Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong
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I know this is rage bait, but DKC was fantastic. I remember when Blockbuster video held a contest where you could play a game, and if you had the best score in the entire store you could win free movie rentals for a year. And if you did good enough, you could qualify for a “The Wizard” style video game competition in California. I played the shit out of this game to practice for weeks. I learned all the spots where you could drop down a hole and instead of dying, you get some rewards. I went in to this blockbuster ready to get my family a year of free movie rentals and possibly a trip to California. The first hole I dropped down I died. They had a modified version of the game that didn’t have these secrets in it. I was entirely unprepared. I played my 3 turns and did pretty terrible. After we left the blockbuster my parents had to run into a store and I just waited in the car. I literally cried cause I was so disappointed in how bad I did.
Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest
Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.)
But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 haha
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Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest
Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.)
But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 hahaI’m so jealous!
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I can’t stand most platformers, but particularly older ones. It’s maddening to play within such small visual areas. If I have to consistently guess what’s on the other end of a jump in a game about controlling my jumps, you’ve fucked up completely as a developer. Donkey Kong is awful at letting you know what exists in front of you within a timely manner.
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Yea, the graphics of this game (and Super Mario RPG) are nightmare inducing. I can only be onboard with anon about this. Plus, you had great point+click adventure games back then as well.
Also soundtrack is mid. It has no Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!
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I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.
Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.
In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.
Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now
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Yes, but... how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?
Or a sibling for that matter
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Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now
I'd say those were solid games, but not great.
Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.
Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn't just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra "Rare" flavor on top of it.
And like, you don't notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can't eat there anymore because that's all you can taste.
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Uh... Perfect Dark and GoldenEye.
I mentioned Goldeneye.
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In that era you had CRTs or Rear Projection TVs.
Rear Projection was bigger (55" 4:3) but often times was susceptible to burn-in and had a worse quality picture compared to a CRT
Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD
Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn't really match them until the 2010s
(I never had a plasma display though so I don't fully understand plasma)DLP was a thing and could get up to and over 80" while maintaining quality but DLP could not be wall mounted as they were quite big like rear projection screens
wrote last edited by [email protected]Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD
Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn't really match them until the 2010sglances at Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV from 2007 currently in living room
still works really well
fucking 80 lbs
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Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.
Oh my god
I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there
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Idk, I think the game was pretty sick
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On the one hand, I didn't like it that much when it came out. It's not that I hated it or hated on it, just wasn't my thing. Mario games were far superior platforming experience all around, in my opinion.
Graphics for the time and platform were great. If you weren't there at the time and your frame of reference is modern (32-bit or later) graphics, of course they suck. But that's hardly fair or objective, when it comes to understanding why they were well-regarded AT THAT TIME.
But, I'll add this: A number of my friends' kids were introduced to 8-bit and 16-bit games first, in lieu of exposing them to toxic modern phone/tablet games. And the SNES Donkey Kong game(s) were/are amongst the games that the kids enjoyed and played the most. So, there's something to that, if you ask me.
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Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD
Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn't really match them until the 2010sglances at Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV from 2007 currently in living room
still works really well
fucking 80 lbs
wrote last edited by [email protected]and don't forget to tell the movers to keep it upright during transport to prevent damage lol
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You fucking idiot
You absolute baffoon
Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you
Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a "him problem", but still!)
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
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Idk, I think the game was pretty sick
I have a solid memory of my roommate and I hitting Mine Cart Madness, and when I finally made it through we whooped and hollered so much the upstairs neighbor got mad and came down to shush us, at 4 PM on a Saturday
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It looked pretty good for the time. Couldnt do real time 3D rendering and also be fast (StarFox was truly 3D; but iirc also ran at like 15fps and had to use a special chip in the cart to do that), so they compromised with sprites made from pre-rendered 3D models.
It also had great level design and memorable music.
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sega kid
shitty game takes
Many such cases
Sonic the Hegehog wasn't fun. Good art direction, great music; terrible level design that very often countered the premise of "going fast." I never found them enjoyable and find it crazy how big the series is, even though most games in the franchise are said to be garbage even by Sonic fans.
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Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a "him problem", but still!)
Oof, I might be the fool thinkong of DKC 2
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Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD
Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn't really match them until the 2010sglances at Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV from 2007 currently in living room
still works really well
fucking 80 lbs
wrote last edited by [email protected]Bad viewing angles, poor contrast ratios, poor refresh rate and poor display speed.
I was not saying that they were non existent or unreliable. The technology was just poor at that time and beaten by Plasma displays in those areas
Plasma displays had 2 problems though (besides cost) They were heavier than LCDs and their backlights would dim over time.
Edit: I was reading on wikipedia... they work like those plasma globes!
Plasma displays were affected by screen burn-in where as LCDs typically are not.
Also it seems like on Contrast ratio plasma still is not beaten by LCD displays
Though there are a lot of LED backlight technologies that help. Such as being able to only run a portion of the backlight for a given area.
For a while there were also Dual Layer LCD panels. They would effectively use one layer of LCD to control color and another to try to control brightness / prevent light bleed through. I think those are obsolete for the most part now.
