 Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of we're gonna look at dinosaur games that are coming out critique them and hopefully not build ourselves up too much because that is what we are as a community mostly known for doing. So let's not let's address the elephant in the room first we've had our sort of lackluster dinosaur games come to us. Mesozoica has been the first one that comes to mind. However there have been two new trailers released a trailer released for a game that has been announced like a whole year ago they've done another trailer so I'm quite eager to see how that one looks now because out of all of the games that were coming out that I was oh I was expecting it was on the lower end so with that one what we'll do is watch the original trailer probably go over why I think it might not be the best but then we go to the new trailer which I hope will prove me wrong because that's what I want I want all these games to turn out amazing but at the same time I can't act like I haven't been disappointed in the past you know not only mesoca the stomping lands as well luckily before my time as a youtuber but it still was a thing and you know we also had that dinosaur documentary Stephen Fry not to long ago it was again a very big disappointment but we are entering the uncharted territory of Jurassic worldless universe just rewind quickly 2015 there were a bunch of different dinosaur games that were announced around about 2015 mesoca being one of them because of the hype of Jurassic world you know dinosaurs were coming back to the mainstream audiences were hungry for a new dinosaur game to sink their teeth into little did we know the only one we would really get is Jurassic world evolution one and two aside from Jurassic world the game and Jurassic world live which were app games eight years eight freaking years since the first movie to the last movie of the Jurassic world franchise we only got basically four games and two of them were the same that being Jurassic world evolution one two basically um but now hopefully studios have had the time to take for their their games and make good ones and not rush them out because I'm not counting mesoca that did come out during the rush but that was 100 what it was it was a rushed product and it didn't last even a month I don't think before it was discontinued that's enough of me telling you what I thought let's see what you think of the trailer there we go yes so right off the bat gorgeous I mean these these days you cannot fault games they will always look a beautiful especially if they're an unreal engine or a cry engine whatever this is so setting some scenes some nice shots again gorgeous environment can't fault it at all am I in temple I wish I hadn't come here for this okay this is gonna be a theme of some pre-star games going for the tribal thing um okay some FPS a bit in gold open swimming gate some ominous k paintings with dinosaurs humans live alongside the maybe a please your soul apply a pile of sore whatever you want to call it in the water a safety cap because I don't know some unfettered raptors of course we had toast a second ago for all this death a robin moldoon shot there homage to dress park to do it all again a thalassio for brother type what you have done and there it is distinction now that was a highly rated uh trailer when it came out everyone was losing their mind over it um and of course me and loads of other dinosaur youtubers you know we we uh we looked at it watched it with bated breath but really I just want to break down what does this trailer say about the game apart from it looking gorgeous um because this really is just a movie piece but what assets do we see in here that prove that maybe we're in for something good well we have bats flying which is just one animation that they just repeat we have an interesting setting with some Mayan things not really my bag if I'm going to say it kind of reminds me of trespasser like trespasser was this you know dress park lost world game that came out for the pc first person female protagonist um we'll not talk about the boobs because that was weird uh if you know what I'm talking about you know what I'm talking about um but it had also a link to the uh the tribe or prized indigenous people who lived on a sauna before engine took control and the aisle kind of does a bit of that um it had tribals it was going to have tribals god knows um and this is kind of doing a similar thing but the only dinosaurs we see that move properly is this sucomymus bionics and throughout the entire time it's just doing one walk animation so they've got the model they've animated walking that's it and when it comes to actual gameplay uh we just see this one well there's two shots I think this one being of a gun shooting at the sucomymus which doesn't even have any hate effect no damage the sucomymus doesn't even acknowledge this it is literally just they've set up the scene the uh sucomymus is walking and the gun shoots at it or the guy or the camera shoots at it and that's it the the suko would just keep on walking forever till it ran off a cliff I'd imagine and again this is a year old I'm just telling you my thoughts um with this weird uh I don't know what you want to call it the the gold medallion which is a bit like part of the Caribbean the the forbidden treasure I'd imagine but it opens a door and this unlocks secrets I assume to a lost world um and then you've got some k paintings over there this is a weird shot and and I can only imagine that they put it in the trailer because hey look we're gonna have aquatics hey hey like that it's just like