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Video Games => Mario Chat => Topic started by: Silver Metaknight on June 07, 2009, 02:50:44 PM
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What design of Donkey Kong do you prefer? His classic Nintendo style or his modern Rare design?
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Both are fine with me. He's Donkey Kong either way.
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I love the Rare design compared to the Nintendo one. I just think modern looks better. I've never liked NES games designs.
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He was best in Mario Kart 64.
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Rare's look. Specifically the way he looks in Brawl.
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By "Nintendo", I pictured the DKJB DK, which is the DK.
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NO.
IT IS NOT.
NOT AT ALL.
TOOTHY GRIN = FUGLY.
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Oh yeah, I hate that stupid grin he does. So...I guess I like Rare Donkey Kong better.
I like Rare Donkey Kong's games better anyway. Rare Donkey Kong ftw.
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By "Nintendo", I pictured the DKJB DK
Ditto, so therefor, I voted for Nintendo DK.
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TOOTHY GRIN = FUGLY.
Oh, right... well, besides that. I guess I was thinking more of physical structure and graphical appearance.
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I don't know what the difference is, but I first came to like Donkey Kong in DKC, so I'm going with the Rare design.
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I'm going with the Rare design, because the toothy grin look is awful.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mariowiki.com%2Fimages%2F6%2F63%2FDonkey2.jpg&hash=7f75e511940cf0d80629b91ab12c29de41056106)
Nintendo Pre-Rare
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Rare 1
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Rare 2
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Nintendo Post-Rare
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Alternate Nintendo Post-Rare
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You forgot the myriad of Post-Rare images that show him with the butt-ugly TOOTHY GRIN.
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Well, gorrilas do have teeth...
Anyway, I don't really like many of the new designs. The eye area bugs me so much. What has fur around their eyes when the rest of their face is bald?
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DK is an ape, not monkey. And neither apes nor monkeys have teeth that looks like mechanical gag choppers.
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And they don't have fur growing around their eyes when the rest of their face is bare.
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None of the designs bother me much, but if I would chose any as my favorite, It would be the DKC design. DK actually looks like he has hair.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg132.imageshack.us%2Fimg132%2F4142%2Fdonkeykong.jpg&hash=68a364ff02e12e21f66edada28377028ae721e9e)
How is this ugly?
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I just mistook this for the "You Laugh, You Lose" topic because of that picture.
That said, I did indeed lose.
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How is this ugly?
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Now tell me how it's NOT ugly.
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I think DK is ugly no matter how many subtle re-designs they do.
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I just think the smile makes him look lame. He's ugly either way.
EDIT: Fixed so no one else gets confused.
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At least he looks somewhat cool and mysterious with that ominous smirk he usually has in Rare's official artwork. Nintendo's artwork makes him look like a moron.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soimmature.com%2Fimages%2Fteeth.gif&hash=304914266a2bd4590ad1f880bc05054a1fa8cee2)
Now tell me how it's NOT ugly.
That's ugly. But there's a difference between loose teeth and teeth in a not ugly monkey.
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His Brawl design is just plain awesome. He looks stern and focused, like a big mean gorilla should.
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But DK really isn't supposed to be mean, though. If anything, he's just a really intense fighter, being the protector of his island and all.
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But DK really isn't supposed to be mean, though. If anything, he's just a really intense fighter, being the protector of his island and all.
DK isn't mean at all. He's pretty nice actually. He's just strong and looks all muscly.
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At least he looks somewhat cool and mysterious with that ominous smirk
You lost me at cool and mysterious. DK is never any of those.
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Well, though I do admit I don't care for the dangerously rictus grin, it's tolerable compared to the toothless DK of CE7's last two examples.
Also, I "lost" on that albino ape as well, probably because (somehow) of Bigluigifan's post.
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I like the toothless look. It's Muppety. Besides, the only characters who have toothy grins in Rare's style are Funky and S****y, not DK.
You lost me at cool and mysterious. DK is never any of those.
Try actually liking DK. Then we'll talk.
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From the man who hates DK's best game.
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Game does not = Character/brand. I hate the game because it lacks any ties to said brand and portrays the character poorly.
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(Most people don't care as long as it has awesome gameplay.)
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What character???
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God knows I'll get attacked for saying this but Donkey Kong 64 is DK's best game.
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God's right. I guess by process of elimination it could be considered to be in the top three or so DK games, but it's mostly just a Banjo-Kazooie-esque collectathon with all the things that go with it (irritating voice samples, frustrating boss battles, and one or two fairly off-putting elements that remind you Nintendo didn't really develop it). That's not to say I didn't enjoy it as a kid, though...
