Lack of Dinosaur games! Your thoughts?

So, I have noticed a lack of good Dinosaur games in recent times. There is only one dinosaur game I have managed to find that is in development and thatshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45JsB9y946o&feature=player_embedded.
Now although I think that footage looks awesome and Primal Carnage will be a day one buy for me, its multiplayer only. Now thats not a bad thing, I like multiplayer, its incredibly rewarding killing other real players and lots of fun can be had. I just wish there were more single player, maybe RPG, dinosaur games, eg and Elder Scrolls game with dinosaurs. Anyway, I just wanted your thoughts on the lack of Dino games and whether you want more Dinosaur games. Cheers!

Been done. Check out Dino D-Day on Steam.

I would love to see this done properly for BF3.

BF3 needs Dinosaur mode.

NEEDS!!

I will add to your sentiment and say, too many zombie games and mods, not enough dinosaurs. Developers need to realize, dinosaurs are a lot more fun and dynamic than zombies.

The last few attempts have not been very well-received. One of my favourite dino games was Trespasser... though by favourite, well.. I could not get very far. The game was bound to give me a heart attack if I continued. It's amazing what some game design can do to make you scared for your life without relying on darkness and gloomy tricks and surprises.

I'd kill for a new Trespasser game tbh, or something beyond that. I like games that make some effort to side towards realism.. dino-realism.. :D

I don't know, Orion: Prelude looks pretty interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9dSxQd3gU

And I wouldn't mind another Turok game, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was epic.

Lol, think the genre died in the 90's. Last attempt I remember was that newest Turok.

I would love some more dinosaur games because as much as I love zombies, dinosaurs could be a bit more interesting. I think developers just need to find the right element for the game and story. A game I would really like to see would be a mixture of dead island and jurassic park. It would be about an island that has a dinosaur zoo like jurassic park but it instead of the story beingbefore the park opens the dinosaurs will have gotten out while the park was in business. At first the story would be about surviving, saving other vistors, and trying to contact rescue. Then the story would get deeper when you discover terrorsits on the island and they are the ones who released the dinosaurs. Their plan is to capture dinosaurs to release on western countries as well as take the dino dna to breed their own dinosaurs to train. So you would have to stop the terrorists as well by killing them before they can escape the island with the dinosaurs. If any game developer reads this please feel free to take this idea and make this game lol.

They're going at it in a way that fails, pretty much all dinosaur games have the evil flesh eating dinosaurs vs the meaty special marine units that fight that evil. It's just a terrible take on this whole thing.

I don't know what concepts might work best, because there are things you wouldn't expect to enjoy and in the end you end up loving a certain take on an idea, but I would personally think an open world game, with a more cartoonish atmosphere but at the same time a little serious would be awesome, something like Ice Age, but with characters like Indiana Jones not marines and such as for pure combat something like Transformers in the Beast Wars would be great or with some hulks of humans like Space Marines vs Dinosaurs for a vicious combat game like everyone tries to make with marines vs dinosaurs that ultimately fail hard.

They're going at it in a way that fails, pretty much all dinosaur games have the evil flesh eating dinosaurs vs the meaty special marine units that fight that evil. It's just a terrible take on this whole thing.

I don't know what concepts might work best, because there are things you wouldn't expect to enjoy and in the end you end up loving a certain take on an idea, but I would personally think an open world game, with a more cartoonish atmosphere but at the same time a little serious would be awesome, something like Ice Age, but with characters like Indiana Jones not marines and such as for pure combat something like Transformers in the Beast Wars would be great or with some hulks of humans like Space Marines vs Dinosaurs for a vicious combat game like everyone tries to make with marines vs dinosaurs that ultimately fail hard.

DanielDust

At the end of the day a dinosaur is a animal so are pretty much limited in how they can fight you, look at when you play a FPS and there is a dog what does it do? run up to you and tries to bite.

All dino enemies have to fight at melee combat so this limits the game a lot. Yes you can have different foes with different size but nearly all fightswill be the same keep your distant and fight at range. You can't give a dinosaur a gun or a grenade or sword and fight it tactical can you?

Dino Crisis is still the champ in that genre. :)

but we do need more, let's hope JP is good.

battlefield : dinosaur :D

They really need to make another Dino Crises game.

That game looks great but so did Dino D-Day and that didn't turn out to be very good.

