[QUOTE=Alienblue]I owned the Genesis version of Primal rage and it looked like mud, and the sound was like a broken record.
Someday I would like to get the SNES or 32X version. I don't really think of it as a "dinosaur" game though, there are people, it is in the future, and you can play as giant Apes too. More inspired by Rampage I think. (and the long snake-necked "dinosaur" has no real-life corolation).[/QUOTE]
The SNES version is even worse! I literally whipped the AI on the default setting by hitting the heavy punch button over and over without moving. Also, it somehow looks AND sounds worse than the Genny version.
The 32X version is okay, but I'd suggest getting it on PS1/Saturn if you can.
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Viper821
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[quote]I don't have much to add this conversation, but I would just like to say the dinosaur cartoons in Calvin and Hoobs by Watterson are fantastic.
There beautiful, and they perfectly capture the 5 year old idea of a dinsoaur, which is the most interesting kind of dinosaur there is[/quote]
That is so true, both of the greatest comic series of all time and the amazing dinosaur drawings. That's was certainly my childhood visualization of them but I imagine if they were to appear today they wouldn't be viewed as anything special.
[quote]I love when people argue about dinosaurs, evolution, and religion. When it comes to these things, all we can do is guess. Odds are everybody is wrong about everything.[/quote]
Good point. I imagine the truth is beyond our full comprehension and half the fun is trying to make sense of it! If you were to show a modern video game system to the public 20 years ago, people would say that is just a TV image and not physically possible. No doubt 20 years from now people will wonder how we could enjoy the mess that is Playstation 2.
There beautiful, and they perfectly capture the 5 year old idea of a dinsoaur, which is the most interesting kind of dinosaur there is[/quote]
That is so true, both of the greatest comic series of all time and the amazing dinosaur drawings. That's was certainly my childhood visualization of them but I imagine if they were to appear today they wouldn't be viewed as anything special.
[quote]I love when people argue about dinosaurs, evolution, and religion. When it comes to these things, all we can do is guess. Odds are everybody is wrong about everything.[/quote]
Good point. I imagine the truth is beyond our full comprehension and half the fun is trying to make sense of it! If you were to show a modern video game system to the public 20 years ago, people would say that is just a TV image and not physically possible. No doubt 20 years from now people will wonder how we could enjoy the mess that is Playstation 2.
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Alienblue
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It is very true that we can never know exactly what the world of the past was like, we can only theorize by taking known elements and trying to fill in the gaps. The book I am reading puts this to light; in reconstructing skeletons the placement of the front and hind legs must be conjectural, as they were attached by ligaments that do not fossilize! In fact the skeleton of a lion and tiger are virtually identical, and if we only knew them by fossil bones we might say they are the same species!
Still, some things are becoming better understood as more fossils are found. We have fossil skin imprints of Hadrosaurs and know that at least THEIR skin was covered in pebbly scales like a birds foot or crocodile. Thus far skin colour is completely imaginative except for one prehistoric marine reptile: Icthyosaurus. They actually found fossilized skin with some pigment left and know they were light brown. (we are more sure of fossil mammals as we have fossil hair. If you saw ICE AGE you might think Mamoths were redish-brown but in fact they were BLACK. The hair turned brown as it "rusted" or lost the pigmantation.)
But this is good for artists like me, as we can come up with unique colour schemes. I just built and painted a VELOCIRATOR and painted it white with black stripes like a zebra!
Still, some things are becoming better understood as more fossils are found. We have fossil skin imprints of Hadrosaurs and know that at least THEIR skin was covered in pebbly scales like a birds foot or crocodile. Thus far skin colour is completely imaginative except for one prehistoric marine reptile: Icthyosaurus. They actually found fossilized skin with some pigment left and know they were light brown. (we are more sure of fossil mammals as we have fossil hair. If you saw ICE AGE you might think Mamoths were redish-brown but in fact they were BLACK. The hair turned brown as it "rusted" or lost the pigmantation.)
