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The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - EdenMaster - 23rd April 2003 Source: Planet Gamecube: Quote:Nintendo has revealed details and images of Mario Kart on the GameCube, which will be called Mario Kart: Double Dash. So it's finally got a name! And 16 characters each with speacial abilities and weapons! Looks incredible! But where did they dig up Birdo from? They must have been at a loss for characters... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Darunia - 23rd April 2003 Yea, who the hell is that, whats he from? I hope the tracks are as diverse and fun as those of MK64. MK64 has such awesome tracks; blew Diddy Kong Racing out of the water. 16 players...that sounds nice, but it seems as though we've lost Toad. Oh well. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2003 It's generally accepted that Diddy Kong racing completely woops MK64 in single player, but MK64 wins in multiplayer. Anyway, the idea of giving special unique abilities to each character is a good one. Birdo is that pink creature that spits eggs from SMB2(USA). He's also been in a few other Mario games, like Super Mario RPG. All things considering, it's appearence isn't a surprise, with new characters like Baby Luigi showing up (All he did was sit in Kamec's dungeon! What use is he? :D). Diddy Kong of course is a cool little guy, and now Nintendo is going to cash in on Rare's little creation using Nintendo's liscense. Well, it's all sounding cool. Here's the question. Will the speed increasing coins make a come back? Even if not, this seems to be something that will be far and above what MK64 was (MK64 just being a 3d version of MK). I wonder if they will decide to go all out on a single player adventure ala Diddy Kong Racing? On top of that, they have system link going on. The big question there is if it will support using a hub/switch/router to link up to 4 systems together, or if they will just support 2 system link. If it's 4 system link, all 16 playable characters can be used in a single race! It sucks that true online support will be lacking, but gamespy pseudo support using some tunnel software is better than nothing. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Sacred Jellybean - 23rd April 2003 Looks pretty damned good... although a little bright and saturated with colors. I can't wait for bigger screens! Whoa, double characters on carts? Looks pretty awesome... will there be a co-op mode with each player, where drives and the other sabotages the other players? Will there be a mode available where it's just one character to a cart? *abstains from noting Birdo's pair with Yoshi and making sexual reference to Birdo's mouth* The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2003 It's well known that Yoshis are asexual, as are Birdos it seems. Bright and saturated with colors is just how I like my Mario games. I like it looking like a rainbow exploded in my TV. Wish I'd read that. Two characters per kart eh? Well that means there's 8 total things to choose from, unless you get to actually pick who gets paired with who yourself, which I think seems likely. Hopefully they will allow multiple usage of the same character. Just alter the color scheme for each player using that guy, like in F-Zero. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Damn, this is awesome. I just hope they include an awesome adventure mode like the one in DKR. Rare showed how single player racing games should be done. And I'd love to see the game cel-shaded since the cartoony style and exaggerated physics lend themselves so well to cel-shading. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Sacred Jellybean - 23rd April 2003 I stated that based on the pictures... as you can see, there are two characters to a cart. I don't know if there will be 16 or 8 different pairs... and something tells me you won't get to pick the pairs. :( But you'll most likely be able to pick which character the driver is. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 SCREENS!!!!!!!!! There goes my pants!!! Ah well about cel-shading, but the game looks terrific!! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Laser Link - 23rd April 2003 IGN says it will be 2-player co-op where one player drives and the other uses weapons. Supposedly each character has special abilities and weapons, and you can swap between driver and gunner during the race! I hope you can actually control the weapons too. This is one of the best multiplayer ideas ever! My friends and I would always do team battles anyway, and this makes it even better. I wonder how it will work if each player has their own kart instead of teaming up? Wouldn't it be great if they also let you set up teams like SSBM? That would be so much fun! I am finally excited about E3! Now if only the rumors that it is finished are true, it could be out by the summer!!! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 WOW, put this on top of my most-wanted list for 2003 along with RS3 and F-Zero. This is so cool!! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Does Nintendo have so many big games to show off at E3 that they can afford to show Mario Kart so soon? *prays for a summer Mario Kart release and a Mario 128 E3 presence* The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2003 http://www.nintendo.com/e32k3/mariokart_feat.html Awesome... this '2 people per car' thing is unexpected and very cool... and it really does look like Mario Kart, except with vehicles that look closer to cars than karts... :) Uhh... Gamespy mode will be fun too... even if it IS just 1v1. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Ha, they actually look like soapbox cars now. Perhaps they should change the name to "Mario Soapbox Car"? The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2003 Yeah, that'd be a better name for it... they really aren't carts... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Great Rumbler - 23rd April 2003 Awesome!! I don't doubt that it's going to be one of the greatest multiplayer experiences of the year! Anyone who does not immediately want this game is an insane monkey! