Top 10 Reasons Mario Kart 8 Is Overrated

The Top Ten
1 Roster

This is the worst roster in the Mario Kart franchise because some Nintendo staff members chose to come up with 7 pathetic clone characters to replace a veteran's spot like Diddy Kong's. FIRE THE HEAD OF MK Nintendo, HE MUST HAVE A DRINKING PROBLEM! Don't tell me that the baby princesses are radical, they are pathetic! BUt, at least Kamek will be introduced to the roster once some better people are hired. They could've replaced those 7 clones with worthy veterans like Dixie and Diddy Kong, Dry Bones, King Boo, Honey Queen, Kamek, and Birdo, but NO, they came up with 7 stupid clone characters for the roster. Oh my god, this roster is horribly redundant.

This is what I would remove although the Koopalings rock:
Metal Mario > Honey Queen
Pink Gold Peach > Swanky Kong
5 babies > Dixie Kong, Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Petey Piranha, and King Boo, respectively
DLC Pack 1 > Nabbit, Dry Bones, and Kamek, respectively

This is what my roster would look like with these 10 minor swaps:
1. Mario
2. Luigi
3. Peach
4. Daisy
5. Rosalina
6. Honey Queen
7. Yoshi
8. Toad
9. Koopa
10. Shy Guy
11. Lakitu
12. Toadette
13. Dixie Kong
14. Diddy Kong
15. Funky Kong
16. King Boo
17. Petey Piranha
18. Swanky Kong
19. Bowser
20. Donkey Kong
21. Wario
22. Waluigi
23-29. The Koopalings
30. Nabbit
31. Dry Bones
32. Kamek
33. Mii
With these changes, this roster would rock so that nobody would care about Pink Gold Peach.

This is why I hate Mario Kart 8's roster. It's completely stupid of how a character can race against themself and this roster is horribly redundant and like a blunt pencil. There are 4 versions of Mario and Peach in this roster! I want to replace the Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Rosalina, and Peach clones withe classics like Honey Queen, Dry Bones, Dry Bowser, Funky Kong, King Boo, Diddy Kong, and even 3 new characters called Nabbit, Kamek, and Dixie Kong and that would be a perfect roster.

The only thing I agree with is the lame roster. We get a bunch of crap characters like Metal Mario, Metal Peach, the 5 babies, Link, Tanooki Mario, and Cat Peach, but Honey Queen, Birdo, Bowser Jr, Dry Bones, Funky Kong, Diddy Kong, King Boo, and other diverse veterans get cut, and new people like Candy Kong, Kamek, Cranky Kong, and Dixie Kong don't even get considered. I wish the roster was more diverse, but the Nintendo head had no such luck in adding diverse experts to the roster.

2 Item Distribution

The racer in second recieves 3 red shells while the poor soul in ninth gets coins and single mushrooms?

Unlike previous kart games, now you can only hold the items you receive? What the suck? That is lame because you can't really deploy an item to deflect a red shell item.

The Nintendo staff members who came up with the Spiny Shell item should be fired!

Can't they just patch the Spiny Shell item instead of ruining any Mario Kart games?

3 Lack of Battle Arenas

Now, the battle mode contains arenas remixed from a regular Grand Prix course and hardly distinguishable from a regular kart race. What the HECK? Nintendo, you're going to take out one of the best features of the game, which would have been easy to replicate or improve upon, and slap the name on a rehashed racing mode? That is just shoddy labor.

MK8 puts more focus on racing than actual fighting. "Battle Mode" is just the ability to drive backwards without Lakitu popping up on the screen. People are racing normally and hitting people as they go by. I love the anti-gravity aspect and the ability to mix-and-match Karts, but Battle Mode is the worst.

Now the battle mode courses horribly redundant. They tried to copy 8 of the Grand Prix courses and paste them into the Battle Mode. UGH! That's just shoddy, boring, and horrifying labor, Nintendo!

The battle arenas were now remixed from 8 Grand Prix kart courses and are now nothing but a lame copy. What the SUCK?

4 Pink Gold Peach Pink Gold Peach is a character who debuts in Mario Kart 8, where she appears as an unlockable playable character.

Pink Gold Peach just took up a spot that could've gone to Dry Bones. She is the reason why Mario Kart 8's roster is lanky. I want to kick the 5 babies and the 2 gold characters out and replace those 7 with Honey Queen, Dry Bones, Dixie Kong, Birdo, Diddy, Kamek, and King Boo and that right there is a perfect roster. They could've introduced Kamek and Dixie Kong to the new Mario Kart character spotlight. But NO, Pink Gold Peach instead!

I'll agree with the 5 baby clones and 2 metal clones, get their jackass out there and replace those 7 with Dry Bones, Dixie Kong, Kamek, King Boo, Birdo, Honey Queen, and Funky, and that right there is a perfect roster. I rather Nabbit introduced to the character spotlight. NOBODY likes Pink Gold Peach!

I would rather replace this metal strand of hell with Honey Queen and Dry Bones, force Peach as a locked character, or make Daisy as the default character.

I can't believe Mario Kart 8 is high on the "Top 10 Mario Kart Games That Shouldn't Be On the Worst List" list. And why is "Double Dash" top 1?! Mario Kart 64 should be top 1!

5 Simple Tracks

At least Rosalina's Ice World, Neo Bowser City, Moonview Highway, and DK Summit didn't appear in Mario Kart 8. They are trash!

At least VS Mode is back and Neo Bowser City is gone.

