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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Glorb on May 29, 2007, 09:59:00 AM
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We all know that the only thing more dangerous than zombies is a dinosaur (I think the deadliness exchange rate is 4 zombies for one raptor, if I'm not mistaken). So my question is this: Why aren't there more dinosaurs in games these days? With the exception of the upcoming Turok (which I'm still skeptical about thanks to its generic dark-futuristic look and new main character), there are no modern games of note that feature dinosaurs. What we need is a new Primal Rage, or maybe, like, Dead Rising, but with dinoaurs. There should at least be Virtual Console versions of Primal Rage and the old Turoks.
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They're all extinct.
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And they aren't all that cool, honestly.
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Unless you're Calvin.
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I think the problem is it's hard to make dinosaurs new and exciting. It's been done overmuch. I think if there was a new dinosaur game out, it would have to be a story completely different than "People go back in time. Aaah! Dinosaurs!" or "Dinosaurs go forward in time/are dug up and reanimated. Aaah! Dinosaurs!". And I don't know if there's any other way to justify dinosaurs.
(Not saying they aren't cool. Because, you know. Giant scary lizards = yes. But what can you do with them that hasn't already been done?)
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Borrow some of the dinosaur evolution concepts from the cheesy Mario movie, and you might get an interesting game.
You live in a world where people evolved from the dinosaurs, but some evil guy is de-evolving them for his evil plans. You must stop this madman from taking over the world. One power-up lets your character's body (but not the brain) transform into the mighty tyrannosaurus rex. If this idea is stupid, I'm sorry I ever mentioned it.
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The great image that dinosaurs once had has been tainted by the seemingly endless line of Land Before Time sequals...
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We need a 3D Yoshi's Island. Badly.
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Do we really?
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Why would we?
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Hey, I think the Quick Reply box got wider! No? Oh...
When you actually think about it, dinosaurs are fundamentally interesting. It's too bad the concept has evolved into a specific image--a particular feeling that invokes fair maidens being eaten alive, and... I think that's about it, actually. That's all dinosaurs do these days--eat fair maidens.
Or sing fairy tales (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Barney&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2).
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Wow, Glorb fails to realize that there are dino's in games, just as TC said, Yoshi! Besides, why would we need a 3-D YI? It sounds like an awful idea in my opinion. Just imagine, trying to swallow an enemy in 3-D would be tough, even harder to hit one with an egg.
PS: Must you shout out your game ideas in every thread The Chef?
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Yes, and the idea sparked my mind when I first got control of Yoshi in SM64DS. Keep in mind, it'd be perfect for the Wii, since you could use the remote to aim Yoshi's tounge or egg shots.
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Or sing fairy tales (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Barney&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2).
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p2pnet.net%2Fimages%2Fbarney.jpg&hash=a0a554ca005c3abbe3ddd83ca096c31d)
OMG I'm offended you posted that link!!!1! *sarcasm*
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I loved Barney the Dinosaur when I was little. O_o
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How did I forget about Barney?! Whoever made that picture rocks.
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That picture is pure evil and came from ol' Stan himself.
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I think the Teletubbies are worse. Those who actually like Barney were quite obviously deprived of Sesame Street and all it's glory. Oscar the Grouch FTW.
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They're not as innocent as you may believe, TC.
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Yeah, Tripod.com logos are evil too.
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Huh, the pic doesn't come up? I can see it just fine.
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You ran out of bandwidth.
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Darn. To anyone who cares, it's a pic of the Sesame Street gang with weapons and stuff.
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Hey! I liked Sesame Street AND Barney.
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Y'know, I honestly wondered when Barney and, by extension, Sesame street would be brought up.
I think the reason I just had a sudden dinosaur obsession is because I found my old copy of Primal rage a couple of days ago. This lead to me watching both Jurassic Park movies (yes, I said both) and reading both novels, as well as reading various books about dinosaurs and so on. And Yoshi doesn't count. I mean, he wouldn't last two minutes with a T-Rex, or even a Dynonychus.
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Way back in the day (I'd say from 5th grade to maybe 9th), I was pretty much the authority on dinosaurs. If anyone had a question on dinosaurs, they'd come to me. Even teachers. Heck, there were two cases where a teacher put me in charge of class because the lessons were on dinosaurs. I no longer read about them all the time, but I still have a few of my best books on them.
And for the record, I believe that yoshis are related to Iguanodon.
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Glorb, a T-rex wouldn't last with Yoshi for even two seconds! Yoshi would eat him right up and turn it into an egg! How can Yoshi not count? If you apparently love Dinosaurs, why don't you like gaming's most popular and most famous Dino?
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When I was little I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Heck, if it weren't for Yoshi, I probably wouldn't have noticed the Mario games as easily.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p2pnet.net%2Fimages%2Fbarney.jpg&hash=a0a554ca005c3abbe3ddd83ca096c31d)
OMG I'm offended you posted that link!!!1! *sarcasm*
I never liked Barney when I was little. He did this to everyone at the preschool one time, except me, who warped away just in time...
Yeah, Yoshi is the only super cool dinosaur that comes to mind. The big old skeletons in museums are cool too, but if you're strictly fantasizing live ones, Yoshi's the only cool one. And a Yoshi skeleton in a museum would be depressing.
