By Jim Rossignol on July 11th, 2012 at 1:00 pm.
For some reason, dinosaurs seem to be appearing more and more in my daily conversation. Perhaps the popularity of creatures that died millions of years ago is on the rise again, or perhaps it’s some kind of omen. Only time will tell. Meanwhile, I must continue the dino-commentary, which today includes a man armed with some kind of chainsaw-flamer fighting carnivorous dinosaurs of various sizes. That’s the reasoning behind multiplayer FPS Primal Carnage, of course: that fighting dinosaurs with ludicrous hybrids of modern weaponry will be the kind of thing that we want to do. Is that the kind of thing you want to do? Make some manner of kneejerk judgment, below!
So there it is. Pyro vs dino.
What’s your favourite dinosaur? I’d say mine is either the Pachycephalosaurus or the Ankylosaurus. Neither of which is featured in Primal Carnage, sadly.
11/07/2012 at 13:03 The Hammer says:
Yes!
Yes it is!
11/07/2012 at 17:40 Ultra Superior says:
Yes? …um.
Those flames look terribly bad.
11/07/2012 at 13:03 President Weasel says:
That dinosaur should have feathers.
11/07/2012 at 13:29 Gnoupi says:
Shush.
My childhood has already been ruined by picturing all dinosaurs as simply big chickens. I don’t need a reminder.
11/07/2012 at 17:22 Dilapinated says:
If you look, there’s some really, really great feathered dino art out there. They don’t look any less kick-ass.
11/07/2012 at 13:31 Orija says:
That bit of news is gonna destroy the market for dino stuff, that’s for sure. I mean, what six year old would want to play with feathered T-Rex and Spinosaurus! That’s just make all of them seem real fruity.
11/07/2012 at 13:53 President Weasel says:
Nonsense, I say! Cassowaries aren’t even carnivores and they’re only the third largest flightless bird alive, yet they’re capable of killing people (although it’s rare, admittedly). Terror birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae) were apex predators, and they definitely had feathers.
I’m not sure a Tyrannosaur would get any less threatening (or awesome) just because it was slightly fluffy.
11/07/2012 at 14:00 Caiman says:
Yeah but not all dinosaurs had feathers. Just imagine the non-feathered ones and you’ll be fine.
12/07/2012 at 05:31 Hardlylikely says:
I don’t think six year olds really have formed opinions on the topic of “fruitiness” yet.
11/07/2012 at 17:04 MarloBrandon says:
They were burned away by the flamethrower. Your move.
11/07/2012 at 13:09 SteamTrout says:
Wait, is it a flamethrower WITH AN UNDERBARREL CHAINSAW? Best. Gun. Evah.
11/07/2012 at 13:15 Mistabashi says:
Well, it’s certainly up there! There’s some tough competition though, I mean is it really better than the Landshark Gun?
11/07/2012 at 13:40 zeroskill says:
Nothing ever is, or will be better than the landshark gun.
11/07/2012 at 13:28 HexagonalBolts says:
The central barrel should be a flamethrower jet around which rotate the barrels of a Minigun, each of which has its own chainsaw attached that spins with the barrel as the minigun is fired.
I think an entire game should be dedicated to this gun.
11/07/2012 at 16:37 DrRattlehead says:
Except the fact that it doesn’t seem to have any effect. The flamethrower doesn’t set anything on fire and the chainsaw “hits” don’t really seem to “connect”.
11/07/2012 at 20:34 Fumarole says:
Placeholder models.
11/07/2012 at 17:46 Ultra Superior says:
what are you talking about ? The weapon in the video is quite harmless
fast-yellow-sprites propeller combined with buzz-noise emitter
11/07/2012 at 13:25 Enzo says:
Didn’t this game already came out and was terrible?
11/07/2012 at 13:33 vadvadindabad says:
different game, same dinos
11/07/2012 at 13:52 Mistabashi says:
Yeah, you’re thinking of Orion, which was indeed terrible and broken, and also contained loads of stolen assets including one of the dinosaur models from this game apparently.
11/07/2012 at 13:44 PoulWrist says:
The stegosaurus is my favourite. Followed by ankylosaurus. Cool defensive guys who chilled out in prehistoric land.
11/07/2012 at 16:30 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Azhdarchidae is the best though.
Just look at the scale of the magnificent motherfucker.
11/07/2012 at 13:51 Elmar Bijlsma says:
Is it very pedantic of me to be annoyed by the fact that yet again the flamethrowers in a game expel a burning gas instead of a burning liquid?
Let me smell victory in the morning!
