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.
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Comments (7)
That Evolve callback got me, the first video you did on that game was the first video of yours I ever watched!
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.
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.
There's not enough Dino Riders representation on the Internet. Thank you Steph.
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.
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.
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.
