Seriously, why do this? The new version looks atrocious. Was it hubris?
>>750605227Yet another property molested by Seth Rogan.
>>750605227I like it, and since i’m god my opinion is right
shiggy-san is still mad that a gaijin's DK design overshadowed his original design
>>750605227the old version looked too much like a Gorilla when Donkey Kong was never meant to be a Gorilla, he was meant to be a Kong, which is more Monkey Like and not at all a Gorilla really
Daily Rare was never good
>>750605447schitzo post
>>750605227Even right looks better than Bananza
>>750605227New DK looks like shit.
>>750605227Why did they give diddler kong the little strip of skin between his eyes
>>750605227I think it’s safe to say that Brawl has the definitive DK.>no dialogue, just sounds like a gorilla>his Mariokart Wii counterpart sounds like stewie griffin for some reason >makes both “bad ass” serious expressions and goofy ones >unique design opposed to ripping it from another game eg Link’s design is ripped from Twilight Princess
>>750606014this why do they have fucking teeth now they look like rapists I hate that fat little trans kid from adventure time or whatever that is fuck that shit, literally ruined society or a good chunk of it especially art in general
>>750605858Feels like they really half-assed this since the rest of the Kongs are basically the same and no longer look like they belong in the same universe as DK, which makes the revamp all the more baffling
>>750605829I kind of wish there was a way to tell Nintendo directly that the redesign sucks and have them actually hear it.
Nu DK undeniably fits better in Mario's overall aesthetic. It's how quickly and aggressively they've memoryholed Rare DK which makes the redesign feel sour.
>>750605227I think the new Donkey Kong has looked good in-game for every title he's been in so far, but the renders are actually atrocious. Renders without a direct comparison fare a bit better but that's kind of telling, isn't it.
>>750606217What I want to know is why did they do it. I guess they already trooned out link in that last Zelda game so whatever. But why?
>>750606330Technically, but it also just looks bad. They could have done a much better job.
>>750605227ever since ARMS came out every nutendo game has been ugly
>>750605227The new version is meant to be reminiscent of what classic Donkey Kong was like
>>750606176this game really needs antialiasingcant wait to play the recomp in 4k with DLAA
>>750605227
>>750606551Wow that tongue out dog face is awful. What kind of retard buys and plays this shit ?
>>750606330This seems like a weird justification since I don't recall anybody ever pointing toward the old DK in spinoff games as being out of place compared to the other characters
>>750606551>he doesnt ahegao to a giant version of his favorite foodyou wouldnt get it
>>750605227>Diddy has a line between his eyesAbsolutely abhorrent
>>750606643uh huh
>>750605227left: just a cool monkey dude.right: literal rape ape eyes you see in doujins with undesirables in them.
>>750605227Right looks better
>>750606692This one actually pisses me off because there is actually no justification for it. If they had to get rid of the Sonic eye (they didn't) why didn't they just do him like Yoshi or Koopa Troopa?
>>750605227Left looks way better
>>750606492Yeah like in 10 years LMAO
>>750606715That was a pretty bad model if you want to cherrypick, but overall DK had been shoved into spinoff games for like 20 years prior to this and his design was never an issue
>>750606351>>750606487It's just Miyamoto being a petty bitch again.
>another raresnoy seethe threadyawn
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>>750606487It's easy to see why this design was ditched to begin with, totally gormless and lacking any edge or personality
>>750605227With Bananza getting dumped and being on emulator, someone's definitely going to make a model edit for DK to be like his old designSame for diddy kong and dixie
>>750607117It was that simple.
>>750605227>autist still can't stand things changing 18 months laterNew one looks better.
>>750607014Looks fine to me? None of the Hudson models looked great in the N64 era
>>750606487Nah, I WISH bananza/nu-DK looked like this, but he fucking doesn't and you're retarded if you think he does.
>>750605227I don't care what anyone says. The new Donkey Kong is just DK Jr. as an adult. They even have the same eyes.
>>750607928I wish this was the case, but everybody in bananza acts to the contrary of that.
>>750605227He doesn’t look that different desu
>>750605227I like that Diddy has visible separation between his eyes. The old sonic mitosis eyes looked weird in HD.
The only studio that made the old Rare design look good was Retro. Probably for the best that they trashed it.
>>750605984He doesn't sound like a gorilla though he sounds like a lion
>>750606176Chunky's tombstone...
>>750608218What lion sounds like DK, you fucking retard?
