Soundtrack is pretty good I guess?

Invalid opinion. Soundtrack is peak.

Anyone tell that fool that CRTs were literally the only kind of TV that existed at the time

monke

No pre-order bonus

No battle pass

not even skins

Video game disregarded.

I know this is rage bait, but DKC was fantastic. I remember when Blockbuster video held a contest where you could play a game, and if you had the best score in the entire store you could win free movie rentals for a year. And if you did good enough, you could qualify for a “The Wizard” style video game competition in California. I played the shit out of this game to practice for weeks. I learned all the spots where you could drop down a hole and instead of dying, you get some rewards. I went in to this blockbuster ready to get my family a year of free movie rentals and possibly a trip to California. The first hole I dropped down I died. They had a modified version of the game that didn’t have these secrets in it. I was entirely unprepared. I played my 3 turns and did pretty terrible. After we left the blockbuster my parents had to run into a store and I just waited in the car. I literally cried cause I was so disappointed in how bad I did.

The soundtrack is pretty good tho

The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.

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.

Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.

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 remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.

I always chose Diddy

It wasn't that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.

has Diddy

Idk, I think the game was pretty sick

You fucking idiot

You absolute baffoon

Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you

I played Donkey Kong Country on a Gameboy Colour (I had a SNES but never got the SNES version) and I thought it was one of the best games ever 😭 still remember tryin to get past that mine cart level lol

Even 4chan can't deny how good the soundtrack is

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.

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.

Played it all the way through but my snes platformer of choice is smw2: yoshi's island

Am I the only millennial that doesn't care for Nintendo?

which game is this? I never played it. only DK i played was the N64 one and i loved it

I can’t stand most platformers, but particularly older ones. It’s maddening to play within such small visual areas. If I have to consistently guess what’s on the other end of a jump in a game about controlling my jumps, you’ve fucked up completely as a developer. Donkey Kong is awful at letting you know what exists in front of you within a timely manner.

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.

I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.

Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.

In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.

Yep, agree

Yea, the graphics of this game (and Super Mario RPG) are nightmare inducing. I can only be onboard with anon about this. Plus, you had great point+click adventure games back then as well.

Also soundtrack is mid. It has no Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!