Man, Wizpig has presence. Very few dialogue lines but he absolutely towered over all the characters and had a menacing voice. Even had his ship take shots right at Conker.
True. He scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember unlocking his first race and being too afraid to even enter that giant face. Good times
>be me >6 years old when Diddy Kong Racing came out >autistic black kid in my class invited me over >parents make me go >he just got the game, so I figure it cant be that bad >he keeps making us race on hot top volanco >but he gets to use a plane and I have to use a hovercraft >this is fricking bullshit >have to put up with this for like two hours until his older sister came home and let me play something else
>i always picked the crocodile, and bowser in mario kart 64
same. it's a shame they are some of the shittiest characters to play as statwise. not that you'd need to minmax beating your sibling, but still
Tiny Kong and Dixie Kong replaced Banjo and Conker, respectively.
Tiny Kong's design has been changed to that of a young adult via her new redesign by Nintendo.
Taj and Wizpig are now playable as well.
The colors are not as bright as in the original game.
The opening, credits and starting Adventure Mode change setting.
The voice actors for all the characters changed with the exception of T.T.'s.
Some Balloons are obtained or moved to different locations.
The Silver Coin Challenge is taken out and replaced with the Balloon Touch Challenge (the Silver Coin Challenge exists as a buyable mode for twenty coins. To unlock DS Exclusive tracks in this mode the player must get gold on all Balloon Touch Challenges, this includes Adventure 2).
Fire Mountain, Icicle Pyramid, Darkwater Beach, and Smokey Castle were all removed from the game's single player mode and replaced with a mode where the player must create their own track and race on it for the T.T. Amulet.
Smokey Castle's objective was change from collecting bananas to collecting coins.
The player can buy items with obtainable coins.
To unlock T.T., the player must complete all Adventure 1 Time Trials, including the vehicles that are not normally used on each track (for example, the plane on Ancient Lake). The player does not need to have Adventure 2 unlocked, and they do not need the DS exclusive tracks unlocked.
Instead of timing the start boost, the player either use their stylus or blow into the microphone (this does not apply for Taj's challenges as it is timing based on those).
The keys have their own distinct features, with different shapes and colors instead of the same gold color.
In the original game, it was possible to race on cars in Everfrost Peak due to being an ice track. This was changed in the DS version to where it become a water track, and it is no longer possible to race using cars.
Awful awful remake
But I fricking love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYr-d-d5lZo
>Instead of timing the start boost, the player either use their stylus or blow into the microphone
Blow into mic to fast start?? kek
The sad thing is that once you get used to it blowing in the mic is honestly the easier way to do a start boost since you don't have to move your hands.
I still can't believe no one has ever made a racing game with the EXACT same air/sea/land vehicle mechanic as DKR. Closest I've seen is the stuff in MK8 and Sega ASR transformed, but you're forced to change in the middle of a race so it's not as fun or interesting.
I know it'd be hard to balance and design tracks around it but damn I would love to see someone give it another try.
If they remade this game, how do you think they would alter Taj's character given he's a caricature of an indian and that's unacceptable with PC culture in 2023?
>They already changed him in the DS remake.
And so they did. But they also changed everyone else's voices and it's hard to tell if it's due to political correctness or being cheap as frick. It legit sounds like some random guy talking
They would just drop the accent like they did in the ds remake. His design would stay the same, unless they did some spyro reignited shit to him and just butchered everyone's designs.
>Banjo, Drumstick
Tryhard losers who have to play the optimal characters no matter what, the Toad player of DKR >Krunch
Someone who loves going fast but hates turning >Diddy
Someone who bought DIDDY Kong Racing and doesn't understand why you'd play anyone else but DIDDY >Conker, Timber, Bumper
People who somehow have less personality than a Diddy player >Pipsy, Tiptup
Either some pleb that has no idea how bad of a mistake they just made, or a transcendent gigachad who's using every handicap available to try and hold back but still annihilates the competition anyway. >T.T.
A battle weary hero who earned his right to play an OP character and just have a laid back good time.
For all the old farts in this thread, was it a surprise this homie that was around for the whole game was playable? Not only that but he was the most OP racer in the game.
>I am surprised I even beat the game after replaying it recently.
Same. I played the shit out of it as a kid and was borderline obsessed with it for some reason. I gave it another spin a month or so ago, and got bored by the second world.
Only thing we got as far as remakes or sequels go is the ds port (lmao). I wonder how Donkey Kong racing would've turned out if rare didn't get bought out by microsoft.
But in any case I doubt we'll ever get a sequel anytime soon. Nintendo neglects the hell out of Donkey Kong nowadays already, let alone his spin-off games.