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Banjo-Kazooie ****ing rocks though. That's why I like Donkey Kong 64 so much.
I mean...am I the only one who appreciates so-called collectathons?
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(Most people don't care as long as it has awesome gameplay.)
Most people are stupid.
Then again, JB and the bongos weren't that much of a success, so there's a better example.
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The success of a game doesn't rely on quality as so much as advertisement or special effects. Look at games like Kingdom Hearts, they did so well because of advertisement, but the gameplay itself is a different story.
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>:C
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What I mean by success is how many copies the game sold. I mean, look at great games like Earthbound, they didn't sell so well, but its still an awesome game, better than most games out today. In not saying that great games=bad sales or bad games=great sales, I'm saying that game quality=/=success of the game.
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No, that's not what you're saying, according to your post.
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I cleared the last post up.
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Good work.
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Rare's design. It is, in my opinion, the coolest looking one probably because it was modeled on a real gorilla.
I wouldn't mind the toothy grin if it was more realistic and less creepy, like his grin in Brawl.
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For me, it'll always be the DKC Donkey, but my version of Diddy is DKC2.
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This thread makes me miss Rare working for Nintendo. Maybe it'll happen again one day. I mean, Square seems to have mended their fences.
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Well, Microsoft owns Rare, so unless they go under...
Still, I miss Rare working for Nintendo too. Rare made some pretty kickass games back in the day like Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong 64, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, etc.
EDIT: Doh. Sorry for the mistake.
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Well, Microsoft owns Nintendo, so unless they go under...
Still, I miss Rare working for Nintendo too. Rare made some pretty kickass games back in the day like Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong 64, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, etc.
Wait... what?!? Not really
I miss Rare working with Nintendo also. Donkey Kong Country, Goldneye007 and Perfect Dark were good and now they just suck as a company. Maybe people should stop buying the new Rare games and tell them even though it probably won't bring them back in Nintendo's hands but it's still a funny idea.
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I bet they're kicking themselves in the face now that Nintendo's totally smoking Microsoft.
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Nintendo sold Rare, guys.
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Rare seems to be happy where they are. I read an interview a few months back where a Rare guy was saying if they had still been with Nintendo they'd probably be being forced to work on Banjo-Kazooie 6 and not all the neat experiments they've been doing lately.
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I just think the smile makes him look stupid. He's ugly either way.
At least he looks somewhat cool and mysterious with that ominous smirk he usually has in Rare's official artwork. Nintendo's artwork makes him look like a moron.
For Donkey Kong I wanted something to do with 'Kong' which kind of gives the idea of apes in Japanese and I came up with Donkey Kong because I heard that 'donkey' meant 'stupid' so I went with Donkey Kong. Unfortunately when I said that name to Nintendo of America nobody liked it and said that it didn't mean 'Stupid Ape' and they all laughed at me! But we went ahead with that name anyway.
I heard that 'donkey' meant 'stupid' so I went with Donkey Kong.
stupid
. (http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/051601.shtml)
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I wonder what life is like in the alternate universe where Miyamoto looked a few entries farther down in the thesaurus and named him Ass Monkey.
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Ugh...
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LD, I know Donkey Kong is idiotic/unintelligent. I said "stupid" as in uncool and/or lame.
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I wonder what life is like in the alternate universe where Miyamoto looked a few entries farther down in the thesaurus and named him Ass Monkey.
Or in Universe #12853 where Shiggy named him Sphincter Chimp?
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Anus Ape.
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Anus Ape.
And Diddy is Asscrack Monkey
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And this thread has gone to the
dogs monkeys.
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You know, it really only works with ass, since that's another word for donkey. Instead of coming up with other words for ass, you should either use synonyms of donkey or of stupid (i.e., Burro Kong or Dullard Kong).
Also, the point of my post with all the pictures a couple pages back was that there's two very different Nintendo designs of DK, and the current one is really quite similar to the Rare designs.
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You know, it really only works with ass, since that's another word for donkey. Instead of coming up with other words for ass, you should either use synonyms of donkey or of stupid (i.e., Burro Kong or Dullard Kong).
So that'd be a "no" on Colon Simian?
Also, though I know what it means, I literally don't think I've ever heard anyone use the word "dullard".
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The only difference I can see is... well, considering that the Kongs have retractable teeth in Brawl, nothing. Except their voices. I liked their voices in Donkey Kong 64 (I didn't play a lot of it but I do remember the voices). I just plain never liked the weird noises Donkey Kong made in Mario Kart (any) and I don't like monkey noises like those Diddy makes in Brawl. So whatever.
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^ DK Stares Into Your Soul
Anyway, I just thought of that scene with the, uh, monkey in Bruce Almighty.