/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8913176]

How did this make you feel? Opinions from people who played it before the year 2000 only

[Anonymous No.8913186]

Played this a lot on Project 64 back in the day but I could never beat it.

[Anonymous No.8913240]

>>8913176
The hub world was really something else as a kid, very comfortable atmosphere and exploring was fun. The designer did well at teasing the player's curiosity about new areas.

[Anonymous No.8913250]

>>8913176
It had a good single player but the maps sucked and driving beat both water and air courses.

[Anonymous No.8913258]

It was like Mario Kart, but way cooler. It was also way more frustrating though.

I remember that I lost this game for a while, several months at least. Turns out it was under the TV stand the whole time.

[Anonymous No.8913259]

>>8913176
it was fun multiplayer and felt like it had a lot more variation than mario kart 64 but the single player, that first boss, was unforgiving sometimes as a kid. i can remember many times wanting to play diddy kong racist just because the different vehicles and tracks available or just exploring the world hub and dicking around in there.

[Anonymous No.8913261]

>>8913176
The game or the elephant?

[Anonymous No.8913264]

>>8913176
>Opinions from people who played it before the year 2000 only
So you want opinions as distorted by nostalgia as possible?

[Anonymous No.8913269]

>>8913258
>but way cooler
It didn't have blockfort so no, it was not cooler.

[Anonymous No.8913270]

>>8913186
The first version of Project 64 came out in 2001 though

[Anonymous No.8913291]

>>8913176
I played CTR first by chance though I owned both systems so I kind of never got into this one as much as of 1999; I thought the multiple vehicle mechanics in DKR were interesting but ultimately unfocused the gameplay without adding that much to it, and otherwise everything really good about it was done better in the Crash Bandicoot knockoff. Also I wasn't that much of edgelord or anything, but the game and characters looked WAY too childish and unappealing.

[Anonymous No.8913293]

>>8913176
For the longest time I thought this game was called Diddy's Kong Racing

[Anonymous No.8913295]

>>8913176
A slower not as good mario kart, notable for having the original design of Conker. We were pretty done with mario kart by the time this came out. Some other people I knew liked it a lot as a sort of sequal to mario kart. I should give it another go, I tend to play a couple of levels then never touch it for years.

[Anonymous No.8913307]

Never had a 64 when it came out, but a friend raved about how cool it was to fly shit in a racing game.

[Anonymous No.8913310]

>>8913176
Rare dropped this with no prior announcement which reinforced the GOLD status Rare held among N64 players because they just kept releasing great titles and then this came as a total surprise on top. Game's extremely comfy and sufficiently hard, airplane racing is great fun and progress feels nice and steady. Exploring the hub world was great, too.

[Anonymous No.8913318]

>>8913176
I played it in 2001 :/

[Anonymous No.8913320]

>>8913318
You disgust me.

[Anonymous No.8913340]

>>8913176
SHIT TAJ WAS AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM7g8tbq484

[Anonymous No.8913365]

Overhyped and boring. Game feels like it removed the A from the K-A rating with how cheery it is.

[Anonymous No.8913368]

I rented it as a kid and its bright white transition screen caused the worst headache I have ever had in my life. I was lying in bed writing in pain from playing this game.

[Anonymous No.8913389]

>>8913176
I held the record for Pirate Lagoon in my national magazine.

[Anonymous No.8913396]

>>8913176
It was my first N64 game so the graphics blew me away. I remember my mate trying his damndest to beat the second wizpig only to fail and declare it impossible. I did it a couple of days later and he STILL doesn't fucking believe me.

[Anonymous No.8913401]

>>8913176
Typical British racism

[Anonymous No.8913603]

>>8913293
it isnt?

