Jumpin said:
Are you serious? Kids these days... Donkey Kong Country was one of the biggest game launches in history; it is probably the third most hyped game ever released by Nintendo (first two being Ocarina of Time and Super Mario Brothers 3). In terms of reception, it was one of the most well received games in history, had everyone talking about it, and groundbreaking on the development field taking the SNES and outputting 24-bit colour graphics (as Square and other companies would prove when they too started using pre-rendered technology). In terms of sales, it alone has outsold the entire Metroid franchise in total since it was released back in 1994.
The original Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Country are both benchmark titles in the history of the videogame industry. Metroid has not come close to achieving that to date. |
That is your opinion. I believe that Metroid has innovated more in gaming than Donkey Kong has, especially in the NES days. You say that there have been more total sales in Donkey Kong games than Metroid games, but they have created more Donkey Kong games (made by Rare, btw), so how you do make that comparison.
Oh, I see you mentoined graphics when you were talking about "groundbreaking". In that aspect, the Donkey Kong (SNES) games were king.