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2003 But the word "soapbox" is the stupidest word ever invented! :D Well, now that I see more screens, it's confirmed. You CAN in fact select who to pair up with. In one, Peach and Mario are teamed up. In another Luigi and Mario are teamed up. In yet another, Peach and Pauline are teamed up. This is great! Now then, how are the karts themselves selected? Do you select them yourself or is it determined by who you first select as the lead? Oh and, it's 4v4 at max ABF. For you though, the max will likely be 1v4 considering what you have said. I still think hub support for a 4 system link should be done. Anyway, at first F-Zero was interesting me far more than this, because with no data I thought it would end up just being a slightly boosted version of MK64. Now though, I'd go as far as to say this now interests me more than F-Zero. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2003 Who is Pauline? Do you mean Daisy? Yeah, I would assume that the net link would allow 8 players... with 4 on each of the two systems. But most people using it, I'd bet, would be playing with 1 person on each screen... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Indeed, I'm now looking forward to MK more than F-Zero, even if it's only slightly so. I'm curious to see how the cars will handle now that they're longer than before. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2003 Yeah, Daisy. I was thinking of the one-time appearence of the girl in DK Arcade, as opposed to the princess of Sarasahasatasaland, or wherever Super Mario Land took place. Oh and you should check out how people play net linked games on the XBox. While there are many who are just one person per box, just as often you have 2 or more looking for another 2 or more player match. In Halo specifically, I generally have a hard time finding anyone who is even allowing a single player on a box in a match. That's just FPS mind you, the genre where you would want the players not to see other's screens. In a racing game, where it's kinda irrelevent, I see mulitple players per box being the norm. Again though, supporting up to 4 system link is something I really want them to add (of course I'd rather true online support be added, but this request is something I can see them doing). The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2003 It seems to have most of the Mario cast in it... 16 characters! Who ISN'T there that has been in more than 1 Mario game, other than other kinds of badguys other than Koopas and Koopa Paratroopas? Oh, and F-Zero is still better looking. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Graphically-speaking, yes. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - big guy - 23rd April 2003 this game makes me wet myself with excitement. i like mario kart a good deal. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Yeah. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2003 I meant graphically and in how much I'm interested in the game. F-Zero is just better... and I'm definitely looking forward to it more than Mario Kart. Mario Kart looks great... but F-Zero better... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Nintendarse - 23rd April 2003 Actually, the SMB2 booklet describes birdo as sexually confused, but Nintendo seems to have disowned the writer of that booklet and decided to make Birdo simply a girl. I'd agree that F-Zero does look slicker and generally prettier. Yes, there are 16 characters and 8 carts to render, but everything seems to have taken a hit to keep the framerate up. The character models are barely passable (compare Melee's Peach with the closeup of Peach on Mario's Kart), and the environments are as low-poly as they come. Double Dash will have to keep the Karts close to each other to keep the gameplay interesting (driving alone on those tracks will probably induce major boredom), but I hope the developer does not resort to cheating AI (a la Mario Kart 64). The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Great Rumbler - 23rd April 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Nintendarse This is Mario Kart not Halo 2. I mean if they had jaw-dropping graphics in a Mario Kart game people's heads would just explode! I mean literally EXPLODE! Whereas in Halo 2 they have to put in great graphics to make up for the horrendously boring gameplay!* *Only kidding! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Darunia - 23rd April 2003 Holy shit, this games looks awesome! Those screens are nice...I am so looking forward to this! I like how each character seems to have his own unique vehicle..and the levels seem nice and bright and colorful, much akin to the grand predecessor. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - EdenMaster - 23rd April 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Dark Jaguar Isn't that the name of that sage in Link to the Past :D. Birdo and Baby Luigi...they really did scrape the bottom of the Mario barrel to find them. Oh well, still looks like an uber-incredible game. I also like the new karts. They don't look exactly the same with different colors, they look different depending on who's they are. RELEASE THIS GAME NINTENDO! NOW DAMMIT!!! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 23rd April 2003 Mario Kart looks fantastic. This is Mario we're talking about. The backgrounds are supposed to be cartoony and simple. And in Mario Kart there are huge levels being drawn, while in SSB Melee the levels are tiny. I'd probably be looking forward to F-Zero more than Mario Kart if Mario Kart DD was just a simple graphical upgrade to MK 64. That's pretty much what F-Zero is, but I'm still really looking forward to it. And isn't it funny how as soon as Nintendo unveiled Mario Kart we got a name but a year after unveiling F-Zero we still don't know what the full title is. