Activision was making a new 3D Donkey Kong developed by Vicarious Visions

[Fatboi1]

According to two separate fan sources, Activision studio Vicarious Visions was working on a new Donkey Kong game codenamed Freedom, which would have featured an open world environment and, as a result of the studio’s experience with the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise, would have DK roaming around on banana roller-skates.

Activision's Vicarious Visions worked on a cancelled 3D Donkey Kong game

Vicarious Visions – the Activision studio now known as Blizzard Albany and perhaps best known for supporting the develo…

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Damn, that sounded like it would've been a really great game. VV did a great job with the Crash trilogy remake and it being done with some fluidity borrowed from the Tony Hawk games sounds like a game that could've been a banger.

 

[Luke Cage]

They really let Mario take his spot when he was just a supporting character.

 

[Rekkapryde]

They really let Mario take his spot when he was just a supporting character.

White man falls up again

 

[Animal House]

rolling around on banana roller skates

 

[feelosofer]

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Donkey Kong works best on a 2D plane. Diddy Kong racing being the exception.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Somehow, someway it's Sony's fault

@Gizmo_Duck

 

[Fatboi1]

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Donkey Kong works best on a 2D plane. Diddy Kong racing being the exception.

i thought DK64 was pretty good?

 

[Novembruh]

be cooler if they didn't.

 

[Fanservice]

i thought DK64 was pretty good?

It was but Rare went overboard with the collect-a-thon gimmick and character switching gimmick (by creating annoying barriers that halted progression)

 

[feelosofer]

i thought DK64 was pretty good?

If they had rolled back the repetitive collection quests it would have been much better.