I think they gave him those eyes cause they wanted him to have more goofy eye expressions where as the older design was probably more limited
>>750607117
>>750607117>>750608340Why does he have feathers?
>>750605227Old dong has no teeth and the lowered brow doesn't make him friendly or approachable, which is what all his promo art was always meant to convey. If you approach New dong, you would likely have a good time eating bananas and stomping crocodiles. Old dong just looks grumpy and gives gummy blowjobs
>>750608340>>750608336Case in point his old face is just his angry face now
>>750608407See, he looks great here. Giving him a softer standard expression makes his angry face carry more weight
>>750608392Personally that's what i liked about old dong because that's what gorillas are like. They look scary but they are actually peaceful creatures
>>750608407Personally feel his "goofy" faces are heavily out of character and I'm not sure why they felt the need to sand all his edge off. Bowser is capable of a wide range or expressions and characterizations even though his default face is angry. What's wrong with stoic chad DK?
>>750605447retard lol
>>750605984His Brawl design also doesn’t have the teeth that people don’t like.
>>750606715That's literally a battletoad with fake fur.
>>750605227The sausage fingers without nails creeps me the hell out
The first one was designed in the UK, the second in Japan.
>>750605227Nintendo won.
>>750609480That's you but with soijaks.
>>750605227>LeftGoofy but fierce protector of DK Island, rival to the Kremlings, alpha archetype>RightBeta simp chungus, foot fetishist, hard drive seized by the FBI
>>750608368
>>750606079>thread is about donkey kong>thinks about trans folkrent free
>>750605227The old design was a product of technological limitations of the 90s and it just stuck around because Nintendo was too lazy to change it.
>>750606176except maybe for Tiny
>>750605227Can't wait for the Rare Donkey Kong mod for Bananza when it gets ported to PC.
>>750605227The old version looks like a muppet. What the hell is that mouth?
>>750610529this
DKC DK, while looking amazing for that game series, never looked like he fit in with Mario characters. Always just seemed bizarre standing next to everyone. Even as a huge Nintendo fanboy in the 90s I separated them as series in my head and thought weird. DK was a guest they forced into every party game. While I don't love the new DK (World looks atrocious, horrible coloring) he definitely fits in better. DKC DK and Mario DK should have always been distinct entities anyway, even besides all the timeline bullshit that has come from using DKC as the main DK
left is a great caricature of a gorilla but it has specific limitations that just isn't what nintendo wants out of a mascot. left is a play on an animistic empty headed brute that could go from sniffing its ass to ripping you in half at any moment. right is the more traditional, safe fun loving goofball you'd expect.
>>750611556>there's never been an official donkey kong and ape escape crossover>now if it happens it'll be with the shitty new DK
>>750605227Right looks better, but then again I'm a straight white male millennial
>>750611806Why does he have to be a goofball? Why can't he just be cool with some silliness? old DK is cool, new DK is a retard, I don't want DK to be a retard. We have enough characters to fit the goofball role.
>>750610529This is perfect
>>750610707qrd?
>paulinefag shill-spamming using terms he heard grown-ups use to try and bully people who aren't corposlavesWith how much he calls his fellow Mario fans "snoys in disguise", he sure has done the most damage to any and all hopes of discussion and community second only to nu-tendo themselves.
>>750611925old dk is a retard just a more blank animal like one. nintendo wants a character that's more responsive and friendly.
>>750613229New DK literally looks more like a dumb animal.
>>750605227I vastly prefer the new one and I have no idea why the fuck OP keeps making this shitty thread.The only downgrade between the designs is the weird flesh-line between Diddy's eyes. It should've just been fur or hard black.
>>750613229>>750606551
>>750608915>Bowser is capable of a wide range or expressions and characterizations even though his default face is angry.No the fuck he isn't, what are you talking about? Bowser's models being literally incapable of expressions putside of his eyes is one of the biggest criticisms his design gets. It's the main reason why Bowser's Illumination design was a genuine upgrade, as awful as his characterization in those movies is.
>>750605447King Kong is a gorilla...
Them not fixing this in 2026 is pretty bad, too.
>>750614861Unfortunately, this is explained (coped) away by the ending to Galaxy 1, where the universe is reborn and enemies including Bowser are made friendly.Too bad Double Dash is the game responsible for this, which came out years prior, but you know.And no there is no reason for Wonder also fucking it up, nor is there a reason to not have a costume in MKWorld (except for the convenient fact that implementations of costumes MKWorld sucks ass).
