What is and what could have been…

>>715541715 (OP)
>Both have feathers
Dropped

soulless vs soulless

Why do people hate this design so much? I like it.

#notmyDK

>>715541715 (OP)
Still needs work, change those ridiculous feathers, but yeah, it could have been great.

Soft Pretzel Looking Eyes Monkey

>>715541715 (OP)
I honestly, genuinely prefer the new design.

>>715541715 (OP)
You have unironically made the new design better.

>>715543380
It's the old design with feathers. It's really limiting on the kind of expressions. Like, I cannot see that DK making the same expressions as the new one. He doesn't look like an animated character, he looks like a goddamn muppet, limited to flapping his mouth and closing his eyelids.

Feathers and ahegao are the fundamental problems

>>715544459
Why the fuck does DK needs to make redditbean expressions all the time now, why can't he just be a stoic with the occasional smile like he was before.

>>715541995
his eyeballs are literally pressed together and there is a big empty space of nothing

>>715544459
I want to say you can "fix" it by keeping the new brow but making everything wider like the old DK, but going further back to the arcade design, he had those same kind of eyes that were small and tall instead of big and wide. That's the kind of energy they're going for.
>>715544920
I'm going to admit that I don't like what they did with his mouth. The eyes I get. The big puffy cheeks and the panting tongue thing is a bit much.

>>715541995
I hate that they make him dab every time he hits someone with an item in MKW. Fuck off with that cringe shit, DK can be fun and goofy but fucking dabbing is a bridge too far.

>>715544920
>Why the fuck does DK needs to make redditbean expressions all the time now

>>715541995
All that dark empty space around his eyes looks really weird and makes his eyes being pressed together for no reason stand out a ton. They wanted to take DK's design back to the old days, but they forgot what old DK even looked like.

>>715545498
It's because everyone joked that he was dabbing in 8 when he was doing one of those stereotypical Japanese muscle man poses or whatever. Now he is dabbing.

>>715541995
He looks like Crash Bandicoot tier of retarded.

>>715545706
>all the time now

>>715545498
Seen worse.

>>715541715 (OP)
For me its the eyebrows
That constant M is really fucking stupid and feels like he's forcing it at all times.

>>715545950
Oh my god it's the Crash discourse. It's almost exactly the same.

>>715546109
There's nothing wrong with this. Dabbing is obscene zoomer pandering.

>>715545975
He needs to be animateable. The static scowl is definitely a 6th gen tech limit and it's not present in the SNES sprites for example.

>>715541995
because it changed after 30 years. that's literally the only reason. They could've changed it to the best design in the history of the human race and they'd still hate it cause it's different

>>715541995
>I like it
Me too. He's great.

>>715541715 (OP)
Need tiny black dots for nipples.

>>715544459
However, the old DK was incredibly expressive.
You're just spreading bullshit because muh nintendo can't do nothing wrong.
>Captcha PAYAD

>>715541995
Raresnoys hate the fact they they're slowly becoming more and more irrelevant in the modern day, so they have to cling to their godawful childhoods while wishing they were British.

>>715546521
Stop spamming the catalog.

>>715541715 (OP)
Rare was never good and it is fucking dead thank god

>>715546464
Just because you liked the three emotions he was capable of showing doesn't mean he was "incredibly expressive." And don't post the one from the show where his brow goes further up than the Bananza one since that's actually a point in Bananza's favor considering game DK never did that.

>>715541715 (OP)
It gets worse.

>>715541715 (OP)

They changed his personality, the design doesn't mattet

>>715546714
No-one I know even hates those transformations.

>>715546692
>He needs to be MEGA expressive like Mario! Every character should be like Mario! Him being more stoic and reserved!? NOOOOO THAT'S NOT ALLOWED, ALL CHARACTERS SHOULD BE MARIOOOOO!!!

>raresnoy
You better get all the lubricant you can before the leaks come out and we BEND you OVER.

>>715546809
The funny thing is that this looks so much better than what Nintendo actually made.

>>715547053
How about we bend him over now, because he and his friend are spamming the catalog with garbage.

>>715547103
And it would fucking suck if that was used in Bananza.

Is this Donkey Kong thing some sort of long-running troll? There's nearly no difference between them, I can't imagine somebody truly complaining or deeply caring about some gorilla's eyes being slightly larger or slightly smaller or whatever the hell this is supposed to be about.