But this is good for artists like me, as we can come up with unique colour schemes. I just built and painted a VELOCIRATOR and painted it white with black stripes like a zebra!
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Did it have the feathers? That wikipedia picture I linked to had dumb-looking green feathers. Black and white would be much cooler.
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Alienblue
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ok, OKAY, I finally read the evidence. According to Cladistical Science, T-rex(and Allosaurus and Gigantosaurus-in fact ALL Carnosauria) are more closely related to birds than to other dinosaurs. T-rex also had keritin on it's snout that doubtless looked like a BEAK, and while the book I have still says evidence points toward it being a hunter, with probable feathers it doubtless DID look like a giant chicken rather than the godzilla like image we grew up with.
Do they realize what they are doing though? THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR CHILDHOOD! Our Sports heroes were wife-beating crackeads, presists and presidents are crooks and sinners, our ancestors invaded the Indians land and killed many species....and T rex was BIG BIRD! There's nothing left to believe in!
I'm going back to Neptune!
(one good thing though, we no longer think dinosaurs were slow and stupid. They had small brains, yes-but the brain is essentialy a computer. A small, handheld PC of 2007 is a zillion times more powerful than ENIAC of the 50's, which took up half a building and had like 1.5K! Einsteins brain was SMALLER than that of a person with an I.Q. of less then 90. Bigger does not mean better. In fact, it seems dino brains got smaller and more compact as they evolved. The moral is, don't try to beat a chicken at chess!)
Do they realize what they are doing though? THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR CHILDHOOD! Our Sports heroes were wife-beating crackeads, presists and presidents are crooks and sinners, our ancestors invaded the Indians land and killed many species....and T rex was BIG BIRD! There's nothing left to believe in!
I'm going back to Neptune!
(one good thing though, we no longer think dinosaurs were slow and stupid. They had small brains, yes-but the brain is essentialy a computer. A small, handheld PC of 2007 is a zillion times more powerful than ENIAC of the 50's, which took up half a building and had like 1.5K! Einsteins brain was SMALLER than that of a person with an I.Q. of less then 90. Bigger does not mean better. In fact, it seems dino brains got smaller and more compact as they evolved. The moral is, don't try to beat a chicken at chess!)
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Alienblue
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ug! I agree on Radical Rex, it sux big time; and my ex-wife loved it which makes me hate it even more! 
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Alienblue
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Okay, since you all seemed interested in our debate, I finished half the book I'm reading and have the full story. It seems that for years it was debated which branch of dinosaurs Tyransauridae (including T.rex and at least 20 other Tyranosaurs) belonged in. CARNOSAURIA included Allosaurus and Giganotosaurus and it was thought these grew bigger, their hands got stubbier and they became Tyrants. But skeletal evidence(long snouts, arched limbs) placed Tyrants closer to Coelasauria. This is important because Coelasaurs were mostly small dinosaurs like Compsognathus, 3 or four feet long. They also still exist...birds are Coelusaurs, and we've long known coelasaurs had feathers. A find in 2006 clinched the debate....GUNALONG was a small(15 foot)Tyranosaur that was the missing link. Tyranosaurs were indeed a branch of Coelasauria, the branch that leads to birds. It is important to note however, that T.rex and other Tyranosaurs DID NOT EVOLVE INTO BIRDS, anymore than monkeys evolved into man! They are closely related, but are a SIDE branch, not a direct line. So yes, baby T.rexes likely had down and the parents likely had feathers on their stubby arms...but there is no doubt they were still ferocious killers! Ok, I hope that is 'nuff said there.
It got me to thinking though, wouldn't it be cool if Big Bird was green and had a beakfull of teeth and ran around Sesamee Street eating little kids? Cool! C'mon, Big Bird could beat the snot out of BARNEY any day!