>>750611556Why does DK need to fit in with the Mario characters? His old design felt like an extension of the DK franchise itself
>>750614121How does it feel to be completely and utterly wrong and gay?>Illumination glazingYou can take Jack Blowser and shove it up your ass, pal
>>750608392New DK looks like the completely non-functional autistic kid at school who was inexplicably 6'4 at 10 years old and needed five teachers to restrain him whenever he'd randomly flip out and try to beat another kid to death
>>750605227Nintendo considered DK their lost son in a way for a long time. I think they let the Country iteration rot for almost a decade on purpose so they could justify getting rid of the old design to cover "the entire history of DK". What history? There were like 3 fuckin arcade games and that was it the rest of the history came after. But anyways, Japan has autism when it comes to western designs where they really don't like them or using them simply as they are. They always gotta "fix" shit like putting that hideious little flesh strip in diddy's eyes, or separating the eyes apart like with K Rool. Which is bizarre considering DK's are together while they weren't as close before. DK wasn't cute enough to be a japanese character, now he is... I guess.
>>750605227first one looks like shit too, total sidegrade, don't care about autists being hostile toward changes
>>750605227I think it goes with the initiative they were doing with Mario Wonder to make everything less "perfect" and boring and standard and insert more expressive cartooniness. There's more room for cartoony movement and expression and personality. The Rare designs have appeal for sure but they're not the best for everything. If you want a more goofy appeal I think a bit of a change is a good thing.
>>750615726Your image is literally concept art for Illumination Bowser by Nakue you fucking retard. Ingame Bowser has less teeth and LITERALLY CANNOT EMOTE aside from his eyes.
>>750615870I see you understand that Nintendo was trying to make him more relatable to their average fan.
>>750614802I miss when anime characters would smile like Donkey Kong all the time
>>750610529it was that shrimple.
>>750608915>What's wrong with stoic chad DK?The same thing that was "wrong" with Kid and Z Goku being a stoic chad. Nobody ever talks about it, but Goku and DK are spiritually the same, and both got turned into literal retards because the people at the helms couldn't handle having a strong cool dude as the faces of their respective franchises.
>>750615938Crash is maybe the worst example you could have used for that because JP Crash was always a MASSIVE improvement on the hideous ass Crash 1/Boxart design and you can tell they knew that because Crash 2/3 made his ingame model look more like JP Crash and they were massively improved for it.
>>750605227diddy looks better but DK is worse. I don't mind the new mouth but I do wish we got the caveman brow back.
>>750610402>Goofy but fierce protector of DK Island, rival to the Kremlings, alpha archetypeLiterally this. Miyamoto can't stand this archetype, apparently.
>>750616384See >>750608407
>>750616369Disagree, I don't see the resemblance, Twinsanity model looks the best imo but I never thought the original was ugly. Hardware limitations probably just made it look that way or something idk idc.
>>750616406naw the brow isn't as prominent even when angry. I'm talking about how it juts out, not that it's dipping downward. make it thicker, moves his eyes a bit further apart and remove the pants entirely and it's perfect I think.
>>750607107There's nothing edgy about any Nintendo design lmao
>>750605227I'm pretty neutral towards the design. I wish they would treat it like a paper mario where we could still keep the old design and have both.
>>750616458>Disagree, I don't see the resemblancePicrel. Crash 2 (and 3, since it uses the same model) made his eyes way bigger and gave him a "cuter" neutral expression, in comparison to Crash 1 which has a bigger mouth and the big ugly grin used far more often. It's still not 100% the same as JP Crash, but there's obviously some notes taken, and either way JP Crash was primarily a replacement for the absolutely hideous airbrush render box design that was never good to begin with.
>>750616481>and remove the pants entirelyThat's just a Bananza-specific gameplay mechanic thing as an excuse for equippable buffs, you can remove them ingame.
>>750616726I know, I played the entire game pantless. if we're gonna have customization options it should only really be the tie and MAYBE like, a hat.
>>750616679I guess, if you squint. I don't think it was a replacement outright outside of Japan but I think if they weren't committed to that design they wouldn't have kept using it for boxart up to 3. >big ugly grinIt's cartoony. It's fun and cool. It was the 90s anon, weird grotesque characters were in at the time.
>>750617023>It's cartoony. It's fun and cool. It's none of those things. Zembillas's concept art for Crash was Cartoony/Fun/Cool. Boxart Crash is disgusting and overrendered, like picrel.
