Hey everyone! Thank you all for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video. This is my first time uploading a Carnivores video. It's not my usual type of upload but I'll probably make a few more. I really enjoyed the process of making this video, and I think Carnivores has some really great worldbuilding to work off of.
James, this reminded me of a game I played as a kid !! I would have been on apple devices back in 2014 or so, and I think it was a paid game? I remember it being a dinosaur game, but forgot whether you were a dinosaur or a human, but I remember all the dinosaurs were kind of creepy and black. There was a volcano you could go into. I loved this game and hope someone might recognize what I'm talking about !!
Holy shit, you have reawakened a core memory in my childhood. I haven’t thought about this game in years, I didn’t even know the name but I remember playing it on my dad’s old PC. Man what a throwback, i need to check this out now that i have a name to look for.
I really like how they purposely used outdated depictions of dinosaurs as a basis for the aliens. It definitely gives the games their own feel to them. It makes the convergent evolution more believable because realistically these things wouldn’t look exactly like earth dinosaurs since they indipendantly evolved to fill a lot of the same niches utilizing similar body plans. Too bad the reboot just uses Jurassic Park designs and lacks the character of the original games. It would be cool if you did make some videos covering the extended/mod lore and different fan theories. It would’ve been cool if the reboot were to canonize some of those as a way to expand the world, while still keeping it true to the spirit of the old games. This was definitely interesting. Great video.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn't have put it better myself. The designs of the creatures in Carnivores are one of my favourite parts of the game. I don't think I've seen any other dinosaur media that intentionally uses inaccurate dinosaurs for artistic purposes without just being wilfully ignorant or anything. I think the old designs would have looked cool in the Reborn style and yeah I don't really like the Jurassic Park designs of that game. I'll definitely make some more videos talking about the extended lore of the mods. I think I'll start off with the Middle Islands mod which expands upon the lore of Carnivores Cityscape and gives an explanation as to why the dinos in that game looked way differently.
I can kind of see waht they were trying to do with the designs in the reboot. When the original Carnivores came out those old outdated 60s designs used were 30+ years old and now in the 2020s, those Jurassic Park 90s design are also becoming 30+ years old and are now also outdated. The 60s designs were better though, as they do feel more alien than the 90s designs.
Thank you Saurian! Glad you enjoyed it. I might make a Delphaeus Hills Ghouls video following this, or perhaps one looking at the extended lore from the mods.
"Aliens would have evolved completely different from life on Earth." I appreciate you making the distinction, because you're right, they're neither dinosaurs or animals, but don't sweep it under the rug how intense the convergent evolution is between the two planets. Sure, in the real world, that's the point, but in-universe, the fact that these aliens with no relation to Earthlings whatsoever independently evolved to look like this is kind of amazing and worth attention. Of course, plenty of sci-fi stories do stuff like this all the time, like Star Trek aliens just being humans but different colors or w/e, but it's still kind of amazing to think about what that means for xenobiology in the stories where it happens.
Real dinosaurs would probably look extremely different than the organisms of FMM-UV 32. But yeah the convergent evolution is still really evident. Especially with the plants in the game which are basically Earth plants as well as the mammals in Ice Age. Perhaps it's because of how similar the planet's conditions are to Earth's conditions; similar moon, similar size, temperature, etc... And convergent evolution like this doesn't even seem that farfetched considering what has happened with animals like the shark, dolphin, and icthyosaur. I think Carnivores manages to strike a really great balance between still being considered a dinosaur/prehistoric hunting series while also letting you remember you're on an alien planet in the future. Unfortunately the remakes really throw this out the window by going for generic maps and the almost Jurassic Park style creature designs. Thanks for the comment by the way, I like reading ones like this.
@@BackToBackJames Or maybe aliens visited Earth millions of years ago and took samples of the flora and fauna to deposit on other worlds. Yes, in more recent years, scientists have come to the conclusion that real dinosaurs probably looked very different from the classic depictions of them, but that wasn't so much the case when the original games were made. So an argument could be made that these were the evolution of dinosaurs taken from Earth.
