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Donkey Kong Country Returns announced [N-CONF]
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redbarchetta
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SalsaShark said:
Just form-up and have Diddy ride piggyback--best of both worlds! (and you can even control his jetpack!)
redbarchetta
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robor said:
Well, if he thought DK was slow, Epic Yarn's not going to seem any faster! :lol
redbarchetta
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SalsaShark said:
The car's not that much faster, and can really only be used when there's no enemies on-screen. It makes travelling faster, but the overall pace of the game is still considerably slower than DKCR.
redbarchetta
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Gravijah said:
There's still Sonic Colors :lol
I guess it wasn't clear: it is not that the gameplay itself is slow, but that the controls are slow. DKC had a little bit of input lag, but it still felt tight and right. DKCR did not. \:redbarchetta said:
I hold out hope that it was just the environment fucking with my head.
And no, I didn't wait in line to play Epic Yarn, a game I will buy regardless. I went and played DIE WEINHÄNDLER with Idle Thumbs instead.
Nah, I didn't wanna hold up the line with stupid questions. A games press member, I am not. Besides, I was terrible and I died like three times against really easy stuff, it was embarrassing. I had to turn in my Gamer's Card. ):upandaway said:
It was the nunchuk/remote setup.
My biggest concern beyond the clunkiness/input lag is just how fucking STUPID it feels to make a "pound" motion to roll. What. (For the record: I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the shake-to-spin in Galaxy.)
Thunder Monkey
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This game nails the lives of apes completely.
Thunder Monkey
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You don't have to keep reminding me!Gravijah said:
*cries*
Thunder Monkey
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But I can't speak Germanese.jarosh said:come to switzerland. no difference between apes and monkeys in german
Thunder Monkey
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That sounds nice.jarosh said:
Can I eat sausages?
Thunder Monkey
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*wags tail*jarosh said:
Sounds like royalty.
I could have sworn I read blind.Gravijah said:
Thunder Monkey
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Everytime I do that someone tells me to let go of their balls.Gravijah said:
Thunder Monkey
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I'd be up for that.
I've been Thunder Monkey for a long time.
I've been Thunder Monkey for a long time.
Thunder Monkey
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I'd need to come up with a new avy though.
JasoNsider
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scitek said:
Holy crap that was one of the funniest videos in a while, sometimes for semi-unintentional reasons :lol
Regulus Tera
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Awesomer than it had any right to be.Alucard said:
Tricky I Shadow
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Twig said:
Reading this would be a complete buzz kill.....but luckily its not for me since pretty much everyone else whos played it has raved about how fantastic and promising it is. Sucks that you didnt really enjoy it.
Freezie KO said:
Ok....this is as good a time as any to clear up a few things from my observations.
Single Player:
You can't ever be Diddy Kong as far as I can tell. You play as Donkey Kong and once you find the barrel for Diddy he automatically jumps on your back and you can use his jetpack for more accurate jumping. I think you have 4 hearts total...2 for each.
Co-op:
Player 1 is Donkey Kong while player 2 is Diddy. You both have 2 hearts and both Donkey Kong and Diddy can move freely, although if one of you moves off the screen you have a few seconds to get back in view, I'm not sure what the consequence is.
It's also worth mentioning that when Donkey Kong or Diddy lose both hearts a barrel will float on the screen and when you touch it you get revived similar to how it worked in New Super Mario Bros. Oh and hearts seem to be quite common in the levels.
The game to me sounds a little bit too forgiving at the moment. Please don't be easy!
redbarchetta said:
It's not really that DK doesn't move any more quickly, but that you have to keep stopping to do shitparticularly just go totally dead-stop to pound the groundit kills the pace. Whereas Kirby keeps moving.
I'm no game designer, but I thought way later, while talking with Twig about it (I had played it at E3) that maybe if the shake had been exclusively pound, if you could have done it while you were moving, and if roll had then been mapped to a button, then you'd have a winning scheme right there.
boiled goose
good with gravy
i really hope retro pulls their head out of nintendo's ass and provides us with a competent control scheme.
shake to roll is retarded. (yeah yeah something similar worked in galaxy)
it is not the same at all here though...
shake to roll is retarded. (yeah yeah something similar worked in galaxy)
it is not the same at all here though...
redbarchetta
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AniHawk said:
No there isn't--not in general, from what I recall. Fewer collectibles and fewer enemies = less things to do. This was especially evident in two-player--in Donkey Kong, there was almost always something for both players to do, but in Kirby, whoever was out in the lead could take care of most things before the second caught up.
redbarchetta
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zigg said:
Really? Because that's largely my problem with it. DK's running speed is fine--the problem is it takes a solid moment for him to go from walking to running, due to the lack of a run button. This results in the game seeming slower anytime you come to a rest, and can also make some jumps trickier than they should be since his jump distance varies significantly depending on his speed.
redbarchetta
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BikoBiko said:
Rolling was boss in Donkey Kong. Made you practically invincible and allowed you to jump at least 12 times as far.
Of course everyone is raving about it. People absolutely love it when Nintendo pulls out their old franchises.Tricky I Shadow said:
Unfortunately, those same people very rarely talk about how great and fantastic the controls are. They talk about how it looks, how it has BARRELS OH GOD BARRELSSSSSSS.
Trust me, I really wanted it to be great.
Yeah, this. How can you not roll, it's awesome!Tathanen said:
No, zigg has a point, though. Once you GET moving, you should be able to STAY moving, rather than having to constantly stop to pound the ground or whatever dumb shit. The momentum in DKC is my literal favorite part. Bouncing on enemies into a long string of barrels landing on a mine cart jumping weaving through waves of those damn bees slipping on ice etc. etc. etc. That shit was good.redbarchetta said:
The beach level (the one I played) required me to stop waaaay too often. \:
(Also, DK shouldn't need a run button in the first place. U
redbarchetta
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Twig said:
I guess...you had to stop to pound the ground in the original too. And it seems like it's still largely optional and is only required in a few places to trigger something, IIRC.
Twig said:(Also, DK shouldn't need a run button in the first place. U
Most platformers don't need a run button. The point is DK accelerates too slow and should be rectified (but likely won't be).
ShockingAlberto
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I am pretty sure you can be Diddy at will
There have been screenshots of Diddy with Donkey Kong following him. Though I guess that could have easily been Donkey Kong getting hit, then Diddy taking over, then Diddy finding a DK barrel.
There have been screenshots of Diddy with Donkey Kong following him. Though I guess that could have easily been Donkey Kong getting hit, then Diddy taking over, then Diddy finding a DK barrel.
Yes, you did, but it wasn't so fucking slow do so, despite the run button's existence. And also like I said: I had to stop waaaaaay too often in that beach level.redbarchetta said:
Ignore what I said earlier. For some reason I had completely forgotten DKC had a run button, but once I realized I was an idiot, I remembered how often I used it. I just assumed he ran at full speed at all times... Obviously that is not the case!
redbarchetta
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Twig said:
Haha, no worries =)
As for the beach level, I do see what you mean. But the other levels that I played didn't seem quite as bad in that respect (though it would be a pretty significant oversight if you had to do it while riding a mine cart =D