Even the retro tracks were nerfed. Yoshi Circuit is missing a number of piranha plants and the minecarts in Wario's Goldmine are no longer obstacles. The original rainbow road is nowhere near the nightmare it use to be.

At least there isn't Rosalina ice world

6 Blooper Bloopers (Often Referred To Bloobers Until Paper Mario, Though Blooper was in use beforehand) are Squid-Like creatures that are found in the ocean. They made their first appearance in Super Mario Bros., and various kinds of them have appeared in the Mario games since, normally as enemies. Mario Party 8 was the first game to feature blooper as a playable character. Bloopers come in different sizes and colors, though the original variety shown in super Mario Bros is white.

Really stupid. If you've played the course hundreds of times you'll know it like the back of your hand. They are only "challenging" when you first get the game.

Why is this useless item still present?

7 Most Frustrating Game In The Series

THAT would be Mario Kart Wii, Double Dash or Super Mario Kart

It's really easy to play

8 Nerf Starman

Outside the sucking battle arenas and the bland roster, the head of Mario Kart 8 decreased the Starman power.

9 Re-Reused Tracks

That's only in the DLC packs guys.

Honestly I don't mind this. Plus their going to have to do this anyway if their going to do retro tracks

I still find it weird how DK doesn't have a console track (either new or retro). He just has the track from the last handheld game.

WHY THE DID THEY USE YOSHI CIRCUIT INSTEAD OF WARIO COLOSSEUM? Golden opportunity lost, Nintendo

10 Morton's the New Funky

Thank god we didn't have to look at a plethora of Funky Kong on Flame Runner Harleys. That was a large issue in Mario Kart Wii. This setup hacked online. Everybody found that sickening Grumble Volcano shortcut for that course using that combination.

Funky is slang for whoever is way overused for online gameplay.

The Contenders
11 Firehopping

Can't they just return the firehopping trick instead of making this game suck?

Fire hopping is an exploit and it should be removed to make things fairer.

12 Baby Peach Baby Peach is the infant version of the major character from the Mario Series, Princess Peach. She is mostly known for her appearances in the Mario Kart Franchise in Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 8 as a playable character, but she also appears in other Mario games, including Yoshi's Island DS, in which she is not a playable character.

Sometimes I wonder... is that a pacifier or bubble gum sticking out of her mouth

I think all of the babies eat gum during a race but somehow it is a pacifier.

The babies creep me out and the two gold characters

13 Princess Peach Princess Peach is a major character in the Mario Bros. Franchise. She is the lead female of the The Mario franchise. She is usually the character who needs saved in most Mario Games, but also has appeared as a playable character in the Main-Series Mario Games, including Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Run, and even starred in her own game, Super Princess Peach for the Nintendo DS. She has appeared in many spinoff series, too, including Mario and Sonic Olympic Games, the Mario Kart series, the Mario Party series, Mario Sports Games, the Super Smash Bros. Series, and many more.

Dear CuteJigglyPuffGirl, go see "Top 10 Reasons Why Sonic Adventure 2 Is Awful" and "Top 10 Reasosn Why Sonic X Is Awful". And the Princess Peach fanbase is so wild that it makes Beliebers look slightly tame.

Morons. Peach is the main female character. This hate on Peach is DUMB.

She Appeared In Every Game! That's It! I'm Starting To Like SEGA!

14 Princess Peach & Princess Daisy's Dresses
15 People Say This Is Better Than All Mario Kart Games That Are Older Than Mario Kart: Double Dash!!!

Please, calm down, whoever wrote this title. Mario Kart 8 is much better than all other Mario Kart games, but it's just my opinion. NOT because of the ruined Battle Mode, roster, or Coins, but because of the anti-gravity, and the amazing track design.

The best thing about Mario Kart 8 would definitely be the anti-gravity and the worst thing about this game being the Princess characters (Rosalina rocks, though Baby Rosalina is cool) and their clones/baby selves!

Nostalgiatards got on this list. It is better than the originals. Graphics, controls, tracks, and music are all better than the originals.

I meant to say "People say that modenr Mario games are better than classic Mario games.

16 Peach, Daisy, Baby Peach & Pink Gold Peach's Voices

I think the user meant the alternate versions of Princess Peach like Pink Gold Peach (because apparently Metal Mario wasn't enough), Baby Peach and Cat Peach (get it?! Vecause Mario Kart 8 was released shortly after 3D World!. ;-)

17 Baby Rosalina Baby Rosalina is an infant version of the major character from the Mario Bros . Franchise, Rosalina . She first appeared in Mario Kart 8 as a playable character and is now one of 5 baby characters in the roster, alongside infant versions of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Princess Daisy .

Please go away and we could replace Baby rosalina with some clever characters rather than having another clone!

She contradicts Rosalina.

18 The Controls

The A button is your gas pedal, but the bottom left trigger is for shooting items. What the HECK!

19 Mario Kart 64 Is Way Better Than This
20 Tough Controls

Who ever added this to the list, just sucks at Mario kart 8

Controls are the easiest in the series!

21 Focused Way Too Much On Graphics

That's a good thing...

22 Gamerscore Addition/Subtraction System
23 Lightweights Are Nearly Useless

Instead of the 5 babies in the feather class, Dry Bones and Nabbit must take their place in the feather class.

You have to be a fatty for a solid chance of victory.

My story of Mario kart in this. Comet>Slim>MKTV Parafoil is my combination along with one of the fatties.

And that's why I made my Mii bigger.

24 Annoying Voices

Only interesting factor of this is how annoying the character roster is!

Shy Guy now has new sound effects in Mario Kart 8 like OH NO!

25 The Box Art
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