Thoughts on Mario Kart 8's battle mode?

[CM30]

Well, do you like the battles taking place on modified versions of normal courses, or do you wish they had actual battle arenas instead?

Here's a video showing what I mean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3CaYqyrDNs

Personally, I'm not sure. On the one hand, as I mentioned in my article on the daily site, I didn't really like a lot of modern Mario Kart arenas. They seemed a bit... bland. But on the other... I think a really good set of original arenas would probably work best to be honest.

Perhaps something kind of big and impressive, like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgeeTt3R10

Or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyiAyE2AgVA

I think something like those (with more detail and maybe a lot more players) would work for some interesting battles. The best arenas in these combat games are always the larger ones, just ask anyone who played Nazi Zombies (there's a reason people preferred the likes of Verruckt and Die Riese to Nact De Untotem or whatever it was called).

 

[Smashboy]

They shouldve definitely went with battle arenas. Playing on tracks is a bit unsatisfying. Most players will continue to drive around the tracks as if they were racing and that causes battles to go on for too long,you'll just be searching for other karts most of the time. When players die,they become ghosts and the ghosts usually end up ganging up on active players and thats how most of your games will finish.