/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4336919]

Would this be regarded as the best of the trilogy if Dixie Kong were partnered with Donkey instead of Kiddy?

[Anonymous No.4336925]

No because people would still bitch about the music and the gimmicks

[Anonymous No.4336936]

Nope. Still a good game, still the worst of the 3.

[Anonymous No.4336937]

>>4336919
It actually is the best but anons can't stop jerking off over two long enough to realize this

[Anonymous No.4336939]

>>4336925
The music was fairly good.

https://youtu.be/Qntu2QvHQRE
https://youtu.be/eV-fBA79z-4

[Anonymous No.4336942]

>>4336937

Really, anon?

Every single person that played both 2 and 3 would side with 3, except that in reality they jerk off every single time they think to compare the two and that somehow skews their opinion?

[Anonymous No.4336949]

>>4336936
All these years later, my jimmies are still rustled by the top 100 games ever list that Nintendo Power 100 did. It listed DKC3 as 23, DKC2 at 33, and DKC1 at 39. What a fuckup.

[Anonymous No.4336953]

So unfinished and gimmicky. No G in this level.

https://youtu.be/7AthmHLqaSo

[Anonymous No.4336954]

Probably

[Anonymous No.4336959]

>>4336919
If you compare 1 and 3 it's obvious that Donkey handles much worse than Kiddy. Whiners would still whine but they'd have a slightly different reason.

Solid games, all three of them.

[Anonymous No.4336969]

>>4336959
Eh, I honestly think the first one is the only really good one. The second one has wayyy too many hitbox issues

[Anonymous No.4336976]

First game was too easy, second game was two hard. 3 nailed the difficulty curve and is therefore the best of the three.

[Anonymous No.4336979]

>>4336969
>hitbox

DKC games have generous hitboxes. You literally touch one pixel of an enemy in SMW and you're dead.

[Anonymous No.4336980]

>>4336976
3 is harder than 2 with some of its bullshit levels. Basically 2 was hard but fairly hard. 3 was just cheaply hard at times.

[Anonymous No.4336983]

>>4336949
Top 100 nintendo published or top 100 on nintendo consoles regardless of publisher?

[Anonymous No.4336993]

>>4336949
Yeah, all three of them should have been in the 80s or 90s at best.

[Anonymous No.4337000]

Kiddy being a baby isn't a strong enough point to hate on the game.
Honestly I've never understood the hate this game gets.
It's still DKC, it has lots of collectibles, way more secrets than DKC2 and more interesting, a real sense of discovery and progression and fun boss battles and level gimmicks.

Honestly this game is as good as the others.

[Anonymous No.4337023]

>>4336942
Funniest post i've seen in a while.

[Anonymous No.4337028]

>>4336979
Yes but there's never any doubt as to where those pixels are.

[Anonymous No.4337031]

>>4336979
No you take a hit. In Donkey Kong you die.

[Anonymous No.4337040]

>>4337031
You have two kongs and animal buddies.

[Anonymous No.4337201]

>>4336953
Only the US version though. PAL is best because there's never any slowdown compared to that version. Don't know about JP but that didn't suffer any lag either if I remember correctly.

[Anonymous No.4337224]

>>4337201
I'm like 95% some emulators make it much laggier than it should be. If I play on Snes9x I get slowdown at weird spots, but if I play on my real SNES it's silky smooth even with more stuff on the screen.

There's only one USA version, right? They didn't release a bugfix or anything?

[Anonymous No.4337228]

>>4337224
From what I understood, there's one NTSC US version, one PAL version and two japanese versions. Although it's true that Snes9X has a stuttering framerate on the visual side especially when you compare it to the VC releases or on console it's still true that the US has more instances of lag. For example, at the second bonus in the final level of world 2 or in that cave level in world 6 where you ride with most of the animal buddies, right where you need to get the last bonus barrel it lags like CRAZY because of an enemy that keeps throwing several bombs at a time. In both the JP and PAL versions, they replaced that with a green bee for that reason.

Despite the lag, US is still preferred for doing 103% speedruns because you can use several glitches to beat everything faster. Any% on the other hand uses the JP versions because of a glitch with Bleak where you can start and select right after getting hit and finish him earlier but you won't get the bonus coin that way.

[Anonymous No.4337240]

DKC 1 is the only entry that lets you play as the main chimp himself, Donkey Kong. Features some of the smartest stage design in the trilogy, with levels such as the stop and go barrels, and the factory stage that goes dark. Only flaw is the snow world needed a closer save point near the beginning of its map.

