Dinosaurs in Video Games

Melding

Where the hell are they?

I looked this up in wikipedia, there is apparently 41 games with dinosaurs in them.

Forty one!

And most of them suck!

How the hell do you fuck up dinosaurs?

Easily it seems.

Remember the 2008 Turok? that game wasn't very good.

Turok 3, also not very good. how do you get something like killing dinosaurs with cool guns wrong?

So people of SE, how do we fix this dinoproblem?

What's some good Dinogames?

Dino D-day is pretty cool, but that isn't enough at all in these modern dinocentric times.

Romanian My Escutcheon

There are dinosaurs in Skryim.

And if you try to tell me that RMEDosaurus Rex the Argonian is not a dinosaur, I will break you.

godmode

The gaming industry has been way too focused on zombies and wizards lately. I think it is about time dinosaurs make a comeback.

Indie Winter

BlankZoe

Oh you are forgetting one of the best Dinosaur games



Awwwwwwwwwwww yeah

Indie Winter

BlankZoe

Operation Genesis was pretty awesome

Doobh

Hey

hey @Melding

best game ever

Indie Winter

I miss management sims

now they're all on Facebook and terrible

Melding

Blankzilla wrote:

Oh you are forgetting one of the best Dinosaur games



Awwwwwwwwwwww yeah

forgot nothing, i have that on Snes.

But it came out like 14 years ago.

That game is not good enough to hold me over that long.

Doobh

Indie Winter wrote:

I miss management sims

now they're all on Facebook and terrible

to make another post today you have to buy 500 SE++ points

Melding

Dubh wrote:

Hey

hey @Melding

best game ever

Never played it.

What the hell is the point of star fox if i'm not shooting space ships?

Doobh

count yourself lucky, then

BlankZoe

Starfox Adventures

uuugh

That entire game I wanted to play as one of the dinosaurs. Fuck Star Fox and lady Star Fox.

Just gimme a Zelda game in Dinoland

Doobh

Lady Star Fox makes me feel filthy whenever I see her

Indie Winter

Dubh wrote:

Indie Winter wrote:

I miss management sims

now they're all on Facebook and terrible

to make another post today you have to buy 500 SE++ points

god fucking damnit

Melding

you guys have no idea how fucking crushed i was playing the 2008 Turok.

The demo was awesome. it was hiding from dinosaurs, killing dinosaurs, running from dinosaurs.

And then most the game was shooting dudes.

I can shoot dudes in like, 90% of all video games.

I can't fucking shoot dinosaurs in like 5% of them.

Romanian My Escutcheon

Melding, have you tried reading Jurassic Park, but while moving the book around and making space battle noises?

BlankZoe

Melding wrote:

you guys have no idea how fucking crushed i was playing the 2008 Turok.

The demo was awesome. it was hiding from dinosaurs, killing dinosaurs, running from dinosaurs.

And then most the game was shooting dudes.

I can shoot dudes in like, 90% of all video games.

I can't fucking shoot dinosaurs in like 5% of them.

I never played the multiplayer but I remember they said it would have the dinosaurs in it as a wild computer element on every map

like the two teams would be fighting and then HEY T-REX

reVerse

I want a game where you're a dinosaur, you've got a laser gun and a jetpack and you hunt down Nazis.

Shorty

Indie Winter wrote:

that game is ludicrously difficult to find

BlankZoe

I would like a game where you are just a dinosaur

no modern spin on it or anything

just a T-Rex in a big open environment

you can make a family

you can fight other dinosaurs and kill and eat them to gain more power

it is basically DINOSIMULATOR

it wouldn't work for a full fledged title but a 10-15 buck Arcade game? Hell yeah.

