Those characters are likely owned by Rare. Only exceptions being Diddy and Krunch.
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Rumour: Diddy Kong Racing 2 became Excitebots; Monster Games working on DKR2 for WiiU
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Those characters are likely owned by Rare. Only exceptions being Diddy and Krunch.
And as of the DS Port, Tiny Kong. Nintendo supplied her new model to Rare.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
Don't forget about my girl Dixie Kong. Based on what we know, I'm going to make a hypothetical character roster out of boredom.
DK Universe Characters:
Diddy Kong
Dixie Kong
Tiny Kong
Lanky Kong
Krunch
Krusha
Klump
Kalypso
"Forgotten" Nintendo All-Stars:
Birdo
Bowser Jr.
Dillon
Mallo
Rusty
Barbara the Bat
Takamaru (Might not fit the visual style. Potentially replace him with something more cutesy)
Prince Sablé
King K. Rool replaces Wizpig as the final boss. The game is released to universal critical acclaim and world peace is achieved.
Sounds great and makes sense. Could be a big game for Nintendo... MK8 lifted WiiU sales of I'm not mistaken. There's certainly demand for a DKR sequel.
I hope they go all out technically if true. I would like ONE Western developed game to show me what the WiiU is capable of in a AAA game. Don't think ZombieU counts. Tropical Freeze was beautiful but Retro adhered to a template of sorts. Alarm bells rang in my head when a I read that Nintendo 'approved' fur shading on the Kongs even though it was 'expensive' (financially) to implement. High Res textures in NFS were nice... but come on!
I hope they go all out technically if true. I would like ONE Western developed game to show me what the WiiU is capable of in a AAA game. Don't think ZombieU counts. Tropical Freeze was beautiful but Retro adhered to a template of sorts. Alarm bells rang in my head when a I read that Nintendo 'approved' fur shading on the Kongs even though it was 'expensive' (financially) to implement. High Res textures in NFS were nice... but come on!
MrSaturn99
Member
how the hell did I not see this last year
zenosparadox
Member
I saw this scene on IFC like 30 minutes ago. Weird coincidence.
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:
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.
This seems like kind of a stretch honestly. They probably just wanted a few more trophies for the DK series so somebody whipped up models for the animal friends.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Now that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is out, I'd like to know where this trophy came from:
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.
I think it would be pretty cool if Winky and some of the animal buddies could be racers in the sequel (assuming true). It's a pretty cool way to make use of them and the DKR cast is essentially a bunch of random animals anyway sans Banjo/Conker.
I would absolutely love to have the original cast though as well, although unlikely. Taj and T.T are awesome characters.
Heh. The fur shading is very gpu expensive. There is a reason you still haven't seen fur shading like it in other games.
DirgeExtinction
Member
Oh,man. Diddy Kong Racing 2!?
That would make me want to get a Wii U sooner.
That would make me want to get a Wii U sooner.MrSaturn99
Member
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Diddy Kong Racing is legendary. A racing companion to Mario Kart 8 that has boss fights and secret keys and planes and a hub world could be awesome. But...
I don't know if they should even mess with making Donkey Kong Racing at this point. I'm worried it will be like the Yoshi's Island sequels that don't get the care and talent they deserve.
Maybe if it was one of nintendo's internal A-teams I'd feel okay about it. Or Retro even...since they're elite tier and they've obviously got a good handle on DK in general.
I don't know if they should even mess with making Donkey Kong Racing at this point. I'm worried it will be like the Yoshi's Island sequels that don't get the care and talent they deserve.
Maybe if it was one of nintendo's internal A-teams I'd feel okay about it. Or Retro even...since they're elite tier and they've obviously got a good handle on DK in general.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Hate to bump this thread but considering that Monster Games are working on Xenoblade 3D, I think the dream might be dead.
