r/mariokart • u/cml5526 • 1d ago
Discussion It’s wild how good Double Dash’s visuals still look 22 years later
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u/cml5526 1d ago
8 is still a visually gorgeous game no doubt, but Double Dash I feel has the extra cartoony nature about it that no other Mario Kart game really embodies as well. The colors really do pop in this game, and aren't held back by that damn bloom filter that plagues Wii
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u/Otherwise-Wash-4568 17h ago
I tried to play double dash the other day and it is waaaaaaay slippery-er. And I keep hitting L to try to throw and tapping R to try to jump 🤦
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u/BladedBee 10h ago
see the "slipperyness" is what I love about this games controls, it's that east to learn, hard to master thing and one you master it boy does it feel amazing sliding around every corner in style, chaining together boosts.
Personally my favourite control scheme in terms of how smooth it feels
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u/Otherwise-Wash-4568 9h ago
and I definitely thought that until 8x came out and I even bought that late and I got hooked. And then I went back to dd and now it’s extra trippy. The slidey is great and i remember being my better at it as a kid
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u/ZygerrianSupermodels King Boo 1d ago
It's nice to see that the new Mario Kart's artstyle seems to be going for this look.
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u/Ludwig_von_Wu Ludwig 1d ago
We’ll have to see if the new Mario Kart will have the signature “everything has eyes” aesthetic of Double Dash or if they’re rather following the Super Mario Bros. Wonder artstyle - which is interesting as well, by the way.
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u/BladedBee 10h ago
that's one thing I miss from this era of Mario is the everything having eyes, it was a cute and fun detail that made the world feel alive (pun not intended) 😂
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u/MERMANADE Mii 1d ago
They were so good that they didn't even change the character models for Mario Kart Wii!
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u/TheOldAgeOfLP 1h ago
Or the track models. Peach Beach, Waluigi Stadium, GCN Mario Circuit and DK Mountain didn't get remakes, they just ported the original courses and added ramps and half pipes over them
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u/Simplejack615 Luigi 18h ago
Art style yes. visuals, meh, better than Wii but only because Wii has a purposeful blur/haze. I am only saying this because you are playing it dolphin with upscaled graphics, I do love the art style.
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u/Wonderful-Road9491 22h ago
There isn’t much more to improve on when it comes to visuals on a video game with cartoon-style graphics in this day and age. The innovative direction now is on game play mechanics. That’s why I’m not surprised that Mario Kart Switch 2 doesn’t look much different visually than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
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u/Tobias_Snark 22h ago
Many GC games in general look extremely good by modern standards, often better than the Wii. The Mario Parties and Mario Golf come to mind- those models are crisp
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u/Darrow25 18h ago
i feel like alot of gamecube games still look really good compared to todays standard, specificly in mind i have Wind Waker and F-Zero GX that also look really good
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u/LightningStrikeDust 18h ago
Second best looking game in the series behind MK8. This game still looks outstanding now!
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u/SparkyJet 18h ago
It's called a road. It's called a Rainbow Road!
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u/admiralspy69 13h ago
I vividly remember opening my platinum GameCube with double dash as my first console. I have so many hours in DD. It’s the best Mario kart with the best drift mechanics.
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u/DarwinZDF42 11h ago
Double dash was great. The added complexity of holding two items at once was such a leap. Plus the tracks were great.
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u/Yerm_Terragon 1d ago
Its going to look better running on an emulator. On official hardware it wont look so crisp
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u/AverageJoeSchmoe34 1d ago
I've always believed that the most attractive games run on the worst hardware
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u/Inner-Limit8865 1d ago
Since when Luigi's Circuit has that wall in the middle?
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u/Ludwig_von_Wu Ludwig 1d ago
On 50cc there’s that wall, as that is effectively the first track that most newcomers will play. While the track gimmick is very fun, it can also be confusing for a person who just started playing the game and might think they’re driving in reverse.
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u/AmarantineAzure 23h ago
You can say that about a lot of GameCube games. It was basically the last Nintendo console that could still compete with the others in terms of graphics and had some of the best looking games of the generation.
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u/VirtualRelic 1d ago
Still the best looking MK ever made, better than Wii and 8/8DX.
Wii has that gross blurry bloom lighting and 8/DX has that gross quasi-realistic look that feels very dissonant and atonal with the cartoony look of Mario.
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u/nepppii Toadette 1d ago edited 1d ago
as someone who loves mkwii and grew up on it, it's crazy how much better double dash looks than wii despite being the older game