1:07:40 One vital thing to keep in mind in this game is the concept of "boost cannibalization". You don't want to trick when a boost panel is coming, since the boost you'd get from the trick would be cannibalized by the panel. Since you get more air when tricking (thus, you go slower), the best thing to do is to charge MTs in mid air, only to release them after the boost panels. This is very important on tracks like Wario Stadium, Waluigi Pinball, Wild Woods... And in every track where you have boost panels near ramps (or boost panels in general)
to answer ur question, the vast majority of top players dont play with motion, but its not hard to very quickly toggle motion either on a trick or during a miniturbo. Very worth it for tracks like mario kart stadium and dolphin shoals where the motion glider saves vast amount of time, and more than worth learning
40:40 the reason the koopa clown and the ancient tires are being used is because they have high traction which is really good for dk summit. Yoshi has a good traction stat aswell.
33:00. I think the original 48 are better in detail and I prefer their art style, but the Booster Course Pass tracks play a lot better, I prefer their retro choices, and have some cool tech like half pipes and such.
Hey Troy, I've got some sunshine airport notes for you. The plane trick is slower unfortunately. We actually get to the plane too fast before it is in a trickable position. We have tried slowing down intentionally to get the trick, but the trick boost isn't faster than optimal driving. Secondly, the hardest part of this track is actually right after the cannon glider. the SMT (orange) into UMT (purple) is extremely difficult to squeeze out and is definitely the most advanced strat on the track. Most players should go for just a tight line here with an MT (blue) into UMT (purple).
2:39:36 the reason for hopping through the uphill waterfall section in shy guy falls is purely because the water is flowing against you, so it slows you down. It’s the same idea as hopping through the offroad to maintain as much speed
To answer your question, using a mushroom at the very start of a race is optimal, but not because the section is awkward to drive. The acceleration at the very start of a race is slow, often slower than a small shortcut. It's optimal to use a mushroom at the start in one of 3 cases. 1: The track doesn't have any shortcuts (like Wii Rainbow Road or Water Park). 2: The best shortcut on the track (or shortcuts if it's a city track) doesn't save enough time over using your mushroom at the very start of the race (like Amsterdam Drift or Wii U Rainbow Road). 3. You end up going around for coins on lap 1 regardless of how big the shortcut is because of how important coins are (like Moo Moo Meadows or Ninja Hideaway). Sometimes, you don't use a mushroom at the start of a race when there are no shortcuts. This is because of the cycles of obstacles (or track elements like wavy road) and if you use a mushroom immediately, they'll get in your way and you'll have to purposefully slow down, or the cycles won't be in the fastest position. Examples of this are Toad's Turnpike and N64 Rainbow Road.
8:54 the reason they use the streetle on these tracks is because it gets a huge underwater speed bonus, like +4 or 5 so it’s stat total is OP in water. However it’s not really worth using over teddybuggy or Scooty in online bc there aren’t many water tracks
The longest video Troy ever did including streams was the combo sabotage stream he did. He also did a 3 hour and 30 minute stream with an old friend on Halloween once.
@@connor9568 Yep, they're nostalgic for me because that was a cool era for custom tracks and it was also Troy in his prime days. They're all unlisted now, but I saved them by making playlists.
Hey Troy, I play competitive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and I can tell you that motion controls do in fact get used on this game online, especially by the top players in Lounge. We change the button mapping on our controller to make it much easier for example, I map my + to R and my Y to L so if I ever need to turn on motion controls, I just tap R L R and boom it's on. Even smart steering gets used competitively, on DK Summit, if you pull a golden or triple shrooms, you can use the ridge to shroom and launch yourself over the gap and in midair, you turn on smart steering and when you land, shroom again and the smart steering in combination with the shroom landing keeps your speed and is quicker than the normal double cut. For motion glider, off the top of my head I know it is used for the ending of Mario Kart Stadium, Dolphin Shoals, the 1st glider with smart steering as well for N64 Rainbow Road. I've even seen it used on the final glider on lap 3 on Squeaky Clean Sprint. There are probably more but those are the ones that come to mind. I don't use them myself as it can be a hassle to learn and online you have to pre-turn on motion controls mid-lap and play to the glider you're motioning on with motion controls and for me that's very difficult but I do use it in my time trials.