>>715547308
7/10

>>715547308
>There's nearly no difference between them
You're an actual NPC if you think this, like pic related.

>>715541715 (OP)
ok wow that looks a lot better. still too fat and wide, mouth too big, the nose is still ugly but other than that a huge improvement without changing the graphics/style.

>>715541715 (OP)
NINTENDO

>>715541715 (OP)
Well done. Left looks too stupid and cartoony. Right is literally what I grew up with since Donkey Kong Country.

I don't even know why Nintendo made the change, the Calarts beanface is tending out of style now; even with younger kids.

>>715548675
Nintendo's always years behind.

>>715548675
Nintendo is a highly insular Japanese company. Japan catches onto trends late, so Nintendo only catches on after Japan as a whole does, because they have little real-time awareness of what actually goes on in the West. As a result, they end up behind the curve by a lot.

>>715541715 (OP)
Despite the Nu-DK smiling more, he looks far more sinister and evil because of his eyes. Nu-DK reminds me of niggas, and I don't like it one bit

>>715547541
Damn, I guess you're really into gorilla eyebrows, huh?

>>715544920
Nintendo has never understood DK's appeal. Miyamoto desperately wants to erase Rare's legacy on the franchise, completely ignorant of the fact HIS DK was a hollow featureless villain with no identity. Literally everything that made DK popular was invented whole cloth by Rare for DKC and 64, right down to his basic design. Rare's DK is basically a mute Sonic, whereas Miyamoto's DK is a retarded Mario.

>>715550017
>Miyamoto desperately wants to erase Rare's legacy on the franchise
1 day until your ass becomes a portal.

>>715541995
he looks like a fucking retard

>>715546197
both look bad

>>715550301
>ties his identity to the success and failure of a video game company
I am under no delusion the game won't sell gangbusters. I still don't like the design, and I won't be buying it. the only opinion that matters to me is my own, consensus is for women.

>>715550017
Miyamoto hates DKC and Rare so much that the first DK game he got involved with in years has Kremlings and K. Rool

>>715550301
>rare's design: made to look good in 3D
>miyamoto's design: only looks okay in 2D, looks awful in 3D

remember when third worlders were calling this design feminine? LMAO

>>715550572
Nobody called this design feminine. Everybody called it woke slop. Which it is. Get your facts straight, troon

Sethy Kong / Reddit Kong, made for the Mario Movie, vs D "Fucking" K. Seriously, Sethy has major child molester physiognomy

>>715550752
You didn't see all the "cocklust" posts about DK sticking his tongue out? lol retard

>>715550901
No, I don't have discord, tranny

I don't despise DK's redesign for the most part, just when he makes that retarded drooling face like a dog.
But then there's Diddy with his hideous split in his eyes, it easily drops his design from being perfect to literal shit.

>>715550987
They were all over this board, but it didn't catch on, so they gave up on that angle it seems.

>>715546197
If you think those two models looks almost exactly the same, you need to have your head checked.

>>715547049
>posts the most expressive Link in the series

>>715541715 (OP)
>DK gets a redesign
>suddenly there are hordes of DK "fans" that dislike it

>DK gets a redesign
>suddenly there are hordes of DK "fans" love it
Shills

>>715541715 (OP)
I don't play games made for toddlers so I can't relate to this thread

>>715541995
He looks too cartoonish and stupid looking. Rare DK has a cool ape aesthetic but Nintendo DK looks like a downie.

>>715546809
kek

>>715550473
you mean the game that wasn't developed by Nintendo?

>>715551101
Oh no, I meant the discourse concerning the design change is almost exactly the same.

>>715541715 (OP)
>rarefag still seething

>>715541995
he no longer looks like a chill badass dude who is maybe just a little goofy

he looks like a fullblown comic relief retard now

>>715545710
that cover is infinitely better than the model

>>715546197
>peach fuzz fur again. sudden transition to bald oversized excessively pink lips makes it look like a burn victim
>dumbo-size ears, off-putting dreamworks-esque movie look, turned up nose, less cartoony face, eyebrows and mohawk stand out too fucking much
they're both bad

>>715554719
>chill badass dude
>maybe just a little goofy

>>715545498
Dab on dis nigga. *Dabs*