh wow haven’t seen this take a million times
Mk is a staple. Not much of a wow factor. So I could see mk9 being month 2 like it was on switch and 3D Mario instead being the main launch title.
I think 3d mario is launch title. Mario kart will be like holiday 2026 or something
@@JonGPxli love mortal kombat. Just kidding lmao
I don’t think they’ll ever really do a big ‘competitive’ mode beyond time trials and custom rooms. The current formula is too iconic to change and I doubt they want to risk splintering the player base off into a casual and competitive group beyond what it already is.
The one thing I loved about the booster course was the fact that the track layout would change with each lap like for the tour tracks so I hope they keep that and expand on it and I also hope that when they do retro courses they expand retro courses
I like that too. They could actually easily double the amount of tracks if they had a reverse mode for all tracks...
I just hope the next Mario Kart is INSANE. Like actually, just crazy. 48 tracks become the new standard and 16 battle mode tracks, retro tracks reaching levels like we haven't yet seen, all new kart options like planes and hovercrafts (which would also open up to new course designs and sections too), mission mode comes back, a story mode thay serves as a more interesting option to unlock everything, a smash bros style classic mode, special items, a double dash racing style option that's ALSO usable online (yes, I do believe single and double racers can be balanced correctly. It might actually lead to more visual interest when playing too! This would bring back double dash drifting for the user as well), Mario Kart Wii online tourneys come back! Just everything crazy we haven't seen in years as well as all the brand new stuff.
I think kart customization needs to be cut down a bit. Maybe get rid of wheels as a separate part and just have karts and glider options? Also more gliders, perhaps that function differently. If wheels were to stay they need to be way more different in handling
I think a CTR like story more would be great for mario kart, we have the cast and the creative locales
My idea for Mario Kart 9 is to have it open world like the Forza Horizon series.
Holy moly that is a very interesting take!!
i would love that, an entire Mushroom kingdom map explorable by kart :D
sounds cool!
difficult to implement as in some tracks you're under water, then desert, then space, but would be cool if they can achieve that
@@sparkypack fellow Tunic Fan :D
- The 2 player per kart concept from Double Dash needs to come back as its own mode.
- Some sort of campaign or story mode
- Online multiplayer needs to have a social matchmaking playlist and a separate Ranked/Comp style matchmaking playlist.
THEY SHOULD ADD EITHER:
PIT STOPS. So basically your kart actually takes damage when hit etc, and as a result starts to slow down (not dramatically, more like the difference of 0-10 coins) the strategy would then involve going down a pit lane (f-zero style where you maybe done actually have to stop) but whereby you go a longer route to “fix” your kart. So you’d need to decide whether to keep pushing in the fast lane on a slower kart, or go the longer pit stop route to get your kart back up to max speed.
OR
WONDER FLOWERS. Last lap, transform into a completely alternate course or maybe transition completely into a new course Smash Bros Ultimate style.
Both great ideas
Maybe an open world Mario kart. Where you can unlock different sections of the map by winning races.
Rather than general Nintendo guests I want the next Mario Kart to have characters from Mario spin-offs including those made by other studios. Characters like Rabbid Peach, Geno, Goombella, Edge and Ashley. A bit like how we get a few Donkey Kong characters, and on that note King K. Rool should be there too.
Here's my idea - mario kart with elements from the mario party series...instead of laps, have an open area where a star appears across the map and everyone rushes to it. Once someone gets it, the star appears somewhere else. Winner has the most stars at the end of the round. Karts race over to the star across any terrain or any route they want. Items slightly change to allow warping, swapping positions with other players, changing the map like opening and closing access points, such as drawbridges, etc. In short, an open map instead of a set track, and gameplay adapted to that idea.
I'd never think I'd see a perfect moment. 4:05. Yes we need dynamic tracks.
A day/night cycle would be fun. Changing weather conditions between laps would also open some fun possibilities (e.g. rain would cause the karts to move differently, and may flood parts of the course, even opening a different, underwater, area). And I'd love to see true flying sections as well as boating sections rather than underwater ones.
Excite Truck for the Wii had a "Mario Kart Wonder" type element where the track would change if you went through a ( ! ) symbol. Short cuts opened, little jumps became HUGE jumps, it caused avalanches and eruptions and all kinds of cool stuff that Mario Kart would have a blast with.
Maybe you have to collect multiple wonder coins to get the wonder effect. I think a stylised artstyle like tour or Mario wonder would fit more to this unconventional game. I think they will eventually find a way to incorporate the effect into every Mario game. I feel like maybe a safe sequel wouldn’t happen after the ‘Wonder era’ even though I’d want Mario kart 9 and another NSMB.
Honestly a single player career mode would be amazing
I personally want more DLC tracks. I mean they took so many from Mario Kart World Tour but not a single track from Mario Kart Live : Home Circuit??? Make it right Nintendo!
It over. Move on.
Maybe because Tour is Mario Kart 9 and Live is not Mario Kart 10.
You want tracks of peoples living rooms added to Mario Kart 8? Yeah not happening.
@@garybaldrick They already made track of someone's bathroom...
Driving through a whimsical representation of a bathroom that's really just a solid track with a bathroom skin, sure, no problem, good idea. What the OP seems to be requesting however is *actual* tracks from peoples houses.
Mario Kart technically already (officially) includes DK, Zelda, Splatoon and Animal Crossing....
Metroid and StarFox for MK9!!
I read on another video someone suggesting “Super Nintendo Kart,” incorporating ALL of their properties. That was an excellent idea
I really want a Diddy Kong Racing style story mode
Mario Kart 9 could make Coins more useful by upgrading your kart's stats such as speed, drift, defense, acceleration, traction, etc. and even buy new kart parts like the body, wheels, and gliders.