2:42:28 For a second I thought you were saying "what the varmint" as an exclamation (like "what the heck"). I'm definitely going to start saying that out of context to annoy my friends 😆
18:58 I think the mini turbo just goes as fast as the spin boost and it lasted longer than the spin boost would have, plus the spin boost is at a wider alignment than what he was going for so it's definitely slower to hit the spin boost in that particular situation
Simply incredible, Troy! You actually stole every 150cc record! I never thought anyone could do it, but clearly I misread the caliber of your unchallenged skill! For this masterpiece of a video, I renounce my unsubscription! I hope you can forgive me for unsubscribing all those years ago.
@@Vs-arenahave you seen troy’s driving skill in this video? He beat every world record! It’s hard to not be a fan of that. And he’s humble, too, acting like it was someone else. What a guy!
hes never able to comprehend traction being a stat in every vid hes ever done its even more funny considering how good he is at mk, he should notice those builds only pop up on slippery tracks
The reason the rrm motion glider looks gradule is because that combo has not much air handling if i remember correct You should do a video where you use lemmy, jet bike, monster wheels, waddlewing glider
15:09 mr scooty is definitely becoming more and more popular, i think a big reason is that wall-dodging items is much easier with it than with teddy buggy or biddybuggy!
Thanks Troy for making today’s work shift better. I enjoyed the commentary on the different techs and strategies to shave every millisecond off the clock
streetel is my fav frame in 8dulux and it had (might still have) the highest water speed, and it was really good cuz you didnt need to ulock it, so super fun for playing at a freinds.
I Decided, Not Only To See The Entire Video, But Use The Same Combos As The Once On Every Track, In Order To Better Every Time Trial On My Switch. And This Took Me 3 Days. And Every Record I Did, Was Minimal 10 Seconds Longer, To 27 Seconds Longer. It Was Awesome. Next I'll Do The Same With The 200cc Video. Thanks Bro
24:59 The wall bonk in the bathroom is done to avoid getting blown wide by the fan, so it's kinda sorta not really different. And it really feels like the same technique as the LA shortcut bonk once you get it down.
Not sure if this is something you are open to doing but I think for other reaction videos you could do it would be cool to see this type of video reacting to every world record for other Mario Kart games that you don't normally feature on your channel. DS and Super Circuit come to mind as ones that would cool to see that for but really it could work for any Mario Kart game.
Y'know, if there's one thing that really amuses me as a casual player... it's that once again, through sheer dumb luck, my favorite general combination has turned into "the meta". Or at least, "french vanilla". (Online, I mean, not for Time Trials!) Yoshi has always been my favorite character, and I started using the Rollers and Cloud Glider alongside the Yoshi Bike (little red yoshi boots!!!!!!!) around Wave 3 or 4. And if the Builder website is to be believed, the Yoshi Bike's stats are - aside from the inside-drift - pretty much identical to the karts people always talk about (Cat, Teddy, etc). Granted, the Yoshi Bike might not be exactly meta, and I'm certainly nowhere close to this kinda skill level, but it's very funny to me. ...I also feel like Yoshi is a much better character to be "meta" than some others. At least Yoshi/Birdo have so many color options, so they're less samey!
I always watch these videos all the way through. I love your reaction videos and all your videos overall, been watching you for almost 10 years now I think :D
25:24 yeah! streetle has very solid acceleration/mini turbo on top of super high underwater speed and good traction, making it good on tracks like scs, piranha plant cove, and riw
There are some shortcuts which are not in the world records, but which are really cool-lookinh like in wario stadium, which hydrex did, like, also it'd be cool seeing you learning some of the lost insane shortcuts
It would probably take 30+min longer but in shortcat's pro guide, in the description he has a link to shroomless WR's, that would be a cool one to react to cause that would be more applicable
For Boo lake and Piranha Plant Slide and probably some other tracks you keep the momentum of the Kusaan Slide midair and switch your drift direction to not lose speed and use the Kusaan Slide Speed still.
Coconut mall mushroom cut at the start with the bonk is actually way easier than trying to take the cut normally! Just hook it tight to the last bit of wall, then do a little wide drift. Easy!
