DK appreciation thread.
 

Alright just a DK thread where we'd keep an eye out on any new DK game anouncements/rumors for the GC, Revo or DS. Because apperantly, a "No traditional DK game for GC?" thread automaticaly means "ZOMG JUNGLEBEAT SUCKS" =/

Anyway, a Revo DK would be interesting to see but last time I checked there haven't been any confirmations yet...

Can this include appreciation for Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat?

Oh ho ho. Seriously though, Mario vs DK and DK: JB are the only DK games I remember enjoying. DKC was good, but it didn't stand out in my mind. DK was my least favorite Nintendo franchise until very recently (now it's AC and AW).
So yeah, appreciation. Yay.

Also, I predict in DK Rev: Vine swinging.


Edit: Mostly I'm pointing out the fact that DK64 sucked rancid ass.

Yes, yes. yeesh.

Anyway, totally random but, It'd be neat if DK-Revo had these minigame levels where the camera's positioned behind DK, and you use the Revo controler to swing while dodging enemies and catching bananas...

Oh and I don't exactly remember. Did the little expansion cartridge thing for DK64 really make a difference?

I loved DK64! Even if everyone else hated it. I loved the feel. It was a nice platforming game. It was in the same league as Super Mario 64 to me.

This is why I don't really have that much doubt that I'll like Donkey Kong Revolution. They most likely will try to make it so much better than DK64 that I'll be overjoyed with the game because I was content with the game everyone hated.

DK64 is indeed a fine platform game....much better stil then any similar platform game that I've encountered on the PS2, XBOX (except for Conker) and the Gamecube (except for Mario Sunshine)!!!

It just suffered a bit, because of too many characters and things to collect.
That's also why the Banjo Kazooie games are superior, although they are both made by the same team of people!

AC????? AW??????

Am I just out of the loop or does this guy need to start spelling words in their entirety.

Well, I know AC stood for animal crossing.

I don't know what AW stands for.

Gotta be Advance Wars.

Yeah, Animal Crossing and Advance Wars.
I'm not saying either is a bad series, because they're not. I'm just not into them at all, so they're my least favorite Nintendo franchises.

If there is a thread only for DK, then there should be : Link, Mario, Samus, ect.

I wasn't aware of this crucial e-law, but why stop there? Zool, Bubsy, Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Alex Kidd, the snail from the maze game hidden in the Master System, Chuck Rock, Zit, Rash, Pimple, Cool Spot all need appreciation threads in their own seperate appreciation sections. Do not pass go do not collect $200.

I was a big fan of the DKC games on SNES. It's cool how they've attempted to port them to various Game Boy systems over the years and failed miserably every time.

I was going to post in that thread before I realised it was locked. It's quite logical as to why DK didn't get a platformer style adventure title on the Cube; Nintendo's IPs each cover a seperate genre. You've got Mario for the platformers, Zelda for the adventure/ quazi RPG, Metroid for the exploration/shooter etc. Having a 'DK128' doubles up on the Cube's library, so they find a niche for DK to cover. To an extent, Rare did compete against Nintendo's first party titles last generation. You don't want that for efficiency's sake.

I always thought that DK had enough of it's own appeal and charm. Therefore, it didn't end up really going head to head against Mario. There's plenty of room for both of them.

I loved the first two DKC games, but I thought the third one was horrible. I loved the music from the first two DKC games (especially the 2nd), but I thought the third one was horrible. Wow, talk about deja vu.

I'm not a big fan of apes in general, so I never really paid much attention to the DK games, except for the aforementioned Country series and the Donkey Kong game for the GB (which looked awesome on the Super Game Boy). I just LOVE the DK theme used in Push Mode (Tetris DS), however, and the Kremlings did come out of the DK series, so I'm happy with that. Anthro crocs are always cool in my book.

The recent DK games now look a little too 'out there' for me, however.

If you have something to say about my decision making then say it now.


Donkey Kong Country 2 was the best out of the DKC trilogy. I enjoyed the first one as well but three was just annoying.