>>750605227New version looks much better.And I know I'm right because I have no horse in this race, and I always have objectively correct opinions.You just have autism and can't cope with change. Probably also trans.
>>750617283Eh. I definitely think the in game models look better but I don't think it's that bad. To each their own.
>>750607928SOVL
>>750605227Left is for chudsRight is for libtards
>>750606176They look from the same universe to me.
>>750606551What am I supposed to be angry about here? I see this spammed every time someone even thinks about Donkey Kong. Are we supposed to be angry about all games where things are hidden in pipes?
>>750610849>trans folkYou mean pedophiles.
>>750608915How are the goofy faces out of character when DK has made them for decades along with saying silly things like "Yeah!" and "Oooo!".
>>750606176I don't understand why they felt the need to turn Tiny into a thot.
>>750617631>retcon pauline into a loli>but can't turn tiny back into a kid despite her fugly adult form only being in like 1 game
>>750617515The challenge is too easy for people who grew up with Banjo Kazooie and SM64, which is a consequence of turning the main item into like a huge pile of them instead of a few. I think the intention was to make it so you can skip more of them but I would too have preferred fewer, better designed challenges than a lot of smaller ones. The smaller ones should be smaller collectibles like the socks from battle for bikini bottom, I think. Having them just be skill points and not really required at all also makes them less important to design cleverly I think.
I love how everyone's made these insane Pepe Sylvia conspiracy theories about how Nintendo is demons who hate the gamers and are directly attacking white civilization over Donkey Kong getting a redesign. They wanted to do it. That's it. You are not being targeted, you are not being attacked, you are not being genocided. It's a video game ape and has no affect on reality.
>>750605227He looks retarded because his mouth is too big.
>>750617841Please, those two games also had simple stars and jiggies at the end of tunnels. They also had their macguffins sitting right out in the open for you to walk up to and grab.
>>750617852It's kinda obvious the change only happened because they focus tested a bunch of japs and they obviously picked the "cuter" less aggressive looking DK.
>>750617910Yeah, I was going to bring up the fact that BK literally hands you one right at the start of grunty's lair but that's like a tutorial thing so I didn't feel it was 1 to 1 the same. I agree with you though the complaint is definitely overplayed especially considering that gem is from the first actual level of the game. There are some I think are stupid easy though. Mainly the ones they just kind of throw at you like "made it to the place!" instead of "actually did something!"
>>750617841>The challenge is too easy for people who grew up with Banjo Kazooie and SM64Anon, those games came out 30 years ago.
>>750618124Yes, how old do you think the people complaining about that are?
>>750617978You're still doing something by going to those places, often by digging or climbing.>>750617932He's still aggressive-looking when he needs to be, whenever he's close to an enemy he's scowling or baring his teeth, and he goes full beast mode when he sees K. Rool again.
>>750605227Youre genuinely mentally ill if you prefer the westoid raresnoy slop on the left. Bananza Dk looks more like original arcade design
>>750618470You're genuinely mentally ill if you prefer the japslop on the right. Rare DK looks less like a faggot designed it
nu Donkey Kong looks like King Hippo but covered in hair
>>750617610You're being disingenuous since DK never made open mouthed pedo faces with his tongue hanging out before his enshittification
>>750619550What is a "pedo face"?
>>750619550>open mouthed pedo faces
>>750615574Because he looks weird as fuck interacting with the other Mario characters he is supposed to share the world with. It's like if a Pokemon showed up in Dark Souls
>>750610529eh, looks too retarded still. needs more of a middle ground
>>750607906You're blind.
His mouth is too big. That's literally it. That's what's off about him.
>>750617838>only being in like 1 game3, not counting smash cameos.
>>750620931computahmake his mouth smaller in da last image
>>750620931I don't see the problem, it matches the rest of his bulkier proportions.
>>750609235Fitting considering Kevin Bayliss is also the character designer of the BattleToads
>>750617841>Play games for 30 years>get mad when games are made for people who have not played games for 30 yearsmaybe... you shouldn't be playing games after 30 years? Just a thought...
>>750621332That's because he only looks like that when neutral. The second he moves his mouth even slightly his cheeks puff out and double in width.
>>750611556that Pipo Monkey is on some shit
>>750621747Well, yeah, that's how cheeks work, look in a mirror and smile.
>>750621806He's relaxed and carefree after stealing millions of users data
>>750621747I... I like it. He seems like he has way more personality now
>>750621835Okay then make this face and see how much your cheeks puff out
>>750622012A bit, but I'm not a cartoon gorilla.