To answer the question about which 48 I like the most, I think I will go with the original 48 ones bc the new ones are mostly all ripped out of tour including the "new" ones which are not, they were new on tour, not on 8 deluxe but I think they called them new bc they wanted to keep the "tour" title to the city tracks.. (even the ones from the other games were ripped out of tour) so the graphics look a lot worse than the original ones (take the grass of 3DS Toad Circuit as an example).. also there are so many alternate ways and lastly I would like to add that they removed so many cute details from some of the older tracks from the other games.. but yea, I still love the booster pack though :)
The original 48 by a long shot because there’s so much detail put into them compared to booster 48. While the quality of the booster 48 doesn’t bother me, looking very closely, nintendo did a rush job 😂. The booster 48 includes some great tracks though: Yoshi Island, Coconut Mall, Waluigi Pinball, Bangkok Rush. I’m mixed on the city tracks.
Also Troy, there is a great video made by pii on the history of the ribbon road world record that is really great and explains all of that tech and the pace break extremely well. I think you might find it interesting!
IMO The original MK8 track lineup is more consistently enjoyable overall. The bcp has higher highs, but all the city tracks really weigh it down for me, along with some of the weaker choices like Merry Mountain and Sunset Wilds being disappointing
In my opinion, the booster course pass is a little worse than the base game even if you exclude the wave 1 tracks just because those ones are less textured, have much less changes and create more boring races, also the base game tracks are a really good bunch because in my opinion there are no bad tracks that I hate playing on and there are so many great ones such and Mount Wario and Big blue, but it’s very close between both parts of the game anyway, I feel like I enjoyed the booster course pass a lot more because they also added many changes to game modes such as VS race which I guess made me happier because it gave me a new way to play after playing the same game for about 5 years and I was starting to get bored. I also feel as if the hype of the booster course pass was increased because of how bad the first wave was and that every Wave got better and better and they were adding tracks that people enjoyed more towards the end during Waves 5 and 6.
1:57:07 I have practiced this track a little bit and it feels really consistent and easy to do. The problem is getting bonked or getting shocked before or during the shortcut if you play this track online.
Id love to see a comparison between day 1 WR and current WR to see how much they evolved or a comparison between wiiu WR and switch WR to see how different the tecs are
Teddybuggy is more popular online because you have slightly more speed and the additional mt points biddy has is only useful for hard tech or tight miniturbod or snaking which is hard to do online
I personally think the BCP has better 48 tracks, but there's some S and A tier tracks in the base game like shy guy falls and wild woods and you can never go wrong with cheep cheep beach imo
2:38:58 Tanooki Mario shares the same stats as Inkling Boy and Male Villager, having almost the same stats as the meta but having less traction in favor of more weight than said meta
33:00 personally I think the Booster Pass 48 are a little better, it has only 6 original courses that are really weak imo, but it has such better “retro” tracks compared to the original ones that it just carries the Booster Pass.
Something that I think would be kinda cool to see you react to is Mario Kart Amped Up. It’s a mk64 mod pack that has some great tracks and add mechanics like mini turbos and tricks. I know it’s not really a game you typically cover, but the pack is pretty cool
"Oh look at Troy, he's on world record pace, he's gonna go to the stairs--" 🤭 (good vid! Happy 10 years to MK8!) Edit: For stuff you can react to in the future: maybe 96 or 48 track speedruns?
Hear me , I predict in the next Mario kart you will be able to create your own tracks in addition to having his own tracks, and Paper Mario will be a playable character.
Happy 10 Year Anniversary to Mario Kart 8!!!
@@jpraise6771 As a christian, not the time.
As a Christian it's always the time and God tells us to tell all creation about him it's always the time @@eszett36
@@jpraise6771Godbless!
Amen
@@JohnMcCallum-p9t amen has fallen into the river in Lego city
1:07:40 One vital thing to keep in mind in this game is the concept of "boost cannibalization". You don't want to trick when a boost panel is coming, since the boost you'd get from the trick would be cannibalized by the panel. Since you get more air when tricking (thus, you go slower), the best thing to do is to charge MTs in mid air, only to release them after the boost panels. This is very important on tracks like Wario Stadium, Waluigi Pinball, Wild Woods... And in every track where you have boost panels near ramps (or boost panels in general)
to answer ur question, the vast majority of top players dont play with motion, but its not hard to very quickly toggle motion either on a trick or during a miniturbo. Very worth it for tracks like mario kart stadium and dolphin shoals where the motion glider saves vast amount of time, and more than worth learning
40:43 because the koopa clown and the ancient tires offer the best traction stat
I was actually about to timestamp that and simply type "Traction."
