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Post by spidershinobi on Aug 30, 2017 20:32:07 GMT
At least we aren't talking about Konkey Dong Country right now.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Aug 30, 2017 21:00:46 GMT
do I sound drunk over the internet? No.
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Post by Balder on Aug 30, 2017 21:12:00 GMT
Are we having another discussion about Monkey Sonig again? spidershinobi - Of course you do, but then, the internet always sounds drunk to me. Except when I'm drunk, then the internet sounds very clever. What's your preferred choice of drink?
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Post by spidershinobi on Aug 31, 2017 10:12:49 GMT
Usually just red wine. When I used to hang out with friends we would drink more exotic stuff, but now I barely get anything too wildly different from that. I do have a bottle of Jägermeister ready, though.
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Post by Cervantes on Aug 31, 2017 11:50:25 GMT
"I never drink... wine."
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Post by Balder on Aug 31, 2017 13:18:03 GMT
Scotch is the way to go. Nothing has he amount of taste like it has. After you had one, everything else else tend to taste water. The apex alcohol.
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Post by stratogustav on Sept 8, 2017 6:20:21 GMT
Oops! DK really got murdered here, I really thought he was going to do better than that.
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Post by Balder on Sept 8, 2017 7:50:10 GMT
Oops! DK really got murdered here, I really thought he was going to do better than that. Sonic should have fought against Mario to make it fair. They're both the mascots of their brands.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Sept 8, 2017 21:17:23 GMT
Oops! DK really got murdered here, I really thought he was going to do better than that. He's my favorite video game character, but Sonic 2, man...
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Post by stratogustav on Sept 13, 2017 20:43:14 GMT
Sonic should have fought against Mario to make it fair. They're both the mascots of their brands. Mario games are coming too, no worries. Donkey Kong Country games were specifically designed to address The Hedgehog, they were conceived with Sonic in mind. It is almost like an unspoken rivalry that other games of the time also had without people really noticing, just like Gunstar Heroes and Mega Man X for example, basically exclusives fighting in trying to fulfill similar gameplay cravings for the public.
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Post by Cervantes on Sept 14, 2017 9:02:32 GMT
Donkey Kong Country games were specifically designed to address The Hedgehog, they were conceived with Sonic in mind. It is almost like an unspoken rivalry that other games of the time also had without people really noticing, just like Gunstar Heroes and Mega Man X for example, basically exclusives fighting in trying to fulfill similar gameplay cravings for the public. I hadn't thought of that - DK as an answer to Sonic. The funny thing is that Sega then created an answer to DK with Vector Man, so that generation was all about Sega and Nintendo trying to top each other (with Capcom, Konami and Treasure sometimes being thrown in the mix). Now that I think about it, there are plenty of somewhat obscure examples, like Crusader of Centy and Beyond Oasis being answers to Zelda, Streets of Rage being specifically opposed to the SNES port of Final Fight, Virtua Racing being made to show games using additional 3d chips like Star Fox etc.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Sept 14, 2017 16:30:02 GMT
Donkey Kong Country games were specifically designed to address The Hedgehog, they were conceived with Sonic in mind. I hadn't thought of that - DK as an answer to Sonic. You probably hadn't thought of it because it makes very little sense. DKC definitely draws on the 90's 'tude that Sonic was famous for, but the gameplay is so different it's tough to really compare them. Sonic is quick, with levels that go every which way and can be explored. DKC was pretty slow, famous for its water levels, and left-to-right, straight forward. What's more, these games were released three years apart. That's hardly competitive. Donkey Kong Country was an attempt to stay relevant in the shadow of the PlayStation and 3D consoles that were looming in the future. That was its objective and it succeeded. Everyone knew 3D was coming. Both the Genesis and SNES were looking outdated. But then these prerendered graphics came late in the game and managed to look like 3D on a 2D system! That's what DKC and Vectorman were about - proving that yes, our consoles are still up to date, even if they were just faking it. Remember, the first DKC came out in 1994, just a year before the PlayStation launched. It was a late entry for the generation. Not an attempt to compete with its own time, but an attempt to stave off the future.
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