Funny how DKC got an absolute zero.
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Funny how DKC got an absolute zero.
Relative to your avatar?
I wouldn't expect it to get (m)any votes, considering the competition.
What was so good about DKC except for the space age super revolutionary never before seen graphics again?
Well for one thing I always though DKC had really fun gameplay - I enjoyed the devilish placement of enemies, hazards, and rewards. The levels each had an interesting hook as well. And the music was quite catchy!
Donkey Kong Country seems like an sore spot for many Sega fans, though I wouldn't expect any less from a Sega site, and I have no problem with people genuinely disliking the game for there own reasons. But there seems to be an irrational hatred toward the DKC with many of the more technically minded members out there enjoy the chance to shoot-down a sacred cow often used by SNES fanboy arguments about the superiority of the system and all that 32,000 colour ppu blather. At the end of the day its a decent enjoyable game that no doubt really pushed SNES sales in 94'. Would people on this site really object if the Sega had a massive system seller in late 94' that was maybe a bit overrated but enjoyable? I don't think so, but then instead of DKC we got the 32X instead....;) take that in whatever way you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
I won't have anything said about the soundtrack however, people are really scraping the barrel for criticism for suggesting DKC music is ambient crap. Its brilliant. Nuff said.
I think you are digging a bit too far into this. I like you, think it's a decent enjoyable game, but so was Super Mario World a few years prior. I don't care much for system sellers based on what system they are at, if I don't like them it's because they aren't fun to me. The same goes with Strider for Mega Drive which I assume is a "sore spot" which gets "irrational hatred" from "Nintendo fans" according to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVC 15
I think it's safe to say that it's probably a knee jerk reaction to the widely reported fanboy praise it gets. The more people that rave about how great a game is, when it's not, the more other people are to actually dislike it in response. I don't hate DKC, but I think it is WAY over hyped. Back in the day and even more so now. I played it when it came out. I thought it was rather generic/boring after a while. The character and charm seemed force and tacky. I never thought the graphics were impressive for the SNES, more like correct for the time period, if not a little generic made by 3D models. I had no qualms about the music. But overall, it's a pretty lack luster game. I've heard that DKC 2 and 3 are much better games, but after having beaten the first one - I rather not chance wasting my time to find out. 'Cause it's usually by the same people hyping the first game. So for that reason, and the fact that I expect sooo much more from a Nintendo produced game when it was released than what I got, I have to say it sucks. Then again, I think Vectorman is in the same boat as DKC... it also a shallow/gimmicky/boring game.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVC 15
Maybe I was going a bit far with that, I quite like the odd ribbing of the SNES and its anaemic processor and games like DKC, its just occasionally some people can go a bit over the boat with it, it think it a door that swings both ways with the whole hype factor, sycophantic praise will make me and likewise anybody else barf even if theres a semi-decent game behind it but some criticism just gets a bit grating when it goes to far the other way. I thought the dust would have settled with a lot of these old titles, but you only have to go onto a youtube comments page to see some uninformed twit going about how the SNES can display 4,096 colours per scan line, piffle!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
I think your about right anyway. Besides I'm a complete bloody hypocrite, I can't stand anything past FF6 due to so many friends ramming the Playstation series of games down my throat yelling at me that I should play them. Guess its all about time and place.
What does that mean? How was it a f*** you to Nintendo? (Just curious, never heard that or read that before.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
I've barely played the DKC games, and I dislike them for being overly cute. I guess the pre-rendered graphics looked OK but I really hate overly cute games. (Yep it's subjective. lol) I always liked the classic Sonic games bc there is only the slightest amount of cuteness; Sonic spends his time scowling and looking angry, and spinning like a buzz saw. :cool: (He looks most cutesy in S3&K though, with a little smirk that reminds me of Mickey Mouse, ugh.)
Anyways S3&K gets my vote for being less cutesy than DKC and certainly much less cute than YI which I've seen and it makes me want to puke...
It looked good, it played good, sounded good, and was actually fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
Everything Vectorman wasn't, ugly purple/green mess..
DKC doesn't play all that well and Vectorman's main strength is its control. It may be ugly it smashes DKC and 99% of all other games into little bits when it comes to control.
The first stage is the only one that's really ugly in vectorman. The ice stage looks really good.
Agreed. It's not that DKC is a bad game (far from it), it's just that the other two options are more preferable.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
The thing is, many people play the first DKC (or few levels of it), and form a unfair opinion based on that experience.
This is the reason why you hear so many "DKC is boring" phrases on the net (especially here).
The sequels improve upon DKC immensely, and the sad thing is, they get overlooked by almost any anti-DKC gamer.
Another thing you hear from DKC hater is "you go from left to right," and you can safely assume they formed a biased opinion based on DKC 1 stage layout, which is totally unfair IMO.
If people played all 3 DKC from start to end, they would realize how foolish the whole "DKC vs Vectorman" comparison is.
The variety of play and level concepts of DKC (especially 2 &3) can't be matched by VM, plain and simple.
I put in my 2 cents, I am out!
It's not DKC itself that I have a problem with, it's endless praise and bogus statements that people give it. It's not a bad game, really. I just think the whole thing doesn't add up to much. It's mid-90s eye candy disguising an average platformer. I did go on to play DKC 3 and can say it really improved on the first one in every aspect. It's comical, some of the things I see people say about the series like "It's the most advanced 16-bit game ever made" and "It looked and sounded better than anything the Genesis ever had" (which was from one of those gaming history youtube videos, Playback it was called or something, that have a ton of views). My friend, who loves the series, said I have no idea what I'm talking about (and I'm also retarded) when I told him what I think of the first game. This is the same guy who never so much as responds when I start talking about my Genesis or anything Sega.