Current Events > The graphics in Donkey Kong Country are still amazing

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How did they ever get the SNES to pull that off
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DKC1 looks kinda bad

DKC2 looks great

DKC3 would look great if it wasn't so weirdly off-putting
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I think Donkey Kong 1 looks the best out of all of them >_> Or at least has the best atmosphere
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i agree on the bit about atmosphere actually. it's somehow a little more organic than dkc2, and the shift to mechanical has fucking fear factory omg!

dkc2 takes the series for stage design, though. and like, most games. i recently had to do something in ffxiv that made me wish they had the same level of design.
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Did 2 get rid of rideable animals

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i agree with this.

there was actually a really interesting video by Digital Foundry where they looked at how the graphics were pre-rendered and the challenges the team faced when building DKC on SNES back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7qtqqgTlo" data-time="

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GoodOlJr posted...

Did 2 get rid of rideable animals

No, it has ridable animals, but they're rare. They used animal barrels mostly.

DKC3 even more so >_> I think there's only 2 levels that let you ride animals. The rest are barrels.
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I mean, it's literally just sprites

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I only ever got into the first one. 2 and 3 didn't have the same magic for me
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Dat water level music in DCK1

Cranky Kong confused the eff out of me in DKC when he explained that the game had 3D graphics. I stared at the screen for probably five minutes trying to find something that appeared closer or further than the screen. I eventually started playing a level and, noticing thr delta effects on foreground and background, decided that must have been what he was talking about.

What he actually meant was that they modeled and textured everything in the game (aside from stuff like text) and rendered each frame to a flat image. Then, I guess they probably posterized it since the SNES probably had a limited palette.
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balls deep
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