Mario Kart 8 vs DriveClub

Didn't you already tell me that in another thread?

Sad attempts at uncanny valley and photorealism, what is this, Sega CD era?

Yeah man, Club Nintendo always has the sweetest promos and shit. So if you buy MK8 and register it and get a free game, when you by a Wii U, you'll have three sweet games right off the bat (since you can't buy a Wii U that doesn't come bundled with a game).

We aren't talking about Killzone Shadow Fall

@PhazonBlazer said:

Hmmm, which one looks better?

Takes more than graphics to make a game fun.

I think we can all agree that driveclub should probably score a point for having an in-cockpit view. But then again, If I stick one of those plastic wheels around a Wii Mote, my couch IS a cockpit. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

No :(

Although I am playing Child of Light, and my gudness, it is loooooooooooooooovely.

Skipping the cartoony rubber band fest on the dead system. Will try the ps+ version of DC, but that's probably it.

Doesn't MK8 have a cockpit view just like MK7 did?

One of your facts is wrong. Drive club was delayed once. The rest was speculation made by people.

Second a nutty combat racer versus a simulator?

That's really dumb char.

So a difference in artstyles is automatically indicative of graphical inferiority? What?

You know better than that, you should know the entire OP is tongue in cheek. I would have thought the 'delayed' Never vs Multiple times was a dead giveaway :p

I can't tell with you anymore. You're just THAT wacky!

Maybe. I haven't seen it in any of the screenshots/trailers.

Thanks, I try lol :P

You gonna get any/both of these? We need to play online if you do!

To be fair, MK7's cockpit view was singularly useless, it could only be used with gyro controls iirc

Good theard, I prefer MK8, but I've never really been much for racers...though Forza Horizon did tickle my fancy.

I didn't say that. You're just comparing unrelated things to two practically unrelated games in some desperate attempt to own Sony fanboys. The fact you even made this thread is evidence of that.

I never paid much attention to that game but it seems that everybody really likes it. I'm actually surprised it's an RPG, i would have never guessed, i thought it was a platformer of some sort.

Yeah I reserved MK8 kinda excited for a new Wii-U exclusive.

Drive club i'm just gonna get the PS+ version and depending on how it's set up probabl spend somewhere between 10-15 bucks there.,

Mods really have to put up with too much crap. Too much true to handle. Jack was right.

It's a puzzle-y, metroidvania, turn-based kind of deal.

Very interesting. I've known you for 5 minutes, Cyberlips, and there are 2 things I can conclude:

1. You need to buy Child of Light.
2. We need to get married.

Then I don't follow. I think you agreed that MK8 is a graphically impressive game, but then you call it out on its artstyle in your post? Unless you are saying the games are not similar genres and shouldn't be compared, in which case I have to say... they are both racers. They are both among the premier releases for their respective systems this year. That already makes them have more in common than about 70% of the other comparisons on this board.

Mario Kart 8 myself, but that's because I currently have a Wii U at the moment and no PS4. If I did have a PS4 and had to choose though I'd still go Mario Kart 8, but if I had a PS4 though and weren't forced to choose I'd probably end up with both.

Awesome lol, let's play both of them online when they release.

DriveClub looks... interesting to me. It sort of reminds me of Forza Horizon, so if it continues to show some good stuff, I might be moe inclined towards it nearing its release. We'll see haha.

good fun thread

you know, i'm a big fan of sim racers. depending on many things includings driveclub's driving physics, i might end up putting these two racing games on par with each other.

Will support the new IP, thanks. The industry needs more of them.

I've seen stupider stuff on Sw. Why don't you go back to playing shit-field 4 and pretending that you're a heavy weapons expert?

I think in the long run drive club will be a fine racer. Nothing special though. Are we friends on the Wii-U? Or do you not even have one yet/

In my opinion it's Mario Kart 8 > Driveclub, Halo, Uncharted, Smash Bros, Destiny, Star Citizen, etc.

I got it last November haha, but I don't think we're friends. I'll send you an invite later this evening (or you can add me- I'm Pramath1605).

SYSTEM WARZ IS SRS BUIZNEZZ GUIZ.

So two boring racing games one made for children the other for adults oh cool.

Either JohnnyDanger or something like that

MK is made for children?

Mario Kart 8. I've had way more fun with these games than the "realistic" driving simulators. 1080p, no matter what game, are moot. Don't matter, it doesn't make a game more or less, its the gameplay that does matter. So, MK 8 for me.

Alright, I'll send you one in the evening when I'm home again =)

@charizard1605: I will enjoy both, I'm sure of it. But I'm way more hyped for Mario Kart 8. I've played every single one of them and though they are very much alike, they still keep me entertained for hours. Hundreds of hours when it comes to local MP, it's always a favourite of mine when I have friends or relatives come over.

