It sounds psychopathic to say (especially from a vegetarian), but there's no joy for me in tracking and killing animals that aren't afraid of me. I can't imagine that the intrinsic sense of reward I might get from killing one of these things will be worth the energy. Nothing has convinced me that the thrill of taking down a dino is worth hours of wandering through a boring jungle opening crates. The only useful thing I start with is a GPS to help me find crates, but all the crates I’ve found (except the one with the shotgun) contain health juice and ammo for guns I don’t have.
Stamina is in precious short supply for someone supposedly capable of hunting dinosaurs.Īnd as someone put on this planet to hunt dinosaurs, it's odd that I start with a bow and some unretrievable arrows, which I've found useless. Except for the volcano and a nice-looking lake, I haven’t stumbled across anything more interesting than a smoldering campfire, and getting around takes forever. The island is pretty enough, but there’s nothing exceptional about it. The sound design is spotty: A T-rex's footsteps don't sound like footsteps, and while its roar is terrifying, it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from even with my Roccat Kave 5.1 headset. I'm just not enjoying Primal in its current state. With another hour’s work I might actually manage to shoot a dinosaur dead, but A) what for? and B) no. I’m making good progress, despite the clearly unwalkable incline, and then I slip and bounce down the terrain a bit and die. So, then I decide that walking half-way back around the volcano to get down is dumb, and try to scale the side of it from where I am. First, I’m killed by a Utahraptor.Ī gun! Herah! A shotgun probably isn’t the ideal weapon against dinosaurs, but it’s a start. Getting a workable weapon can’t be too hard, I imagine, as I’m supposed to be the hunter here. There are supply crates scattered throughout this island, and I just have to find the right one without being torn to bits by alien hell lizards. I can’t intuit where my arrows will go, and so I need guidance. As unrealistic as slow arrows or tracer arrows would be, it also isn’t realistic that I live in this world and yet I have no depth perception, don’t know the physical properties of my arrows or bow, and don’t know how hard I’m pulling the bow back. The feedback from shots is a bunch of screen shake, which doesn’t help at all. Did I hit the T-rex? It wouldn’t have mattered if I did, because it’s a fucking T-rex, but as a greater issue, there’s no point taking shots at anything if I have no idea what my range is and what kind of arc I’m looking for. My first issue with theHunter: Primal is that I have no sense of where my arrows are going. The T-rex does not like that, and swiftly murders me, my limbs flopping everywhere under a red glow.
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