Maybe include a "Retry" option in the middle of a Grand Prix race as long as you have 1-UPs, kinda like in Super Circuit.
MK9 is tour.
Uhhh nah man, upgrades would be the easiest way to ruin online for everyone. If they were to do something like that, it would need to only work for local play. Which would not sit well with a lot of people
Upgrades I don't want. Instead, I would love it if the coins could actually be used in a store for car parts, and if they did not cap at 10. Also, achievements or missions could be included in some way and unlock characters.
@@leonro that's pretty much how they work, you get so many coins and unlock a part. They cap at ten because they effect your speed, if you could just keep getting them the better drivers would end up driving at 200cc speeds in 50cc races.
@@n1nj4l1nk And my point is that the cap should be increased to, let's say, 20, and the speed boost you now get at 20 could be about the same as the one you get at 10. And a hit could make you lose 5 coins instead of 3. The cap could even go up to 30, but any more and I feel like you'd need more coins on the tracks.
As for the store, the idea would be that you get to choose what you unlock, and you now know easily how many coins you have to save up. I dislike the current system of having to look up online how many coins you still need, and only finding your current coin count in the stats screen.
I really think some kind of Diddy Kong Racing adventure mode is a must. It's silly that they've gone this long without even trying to add anything like that, as you said, closest we got was the mission modes in Mario Kart DS, which themselves never came back after that game.
As for the Roster, the only reason why I want "Smash Kart" to happen ( under a name that lets them keep brand identity, seeing as how that's the only argument I ever hear againt it ) is because they never do anything interesting with their roster. Mario Kart, and every Mario spinoff, should be a huge celebration of the entire Mario franchise, including it's extended universe in the Wario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Princess Peach, Captain Toad, Luigi's Mansion, and yes even the RPG spinoffs, and they should be celebrating all eras of Mario too, not just the contemporaries. Give me Wart, Foreman Spike, Wanda from Mario vs Wario, Stanley the Bugman, things that we haven't seen in years. If Honey Queen can get in, I just don't see why they can't either. I'd much rather have this than them making up new characters to fill roster slots like "Baby Rosalina" "Pink Gold Peach" and "Wa Luigi" ( I'm kidding about that last part, he's one of the few good original creations of the spinoffs ) but this isn't exclusive to the roster, the best DLC track in my opinion was the Yoshi's Island track. There should be a higher number of tracks based on other Mario games, with lots of nods to that game.
I don't want any truly kooky mechanics. I still want the core gameplay to be the same. But I want new items, courses, racers, and modes.
I'd like quite a few things or have ideas to mix it up:
1) Revamp the item system.
The current one is great, but we've had most of the same items for a long time now. I don't hate the current one either, but I'd argue that items are indeed a big part of what makes Mario Kart fun and different from say a cartoon version of Need 4 Speed. I'd love to see some new, fun item ideas and them maybe even bringing back some of the character specific items like in double dash.
2) Double Dash
Double Dash explored a fun mechanic with the two players. I'd love to see that back as a second mode. I know it's a lot to ask for, but having the current technology and knowledge available and seeing how it could make a big difference from MK8, I think it would be a fun idea to introduce it back into the mix, even just as a fun mode.
3) Missions
I know not everyone liked them in Mario Kart DS, but I think they were a great source of fun and challenge. A full fletched campaign would also be great, but I like simple missions.
4) A "mission system"
Hated in a lot of games, I could actually see myself liking it here. Hitting 5 different players in a Grand Prix with red shells or getting 3 purple drifts in a row could be stuff I could get behind, especially in a campaign. So similar to point 3 kinda. But I'd like it more of an achievement system aswell.
5) Change up the themes.
Tour showed us pixel-characters between 3D-Models and I'd love for them to play with these visuals. Make stages completely 8 bit or 2D segments like in Odyssey. Mix up playstile and visuals during the game.
6) Take Battle Mode seriously
I think this one is self-explanatory. Give it some love, create some actual maps for it and reinvent the wheel here. There have been plenty of other car-racer battle modes and I think the one from Diddy Kong Racing DS stuck with me the most outside of MK itself.
7) Track mechanics and interconnected tracks
This one is similar to the "dynamic tracks" point you brought up. I want the tracks to be interactive. Driving through a desert is great, but timed mechanics like the falling sand in MK Wii or the bridge in the new Yoshi's Island track are great scene assets. When I drive through a city, I'd love if it wasn't only scenery, but also actual stuff to do. And especially in the shortcut department I think it would be amazing to have much more path variations and hidden paths. Think about the drop down path in Yoshi's Island for MKDD or splitting paths in Yoshi Valley. But more balanced of course and more rewarding when you decide to take a longer route.
Also, connect tracks. Allow us to see other tracks from eachother, like Daisy Cruiser was visible from Peach Beach in MKDD.
8) Fan service
I loved the Wuhu Island tracks. Not just because I thought they were a fun idea, but because I love Wuhu Island. So instead of only creating new scene assets and interpretations around themes, I'd love to see more of a "race through Nintendo history" kind of vibe on at least a few tracks. create a track through Peach's Castle from M64, a 1-1 themed Level (similar to the visual idea before), let us race on the Comet Observatory from Mario Galaxy or up / down the hill from BobOmb Battlefield. Throw in more Yoshi Island like themes. I.e. by using iconic places like New Donk City. But don't just show them to us in the background (like galaxy assets in RBR) but actually enjoy them as a track itself!
9) Being back performance based rewards
In MKWii you had to beat certain ghosts to get karts or get a certain ranking to unlock certain characters. It felt good, because not only was it sometimes a bit secret and fun to find out but also because it rewarded you for playing good. Coins are fine as well for steady progress, but a blend would be nice.
