Best Donkey Kong Country?

yoshisaur · Post by **yoshisaur** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:04 am

My favorite donkey kong country is Diddy's Kong Quest.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:04 am

that's because it's the best one

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:06 am

Why do you ask in the wrong forum... seriously?

Moving this thread because misfiring is a sin.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:44 am

when i played the original it was pretty sweet.

Never had the staying power of a Mario game to me though

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:31 am

The second has pretty much the best balance, and it shows.

No moves that are only used for a couple secrets in the whole game, no fetch quests, and bramble blast.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:09 am

#1 because the colors where right. These games really pushed the SNES hardware to it's limits.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:10 pm

I was about to say the same, but you can read it as "it tries to make the best that is possible within the limits of the SNES technology".

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:56 pm

grinvader wrote:The second has pretty much the best balance, and it shows.

No moves that are only used for a couple secrets in the whole game, no fetch quests, and bramble blast.

and its considerably longer then the first one which is a huge +

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:39 pm

yup, the first one was great, excellent team, so good they made a sequal to outdo themselves and it was excellent too. Then they left and the B team while making a decent game, just copied all the ideas that the first team had and didn't have the same style and design.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:20 pm

first one was really good

2nd one was alright

3rd one just went further from the other 2 , the treasure hunting aspect was alright , but yet another game without DK himself...

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:24 pm

ReRuss wrote:first one was really good

2nd one was alright

3rd one just went further from the other 2 , the treasure hunting aspect was alright , but yet another game without DK himself...

I'm surprised no one's made a hack with DK in the other ones. Personally Diddy was my fav character in the first one, and then when they introduced Dixie I loved her even more for the helicopter ponytail, Diddie and Dixie the ultimate team.

I did think it was lame when they did yet ANOTHER the main heroes are captured in DKC3 though, it was like "ok you've done it once, now it's just lame"

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:27 pm

Also things start going downhill when they introduce baby characters.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:29 pm

Donkey Kong Land.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:06 pm

Panzer88 wrote:I'm surprised no one's made a hack with DK in the other ones.

Adding his sound samples could be tricky.

Johan_Hanberg wrote:Donkey Kong Land.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:16 pm

creaothceann wrote:
Panzer88 wrote:I'm surprised no one's made a hack with DK in the other ones.
Adding his sound samples could be tricky.

having him sound like diddie or dixie might actually be humourous

also it'd be cool if you could use the updated renders, or port the better renders back to DKC 1 (you could also trade other characters, animals, and moves back & forth from the games, you'd need to know your stuff though)

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:55 pm

creaothceann wrote:
Johan_Hanberg wrote:Donkey Kong Land.

It's what I played back in the days of wanting a SNES and having a GB, the gameplay is close to as good as DKC.

And the soundtrack is about the best for any game ever in my opinion. They're like awesome fantastic spectacular chiptune remixes of the original tunes, which were also great. I highly recommend all fellow lovers of chipmusic to give it a listen!

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:06 am

I'm with ReRuss. Donkey Kong puts the Donkey in Donkey Kong Country.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:12 am

Jipcy wrote:Also things start going downhill when they introduce baby characters.

so what, by that logic, the mario games went downhill when they released super mario world 2: yoshi's island?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:26 am

Johan_Hanberg wrote:[...] the soundtrack is about the best for any game ever in my opinion. They're like awesome fantastic spectacular chiptune remixes of the original tunes, which were also great.

Mmmh... will have to try that.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:47 am

adventure_of_link wrote:so what, by that logic, the mario games went downhill when they released super mario world 2: yoshi's island?

Yoshi's Island (original or DS) wasn't a bad game, but baby Mario is certainly annoying ("let's make it so that they hear a crying baby for up to 10 seconds every time Yoshi gets hit!").

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:16 pm

In other games you'd be dead.

Just don't get hit.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:31 pm

baby mario didn't bother me that bad, then again, you didn't play as him (except when invincible, but that was badass, still, I'm not a fan of baby mario in say, mario kart)

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:30 pm

Jipcy wrote:("let's make it so that they hear a crying baby for up to 10 seconds every time Yoshi gets hit!").

The counter starts at ten seconds by default and regenerates if it's less than ten when you catch baby mario (eg: you have five seconds on the timer when you catch mario, it'll regenerate up to ten seconds)

You can pick up stars to increase the timer up to thirty seconds (however to go from ten to thirty you need the stars, the timer regnerates itself up to ten seconds, so be careful, as you are scored partly by how much time you have on the timer when you clear the level, you are also scored on how many red coins you collect and the flower heads)

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:52 pm

moreover mario stops as soon as you catch him, so as long as you get him right away you only hear a cry or two, it's not annoying though so much as it is punishment for you screwing up

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:42 pm

They made a "New SMB" , why cant they make a "New DKC" , and if the game size wasn't too big they could make it buyable on Wii (Holy shit worthy "WiiWare"!!) , or even have it on DS , either way if it's got DK , and Diddy , without bongo function , or nothin but swinging , it might be alright.