Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong
Submitted 22 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Even 4chan can’t deny how good the soundtrack is
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The reward for 101% was getting 101% ya muppet. Does this idiot think people play games for intangible pointless achievements instead of having fun? It must fucking suck going through life needing an extra reward for doing something fun.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
Meanwhile, the reward for 100%ing a game in 2025 is… a ribbon on your Steam account.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours ago
This comment deserves a *
hushable@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
knowyourmeme.com/memes/xbox-360-kid
This meme is almost 20 years old
Alk@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Aeri@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Anyone tell that fool that CRTs were literally the only kind of TV that existed at the time
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I mean, other types of displays definitely existed.
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
In that era you had CRTs or Rear Projection TVs.
Rear Projection was bigger (55" 4:3) but often times was susceptible to burn-in and had a worse quality picture compared to a CRT
Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s which had the most technical advantages over LCD Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn’t really match them until the 2010s (I never had a plasma display though so I don’t fully understand plasma)
DLP was a thing and could get up to and over 80" while maintaining quality but DLP could not be wall mounted as they were quite big like rear projection screens
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yea but LCDs were shit and had shifting colors across the screen even when you were sitting right in front of them.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
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.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 17 hours ago
No pre-order bonus No battle pass not even skins
Video game disregarded.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
the chain smoking and hard drugs of video game’s
danc4498@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest 🙂 Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.) But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 haha 😂
danc4498@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m so jealous!
uranibaba@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
What do you mean a modified version? What or the point of that if they are sending people to a contest after? Unfair.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
There’s a 1.2 version that fixed several bugs and glitches, including at least one warp
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
monke
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
He’s right you know
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
It looked pretty good for the time. Couldnt do real time 3D rendering and also be fast, so they compromised with sprites made from prey rendered 3D models.
It also had great level design and memorable music.
silasmariner@programming.dev 6 hours ago
You could start Starfox without the extra chip if you did some trick with the cartridge, but there were big black bits on the screen or something? It sorta worked but it sucked. I can’t remember any more details than that.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
has Diddy
OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well at the time he was going by Puff Daddy
moakley@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
sega kid
shitty game takes
Many such cases
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Sonic the Hegehog wasn’t fun. Good art direction, great music; terrible level design that very often countered the premise of “going fast.” I never found them enjoyable and find it crazy how big the series is, even though most games in the franchise are said to be garbage even by Sonic fans.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now
moakley@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’d say those were solid games, but not great.
Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.
Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn’t just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra “Rare” flavor on top of it.
And like, you don’t notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can’t eat there anymore because that’s all you can taste.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Idk, I think the game was pretty sick
kalpol@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
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
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
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.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You fucking idiot
You absolute baffoon
Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a “him problem”, but still!)
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Oof, I might be the fool thinkong of DKC 2
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Yes, but… how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?
Zoot@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Or a sibling for that matter
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
5in1k@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 21 hours ago
The soundtrack is pretty good tho
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 21 hours ago
My parents had a pretty good stereo, and I loved to just listen to the water level soundtrack.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 21 hours ago
Okokimup@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Oh my god
I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there 😂😂😂
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 6 hours ago
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
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
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. No Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!
AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I always chose Diddy
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I always feel like Diddy controls better than Donkey somehow (even though that’s probably untrue), and the fact that he holds barrels in front means you can safely run forward into an enemy without getting hurt. That made all the difference to me as a kid.
Plus he wears a cool hat!
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Diddy all day. His cartwheel felt so much snappier than Donkey’s roll. I felt like I could jump farther with him.
Dvoid@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yep, agree
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
It wasn’t that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.