10) More "weird" vehicles
Make the difference between different vehicles bigger. I'd love to see a kart looking like a plane that glides further, a Monstertruck that actually is noticeably bigger, a kart not using wheels but tracks and so on. Customization is cool and should stay, but I want to see them experiment with the way these parts look, feel and work. Making a monstrosity like the baby buggy with track wheels and putting giant Bowser in it sounds fun. Maybe expand on this idea and make kart specific items? Or give them different powers like jumping extra high when initiating a drift or something? Idk, but I want to see more significant variation in theme and playstile.
We got gta 6 before mario kart 9 smh
Mario Kart Double Dash 2. Bring back the special items each racer can have, expand on the specials. Add more characters, a classic in the making.
It's easy to think what they do next: The next MK is 10 or X in Roman numerals, X can also mean crossovers which is something they toyed with in 8D.
MKX will be completely based on crossover stuff.
Split Second is amazing and the course changes are triggered by the players after building up a three stage meter. You full the meter by drifting, drafting and near misses. It's well worth a play even today and in my opinion the racer from that era most deserving of a remaster/remake/sequel.
100% agreed about the title, people seem to forget that in a technical sense Tour is MK9, so it's most likely that the next one will be 10, hence MKX. Also hard agree on crossover elements having a big focus, it's the logical next step after 8 dipped the toe in the water with Zelda, Animal Crossing etc.
This sounds terrible
@@vacuumblink2300 so you didn't like the crossover stuff in 8? Personally that stuff was my fave part of the game.
@@vacuumblink2300 conversation skills are through the roof with this one.
"Make it harder."
"200 CC is too hard!"
Brilliant commentary guys :P
we need mirror 250cc back
1) Mario Kart Maker -The next Mario Kart needs to have a Mario Maker element to it so random people online can make courses for the game. This insures the game can never be boring. Then you can download the highest rated courses. Maybe there's even competitions where the best fan made courses make it into the game..
2) Every Retro Course Available - There was also a Wii modded version of Mario Kart that had literally every single course from each version of the game. It was very cool playing through all of the SNES courses/cups back to back... instead of just a few retro courses here and there. Full retro Cups would be awesome.
3) RPG Mode/Campaign - Like Street Fighter 2 where each character has a different ending and cutscene for beating the game. It could also progress like that one RPG where you race in 8bit, 16bit, 64bit, and modern.
4) More unlockable secrets/customizations if you beat aspects of the game...along the lines of the gold kart, wheels,
5) Every course needs a shortcut...with the expansion waves a lot of the courses don't really have shortcuts
6) Pixel mode - Where you can shift to more retro pixellated versions of the game like SNES or N64 maybe just a more retro look but with modern gameplay. Kind of like how Dragon Quest XI had a mode where you could play in pixel mode or modern 3d
7) More interesting character animations. Mario Wonder really shows what is possible just in adding more animations to make the characters seem more alive.
8) Bring back the Miis (ideally with Wii Sports Resort). There could be an arcade in the Sports Resort where you could play Mario Kart.
It's funny how much I disagreed with a lot of the earlier ideas haha 😅
I really don't want Nintendo Kart, and I think character specific items would be a nightmare in a game with so many racers.
But I generally liked all the other ideas shared. The puzzle collaboration stuff especially sounds awesome.
Here's some ideas I've had. Some I came up with recently, others I've been thinking about for years!
==Retro Revamps==
Retro cups should absolutely stay in the game. Mario Kart is huge, and loads of people love playing courses they played when they were younger. Especially casual players who don't play many other Nintendo games! So they gotta keep them. BUT, bringing back MK8 courses like Toad Harbor wouldn't be that exciting... So what if we changed something about it? What if sky is cloudy and there's a windy rainstorm. There are knocked over crates, puddles of water, the music is more frantic! There is so much random stuff they could do if they change small parts about different courses. Delfino Square but it's during a festival! Broken Pier but it's being repaired by mischievous ghosts! Dry Dry Ruins but it's night time and mummies are roaming about!
==Sequel Courses==
We've already seen this with stuff like Moo Moo Meadows. It's basically a sequel of Moo Moo Farm. We can revisit ideas from past courses but with a fresh layout and twist. You could do this with literally any course. One of my favorite ideas is Waluigi Pinball 2.0! ANOTHER giant pinball machine, but with a different vibe, crazier layout, and even crazier obstacles.
This could even apply to battle maps. Pipe Plaza? More like Pipe Pantheon! A full on pipe maze with different colored pipes that lead to different parts of the map.
==Choose Your Kart==
Mario Kart Tour didn't let you choose tires-- you could only choose karts and gliders. I think that's a good idea, but I have a compromise!
Karts should have custom tires that are _themed_ around the kart. Here's my example, Mario Kart Tour has an awesome kart called the Combo Cruiser. Its tires are literally burgers, and it's awesome. But wait... if the tires are themed, then we can't use other tire types, right? WRONG
Instead of choosing individual tires, you'd choose a tire _TYPE_ instead! Combo Cruiser's standard wheels would be burgers. Its rollers would be sliders. Its slim tires would be a burger without buns. Its monster tires would be mega burgers bursting with toppings.
This puts emphasis more on karts instead of tires. Tires would change how the kart plays, but they wouldn't be as important. Different karts would play better with different tires and weight classes, etc. It opens up a new level of strategy and allows you to spend less time kart customizing!
==Character Cups==
Each character would have their own challenge cup that consists of 4 courses that fit them (potentially only 3 + a challenge/mission!) Maybe characters could have certain objectives or twists like Smash Ultimate's classic mode. Completing the cup would unlock an alt costume for that character. I think most characters would only have 1 alt, but it'd still be fun. Speaking of alts...