Damn near all of those guys were candidates for their own games. >Pipsy was a male mouse who was going to be in a space adventure, the remnants of said game turned into Future Fun Land >Timber was going to be the protagonist of Twelve Tales (and a quadruped) >Only Bumper, Drumstick, T.T and Tiptup would have been one-offs or in supporting roles like Tiptup in Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie >Diddy Kong wasn't even the protagonist of the game, it was just going to be a regular racing game, then a cartoon racing game with a biker mammoth and then it became Diddy Kong Racing
People are saying DKR is boring but my only real gripe is that despite the padding the game is pretty short and easy (Outside of Wizpig and a couple of the coin missions). Since your incentive for beating the game is just cheatcodes you can look up online Adventure 2 is also redendant and insultingly easy if you've unlocked T.T.
It doesn't take that long to upgrade your weapons. The problem is more that you don't need weapons to beat the AIs, and AIs barely use them against use.
They're also really imbalanced if you're thinking about multiplayer. The shield and magnet aren't worth it, and the boost and oil slick basically do the same thing at all three levels. The rocket is the only pickup that's actually pretty well designed around the upgrade system since it scales up in power and use.
It's pretty fun to try and keep a multi rocket for an entire race tbh.
Do you know who directed Mickey's Speedway USA, I was always under the impression it was the team of DDR, but there's nothing on the credits about who directed/designed it.
IM BANJO
obviously TT if he's unlocked, otherwise timba because it's his island anyway
The monkey
I really wanted to see what games rare would make with Tiptup and Krunch.
Damn shame.
The "Diddy Kong Frens / Rare Vidya Universe" would have been interesting.
Was Banjo in development when they made DKR?
Yes
The manual references Kazooie too
What would games for all the other scrimblos looked like?
K I N O in 64 bits
So like okay
They're all just collectathons.
for me it's crescent island unused theme
?si=rkkQEwebTUZxY3k0&t=10
always banjo
Pipsy because I wanted to play a character with good handling but I didn't realize tiptup had the exact same stats as her.
IM PIPSY TEEHEE
Man, Wizpig has presence. Very few dialogue lines but he absolutely towered over all the characters and had a menacing voice. Even had his ship take shots right at Conker.
True. He scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember unlocking his first race and being too afraid to even enter that giant face. Good times
Godly theme for an evil character as well.
I love how this image looks like a shitpost, kek.
SOVL
Yes, and so was Conker.
>be me
>6 years old when Diddy Kong Racing came out
>autistic black kid in my class invited me over
>parents make me go
>he just got the game, so I figure it cant be that bad
>he keeps making us race on hot top volanco
>but he gets to use a plane and I have to use a hovercraft
>this is fricking bullshit
>have to put up with this for like two hours until his older sister came home and let me play something else
>kids birthday and can't even indulge him in his game
Shit friend do better
no where in that post was a birthday mentioned
i always picked the crocodile, and bowser in mario kart 64
both games had such good music holy shit
>i always picked the crocodile, and bowser in mario kart 64
same. it's a shame they are some of the shittiest characters to play as statwise. not that you'd need to minmax beating your sibling, but still
oh yeah, THAT happened
Tiny Kong and Dixie Kong replaced Banjo and Conker, respectively.
Tiny Kong's design has been changed to that of a young adult via her new redesign by Nintendo.
Taj and Wizpig are now playable as well.
The colors are not as bright as in the original game.
The opening, credits and starting Adventure Mode change setting.
The voice actors for all the characters changed with the exception of T.T.'s.
Some Balloons are obtained or moved to different locations.
The Silver Coin Challenge is taken out and replaced with the Balloon Touch Challenge (the Silver Coin Challenge exists as a buyable mode for twenty coins. To unlock DS Exclusive tracks in this mode the player must get gold on all Balloon Touch Challenges, this includes Adventure 2).
Fire Mountain, Icicle Pyramid, Darkwater Beach, and Smokey Castle were all removed from the game's single player mode and replaced with a mode where the player must create their own track and race on it for the T.T. Amulet.
Smokey Castle's objective was change from collecting bananas to collecting coins.
The player can buy items with obtainable coins.
To unlock T.T., the player must complete all Adventure 1 Time Trials, including the vehicles that are not normally used on each track (for example, the plane on Ancient Lake). The player does not need to have Adventure 2 unlocked, and they do not need the DS exclusive tracks unlocked.
Instead of timing the start boost, the player either use their stylus or blow into the microphone (this does not apply for Taj's challenges as it is timing based on those).
The keys have their own distinct features, with different shapes and colors instead of the same gold color.
In the original game, it was possible to race on cars in Everfrost Peak due to being an ice track. This was changed in the DS version to where it become a water track, and it is no longer possible to race using cars.
The start boost thing was utterly moronic and soured my opinion on that version of the game as a whole.
>Instead of timing the start boost, the player either use their stylus or blow into the microphone
Blow into mic to fast start?? kek
Awful awful remake
But I fricking love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYr-d-d5lZo
The sad thing is that once you get used to it blowing in the mic is honestly the easier way to do a start boost since you don't have to move your hands.
not even a question homie
Poor choice. They normified the character and you fell for it.