40:40 the reason the koopa clown and the ancient tires are being used is because they have high traction which is really good for dk summit. Yoshi has a good traction stat aswell.
33:00. I think the original 48 are better in detail and I prefer their art style, but the Booster Course Pass tracks play a lot better, I prefer their retro choices, and have some cool tech like half pipes and such.
also, the crowd of shy guys that watch the races are much more blatantly 2d in the booster course
Hey Troy, I've got some sunshine airport notes for you. The plane trick is slower unfortunately. We actually get to the plane too fast before it is in a trickable position. We have tried slowing down intentionally to get the trick, but the trick boost isn't faster than optimal driving. Secondly, the hardest part of this track is actually right after the cannon glider. the SMT (orange) into UMT (purple) is extremely difficult to squeeze out and is definitely the most advanced strat on the track. Most players should go for just a tight line here with an MT (blue) into UMT (purple).
2:39:36 the reason for hopping through the uphill waterfall section in shy guy falls is purely because the water is flowing against you, so it slows you down. It’s the same idea as hopping through the offroad to maintain as much speed
0:39 Wario, Maok 8 and the crimson slim wheels offers the best anti gravity stat witch is very usefull on wii reainbow road
Bro Funky using the surfboard car on Moonview is crazy honestly
To answer your question, using a mushroom at the very start of a race is optimal, but not because the section is awkward to drive. The acceleration at the very start of a race is slow, often slower than a small shortcut. It's optimal to use a mushroom at the start in one of 3 cases.
1: The track doesn't have any shortcuts (like Wii Rainbow Road or Water Park).
2: The best shortcut on the track (or shortcuts if it's a city track) doesn't save enough time over using your mushroom at the very start of the race (like Amsterdam Drift or Wii U Rainbow Road).
3. You end up going around for coins on lap 1 regardless of how big the shortcut is because of how important coins are (like Moo Moo Meadows or Ninja Hideaway).
Sometimes, you don't use a mushroom at the start of a race when there are no shortcuts. This is because of the cycles of obstacles (or track elements like wavy road) and if you use a mushroom immediately, they'll get in your way and you'll have to purposefully slow down, or the cycles won't be in the fastest position. Examples of this are Toad's Turnpike and N64 Rainbow Road.
8:54 the reason they use the streetle on these tracks is because it gets a huge underwater speed bonus, like +4 or 5 so it’s stat total is OP in water. However it’s not really worth using over teddybuggy or Scooty in online bc there aren’t many water tracks
A Streetle is on Sunset Wild
You did not consider that the Streetle is the cooolest.
The longest video Troy ever did including streams was the combo sabotage stream he did. He also did a 3 hour and 30 minute stream with an old friend on Halloween once.
omg i remember that stream, it was in the suuuuuper early days of youtube streaming
@liammcgrath7051 Yep! That’s the one! 2013 Halloween, Troy and Tom did a stream on Halloween. The stream is unlisted now, but I have a playlist.
@@LiamDeegeWow, I had forgotten all about those streams. Very nostalgic.
@@connor9568 Yep, they're nostalgic for me because that was a cool era for custom tracks and it was also Troy in his prime days. They're all unlisted now, but I saved them by making playlists.
On 200cc, Ster actually made it to 1000 days on GBA Mario Circuit, great video Troy!
Hey Troy, I play competitive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and I can tell you that motion controls do in fact get used on this game online, especially by the top players in Lounge.
We change the button mapping on our controller to make it much easier for example, I map my + to R and my Y to L so if I ever need to turn on motion controls, I just tap R L R and boom it's on.
Even smart steering gets used competitively, on DK Summit, if you pull a golden or triple shrooms, you can use the ridge to shroom and launch yourself over the gap and in midair, you turn on smart steering and when you land, shroom again and the smart steering in combination with the shroom landing keeps your speed and is quicker than the normal double cut.
