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NOA Confirms LAN Play for Mario Kart


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#1 Mikau OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Apr 28, 2003 1:55 PM

Yay! 8-player Mario Kart!

http://www.planetgam...on=item&id=4290

#2 sdstuff64 OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:27 PM

Good news but online would be a lot better. :|

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Posted Mon Apr 28, 2003 7:42 PM

That's sweet as hell. I much prefer LAN than internet.

#4 Ze_ro OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:30 PM

So here's the question... since Mario Kart Cube involves two characters in the cart at once, are we going to get some lame 8-player game that only actually features 4 carts on the track at once? Or do we get a full 8 carts with 16 characters total?

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Posted Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:00 AM

Sounds like a full 8 karts to me,but I dunno.

Playing with two people on one kart would be cool,kinda like that Roman Maximus game or something for Xbox a while ago.

#6 Mikau OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:48 PM

Ze_ro said:

So here's the question... since Mario Kart Cube involves two characters in the cart at once, are we going to get some lame 8-player game that only actually features 4 carts on the track at once? Or do we get a full 8 carts with 16 characters total?

--Zero

I think the game has alot more than 8 characters (like older Mario Karts). I think they are adding some of the lesser known and cared about Nintendo characters (Birdo, Waluigi, etc.) So hopefully there will be plenty of characters to go around, and I hope they allow multiple characters to choose the same characters. It really anoyed me in the old games when you couldn't.

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Posted Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:56 PM

THat's no good. I want Internet gaming. :sad:

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Posted Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:06 PM

Yeah, I don't own a Game Cube. It would be better if it was online.

#9 Ze_ro OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:10 PM

Mikau said:

I think the game has alot more than 8 characters (like older Mario Karts). It really anoyed me in the old games when you couldn't.

They've already released a list of character that will be in the game, and there's 16 characters listed... so 8 karts on a track is definitely possible. However, if they still force you to only pick a character once, then the 8th player will have to settle for the leftovers.

I really hope they don't leave out Toad like the list would indicate... especially since they added such lame characters as Baby Mario & Baby Luigi. Maybe there'll be some secret characters like Shyguy or something.

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:42 PM

There's been racing games with hundreds of cars. With Nintendo's long history and list of characters, 16 seems kind of shallow. Oh well... :ponder:

#11 shep OFFLINE  

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:15 PM

I prefer LAN of Internet...

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Excellent...


#12 sdstuff64 OFFLINE  

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:19 PM

Mikau said:

There's been racing games with hundreds of cars. With Nintendo's long history and list of characters, 16 seems kind of shallow. Oh well...  :ponder:

Yea,but Nintendo works in weird ways.Oh well... :| :roll:

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:24 PM

six switch said:

Yea,but Nintendo works in weird ways.Oh well... :|  :roll:

Thank God for that!

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:50 PM

Mikau said:

There's been racing games with hundreds of cars. With Nintendo's long history and list of characters, 16 seems kind of shallow. Oh well...  :ponder:

Keep in mind that you have to limit things to the Mario Bros universe... you can't just throw Samus and Zelda in and still call it "Mario Kart"

So, working with that limitation, who would you want in the game? Obviously, you'd have to include the normal heroes:

Mario
Luigi
The Princess
Toad
Yoshi

And the normal villians:

Bowser
Wario
Donkey Kong (Well, he used to be..)

Beyond these 8, I'd throw in some of the more well-known characters:

Koopa Troopa/Paratroopa
Hammer Bros.
Shyguy
Birdo
Goomba (Lack of arms a problem?)
Boo (The shy ghost)
Triclyde (The 3-head snake from SMB2)
Mouser
Kamek (Enemy from Yoshi's Island)
Waluigi
Daisy

And beyond that, things get too obscure to really be put in the game. I guess you could also include the Koopa bosses from SMB3 (Ludwig von Koopa, etc), but that's pushing it. With the list I just made, that's already 19 characters without having to resort to lame crap like Dr Mario or Baby Mario.

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Posted Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:33 PM

Daisy and Birdo are in the game, as is Baby Mario.....

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Posted Fri May 2, 2003 9:28 PM

This should be cool, if done right, and I'm confident in them, so I hope they can pull it off.

#17 Mikau OFFLINE  

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Posted Fri May 9, 2003 12:41 PM

Ze_ro said:

Mikau said:

There's been racing games with hundreds of cars. With Nintendo's long history and list of characters, 16 seems kind of shallow. Oh well...  :ponder:

Keep in mind that you have to limit things to the Mario Bros universe... you can't just throw Samus and Zelda in and still call it "Mario Kart"

So, working with that limitation, who would you want in the game? Obviously, you'd have to include the normal heroes:

Mario
Luigi
The Princess
Toad
Yoshi

And the normal villians:

Bowser
Wario
Donkey Kong (Well, he used to be..)

Beyond these 8, I'd throw in some of the more well-known characters:

Koopa Troopa/Paratroopa
Hammer Bros.
Shyguy
Birdo
Goomba (Lack of arms a problem?)
Boo (The shy ghost)
Triclyde (The 3-head snake from SMB2)
Mouser
Kamek (Enemy from Yoshi's Island)
Waluigi
Daisy

And beyond that, things get too obscure to really be put in the game. I guess you could also include the Koopa bosses from SMB3 (Ludwig von Koopa, etc), but that's pushing it. With the list I just made, that's already 19 characters without having to resort to lame crap like Dr Mario or Baby Mario.

--Zero

Remember Square's crappy cart racer on playstation? The one that had Cloud driving a little tiny cart thing? That game made me laugh.

Anyways, I say go for it, throw in as many strange characters as possible. If other racers like GT or Ridge Racer can have hundreds of cars that really aren't different, why can't Mario Kart?

#18 sdstuff64 OFFLINE  

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Posted Fri May 9, 2003 1:34 PM

Mikau said:

If other racers like GT or Ridge Racer can have hundreds of cars that really aren't different, why can't Mario Kart?


Because,Nintendo works in mysterious ways.

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Posted Fri May 9, 2003 11:42 PM

I don't mind them putting Baby Mario in.... what I do mind is them putting in Baby Mario at the cost of Toad. That's just not right.

--Zero

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Posted Sun May 11, 2003 8:30 AM

I want Prof. E Gadd from Luigis Mansion. He'd be a great racer.
Also, how about a couple of the guys from Advance Wars in tanks as extra characters? :)




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