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2003 Birdo is pretty popular these days, but indeed Baby Luigi is somewhat, odd. "I don't know about this Baby Mario..." Meanwhile, Koopa Jr. is saying "stupid babies" as he drives by. I STILL wanna know what happened to Bowser's first batch of kids... Seems to me they actually were killed in Super Mario World. Well, makes sense, almost all of them fell in some sort of lava and that stuff isn't candy. I like the unique karts too. I just want to know how they are selected. Hopefully you get to choose them too, meaning Mario and Luigi can ride around in the DK barrel. The only other option is just using the vehicle that goes with the lead driver. You know, actually there's a third option. What if when you switch drivers the vehicle changes too? No, is crazy, too crazy... so crazy... it just... might... WORK! The look of the game? Sure it's not super stunning like F-Zero, but it's "good enough". Remember, this is the generation where games finally look "fine as is"! Just like how the SNES generation was where 2D graphics finally became "good enough". Sure it can get MUCH better, but this is passable, decent, and no tweakin' needed. Oh yeah, I remember reading that Nintendarse. I think that may have been just the translation, but then again why would someone translate something from something innocent TO something potentially controversial? On the other hand, remember that the voices added to Super Mario Advance are straight from the Japanese version, including Birdo's. To be honest, I think anything with no actual gender could easily become sexually confused in the presence of all those other gender based life forms. Birdo seems quite like Yoshi though, able to instantly reproduce at any time, so it's appearence could go either way without any real controversy. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Darunia - 23rd April 2003 Man, what I wouldn't do to get more screen shots... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 25th April 2003 Leave town and never come back? Looks like Luigi is trying to give the Koopa Troopas some sort of turtle shell-shaped pie. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - EdenMaster - 26th April 2003 Man, this game looks beautiful! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Sacred Jellybean - 26th April 2003 'Can't wait to see more of it. :) The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 14th May 2003 And here are IGN's impressions: Quote:May 14, 2003 - It's the game you've been waiting for: Mario Kart. There's no other kart racing franchise in the world like it, and the time has finally come to welcome Nintendo's next iteration to GameCube. We all knew that it was coming long before Nintendo itself even revealed the game back in 2001. As one of the most widely loved games the publisher has ever dreamed into existence, Mario Kart's universal appeal guaranteed it a spot in the GameCube library. But until now, no one -- not even Mario himself -- knew how the game would play. Then a few short weeks back, Nintendo dropped the first details of the game, including its official title: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Now, here at the E3 2003 showroom floor, we've finally played Nintendo's latest masterpiece for ourselves, and this is what we experienced. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Laser Link - 15th May 2003 Have you guys seen the movie Nintendo has here? WOOHOO! Check out the level at the very end of the movie with the volcano! And there's a giant Chain Chomp weapon!!! The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 15th May 2003 I know, how cool is that! Too bad that rumor of it being finished and coming out this summer turned out to be false. :( Although it could actually be complete but Nintendo wants to save it as their big holiday title... The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Darunia - 15th May 2003 Holiday title..!? That sucks...man, there goes my summer. Now I can't play it 'till halfway through my freshman year. Curse them and their counterproductive marketing voodoo. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Laser Link - 15th May 2003 Yeah, it would have been too amazing if they announced it was shipping in a month. I would have popped. I'm a bit worried because the release date is TBA 2003, and TBA should strike fear into the hearts of any Nintendo fan. However, they have been pretty good with release dates the last few years (excepting SFA and ED), so I'm not too scared. It just better come out before school, or I swear I will flunk out of all my classes. And since I just have Computer Science classes left, that won't be a good thing at all. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 15th May 2003 I could have sworn that I read a fall 2003 release date. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - Laser Link - 15th May 2003 Oh really? That's good. I probably just saw the TBA 2003 on Nintendo's old Mario Kart, before I found the E3 sub-site. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 15th May 2003 Well that's what I saw on Nintendo's presskit page, but their E3 page says nothing. But the game looks pretty far in development so I'm sure it'll be out sometime this year. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 4th June 2003 http://www.nintendorks.com/editorials.php?ContentID=2543 Quote:One good sign was that the e3 version supports LAN play for 8 GameCubes linked together. Earlier reports stated that the game would only allow 2 GC's to be linked. I don't think its that new news, but its still cool, and doesn't look like it was said in this thread... :) The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - EdenMaster - 4th June 2003 Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon 8 Cubes? Thay sounds like it'd be more trouble than it's worth to organize. wouldn't that also equate to 8 TVs? The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - OB1 - 4th June 2003 .... Yeah. But according to Nintendo, setting up eight Gamecubes and eight TVs together in one room is more practical than playing online. The Official Mario Kart Double Dash Thread (screens inside!) - A Black Falcon - 4th June 2003 Nintendorks just posted their E3 report, you see. :) And I agree -- that'd be a bit absurd. I wonder... maybe they are just doing it to allow 8-player internet play with a spoofer? :) |