moakley

I'd take Diddy Kong over any version of Mario Kart, any day. It's less random, with more streamlined items and tighter mechanics.

If you haven't played Anthem, you missed out.

It has some of the tightest gameplay I've ever experienced. Combat was satisfying. Traversal was a joy.

I'll never understand how people could throw that away just because the endgame wasn't there yet. The gameplay is the hardest part to get right!

It's easy to say that.

Modern games don't suck. That's a silly thing to say.

Rare's N64 platformers especially wouldn't hold up today.

Go play DK64 today and tell me it's better than a modern game. But you have to play it all the way through, all the bullshit repetitive item collection, going through the same rooms with every character to get every boring banana.

Diddy Kong Racing is a masterpiece. I don't think you played it all the way through.

More, if anything.

I mentioned Goldeneye.

I'd say those were solid games, but not great.

Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.

Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn't just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra "Rare" flavor on top of it.

And like, you don't notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can't eat there anymore because that's all you can taste.

I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.

Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.

In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.

Which one do you use? I'm not asking for myself; I just want to know what you're shilling for.

So you want me to repost stuff?