DK64 is one of the best game. Every time I replay the game looks better, I love walk around in this beautiful low poly aesthetics with wonderful soundtrack, is relaxing me
Good stuff! I enjoyed this game well enough as a kid when it released, but I never enjoyed it nearly as much as Banjo-Kazooie. Donkey Kong 64 is a _lot_ slower paced, so it is more exhausting to get through (especially collecting everything). I think part of this is due to having to switch Kongs constantly to collect everything in the huge worlds. I tried replaying it a few years ago, but it felt even more like a slog now and it just seems even less fun now after playing other 3D platformers. I just don't think it aged nearly as well as Banjo-Kazooie. Bigger didn't always mean better. I think Banjo-Tooie shared some of the same issues as Donkey Kong 64 but just not _quite_ as flawed.
Is this what video editing has come to these days? Awkward scripts written by ChatGPT and soulless AI voice? A handful of half thought out arguments were made but otherwise this is just 8 minutes of nothing.
2:18 every copy of dk64 shipped with an expansion pack in the box and if you wanted to rent it from the video store they provided the expansion pack as well so wtf are you even talking about
I understand you think it's worth it, but I still think the difference is unnecessary and a high cost that's not worth it, especially for those who bought the game.
I definitely fall on the side that it was underrated, but I also really don't think I'd enjoy playing through it again today. You're dead on that way too much time was spent running around picking up bananas, then switching characters so you could go back and pick up different coloured bananas you couldn't grab before.
DK64 would've been a good game if Banjo didn't exist and I'm not even a Banjo fan. I mean, by the time DK64 was released the genre was already saturated. This game didn't add anything new, I think it's more of a step back. I beat it in the early 2000s. I was (and still am) a huge DK fan, but several years later, I realized how bad it is. They could've focused on just two characters, DK and Diddy, with fewer collectibles, a decent soundtrack* and some minor twists. *After the masterpiece of DKC2's OST, I can't stand those silly instruments and notes they call music in this game. Frantic Factory is an exception though.
Bro you’re tripping, this is a great game and all the collectibles are used in one way or another, you use the bananas to get to bosses the coins to get upgrades and the schematics to give you more time on the final area. I think you had a bias and didn’t like the game to begin with or didn’t actually give it a shot. Is just as good as banjo 1 or conker, they’re all similar but have different features that makes them individual games
DK need another game the Donkey Kong Franchise launched Nintendo with the Classic Donkey Kong arcade machine also You know a game that would be cool but will never be made a Crossover Adventure game with Sonic and Mario 🤔
cant get over how bad this video is. the whole dk64 retrospective genre of youtube videos is already exhausted and done to death but this one is especially lazy
Donkey Kong 64 is my least favorite Donkey Kong game, dating all the way back to the arcade original. I'm often torn as if whether or not the first 2 Donkey Kong Country games are better than Tropical Freeze, but I find them all excellent. DKC 1 and 2 made me a fan of his games, but Tropical Freeze got me playing as DK in Mario Kart and Mario Party as my main.
The reason why the expansion pack was needed was because the lack of memory caused a game breaking bug in the game so to fix this issue the expansion pack was bundled with the game.
thats a false rumor, per rareware devolpers, the bug was fixed before release and the expansion was used mainly for the games lighting. Also nintendo approached them before development even began stating they wanted to use the game to ship out the expansion packs, meaning the game was always developed around it.
I remember my dad took to be EB Games and let me pick a game console because my previous one got lost when we moved. On the shelf was N64 DK64 console / game and the PS1. I looked at the games for N64 and noticed they were double, triple the price. Quickly looking at the PS1 section i found a cool looking game with a cigarette burn on the cover. That game was MS1. I chose the PS1 and that amazing game. For years I wonder what DK64 was like. Once the PS2 came out, my friend sold me his N64 and DK64. I must say, even for $70 for a ton of games, i felt ripped off. That game sucked. So glad I got MS1.
DK64 used to be my favorite game of all time. As a kid, i played no other game more than DK64. I carried these feelings up into my adulthood, and i just assumed that it was always a good game. That is, of course, until i replayed it recently. Oh, boy. What an unfun MESS of a game. The game expects WAYYYY too much out of you in order to 100% it. You have to play through 9 (including DK isles and Hideout Helm) massive levels, 5 different times with each character, and they each have 100 regular bananas and 5 golden bananas each. Dear god, not even recent videogames have collectables like this. You know what? Thats not even my main issue. The game has just straight-up bad programming and was obviously not play-tested enough. Most minigames are either extremely dull or just straight-up broken. (ANYONE who has played the Scarab Beetle races cannot sit here and tell me it was a good time, because youre a liar. Even as a kid, I wanted to turn that Scarab into a Bug Slushie.) I'm sorry, but if the developers can't show enough respect to their players by forcing them to collect every little stupid thing for the 101% while playing a buggy mess, then I'm not gonna give the game the time of day. It doesnt deserve it. Long time fan of DK64 talking here, a year ago, i would've told you I loved it. Now? I understand I was wrong. I grew up loving a bad video game, and it sucks realizing that, but i have to be honest.
