Why did they make him so soulless looking? almost creepy

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Why did they make him so soulless looking? almost creepy

why did they make him so soulless looking? almost creepy

I think he just sticks out because all the other characters are animated so well now. He isn't bad per se, just in comparison.

angry monkey is a problematic racist stereotype

creepy

It's the black void around his eyes

How is it that Cranky kept his design, but DK looks like a fucking modern Pixar character now?

They made him cuter to appeal to kids and women more. Same thing they did with BotW Link and which they admitted doing. It can suck if you aren't a kid or a woman but it's not hard to understand why they do it.

The "everything has to be made for everyone" cancer that's plaguing the entertainment media

this is why I'm pro-AI. the only logical solution to the cancer of mass appeal is an experience tailored to the individual, which will only be possible with AI.

How is it that Cranky kept his design, but DK looks like a fucking modern Pixar character now?

Better question is why there aren't more Kongs in MK World when they don't even look different. The fanboy excuse was that DK got redesigned and Nintendo hasn't made the redesigns for the other characters yet

Looks like they are missing for no good reason and instead we are getting literal generic cows and fish

don't care as long as they leave him alone

what happened to steven universe?

beanmouth

They westernized his look/ kept the art style from the movie.

Raresnoys are secondaries so they don't realize this is classic Miyamoto DK.

i personally like this. he looks more retro almost and very cute.

since when do you progressivist schizos like miyamoto? and doesn't look like 70s or 80s at all

Only homophobic bigots hate his new look, irrelevant minority

So Steven dies and becomes Sans... and then Sans dies and becomes DK?

Where does the lore end

they onions'd him up. he can still look angry but you can always tell it's just a nice guy doing an angry expression. the original design was by nature a bit angry, just like many people by nature look angrier than others

still melting down

very cute

that's the problem, nintendo's entire catalog is cute already, there was no need to make the angry anti-hero primate even cuter

they onions'd him up. he can still look angry but you can always tell it's just a nice guy doing an angry expression.

This

why does he look like picrel

who

WE ARE HAVING SO MUCH FUN RIGHT? RIGHT?! FUN!

tendies actually deny this

they left cranky alone so he should be fine, the design doesn't work without the furrowed brow

We need a final solution for the "artist" problem

why does every fictional character have to have a maximum range of expressions now? do they realize even real life humans vary significantly in terms of how expressive they are?

I'm once again vindicated on my belief that creators should just stfu once they are in their 50s, unless they are doing roids to prevent their test levels from tanking.

I believe the same. Tired of the boomer devs coming out of their holes to go "New thing good!". It's like when that fag Tim Cain started shilling the Fallout TV series and calling it canon.

It's the classic DK zoomer poser faggot.

there is the possibility that they get paid off desu

this is why I'm pro-AI

somthing that will lead to even more watered down products

???

Noticing a trend of blacks consciously identifying as monke and companies pushing the connection without anyone taking offense, like even the new black lady character in Bananza or of course the rap in the N64 game. It's weird.

Because Cranky having a prominent permascowl makes sense, since he's a crotchety old man literally named Cranky. DK being more expressive is an upgrade.

He's not a human, he's a cartoon gorilla

Why'd they make the fur around his eyes black instead of the regular dark brown? Even arcade DK had brown in his last few appearances.

Donkey Kong having a prominent permascowl makes sense since he’s a self-important, brutish primate literally named Donkey. DK being more expressive isn't objectively an upgrade as the opposite is often a deliberate design choice.

that's why i said even

DK being more expressive isn't objectively an upgrade as the opposite is often a deliberate design choice.

it's funy how all the so called artists and character designed shilling the new look don't understand this and seemingly think every character is supposed to look the same

no one ever had a problem with dk in 30 years but now it's suddenly a problem because me need to consume new thing

It should be darker than his fur but not necessariy pitch black like in shitnanza

nintendo went pixar/dreamworks in the wii era

have I finally aged out of Anon Babble? everyone here annoys the fuck out of me 90% of the time

He's right

nooo mommy people not dicksucking big corpo and having standards triggers me, am i getting too old? am i too smart mommy?

kek

Not really given the 3D model isn't even a faithful reflection of the artist's vision. It was made by shitty 3D asset creators. The official 2D art looks like something in between Rare DK and Bananza with an actual hint of retro.

Tired of the boomer devs coming out of their holes to go "New thing good!"