==Racing Outfits==
Each character should have a specific "racing" alt costume. This is probably a huge undertaking, but imagine if every character had their own custom designed racing suit. Mario has one in Mario Kart Tour and it looks awesome. Everyone could have one. It'd be what most of the girls with dresses wear by default on bikes, and the helmet could be toggleable. And speaking of Racing suits...
==More Mii Customization==
I HATE the Mii Racing Suits in Mario Kart 8. They're all well designed, but you never get to see your mii's head. It's barely like you're driving as them! What if you could unlock clothing pieces like in Super Mario Maker 2? Or.... what if you could design your own racing suit! You could decorate it with stickers, use other characters' racing suits as a base, and just do whatever you want with it!
==Other Personal Customization=
Splatoon 3 has lockers and splashtags... Mario Kart should have Garages and licenses. Design your Mii's driver's license, and spruce up your garage with furniture and your favorite kart parts.
I could go on and on with ideas, but I gotta stop this somewhere.
I'll end it off with my idea of how a story mode could go.
You start with customizing a character. You can use your Mii, or you can accessorize a Toad, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Penguin, Pianta, or Hammer Bro or something like that. They'd have a bunch of basic options for colors and expressions and stuff, but you'd basically be able to create your own OC to race. The story would be that your character won a contest and is being allowed to participate in the current Mario Kart Tournament. Or maybe you just play as anyone from the main roster! That might be better. Who knows!
But some villain has taken over! Maybe a returning villain like Wart, or maybe a brand new villain! You'd have a series of hub worlds to race around in and practice within. The hubs would be in the background of certain new tracks, and there'd be big pipes that lead to the other hubs. You'd run into other characters who you'd race to recruit to your team and face the villain. Maybe whoever you pick determines which characters you are able to recruit! Or maybe the characters you can recruit all are working for the villain, and you have to convince them to join you after they see how great you are at racing.
Anyway, it'd be kinda like the baseball story modes. Sluggers' specifically, because it has hubs and characters to talk to.
That's it lol. Sorry for such a long comment!
I think whatever it is, the visual upgrade of the game as a whole is going to blow peoples’ minds.
Eh..... not like the Switch can really do much than MK8
1. Smash Kart
2. Mario Kart Tour Points System
3. Mission Modes
I really think the biggest question shouldnt be ao much modes, levels or characters which everyone likes to focus on but what new style is going to be introduced. We have had two players one kart, bikes, under water, gliding, anti gravity. What is the next step in the evolution here that they can do. I am not a creative so i dont know but i think this is what they need to focus on so its not just another booster course park for 60 plus dollars.
I would however like to see all previous courses return. All characters return and then the standard 16 new courses and maybe 6 new characters. I think unlocking costume and kart variants like tour will probably be a thing too, hopefully with an emphasis on both single player challenge content and splatoon style online event weekends to keep the community engaged.
Maybe make the dlc completely into a smash style roster with each character getting their own themed track while being added to the game. I see Kirby, and maybe samus the only no brainers at this point though. Who else they would first party wise idk.
Mario kart is not smash bros. Stop turning it into smash bros.
@@INFERNO95 Can't stand non-Mario characters in the game and I wish you could turn them off when playing against bots in vs and Grand Prix
I hope whatever next Mario Kart is up to, I hope it can be as creative as Mario Wonder
The whole "no items" / "only these items" online game mode already exists in MK8. Its called tournaments. And there's almost allways one or more active open tournament with all sorts of rules. And its just like playing normal online, but with these extra rules.
I've tried 200cc no items multiple times before.
Also i'd love to see the double dash system back. That sound really fun. Tho i think the 2 character system is lowkey nececary to make it work. Unless the kart/kart parts help contribute to what items you can get.
Would love a sequel to double dash and unique special items for every character.
I think a map-maker mode would work really well especially if it was restricted to SNES-style layouts. Don't get me wrong, the graphics could be as good as (if not better than) the SNES Donut Plains 3 remake in MK8, but the overall design could remain flat and fairly simple (reflective of actual traditional go-kart courses). More advanced terrain, obstacles, etc., could be unlocked.
Themes would include SNES-style: Circuit, Plains, Valley, Beach, Choco, Vanilla, Castle, Rainbow, plus GBA-style: Park, Desert, Cheese, Sky, and special DS style that needs to be unlocked: Stadium, Square, Gardens, and Pinball (each of these has a large pre-built start/finish line area, and you have to connect the loose ends of the track. (Pinball would be a special case where your layout (from the top of the launcher to the bottom section) will automatically tilt downwards. That's a total of 16 different themes so you can actually create a full suite of 4 cups of 16 unique tracks and share them online/with friends.
If there's anything I know about Nintendo, they're wizards when it comes to thinking of new ideas and gimmicks for future games, and Mario Kart is one of those franchises that fits that category. I can definitely see Nintendo bringing back the double-driver mechanic from Double Dash as well as incorporating side games like Mission Mode from Mario Kart DS.
If I were to think of a new gimmick for Grand Prix, I could see a feature where there's this specific item/ability you can get that's not received through an item box that will transform whatever kart, bike, ATV, you're driving into something completely unexpected that will impact the race in some way that could potentially benefit you and other players or vice versa.
I don't necessarily know how that would all work during Grand Prix, but at least it's something. And yes, regular items would still have their uses. In fact, what if this special ability can only be activated when using a specific item? For example, if you hit 3 to 5 racers with green shells during a race, you randomly get an ability from a selection of abilities that focuses solely on green shells that could either aid you or hinder you depending on how skilled you are at using the ability. This would also apply to other items like blue shells and whatnot. So instead of a blue shell only going for the first-place driver, three blue shells could potentially go after whoever's in 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Of course, an ability like this would be rare.