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Reptites are good enemies. That is all.
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Yoshi is fine if you're talking about cuddly, harmless, herbivorous, nonoffensive Nintendo mascots. When I think dinosaurs, I think...well, anything besides Yoshi and Barney. Which leaves real dinosaurs. And besides, I've never liked Yoshi too much; to me, at least, he seems to...Pokemon-ish.
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I never liked Barney when I was little. He did this to everyone at the preschool one time, except me, who warped away just in time...
Yeah, Yoshi is the only super cool dinosaur that comes to mind. The big old skeletons in museums are cool too, but if you're strictly fantasizing live ones, Yoshi's the only cool one. And a Yoshi skeleton in a museum would be depressing.
I've heard lots of disturbing stories about Barney. Like how he was shot back stage by an angry parent, or how he put chemicals into the crackers he fed the children. Creepy.
And let's not forget this:
I think my favorite appearance of 666 is as follows"
Barney (You know, the children's TV character) is a CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR.
Now, replacing the u's with v's (like in Rome), you get
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
If you cull all letters not used in the Roman numeral system, you are left with:
CV VL DIV
Add the Arabic equivalents to these together:
100 + 5 + 5 + 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 = 666.
There you go.
*shivers*
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No one mentioned Aerodactyl?
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I was more concerned about EVO: The Search for Eden.
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No one mentioned Aerodactyl?
And in the case of Diamond and Pearl, Cranidos and Shieldon (and their evolved forms). Heh.
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That Barney/666 thing is dumb. You can take anything and make it into 666 if you have enough time to waste. For example, take GEORGE WASHINGTON. If you spell his name like GEO RGE WAS HI and take away the NGTON, and then turn each of the fragments into the number of letters in each fragment, then you get 3 3 3 2. And 333 x 2 is 666! Holy crap!
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You just insulted Insane Steve with that one, Glorb.
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No, I insulted the fact that everyone's always finding 666 in everything, and that everyone's always making up these weird Barney rumors. It's...dumb.
Anyway, dinosaurs.
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Yeah. They're extinct.
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So are pirates, but it's not like there aren't...actually, there really aren't any pirate games anymore. But there should be more dinosaur games.
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If you love dinosaurs so much, why don't you marry them???
... 'cause they're extinct.
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So's your old man! Hmph.
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Pirates aren't extinct. Why, two of them live in my house! My sister's got bootlegged videos of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and I'm here waiting for an opportunity to sneak aboard her computer and copy it. Yes yes, we'll see it many more times in theaters and get it on DVD when it's released... /me downloads some ROMs
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You mean, the really crappy pirated versions with the sounds of coughing, sneezing, and talking still in it?
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It's a pirated movie about pirates! Har!
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I knew of a guy on another forum that had a pirated Cars.
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The pirated edition should have been called Carrrrs.
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I just noticed something. There's no ninjas on the internet. Or are there...
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How do you ninja something on the Internet?
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Well, there's ninja-looting...like outbidding someone on eBay at the last second...
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The pirated edition should have been called Carrrrs.
There's also the upcoming sequel to Sid Meier's: Pirates!..
Sid Meier's: Ninjas!
Edit: mispelled Sid's name
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If that's real, Sid Meier stole my idea.
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Was it you that came up with that? I remember reading it somewhere, that somebody was making fun of the possible sequel to Pirates!. I guess it was here.
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I never posted it here.
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As one of my friends put it, Disney supports piracy!
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Disney also supports making tons of unnecessary sequels. I mean, c'mon. Cinderella 3? We didn't even need 2. They're just as bad as whoever the heck is in charge of Land Before Time (which, like I said earliar in this topic, ruined the image that dinosaurs had).
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The Land Before Time was awesome before it got all those sequels.
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The Land Before Time is terrible. It's one of the reasons why everyone thinks dinosaurs are for little kids. That's like saying lions are for kids.
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The first Land Before Time was fine. Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing it right now. The sequels, however, were ridiculous. Especially after VII when they stopped using numbers. It's like they're embarrassed by how many they made.
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The first Land Before Time was one of my favorite movies as a kid. The first few sequels were okay, since the first movie did kinda lead to some adventures in the Great Valley, but after so many sequels, things just got ridiculous, like Chicky said. But, I like Chompy, and I did want to know more about the Great Valley.
Heh. I remember a time when I thought sequels were one of the absolute best things ever. Boy, was I a fool. I'm not necessarily saying sequels are bad (Heck I LOVE Shrek 2, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest, and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door [and SPM if that counts]. I haven't seen Shrek the 3rd or PotC: At World's End yet. :( )
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I'm surprised they're making a Rush Hour 3.
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I'm surprised(and delighted) they made all those Pokemon movies that I enjoy so much.
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What does that have to do with dinosaurs?
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Don't ask me. I'm not the one who started a movie sequel discussion in the dinosaur thread.
Back on topic: dinosaurs.
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Calvin thinks they're awesome. Also, they're extinct.
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Don't ask me. I'm not the one who started a movie sequel discussion in the dinosaur thread.
Back on topic: dinosaurs.
That might've been me when I mentioned The Land Before Time. My bad.
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I wonder if a dinosaur was alive today...............would he have a Big Mac?
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It's Tyrannosaurus Allen!