For motion glider, off the top of my head I know it is used for the ending of Mario Kart Stadium, Dolphin Shoals, the 1st glider with smart steering as well for N64 Rainbow Road. I've even seen it used on the final glider on lap 3 on Squeaky Clean Sprint. There are probably more but those are the ones that come to mind.
I don't use them myself as it can be a hassle to learn and online you have to pre-turn on motion controls mid-lap and play to the glider you're motioning on with motion controls and for me that's very difficult but I do use it in my time trials.
1:31:24. I think Army just really understands the game mekameks. 😂😂👌
Not funny
2:42:28 For a second I thought you were saying "what the varmint" as an exclamation (like "what the heck"). I'm definitely going to start saying that out of context to annoy my friends 😆
4:30 If anyone is wondering that is called a kusaan airhop :)
18:58 I think the mini turbo just goes as fast as the spin boost and it lasted longer than the spin boost would have, plus the spin boost is at a wider alignment than what he was going for so it's definitely slower to hit the spin boost in that particular situation
ok now rank them
Simply incredible, Troy! You actually stole every 150cc record! I never thought anyone could do it, but clearly I misread the caliber of your unchallenged skill! For this masterpiece of a video, I renounce my unsubscription! I hope you can forgive me for unsubscribing all those years ago.
I thought you weren’t a fan
@@Vs-arenahave you seen troy’s driving skill in this video? He beat every world record! It’s hard to not be a fan of that. And he’s humble, too, acting like it was someone else. What a guy!
Wait he beat every record!? I thought he was just watching them. Wow that’s cool
@@Vs-arena He's just joking like he always does
truly the goat of mario kart 8
hes never able to comprehend traction being a stat in every vid hes ever done
its even more funny considering how good he is at mk, he should notice those builds only pop up on slippery tracks
My Mario kart Wii brain ignores the traction stat apparently
"its probably at the same level as the streetle, or at least almost"
*Pipeframe with the same stats as the streetle* ;-;
The reason the rrm motion glider looks gradule is because that combo has not much air handling if i remember correct
You should do a video where you use lemmy, jet bike, monster wheels, waddlewing glider
2:40:02 Wow, I never noticed that Tanuki Mario does the statue animation from Mario Bros 3 NES when he's tricking
That's an awesome touch
Happy 10 year anniversary to Mario Kart 8! A wonderful decade-long adventure throughout a wonder game, I continue to love it to this day!
All that snaking on Vancouver Velocity was giving me Mario Kart DS flashbacks.
Huh?
watching you rn to drain out my parents arguing. keep up the good work troy!!!
15:09 mr scooty is definitely becoming more and more popular, i think a big reason is that wall-dodging items is much easier with it than with teddy buggy or biddybuggy!
When hitting a wall, you only loose speed when you are not in a miniturbo or other accelerating item
Love the Sky Garden music at the beginning, my 2nd favorite track in DS after Peach Gardens.
2:40:05 they are hopping because when you hop in that waterfall it ignores the downstream force of the waterfall so they go full speed
Thanks Troy for making today’s work shift better. I enjoyed the commentary on the different techs and strategies to shave every millisecond off the clock
Now THIS is a certified hood classic!
Congrats on 500K subs! I’ll be around for the one million mark!
streetel is my fav frame in 8dulux and it had (might still have) the highest water speed, and it was really good cuz you didnt need to ulock it, so super fun for playing at a freinds.
Happy 10th anniversary MK8!
I Decided, Not Only To See The Entire Video, But Use The Same Combos As The Once On Every Track, In Order To Better Every Time Trial On My Switch. And This Took Me 3 Days. And Every Record I Did, Was Minimal 10 Seconds Longer, To 27 Seconds Longer. It Was Awesome. Next I'll Do The Same With The 200cc Video. Thanks Bro
24:59 The wall bonk in the bathroom is done to avoid getting blown wide by the fan, so it's kinda sorta not really different. And it really feels like the same technique as the LA shortcut bonk once you get it down.