Sorry mate but Nintendo does not come up with new ideas. They find a recipe and run that sucker to the ground lol. Every once in a while they will find a diamond in a rough and they will make it apart of the new standard lineup for new consoles :-)
@@bachampion04 I think you've been living under a rock. Every Zelda game is a gimmick in itself, dude.
Future possible Mario Kart features: mirrored surface tracks where the player has to switch from light to dark, switching from top to bottom of the track to dodge items, obstacles. Add a user friendly make your own racing track. Add a Vigilante/Twisted Metal like mini battle arenas mode - Think similar to Rush 2 and Rush 2049 Stunt Modes. Add a chain linked together race mode where two karts are chained together with a stretchy energy cord that they can work together to boost, swing, slingshot, rail balance and more. Add a SNES graphics mode but Mario Kart for 50 racers online.
They need to add KIRBY and Nintendo Switch 2 and ill be happy
Mario kart needs a proper Competitive mode. With only mushroom and green shell. And maybe an elimination timer like other race games back in the day
and fix the bugs.
I'd love to see a campaign mode to unlock kart customisations, and could put in some "boss battles" where you have to outrun something or catch up to it, or chase an enemy while damaging it with items.
And it could be fun to have hp for the kart, like if you get hit too many times your kart just breaks and you're out of the race. And then you could have pit stops or alternate routes so you need to decide if it's worth losing some time to heal your kart.
And of course it would be great if characters has their own unique items they can pull from boxes
I think a Mario kart with more dynamic stages almost like Sonic racing transformed would be awesome
I think an interesting mechanic would be to include item boxes where instead of a question mark you can actually see what the item is inside. It can be used to entice drivers to take different routes or to aim for specific boxes
You guys mentioned the game Blur - what that had and MK doesnt was awesome stat tracking, head to heads in the races with rivals and revenge 'kills' called out as you played, also awards for most aggressive, most on target, fastest lap as well as comprehensive tracking course by course against all your friends. The blur equivelent of the blue shell was better as well it added electric areas in front of the lead car making the course harder for those in front, made the whole track harder for all of the front players so it wasnt just targeted to first place.
The main thing to consider is what sort of new gimmick they could add to the new Mario Kart and is probably the reason why we’re not gonna be seeing a new Mario Kart for a while.
But I want to see the Double Dash mechanic back. They struck gold with Double Dash and it’s kinda annoying that they never went back to it. Especially since they got SO many characters to choose from now since Double Dash released. They could even introduce new ones.
Also, it would be pretty cool if we saw tracks have like variations. Make it so the track aesthetic is the same but the track design would be different. This would be especially cool with the retro tracks. It’s funny too because they kinda already do this in Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 so I’d like to see this with the console games.
Maybe they could make a more robust kart customization system like maybe you can fine tune your engine or add off-road capabilities with your wheels. I still want to have different types of models, wheels, and gliders but I want to custom mod these. Take it one step further.
Where do we go from here? Tracks based on actual Mario locations in the main series. The Yoshi island track is a great example of what they can accomplish. Who wants a Rogueport track, I know I do. I don't mean inspired by a location like coconut mall Peach Beach, I mean actually racing on Isle Delfino. It doesn't have to be a 1 to 1 recreation but as close as possible.
Or focus on making a New F-Zero game.
Boss battles. It’s Battle mode but instead of playing against other characters, you’re trying to defeat a big enemy. This is either a solo mode but also multiplayer. You may have balloons as your health bar. Maybe even competitive boss fights where after the boss is defeated, the player who dealt the most damage is the winner.
As a catchup mechanic, the player who’s dealt the least damage can get a blue shell which will just hit the boss no matter where the player is on the map.
If all your balloons are popped you don’t die, you respawn but it takes time to come back. However if you fight bosses solo, you do have to start over.
Mario Kart 9 is a launch title, because it's the #1 selling series. Mario Kart 8 is 9 years old (2014), so they had years to complete development of MK 9.
The main team probably never made any DLC tracks etc.
The visuals show it was made by the B team
@@thesupermayoreo Yeah and the main developer haven't done much since Wii U besides 2 phone games.
It's clear that they have some big secret game in the works.
I also think Mario Kart 10 can be a launch title or a game that can be realised the same year as the next console.
Random ideas:
- Weather - Rain, lightning, thunder, snow, hail, temperature changes (could affect the kart - make them overheat, and you have to go a little slower)
- Run through stages based on past properties (like SMB 3 stages, world, etc.)
- Dynamic lighting (if possible) - affects visibility of the track/other racers
One thing I’d love would be a sort of Double-Dash-inspired racing and battle mode. The player at the front of the car would drive, and the one in the back could have ability to aim and throw whichever object they get FPS style, using a mix of joystick and motion controls like in Splatoon. If they wanted to switch positions, they would both have to hold a specific button at the same time (maybe the “-“ button). This mode would even feature character specific items (like in Double Dash) designed for shooting in the FPS viewpoint.
The main racing and battle modes would still be single-player versus each other, the Double Dash mode would just be an alternative. All of the karts’ bodies would have standard and Double Dash versions (maybe except for bikes, because that would make aiming a nightmare for the player in the back).
Make courses like Diddy Kong racing with flying carts as well, but also give planes, 2, and 4 wheelers distinct advantages and disadvantages. As someone who ”family good”, who wouldn’t touch a competitive online game knowing I soul get crushed, the difference between 2 and 4 wheelers is so insignificant that it only feels aesthetic.
Also - give an option for account-wide unlocks. My 8 year old got interested in playing and she’s unlocking karts/wheels/parachutes that I unlocked long ago. Similarly, if we 3 star a Grand Prix, I don’t want to feel annoyed knowing I have to do it all over again.
