NeoGAF is one of the most well known gaming discussion environments of the net, and every year the many users of the forums are called to vote on their Game of the Year. The 2014 edition was organized by timetokill, who has been taking care of the awards since 2009.
Today the results of the vote have been posted, counting a whopping 1252 voters. While the most anticipated award for 2015 seemed mostly a vote of confidence for PS4 games (even if Nintendo did fairly well too), the Wii U completely demolished the competition for this year.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
Nintendo has recently restored Wii U Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon online after five months of being offline.
Mario Kart 8 has been out for nine years now if you include the Wii U version. Despite the Switch port continuing to sell insane numbers since it came out in 2017, many people believed that a new installment was way past due. When the Booster Course Pass was announced instead, it was a bit controversial, with one side of people stating that it was time for a new game, and the other side believing that this was the best course of action and that there's nothing else Nintendo can do to innovate the franchise.
There's nothing wrong with the games, but after most of them being very samey, I got a bit bored. I liked MKDS because it added a mission mode, yeah it didn't have maybe as many as I'd like but it was decent for variety.
I really prefer the new Mario Party for the different types of games in it.
Mario Kart doesn't really feel fresh because you know what to expect for every new game pretty much. The single player mode of DKR was far more in depth a game vs Mario Kart IMO, MK is probably better for multiplayer though.
It needs a campaign mode like Crash Team Racing with open hubs, driving around the Mushroom Kingdom, selecting your races and the like. Have a system like the CTR tokens within the races that then unlock secret racing cups later on or the time relics to unlock other things.
There's nothing wrong with the games but when you've had the same set up for so many games it just gets a bit samey after a while.
They could even have something like a track creator like Modnation Racers or something.
After starting with the first game on SNES, I think the last one I bought was on the DS.
I think the next gimmick should be interactive tracks with obstacles and traps such as maybe throwing a shell ahead to make something fall on another player Also have water and mud parts that effect handling more also fire parts that can cause you to over heat if you stay in it to long etc...
I don’t think it needs ‘a gimmick’ so much, because gameplay is pretty much perfect right now, but I would like the next Mario Kart to do either a ‘track-builder’ thing, so you just get access to the tools and make your own tracks (think Modnation Racers or LBP Karting), and/or expand upon ‘Mario’ Kart and open it up to the rest of Nintendo IPs, and just do a ‘Nintendo Kart’, so we’d see more of Zelda, but also Starfox, Kirby, Metroid, Valkyria Chronicles*, etc.
* I know, technically not ‘Nintendo’.
Is Sunset Overdrive really a shooter? Looks more like a regular action game, do you shoot all the time?
And that Bayonetta 2 domination, awesome, I agree with it:
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Wow!!!! # first games are Wii U games. WTF??? Not even to Wii console we didnt see a so good rank from gamer's choice.
Wii U did have a very impressive year in terms of games. And I really cant disagree with the choices especially Bayonetta 2.
Hopefully this will stop people calling Neogaf "Sonygaf". As you can see its just a forum where gamers of all types post. Glad to see Nintendo get some recognition there.
Nintendo deserves to be honored for the quality they continue to produce across both systems and multiple genres. We will look back on this gen and see that Nintendo would've won if they would have had a 8 GB RAM and cheapo laptop processor like the other two. I hope the suits in Japan see that is all that takes for a generational win.
1. Make a console on par with the lowest of XBox/PS
2. Do Nintendo first-party stuff
3. Profit/Win
Woah. Congratulations Nintendo, that's a great sweep! That's actually really, really impressive.