Also, Mario Kart 8 is 1080p in 1 player mode and 2 player splitscreen, right ?

Well, which one is for children and which one is for adults?

You don't find your statement ironic at all?

Also aren't you a young adult?

Ohh I forgot who i'm talking to.
Mr. Hyprocrit.

I do.

I wasn't talking about graphics. They are both racers but they are pretty much as different as they get. So you're comparing the two which makes no real sense.

That's basically like comparing CoD with ArmA. They don't appeal to the same fans nor are they even trying to compete. There is in no way that DriveClub and Mario Kart 8 are competing for the same fans like Gran Truismo and Forza do. A much more apt comparison would be DriveClub vs. Grid. Hell even Forza vs. DriveClub or GT vs. DriveClub makes more sense. There could even be a Forza Horizon 2 this year for a perfect comparison. Project CARS is coming out later this year and that would be a good game to compare DriveClub to. While I know that one is a sim and another is sim light, it's still a better comparison than a sim-light racer vs. a cartoon/battle racing game.

But if you want to talk graphics I'm game. Mario Kart 8 is indeed a great looking game, but it's easy to see why it's 1080p at 60fps. Its got very simple geometry and textures. Lighting and shading is also very nice looking and flashy but it too is pretty simple otherwise it would complicate the clean picture Mario Kart has the distinct advantage of being a cartoony game when it comes to visuals.

DriveClub is in its own league when it comes to graphics. Not only does one car probably have more polygons being rendered than an entire scene of Mario Kart 8, you're also looking at a fully dynamic lighting engine with time of day with dynamic day and night cycles. Then they decided to set the game in very large, highly detailed landscapes. It's clearly by far the more demanding of the two games.The whole 30fps makes a lot of sense when you look at the graphics as it's pretty clear the developer didn't want to sacrifice any detail for 60fps. They could have easily gone that route too. Turn 10 did with Forza 5 and because of that Forza 5 is a very graphically inconsistent game.

So here you're trying to take an artistic approach that is very technically friendly and compare it with a very technically demanding approach. You throw the whole 1080p60 vs 1080p30 on the list of comparisons as if it means something to the discussion when it really doesn't. It's just a bulletpoint in favor of a game you clearly are hyped for.

I get it, you're excited for Mario Kart 8, but you're comparing to unrelated games and even bringing up stupid things like the direct to Youtube upload as if that somehow makes the game better to play. Not only is the bias evidence, it's just unnecessary. It's really pointless. They are unrelated games in their respective subgenre of racing. If you have a WiiU you can buy Mario Kart 8 and if you have a PS4 you can buy DriveClub or wait for the Crew if the game ends up being mediocre. One of these two games being better than the other means nothing considering they are fundamentally different games with completely different audiences.

I know I shouldn't be getting wrapped up into this as much but I'm sick of seeing these stupid comparisons. It breeds really dumb conversation when there are plenty of other things to discuss and debate about.

Yes, I stand corrected, I just assumed it was 720p because lolWiiU :p

You have entered the 1080p/60 fps gen, wasdie.

It's pretty simple:

1080p > 720 p

60 fps > 30 fps

And any game that is lower resolution or lower FPS is simply not worth playing.

So if for example Ninja Bread man was remade on WiiU with 1080p and 60 FPS and TLOU was remade on PS4 with 900p and 30 fps, than Ninja Bread man is the game worth playing and TLOU isn't.

Those are the Gen 8 aka 1080p/60 fps gen rules.

Project Cars>>>>>>>>>>Drive Club>>Karts

This got me thinking - what about DLC? I think Nintendo will have it for Mario Kart, and I think it will be done right.

That was easy.

You won't hear me complaining. Good username, btw. We need more people with good usernames.

@Animal-Mother said:

@finalstar2007 said:

So two boring racing games one made for children the other for adults oh cool.

You don't find your statement ironic at all?

Also aren't you a young adult?

Ohh I forgot who i'm talking to.

Mr. Hyprocrit.

It's the good old 'game has colors so it's made for children' logic

Which goes really well with the 'game lacks colors so it's made for real men' logic

Does Drive club have any characters that are metal AND pink?

No?

MK8 wins.

1080p/60 fps greatness (as long as you don't play with 3 or 4 locally :p)

Nintendoes what Sony don't

So you're saying that MK8 is a less demanding game. I don't doubt this is true. This just means that Mk8 devs were smart and went with an artstyle they could make look good, run at 1080p, and run at 60 fps.

Not our fault Driveclub's dev team reached too far and had to lock their game at 30 fps because of it.

Mk8 will still me more responsive.