If they at least didn't shit on the OG every time. The South Park guys do the same thing and say the old episodes are so bad they can't even watch it........................when everyone with a working brain knows old SP is a million times better than this formulaic garbage paced new shit

Bayliss is like those parents who's kids get murdered and go to the media while the body's still warm, telling everyone to stop being racist and forgive them.

It's Kiddy, he grew up and earned the Donkey Kong title. Old DK passed down his title just like Cranky Kong did in the past.

By niggers, excuse me. Forgot to say nigger.

Try to smile with your eyes wide open

I'm actually next to a mirror right now and I look like a fucking serial killer.

looks like shit

almost every person online seems to be a fag like this i have no idea how orange man managed to win

it started with harambe didnt it?

We have direct game footage, why the FUCK does your pic have so much blur and bloom

>beanmouth

fanatics think that's le retro because they found one old overstylized art where it looks like this

You just have a very limited palette for art direction

DK has never looked good outside of promotional 2D art. At least now he looks good in 3D too.

have to pull his eyebrows up to his scralp like Mario 64 start screen to make him look angery

Should have just kept it the way it was desu

God it looks so shit holy kek

DK has never looked good outside of promotional 2D art

notice how no one ever said this until a few days ago because conzoomers with sunk cost fallacy have to defend new purchase

good

We know you mean attractive, fag.

Looking very “CalArts” from where I’m standing.

Take off your nostalgia goggles.

DK has never looked good in Mario Kart

Actual artists

Was the former design done by a roof-less hobo pr something?

looks like steven universe

which they admitted doing

Care to supply a source for that?

So then get better 3D artists instead of changing his design? His design peaked a long time ago
People always criticized Smash and Mario Kart not doing him justice

it's just him being self-deprecating

I do remember Aonuma saying they make Link feminine so women can relate better

Holy shit you just pinpointed why I don't like the DK design. I was bothered by how round and wide his cheeks were when he shows his teeth. He has fucking bean face.

soulless is when smile

terminal autism faceblindness

implying people haven't been thirsting over DK since before you zoomers were born

looks better than the weird shit in op at least

He rarely ever looked good

This is why Banjo Kazooie can never exist again. Even if you brought all the people that made it together, they aren't even the same people anymore. The culture is gone.

pure cope

he doesn't have the bean face
his face has depth to it, and his mouth actually breaks the silhouette at the edge
it's not just a lazy pasted-on 2d shape

40 year old Nintendo icon

ONLY 1k images

westernized

Rare is a UK company

OG DK is in an old gag manga style

???

That guy who tweeted it is the guy who designed DK for DKC. He's also British, so he probably meant to take the piss out of himself.

that's what real numbers look like without AI bloating the results

cope, nobody wants dongs dong

This is what orcas look like on the inside, like in their brains

gonna rape a seal today and no one can stop me

has to post Mario Shart because he knows DK looks perfect in his own games and also shows all the emotions you should want from an intentionally dumb animal character

If you have any problem with how DK looks in Jungle Beat (for GameCube standards) or Tropical Freeze you are just a furry who wants him to act more like a human

loved this game but it's not the same without bongos and i ain't doing this as an adult man

He looked fine in his own games, people always use Smash or MK screenshots to decry the older look

you are just a furry who wants him to act more like a human

bingo. it's people who can't understand that he isn't SUPPOSED to show a gamut of human emotions like all the gay cartoon characters they jerk off to

Soulless fake fans and fanatics can never defend new thing without shitting on what came before. Every time.

DK looks like trash now. It's a shame they are shilling that terrible redesign, sticks like a sore thumb.

Miyamoto should get off his high horse and be glad for what Rare did for the character. What a spiteful little yellow man.

maybe they changed the design because japs can't make the western design work in 3d? retro studios can do it in the new dkc games but clearly the japs have a problem with it in smash and mario kart

maybe it's their autism

not being able to draw like the rest of the world is literally why they made up anime

I noticed this right away, and it’s a major reason why I like the redesign

Donkey Kong doesn’t need to look “cool,” he’s an expressive simpleton

0 evidence this is Miyamoto's doing. He had a lot more influence in past years and his fingers in every pie and clearly the design was never changed until now that zoomer and millennial devs are at the helm

actually liking beanmouth 'jak

Back to the sharty and do not ever, EVER come back.