As you guys kind of mentioned, bringing back the partners, but with unique combos. Even if it was based on “class types” and visual only, I would love to drop a flaming banana (DK + Mario) or a heart-shaped shell bananas (Princess + a Koopa).
I think redoing so many tracks between Wii and Wii U/Switch, either ONLY redo half and they are all tracks NOT YET redone or all new. I think it would be cool to bring back long karts, but also short tracks with 6-8 laps. It would be cool as well if you had three unique items (short, normal, single lap) for each of those. On a short track, swap the red shells for a purple shell that automatically hits the person in front, medium track, make lightning a POW 3 use POW block that spins everyone out, and long track gets a three pack of the crown mushroom turbo.
Maybe courses for boats or planes, or dynamic tracks like Sonic All-Stars Racing. Multiplayer matched for same ranking players. I'm now in lobby's where I don't stand one chance...
Having alternating routes on each lap was a pretty smart way to adapt the Tour city courses, and I’d love to see future nitro courses designed around that.
Double Dash 2. That's what I want. It's been so long and it'd be very fresh for the series.
Y’all should really play Split/Second. Not only is that game amazing, its design is exactly what you’re looking for.
Personally I think they should triple down on making tracks based off of entire video games, similar to the spectacular Yoshi's Island course from the DLC. Imagine courses and maybe even entire cups based off games released throughout Nintendo history full of easter eggs, from the Mario Bros. games to Donkey Kong to Kirby, and maybe even some Metroid being the backdrop of the harder stages.
The weird idea I had was trying to bring in some Nintendo adjacent third party levels. Can you imagine an Octopath Traveler 2 HD 2D level? Also with day and night mechanics?
@@aaronr7238 Nintendo can flex their creative muscles by utilizing different art styles and color schemes depending on the courses they are racing in. Imagine an HD-2D style course for Octopath, and then in the next level have the anime-esque animation for Wind Waker.
I feel like both the next Mario Kart & Smash Bros games are gonna have a near impossible time feeling like a bigger deal than their current ones.
Double Dash ‘Mode’ with more unique weapons, character combos and new karts such as boats and plains along with unique water/air courses respectively to go with them like in Diddy Kong racing.
Destructible environments , mini boss battles interject in between laps , and getting ejected out of your kart after a blue shell hits you
If you want a no item racing game, that is what F-Zero is all about. I prefer Mariokart being the game series where items continue to be its identity while F-Zero is for people that want to play a more serious racing game. I think F-Zero 99 and it’s skyway mechanic is a great way of adding a balanced comeback mechanic that isn’t completely ridiculous and rage inducing.
When it comes to new Mariokart ideas, they should make the kart transformations be more interesting and change the way you interact with the game rather than simply being the same kind of racing that you usually do, but very slightly different because it is underwater or traction is different because of antigravity. For example, instead of having a glider that pops out of your kart, literally make the kart physically transform into a submarine or a plane and therefore change how you control the kart. It could be really cool with courses that have several different course sections. Then you would be able to have courses without ground!
Mario Kart X. It will have other first party characters from Nintendo, such as Kirby, Captain Falcon, Samus, Fox, etc...
And also, third-party characters like Sonic, Megaman, Pacman, etc...
The game will feature a new box for items that are character exclusive, making each character feel unique. And also, each character, either first-party or third-party, will have atleast one stage themed with that character's franchise with a proper song.
And Mario Kart X will become the new game where ppl will be hyped about what character will be added into the game, alongside items, stage and music. And it will get atleast 2 character pass after its release.
How you know what it gonna have? You don't make videos game.
The most fun course is Baby Park. There is a lot you can do with shorter tracks and more laps, more intensity. MK DD had more intensity in the course design and I really think MK8 is a bit like going sightseeing. The CC difficulty settings just has stuff going faster and don't really simulate a more powerful engine.
wonder flower themed baby park track at night 300cc massive goomba swallows randomly and spits you into racing backwards reversed upside-down all shrunk to tiny karts as the goomba spits out mario enemies to dodge and you have to keep racing that track till someone picks up the key to exit the ghost door that suddenly appears then you're back and everyone has a 1 use ability to shrink like a sticker to slip under other racers.
A Super Mario Kart Maker would be the next step
Karts yes, but never a map maker. They know that they couldn't top that.
I had some thoughts on this:
- Single player career mode: Mario and crew get pulled into a tournament that they must race themselves out of?
- 2 Worlds Mechanic: each track has 2 versions of it, one in the regular 'mario' world and another in a twisted alternative dimension that changes up the track, adds things, removes things, twists corridors etc. This is incorporated into races where a portal will randomly appear on a lap and racers will go through it and race in the twisted alternative track before being pulled back. Alternatively it could happen at any time and the track could switch to the alternative dimension.
- Wonder Flower: Building on the alternative dimension idea, the wonder flower could be an item that switches up the track, it could need 3 players to activate it, 2 to hit the smaller wonder seeds and one to hit the flower, it then produces the wonder effect for that track.
- Actual powerups: Rather than item boxes, power-ups are instead scattered across the track, pick up a fire flower, mario gains the white cap and white cart, can throw fireballs for a limited time. Tanooki suit power allows him to jump over other carts and hover for a moment, perhaps using it to cross a shortcut?
- Bring back special items: double dash had special items based on the character, bring these back
- More interesting battle modes: Make battle more interesting, have an actual cops and robbers on a race track instead of an arena?
-More varied tracks: the tour stuff in the expansion was okay at best, bring back the creativity of the tracks to the same quality that they were on launch, give us a luigi's mansion inspired track, some tracks inspired by older super mario games like world or galaxy
I thought of the portals Idea too, but it would take you through random areas of other tracks, and sometimes the portals could be optional for shortcuts.