@@lurkerrekrulThat argument makes zero sense since in 90s was the time more accurate depictions of dinosaurs became more widely known thanks to Jurassic Park, the game uses a older style remarking more to the 70s by choice.
@@CoracaoAcidental98You have a really good point. The depiction of dinosaurs in Carnivores is still very different from what they were thought to have looked like in the 90s. Carnivores came out 5 years after Jurassic Park. The retro styled dinosaurs in the game are definitely a deliberate artistic choice.
The biological definition of an animal is a multicellular eukaryote with an internal digestive system. Any alien that is multicellular with a stomach is an animal.
Carnivores 2 was the first video game I remember playing, on my dad's pc probably around 99/2000. It absolutely blew my mind and it remains the most nostalgic game of all time for me I haven't played in years and randomly remembered it when I woke up today, I love that there's such a dedicated community to this day ❤ stay safe out there hunters
My buddy Jake loved this game when we were in middle school to highschool. He showed me a bunch of these cool mods whenever we hung out at his house and they're some of my favorite memories. If you see this Jake, keep it real homie.
It was spino for me- The f*cker kept pouncing me from behind while I was walking through the middle of the island-😭 It became my favorite dinosaur for that-
I'd like to think that the Ancients look like Dale Russel's "Dinosauroid", given how the series has a running theme of purposely using outdated reconstruction of dinosaurs.
Thanks for making this vid, just felt really depressed after a breakup and this was what I needed. You've really unlocked an old childhood memory I have playing the game on my mom's phone lol. This vid was made some years ago but I'd love a sequel video
Wow, you wouldn't believe how much this comment means to me. Thank you a lot. If you're interested I have a few other videos of this game on my channel similar to this one. And I'll definitely make more in the future.
I only recently remembered I used to play this when I was younger. It's a shame steam port isn't here but it's good to still see people breathing life to such a chill game. Coming home from work and you got nothing to do, you can just bing chilling play this game and slowly go through the whole series and all the amazing mods.
This game was the first thing to make me realize how scary dinosaurs would actually be to encounter in real life even more so than Jurassic Park did believe it or not. I guess its just one of those things that videogames sometimes can get right more than a movie ever could because you really get immersed in a game like this (especially as a kid, as I and many other here were when playing for the first time)
Holy shit I thought I was the only one who remembered this game. I played the original and the ice age one on my family’s iPad as a kid when I was really into dinosaurs I every once in a while I look back fondly on it remembering when times were simpler. I had no idea there was any lore to these games and honestly it makes me have a whole new appreciation for it.
TH-cam just randomly recommended me videos on this game, and its wild to hear "Oh yeah, these are just aliens that look like dinosaurs" as somebody who's never heard of this game before. Like what the actual fuck.
Awesome. Played the whole series cover to cover and was always captivated by the mysterious structures and disembodied voice of the temple in the first game - just those small atmospheric components did so much for a seemingly straight forward dinosaur hunting game. Thanks for the coverage and keeping the game alive in 22'!
I was obsessed with this game as a kid and had so many theories about all the unique areas. I never thought I would find a video like this but I'm so glad I did. This is amazing.
i still remember playing this back when i was young back in the 90's and i would play it with my friend on my computer but the t rex scared the crap out of me to be honest because one he was faster than the flash and two you had to shoot him in the eye i mean how do you shoot something you can't see lol i did eventually get him and now because of that i became a faster of call of duty and battlefield and i actually think it helped me when i got a near perfect score on the shooting range when i served in the Marines i guess i just kept thinking its just the scary t rex lets get that black circle in the center and score some points haha
Thanks for giving these games the love they deserve! I used to play the mobile version all the time, so happy to see it's still around and appreciated.
I played the hell out of “Carnivores 2” back in 2000. It was a Christmas present from my Mom in 1999. It had a lot of flaws with the game mechanics (mostly dinosaurs clipping through the scenery and bad dino AI), but it was a lot of fun for its day. The entire franchise was a really novel idea for the late-90s/early-2000s.
