Anihawk said:
i wonder what dkcr would have been like if they were allowed to make a fresh dk platformer ala dkjb. regardless, i'd love for them to make something on their own, without being shackled to an older series.
Yeah, Retro can't help how bad the foundation they had to work with was. I mean, to their credit, it still was a relatively pretty-for-Wii game that really stood out in Dolphin from the Dolphin pics I saw. In action, though, the only levels worth a damn were those temple stages and even those were helplessly stuck on the unreliable enemy hit detection/bouncing gameplay or the hideously broken shake-to-roll mechanic. Or the game was too busy being bogged down by an ENTIRE WORLD of trial-and-error garbage mine cart stages.
Jungle Beat eviscerates the DKC series singlehandedly, that much is true. Would have rather them take the jump from that series.
I'm with you, though, new IP for Retro on Stream PLEASE
Electivirus said:
I've never played an F-Zero game, myself. The series never really caught my interest, and it doesn't help that I'm not too big on racers in general. Never touched a racing game that doesn't have "Mario Kart" in the title.
Imagine a game where the racing vehicles move so fast that your face melts as you play it. Now imagine while you're going at these speeds, you're having to calculate the risk of using just that much more boost because if you use too much boost and then take too much damage you'll explode; the game has an amazingly well balanced boost/damage bar where your energy bar is used for both boost and your health, so you have to determine what you'll risk to try to push it to the finish line. On the hardest difficulty levels, you'll never be doing anything but flashing red all the time, leaving you a sweating, eye-bulging tense wreck of a man always on the edge of your seat.
Now imagine you're doing that while taking roller coaster-esque loops and raging thunderstorms crash about in the background and you... OMG YOU'RE TAKING A JUMP AT 2500kmph!
