Really Capcom?
If you’re unaware, Exoprimal is Capcom’s online multiplayer game where players do battle with dinosaurs (they’re not called dinosaurs, but they are), and Dino Crisis is a classic survival-horror game from the people behind the Resident Evil series. The first (and lesser extent second) game in the series was very much like Resident Evil, only with dinosaurs instead of zombies. It was as good as it sounds, and the series garnered a hardcore fanbase.
With that contextalization out of the way, you can image that some people were disappointed to see that Exoprimal was not a new entry into the Dino Crisis series, but rather an online game. It’s of course hard to tell from posts on the internet just how much genuine demand (read WILL BUY A NEW GAME AT FULL PRICE) there is for a new Dino Crisis game, but it is undeniable that there is some interest in a return to the series. To my mind it seems strange that Capcom has not put their RE Engine to use on a remake of the original Dino Crisis like they seem all too eager to do with the 32-bit Resident Evil games.
Given the half hearted job Capcom did on the Nemesis remake and coupled with the push they gave the Resident Evil Re: Verse online game, this talk of content for Exoprimal sounds more like a throwing a bone to keep the dogs quiet rather than considering fans.
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’ probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it.
Something I’m doing at the moment? Playing through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection, and all the other mainline Final Fantasy games up 12 on the Switch.
