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ITT: Characters literally no one likes

>> No.7328797
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>>7328792

>> No.7328802

>>7328792
I never really quite understood the hate for Kiddy Kong. Is it his design? The fact that he snubbed DK's position?

>> No.7328805

>inb4 Sonic or Mario

>> No.7328806

>>7328802
big boys wanna be all edgy and don't want to play baby characters

>> No.7328858

>>7328802
Both, probably. He has a terrible design and basically replaces the series' two most popular characters (Donkey/Diddy). Kiddy never stood a chance.

>> No.7328870

>>7328792
I love kiddy kong

>> No.7328915
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>> No.7329001
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>>7328806
Back in the '90s having girl protagonists was considered cringe so all the marketing doubled down on Kiddy, because baby character were also in due to the popularity of baby spin-offs and Rugrats. I even remember adverts claiming this was Kiddy's adventure specifically.

>> No.7329031

>>7329001
they got it so wrong if they thought that. I don't think the same kids who were into difficult platformers were die hard rugrats fans, and it was around that time that gaming started marketing more as Xcore for badass 12 yr olds rather than just a kids toy. I remember a lot of raditude on the 4th gen

>> No.7329138

>>7328802
In the game he's saddled on you by Funky, and he's sluggish to play as.

>> No.7329146

>>7328792
It wouldn't really be any different if it was Donkey instead.
Diddy pretty much took the scene

>> No.7329160

>>7329146
Donkey was the face of the whole franchise and he only appeared on one game of the three, i always thought that was pretty gay. I think if they just used Diddy and Donkey again for the other games but updated their move set for the same mechanics the new characters had no one would have complained

>> No.7329236
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.7329285
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>> No.7329459
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>> No.7329482

>>7329285
Larry-o

>> No.7329491
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>> No.7329493

>>7329285
Luigi is my boy, quit tripping

>> No.7329930

>>7328802
He's overhated but there's also just nothing to like about him and he's in a mascot's game while not being a mascot.

>> No.7329945
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>>7328792
>ITT: Characters literally no one likes

>> No.7329946

>>7329285
Everyone likes Luigi though. He's been overpowered in every Mario game that has allowed him to have differences, so that's probably helped too.
>game where all you do is jump
>he jumps higher, and in some he floats down to easier landings
>all you lose is a little traction

>> No.7329948

>>7329945
But he has a 17 inch cock!

>> No.7329951
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>>7328792

>> No.7329969

>>7329951
I liked him.

>> No.7329972

>>7328806
>It's "edgy" to not want to play as a baby

C'mon Anon.

>> No.7329974

>>7329948
36!

>> No.7329997

>>7329969
why

>> No.7330000

From a gameplay perspective
>larger sprite means he gets hit easier than dixie.
>bounce off water ability is used once for a bonus stage
>lacks the helicopter spin
He’s just so inferior to Dixie in every way

>> No.7330118

>>7329997
He’s likeable.

>> No.7330176

>>7329969
Same. I didn't actually hate the fishing levels.

>> No.7330210
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Edward Chris von Muir. This little nigga is useless.

>> No.7330215

>>7329945
childhood is hating on mike matei
adulthood is finally realizing how good we had it with him running the show.

>> No.7330245
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>>7329001
>baby character were also in due to the popularity of baby spin-offs and Rugrats
weird time eh

>> No.7330261

>>7330245
tiny toons were actually college students

>> No.7330306

>>7329972
this board has a weird-ass concept of the word edgy. very few games are actually edgy (postal comes to mind)

>> No.7330326

>>7329972
Tourists like to parrot words they see without knowing what it actually means

>> No.7330346

>>7330000
He has advantages too. I'm pretty certain that there's enemies that Dixie can kill on her own but Kiddie can. Also, his team ability is better. Playing as Kiddie and throwing Dixie around is extremely useful.

>> No.7330368

>>7329972
what i meant is that a 10 yr old regardless of being a kid still doesn't wanna play a character that is a 3 yr old, a lot of the stuff marketed as edgy back then was still for kids and tweens. Like Sonic or Batman were edgy compared to playing a literal baby.