Great video! I grew up playing the mobile ports of Dino Hunter and Ice-Age. Its awesome to see that this series still has a following, and even a modding community!
i remember loving this game as a kid but i only played the lite version on mobile and just assumed it was a mobile game. awesome to see its a more expanded universe
I remember playing the first game as a kid. I literally shat my pants when I was out in the water and the T-Rex started swimming towards me. I was always told that T-Rexes can't swim because of their tiny arms. So little me was terrified when that thing started coming after me out into the ocean.
I still play these games, they have different maps and plant diversity. There must be a story behind this, but it has never been told. It would be nice to hear fan theories. Thank you for making this video, this wonderful series should not be forgotten! :)
I played the first game way back when I got my first Intel system, which was a Pentium 233Mhz with a Voodoo 1 card. I tried installing it on a later system, but never got it to work properly. I did play Carnivores 2 on that system though. I have copies of Ice Age and Cityscape, but I've never gotten around to playing them. I wasn't all that interested in Ice age to be honest, but a local store had it cheap and I'd read that you could swap the files between the games to have dinosaurs in the snow, or mammoths in the tropical maps. On Carnivores 2, I managed to get out of the trophy room, by running and jumping in one of the corners. It can take a while, but when you get up on top, it's just a vast, flat plain with a repeating texture. I think I also managed to get on top of the block in the center of the trophy room as well.
There is of course the question of *why* this alien planet for some reason has lifeforms that resemble what we used to think dinosaurs looked like... But eh, screw it, it's cool that's why.
Hey, I remembered playing this in 2012 to 2014. It was the time where we get our first Apple product which is the Ipad 2. I still remember the frutiger aero UI design and the metally scent of the Ipad, as well as the leathery smell of the white capdase casing. Thank you for unlocking my memory when I was younger back then. I remember playing apache helicopter Sim, Barry Steakfries monster run, Sudoku by Zynga, talking games. And all the good stuff in the appstore of the early 2010's. Once again thank you for the video❤❤
Dude, I’ve had very blurry deja-vu type memories of playing this game as a little kid, but I’ve never known the name, or if it was something I just imagined. I can’t believe this was a real game, holy shit.
Very interesting, I never know that this game actually took place on an alien planet with "Dinosaur-Like" Aliens and the lore itself is really intreating, hell it's a great setting for a RPG.
@@BackToBackJames In your opinion out of the original 3 Carnivore Games (the first two were dinosaur focused, I think the 3rd was the ice age one), which do you think was the best?
2:40. Adjacent to a dinosaur is a dinosaur. If the morphology and behavior resembles the same body plan as Earth's Dinosaurs, why denounce FMM-UV 32's animals as anything else but? It's like saying Humans aren't animals despite the lineage coming from rodent-like mammals.
Humans share the same DNA with all other animals on Earth, and also directly evolved from other animals. The "dinosaurs" on FMM-UV 32 don't actually resemble dinosaurs from Earth. They resemble outdated depictions, but in terms of what dinosaurs actually looked like, the morphology and behavior is very different. It's a case of convergent evolution and even when it happens with two animals on Earth they're not considered to be the same animal.
@@BackToBackJames And yet here we are...people still consider stem-mammals as dinosaurs and humans as not animals. It is possible to classify an alien organism into a similar category. No matter how you spice it, those creatures are dinosaurs; just not the ones from Earth--and demonstrated by the HD new comers, does give an 'X' to doubt behind your head-canon.
Humans are objectively animals and stem-mammals are objectively not dinosaurs. It doesn't matter what the layman may refer to either as. If the animals on FMM-UV 32 aren't the dinosaurs from Earth, and only superficially resemble outdated depictions of them, why would we still call them dinosaurs instead of using a new term or classification?
@@BackToBackJames Okay. But Bananas are objectively fruit yet share DNA similar to Man, despite the Evolutionary lineage; so, by that logic, we should direct your question under the notion just the same with the simple replay of, "Why wouldn't you?" Regardless of whether most FMM-UV 32's organisms are outdated in appearance, they share the same physiology as their Earthly Mesozoic, Permian, and Cenozoic counterparts. If a creature resembles a Mammoth down to the last detail but were separated by other words, it doesn't anymore close related? What you're trying to convey seems like a double-standard based preservation bias.
