Mario Kart 7 or Mario Kart 8?

[XDaDePsak]

I have a 3DS XL now. I'm holding out to get a Wii U in late Nov. for Black Friday (hoping for a good sale, deal or bundle or something).

So should I get Mario Kart 7 now? Or should I hold out and get Mario Kart 8 instead?

 

[SomewhatMystia]

I'm going to personally say hold out, just because I like the feel of playing Mario Kart on a console with a sizable controller better. I could definitely see there being a bundle for Mario Kart (and one for Smash, if it's out by then), so you could nicely kill too birds with one stone by grabbing that.

 

[Minato]

Hold out for Mario Kart 8. It offers a lot and there are those DLC packs with even more content.

 

[Yokta]

To be more specific, Mario Kart 8 is better than Mario Kart 7 based purely on its mechanics. The anti-gravity mechanic is surprisingly fun and doesn't feel gimmicky in the slightest. It also has Mario Kart 7's cart customization and glider/submarine mechanics. The only places where Mario Kart 8 pales in comparison to its predecessor is the Battle Mode, which works better in number 7. But Battle isn't really what Mario Kart is about, is it?

 

[SomewhatMystia]

>But battle isn't what Mario Kart is about, is it?

I'unno, it made me a special kind of sad to hear that they got rid of classics like Block Fortress and Skyscraper. Agreed on everything else, though! Honestly, anti-gravity just seems like driving at fun angles where you get bonuses for smacking into crap.

 

[Claire Diviner]

>But battle isn't what Mario Kart is about, is it?

^This. I almost never play battle mode in Mario Kart unless I'm playing MK64 or MKDS.

 

[SomewhatMystia]

... Y'know, come to think of it, nor do I. I guess Block Fort just made that huge of a difference since everything went all chaotic and pear-shaped once you launched a few shells into the bottom layer.

 

[XDaDePsak]

What? Battle mode is possibly my favorite thing about Mario Kart!

So I should go with Mario Kart 7 in that case?

 

[Admiral Mikey]

What? Battle mode is possibly my favorite thing about Mario Kart!

So I should go with Mario Kart 7 in that case?

I'd say yes! Mario Kart 7's battle mode isn't the best, but it's leaps better than 8's. The biggest problem with 8 is that there aren't any Battle Mode-specific arenas, all of the matches are done on the actual race tracks, which has led to my friends and I driving around for several minutes sometimes without seeing one another.

As a whole, I believe Mario Kart 8 is better, but its battle mode is just awful.

 

[Octillus]

Mario Kart's battle mode is mystifyingly terrible. Like they all got drunk on mescaline, a little too touchy feely and then decided to sacrifice a lemur instead of a goat.

It really makes that little sense. If anything - they should've excised it altogether and beefed up the core content, including the online content. Sure, people would've complained, but when a true battle mode rolled out, say by DLC that was actually robust (since, let's be honest, it was always a side game anyway) people would've been happy.

Instead what we got was a mode that no one likes. NO ONE.

 

[Sahfarry]

Hold out for F-Zero UX.

 

[XDaDePsak]

I'd say yes! Mario Kart 7's battle mode isn't the best, but it's leaps better than 8's. The biggest problem with 8 is that there aren't any Battle Mode-specific arenas, all of the matches are done on the actual race tracks, which has led to my friends and I driving around for several minutes sometimes without seeing one another.

As a whole, I believe Mario Kart 8 is better, but its battle mode is just awful.

Don't know what you're smoking, son. Battle Mode was the core of multiplayer on Mario Kart 64.