well great have it but have it do something and this is a lot this happens a lot with the dinosaurs or creatures in this where they just hear and they don't do much the blyasaurus here the saber tooth cats here I can only imagine it's it's just it's a bit like when dominion put in the dimetrodon to try and hype up spider fanboys uh remember that scene from just about three maybe they'll have a spider and then it wasn't but maybe you know we still have yet to see how this game develops and we have another trailer to check out as well a lot of the dinosaurs or just on the idle animations like this one I think this raptor here and also this raptor uh they both do the same animations they both turn their head and do a shake or something if you watch carefully so they're also yeah see or maybe they're no they're animated separately but again basically it just feels very staged to me anyway the other scene this scene here especially where you do have a first person but when they're moving they're not moving of course the game's not out yet it's still a lot still a lot of polish to put into your game but at the same time why show in the trailer if it's not you know if it doesn't look good and if you're gonna show actual gameplay show actual gameplay um the only thing I can think of is that they didn't really have too much to show but they had a deadline and they had to meet it possibly I mean that's just me speculating but again you have these raptors come towards the camera and they don't really do anything they just kind of go uh there you go and then we cut to another a shot that maybe it's exactly gameplay footage but to me it seems like they've added a few little uh touches to make it look even better here and there but again we just have a flying dinosaur because showing that we are gonna have flying dinosaurs I really don't know especially if you look closely at this uh this thalasso whatever it's called um it's leg it's gonna be really long in the back I think what they've done is they posed it in a way that looks cool but you know so it's not real gameplay footage anyway to me it felt very staged I'd love to be proved wrong and now we're gonna take a look at the latest trailer with hopefully I'm wanting to see some actual gameplay I'm wanting to see some actual just some AI you know some some of the the dinosaurs actually being controlled by something or maybe chasing you or looking around doing their actual animations that you would see in game here we go so this is the one they've just released now um this is alpha footage okay very slow diablo seratops right so we're actually seeing some gameplay footage now right so a time travel thing why are we lingering on that shot so much why do we get a drop okay okay I mean do I need to say much else everything that I basically said about the oh god those funds man what a dare double space to play it oh my god what how many funds do you want to have oh no no no no no no no that just proved everything like this this was basically this came out I think the other day a whole year after that previous trailer so I was expecting to see some really good progress but if we if we just go through it again some more like it says does this one say pre-alpha footage no this one doesn't say pre-alpha footage although it sort of comes up there we've got this person walking over their very floaty footsteps so it seems to me that they're just doing a walk cycle and they just moved it across so again it's not really I mean it's filmed in engine but it doesn't feel real it doesn't feel like there's a person with a controller on that it's just they've stuck the camera on the model and then look they have like free run with the camera they've just pointed it down this Diablo seratops I mean I'm sorry about the the crazy bit right here when I'm pausing it all the time it's very slow again it seems like whoever is in control of this production is focusing way more on the shots rather than showing us an actual game I don't know about you again we're seeing loads of dinosaurs uh like an eucalyptus are there for what reason uh no reason it's just doing a raw aqua sir aqua sir gliding so effortlessly and then we just have a crocodile like what are we looking at here why did you put this in a trailer it's like oh yeah we made a crocodile great um what are you what are you trying you trying to tell me we have a crocodile great but it's not even animated and it's not even in any scene what are you I might be only want to see like yeah I mean some of this is cool but again we're seeing lovely models lovely environment but no actual gameplay this is a game I mean you could say oh well I reload a thing I don't know about you I'm like I said I come from a little bit of a jaded perspective where we have been taken advantage of in the past and hype has gotten out of control and then before we know it the rugs pulled and we're left with an unfinished game um I was I was really hoping to see something here that would just cement in my mind that this is going to be really cool at this time thing when we're going back in time to all different universes where like oh there's a carnitaurus there and I mean yes look at they're pre alpha footage showing us this beautiful eggs uh rendered tribal stone or rock with um I don't know it's a lovely hand with blood and it's very well textured but to me that looks like this has just been made for this one scene maybe it's not maybe the game is beautiful and for some odd reason they're not showing me what I need to see to really believe this is going to be great and what we will do we're going to look at some other dinosaur