The arcade DK was always the better design, and the idea that Cranky Kong was akshully the OG and Rare DK was his grandson was stupid.
It's 2025, and we were long overdue the bootleg-looking Rare version to be replaced by the actual DK. All they need to do now is get rid of that tuft of hair on top.
and the idea that Cranky Kong was akshully the OG and Rare DK was his grandson was stupid.
You're going to hate Donkey Kong Bananza then lol.
he now looks like he's part of the mario universe. its baffling he wasn't redesigned sooner.
Rare DK looked good in his own right, but so out of place with the Mario style. People are too nostalgia-blinded to this though.
the idea that Cranky Kong was akshully the OG and Rare DK was his grandson was stupid.
Nah. It was kino and you're a fucking faggot with no taste.
Why are you shitposting on Anon Babble, Miyamoto? Surely pitching a new StarFox game with a gimmicky control scheme would be a more constructive use of your time.
These posts feel completely real and by genuine humans
Yes saar, the change was indeed mostly a needfull thing
No one thought that DK's design was bad. This isn't arcade DK either, it's rare DK being injected with about a million grams of estrogen concentrate to soften him up and appeal to the little kids who only watched the movie.
You're a corporate bootlicker and a faggot.
Cope
Fucking schizo.
Fags in this thread won't admit it but OP is right
DK looks so much better
It amuses me greatly that the design of a video game monkey is this controversial
It's old good, new bad
Not the other way round
Raresnoys have been mentally ill and causing mayhem in the fandom since Jungle Beat. Years of lack of kremlings have made brainworms grow inside their heads. This redesign is a good thing and was much needed.
pointless contrarian bait thread
Can we admit rare DK sucked
no. I still love the rare one but I've warmed up to the new design now that we have clearer shots of him. The new DK is a mix of miyamoto's and rare's designs and i think that's a fun look.
Never in my 32 years on this Earth did I ever see a single person call Rare's DK design bad. It was universally beloved.
All the recent "hate" is 100% manufactured by braindead Nintendo fanboys.
GOOD MORNING SAARS
mentally ill
brainworms
The projection levels are off the charts.
I hate nu-Nintendo fanboys.
It’s nice and expressive, I still wish they did the Luigi’s mansion thing with king boo for DK where the characters look changes depending on the sub series
Weird post
did everyone forget about dabbing
guise did you know that you have misinterpreted your own opinions and thing that is universally considered good is actually bad
Go make a video ese about it.
Basically this.
I was bit disappointed at first about the redesign but when it was clear that the new design was because of a new DK game made by Nintendo themselves, it made more sense.
Rare's design is nice and all, but Rare has nothing to do with Nintendo anymore.
Only thing that I'm worried about is rest of the Donkey Kong chars, like Diddy Kong. He's 100% Rare made character so it would be strange to redesign him to fit new/old DKs style.
I'm just genuinely tired of complaining and being angry for the sake of it. It doesn't make me happy, it doesn't drive any rational kind of discussion because you have already decided you are right, and you are out there to just make others miserable without any kind of solution.
Venting is okay, same with complaining, not trying to say that is bad or "wrong". People just seem to like being angry and feel like a victim or something. I wish people could take a step back and examine what they are doing from 3rd perspective.
Only thing that I'm worried about is rest of the Donkey Kong chars, like Diddy Kong. He's 100% Rare made character so it would be strange to redesign him to fit new/old DKs style.
Cranky's here and he hasn't changed
Listen, I hate Rare but Cranky Kong is based
Rare was never good indeed, it was about time to erase al kind or Rare traces, those untalented faggots do not deserve free real state at Nintendo anymore
They probably figured that'd be too much trouble. they're probably going to let funky keep his old look since they're more or less identical.
Is he in the new DK game? I try and avoid spoilers so didn't see him. But happy to know that rest of the gang is okay.
Happy times.
I hate NuDonkey so fucking much
Only thing that I'm worried about is rest of the Donkey Kong chars
Cranky is identical
Left looks great.
Right is awful.
Yes yes, the other anon said already.
But my bad. As I said I'm avoiding spoilers. Gonna prob get 2-3 more anons posting that too but 100% on me.
erm everyone totally always hated other design it was never good I'm totally not just defending new shiny thing because it's new shiny switchie I wanna consoom
Can't wait for these games to come out so this recency bias honeymoon faggotry can end
he didn't heckin FIT IN before, he NEEDS to heckin FIT IN with the other bing wahoo Mickey Mouses
So basically nu nintendo needs everything to be the same corporate safe wannabe disney shit
Rare was never good
They pretty much singlehandedly carried the N64
They went to shit after that though.