11/07/2012 at 14:08 Mistabashi says:
Killing Floor has the best flamethrower I’ve seen in a game for this reason. It actually has some range, and fires in a squirty arc rather than big floaty ball thing.
11/07/2012 at 18:44 LionsPhil says:
Don’t forget Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and by extension Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I don’t know why flamethrowers have been so crap since; TF2′s in particular is dire.
11/07/2012 at 19:18 Brun says:
The flamethrower from Turok 2 (coincidentally another dinosaur-themed game) shot burning liquid as well and even had pretty good ballistic mechanics.
11/07/2012 at 20:35 Fumarole says:
Yes it is, but you’re still right. Needs more fluid.
11/07/2012 at 13:54 Jdopus says:
Looks like Killing Floor with dinos instead of zombies.
11/07/2012 at 13:54 Jim9137 says:
Circle strafe! Circle strafe that SOB!
11/07/2012 at 14:01 wodin says:
Dinosaur cruelty…
12/07/2012 at 11:17 The Infamous Woodchuck says:
PETPA Wont be pleased.
11/07/2012 at 14:05 Caiman says:
This game looked interesting when it was just showing off environments and atmospheric dinosaur assets. Now that’s they’re showing off their generic multiplayer deathmatch gameplay, all interest is lost.
11/07/2012 at 18:46 LionsPhil says:
Sad but true.
11/07/2012 at 15:51 Trent Hawkins says:
So all the T-Rex does is run around and smack in to people? LAME!
11/07/2012 at 16:04 EPICTHEFAIL says:
That`s a carnotaurus. Doesn`t excuse the ramming though. Last I checked, the horns were simply too weak to be used as weapons. They were supposedly only used for mating displays. Then again, i`ve been out of the loop for a while with regards to paleontology…
11/07/2012 at 16:17 SkittleDiddler says:
Good thing for Primal Carnage’s devs that Dino Beatdown was such a failure.
11/07/2012 at 16:49 Mut says:
Looks better than Dino D-Day, at least.
11/07/2012 at 16:53 derbefrier says:
edit: nevermind
11/07/2012 at 18:43 jonfitt says:
Ooh. That trailer poured cold water on my interest.
The flame effect was bad, but what was worse was the way the flamethower and chainsaw seemed to have little impact aside from causing either a flame or blood to appear on the creature and their health points to be depleted. Combine that with the guy circle strafe deathmatching around and it all looked very…”last gen”.
Look to Far Cry 2, Gear of War, Bulletstorm, etc. for better examples of flamethrowers, chainsaws, and physicality. When your opponent is strictly melee, you need to get the physicality right at least.
I’m guessing it’s a minor game compared to any of those, but you’ve got to choose your battles, and this looks like they may have bitten off more than they could chew.
11/07/2012 at 22:00 Dilapinated says:
Given that it’s still in alpha (afaik?) the flame effect and chainsaw physicality will hopefully look better in the finished release.
11/07/2012 at 23:32 LionsPhil says:
Problem is, releasing a video is saying “we think this is ready enough to impress you with”.
If it were a mechanics video for some kind of entertaining puzzler or sim or something, sure, that’d excuse incomplete graphics. Hell, think the Overgrowth alpha videos where they focus on one Cool New Thing, even if the surrounding things are less complete. But this one really does just seem to be “Look! Fire and dinosaurs! Together at last!”, and it doesn’t really do those things that well.
11/07/2012 at 20:36 Fumarole says:
I dino if this will be good or not, but I hope it will be.
12/07/2012 at 11:21 The Infamous Woodchuck says:
I’ll just hope the developers of this game will triceratops to do their best
11/07/2012 at 20:47 niuqqa says:
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11/07/2012 at 22:13 Tuggy Tug says:
Ankylosaurus is my favourite dinosaur, too.
I imagine it used to just look at T-Rex’s as little more than an annoyance.
12/07/2012 at 12:49 SuperNashwanPower says:
“Make some manner of kneejerk judgment, below!”
PEOPLE FROM LIVERPOOL LIKE STEALING CAR WHEELS AND LEAVING THE CAR UP ON STACKS OF BRICKS AND THEN SELLING THE WHEELS ON EBAY.
14/07/2012 at 09:56 blackjackshelak says:
My kneejerk reaction: That ASSHOLE corpsehumped a dinosaur in a promotion video! What an idiot.
I’ve honestly been kind of curious about this game though. Unfortunately, this video seems to be a slight step down from what I’ve seen posted of earlier builds. The way the classes match up seems interesting, but they have to do a better job than this if they want to promote interest in their game.