[Anonymous No.8913717]

>>8913270
the first version of my cum came out in your mom

[Anonymous No.8913729]

My story with DKR is a bit embarrassing but funny.
>get the game at release
>love the graphics and the adventure element to it
>get to the first boss (the triceratops)
>can't win no matter what
>get mad
>return the game and change it for Sub-Zero Mythologies
>realize the game is garbage but we still have fun with a friend laughing at how ridiculous and sadomasochistic the game is

[Anonymous No.8913730]

>>8913295
>A slower not as good mario kart
It was probably still ok back then, but I'm rather sick of Mario Kart not having a proper single player mode. The only way to get challenged in 8DX is 200CC, and that's because most tracks weren't designed for it, and 3 star them
All-Star Transformed pretty did what I wanted MK8 to do, but then they somehow screwed it up with Team Sonic Racing

[Anonymous No.8913731]

I played it a lot as a kid, me and my brother could never beat the 2nd pterodactyl race.

Played it again last year and found it to be pathetically easy, except for the hovercraft levels because the hovercraft has fucking aids controls; feels like driving on ice with a vehicle made out of ice.

Also I discovered that some characters are just not viable for beating the first Wizpig race, without some ridiculous TAS shit. Tried so many times with Pipsy and couldn't even get past him. Tried using Diddy instead, and beat it on the first try lmao

[Anonymous No.8913735]

>>8913731
>Also I discovered that some characters are just not viable for beating the first Wizpig race, without some ridiculous TAS shit. Tried so many times with Pipsy and couldn't even get past him. Tried using Diddy instead, and beat it on the first try lmao
Damn, Pipsy was my character, that might explain why I was struggling so much throughout the game

[Anonymous No.8913738]

>>8913731
>Also I discovered that some characters are just not viable for beating the first Wizpig race
the first wizpig race is impossible unless you know the boost trick. couldn't advance farther in the game until i found out about it years later...

[Anonymous No.8913746]

>>8913738
Even with the "boost trick" (let go of A just before you go over zipper) I couldn't get past him. As in, I couldn't get in front of him to be in first place, even when I was super-boosting on every single zipper.

Then I tried ONE TIME with Diddy instead, and it was easy as fuck and I beat it the first try.

[Anonymous No.8913749]

>>8913746
I've heard recently here that there's some other speed trick where you can just mash the gas button or something?

[Anonymous No.8913753]

>>8913749
No idea. The only "boost trick" that GameFAQs guides mentioned is letting go of the gas just before going over a zipper, and it actually works with almost every boost in the game, even the blue balloons.

[Anonymous No.8913794]

Honestly DKR is kind of weird in how it favours the high speed racers. You don't get hit by AI racers that much so accel isn't a big deal, and basically any racer can turn on a time with break drifting so turning is a useless stat. Meanwhile all of the hardest races in the game are basically just drag races so you want as much speed as possible to get through them.

>>8913749
Yeah there's this weird glitch where you actually go faster if you mash the gas button instead of holding it. There's kind of a rythm to how you're supposed to mash it to make it work but it's actually a pretty significant increase once you get it. Start up the game and try it with the speedometer showing you'll see the difference.

[Anonymous No.8913797]

>>8913794
Ah, so it's an unintended glitch then?

[Anonymous No.8913814]

>>8913176
I really liked the hub world for what it was worth. The courses were pretty neat too but I always preferred the controls from mario kart.

[Anonymous No.8913882]

Diddy Kong Racing was a game I got as a kid as like a Christmas gift. I had no clue it even existed, I think my mom bought it because she knew we liked Donkey Kong Country (and used to play it with us sometimes) and Super Mario Kart.
Wound up being a really great surprise gift. Spent so much time playing this game with my siblings.

[Anonymous No.8913942]

>>8913176
i liked asking him for the plane immediately and roaming around

[Anonymous No.8913952]

>>8913176
I hated it in '97, and I still hate it today.

[Anonymous No.8913969]

>>8913176
better than mario kart

[Anonymous No.8913981]

>>8913176
It was kinda magical as a kid, loved the hub world. Replaying it as an adult it feels smaller, but it's still comfy and sets it apart from other kart racers.