As for Battlemode what if they tried the Fortnite approach and you start out in a large area that slowly shrinks for the final showdown,
An idea I have for courses is that after one lap, the track changes randomly to the next lap of other track. So there is more of an uncertainty so no one can be like “I just have to repeat this lap, or I know how this second lap goes”.
I think its time for a new iteration of double dash, its been a long time, and with more and more characters id love to see special items return. Just bring some chaos.
Maybe they should take a page from Sonic Riders and create character type specific shortcuts. So in the case of Mario Kart it would be based on weight class. Also, I would love to see them return to the 2 character karts.
i need the double dash mechanics back so bad. 2 racers per cart and being able to switch between them, along with unique character specials. It’d be awesome to have that function back
I'm all for the thing literally every Nintendo fan on the planet has come up, making a 'Smash Kart'. And for good measure, bring back the Double Dash feature of allowing two players on the same kart, as an option in single player and also for coop.
Call it Mario Kart X. The X can refer to the 10th in the series (including Tour), and can also be used as a 'cross' symbol for all the different franchises being added. They can have Smash-style announcement for new franchise with the splash screen Mario Kart X [insert other franchise].
Each franchise adds a new cup, new vehicle customisation options, at least two new characters, and a new item, all of course being inspired by the source franchise. You could even add some unique interactions between characters if you enable the double mode (although these will be more of an easter egg rather than an expected feature). It'd be great.
As for Nintendo franchises they could take from, there are so many obvious ones, not even including Mario-adjacent franchises:
- Zelda
- Splatoon
- Pokemon
- Pikmin
- Metroid
- Animal Crossing
- F-Zero
- Xenoblade
- Fire Emblem
- Star Fox
- Kirby
And countless third-party possibilities. They could update the game for years with Smash-style reveals and content drops.
I would like to see the karts actually receive damage with their performance degrading as they are damaged. I think a setting where this can be turned on or off depending on the player’s preference would be needed.
A rally type mode would be awesome. Stages, heavy environmental effects, repairs, kart setup etc etc.
Like really lean into physics, and kart setups.
Mad max style with customisable vehicles with a greater enphasis on combat during races. This would also make a potential campaign mode work with upgradeble vehicle pieces. That would be awesome.
I think it’d be cool if they had some sort of “mashup” between courses that changes or is random every time. You’re driving through bowsers castle, pass through a portal or something of sorts, and now you’re in a segment of rainbow road. This could make every race unique.
To expand on Alex's point about terraforming courses in Mario Kart, you do have the P Switches and the ON/OFF switches where you could do those options easily and you can set them up to shoot items at OR drive over to do it. your mentioned Wonder Flower idea could be good too. I think weather could be a thing...snow, rain, fog, day/night change while racing, wind, sandstorm ect... Personally, I am neither here nor there on a story mode/mission mode. I am in favor of the character specific items coming back. Like MKDS and MKDD, I wouldn't be opposed to character specific karts come back.
They need to fix battle mode--more arenas, more options. It used to be one of my favorite modes in the series, but it's taken such a huge downturn over the years, I don't even care to play it anymore.
The next one needs to have better customization options like CTR. MKT proved alt skins are there, do it. Customize kart parts ala CTR--all those colors and designs. More differentiated kart parts--a lot of the parts are the same stats... make more different ones. There are way too many characters to name, but MKT hit on the right ideas with how many NEW racers they put in. Use the coins you get in the races to buy stuff out of a shop... add different colored coins that are worth a higher value for other things.
New modes? Mirror was a good starter, 200cc was good evolution, move on to a higher cc? A trick mode with more obstacles/jumps/ect? Higher speed Mirror? Custom Cups? Go for platinum trophies which would be 1st place for all tracks in a cup. Return of All-Cup Tour out of MKDD. With Nintendo's focus on co-op Switch play, a MKDD mode ought to come back.
On interesting thing here would be like you guys were talking about, old vs new, and considering the Booster Course Pack is a thing....how do you do the main game and the DLC? DO we get get Mario Kart Ultimate.
8:30 is the best comment. Either reduce the racers to 8 and keep the items or keep the racers at 12 and reduce the items by half. Between 4th and 10th you just keep getting hit.
10:50 is a bad idea. That creates a meta and double dash has an awful meta. Dks, bowsers, babies are worthless. Wario/waluigi, princesses, yoshis, are just meh. Koopas, Mario bros, toads are good, and boo/piranha are excellent. Don't need that again.
They also need to stop the cheaters online. Playing online is no fun when you hit someone with a star, and they are tumbling just as fast as you are going, and yet when they get back on their wheels you still can't pass them. That happens ALL THE TIME.
These things kill Mario kart the most with me. The tracks are almost always great, minus the tour tracks.
They should also get rid of the bullet bill.
Character specific stats and abilities are a must have for me. It justifies playing around with different characters.
I just want a double dash mode. Keep solo karts as the default, but adding DD with a control mode where you connect a pair of joycons (assuming theyre a thing), but still share them between players; you can have 8 players on one console then.
I guess 14:53 imagine level 1 base form items then a level 2 option you gotta drive through the item box and try and pull it again for added effects. A lot of noobs just sit back and bag at back of the map I think the chance to level up basic items like green shells bananas coins and much lower odds for the specials items. Maybe you can build a kart from scratch with set amount of points to the kart and then an added slow builder for an ultimate for an extra ability to use sometimes example. Grapple hook to fire on players to be pulled towards or on a bend to come round faster and safer to power slide. A light wind screen for ink or 1 lighting protection roof to stop rng or another is a booster to have slightly longer time mushrooms. Maybe karts take a bit of damage to effect stats one power up could use 10 coins to block a shell shot or another could make blue shells take a tiny bit longer to lock and and seek you out? they should also do a double dash mode from 100cc -200cc
Leaving 50cc as a beginner course optional and 100 being normal and 150/150 mirrored being the main. Bring back some boss challenges mode also
Imagine they did the new one kinda edgy graphics like Mario strikers building a car from scrap like Lego racers for online getting parts by racing and collecting you could also get blue prints to build cool og designs of karts
Also better battle maps and modes take some inspiration from Mario party but with karts
200cc isn’t cannon it’s a silly party mode to try different ways to use the map you can tell the game wasn’t built for it they added maps that could adapt to it but it wasn’t main. Just a way to do it like
Gyro controls isn’t main.