Fair enough. I don't see why my previous thread was closed. There was no reason to treat it like a Jungle Beat bashing thread when all it suggested was a new traditional DK game.


Anyway, I didn't realize DK64 got such backlash. Especialy since, from what I remember, it pretty much recieved good reviews.

Sometimes DKC3 didn't even seem like a game. It was just so boring. Sometimes I wondered why they would hurt the world with such a boring game.

Don't forget about "A Boy and his Blob"

I think Donkey Kong COuntry 1 and 2 are some of the best games of all time. I love the railcart levels and the barrel vine levels. AHhh....good times. Now I have to go listen to Aquatic Ambiance

I don't like Donkey Kong because he's furry and reminds me of King Kong. Plus, I was on the Megadrive crowd, so everything else felt so foreign. DK64? Only $129.95? Better put that on lay-by son, I'm dipping into my life savings! (Actually, I ended up lay-bying DK64 and then about eight years later I decided that I wasn't actually going to purchase it. Mainly because Donkey Kong's a furry. And I never had a life savings.)

Also, if this exists, I'd like a Cool Spot thread.

Because he's a cool spot.

Please? ;_;

The way it was first worded and where it was going trickled down into a debate over Jungle Beat which we've done many times over and it always always sucks. I closed the thread because the scope of its original question of there being another DK game for cube is pretty much zilch making it pointless in addition to the crap it would have turned into. I told you that a general Donkey Kong (well DKC but whatever) discussion thread of past games and future games would be fine and you went and did that which was good, but you had to insert that little snide comment and thus here I am asking what the problem is.It was a massive and unreasonable collect-a-thon. Make 5 characters collect bananas from all over the fucking huge map in order to make the slightest progress. Not fun.

It only got good reviews because by that point in the N64 lifespan games were releasd at a rate of 1 every 3 months. Reviewers were grateful to even turn the system on, for when they did memories of happier times engulfed them and everything was reviewed well.

Go back and play Banjo Tooie. Utter tripe.

DKC 1 and 2 are classics. I own 2, but not 1. I've thought about picking it up several times. 2 is just such a larger game, with more variety, more secrets, etc. However, 1 just has a certain "feel" to it that appeals to me.

Taking turns playing through the levels in college was some of the most fun we had with games. People would spazz out when I would run through a level non-stop instead of being careful - it's just how I play. :D

I think the original DCK is an important game in the SNES library because it really heralded a completely new level of graphics. I wonder what a fully polygonal/shaded/etc. side-scrolling DKC would look like?

I agree to a fault. Yes DKC3 was, at a lot of times boring, but I think that is in part to it being compared to how great DKC2 was. I did, however, appreciate some of the creativity and originality of some of the levels. Such as:

Lightning Look-Out
Rocket Run
Poisonous Pipeline

Not to mention how difficult they were.

The biggest problem with the DKC gba versions were the music. They butchered it. I didn't believe it until I listened to a good quaility version of DKC2 Original soundtrack after hearing the GBA music. They couldn't really even do all of the good background effects in the music like the SNES one.

What was with DKC3 GBA's music though? They completely changed it. It wasn't at all as good as the SNES music. I guess maybe the DKC3 soundtrack was a little too complex to put on the GBA. They problably didn't even want to go through the hassle of it. Who made the music for DKC3 gba? Maybe it was still David Wise?

Yeah. For the GBA versions Dave Wise alone was the composer. For DKC3 for the SNES, Eveline Fischer assisted Dave.

The GBA doesn't have as many channels as the SNES does so when doing ports of SNES games to GBA you almost always lose some amount of music quality. Sometimes the only feasible way to make it work is completely redoing the music.

That's all good and well. However you closed the thread abruptly without any explanation at first so I just did not see what the reasoning was. I now see where you're coming from. Anyway, know that I had no intention of creating a Jungle Beat debate thread. If I did, the thread's title would have reflected that. But hey, it's fine. I think this thread's turning out more interesting anyway.



