/vr/ - Retro Games

Can't believe it took a bunch of bongs for Nintendo to finally have a good scotformer.

I hate donkey Kong 64 because it is shit compared to donkey Kong country 1-3

>1994
>the return of Nintendo's long-dormant original iconic hit IP
>a sidescroller about primates taking on a hostile occupying force of less evolved reptiles
>Sony was about to release the PS1, a company and console defined more so by their hardware engineering (and edgy mature branding) than by their software / games

What if DKC was actually a metaphor for Nintendo's position in the mid-90s?

I mean seriously, how can people find DKC hard?

I remember this being a lot easier when I was a kid. What the fuck happened?
>struggle with one level
>lose all lives
>sent back to save point
>finally beat level
>struggle with the next level
>get sent back to save point
It never ends. Fuck Stop & Go Station. I'm gonna go play Mario Odyssey, a fair platformer.

Nintendos' best soundtrack and it's not from Koji Kondo.

>>5808240

Was it really the beginning of the end?

>focus on graphics
>copy pasted levels, bosses, secret areas
>kindergarten easy
>no real point

>easily the best 2D platformer of the '90s

How did the Bongs do it, lads?

Is this the first true example of graphics being more important than gameplay?

one of the strangest things parroted on /vr/ is that DKC 1 is a mediocre game while DKC 2 is an all-time classic. There's not a significant difference between the two gameplay wise except for the secret levels

Donkey Kong Country is truly perfect. If you do not get this amazing new generation of Donkey Kong madness, you are stupid! Yes, I know, that's insulting, but it's also the truth.

How did this meme of DKC1 being bad propagated itself? I've beaten it recently (first time ever playing it) and I had a blast.

Some of the DKC tracks have that creepy atmosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCR85qPmgTY

Why is this such an amazing classic?

while drunk and being as fast and reckless as possible

DKC has no bad games, except arguably Returns on Wii

I still remember the day I got this.

Miyamoto was right about this one.

This game is gloriously difficult. You need an olympic medal to beat it. What went so right?

>>2670081
Donkey Kong Country
Considering the massive number of grade A platform games this game was very mediocre. I'll take another play through of Mario World, Megaman X, or Castlevania any day over it or another trip back to some NES platformers.


The Elder Scrolls
Probably not so much on /v/ but every time one of these comes out Failstop is full of people staring the graphics in the trailer and all I can ever think is that these games are ugly as fuck on the textures and always have been.

Fallout
First ones are boring, fuck that music and sound design, 3 was buggy, and NV was buggier.

Ocarina of Time
Was not as good as the previous games. Combat was less intense when it should have been more so, exploration was weaker then many games of its time, fuck ugly even for its time like most N64, too damn slow yet world too damn small, it wasn't bad, but it is never ever okay too feel like going from one place to another is a pain in the ass in a Zelda game.

Goldeneye
Neat concepts and great game really, but Quake was out at the time and had I known what Quake was long Goldeneye would not have been nearly so impressive to me.

Mass Effect
I think it just went over well for being a Scifi RPG, because frankly it lacked a lot of polish and missed out a ton on the space side of the space RPG. This one of this list isn't bad though, but god damn let me explore in a space game and give me a moral choice with more impact than being an obvious Jesus figure or slightly douche Jesus.