Rumour: Diddy Kong Racing 2 became Excitebots; Monster Games working on DKR2 for WiiU

Sponge said:
It really depends on who they go for. Characters like Dillon and Rusty fit alongside Diddy fairly well. Mallo really doesn't, but I'd be okay with him. They should really push for animals.
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I wouldn't be opposed to having some as long as they fit ala Banjo and Conker in the original. I just don't want the entire cast to be that.
 
Bdub said:
I always wondered why MS didn't put out a game based on DKR without the Nintendo characters. Couldn't Rare just put a fresh coat of paint on the engine?

Seems like leaving money on the table.
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Hero of Legend said:
They were going to; The Fast & The Furriest. It at least featured Conker, Banjo, Tiptup, and T.T.

They cancelled it, likely due to the Wiimote like prototype they made for it was canned as well.
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I always thought Sabreman Stampede is what Rare changed Donkey Kong Racing into.

Here's a video covering it:
http://youtu.be/DA0722-Y9EA

(Although I think he has the pronunciation for Sabreman off - sub ray man? Wtf. Pretty sure you say sabre in Sabreman the same way you say it in Sabretooth)

Found more footage of Sabreman Stampede here (with correct pronunciation) : http://youtu.be/TZiwuEXohOs

Sigh. Really wish we got to play that. I think it looks good.
 
ZeroX03 said:
Mallo has an affinity for birds, specifically in Crashmo/Fallblox. He could be designed around that.
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That actually brings up a good point. If this were to happen, would you be able to select your animal vehicle, or would each character be assigned one?

Mallo in a bird car (kiwi or something on the ground, penguin in the water, etc), but not so much in a car based on Rambi. Or would there just be a ton of random animal vehicles?

Really, the best support for this rumor is that Diddy wasn't in MK8.
 
OMG if this is true. Finally a kart game with good Battle mode.
Although with none of the pedigree of the original behind it , no really sure if would still be that good.

I want to believe ;/
 
well if it's retro & monster games behind it as the rumour suggests, i have no doubt it will be great.

monster games are pretty fantastic in the arcade racing genre, and retro is run by jedi who have yet to make an average, and even further, poor quality title.
 
ZeroX03 said:
Mallo has an affinity for birds, specifically in Crashmo/Fallblox. He could be designed around that.
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He could also use a variation of the carnival cart from Pushmo World, but modified to be a racing vehicle. You see it in the training area of that game.
 
solaaire said:
DKR2 to be released in 2016, codeveloped by monster and retro. monster is handling the 3ds version while retro takes care of the wii u

it has a longer development cycle than usual because it will be the first 'unified' game (ala Smash Bros) produced by Nintendo of America. it is far and away Nintendo of America's largest project to date. All NoA hands are on deck, including redmond's NST

the article in the OP got a few things right:

- The of success of MKWii was certainly one of the driving factors behind NoJ's renewed interest in DKR2

- it is no coincidence that Retro was involved with the creation of MK7 (since when does EAD work with 2nd party American devs??)

- it is no coincidence that Monster helped Retro with DKCTF

- Tanabe is a key player and is largely responsible for making this all happen

and he got some things wrong, mainly about the politicing between Rare/MS/Nintendo.

some more info

- SPD3 (Kensuke Tanabe's USA wing) and NoA have been granted significantly more funding and freedom going forward regarding game software development

- Amiibo's were critical in reviving NoJs interest in DKR2. internal forecasts show Amiibo's will sell like hotcakes and nintendo is going to make amiibos of nearly every franchise they have ever owned. one major objective of the game is to boost the popularity of lesser known franchises in order to push amiibos

- let me preface this next one. Right now the corporate MO is unification. believe it or not, nintendo has been making serious strides on the backend to become a more modern company and they have nearly finished restructuring their datacenters in both the US and Japan. Unified Accounts, Unified Operating System. Unified Everything. in the same sense nintendo is trying to unify NoJ and NoA by empowering NoA to develop original IPs (thru independent and indie devs) and strengthen existing B team brands from Japan

- at the same time, NoA is trying to unify its core developers in america to match the new model in japan (think smash bros)
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Wait is this for real?
 
I don't think this guy has any credibility.
I doubt any insider would be so familiar with internet rumors which he uses heavily to support his argument. Reads more like a DKR fan who's been paying close attention to every rumor regarding to the franchises. Still well written and could be true, but I doubt this guy has any more info than is publicly available - he's just a guy trying to connect the dots.
 
Again, I dont see how this can be real when it claims that production of this game predates MK7. If the game exists we definitely should have seen something from it by now.
 
Neiteio said:
Blatantly false rumors. It refers to NCL as "NoJ" and treats NOA as its own publisher.
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Exactly. Plus, he/she apparently isn't even aware Retro has been a first party Nintendo developer since May 2002, before they had even released their first game.

Edit: There is also the fact that this just doesn't seem in line with how Nintendo works. Retro, Monster, and NST working on a single game? I don't think so.
 