[Anonymous No.8913996]

>>8913969
Better single player but worse for multiplayer I'd say

[Anonymous No.8914031]

It made me angry. I never liked the hovercraft sections, or aeroplane bits. I liked the atmosphere, but I couldn't even unlock thr chicken, let alone go to space or unlock TT. I also hated the boss battles. I played quite a lot of multiplayer, it was OK (battle mode)

[Anonymous No.8914045]

It was a high quality game and more challenging than smk64 -- a better single player game too. Really nice graphics and music. I had it for a two day rental and played it non-stop and reached some kind of ending. I think there were only the races against the clock left to do. So I never owned it. Mickey Speedway is a follow up from Rare, but I hear it is not as good.

[Anonymous No.8914051]

>>8913996
>having friends

[Anonymous No.8914164]

>>8913176
a mix of satisfaction from collecting things, and satisfying the curiosity of exploration
it was extremely immersive to explore the hub world and find accidentaly entire worlds with many new courses
in fact discovering new worlds in this way, back then, felt like something unique that few would discover, which might have been true
when you found something by yourself you thought "there is no way someone else managed to find it, and except me there is not a lot of players that play this"
which again might have been somewhat true, relatively speaking
glad to have lived through the golden era and not be a laggard

[Anonymous No.8914193]

Friends and I just passed off the N64 as a kiddy's console, and looking at this bright, cutesy cereal mascot racer being one of the big named titles for the system, it did nothing but confirm our beliefs.
The game itself is okay.

[Anonymous No.8914227]

The only kart racer i have ever played is super mario kart for snes.

[Anonymous No.8914239]

>>8914227
kinda based

[Anonymous No.8914290]

>>8913176
I must have rented this game a half dozen times from Blockbuster. Never bought it though. Loved the single player hub world design.
The frog and clock were cute as hell, they were the only characters I would play as other than Diddy and Banjo.

[Anonymous No.8914297]

Comfy atmosphere, but once the novelty of multiple vehicles wear off it isn't really anything to write home about. Controls are slippery, level design and item balance are kind of half-baked, and some of the challenges are fucking ridiculous. Both CTR and MK64 were better.

[Anonymous No.8914383]

>>8913176
It was amazing. I know the overworld isn't actually anything special but having something to explore and stumbling onto the fourth world was so cool. I never 100%ed the game but man I have really fond memories of it. Partly because this is the only console game my doom / quake playing dad ever liked / would play wit me and he loved the shit out of it. He had to beat the dragon'a silver coin challenge for my dumb baby self lmao. Even had me set him up a n64 emulator on his PC years later so he could replay it.

[Anonymous No.8914395]

>>8913176
It was pretty mindblowing and surreal. Got it for Christmas '97.

[Anonymous No.8914605]

>>8913717
This is not a vaporware thread anon

[Anonymous No.8914957]

>>8913176
isn't this game meant for babies

[Anonymous No.8914961]

[Anonymous No.8915031]

>>8914961
>that'll be $39.99 plus tip

[Anonymous No.8915164]

>>8913731
>>8913735
My dad always used Pipsy as well because she and Tiptup had the best handling. He called the helpline when he couldn't beat Wizpig, and they told him not to use Pipsy, but in the end he beat him with her anyway, so it is doable, it just took a lot of tries and a perfect run.

[Anonymous No.8915173]

>>8913176
it was fun as shit to play when i was like 7-8

[Anonymous No.8915179]

>>8913731
As a kid I beat the entire game with Tiptup 100%. Conversely I thought the heavier characters were impossible to use.

[Anonymous No.8915482]

>Sonic R and Diddy Kong Racing released on the same day on their original European dates

Name a bigger "sent to die" moment.

[Anonymous No.8915491]

the first time I played, i was about 7 years old. I went to the house of the kid down the road and he asked if I wanted to try it. He brought me down to the basement where he had a full steering wheel setup, chair and all. It was there I enjoyed the hell out of this game before getting a copy of my own.

[Anonymous No.8915737]

>>8913176
Not joking, probably the best kart game of all time for me. Maybe nostalgia is talking but i really think Rare knew what players really wanted back in the time.
What a soulfull game.