>They normified the character
codeword for made her better
I still can't believe no one has ever made a racing game with the EXACT same air/sea/land vehicle mechanic as DKR. Closest I've seen is the stuff in MK8 and Sega ASR transformed, but you're forced to change in the middle of a race so it's not as fun or interesting.
I know it'd be hard to balance and design tracks around it but damn I would love to see someone give it another try.
Is there anything that matches the plane racing by itself?
Not anon but M.A.C.H for psp and Freaky Flyers Too I guess.
This game sucked dick
Classic Ganker moment
you sure you didnt play the ds version
if the N64 game sucked, how the frick will the DS be any better
best kart racer ever, crazy its almost 30 years old and nothing else has come even close
If they remade this game, how do you think they would alter Taj's character given he's a caricature of an indian and that's unacceptable with PC culture in 2023?
If it's Rare, they'll double down on it.
Rare of now is now the same as the Rare that worked on N64 games, goober.
Either they replace him entirely, or they don't give a shit and just tone down his accent a little. Depends on who remakes it really.
They already changed him in the DS remake.
Anyway T.T. if playing seriously, otherwise Banjo or Drumstick
>They already changed him in the DS remake.
And so they did. But they also changed everyone else's voices and it's hard to tell if it's due to political correctness or being cheap as frick. It legit sounds like some random guy talking
They would just drop the accent like they did in the ds remake. His design would stay the same, unless they did some spyro reignited shit to him and just butchered everyone's designs.
Frick Wizpig’s first race, it made me abandoned this game back in summer ‘01.
>Banjo, Drumstick
Tryhard losers who have to play the optimal characters no matter what, the Toad player of DKR
>Krunch
Someone who loves going fast but hates turning
>Diddy
Someone who bought DIDDY Kong Racing and doesn't understand why you'd play anyone else but DIDDY
>Conker, Timber, Bumper
People who somehow have less personality than a Diddy player
>Pipsy, Tiptup
Either some pleb that has no idea how bad of a mistake they just made, or a transcendent gigachad who's using every handicap available to try and hold back but still annihilates the competition anyway.
>T.T.
A battle weary hero who earned his right to play an OP character and just have a laid back good time.
>T.T. pickers
you didn't play the game
You literally have to play most of the game to unlock him though. And you have to play pretty well, too.
>pickers
DIDN'T PLAY THE GAME
You weren't good enough to unlock tt, were you
Diddy Kong Racing is a masterpiece.
For all the old farts in this thread, was it a surprise this homie that was around for the whole game was playable? Not only that but he was the most OP racer in the game.
I'm not an old fart, but unlocking him and drumstick was a very surreal feeling. I was so used to the basic 8 character roster for so long.
I didnt care because both looked dumb. Looking back, I am surprised I even beat the game after replaying it recently.
>I am surprised I even beat the game after replaying it recently.
Same. I played the shit out of it as a kid and was borderline obsessed with it for some reason. I gave it another spin a month or so ago, and got bored by the second world.
DKR was already a top 10 best selling game, and the second best selling game after Smash that wasn't a pack-in, so I think it was alright.
Only thing we got as far as remakes or sequels go is the ds port (lmao). I wonder how Donkey Kong racing would've turned out if rare didn't get bought out by microsoft.
But in any case I doubt we'll ever get a sequel anytime soon. Nintendo neglects the hell out of Donkey Kong nowadays already, let alone his spin-off games.
DKR shat all over Mario Kart in every way except style.
The weapons in Mario Kart were so much more iconic.
Damn near all of those guys were candidates for their own games.
>Pipsy was a male mouse who was going to be in a space adventure, the remnants of said game turned into Future Fun Land
>Timber was going to be the protagonist of Twelve Tales (and a quadruped)
>Only Bumper, Drumstick, T.T and Tiptup would have been one-offs or in supporting roles like Tiptup in Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie
>Diddy Kong wasn't even the protagonist of the game, it was just going to be a regular racing game, then a cartoon racing game with a biker mammoth and then it became Diddy Kong Racing
People are saying DKR is boring but my only real gripe is that despite the padding the game is pretty short and easy (Outside of Wizpig and a couple of the coin missions). Since your incentive for beating the game is just cheatcodes you can look up online Adventure 2 is also redendant and insultingly easy if you've unlocked T.T.
I refuse to play this Diddy Kong Racing. I have had a calcified knot of hate in my heart for almost three decades due to this sadistic abomination.
It doesn't take that long to upgrade your weapons. The problem is more that you don't need weapons to beat the AIs, and AIs barely use them against use.
They're also really imbalanced if you're thinking about multiplayer. The shield and magnet aren't worth it, and the boost and oil slick basically do the same thing at all three levels. The rocket is the only pickup that's actually pretty well designed around the upgrade system since it scales up in power and use.
It's pretty fun to try and keep a multi rocket for an entire race tbh.
Do you know who directed Mickey's Speedway USA, I was always under the impression it was the team of DDR, but there's nothing on the credits about who directed/designed it.