Quick Look: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013

@Phatmac said:

Man is the most dangerous animal.

Hey! Put a spoiler tag on that :o

@Lavs said:

Time for some dangerous motherfucking hunting! I hope you fuckers are ready for some hunting because this shit is

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Linux games because for one there's like twenty of them and for another thing like everything on Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever is broken as fuck.

Yes hunting is dangerous but since i only hunt using traditional weapons the Woomera the spear so those issues do not affect me in anyway.

So wait...Vinny is the huntsman?

do you mean...

Oh, thank god. When Vinny started fighting the "marksman target", the pre-start music to TNT started playing, no one was acknowledging it, and I thought I was going crazy.

It turns out I just had TNT on in another tab.

Fuck hunters, but thank god we have Vinny to protect us from dangerous Rhinos.

"Why did you become a park ranger?"

"Because I fucking hate animals. All of them."

@Vinny - Hey man, why is your heart rate so high? I hope that thing adds like an extra 50 beats per minute to your regular heart rate.

The perfect duo for this QL and I'm glad Vinny was playing. So many Hyenas to kill during that mission it was comical. Easy seems to be super easy too. No way anyone could take that kind of abuse and still be standing. The fear sensor thing didn't seem to come into play all that much either. Kind of liked the vital organ shot system but it seems like it could make the game even easier than it already is.

this was an uncomfortable QL all the animal noises off screen and the charging rhino showdown. I was actually feeling tense.

this does not look like a quality product.

Everything else aside, this game seems to really have no sense of what it wants to be. For most of the QL it seems like the game was carefully wrapped in several layers of PR-knitting clothes; the protagonist is a 'ranger being attacked by hyenas' not just some guy hunting them, his memories of hunting are directly tied into family bonding, and even 'ManEater Mode' deftly picks the phrase 'hunt all animals' instead of the more natural-sounding 'kill all animals'. There's not even any blood.

And then they have a literal Shooting Gallery mode where the job is to shoot anything that moves, slaughtering wildlife by the dozens (by the hundreds if you're good enough). So much for PR.

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

"A nice, relaxed, butt-steady grip..."

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

i'm glad they're not up to your standards since i get to revel in your misdirected butthurt.

Damn close the ballot voting. What we have here is Game of the Year .

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

They're not MLG pros like you.

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

I would counter-argue that if 3 people who just pick the game up for the first time don't understand what it's trying to say, the presentation design fails at it's job. It's clearly not that obvious if all of them don't get what it's saying.

If there's not going to be any text saying the goal, then the job of the UI is to make it obvious. And I can agree that if I was just presented that screen right away, I'd have no idea what it was trying to put across.

This is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

It's coming straight for us!

"You can evade incoming animal attacks by dodging them."

What about Cyberdemons?

And I know that announcer! It's SSF4's announcer/Iron Tager/Malik Ceaser's VA.

I guess Bungie learnt their lesson, don't fuck with Cabela's.

Sick topaz ring

I'm pretty sure one shot to the face from a Desert Eagle would kill any of these animals LOL

If this was a Dinosaur game, I would totally buy it.

Look at that deer, It's coming right for us!

@umbaglo said:

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

I would counter-argue that if 3 people who just pick the game up for the first time don't understand what it's trying to say, the presentation design fails at it's job. It's clearly not that obvious if all of them don't get what it's saying.

If there's not going to be any text saying the goal, then the job of the UI is to make it obvious. And I can agree that if I was just presented that screen right away, I'd have no idea what it was trying to put across.

Yeah, I didn't get what was going on either at first when it just went rewind-city for the first time, but by the 3rd time it was pretty clear. I could understand if Vinny was too busy trying to shoot the stuff going by, but Ryan could have been paying a bit more attention. But really, I'm sure they were all just fed up with it and only still playing for site content by that point and probably just didn't care. That's ok too I guess, as most people will just find it funny.

Terrible.

Man this game looks awful, it's like someone saw The Grey and went "Hey, let's make our story mode that, but awful". What a total piece of...

@Dagbiker said:

If this was a Dinosaur game, I would totally buy it.

... actually, you're right. God damn it, I am shallow.

Kill nature! KILL NATURE!

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

Kill nature! KILL NATURE!

...is this by chance a 4pp reference cause that's the first thing that came to mind

Eighty buck hunter.

