Some games are so bad, they actually become good, Dinosaur Hunt: Africa Contract is not one of those games.
People recently said they liked me pointing out really terrible games, so here I am doing a service to you. Don't even think about buying Dinosaur Hunt: Africa Contract.
Why? It's just so terrible that it goes past being funny.
The animations are awful, the dinosaurs are lumbering morons with really quite bad animations that clip through everything, and I'm pretty damn sure they were simply taken straight out of a Unity asset pack and lumped into a game.
The gameplay is simply atrocious too. All you do is wander around a poorly designed map, kill a couple dinosaurs with very basic AI that fall over themselves and call it a day.
If anyone tells me I am wrong here, they're lying. This is easily #1 on the "worst game of the year" list for me, but what can you expect for £0.79.
The developer pretty much says how bad it is right on the Steam store:
QuoteLet's be CLEAR, this is NOT some high-budget, flashy, top-notch, sterling, tip-top, A1, top-drawer, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, top-hole quality production.
If you are looking for AAA quality, ace & crack, top-grade Dinosaur Survival MultiPlayer Open World Game, with millions of details, whatever, there are better positions out there, so please move on - DO NOT BUY IT.
The maps are an unfinished mess, you can literally walk right off the map into the abyss and game over. I mean there's nothing at the edges of maps, they just quite literally end.
You may wonder why I'm covering it? Is it just to tell you not to buy it? Mostly, but there's also something else here. Steam, and why on earth it got put on sale. It's not going to make Valve much money (which is the only reason they want more games), it won't make the developer much money, and all it does it re-enforce my thoughts that Steam is becoming a place for shovelware. I know Valve want to lower the barrier of entry, and they started with Greenlight, but...come on!
This has to be some sort of joke, right? I mean, it's not even in Early Access which would excuse it a tiny bit, but it's being sold as a full game.
You can find Dinosaur Hunt: Africa Contract on Steam. I dare you to buy it. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I have been seriously considering to buy it, but I though I could wait for a sale. For me it looks fun.
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GustyGhost Oct 1, 2015
The developer should just rename it to "Mobile Game Simulator 2015" and everything would be fine.
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Jim Sterling has covered it:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
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For You Liam a NOPE button... you may need it ... :D
Even though I have purchased it before you make the review just to check what I get for that price...
Last edited by wolfyrion on 1 October 2015 at 6:55 pm UTC
Even though I have purchased it before you make the review just to check what I get for that price...
Last edited by wolfyrion on 1 October 2015 at 6:55 pm UTC
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Kimyrielle Oct 1, 2015
Am I missing something here, or wasn't the idea of the Greenlight process to weed out utterly horrible games before they get published?
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Quoting: KimyrielleAm I missing something here, or wasn't the idea of the Greenlight process to weed out utterly horrible games before they get published?
The problem is, people click Yes for anything now, and that's all that is really needed.
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Quoting: KimyrielleAm I missing something here, or wasn't the idea of the Greenlight process to weed out utterly horrible games before they get published?I believe mister Sterling himself said some time ago that there's this new form of shitposting where you go en masse on Greenlight and vote for the worst games possible. Valve considers this a surge in popularity and lets the game through and we lucky customers will have to sail on the crap sea trying to find an island not completely destroyed by an oil spill or radioactive waste.
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Must. Resist. :P
It's seriously tempting to get it just cos it's so bad - like really crap horror movies hehe
Last edited by Slackdog on 1 October 2015 at 8:46 pm UTC
It's seriously tempting to get it just cos it's so bad - like really crap horror movies hehe
Last edited by Slackdog on 1 October 2015 at 8:46 pm UTC
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"All you do is wonder around a poorly designed map"
wonder = wander?
These unity "baby's first games" (As Jim Sterling puts it) are really giving greenlight and unity a bad name...
wonder = wander?
These unity "baby's first games" (As Jim Sterling puts it) are really giving greenlight and unity a bad name...
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rudeboyskunk Oct 2, 2015
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: KimyrielleAm I missing something here, or wasn't the idea of the Greenlight process to weed out utterly horrible games before they get published?
The problem is, people click Yes for anything now, and that's all that is really needed.
I'll be honest. I did this when the Linux client came out. I clicked yes for every Greenlight game that had Linux support and no for every game that didn't just to get more Linux games on Steam. Was it for better or worse? I don't know; but I don't regret doing it.
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