>>7330326
>>7330306
Autismos can only read things literally, so this stupidity makes sense

>> No.7330401

>>7330215
yes but
a showrunner is not a star, and that's okay

>> No.7330406

>>7330368
Ok retard

>> No.7330417

>>7328792
That's easy, it's Steve from Resident Evil Code Veronica.

>> No.7330421

>>7330215
Hating mike makes little sense, he is one of the purest retro gamers there is. The dude loves games and plays them constantly on and off stream

>> No.7330473

>>7328802
It's because he's an enormous baby who is slow and barely useful. His inclusion in the game also highlighted the change from DKC2's dark and gritty aesthetic to DKC3's colorful and cartoonish style.

>> No.7330494

>>7330421
Fuck off Mike. Hating you makes perfect sense because you're an elitist douchebag.

>> No.7330589

>>7328792
funny, because kiddy controlled way better than Donkey ever did; he was much more agile and could jump better than dixie(she had a couple frames on landing where she couldnt jump again whereas kiddy did not)

but yeah design is ass

>> No.7330606
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Was there any use for him/her that didn't involve farming for blue magic?

>> No.7330651

>>7330421
couldn't agree more honestly. he's been hardcore about it since the beginning. I feel like I remember hearing a story about his mom working overseas and importing mario 3 for him early, probably other games as well.
these days he's a pretty chill guy, but I still remember when he was actually uploading those elmo videos and shit to the cinemassacre channel because of james working on the movie.

>> No.7330707

>>7330606
You say that like you didn't need to do anything special for the other characters to learn their skills and magic. If anything, it's the fastest magic to learn because you don't need AP. You just eat an enemy and get a new spell. And considering Quina is one of the best characters in the game, it's well worth it.

>> No.7330839

>>7330606
No, but one of those blue Magic’s helped me beat Ozma

>> No.7331289

>>7328915
Axl's the shit, he just got a raw deal with his debut game.

>> No.7331518

>>7330606
Quina can dish out some serious damage with regular attacks if you keep up to date on weapons and get lucky damage rolls

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>> No.7332854
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>>7330215
Absolutely.

>> No.7333530

>>7329997
His fishing gameplay is a perfect mix of relaxation and challenge and the idea of a character with such a mundane goal getting swept up in an adventure is funny.

>> No.7333708

>>7328792

I thought he was real cool. Like a Nintendo Rugrats crossover

>> No.7333739

>>7330421
avgn both propped up retro gaming popularity and killed it at the same time, its so pervasive that almost nothing from the NES can be discussed anymore. His army of clones and other vidyatubers influenced by him only had a negative impact on the hobby.

I also feel a lot of the shit attitude issues on retro gaming communities come from people like Matei.

>> No.7333753

>>7329951
I love him

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>> No.7334626
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>>7328792

>> No.7334656

>>7328802
DKC3 didn't have any speed characters

>> No.7334663
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This should be unanimous. Let's see if we have anyone who's enough of a fucking contrarian to claim they like him.

>> No.7335086

>>7330473
>DKC2
>Dark and gritty
it's a game about platforming monkeys

>> No.7335092

>>7334626
tingle is the best part of zelda

>> No.7335158

>>7328797
FUCK YOU

>> No.7335167

>>7334663

he was at least funny as fuck to troll people with in deception. same with dairou

>> No.7335183

>>7335158
he has no style he has no grace, if you liked this kong you are a pleb

>> No.7335226
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>>7330606
I never played FF IX, but what the fuck is that character design? It just looks like it was stitched together from bits and pieces of rejected designs left on the cutting-room-floor.

>> No.7335417
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>>7335226
It's a member of a race of creatures that can eat monsters, easily one of the most powerful party members in the game, and one of the most based character in the franchise. Only turbo-plebs hate Quina.

>> No.7335684

>>7334583
It's been so long since i saw the white version of this picture
>>7334626
The funny thing is the japanese liked him enough to make multiple spinoffs

>> No.7335775

>>7330473
really? I always really like the aesthetic for 3 for both its industrial themes and I also liked the "great outdoors" north America style wilderness and camping vibe from it.