The old one can’t emote. The new one is too quirk chingus but I get why they did it
They thought they could bring back 90s Donkey Kong mania and bet so hard on it that they gave it the traditional 3D Mario launch window slot. But they forgot that 1) Donkey Kong never had significant cultural clout globally 2) he's essentially been relegated to a D lister gameswise for so long that the modern audience didn't even play his games. They really banked on the K Rool reveal at the end of Bananza being a culturally defining moment but the moment passed way too long ago
>>750622012My cheeks puff out a pretty decent amount if II make a pouty face like that, anon.
>>750605227The new one is better. The old ones look more monstrous the longer you look at them. They have no teeth. Their mouths are wider than their jaw.
>>750622621he always reminded me of an inflated duck
>>750605227very damn literally everything nintendo has done for the switch 2 has been garbage
>>750605227>only 37 imagesYou'd think a redesign this obscene would've spurred more /v/ shitposts and hate images. Did this place lose its edge or something?
>>750607014Sovl MAXIMUM...
>>750623189This, year and a half later the only good Switch 2 exclusive is just an inferior sequel of a mediocre gamecube Kirby spinoff. Furukawa killed the company.
It looks great when you play the game which /v/ will never do
>>750623271>Did this place lose its edge or something?No, people just realized that these threads are made by the same 1-3 retards spamming the same 1-3 images seething about the same decent redesign for over an ENTIRE FUCKING YEAR.
>>750606798Xister... the Switch 2 got hacked and we already got Switch 2 emulation. You lost.
>>750623526>play the demo at best buy>jump is on "A" for some fucktarded reason>camera gets stuck on everything>DK feels like shit to controlIt's slop
>>750623730>jump is on "A" for some fucktarded reasonB Button jump is objectively worse.
>>750611556>never looked like he fit in with Mario charactersI never got this take, and it's always weird to hear since it only started showing up when Bananza got revealedObviously DK's designs aren't made to fit in with the Mario art design because they're completely different series, this' like complaining why the Wario Land/WarioWare or Starfox characters don't fit in with Mario.DK used to be part of Mario, then Rare reinvents him and creates DKC. Wario used to be a part of Mario, but then Wario Land and WarioWare reinvent him and he becomes his own thing like DK.If I see Jimmy T next to Peach and Daisy, Jimmy T's gonna stand outIf I see Zinger next to Goomba and Koopa then the Zinger's gonna stand outIf I see the detailed flytrap boss in WL4 next to two variation of Piranha Plant, then the WL4 boss is gonna stand outI have no idea why so many people pretend that DK characters being in Mario spinoffs was somehow a problem or weird just because of Bananza's redesign, when the general opinion has never been thatThere's never been a general opinion of disliking DK showing up in Mario Party, in fact when they stopped making him playable, fans complained so he was brought backDK characters are desired and expected in Mario Kart, everyone loves Funky Kong's voice lines in MKWii, people loved the kongs coming back in MKT and MK8DPeople liked the kremlings being in Strikers and Baseball, DK/Diddy being in the golf games.DK being his own thing has never been a problem just like it's not with Wario, DK's brand has been insanely successful for over two decades without needing to make him look like a Mario character. If making DK look different from Mario was a bad thing then DKC1 would have flopped hard and he wouldn't have become such an iconic character.The only reason DK fell off is Nintendo stopped making games for him or got one of their external studios to do it.
>>750623834>jump button on bottom of four face button diamond>Thumb naturally rests on it>can roll thumb to the left or right side for common actions, and reach upward for less common actions>jump button on right edge of controller>now thumb has the reach to hit the other three buttons instead of just comfortably rolling overLooks like I found a fake gamer
>>750623271>would've spurred more /v/ shitpostsIt's because the shitposts peaked early with that one drawfag making those five comicsEveryone universally understood that was the peak of Bananza shitposting so it's not possible to compete
>>750624148I'm of the >oh boy, two cakesCrowd, the more shitposting and OC the better.
>>750605227I just don't care, man. Nintendo's primary audience is children, they don't care about the continuity of what you liked 20 years ago. Continue to enjoy their games or don't, it's fine if adults play Nintendo games, but it's sad that you continue to bitch about this.
>>750606487It always hit me as starge how they used this design for DK in all 4 f the gane and watch gallery ganes which came out like 3 years after DKC. Even stranger ia that in gamw and watch 4 they use this design in the art but on the title screen they use the rare design of dk but dont use it anywhere else in the game. .