Not sure if this is something you are open to doing but I think for other reaction videos you could do it would be cool to see this type of video reacting to every world record for other Mario Kart games that you don't normally feature on your channel. DS and Super Circuit come to mind as ones that would cool to see that for but really it could work for any Mario Kart game.
i just know that i spent the whole video taking notes and drawing, thank you so much for this and get a well deserved rest.
These world records are incredible! What a great video to post for Mario Kart 8's 10th anniversary! 😎
"we don't see a lot of 2 purple mini-turbos being chained together because its so hard-"
Waluigi pinball with 3 purple mini-turbos chained together
Y'know, if there's one thing that really amuses me as a casual player... it's that once again, through sheer dumb luck, my favorite general combination has turned into "the meta". Or at least, "french vanilla". (Online, I mean, not for Time Trials!)
Yoshi has always been my favorite character, and I started using the Rollers and Cloud Glider alongside the Yoshi Bike (little red yoshi boots!!!!!!!) around Wave 3 or 4. And if the Builder website is to be believed, the Yoshi Bike's stats are - aside from the inside-drift - pretty much identical to the karts people always talk about (Cat, Teddy, etc). Granted, the Yoshi Bike might not be exactly meta, and I'm certainly nowhere close to this kinda skill level, but it's very funny to me.
...I also feel like Yoshi is a much better character to be "meta" than some others. At least Yoshi/Birdo have so many color options, so they're less samey!
Mario Kart 8 turns 10 today! (This was one of the first Mario game’s I’ve played)
We Got 10 Years Later with this game forever playing with my power!!!🏆
I always watch these videos all the way through. I love your reaction videos and all your videos overall, been watching you for almost 10 years now I think :D
Time trials is an underrated game mode. Thanks!
25:24 yeah! streetle has very solid acceleration/mini turbo on top of super high underwater speed and good traction, making it good on tracks like scs, piranha plant cove, and riw
There are some shortcuts which are not in the world records, but which are really cool-lookinh like in wario stadium, which hydrex did, like, also it'd be cool seeing you learning some of the lost insane shortcuts
I am on the inward tops on 200cc Toad Circuit and I don't have to toggle Motion controls mid race because my joystick does it itself for some reason.
2:10:31 I hope for the next Mario kart game they add live time trials, like a mix of current time trials and online
like online time trials on mkwii
It would probably take 30+min longer but in shortcat's pro guide, in the description he has a link to shroomless WR's, that would be a cool one to react to cause that would be more applicable
It’s actually a quadruple trick for dk mountain
i like these 3 hr videos theyre so cozy :3
you could watch the retro rewind kart world records! could be fun to see the inside drift purple mini turbo on the mkwii tracks!!
Happy 10th Birthday to Mario Kart 8!!!
For Boo lake and Piranha Plant Slide and probably some other tracks you keep the momentum of the Kusaan Slide midair and switch your drift direction to not lose speed and use the Kusaan Slide Speed still.
Coo-zaan sounds wrong but Ka-saan sounds like a french pastry so they are interchangable
Coconut mall mushroom cut at the start with the bonk is actually way easier than trying to take the cut normally! Just hook it tight to the last bit of wall, then do a little wide drift. Easy!
Let’s go I was waiting for it ! Enjoy all !
To answer the question about which 48 I like the most, I think I will go with the original 48 ones bc the new ones are mostly all ripped out of tour including the "new" ones which are not, they were new on tour, not on 8 deluxe but I think they called them new bc they wanted to keep the "tour" title to the city tracks.. (even the ones from the other games were ripped out of tour) so the graphics look a lot worse than the original ones (take the grass of 3DS Toad Circuit as an example).. also there are so many alternate ways and lastly I would like to add that they removed so many cute details from some of the older tracks from the other games.. but yea, I still love the booster pack though :)
The original 48 by a long shot because there’s so much detail put into them compared to booster 48. While the quality of the booster 48 doesn’t bother me, looking very closely, nintendo did a rush job 😂.
The booster 48 includes some great tracks though: Yoshi Island, Coconut Mall, Waluigi Pinball, Bangkok Rush. I’m mixed on the city tracks.
Are there even people who genuinly like the booster pass less than the default mk8d tracks? I enjoy the booster pass 10x more than vanilla
I think streetul has higher traction than teddy or mr scooty that’s why it’s used on rosalina ice world
Happy 10th anniversary, Mario Kart 8!!!!
