Posted July 06, 2016
I've been thinking about those two games Bethesda's working on, and I thought it would be super neat if one of them was a sorta pulpy, jungle set game. Think like, exploring Skull Island. Cutting through dense jungle, fighting weird creatures, giant apes, dinosaurs, and finding strange, ancient and vine-choked cities.
But then I thought, why wait and be disappointed when neither game turns out to be anything interesting? What about games that do that setting now? However, I can only think of three, one of which is a mod.
There's the King Kong game based on the 2005 movie. I've heard it's pretty good, actually, there were two PC releases, one based on the PS2 version and one based on the 360 version. It would make a welcome addition to GOG, if Ubisoft ever decided to release more games here and the whole 'based on a movie' thing got resolved.
There's Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire, which along with Martian Dreams I want to like based on the setting and all that, but I find that the... let's say classic controls and UI and all that very hard to grasp.
And finally, there's that jungle mod for Skyrim. It looks really nice, replaces various monster models to more appropriate creatures for the climate and even changes the saturation levels to make it feel warmer than vanilla.
Do any of you know of any others?
Edit: Oh, right, Turok! I've even been playing it lately, no idea how it slipped my mind.
But then I thought, why wait and be disappointed when neither game turns out to be anything interesting? What about games that do that setting now? However, I can only think of three, one of which is a mod.
There's the King Kong game based on the 2005 movie. I've heard it's pretty good, actually, there were two PC releases, one based on the PS2 version and one based on the 360 version. It would make a welcome addition to GOG, if Ubisoft ever decided to release more games here and the whole 'based on a movie' thing got resolved.
There's Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire, which along with Martian Dreams I want to like based on the setting and all that, but I find that the... let's say classic controls and UI and all that very hard to grasp.
And finally, there's that jungle mod for Skyrim. It looks really nice, replaces various monster models to more appropriate creatures for the climate and even changes the saturation levels to make it feel warmer than vanilla.
Do any of you know of any others?
Edit: Oh, right, Turok! I've even been playing it lately, no idea how it slipped my mind.
Post edited July 06, 2016 by doccarnby