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[Zalman]

King K. Rool is garbage. Let him fade into obscurity.

 

[Sponge]

If you're a true K Rool fan, you'd be willing to use this as your avatar

I'm probably one of the few people on GAF that won't bash K. Rool relentlessly, but no thanks.

King K. Rool is garbage. Let him fade into obscurity.

Now that's just being rude. K. Rool is way better than the villains Nintendo have tried to create for the series. Lord Fredrick is a poor man's K. Rool.

 

[akidnamededdy]

Another leaked Smash icon from SmashBoards?

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Ew...

K. Rool is too big to fit properly in an icon.

 

[Neoxon]

The story of them that I heard is cute. She worked for him back when Brawl was being developed and kept egging him on to marry her. Sakurai wanted to, but obviously was way to busy with the development of the game. Instead, he promised her that as soon as the game was finished they'd tie the knot. I don't know exactly when they did marry, but clearly they did =]

Awwwwwwww

 

[BassForever]

King K. Rool is garbage. Let him fade into obscurity.

If they're gonna include the Duck Hunt Dog they might as go all out and do a bunch of awful Nintendo characters

 

[Toxi]

But water bending is more broken! D:

i haven't heard something so wrong in my entire life

Let's be honest, earth bending became the best the moment you were able to create lava with it.

"Oh, I can control fire."

"Who gives a damn, I can create liquid rock at a temperature in excess of 1000 degrees celsius."

 

[Pikma]

If you're a true K Rool fan, you'd be willing to use this as your avatar

I'd use it

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but somebody would have to beat me at an avatar bet first

 

[Marcus]

King K. Rool is garbage. Let him fade into obscurity.

who?

 

[A Link to the Past]

I don't even really want K. Rool

 

[jnWake]

I like K. Rool, but the DKC2 design. The original one sux.

 

[AdanVC]

Oh come on we get to spend more time with him than her, don't be so jelly.

His wife is jealous of us actually, lol.

Yeah. Dated the same girl for almost the entirety of the Smash Bros. series, iirc, and eventually married her after Brawl.

Oh come on we get to spend more time with him than her, don't be so jelly.

The story of them that I heard is cute. She worked for him back when Brawl was being developed and kept egging him on to marry her. Sakurai wanted to, but obviously was way to busy with the development of the game. Instead, he promised her that as soon as the game was finished they'd tie the knot. I don't know exactly when they did marry, but clearly they did =]

That's a nice love story! They fall in love due to Smash. It's great that both share the same passion for videogames by working on the same field.

 

[DICKS AHOY]

King K. Rool is an awful character. His entire goal is to steal fucking bananas. He has an extremely dull and ugly design, not to mention his attacks in games are lackluster. He throws his crown as an attack. HE THROWS. HIS CROWN. He is a poor man's Bowser that lacks personality and diversity. Note that Retro dropped his ass for the new DKC games because he is such a replaceable villain.

He also summons fake credits to try and one-up yup and uses a blunderbuss with control-warping abilities to help move himself around due to his morbid obesity. That's original!

Also Retro's main villains were a reskin of Master Hand and a reskin of all three K. Rool boss fights. You can make an argument those enemies are better designed than the Kremlings (or the snowmads anyway), but they definitely ran out of ideas for both final fights when I don't feel Rare did.

Plus the fuck else are the kong's going to eat without their bananas?

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Winky the Frog apparently.

 

[oreomunsta]

He's a lucky dude. Someone who understands him getting very into his work, literally helps him with said work, and begged him to marry her.

On top of getting to work on one of gaming's most amazing franchises, and having the most stupidly adorable feline overlord in his home? He is quite lucky =]

 

[SkullHydra]

Let's be honest, earth bending became the best the moment you were able to control earth with it.

"Oh, I can control fire."

"Who gives a crap, I can seal you in solid stone."

Fixed that for you.

EDIT: Hey Pikma, send me my punishment avatar.

 

[PfantzyPantz]

K Rool is hype as heck, ya'll trippin

 

[A Link to the Past]

K Rool is hype as heck, ya'll trippin

He's okay. I'd much rather have Dixie

 

[Sponge]

You can make an argument those enemies are better designed than the Kremlings (or the snowmads anyway), but they definitely ran out of ideas for both final fights when I don't feel Rare did.