Min0 said:
I don't care about that "insider"'s credibility, I just want to believe!
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Yeah! Plus, wasn't this not the first time we heard a rumor like this? Granted, apparently Emily Rogers, who has insider info herself, said the first one was inaccurate/false, and the second one most likely is building off the first one, but maybe the reaction to this "leak," if it ends up being false, can get some wheels turning (No pun intended)?
 
They should have kept all ips...from blast corps to jet force gemini...now theyre stuck to this us company that doesnt know what to do with the ips but still greedy enough to not sell them.
 
Maxrunner said:
They should have kept all ips...from blast corps to jet force gemini...now theyre stuck to this us company that doesnt know what to do with the ips but still greedy enough to not sell them.
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It's pretty baffling and terrible business sense that they let rare have them really
 
Maxrunner said:
They should have kept all ips...from blast corps to jet force gemini...now theyre stuck to this us company that doesnt know what to do with the ips but still greedy enough to not sell them.
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The best (worst) part? Maybe I was told wrong because I don't know copyright, but Nintendo could have easily kept all those IPs. Former NoA chairman Howard Lincoln was friends with Rare's founders the Stamper Brothers, so he let Rare take everything but DKC. For free. Now neither are at either company, and Rare's staff doesn't even share a single member it had back when they sold themselves with modern Rare. Presumably, Yamauchi was too bitter to try and intervene, seeing how he wanted nothing to do with Rare after their sale.

Again, I can't find this article anywhere, so maybe it's a load of crock, but it rustled my jimmies reading it, to say the least.
 
Lulzwagon said:
I can hear T.T saying "Ridley Falls" already
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Hahaha ! Good one :)

We played Diddy Kong Racing so much when my cousin got a Nintendo 64, I still remember everything (and I haven't played that game since the 2000s. It was (for me) way better than Mario Kart 64.
 
Zubz said:
The best (worst) part? Maybe I was told wrong because I don't know copyright, but Nintendo could have easily kept all those IPs. Former NoA chairman Howard Lincoln was friends with Rare's founders the Stamper Brothers, so he let Rare take everything but DKC. For free. Now neither are at either company, and Rare's staff doesn't even share a single member it had back when they sold themselves with modern Rare. Presumably, Yamauchi was too bitter to try and intervene, seeing how he wanted nothing to do with Rare after their sale.

Again, I can't find this article anywhere, so maybe it's a load of crock, but it rustled my jimmies reading it, to say the least.
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Gregg Mayles, Steve Mayles, and Robin Beanland are still there I believe.
 
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:

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Is it far fetched to believe that the model was ripped from the alleged Diddy Kong Racing sequel? Why would they specifically make a new model for Winky of all things? Just some food for thought.
 
Gonzo The Great said:
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:

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Is it far fetched to believe that the model was ripped from the alleged Diddy Kong Racing sequel? Why would they specifically make a new model for Winky of all things? Just some food for thought.
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Haven't they made models for plenty of characters just for the Smash Bros series in the past?
 
Gonzo The Great said:
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:

FdRlCbl.png


Is it far fetched to believe that the model was ripped from the alleged Diddy Kong Racing sequel? Why would they specifically make a new model for Winky of all things? Just some food for thought.
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Not only Winky but also Expresso and Enguarde! Though their trophies also appeared in Brawl...
 
Dr. Feel Good said:
Haven't they made models for plenty of characters just for the Smash Bros series in the past?
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It happens... but not often. Most of the trophies in Brawl and Sm4sh are ripped from existing games. Winky just seems like a strange choice to me, and it's no coincidence that the article in the OP has a comparison picture of Winky and the frog from Excitebots.

linkman26 said:
Not only Winky but also Expresso and Enguarde! Though their trophies also appeared in Brawl...
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Enguarde appeared in Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast. But now that you mention it, Expresso and Squitter have unique trophies too. Is it finally time to get hyped?
 
Gonzo The Great said:
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:

FdRlCbl.png


Is it far fetched to believe that the model was ripped from the alleged Diddy Kong Racing sequel? Why would they specifically make a new model for Winky of all things? Just some food for thought.
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Well for one, I don't think we've ever actually had a Trophy in Smash Bros that represents anything related to Diddy Kong Racing, have we? No Tiptup, Timber, Wizpig, nothing.
 
Rlan said:
Well for one, I don't think we've ever actually had a Trophy in Smash Bros that represents anything related to Diddy Kong Racing, have we? No Tiptup, Timber, Wizpig, nothing.
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Tiptup, Timber, and Wizpig are all Microsoft IP. Basically both Nintendo and MS ignored the fact they both owned IP for the last port because DKR DS was on a platform they weren't competing with each other on.

If you remember, they changed the motion sensor for Melee from the Perfect Dark proximity mine to a generic mine by the time it released in the US.
 
Rlan said:
Well for one, I don't think we've ever actually had a Trophy in Smash Bros that represents anything related to Diddy Kong Racing, have we? No Tiptup, Timber, Wizpig, nothing.
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If we get a sequel to Diddy Kong Racing, I doubt those characters will be returning. It's disputed as to whether or not Nintendo actually owns them, and I don't think they do. Based on the article, I think it will have more in common with the cancelled Donkey Kong Racing.
 
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