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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
KCF0107 01/23/21 3:54:27 AM #206:	#82 Diddy Kong Racing (N64, 1997) With its colorful palette and distinctively playful soundtrack from David Wise, the vibrancy of this game is off the charts, making it one of the more memorable racing games to this day. What Rare was able to pull off this early in the 3D gaming era is astonishing. Every Christmas Eve, I do an N64 racing game marathon. DKR is one of four games fixed in that rotation, and it is the only one that I play every course, including the battle modes. I just love soaking in all the sights and sounds. Any talk about DKR has to reference its landmark adventure mode, a delight still to this day. It is disappointing that the idea didn't take off to have an open-world campaign in racing games. Crash Team Racing followed suit a few years later, but it was pretty straightforward with a relative lack of secrets and cool nooks-and-cranies like DKR had in spades. It wasn't until the next gen when games from series like Need for Speed and Midnight Club where you saw it appear more. This is a racing game of course, so the most important aspects deal with driving/racing. Since it landed on my list, I clearly felt that they did a great job, especially with there being three vehicle types (Cars, Hovercrafts, and Airplanes). If any of them have an issue, it is the cars because turning naturally might feel a little stiff when making some sudden or tight turns, but it has several "advanced" moves that are highly responsive, including my go-to move in the quick jerk-slide (I'm sure it has an official or more commonly-used name), so it's not an issue. If there's something about the racing that I woulf change, it's the item system where it probably could have been removed in its entirely and nothing of value would be lost. As much as I loved this game, I actually didn't beat it until I was in college. I was stuck at a boss fight in adventure mode, ~~Wizpig's first race~~, which meant that I didn't have all the courses unlocked for over a decade. Some family friends did, so I could play them pretty much any day, but it never really bothered me because I was more than happy racing with what I had. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu <cite>KCF0107 posted [p:949819369] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#82 Diddy Kong Racing (N64, 1997) With its colorful palette and distinctively playful soundtrack from David Wise, the vibrancy of this game is off the charts, making it one of the more memorable racing games to this day. What Rare was able to pull off this early in the 3D gaming era is astonishing. Every Christmas Eve, I do an N64 racing game marathon. DKR is one of four games fixed in that rotation, and it is the only one that I play every course, including the battle modes. I just love soaking in all the sights and sounds. Any talk about DKR has to reference its landmark adventure mode, a delight still to this day. It is disappointing that the idea didn't take off to have an open-world campaign in racing games. Crash Team Racing followed suit a few years later, but it was pretty straightforward with a relative lack of secrets and cool nooks-and-cranies like DKR had in spades. It wasn't until the next gen when games from series like Need for Speed and Midnight Club where you saw it appear more. This is a racing game of course, so the most important aspects deal with driving/racing. Since it landed on my list, I clearly felt that they did a great job, especially with there being three vehicle types (Cars, Hovercrafts, and Airplanes). If any of them have an issue, it is the cars because turning naturally might feel a little stiff when making some sudden or tight turns, but it has several "advanced" moves that are highly responsive, including my go-to move in the quick jerk-slide (I'm sure it has an official or more commonly-used name), so it's not an issue. If there's something about the racing that I woulf change, it's the item system where it probably could have been removed in its entirely and nothing of value would be lost. As much as I loved this game, I actually didn't beat it until I was in college. I was stuck at a boss fight in adventure mode, Wizpig's first race, which meant that I didn't have all the courses unlocked for over a decade. Some family friends did, so I could play them pretty much any day, but it never really bothered me because I was more than happy racing with what I had. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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