The only back side of this game comes from the hardware limitations of the N64, like the AI were removed if you were playing as 3-4 human players, MK64 got the same problem but i wasn't so fan of that game.

[Anonymous No.8915752]

>>8913240
I spent more time chillin in the hub than racing. Doing donuts in the field. Floating down the river in the airplane. Good times.

[Anonymous No.8915760]

I wish more kart racers had something like DKR's coin races, they were fun and added a lot of challenge to tracks you've beaten already.

The only thing like it was the CTR races in CTR, but even then there's only 3 tokens and they're easy to get once you've found them, like 99% of the time they're just hidden in shortcuts you'd want to take anyway. Not at all like DKR's silver coins where the game might just be like "get that silver coin that's just just 10 seconds off course over there and then win the race afterwards, if you're so great"

DKR in general had a lot of pretty fun challenges. I really liked how its final boss was basically just a race you had to do perfectly, no items or shortcuts to cheese it with. That first Wizpig race was like a time trial ghost that could run you off the road it was great. I know people hate the first Wizpig race because they think it's bullshit but they're just shitters. So many kids got filtered by that race, there was a time where getting to the space world without having to beat Wizpig was like the kart racer equivalent of finding the triforce in OoT, which I guess it actually predates.

[Anonymous No.8915776]

>>8915482
Sonic R isn't even a bad game. It's quite graphically impressive for a Saturn title, and has nice music. The racing is okay but I have always bounced off walls and found turning hard. The big problem though is that you can clear the entire game in like 20 minutes. It has no depth and Sega was still operating from an "arcade" mindset when developing it.

Just imagine if they had a "quest" mode in the game like CTR or Diddy? Story and everything?

[Anonymous No.8916779]

>>8915776
true
would have been epic
i already like it but like you say theres not much to it

[Anonymous No.8916791]

>>8913603
No it's called Diddy Kong Racing

[Anonymous No.8916794]

>>8913270
Yeah I played it after 2001. What are you going to do about it?

[Anonymous No.8916810]

I remember thinking it was everything Mario Kart 64 should have been. Being able to pick your items was a great touch. Opponent AI isn't busted, it feels like you're simply racing the other characters instead of a computer.

In retrospect they could have done even more with the island hub, after all the game was rushed out for Xmas (6 months slashed from its dev time iirc) and 57 balloons is a strange number for a complete file.

I still think MK64 beats it in a couple areas, such as overall track design (DKR's tracks are all really claustrophobic, with later ones relying on ultra-sharp turns for challenge) and sense of speed (outside of green boosts, DKR never felt that fast to me).

[Anonymous No.8916824]

This game exposed how lacking Mario Kart 64 was. It was just as fun to play with friends as MK64, same level of charm, but you could actually sit and play it for more than 30 minutes as a single player

Its only real competitor was MK64 and MK64 seems like a literal demo of a game compared to a game like this

[Anonymous No.8916840]

>>8913176
One of the comfiest games ever. Used to play the snow level every Christmas. Had a lot of fun exploring every nook and cranny of the levels trying to find secret shit.

Unlocking TT was incredibly difficult and probably one of my biggest accomplishments in gaming

[Anonymous No.8916847]

>>8913259
>diddy kong racist

[Anonymous No.8916868]

>>8916794
Seethe impotently of course

[Anonymous No.8916869]

>>8916840
The time trial difficulty seemed really inconsistent. Darkmoon Caverns is an absolute fucking nightmare where you have to get green boosts every time or eat dust, whereas in some of the other levels TT drives like he's blind. Strange

[Anonymous No.8916870]

>>8913293
It's in fact called Diddy Disease

[Anonymous No.8916890]

>>8916869
When I played the DS remake Darkmoon Caverns was the only fucking course I couldn't beat TT on. I should give that shit a try again some day, I used to really like the DS remake but basic the start boosts around DS gimmicks filters the fuck out of me.