Oden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyd-0_ZZ8qc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shorty

Oden wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyd-0_ZZ8qc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

still makes me laugh

Indie Winter

Shorty wrote:

Indie Winter wrote:

that game is ludicrously difficult to find

yeah it should really be on GoG or Steam or someplace accessible

reVerse

Blankzilla wrote:

I would like a game where you are just a dinosaur

no modern spin on it or anything

just a T-Rex in a big open environment

you can make a family

you can fight other dinosaurs and kill and eat them to gain more power

it is basically DINOSIMULATOR

it wouldn't work for a full fledged title but a 10-15 buck Arcade game? Hell yeah.

I think this game would work better if you were a smaller dinosaur. It would add a survival spin to it that a massive dino like a T-Rex wouldn't have.

Melding

Blankzilla wrote:

Melding wrote:

you guys have no idea how fucking crushed i was playing the 2008 Turok.

The demo was awesome. it was hiding from dinosaurs, killing dinosaurs, running from dinosaurs.

And then most the game was shooting dudes.

I can shoot dudes in like, 90% of all video games.

I can't fucking shoot dinosaurs in like 5% of them.

I never played the multiplayer but I remember they said it would have the dinosaurs in it as a wild computer element on every map

like the two teams would be fighting and then HEY T-REX

yeah, i remember that being a thing too. but i didn't have live at the time and it didn't sell well enough to really get a following.

reVerse wrote:

I want a game where you're a dinosaur, you've got a laser gun and a jetpack and you hunt down Nazis.

try dino d-day.

BlankZoe

Eff that

if I am gonna be a dinosaur I ain't being no wimpy dinosaur

Melding

guys, this is the best dinosaur video game to date:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/I_smell/robot-dinosaurs-that-shoot-beams-when-they-roar

Which is, something.

reVerse

Melding wrote:

reVerse wrote:

I want a game where you're a dinosaur, you've got a laser gun and a jetpack and you hunt down Nazis.

try dino d-day.

Isn't that game complete and utter garbage?

And also all the dinos are Nazis?

And they don't have laser guns, just normal guns?

And they don't have jetpacks?

Staleghoti

Bulbasaurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Indie Winter

honestly though a game where you are the dinosaur would be pretty bad

I can't really think of a good way to make a game that isn't just a management sim/shooter "but with dinosaurs" that would actually be good

Staleghoti

Melding wrote:

guys, this is the best dinosaur video game to date:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/I_smell/robot-dinosaurs-that-shoot-beams-when-they-roar

Which is, something.

I like that Dino Run one

Shorty

what's that game where you play a raptor in a jeep?

Indie Winter

Indie Winter wrote:

honestly though a game where you are the dinosaur would be pretty bad

I can't really think of a good way to make a game that isn't just a management sim/shooter "but with dinosaurs" that would actually be good

maybe a game where dinosaurs are back and are intelligent and have taken over the world?

but then it would just be "lizardmen + variants" because you can't actually have a cruel despot who's also a stegosaurus

Melding

reVerse wrote:

Melding wrote:

reVerse wrote:

I want a game where you're a dinosaur, you've got a laser gun and a jetpack and you hunt down Nazis.

try dino d-day.

Isn't that game complete and utter garbage?

And also all the dinos are Nazis?

And they don't have laser guns, just normal guns?

And they don't have jetpacks?

i don't know,

not all of them.

iunno.

they might.

Staleghoti

http://www.kongregate.com/games/pixeljamgames/dino-run?acomplete=dino+run

awww yea

reVerse

I seem to recall that in the Giant Bomb quick look for Dino D-Day there were a total of three dinosaurs in the game. Three classes out of twelve. All of them Nazis.

That always seemed really weak to me. Why even bother naming your game Dino D-Day if you got so few dinosaurs in the game.

Melding

wikipedia says there is 4. 3 of them nazi.

But yeah.

Seriously how do you fuck something up so simple like dinosaurs are awesome?

Romanian My Escutcheon

Perhaps they did not think that dinosaurs were awesome.

Crimson King

here's an idea for a video game

dinosaurs are back

you have a gun and only you can stop them