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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Stupendous Man Oct 2, 2015
Hey, at least it runs on AMD cards!
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Quoting: EikeJim Sterling has covered it:Seems like all the info you need about it. Oh and all the fun you're gonna get from it.
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This reminds me of a buggier version of Trespasser. Even the graphics are comparable.
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Quoting: rudeboyskunkI'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.Having unfinished drivel like this available for Linux does not "further our cause" in any way. Unless you think Linux's success as a gaming platform can be measured by the number of games available on Steam.
Personally I think basically abandoning quality control on Steam is one of Valve's worst blunders thus far. Although how exactly should they fairly judge games for eligibility? Don't know. Don't actually care that much. I do know you can't buy joke games like this on GOG.
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Quoting: tuubiQuoting: rudeboyskunkI'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.Having unfinished drivel like this available for Linux does not "further our cause" in any way. Unless you think Linux's success as a gaming platform can be measured by the number of games available on Steam.
Personally I think basically abandoning quality control on Steam is one of Valve's worst blunders thus far. Although how exactly should they fairly judge games for eligibility? Don't know. Don't actually care that much. I do know you can't buy joke games like this on GOG.
True, but to be fair GOG do not have the absurd amount of games to filter out on their hands, Valve do. There is no way to have a 100% effective quality control of a game. Not to mention quality, when it comes to entertainment products/art is veeeeeery subjective. I guarantee you there are enough people who will be entertained with how hilariously bad this game is :))).
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Quoting: maodzedunI guarantee you there are enough people who will be entertained with how hilariously bad this game is :))).True, but what's new is that jokes like this used to be freeware. I can't believe people are actually willing to pay for this stuff. Although I admit this isn't much of a problem.
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