Everyone loves the idea of it then gets all exited and jolly over the memes, thinking it would make a great game. Reality is it usually doesn't, even that Primal Carnage game looks like it might have some design issues attached, and if you want two examples of how bad it can be - there's Dino D-Day and Jurassic Park Trespasser (which is an amazing innovative concept). That and they're commercial failures usually - the N64 Turok games being an exception, the recent Turok game being another example. skrat_01

Did Turok have any sort of multiplayer ?

It sucks, I love dinosaurs.

Dino Crisis was fun. Resident Evil style game except you you get spooked by dinosaurs.

So, anyone heard of any new Dino games?

Instead of constantly dragging dinosaurs into the modern age against military hardware, they need to turn the idea on its head and drag an ordinary modern town back into the Triassic/Jurassic period. Imagine a town of ordinary people having to fight off dinosaurs with very limited weapons, especially guns. Erecting barricades, scavenging the town for weapons and food, then having to explore the wider environment when water/food runs low.

Kind of like Dead Island meets Jurassic Park.

Instead of constantly dragging dinosaurs into the modern age against military hardware, they need to turn the idea on its head and drag an ordinary modern town back into the Triassic/Jurassic period. Imagine a town of ordinary people having to fight off dinosaurs with very limited weapons, especially guns. Erecting barricades, scavenging the town for weapons and food, then having to explore the wider environment when water/food runs low.

Kind of like Dead Island meets Jurassic Park.

RobertBowen

I LOVE when people necro threads!

A survival game featuring dinosaurs is on my top 3 of most wanted games!

Dinosaurs are totally underutilized in games! Screw zombies, getting chased in a long hallway by some velociraptors hunting you down, now that's some good stuff.

A survival game featuring dinosaurs is on my top 3 of most wanted games!

Dinosaurs are totally underutilized in games! Screw zombies, getting chased in a long hallway by some velociraptors hunting you down, now that's some good stuff.

xWoW_Rougex

That would be awesome, let's hope in the future we get something like that.

I don't know, Orion: Prelude looks pretty interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9dSxQd3gU

And I wouldn't mind another Turok game, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was epic.

Zubinen

This, but please make it more like Turok Dinosaur Hunter.

2 was good too, but the latest Turok (named just Turok) was a bit of a let down... (started out pretty good, and got real dumb)

Need to go back to the more Dinosaur Hunter Roots.

I have Turok sit real close to Duke Nukem.. and honestly a new Turok I feel would end up like DNF..

I would love to see these old series rebooted, Duke Nukem and Turok (proper) along with stuff like Shadow Warrior, or Blood. But without the COD/BF effect thrown all over it.

No Dinosaurs in the Bible; strange coincidence?SKaREO

But you put Dinosaur in your vehicle to transport yourself back and forth.

OR at least that was the wide assumption for a long time, may have found new information since that I haven't seen yet.

No Dinosaurs in the Bible; strange coincidence?SKaREO

we need a proper dino crysis with updated gameplay and graphics. dino crysis 1 and 2 were just awesome

If anyone can do it, Crytek can. I think the reason it's always been avoided is because rendering a jungle is a difficult task, both from a modeling and rendering perspective. Crysis clearly demonstrated that it can be done, and look pretty good too.

Imagine huge dinosaurs on that island. It would have been the perfect game to implement them IMO, as long as there was a good reason for them to be there.. Regardless, it's a bit late in the story arch to be able to add them I think, unless there's some time travel device involved. [grin]

we need a proper dino crysis with updated gameplay and graphics. dino crysis 1 and 2 were just awesome

Krelian-co

Agreed, they were great games, especially 2.

They should make a Jurrasic Park game where it's in first person and you're on one of the islands, which would be huge and you'd be able to explore. It would make for a good co-op game.

BF3 needs Dinosaur mode.

NEEDS!!

C_Rule

When I was a kid I used to play with these toys guys that rode dinosaurs on saddles with rocket launchers and stuff, I think it was called Dino-riders.

I also used to watch this cartoon called dinosaucers.

Those would be awesome as a game.

I will add to your sentiment and say, too many zombie games and mods, not enough dinosaurs. Developers need to realize, dinosaurs are a lot more fun and dynamic than zombies.

Falconoffury

Orion: Dino Beatdown anyone? http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

Sry if repost.

Orion: Dino Beatdown anyone? http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

Sry if repost.

Mizeak

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Orion: Dino Beatdown anyone? http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

Sry if repost.

JigglyWiggly_

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Orion: Dino Beatdown anyone? http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

Sry if repost.

Croag821