Also Troy, there is a great video made by pii on the history of the ribbon road world record that is really great and explains all of that tech and the pace break extremely well. I think you might find it interesting!
Here we go again
I'd love to see you react to the all 96 track WR with CPU and items. The level of pure luck and RNG-rigging is insane
Mario Kart 8 Flounder Fest with Nmeade and shortcat after race to 30’?.??
Thanks for the great video, I really enjoyed watching all these runs alongside your commentary!
2:34 he should’ve linked that video somewhere I would’ve appreciated that
I completely forgot that MK8 is now 10 years old lol
I almost didn’t click because I thought it was a reaction video- but the commentary was good!
the booster pass courses are so much better than the original
IMO The original MK8 track lineup is more consistently enjoyable overall. The bcp has higher highs, but all the city tracks really weigh it down for me, along with some of the weaker choices like Merry Mountain and Sunset Wilds being disappointing
In my opinion, the booster course pass is a little worse than the base game even if you exclude the wave 1 tracks just because those ones are less textured, have much less changes and create more boring races, also the base game tracks are a really good bunch because in my opinion there are no bad tracks that I hate playing on and there are so many great ones such and Mount Wario and Big blue, but it’s very close between both parts of the game anyway, I feel like I enjoyed the booster course pass a lot more because they also added many changes to game modes such as VS race which I guess made me happier because it gave me a new way to play after playing the same game for about 5 years and I was starting to get bored. I also feel as if the hype of the booster course pass was increased because of how bad the first wave was and that every Wave got better and better and they were adding tracks that people enjoyed more towards the end during Waves 5 and 6.
31:47 teddybuggy has a really good air speed and because of the glider sections it gets used
You know, of this game had been called yoshikart, id be here for it
Good chunk of these aren’t even records anymore and have already been broken.
1:57:07 I have practiced this track a little bit and it feels really consistent and easy to do.
The problem is getting bonked or getting shocked before or during the shortcut if you play this track online.
Id love to see a comparison between day 1 WR and current WR to see how much they evolved or a comparison between wiiu WR and switch WR to see how different the tecs are
Teddybuggy is more popular online because you have slightly more speed and the additional mt points biddy has is only useful for hard tech or tight miniturbod or snaking which is hard to do online
I personally think the BCP has better 48 tracks, but there's some S and A tier tracks in the base game like shy guy falls and wild woods and you can never go wrong with cheep cheep beach imo
2:38:58 Tanooki Mario shares the same stats as Inkling Boy and Male Villager, having almost the same stats as the meta but having less traction in favor of more weight than said meta
On Yoshi Circuit the scooty is used because it can go easily in between the tires in the shortcut near the end of the laps after the zigzag
33:00 personally I think the Booster Pass 48 are a little better, it has only 6 original courses that are really weak imo, but it has such better “retro” tracks compared to the original ones that it just carries the Booster Pass.
This is a certified 10th anniversary classic
i remember back in 2020 i downloaded the world record of 8 deluxe rainbow road and i was actually keeping up with it
Perfect timing as i was just about to play again for the first time in a while.
watched through the whole thing. what a great video loved your reactions keep up the great content!
Something that I think would be kinda cool to see you react to is Mario Kart Amped Up. It’s a mk64 mod pack that has some great tracks and add mechanics like mini turbos and tricks. I know it’s not really a game you typically cover, but the pack is pretty cool
"Oh look at Troy, he's on world record pace, he's gonna go to the stairs--" 🤭
(good vid! Happy 10 years to MK8!)
Edit: For stuff you can react to in the future: maybe 96 or 48 track speedruns?
There are a decent amount of really good booster course tracks but overall they just can't match the consistent high-quality of base-8 tracks imo
I wish I could sit around and watch Mario kart for 3 hours 😂
13:07 NO WAY IT'S A QUADRUPLE TRICK
Hear me , I predict in the next Mario kart you will be able to create your own tracks in addition to having his own tracks, and Paper Mario will be a playable character.
1:02:15 that's name the Jen zua glide because that's Jen zua that discovers it
2:24:00 sounds like a teams notification around here and it scared the crap outta me
Plot twist: he was driving all this time