but i would like to enjoy the game as diddy kong or wiggler not baby rosalina or 'pink gold peach'

Don't complain about the character roster until you know all of them dude. I doubt wiggler will return but Diddy Kong is very likely an unlockable.

do we know for sure this 30 isn't the whole roster? was under the impression it was.

They never say it's the final roster, and there are always drivers they don't reveal before release on console versions. I believe.

At the very least they didn't say 30 was the final number.

i remember a line in the direct about their being 30 racers. not explicitly like that, but yeah.

If i remember correctly Mario kart Wii came out and had characters no one even knew about same with 7 that you had to unlock and that was back when nintendo had the means and ways to reveal all this stuff even before the directs.

you have to remember a game dev isn't gonna reveal everything off that bat that just takes away from finding it out yourself.

Did you not pay any attention to the stuff being shown before 3D World's release?

Because I didn't and I'm really glad I didn't because lmao why did they spoil that stuff

yeah that was completely idiotic and that's why i'm hoping this direct they learned they should probably not do that anymore

Wait what, now they are putting more metal characters? Man now I am hoping for Alloy-Luigi and Nanotubes-Wario
Well, at least they didn't forgot Waluigi this time, like that one time...
Anyone who liked more the pre-made karts than customizing one? I would like it more if the custom parts were more related to the characters

Isn't it better to be able to play as any character you want? Once you find a kart combination that's comfortable for one heavy character, you can comfortably play as any of the heavy characters, with no adjustment. Imo that's much better than "I wish I could play as Waluigi, but he just doesn't turn hard enough for me"

Why do people keep saying they are gonna put more metal characters or that this is a staple thing and they are gonna do alot of it in the future when they only announced 1 metal character?

Maybe because they are specting it to be similar to the baby thing where Mario, Luigi and the princesses have counterparts.
Not that I expect it, maybe they are going to have another Metal character for MK9

What characters are you guys going to play as?

I'm gonna use Lakitu a lot, since I played the s*** out of him in MK7.

I'm gonna use Shy Guy (unless by some reason Dry Bones comes back)

R.O.B