As for my "Donkey Kong experience", I played DKC1 as a kid, and let me tell ya, if you weren't there for it, its hard to overstate how ahead of the game it looked and sounded back in the SNES era. I hear a lot of folks say it was all about the presentation and the gameplay was mediocre, but that's BS in my opinion, that game still has some of the best platforming controls around as well as varied and well paced level design.
My parents never bought me 2 and 3 so as soon as I was old enough to have my own money I bought them myself, and loved them too.
When DKCR was announced at E3 2010 I nearly burst with excitement. I went in expecting a different and more modern take, and I loved it. Similarly, I was one of the minority who was happy when Tropical Freeze was revealed at E3 2013, and I loved it too.
Choosing between them for me is like trying to choose between pizza or ice cream, coffee or Baileys, they're both just so damn superb I couldn't place one over the other.