Sorry. that was a slow reply on my part.
I like both old and modern DK.
If anything I am not even seeing that big of a difference between the old and the new. But for some reason that opinion appears to upset proponents of both the old and of the new.
But old DK was always expressive and goofy. And new DK is in no way only expressive and goofy.
Both had huge elements of both, but it kind of feels like some people have latched onto rather fixed ideas of DK.
it would have been kino if DK was JR grown up but that idea got vetoed by nintendo.
An enormous improvement. I've genuinely found the Rare design to be hideous and kind of incongruous with Mario games as a whole.
the giant toothy dumb guy smile is the worst part of the design. he looks great with any other expression but his resting face makes him look retarded
Another issue is, this downgrade of DK will also appear in other material, such as Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Sakurai rightly looked at Zelda and realised her BotW design was ugly as fuck so went and used a design based on the beloved and iconic and very beautiful Zelda of ALttP/ALbW instead but I don't think he will with DK.
Always okay to point out misinformation. Especially in good and respectable manner(no hurling insults etc. for me being wrong, you know the usual buzzwords). You even posted a pic proving why I was wrong so that's nice.
Good job.
controversial
It's astroturfing and falseflagging by asshurt schizoids.
I hate how feathery Dk's fur looks.
Sakurai also said he'd only put in classic Pac-Man or no Pac-Man at all and he got his way
If Nintendo remasters any old Donkey Kong games, will they change DK's design from the Rare design to the new design?
It's likely
The arcade DK was always the better design,
Agreed. Although the Rare design is certainly very good as well and defined a generation of games, I actually am really enjoying the return of the original, arcade design
and the idea that Cranky Kong was akshully the OG and Rare DK was his grandson was stupid.
Too bad this is still canon, faggot
You can bet your ass. And that's a good thing! Here's why that thing you liked was NEVER good and that means you MUST consoom NEW PRODUCT...
old and new dk are not comparable to old and new pacman. I don't blame sakurai
I don't give a fuck
Hopefully they do it. Total Rare faggots death
Gave enough of a fuck to reply
DK’s fur looks like eagle feathers.
The Rare design was better and DKC are the only good Donkey Kong games, but this one fits Nintendo and what they want to do with the character better. I also think this DK looks like a character that would be liked by the kind of people who play DK in Mario Kart.
"new pacman"
That was a redesign for one "failed reboot" of the franchise and Namco now uses the same design that Pac has in Smash again. Sakurai was smart not to use the redesign, it would have aged the game poorly.
You're going to hate Donkey Kong Bananza then lol.
He’s not because Cranky’s overalls comment isn’t in the Japanese version of Bananza. DK is DK, Cranky is simply an old monkey with no connection to Mario.
Too bad this is still canon, faggot
It was never canon in Japan to begin with, why can’t you accept reality? What are you going to do when they introduce Jr as his son again? Go apeshit?
King K Rool and the Kremling Krew absolutely mog other Nintendo villains and mooks
Nobody fucking cared about the tikis or generic viking animals from the Returns games
Rare's DK looked a lot better than this shit. You can tell this is all that hack Miyamoto's doing since it's a poor attempt to make his pre-DKC design work in 3D.
Forced thread
Anon Cranky is the OG DK.
it helps they existed in the era of 90's edge and never got a real revival, they basically got to stay imposing and edgy without needing to get sanded down. as much as I'd like him back I really don't think modern nintendo would do them justice, you can even see a glimpse of it with their final few appearances like mario sluggers being a little softer looking
He’s not because Cranky’s overalls comment isn’t in the Japanese version of Bananza. DK is DK, Cranky is simply an old monkey with no connection to Mario.
Yo just like how Krystal's backstory in Japanese Adventures doesn't mention the part about her planet being nuked and her missing parents. So she's just a remembered blue fox living in Lylat. Glad to see that method has not changed in over ten years.
Will there really be a giant purple piece of shit stuck to his back at all times?
Why did they even decide that DK needed a change?
the rock is a loli pauline
what point that actually happens in-game is unknown though
DK64 was awful. It killed the IP for years until Retro saved the franchise.
We're almost 25 years removed from Microsoft acquiring Rare. Most fictional characters end up receiving redesigns every so often and it's not surprising that after hanging on to the Rare design for so long, Nintendo would eventually want to update DK's design and take the opportunity to bring him more in line with his original look. Of course sub 70 IQ brainlets will tell you it's just because Nintendo "hates Rare"
good. Thanks for the clarification.
They are comparable. It's the same level of downgrade.