Back to games....I really enjoyed playing the raptor in Genesis Jurrasic park. Is JP two as good a game? Are there and GOOD GBA JP games (JP3 is awful)? I'd like to play a mean dino again.
If not could someone steer me to a good BIG BIRD game?
It got me to thinking though, wouldn't it be cool if Big Bird was green and had a beakfull of teeth and ran around Sesamee Street eating little kids? Cool! C'mon, Big Bird could beat the snot out of BARNEY any day!
Back to games....I really enjoyed playing the raptor in Genesis Jurrasic park. Is JP two as good a game? Are there and GOOD GBA JP games (JP3 is awful)? I'd like to play a mean dino again.
If not could someone steer me to a good BIG BIRD game?
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If you can stand the awful soundtrack, Sonic and the Secret Rings has a Dinosaur level. You get chased by triceratops at the beginning and you have to avoid a Tyrannosaurus while riding on the backs of apatosaurs. That level really shows off the Wii's graphical capabilities, as the dinos look fantastic. And they're accurate for the most part. They just added spikes and stuff to the T. Rex to make him look scarier.
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Cafeman1
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I was always a big dinosaur fan. When I was a little kid in the 70's, I loved Valley of the Dinosaurs, Land of the Lost, movies like The Last Dinosaur and "Dinosaurus!". The novel and subsequent film Jurassic Park were highpoints to me. I love the JP-theme of dinosaurs -- they are even more vicious, faster, more intelligent than ever guessed! Dino games that I can remember:
I think the first game was Jurassic Park, by SEGA, on the Genesis. This game reflects the suspenseful JP feeling quite well. A friend and I played the raft stage (omitted from the film, but a high point of the novel) for a long time until we finally beat it. For some reason, the sequel JP: Rampage edition seems too much like a run-n-gun to me and I didn't enjoy it as much.
On SNES, the Jurassic Park game is more impressive with its top-down display and first-person, but I never finished it. THe dino's look a bit too cartoonish to me and I just didn't enjoy that type of game as much as the Genny version.
I played Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World on Sega Saturn. It was a cool rental but too one-dimensional and glitchy to buy. Now I wish I had indeed bought it, perhaps the PSX "enhanced" version (there were 2 versions, the 2nd evidently fixed some glitches) , just to try it out now & then.
I have Dino Crisis on the Dreamcast. It is a pretty unsettling, scary game at times. I never finished it though -- I'm just not a Resident-Evil-style type of gamer and Dino Crisis is based on that kind of game. The puzzles started to drive me crazy. Maybe I will replay it this winter.
I missed a lot of games in the PS2-GCN-Xbox years so I never played Operation genesis. I think I might enjoy it but I haven't seen a copy on the shelves.
I think the first game was Jurassic Park, by SEGA, on the Genesis. This game reflects the suspenseful JP feeling quite well. A friend and I played the raft stage (omitted from the film, but a high point of the novel) for a long time until we finally beat it. For some reason, the sequel JP: Rampage edition seems too much like a run-n-gun to me and I didn't enjoy it as much.
On SNES, the Jurassic Park game is more impressive with its top-down display and first-person, but I never finished it. THe dino's look a bit too cartoonish to me and I just didn't enjoy that type of game as much as the Genny version.
I played Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World on Sega Saturn. It was a cool rental but too one-dimensional and glitchy to buy. Now I wish I had indeed bought it, perhaps the PSX "enhanced" version (there were 2 versions, the 2nd evidently fixed some glitches) , just to try it out now & then.
I have Dino Crisis on the Dreamcast. It is a pretty unsettling, scary game at times. I never finished it though -- I'm just not a Resident-Evil-style type of gamer and Dino Crisis is based on that kind of game. The puzzles started to drive me crazy. Maybe I will replay it this winter.
I missed a lot of games in the PS2-GCN-Xbox years so I never played Operation genesis. I think I might enjoy it but I haven't seen a copy on the shelves.
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