>> No.7335787

>>7335684
i liked him too, was pretty funny that he is basically a turbo dweed otaku obssed with fairies.

>> No.7335823

>>7335787
there is a lot of fun that can be done with the character that he could have spun off more into his own series, like Rabbids from Rayman. I feel the DS games only scratched the surface. Playing as some weird-ass fairy-manchild in a medieval fantasy world with atypical Zelda series oddness and even more bizarre Tingle atmosphere could lead to a lot of fun stuff, like a weird ass horror game or Disgaea strategy game or a Mario&Luigi-ish RPG

dont know why the fuck Americans have such an issue with him. I would love him in Smash as a character I legit want to play as and just to see the reaction if he was added

>> No.7335837

>>7335823
>I feel the DS games only scratched the surface
Fun fact, the useless mother fucker behind the Tingle DS game would later go on to do all the bad Chibi Robo games, the bad Paper Mario games, and Metroid Prime: Federation Force.

>> No.7335853

>>7335823
i never played his spin off games, i just liked him as a character on Majoras Mask, he was just another odd funny npc like Zelda tends to have.

It would actually be funny if he were on smash, if i were a pro smash player i would use him for no reason other than the lulz of tingle creaming people in the competitive scene

>> No.7335871

I like Baby Kong. Dkc3 is greater than Dkc1 and no one gave a shit about donkey Kong back in the day. The graphics is what made this series popular.

>> No.7336020

>>7335417
Based? Quina doesn't know whether he/she is a him or her. This is one of the most forgettable characters in all of FF

>> No.7336194

>>7329997
He's voiced by Duke Nukem.

>> No.7336209

>>7330606
I found Quina pretty endearing and useful compared to other "weirdo" FF characters like Cait Sith and Gau.

>> No.7336292

>>7329951
>>7329969
>>7333753
I want some more of him

>> No.7336301

>>7328797
HE

>> No.7336314

>>7335158
this.

>> No.7336361

>>7335823
Tingle was odd, but you only had to deal with him briefly in Majora's Mask. Wind Waker then came and made him an annoying running gag of a character.

>> No.7336432

>>7334626
japs love him for some reason

>> No.7336551

>>7334663
>This should be unanimous. Let's see if we have anyone who's enough of a fucking contrarian to claim they like him.
This is one of the more popular characters from the old 3D games

let's hear from some Kobra fans

>> No.7336638

>>7334663
He was my main.

>> No.7336790

>>7330651
He at least braces the gadget and elmo shit now instead of frantically trying to kill any mention of it

I left his stream running one day and it had switched to erin plays or whatever, and when I sat down he was on her stream as a fucking elmo puppet.

>> No.7336857

>>7334663
MrGstar321 please return to us. I know you're there.

>> No.7336889

>>7330606
This tubby retard was my favourite thing about FFIX and I love that game to bits so try again

>> No.7336896

>>7334663
What a fucking DISGRACE. This is unacceptable and has got to stop. SOMETHING has got to be done about this absolute attrocity of a character. Okay let me just calm down.

>> No.7336937

>>7336896
>>7336857
Please come back, we miss you, you magnificent bastard

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>>7329945

>> No.7337412
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He made RECV a whole point worse all by himself.

>> No.7337524

>>7337412
Steve is the best fucking part about RECV

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>>7329945
Oops, wrong picture

>> No.7338082

>>7329945
Oof

>> No.7338089

>>7330215
If he could have left his ego at the door and just kept behind the scenes more things probably would have ended better for him.

>> No.7338090

>>7337412
i don't know who this semen demon is but i would wreck him from behind

>> No.7338091

>>7337524
>t. steve voice actor

>> No.7338093

>>7332854
I'm dying, that episode was the epitome of cringe

>> No.7338330

>>7336889
Out of everything to love about FF9, Quina was your favorite? He/She did not match the tone of the rest of the cast. Everyone else was discovering who they were and how they fit into the world; that tub of lard ate frogs and did random, undreliable damage with a spork

>> No.7338409

>>7330261
They had a prom episode so I'm inclined they were actually highschool.

>> No.7338414

>>7336301
WUZ