games that I personally feel are more promising because of what they've shown not to say that they're better than this just trailer wise definitely there's also a new game we're going to look at after this as well as just being um released and this scene as well again they love this slow mo epic shots I get what they're trying to do it and one thing I want to uh say here is that the audio that the actual soundtrack itself is beautiful but I don't think the images and footage used for it really fits now the guy who makes the audio I did look this up it's um say I looked it up and then I lost him Darrell that's it Darrell Darrell has done some absolutely beautiful uh remixes of Jurassic music and I'm curious as to whether the people who made this game saw him make the Jurassic Park orchestral remixes and Jurassic World orchestral remixes and went we basically want you to make that for our game because just do that for that and there's a couple of people that I I follow who make music Theo Fanny is one of them beautiful musician and uses like real instruments and everything like that for the woodwind and it's it's I it's out of this world honestly um but for this one you you have I I get what he's trying to do what he's been told it sounds like they went this remix that you did for Jurassic World make it into this make it fit for this but this shot as well is I like what do you show me you'll show me a sauropod and it leans up and that's it and that's supposed to be the big like the drop of the music happens and everything and then yet I I'm assuming you know none of the modelers of the dinosaurs had anything to do with this shot in particular this is the guy an editor who put this all together possibly even the main guy behind it I assume I don't know uh just was like okay well we need to say it's on steam go to the website and you can play test it um I feel like after making this video they're gonna be very don't let him anywhere do hey if you want to turn a critic into a believer I'm all I'm more than happy but I don't know leave in the comments guys what you think about this um but before we move on to the newest trailer that's been released I do want to showcase another dinosaur game that is in production that has a similar vibe but from the trailers anyway for me I think it's shown a lot more promise now very possible that this um doesn't have a better title this is called the lost wilds if you remember it very similar to the aisle you've got this um like abandoned tech facility but already we've got animations that feel like they're actually interacting with the environment here you've definitely got some body like this looks like gameplay it feels like gameplay might not be but it feels like it and that could be very scripted event yes but I don't know just something about this this came out 10 months ago two months after Instinction came out um and it's I don't know it feels like yeah they're definitely this is pre-alpha footage definitely that it says it in the actual trailer itself but already I'm seeing gameplay elements I'm seeing what to expect from this you've got inventory you've got like how to avoid dinosaurs you've got a lot of information being thrown your way in such a short period of time the lost wild I mean maybe they're going to do more I'm not too much of a fan of the tile but it definitely just has that polish to it and not long after they published this they also published trailer so here we go this is the actual trailer these both came out in quick succession but I don't know I feel like Instinction actually got a budget from Epic like a grant I don't know if this one maybe it was this one of them did but it definitely feels like this this looks like a cutscene 100% with that hand but this out of both of them if I was to be honest this one seems the more promising it looks so good it feels as though I'm watching a movie I don't know if I've actually seen this one I think I've only seen the other one of the Alasaw I've played a lot of indie dinosaur horror games and it feels like it's one of those except for it's had a lot of polish put on it and a lot of work interesting that they're focusing on one sort of dinosaur they're focusing on the Alasaw there might be another one in there and that's a bet yeah okay they made a better better logo now they put like the islands in or something I think maybe that's what these are but anyway looks a lot better I don't mean to compare I just for me personally I don't know I don't know I leave the comments tell me what you think but there is another dinosaur game that's like came out of nowhere and it's called ferocious I think it is but we'll have a quick look at that trailer and now that we've got a good background of maybe you know games that are coming out the look promising let's have a look at how this one compares right here is ferocious pc gaming show in-game footage work in progress oh very hey everyone my name is Leo and I'm the lead developer of a new action adventure game ferocious oh okay I began working on ferocious a few years ago with the idea of creating your first person shooter in timeless lost world type of setting combining all the top action with exploration and the sense of wonder looks like oh okay animation could do this slowly we were always inspired by mysterious places frozen time that you may have seen in movies like king kong and Jurassic park the end of the setting is a new gameplay opportunities with classic first person shooter mechanics similar to early installments of franchise like file crying crisis the flexibility of a unity engine allows us to create unique