Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)

[Shin Johnpv]

You can still 3 star a cup if you don't finish with 10 coins. The only requirement that I've seen so far is finishing 1st in all 4 races. It's nice that it doesn't really take much time to unlock all the characters. I never played Battle at all in a MK until I started dating my GF. Since we would play online with her brother and grandfather and we'd make the brother happy from time to time and play it. For the hell of it I played a couple of games of MK8 Battle online and personally I liked that they were taking place in the regular courses. It gave me a chance to explore the courses more, I found it more fun than the shitty layouts that were in MKWii for battle.

[NGEFreek]

I think it uses the Mario Kart Wii style hidden scoring system, where you can have less than 10 coins per race, but how many times you've been hit with items, how many out of bounds and how far ahead you've won by are all taken into account. Which is bullshit when you have a rubber band AI session at 150cc.

[Yoshi]

You can still 3 star a cup if you don't finish with 10 coins. The only requirement that I've seen so far is finishing 1st in all 4 races.

That's definitely not the only one.

I think it uses the Mario Kart Wii style hidden scoring system, where you can have less than 10 coins per race, but how many times you've been hit with items, how many out of bounds and how far ahead you've won by are all taken into account. Which is bullshit when you have a rubber band AI session at 150cc.

Agreed, though I think that's 7 and not Wii, no?

[NGEFreek]

It could be 7. I thought the Wii one was like that as well. Its been a while.

[Yoshi]

The reason I remember is that I beat the piss out of the Wii one and quit playing the 3DS one partway through because I was tired of getting fucked out of stars for things outside my control.

[NGEFreek]

It very well could be that way. I just know I got 10 coins on all the races in the 50cc mushroom cup last night and still only got 2 stars.

[Opaque]

Sonic Transformed was solid and I had some fun with it, but I've done two courses on this and already this is so endearing.

[Yoshi]

Ugh. "Fun" now has "endearing" as a partner to form the subjective duo.

I like the game, but there is no damn way it's a 10/10.

[Opaque]

Mechanics wise this game is solid and atmosphere matters man. I'd rather race the characters against each other in these environments any day.

[NGEFreek]

Online is pretty enjoyable, and a total clusterfuck unless you're way out front or in last place. Seems I've only seen maybe 3-4 blue shells since last night. I am 100% OK with this.

Also the fact I can be downstairs and playing on the gamepad blows my mind.