The Tikis and Snomads I feel are better than the Kremlings, but K. Rool is honestly the best villain DK has had. Tiki Tong and Fredrick were really boring if you ask me.

 

[oreomunsta]

I'd use it

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but somebody would have to beat me at an avatar bet first

I avatar bet you that you will, then? Lose on purpose >=]

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I have another bet going on, so this is for jokes

 

[Toxi]

Fixed that for you.

Sure. Earth bending is cool. You can use it to control rocks, control dirt, control sand, control metal, control lava. Groudon was always cooler than Kyogre.

This reminds me that we don't really have an earth elemental playable character in Smash. The closest thing is Charizard with his Rock Smash.

 

[Gonzo The Great]

King K. Rool is an awful character. His entire goal is to steal fucking bananas. He has an extremely dull and ugly design, not to mention his attacks in games are lackluster. He throws his crown as an attack. HE THROWS. HIS CROWN. He is a poor man's Bowser that lacks personality and diversity. Note that Retro dropped his ass for the new DKC games because he is such a replaceable villain.

Disliking the character is one thing, but come the fuck on. Lacking diversity? Even though he had a new costume in every game for the SAKE of diversity? And then you have the nerve to compare him to the most boring villain in Nintendo history. Unbelievable.

"According to Leigh Loveday (writer of the Donkey Kong Country series) on Rareware.com's former "scribes" column, K. Rool's motivation for stealing the banana hoard is either that he wants Donkey Kong to starve to death so that he can occupy his treehouse or he simply likes bananas. The latter explanation is contradicted in DK: Jungle Climber though, as K. Rool states that he despises bananas."

This automatically makes him a more badass villain than your stupid fire breathing turtle and purple Halloween decoration.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I'd love to see some unique work done on the Tiki species. How about Tiki-themed monsters, like a Tiki-Leviathan that you ride across the sea and fight it while on its back? Or a Tiki Dragon? Tiki Snakes?

 

[DICKS AHOY]

If you're a true K Rool fan, you'd be willing to use this as your avatar

i'll work something out

 

[SkullHydra]

K Rool is hype as heck, ya'll trippin

 

[PfantzyPantz]

He's okay. I'd much rather have Dixie

Oh I would too, but I certainly wouldn't be opposed to some K Rool action in here

 

[A Link to the Past]

Disliking the character is one thing, but come the fuck on. Lacking diversity? Even though he had a new costume in every game for the SAKE of diversity? And then you have the nerve to compare him to the most boring villain in Nintendo history. Unbelievable.

"According to Leigh Loveday (writer of the Donkey Kong Country series) on Rareware.com's former "scribes" column, K. Rool's motivation for stealing the banana hoard is either that he wants Donkey Kong to starve to death so that he can occupy his treehouse or he simply likes bananas. The latter explanation is contradicted in DK: Jungle Climber though, as K. Rool states that he despises bananas."

This automatically makes him a more badass villain than your stupid fire breathing turtle and purple Halloween decoration.

Cmon, Bowser's great. No need to rag on him to buff K. Rool's value.

 

[Sponge]

Disliking the character is one thing, but come the fuck on. Lacking diversity? Even though he had a new costume in every game for the SAKE of diversity? And then you have the nerve to compare him to the most boring villain in Nintendo history. Unbelievable.

I gotta agree, ya'll are bein' over the top.


I don't mind that he's not in Smash (personally I think Dixie deserves it more) but he's nowhere near as bad as you're making him out to be.

 

[theprodigy]

Sure. Earth bending is cool. You can use it to control rocks, control dirt, control sand, control metal, control lava. Groudon was always cooler than Kyogre.

This reminds me that we don't really have an earth elemental playable character in Smash. The closest thing is Charizard with his Rock Smash.

oh no you didn't

 

[SkullHydra]

Sure. Earth bending is cool. You can use it to control rocks, control dirt, control sand, control metal, control lava. Groudon was always cooler than Kyogre.

This reminds me that we don't really have an earth elemental playable character in Smash. The closest thing is Charizard with his Rock Smash.

Toxi, you're is a cool guy. I knew I liked you for a reason.

 

[A Link to the Past]

Kyogre would just erode Groudon's silly rocks.

 

[Makai]

I don't think it will be hard to come up with a bunch of Nintendo villains more boring than Bowser.

