Comments on: Thunderlizard Dreams

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:54:06 +0000

If I was a gigantic sauropod I’d be more worried about my neck snapping in two on impact than any grazing on my bonce (which would contain precious little squishy brain matter anyway).

By: etho

etho — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:07:21 +0000

Man Raised By Puffins: Are you saying you’d rather he be operating his jetpack without a helmet? Because that seems profoundly unsafe.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:41:31 +0000

As already pointed out, it’d be nice to see some actual gameplay, i’m curious..

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:28:07 +0000

For a game that clearly relies heavily on realism, the tail of the apatosaurus has far too much vertical flexibility.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:49:01 +0000

That reminds me, I would love to see a retrospective on the Little Big Adventure games if there’s ever a chance.

By: PaulMode7

PaulMode7 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:54:56 +0000

Music is wonderful – more quality abstract electronica in games!

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:22:42 +0000

Cool. Is all that X-ray/dimension swapping stuff part of the gameplay? Is there a space-on-top-of-space element I see there?
(I remember being fascinated by that as a concept back in that Duke Nukem 3d secret level which was kinda one level inside another but overlapping. Don’t know if any other games do that sort of thing. The Serious Sam folks seemed like the types who might try it; didn’t appear in Second Encounter, from memory)

By: Robert Seddon

Robert Seddon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:25:17 +0000

There’s something about that music that reminds me of LBA2‘s; of course, it probably helps that the bronosaurus looks a little like Dino-Fly.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:24:16 +0000

Ah, so he is. The tag-line under the image of the majestic jet-packing Apatosaurus on their site reads “Splendid jetpack dreams of the Apatosaurus named Brontosaurus”.

Edit: Yeah, so what Kieron said then. Certainly living up to his species name (deceptive lizard) that fellow. Of course if I wished to continue playing the role of the filthy pedant I could always mention that their jetpacks couldn’t possibly work (no intakes, see) but it feels a trifle silly when said jetpacks are grafted onto a large Dinosaur with a crash helmet.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:23:23 +0000

From the game’s webpage:”Splendid jetpack dreams of the Apatosaurus named Brontosaurus.”

By: Abe

Abe — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:21:23 +0000

@ Man Raised By Puffins

I had the same problem with Safari when it came out, but I tried it recently and it appears that they’ve optimized it. It’s pretty fun now that it has a decent FPS.

By: Cyrenic

Cyrenic — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:11:21 +0000

He’s an Apatosaurus named Brontosaurus.