This is why Donkey Kong did not move hardware like Splatoon

[Jon-Erich]

DK64 said:

mountaindewslave said:

Tropical Freeze is a good game but I think it would be really fun to see a Donkey Kong 64 sequel, a 3D Donkey Kong game. DK64 is quite flawed and I feel as if Nintendo needs to do a 3D Donkey Kong justice

I agree.

 

But the company Who knew how to deal with DK was (RAREWARE) and a DK3D like Dk64 will never happen because Nintendo cant do It.

Really? Even Rare couldn't do it. DK64 was one of their weakest N64 games. Sure, that game could last you more than 60 hours on your first try but after about 2 hours, you're basically replaying the same events over and over again. The puzzles are the same. The characters' different moves and weapons serve only to do the same exact thing but on a different designated color or symbol. There is an over-emphasis of collecting things while there is a lesser emphasis on level design. 

DK 64 is an example of what happens when a company starts running out of ideas. That same team made the Donkey Kong Country games, Banjo-Kazooie and was working on Banjo-Tooie at the time also had to work on this game. You figure with five characters, there would be a lot of unique innovations with gameplay and there wasn't. The only purpose of the additional characters was to extend the length of the game. With so many platformers being worked on within a 5 year period, there was definitely some creative burnout and they never got a chance to do better on the GameCube.

So the truth is nobody got a 3D Donkey Kong right, not even Rare. Although, if anyone could do it, I would say the EAD Tokyo team (not sure what they're called now) who made Mario Galaxy or the now-defunct Killer instinct team at Rare who made Conker's Bad Fur Day.