There we go again with that generational divide horseshit. Plenty of people from baby boomers to (probably) Gen Alpha have liked it, for various reasons. Stop trying to pin your ridicule on whatever generation you happen to dislike.
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Yes! Gen X here and I loved it when it first came out!
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
No pre-order bonus
No battle pass
not even skins
Video game disregarded.
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Soundtrack is pretty good I guess?
Invalid opinion. Soundtrack is peak.
One of my favorite albums of all time is the soundtrack to globulous, a sphere based tetris clone for early iphones which has since been discontinued. I've never played it, never will, the soundtrack is a stand alone journey! I would put Globulous OST up there with Enigma MCMXC a.D.
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The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.
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He's right you know
It wasn't that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.
On the one hand, I didn't like it that much when it came out. It's not that I hated it or hated on it, just wasn't my thing. Mario games were far superior platforming experience all around, in my opinion.
Graphics for the time and platform were great. If you weren't there at the time and your frame of reference is modern (32-bit or later) graphics, of course they suck. But that's hardly fair or objective, when it comes to understanding why they were well-regarded AT THAT TIME.
But, I'll add this: A number of my friends' kids were introduced to 8-bit and 16-bit games first, in lieu of exposing them to toxic modern phone/tablet games. And the SNES Donkey Kong game(s) were/are amongst the games that the kids enjoyed and played the most. So, there's something to that, if you ask me.
I won't deny the technical achievement that this game was for Nintendo, and the coup it was for Rare (at the time). And i would never take pot-shots at anyone's joy of nostalgia around this game: Not all of my own favorite picks are winners. But I absolutely agree with this greentext. I recall getting this game new and just feeling underwhelmed by it.
Agreed. I played through it and it wasn't bad by any means, but the graphics were pretty much the only interesting thing about it. I don't think I ever went back to it after beating it once, whereas I played through Mario World a lot. And trying to do the collectathon 100% crap was boring as hell, because so many random hidden bananas were off the top of the screen or just down pits, so I hope you like dying a bunch to figure out which pit doesn't happen to kill you.
Idk, I think the game was pretty sick
I have a solid memory of my roommate and I hitting Mine Cart Madness, and when I finally made it through we whooped and hollered so much the upstairs neighbor got mad and came down to shush us, at 4 PM on a Saturday
has Diddy
Well at the time he was going by Puff Daddy
Even 4chan can't deny how good the soundtrack is
I'm glad to see pushback on DKC, like I was about DK64. DKC2 is the only one I really enjoyed, the rest aren't great. Being honest, I think Rare has been overhyped for years.
Konker is a fun concept, but it's honestly a pretty bad game. And I've played it through and through a few times. It feels bad giving any sort of criticism to developers who absolutely pushed the hardware limits of their consoles.
Part of why Conker doesn't feel like a good game to me is that the story feels totally disjointed. The emphasis on shock value overrode everything of value.
thats what made it so great, it poked at every trope it could within its boundaries, which with nintendo was insane.
the great mighty poo! and that sunflower with the bouncies. 12 year old me was astounded even back then nintendo let them get away with it. Even the multiplayer modes where you are nazi teddy bears was insane for its time.
One word:
::: Berri :::
I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.
Played it all the way through but my snes platformer of choice is smw2: yoshi's island
It looked pretty good for the time. Couldnt do real time 3D rendering and also be fast (StarFox was truly 3D; but iirc also ran at like 15fps and had to use a special chip in the cart to do that), so they compromised with sprites made from pre-rendered 3D models.
It also had great level design and memorable music.
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which game is this? I never played it. only DK i played was the N64 one and i loved it
This is the one right before that on SNES. I think it’s Donkey Kong Country? Let me look it up.
Yep, that’s the one. At the time, the graphics were revolutionary. It’s not a huge surprise it doesn’t look as good on a non CRT, but that’s an unfair retrospective criticism me thinks.
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