solutions to some environmental features such as custom water effects and realistic vegetation like god looks like the same as in fiction you can also scan the tank crafted assets you create a world both scary and beautiful however there are some things waiting for you in a jungle that we couldn't find any reward references for soviet improvise oh interesting yeah very excited as I am feel free to wishlist and follow the game on steam as well what when the hell is this coming out okay so nice that we've got some like a developer it seems talking us through this and they actually admit that they've been very inspired by stuff like king kong because this it looks as though they've taken the king kong game that came out as well as turrock that you know that one I played where it was all about quick time events and wolf pack and all that jazz this scene alone it looks like they he just really really liked the scene from the king kong when they land on the island and we get stuck because you got a boat knocked against the uh the rocks there not that it's unoriginal but you got crabs which is interesting because when you think of a dinosaur game you don't think let's put in giant crabs but the king kong game actually had giant crabs so here we go not only easy referencing stuff like skull island and things like that but you've also got giant crabs I don't want crabs leave me alone um so more than just a little bit of inspiration there I feel but we're seeing a lot of gameplay here a lot of things being like you're shooting your gun things are reacting to your gun being shot um yeah looking really promising but the fact that this is just kind of came out out of nowhere and you can put it on your wish list let's have a look I'm curious they'll quickly go and steam and just see when this thing's supposed to come out right okay so it's publisher is tiny build but the developer has no other titles behind them but yeah I mean this shot like that shot right there skull island 100 score I don't know what kinds of dinosaurs these are supposed to be probably not supposed to be any particular dinosaurs I assume maybe like a patasaur or something like that uh brontosaurus god knows um but again I'm not really seeing too much here it could very easily go the same way instinctions going and going we're going tribal we're going back to freaking Aztec Mayan ruins or something of a similar ilk uh and then you've got two ways you got let's go prehistoric or let's go futuristic and mess with uh genetics um and this is with the two ways that the dinosaur game seemed to go the isles very much genetics um the lost wilds is genetics and then all prehistoric extinction and now ferocious uh we're going to link it in with some voodoo magic or god knows what else anyway I just wanted to showcase this um because it's very interesting that we're getting these games coming out now and they're all very kind of similar they're all running on beautiful engines they're all into like overgrown uh facilities or places with dinosaurs now um but for me if I was to rank them I'd probably put uh the lost wilds up top possibly then ferocious then followed by extinction there are other dinosaur games remember we had the left the dead dinosaur uh game that was announced a long time ago I can't remember what it was called now that was it it was death ground I think yeah the one with the t-rex that rolls in the uh when you're in the car but that I mean you know we've been waiting for that for a long time now and I don't think I've really seen any new things yeah oh my god the death ground trailer came up no hold on I'm just gonna put this up here hold on the death ground trailer came out two friggin years ago and had the old like you know raptors there and yeah I think they've done a couple of things but seems that they're just working on this other game gunjam um but there here we go and then eight days ago from go you know go from a year to eight days ago all they've showcased is a raptor teaser like the new model hopefully they're working on it hopefully but are they posting news on here is is the question that's a year ago damn within a year they've only posted four updates anyway guys I don't know how much there really is left to say when it comes to these dinosaur games you've got to be incredibly careful you know uh these games that aren't going to Kickstarter I don't think Instinction is or any of the other ones like ferocious or into the wilds seem to have the most promise it always feels like when I see a dinosaur game on Kickstarter or Indiegogo with the exception of Path of Titans actually which I was very hesitant about to start with but then it turned out to be really good um but when I always see them go to a Kickstarter it doesn't feel it doesn't fill me with confidence and I think death ground is is showcasing to me that yeah that um that was not a good idea uh hopefully fingers crossed they're you know they'll come out with a trailer and it'll be amazing or something maybe they'll an upcoming release date tbc um but anyway guys I just want to put it out there because you know it's always fun looking at these new dinosaur games and speculating wondering what they could be but also we have to err on the side of caution a lot of the times because let's be honest if there's people out there who want to make a quick buck and if they all they have to do is just put together a pretty trailer for a dinosaur game then they'll do it and unfortunately we've all learned our lessons I think hopefully well there you guys have enjoyed the video leave a like and until next time I'll see you guys later oh bye bye