DKC 2 has the best soundtrack, which is saying a lot considering how good the music in all three games are. Both the playable characters—Diddy and Dixie—are fun. Game is blessed with great stage design, and offers the best challenge of the trilogy.

DKC 3 is an adventure game with platforming elements. You swim across maps and hunt for secret areas and hidden items to unlock new locations. Game has the cutest set of animal buddies, and its more basic stage designs are great for easing casual gamers into the series.

Of course, these are just my opinions.

Shame that anons argue so much over the DKC trilogy, when in truth, we all should all be celebrating what a fun time it was to be gaming during the 16-bit era.

[Anonymous No.4337259]

>>4337228
I had lag on the snes mini (using nintendo's clover emulator). On the level with those barrels on the waterfall you have to keep jumping to get higher. Pretty sure this happened on other emulators.

[Anonymous No.4337297]

>>4336983
I'll post it.

Keep in mind this issue was the September 1997 issue, so any titles released were from before then.

[Anonymous No.4337302]

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[Anonymous No.4337325]

>>4337321
And that's all.

[Anonymous No.4337380]

>>4336919
No, because DKC3 has worse gameplay

[Anonymous No.4337395]

>>4337325
Nice, thanks

[Anonymous No.4337401]

>>4337297
Super Mario 64 is number one. Won't complain TOO much, but still.

>>4337304
Wave Race 64 is a better game than Super Mario World?

>>4337305
Chose original Mega Man cause editors couldn't decide between 2 and 3.

>>4337306
Mario Paint ranked at 29. I have no words.

>>4337309
Metroid is to action genre, what Zelda is to adventure games, and Mario is to platforming games. Yet, it's only 35, and sitting behind its Game Boy cousin.

>>4337314
Golf is a better game than Contra.
Sure it is.

>>4337319
Faceball 2000 made the list, and is a better game than Breath of Fire, Dragon Warrior, Illusion of Gaia, Bust a Move, Ultima, and Final Fight.

Now you're playing with POWER!

I'm surprised Milon's Secret Castle didn't make the top 10.

[Anonymous No.4337417]

>>4337325
And also, this was a fun read. You should post more Nintendo Power scans if you got 'em. Maybe in a different thread. Was fun to look over and pick at.

[Anonymous No.4337424]

>>4337401
Important or influential does not necessarily mean it's one of the best. Metroid is not great.

[Anonymous No.4337435]

>>4336919
I dont mind kiddie all that much. The music and the goofy looking enemies ruin it for me. I've heard David Wise did the gba soundtrack, should I give that version a shot?

[Anonymous No.4337437]

>>4337424
>Metroid is not great
Yeah, cause we all know Mario Paint is way better.

[Anonymous No.4337484]

>>4337437
That description they gave it is kind of funny, when you remember the Brothers Chap got into animating thanks to Mario Paint.

[Anonymous No.4337540]

>>4337435
The only things different about it are the additional world Pacifica and the different soundtrack but honestly, they don't hold up as well as the original music and levels. The only track in the GBA version that I really liked was the remix of Aquatic Ambiance and that's because it already was one of the best songs in the DKC trilogy before Wise remixed it.
I'd say, get the rom and try it out for yourself. Maybe you'll like it enough and can go get the GBA version. It shouldn't be too expensive.

[Anonymous No.4337556]

>>4337435
GBA version has an issue with the screen height. You can't see above you all that well, which is an issue because many of the levels scroll vertically. So you'll often bump into enemies that pop up on the screen at the very last second.

[Anonymous No.4337571]

>>4337556
>It took Nintendo until the 3DS XL to have the same vertical pixel count as the NES.

[Anonymous No.4337575]

>>4337556
>It took Nintendo until the 3DS XL to have a handheld with the same vertical pixel count as the NES.

[Anonymous No.4337576]

>>4337000
Take the Hero coins for example.
At first, making an enemy who uses a hero coin as a shield sounds pretty neat, and it's fun figuring out the unique ways to beat him with your limited moveset.
There's only so many different ways to beat him though, and they use him for every single level. And since there's so much to set up in order to beat him in even the simplest ways, there are limits to how creatively they can hide the hero coins in each level

[Anonymous No.4337697]

>>4337575
>port SNES games to a handheld with
>nearly half the resolution
>half the buttons
>half the sound processing

GBA era was Nintendo's full retard phase.