Double dash? Single player campaign? Unique items for each character? Badges? Planes/boats?
You got options here
13:30 Fun fact, there is actually a bootleg NES game called Kart Fighter made by the same people who made Somari that steals the roster and title screen of Super Mario Kart and is a fighting game. All of the characters also have very strange proportions!
Mario Kart 8: Triple Deluxe (now with Kirby characters!)
Nope.
Kirby Rainbow Road ftw!
I know what the new feature should be
During a race, there’s special portals that will all you to teleport to different maps, like the first lap could be Mario circuit, the next bowser’s castle, and the third rainbow road. 3 maps turns to 21 different combinations
With the idea of it being that you choose a character and not have to worry about stats I think what crash team racing works really well where in that game you character and kart doesn’t matter and you then choose a class to be from speed, drift, acceleration for example
A Mario kart that brings back dual carts, and with that the option to have one player only control one character in a cart.
Also make it smash cart… bring in everyone. Release some as dlc themed packs if need be. Maybe make some add ons if you buy other Nintendo products (unlock Zelda link and gannondorf if you buy whatever the new Zelda game will be)
Bring back character specific items, and allow anyone to use them. But make the characters themselves more likely to get them when they’re between a certain set of places. (Toad in first don’t need 3 mushrooms, but toad 6th+ might)
Make auto steering and driving stronger: the only way my wife and kids can beat me is if I also use auto steering/driving, and I don’t drift
That idea of enhanced comeback mechanics is golden. Unless I’m getting hit with an item wombo combo, with a side of star power from the driver in 8th, a blue shell isn’t really going to take me out of first (tho, a well timed lightning strike with a lakitu that takes me backwards might). Courses that change for drivers that aren’t in first. Maybe narrow some parts of the map and have a bridge spawn boost pads for each player that crosses after the first one, or the first three. Maybe reduce slowdown when off the track depending on how far back you are.
I feel like a great way to generate maximum hype for the franchise is to release a Mario Kart All-Star kind of game with characters from different series. Kind of like Smash Bros. You could race on tracks based on Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid and so forth. You could even bring in third party characters.
If anything i could absolutely see them adding a track editor to make your own mario kart track (would be the natural step forward to continue from the insane track list we got now in mario kart 8 deluxe, just add the potential for infinite tracks)
With MK8D Booster Pass DLC recently ended I had an idea for a Nintendo Kart idea since it sounded cool idea to me I even thought up of a hypothetical roster if it were happened one day.
Roster (First Party):
Mario (Super Mario)
Luigi (Super Mario)
Peach (Super Mario)
Daisy (Super Mario)
Yoshi (Super Mario)
Bowser (Super Mario)
Bowser Jr. (Super Mario)
Roselina (Super Mario)
Toad (Super Mario)
Wario (Super Mario)
Waluigi (Super Mario)
Koopa Troopa (Super Mario)
Ashely (Wario Ware)
Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong)
Diddy Kong (Donkey Kong)
Dixie Kong (Donkey Kong)
King K. Rool (Donkey Kong)
Link (Legend of Zelda)
Zelda/Sheik (Legend of Zelda)
Ganondorf (Legend of Zelda)
Skull Kid (Legend of Zelda)
Tingle (Legend of Zelda)
Samus (Metroid)
Ridley (Metroid)
Kirby (Kirby)
King Dedede (Kirby)
Meta Knight (Kirby)
Fox (Starfox)
Pikachu (Pokémon)
Mewtwo (Pokémon)
Team Rocket (Pokémon)
Ness (Mother/Earthbound)
Porky (Mother/Earthbound)
Captain Falcon (F-Zero)
Marth (Fire Emblem)
Lyn (Fire Emblem)
Tiki (Fire Emblem)
Villager (Animal Crossing)
Isabelle (Animal Crossing)
Tom Nook (Animal Crossing)
Olimar (Pikmin)
Inkling (Splatoon)
DJ Octavio (Splatoon)
Riki (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Pit (Kid Icarus)
R.O.B (NES)
Ice Climbers
Takamaru (Mysterious Mursame Castle)
Miis
Third Party Characters:
Sonic (SEGA)
Mega Man (Capcom)
Pac Man (Namco)
Rayman (Ubisoft)
Bomberman (Konami)
Tracks:
Peach's Castle (Super Mario)
Mute City (F-Zero)
Castle Siege (Fire Emblem)
Delfino Plaza (Super Mario)
Distant Planet (Pikmin)
Dream Land (Kirby)
Onett (Earthbound/Mother)
Gaur Plain/Cloud Sea of Alrest (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Hyrule (Zelda)
Icicle Mountains (Ice Climbers)
Kongo Jungle (Donkey Kong)
Living Room (Chibi Robo)
Galaxy (Mario Bros)
Splatsville (Splatoon)
Village (Animal Crossing)
New Donk City (Mario Bros)
Skyworld (Kid Icarus)
Various Pokémon Cities (Pokémon)
Wuhu Island (Mii)
Yoshi's Island (Yoshi)
I would like something a little different like what they did with Double Dash. Since Nintendo refuses to make a new Wave Race maybe add some watercraft vehicles.