EightBitNate
Member
I think Monster has proven they know how to make a good racing game.
thebisonxrc
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Man, Diddy Kong Racing was awesome. I'd be thrilled if a Wii U sequel was in the works. I can't even imagine how many hours I spent playing the original. Hopefully the rumour is true!
Monster Games has made better racers recently than any of Nintendo's internal teams though.
Not surprising.
chertipros
Member
Diddy kong racing 2 will be an open world racing game set on bionis. All the pieces fit together perfectly
I very highly doubt it took the combined total of all Monster Games staffers over two years to port a game with little change. Porting experience of DKCR would've narrowed down the workload too.
TheSpaceBetween
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1. They've probably only been working on it for a year at this point, as they helped Retro with Tropical Freeze after they finished porting DKCR.
2. They are a team of 25 people. No way they are working two projects at once, especially not a fully fledged Wii U title.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I think the Winky/Expresso Trophies in Smash 4 might be old, unused models from perhaps that Wii Donkey Kong Racer, they're clearly not in the new Returns-style.
Shulk confirmed for Diddy Kong Racing 2!
Shulk confirmed for Diddy Kong Racing 2!
Gonzo The Great
Banned
What does this even mean? They look just as "cartoony" as the other DK characters.
The only way I want Monster to be making this is Diddy Kong Excite Racing or Diddy Kong Monster Truck Racing.... or better yet Excite Truck U lol, seriously Excite Truck was just so damn good. Leave the memory of Diddy Kong Racing with Rare alone untarnished in the past, 2 Kart racers is overkill from Nintendo, MK8 is more than enough. Let Monster shine at what they do best (EXCITE!)
Gambit 1138
Banned
What's really sad is that Nintendo and Microsoft had a healthy business relationship the first few years after the buyout. MS allowed RARE to keep working on Donkey Kong and Banjo and they even had Bungie begin work on a Halo game for DS. Unfortunately Nintendo had to fuck things up because they didn't want to share and decided to punch the gift hoarse in the mouth by blocking a remake of Goldeneye from being released.
I don't blame MS for telling Nintendo to fuck off now. They had it coming.
SporeCrawler
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Well Excitebots was an amazing game. it was all kinds of crazy but comming off the surprisingly good Excite Truck it was definately the right step from a gameplay perspective .
TheSlySoul
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Not going to happen. As they said, MS owns too many of the characters.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Ayyy.
Anyway, this was one of my favorite rumors so that part in the direct was a little disappointing for me, but I'll get over it haha.
This thread just reminds me of how much I wanted Excitebots, just to find out they would never release the game in Europe. Still hurts a little, that game looked like fun in its purest form.
I really don't care who's driving the damn vehicles, just give me more of Excite-series high pace racing.
I really don't care who's driving the damn vehicles, just give me more of Excite-series high pace racing.
I don't think halo DS was Microsoft sanctioned. Just a pitch that never made it through.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
prag16
Banned
Wait, what?
And are you saying Rare was still working on stuff for Nintendo AFTER the MSFT buyout?? But that was stopped only after Nintendo blocked the GE HD rerelease?
Got a source for all this?
Rare continued to make GBA and DS games, including handling the port of Diddy Kong Racing themselves. Since MS didn't have a hand in any mobile development at the time, there was no conflict of interest present.
It's true. RARE developed Viva Pinata DS and Diddy Kong Racing DS. They had been owned by MSFT for a while by that point.
From the sounds of it the GE HD rerelease thing wasn't exactly a good deal.
prag16
Banned
dampflokfreund
Banned
Isn't Monster Games working on the Xenoblade remake? How big are they?
I maintain that it's pretty hard to not justify Nintendo's actions in all of it. They were definitely getting the short end of the stick with that deal, and since MS wasn't going to let Rare and 4J Studios work on an equivalent remake for the Wii, there was no real option for them to pursue other than calling the whole thing off. It would have been one thing if they were planning on doing more of a Banjo-Kazooie XBLA release for GE007, but this was decidedly not that.