 

[PikaED]

AT's for everyone!

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One of these are not like the other.
[email="HINT: One isn't a Nintendo character."][/email]
I hope the PotD comes sooner than last Friday[email="hopefully earlier than 5:18 AM EDT"][/email]...

 

[Gonzo The Great]

Cmon, Bowser's great. No need to rag on him to buff K. Rool's value.

Bowser is shoehorned into every Mario game for no reason even though Wario, Tatanga, Wart are all viable alternatives. The fact that Wario didn't appear in New Super Mario Bros. 2, a game all about collecting coins, was one of my most disappointing moments as a Nintendo fan.

 

[Regulus Tera]

If they're gonna include the Duck Hunt Dog they might as go all out and do a bunch of awful Nintendo characters

They already started with Lucario in Brawl, so...

 

[oreomunsta]

oh no you didn't

Well....

Sure. Earth bending is cool. You can use it to control rocks, control dirt, control sand, control metal, control lava. Groudon was always cooler than Kyogre.

This reminds me that we don't really have an earth elemental playable character in Smash. The closest thing is Charizard with his Rock Smash.

I'll take that sweet red Godzilla over the mutated tadpole anyday

 

[Professor Beef]

I don't think it will be hard to come up with a bunch of Nintendo villains more boring than Bowser.

Fawful
ROB in that dumb cloak in SSE
Tabu
The boss in Squeak Squad
Mother Brain

 

[Not]

Kyogre would just erode Groudon's silly rocks.

This would work, because every Smash battle takes place over a course of thousands of years

 

[Dimitri LH]

This reminds me that we don't really have an earth elemental playable character in Smash.

This sounds like a job for Isaac!

 

[theprodigy]

Well....

*adds you and Toxi to ignore list*

 

[Richie]

The fact that Wario didn't appear in New Super Mario Bros. 2, a game all about collecting coins, was one of my most disappointing moments as a Nintendo fan.

Playing as the devil's advocate, Wario already showed in his own platforming series that he was too much of a badass to die upon simply touching a baddie, like Mario and Luigi do. Hell, he was immortal in Wario Land 2 and 3.
Could have made a cool immortal unlockable, though. Much better reward for reaching 1,000,000 coins than

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a mere new title screen

 

[MisterWisp]

The story of them that I heard is cute. She worked for him back when Brawl was being developed and kept egging him on to marry her. Sakurai wanted to, but obviously was way to busy with the development of the game. Instead, he promised her that as soon as the game was finished they'd tie the knot. I don't know exactly when they did marry, but clearly they did =]

D'awwww, das adorable!

 

[DICKS AHOY]

Bowser is shoehorned into every Mario game for no reason even though Wario, Tatanga, Wart are all viable alternatives. The fact that Wario didn't appear in New Super Mario Bros. 2, a game all about collecting coins, was one of my most disappointing moments as a Nintendo fan.

May as well ask why Donkey Kong doesn't show up as a Mario boss anymore (MvsDK doesn't really count after it became that weird lemmings thing). Wario's his own made man who shows up to kart racing and Mario 'whateverthefuckelse' games just for the glory.

 

[SenorArdilla]

Well, feels like this PotD is going to be late.

 

[SoldnerKei]

They already started with Olimar, ROB, Lucario & Lucas in Brawl, so...

ftfy

AT monday for Duck Hunt, just like Takamaru

 

[SkullHydra]

*adds you, Toxi, and SkullHydra to ignore list*

____;-;____

 

[Azure J]

ftfy

AT monday for Duck Hunt, just like Takamaru

I'd legit feel bad for so many people. :lol

 

[oreomunsta]

*adds you, Toxi, and SkullHydra to ignore list*

I'll just see you then in ORAS Wi-Fi battles then >=]

 

[Dimitri LH]

Well, feels like this PotD is going to be late.

I doubt it, we still got plenty of time before we head to "LATE" territory.

 

[Professor Beef]

ftfy

AT monday for Duck Hunt, just like Takamaru

need dis

 

[StreetsAhead]

Well, feels like this PotD is going to be late.

PotD doesn't usually appear until 3pm JST at the earliest and we're not quite there.

 

[Loco4Coco]

All this bad mouthing of King K Rool. My goodness. For shame....