July 24, 2023

Exoprimal: A Great Game Pretending To Be Mediocre Garbage (The Jimquisition)

Exoprimal has been written off by many as another "live service" humper of bandwagons, an also-ran that exists to make a quick buck. It's hard to blame them, because that is exactly the kind of trash Exoprimal pretends to be.   

It's actually a rather brilliant bit of fun, and more unique than it appears. Capcom's dinosaur shooter is, however, indicative of a problem we're facing in mainstream gaming - the homogenization of structuring and marketing that makes games look identical even if they aren't.

Exoprimal: A Great Game Pretending To Be Mediocre Garbage (The Jimquisition) (YouTube)

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Liz Jackson · July 27, 2023

That Evolve callback got me, the first video you did on that game was the first video of yours I ever watched!

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fponias · July 25, 2023

I guess I'm too old for this. I can't get invested in these new multiplayer games because I don't have the time or patience to compete with 12 year old trash talkers with infinite free time. I miss the days of Quake where everyone was on a level playing field from the start and I didn't have to grind for countless days in order to get enough gear to stay alive longer than 10 seconds. I gave up on multiplayer around the time of Call of Duty and what you're describing sounds even worse despite the game itself sounding like a lot of fun.

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Don McKay · July 24, 2023

The Destiny cursor is even more boneheaded when you take into account that Destiny wasn't even available on PC, and Destiny 2 was a console first game.

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The Pod is Coming From Inside the Cast! · July 24, 2023

There's not enough Dino Riders representation on the Internet. Thank you Steph.

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alexander gaitan · July 24, 2023

My first thought was 'how is Steph going to get a 25 minute video out of this?'. I was not disappointed. I can only conclude that everything is better with dinosaurs.

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Luna · July 24, 2023

The cursor thing is a blatant violation of Fitts's Law, a tenet of interaction design that we've known about since the sodding *50s*. That's the kind of egregious disregard of institutional knowledge that would make me put a game down immediately. I don't suffer awful interfaces. I do that enough at work, I don't need it in my leisure too.

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The Pod is Coming From Inside the Cast! · July 24, 2023

Cyberpunk 2077 had this problem too, my wife had to stop playing it because the UI confused them so much it gave them sensory overload.