Ick, I didn't realize the mighty RARE stooped to such cheap tricks. Perhaps they are a bit overrated after all. On a different note, I'm really curious to see what Nintendo will do with the franchise on the Revo.

I'm more excited about Banjo Kazooie 360 more than this Donkey Kong nonsense.

I do think Nintendo will make a good platforming game though. Just not as fun as Banjo Kazooie 3.

It would look like this
http://www.siliconera.com/gcn/dkjunglebeat/041228s6.jpg
Idiot.

LOL!
Nintendo haven't even released any gams for Rare to photocopy though! Banjo 3 wont even exist.

Oh, I didn't know they released a Donkey Kong Country game for Gamecube! Or is that a Revo preview shot?

Idiot.

That's Donkey Kogn Jungle Beat! A 2D platformer! On Gamecube!

Co-incidentaly it's also the best game ever made!

I'm surprised you have never heard about this. They hyped this game like crazy as well.

I hear Rare's making Donkey Kong Racing for Project Dolphin. Been in development for six years now, it's gonna be awesome. =D

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7...racing045e.jpg

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2...racing016g.jpg

Also

Yes!

Mind telling me what year development started on this thing?

Well, I just go by the news. I remember reading something that said Banjo Kazooie 3 would definitely come out on the 360....too bad I can't remember where I got that info from :(...I think it was from IGN.

Rare platformers have never been as good as Nintendo platformers. DKC falls short of Super Mario World, Banjo falls short of Mario 64.

"Ick, I didn't realize the mighty RARE stooped to such cheap tricks. Perhaps they are a bit overrated after all."

What? Every Rare platformer, with the exception of DKC, is a collectathon. It's like the Super Mario Sunshine blue coin deal, except with Rare that's pretty much the entire game.
It's probably apparent that I'm not exactly a big Rare fan. I've just always felt as though they make mediocre games. They've got a few good ones, but I think the vast majority of them lack anything special, anything really worthwhile.
And nowadays they're even worse. They're a group of people riding on a name that made a few good games.

...And you riding the Mario train is different right?

How about this?

Et tu, Miyamoto?

What?

Well anyway there's a rumor floating around that there's going to be a DK game shown for Rev at E3, from the DKJB dev team, I hope it's true. I can't think of another Nintendo dev team who would handle DK better.

Jesus Christ, Synthesis. It's a joke. That game was revealed before Gamecube's first E3 in a video. It was never seen again. Noone ever got to play the game and as we all know Rare went over to Microsoft after Star Fox Adventures Dinosaur Planet. In that transition a bunch of franchises Nintendo allowed Rare to keep. Banjo Kazooie, whether you liked it or not and I certainly did, was one of those franchises Rare got to keep. Hopefully the third console game of the series will be good, but that's neither here nor there since this is a thread about Donkey Kong.

Also, I suggest that you stop with the Nintendo Mario whoring etc. haterism crap in here, Synthesis, as it always goes nowhere and is pointless. People wouldn't buy these games if they didn't enjoy them whether they were made by Nintendo or made by Rare.

and dear god why do you have Bible Black in your sig?

"...And you riding the Mario train is different right?"

This doesn't even make sense. I was talking about Rare, the group of people who made the game. Not the people who play it.
I will admit that I thought Sunshine, a few glaring faults aside (blue coins and the plot) was a brilliant game. It was just plain fun.
But it's the only Mario Gamecube game I own, unless you count Luigi's Mansion. I don't own Mario Tennis or Mario Party or any of those.
Either way, I don't see how that has anything to do with Rare being washed up, and my opinion that they were never all that great to begin with.

Are you serious? It's a joke? The second I saw "Project Dolphin" I knew it was BS. You're awesome for picking up on that.

:doh: My bad. I just misread your post.

I must admit Rare is in quite a situation here. In regards to the next-gen consoles, it has done poorly. Especially with Perfect Dark: Zero not being the killer-app that Rare was hoping it'd be.

I'm curious, was there even a single Donkey Kong game that had you feeling satisfied at the end? Or has the entire lineup been a complete letdown for you?