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Would Nintendo ever go back to the Original Kart Racing aesthetics?

The New Games are cool and all, my personal favorite is Double Dash to tell you the truth, but the original one has that neat small Go-Kart thing going on for it.

Looking through some collectible and concept art i love how simple the Kart Design is in the SNES version, and how faithful the asphalth tracks feel to what a real local small Kart Racing track would be like.

Would you guys enjoy a newer entry centered around these aesthetics? or do you prefer the current ones?

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Few examples i found...

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>> No.9123448

>>9123439
I never liked being able to change karts and I sure as shit didn't like double dash

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>>9123448
Double Dash has been the only modern Mario Kart game i ever enjoyed (not even modern anymore), however, i did make this post for a reason, id rather play the old-school ones.

Nintendo 64 and SNES are pretty much the closest to what it should really be, i agree with the series needing much less customization for what you drive, it should be metal frame Go-Karts mainly.

>> No.9123459

>>9123439
Only if some outside force pushed them to go in that direction. Nintendo doesn't do original anymore. They'll stick with their current soulless aesthetic as long as it makes the most money.

>> No.9123470
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That's not just Mario Kart, it's the art in late 80s/early 90s Mario in general.

>> No.9123474

>>9123470
My god that's a precious Princess Toadstool artwork.

Definitely my favorite version of her.

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>>9123459
Yeah, Nintendo has a double edged sword with not looking back on anything they've done before, it can bring some really good new stuff to the table, but other times i feel like some of their older stuff is so good that they could revisit and polish without abandoning the aesthetics or art style.

The original metal frame Karts are a good example, sure they're present in Mario Kart 8 but the excessive customization often leaves them in the dust.

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imagine if were living in a better timeline and mario kart looked like this

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>>9123812
Top Tier Standard Kart

We also got old school Daisy in Mario Kart in that timeline.

>> No.9124716

>>9123439
SNES is still the best for me because the single player experience is great. Game is hard as fuck and skill based.

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The old school pipe frame is a selectable kart in 8, and is actually one of the better karts in the game

>>9124716
200cc makes mk8 the most fun single player experience IMO, getting three stars in all of the 200cc cups was a hell of a task

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>>9124758
Correct, the pipe frame Kart is selectable, one of the better choice and imo still the best design, but i feel like they fucked up the tire design for it, and there's nothing really similar to it in-game, here's an example of a mod that replaces the body and tires to something more accurate to the original Mario Kart design.

Regardless of the model being selectable, i think the thread is about Nintendo approaching this series again focusing on that aesthetic, even the track design being more fitting for Karts like those.

The series has definitely taken a very flashy, action oriented route, everything is massive and visually saturated like a Marvel Movie.

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Look at that beautiful pipe frame pink Kart.

Nintendo has really fucked their artstyle lately appealing to faggot zoom zooms

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>>9124716
As a kid Choco Island was a bitch to finish in 1st Place, and even to this day i feel like the difficulty on SMK is a little overboard, great game tho and the music is fucking fire.

>> No.9125331

>>9123439
Is it me or did the Mario Kart artwork made DK Jr. massive?

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>>9125331
You are correct, they did make DK Jr massive on the concept art

>> No.9125714

>>9123470
so cute.

>> No.9125784

>>9123439
The closest you'll get is either a remake of Mario Kart 64 (or a PC port assuming a decompile is in the works) or an indie game with similar aesthetics, Mario is too big to go back to being simple as weird as that sounds

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>> No.9126112

>>9123439
No, anon. That Nintendo is dead.

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I always loved the art in these coloring books, too.

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never realized how huge Toad's Kart was in SMK compared to himself.

>> No.9127414

>>9126848
i remember this, it makes sense, in game he looks about the same size as any other driver tho.

i would be cute if Toad had that size difference with a pipe frame kart in the newest installments.

those old pipe frame Karts from the SNES and N64 version do look like they smell like oil and gasoline.

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>>9123439
You remember when characters had their OWN victory theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1TDUDpV-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbbEZoJ99A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyhyDzu9kb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTyjLRNi7ro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnulQ3cdrJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdWglgOml8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ygScnvx58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqYw8_xguI

No other MKs will be as soulful as this.

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>>9127458
Bowser and Luigi's are my personal favorites.

But Toad's theme is heavily nostalgic for me too.

>> No.9127474

>>9127458
i don't know if confirmed or fake but DK jr actually has a beta theme version too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQQbFxXXDA

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>>9127474
Its confirmed, a lot of beta music has been leaked in the past few Nintendo Gigaleaks, and also the existence of some beta tracks for the SNES and N64 versions of Mario Kart

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>>9126512
I still have my childhood copy of this.

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>> No.9127947

>>9127735

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxF-9cm0nX4

>> No.9127950

>>9126512
>>9127935
>>9127938
>>9127942
Oh man, that's a lot of nostalgia. I vividly remember coloring this at my grandparent's house as a kid.
>>9127942
This page specifically too.

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>>9127950
>I vividly remember coloring this at my grandparent's house as a kid.
Same here, it was at my grandma's. Infinitely good memories.

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>> No.9128198

>>9127947
literally whyyy. What is this monstrosity. Even worse than Wario Stadium, if a genuine beta track, thank god it was scrapped.

>> No.9128440

>>9128198
It is too fucking long.

However, i think the concept would work better if it was a city at night like Toad's Turnpike

>> No.9128969

>>9127947
That would be great for a huge battle mode

>> No.9128981

I'm really not into any of the mario games or spinoffs at all except maybe PM but I really like the old art.

>> No.9129342

>>9123439
Nope
In fact, it's been rumored that the next Mario Kart game will count Home Circuit as "the 9" and cater to the crossover autism crowd.

Mario Kart is dead

>> No.9129701

>>9128120
the jump is pretty stupid there

>> No.9129770

>>9126512
SOVL

>> No.9129775

>>9124865
>>9124758
>selecting a kite attachment for your go-kart
When did this become acceptable?

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>>9124880
>difficulty is.overboard
I feel this helps to make it the best single player Mario Kart. You really had to accept whatever place you could get on some courses they were that brutal. Even ranking 4th was a challange at times.

>> No.9129784

>>9123457
Mario Kart is not a series that I've played too much, what the new ones (there's a 8 on switch right?) makes wrong in comparison with the old ones?

>> No.9129789

>>9124880
I really can't remember, was Mario kart harder than F-Zero?

>> No.9129793

>>9127947
Damn, that would be amazing to play on. I wish every iteration of Mario Kart had at least one completely crazy track like this one. It reminds me of the completely retarded (in a good way) shit that trackmania players can come up with on their tracks.

>> No.9130347

>>9127458
for me, it's luigi's

>> No.9130430

Peach was my first fap thanks to MK

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>> No.9131290

>>9131139
Damn, that's really beautiful, i don't think ive ever seen this before, would be good to know the source of this.

>> No.9131614

Whose responsible for all this old art

>> No.9131661

>>9131614
good question, some Anon will probably have an answer.

>> No.9131859

>>9131614
someone with a lot of soul

>> No.9132014

>>9131614
if I'm not mistaken it was Yōichi Kotabe, his drawings were full of soul.

>> No.9132738

>>9127947
like the music, but the course is trash

>> No.9132818

My dream is a new game in the Super Mario Kart engine with a better roster (i.e. no DK Jr), new tracks and online play

Super Mario Kart still has the best gameplay of the series imo