I like the redesign because I could immediately see the resemblance of this intentionally retarded gay wojak

Tendies really are down bad

It's some weird tranny phenomenon to blame Miyamoto for everything, probably because of Vivian and the Mario mandate. It's actually quite the opposite; Miyamoto had such a good relationship with Rare that Greg Mayles (I think) shared stories like a modeler using stock gun assets for the kongs in DK64, Miyamoto saw it, had a minor freakout then started laughing after quickly scribbling up the coconut gun's design on a post it note.

I remember playing DKC at my grandparents house, I love the old design and the new design :)

bingo. it's people who can't understand that he isn't SUPPOSED to show a gamut of human emotions like all the gay cartoon characters they jerk off to

This is kino. Why can't they make it look like this?

inb4 hurr it does

No

isn't even a faithful reflection of the artist's vision

What the fuck are you talking about? It's literally Nakaue's DK.

i bet an american studio could. nintendo should just outsource all dk assets

no beanjak mouth

not bananza

I forget I'm surrounded by schizos

The black around his eyes is pretty noticeable, the design needed more work.

This, that way we can make everything hyper-specific for ourselves.

Damn, I hate that. I miss hard-working farmer Link.

So? DK hasn't looked that way since the 90s which were 30 years ago.

what goes around comes around

I'd still fuck his ass

#NotMyDK

Ah, so it's ESLs who are mad about the new look. Makes sense.

you cherrypick the laziest simplified artwork where they couldn't even bother filling in the area around his eyes

Can we just agree that Donkey Kong is a de facto Western IP and anything the Japs do is fanfic? When people say they like DK they are talking about DKC and not the stupid Mario game that's named Donkey Kong.

soul is when it reminds me of my childhood.
soulless is when it's new.
retarded is when you.

zoomies are now scared of donkey kong

Kek, get mental help

He also cherry-picked the only face that doesn't have the typical Rare brow ridge and folds. Bananza DK never looks like right.

It's all fun and games till somone publically states the obvious. H&M foolishly had a black kid wear a "coolest monkey in the jungle" shirt and nigs chimped out and trashed their stores.

Because it is the same vomit inducing nuart

pisses me the h*ck off.

There was no need to turn DK into another wahoo yippie guy.

He had that smile in the 80s, nice try though.

The rest of him didn't look like shit then

Those aren't even remotely similar.
If you wanted to shitpost really hard you could at least use something like picrel.

say the old episodes are so bad they can't even watch it

normalfags laugh their asses off watching old-school SP, and just stare blankfaced at the newer shit. it's an observable phenomenon. Trey and Matt are ashamed of their earlier work because they got influenced and beaten down by Hollywood faggotry they used to make fun of.

This.

Who cares if he looked like old art (he doesn't, btw)? The old art is inferior to Rare DK, so they shouldn't have changed it, even if it was loyal to original designs.

I am tired of new people in the industry making an appeal to older games and art, only to push for inferior new products. They did the same shit with the nuZelda games, somehow comparing them to Zelda 1, so they could push ubisoftism into the franchise.

DK looked better and now they shill a worse redesign. That's all there is to it.

I can tell you're gonna spam this shit 1000 times so i'mma just filter it now

Those aren't even remotely similar.

I'm a dishonest autist

Cool

ok now try smiling with your eyes wide open.

cuz its funny

lmao thats even more egregious

They did the same shit with the nuZelda games, somehow comparing them to Zelda 1

BotW was more of an evolution of Zelda 1 than every other Zelda game at the time. I know what you're trying to go for, here, but you chose a bad example.

given how much they love DBZ's fucked up brows and sloped foreheads this makes too much sense

it was fucking 1982, time is linear

weak and uppity personalities such as yours will be left to subsist on corposlop.

OH NO BROS I CAN'T BELIEVE JAPAN WAS INFECTED BY CALARTS IN THE 80s WE FVCKING LOST....

They made him more feminine with the round eye sockets.

He looks better than the rare design

Even OOT Link they designed after a famous boy band singer, after the designer's wife told him to.

Was only a matter of time for it to happento DK

IF you are gay

it's just too similar to seth rogan kong

wokey kong

Gays are, after all, known for having better appreciation of the male aesthetics than straight men.