"He's eating your buddy."

"Oh, that's okay."

@BlackSymbiote said:

@umbaglo said:

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

I would counter-argue that if 3 people who just pick the game up for the first time don't understand what it's trying to say, the presentation design fails at it's job. It's clearly not that obvious if all of them don't get what it's saying.

If there's not going to be any text saying the goal, then the job of the UI is to make it obvious. And I can agree that if I was just presented that screen right away, I'd have no idea what it was trying to put across.

Yeah, I didn't get what was going on either at first when it just went rewind-city for the first time, but by the 3rd time it was pretty clear. I could understand if Vinny was too busy trying to shoot the stuff going by, but Ryan could have been paying a bit more attention. But really, I'm sure they were all just fed up with it and only still playing for site content by that point and probably just didn't care. That's ok too I guess, as most people will just find it funny.

I still have no idea what was happening...

@Manhattan_Project:

I think you're supposed to hit a certain score threshold or you're sent back to the beginning of the area to try again. Likely there's some way to get a multiplier or something that he wasn't doing because he was shooting a lot of shot and only wound up with ~400 each attempt.

WHY?

Ryan should be ashamed of himself calling the alpha Hyena a he. It's the females that are the biggest. They even have a penis, lol.

I found the amount of widespread animal murder to be kind of hilarious.

For some reason, this game just makes me think of Resident Evil. Something about the tone and pacing.

@calumlittle said:

Ryan should be ashamed of himself calling the alpha Hyena a he. It's the females that are the biggest. They even have a penis, lol.

Please, pseudo-penis.

Nice, gentle, relaxed but steady grip, huh? >.<

Fuck this game

all around

@Rabid619 said:

Man this game looks awful, it's like someone saw The Grey and went "Hey, let's make our story mode that, but awful". What a total piece of...

@Dagbiker said:

If this was a Dinosaur game, I would totally buy it.

... actually, you're right. God damn it, I am shallow.

I would also buy a dinosaur version of this. :D

@HulkHanson said:

The proper Cabela hunting games are actually ok, I had quite a bit of fun with them yonks ago sneaking through the woods 360 no scoping the local fauna. This however is total garbage and should not exist.

Unfortunately Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 is a "proper" release. Apart from the branding, it's developed by Cauldron Ltd., one of the two main franchise developers.

Source: http://www.giantbomb.com/cabelas/62-80/

@Junpei said:

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

Kill nature! KILL NATURE!

...is this by chance a 4pp reference cause that's the first thing that came to mind

Yes it was. That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw Vinny killing some ani...everything.

@Manhattan_Project said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

@umbaglo said:

@Skanker said:

@BlackSymbiote said:

I'm stunned out often they don't seem to know what basic screen displays mean. You know, like score that goes down as you kill things and your own score goes up... maybe that means that's how much you have left? Oy.

Basic game design quite frequently eludes the Giant Bomb crew. They're not very good at games.

I would counter-argue that if 3 people who just pick the game up for the first time don't understand what it's trying to say, the presentation design fails at it's job. It's clearly not that obvious if all of them don't get what it's saying.

If there's not going to be any text saying the goal, then the job of the UI is to make it obvious. And I can agree that if I was just presented that screen right away, I'd have no idea what it was trying to put across.

Yeah, I didn't get what was going on either at first when it just went rewind-city for the first time, but by the 3rd time it was pretty clear. I could understand if Vinny was too busy trying to shoot the stuff going by, but Ryan could have been paying a bit more attention. But really, I'm sure they were all just fed up with it and only still playing for site content by that point and probably just didn't care. That's ok too I guess, as most people will just find it funny.

I still have no idea what was happening...

Neither do i. Initially I thought the goal was to shoot a specific type of animal and not shoot others, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The scoring screen at the end implies that it wants you to kill everything so...??

edit--- I see. the game says "use the shotgun for birds and small game". It never actually says, you don't score points unless you use the appropriate gun. That is very unclear.

I don't know I find this game more despicable than any gory silly FPS game.

Kinda not okay with this.

I feel cheated that this isn't coming out the same day as Halo 4.... it's tradition

Holy shit those hyenas are the size of grizzly bears.

I like how it says 'defend the injured civilian'. I half expect the hunter to shout 'tango down' to mark each slaughtered bit of wildlife.