Nintendo Korea accidentally posted an alternative boxart image where the purple rock was replaced with a young girl who looks similar to Pauline, so it must transform into her at some point in the story. If they're including her in the advertising then it'll probably happen fairly soon into the game.
and the idea that Cranky Kong was akshully the OG and Rare DK was his grandson was stupid.
Didn't Miyamoto make that up some time after Country came out?
dead internet theory is real
I mean, he wasn't supposed to be, the whole point of him being redesigned originally was to give him his own identity separate from Mario.
I think the fact that it stuck around for so long despite it all is a testament to the solidity of the look. I just personally don't wanna see them trash the other design when separate unique designs can coexist.
Retard
Everything that we liked and praised before is now SHIT because new product is different and GOOD
Donkey Kong? SHIT
3D Zelda games before BOTW? SHIT
OLED screens? SHIT
Pokemon spinoffs that aren't worse Palworld? SHIT
We must return to Miyamoto's TRUE vision.
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Of course it's a good design, and more importantly, that look WAS DK for a generation of gamers who grew up with it. But let's keep some perspective here - the new/original design isn't radically different. It's still very much Donkey Kong, with the biggest changes being in the face (more expressive eyebrows, darker shadow around the eyes, and a smile similar to the original DK). The reactions to this have largely been blown out of proportion, and frankly it has me wondering where these people were when Nintendo slowly transformed Bowser into a much softer design over the years
i miss the april fools event already, at least there was more humans within the chaos than bots
beep boop, consensus programming bots activated.
looks like a skinwalker desu
miyamoto-san, what is your problem? why are you so retarded?
Dear seega
Yeah, I couldn't articulate it but California Kong seems accurate to me. He does look like he could be in some Disney Channel show or something.
why cant you losers just enjoy 2 things at once
there is nothing wrong with either design
Sakurai rightly looked at Zelda and realised her BotW design was ugly as fuck so went and used a design based on the beloved and iconic and very beautiful Zelda of ALttP/ALbW
this was so based. im still shocked he did this
Calarts mouth shape
Anon has a point. It's pretty fucking dumb when you consider that Mario never ages.
Kongs just have a short life span.
Can we just admit that both designs are good and the people sperging out on either side are either trolling or retarded?
no, DK still got awful spinoffs. What killed it was the awful spinoffs. Jungle beat is not good either.
no it was basically always the intention. there's a reason cranky is the one on the girders with the grammophone in the dkc intro
or maybe because the design was better than the new design
not just 3d zelda, all zelda after zelda 1. zelda 1 is also a perfect game and botw is just zelda 1 2.0
Wild animals have shorter lifespans than humans.
I don't mind Bananza DK, but he's an eyesore in MK World.
new design is bad
Nintendies say graphics don't matter and buy a $700 nintendo phone along with $70 phone games that require a 30gb first day patch. But then that new phone's engine looks like dogshit...because it is and as a result the characters rendered in game look awful. Yet you niggers never blame the engine or the lazy devs, just the awful design of one character. Meanwhile in the background the game itself looks like a blurry and jagged mess of colors.
Wake the fuck up nigger, gaming has stagnated.
Bro, a gorilla's lifespan on average is around 40 years. For DK to go from something a fat plumber can kidnap to an adult would be an equal amount of time hitting Mario.
If nothing else you should be seeing gray streaks on his head.
Every character has been changed since Wonder to better fit the equally putrid 2D art. I can almost hear Iwata spinning in his grave right now.
I'm just genuinely tired of complaining and being angry for the sake of it. It doesn't make me happy
Man. If only more people grew up a little bit and felt this way on /v
it doesn't drive any rational kind of discussion because you have already decided you are right, and you are out there to just make others miserable without any kind of solution.
He’s not because Cranky’s overalls comment isn’t in the Japanese version of Bananza.
Do you actually have a source about this?
It was never canon in Japan to begin with, why can’t you accept reality?
Except that's completely wrong, it was literally still mentioned in the Japanese manual for Super Donkey Kong.
Just for fun, here's the JP Wikipedia article for the original Donkey Kong that also recognizes him as Cranky Kong, so they're aware of that lore point.
Bro looks like a sonic character with those conjoined eyes
arcade DK was always the better design
You mean pic related?
Did your mom drop you on your head when you were little?
It's here in pic related if you care.
Dogshit bait
I hate how feathery Dk's fur looks.
That's the worst thing about this design. It looks like he's made out of a feather boa. Rare was obsessed with fur shaders going all the way back to the DKC2 pre-renders. But they couldn't implement it in real time until Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube. They used similar techniques on the OG Xbox with Conker and such.