No idea but the only compelling argument I've seen for the redesign is that it aligns better with the game's overall art direction, but guess what the game's visual style feels lackluster. It looks like a random mix of Mario, Zelda, and some Splatoon basedpunk elements thrown into the mix.

gays believe this

someone put miyamoto in a retirement home already, christ

So you agree with me

Steve Mayles says this same shit about K Rool and Banjo and has no idea how much people love his characters especially in japan when Rare was carrying N64. The nintendo museum in japan has fucking DKR and Kazooie on display.

bad 16px prerender vs actual expressive model

is this supposed to make nuDK look bad

Yeah, I'm sure the fags that dress like retards and have effeminate mannerisms better appreciate the male aesthetics.

he's fuckign steven universe.
that's not DK. they turned him into a cal arts character holy fuck it's ugly.
He also has no fur here and the rim lighting looks worse than the wii.

expressive model

stretching a characters face way beyond reasonable limits != good.
that's called breaking model and it should be avoided unless you're specifically emphasizing something.

I always loved the playfulness between DK and Diddy in the credits of the first DKC, followed by Cranky's boast. Pure soul.

youtu.be/O_ldIU6qkko?si=M47oPMClH1tglXHK&t=150

actual expressive model

DK was expressive. Not every character needs to be as expressive as physically possible. Makes it more special when they show emotions anyway

You would think Bananza shills understand this given it's a Hulk ripoff

Every argument in this thread against nu-DK is bananas, lol.

this. just point out he looks like shit and move on

DK looks like a million bucks. His old designed worked for DKC and 64, but anything post rare always made it look soulless. This is expressive and a good change of pace. Your autismal rants and nonstop bitching is pathetic and "blue arms" tier.

This isn't made for everyone. You're in the demographic it wasnt made for.

it might take another 15-20 years but dk will have another redesign, its happened twice now. are you planning on dying soon?
well, before then well have ais that can make oldong games and we can share them on Anon Babble.

People are saying "expressive" when what they really mean is gratuitously off-model, exaggerated and obnoxious to the point it has no resemblance to the actual character.

This they should used AI to give him soul

Rare dong was never angry what are you talking about? He was a dudebro

animals don't have a soul, animal fucker

He looks like steve o after rehab (both soulless)

stretching a characters face way beyond reasonable limits != good.

The irony is they only have to stretch his brow ridge so much to make him look angry because they changed his design. The old design allowed him to look angry/determined/dominant/confident effortlessly. He's literally less expressive now when it comes to his most important expressions.

And for funny moments they could always warp his face like in a comic panel, doesn't require a different design. And the funny thing is that they STILL do this. Picrel is nothing the old DK couldn't do.

he doesn't have the bean face

his face has depth to it

the bean shape doesn't have to be 2D. he has the bean shape and his mouth is way too fucking wide and misshapen.

I have to say as much as I hate the Mario kart model. the Bananza model is such ugly putrid shit. Some facial expressions are even worse than illumination DK.

can't tell if this is wii or switch 2

dgaykong

He looks more like a downie than gay

They don't realize that real peoples brows, cheeks and noses barely move at all.
They could always move his brow radically for rare extreme facial expressions.. and they have.

but this character has no coherent facial structure and is constantly pulling reddit meme faces every second 90% of which are incredibly ugly and off-putting.

I really don't like how his forehead does "that"

They should port it to Switch 1/2 now that they do GC games. Should work with the joycons

got that same expression as the dad who has to sit there on camera smiling as his son announces his transition

Holy fugg they made him a calarts character!

if I could just play this game with proper controls and without the fucking bongo sound going off every second, It would be amazing.
They had a fucking gamecube controller option for the original. why did they make it such non-functioning dogshit. it functioned exactly the same as the bongo controls.. so fucking retarded.

Worst thing about the new design is that it sticks out like a sore thumb

all the Mario Kart characters look the same as ever

all the other Kongs look the same ever

It's retarded. One of Nintendo's biggest brainfarts

who cares.
20 years from now, you faggots are gonna say this is how DK should looks like when there's a new design change.

The problem with making Donkey Kong "expressive" is that DK always had a bit of a gruff personality even if he wasn't an outright asshole.
By making him "expressive" or make gay facial expressions, his entire personality and appeal has changed.

wii version
bind the flick motion to a button since we both know you're not going to seek out an actual copy

actually Marios model is pretty fucked.
he has 2 tumors on his cheeks. he looks like a puffer fish even when he opens his mouth. I hope they fix it.

they fucked up way too many things in the wi version. waggle shit is even worse.
they fucked the clap mechanic and you have a lower top speed.

probably takes the fun and novelty out of it to play it with a nromal controller