@mr.n7237 The FMM-UV 32 dinos are not outdated in appearance because the game is outdated, they are outdated in appearance because it was a deliberate artistic choice showing that these are alien creatures. There are more similarities between humans and depictions of grey aliens than there are between Earth dinosaurs and FMM-UV 32 dinosaurs, yet grey aliens are not reffered to as humans. I don't understand your point because they are not similar down the last detail, like at all. If you took an animal that resembled a mammoth and changed its colour, size, anatomy, behaviour, and it's entire DNA sequence than why would/should it still be called a mammoth?
Fun Fact:In Carnivores: Cityscape, Dinohunt Corp actually attempts to use Historically accurate dinosaurs by using time travel, this was a side plot for Carnivores: Cityscape, that's why there some goofy ah ah looking animals there, Those are actual dinosaurs.
My god you just made me remember this game's name and how much I LOVED playing it on my parents phone back in the days. I sometimes thought about it but didn't remember the name. Now I do so I think I'm going to play a bit! And there is LORE!? That is cool. I never knew! Istill wonder what's the lore behind those Xenomorph eggs 6:45 tho. I remember finding them being kinda creeped out.
I love this franchise! Carnivores was the first Dinosaur and PC game I ever played 😊 sadly I only ever played the first one. I missed out on the much better second and ice age games. In recent years I tried to play some of the modded versions as well as the original but I’m no good with computers and can’t make the games run perfectly or well. Maybe one day I’ll follow a guide to optimize it
Im an absolute coward at this game. I would teleport to the highest places such as mountains so the dinosaurs couldn’t reach me. Except it didn’t work with the Trex so i was scared shitless
this game is my real childhood i remember playing this game with my cousins it SO FUN WHEN I WAS LITTLE this game is the real nostalogia yet its lore is scary
Oh my god I remember playing the carnivores dinosaur hunter game on my iPod touch when I was like 10. Anything remotely stronger than a parasaurolophus scared the shit out of me lol.
Hey everyone! Thank you all for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video. This is my first time uploading a Carnivores video. It's not my usual type of upload but I'll probably make a few more. I really enjoyed the process of making this video, and I think Carnivores has some really great worldbuilding to work off of.
James, this reminded me of a game I played as a kid !! I would have been on apple devices back in 2014 or so, and I think it was a paid game? I remember it being a dinosaur game, but forgot whether you were a dinosaur or a human, but I remember all the dinosaurs were kind of creepy and black. There was a volcano you could go into. I loved this game and hope someone might recognize what I'm talking about !!
Such a fantastic video!
I remember playing this on my mom's phone as a kid, I had no idea this thing had lore!
Same, i used to download the mod version just to be able to play with different guns and dinosaurs 😁 super fun
If you played this on a phone as a kid, I think might still be a kid 😅
Same
played the LIVING FUCK OUT OF THIS GEM, on my ipad mini, had some good times hunting the yeti with my brother
@krulltheskull I'm In my 20s dude
Holy shit, you have reawakened a core memory in my childhood. I haven’t thought about this game in years, I didn’t even know the name but I remember playing it on my dad’s old PC. Man what a throwback, i need to check this out now that i have a name to look for.
Comments like these make my day bro, glad you enjoyed the video
Im making a documentary about carnivores @@BackToBackJames
@@Geniusprimate Good luck!
I really like how they purposely used outdated depictions of dinosaurs as a basis for the aliens. It definitely gives the games their own feel to them. It makes the convergent evolution more believable because realistically these things wouldn’t look exactly like earth dinosaurs since they indipendantly evolved to fill a lot of the same niches utilizing similar body plans. Too bad the reboot just uses Jurassic Park designs and lacks the character of the original games.
It would be cool if you did make some videos covering the extended/mod lore and different fan theories. It would’ve been cool if the reboot were to canonize some of those as a way to expand the world, while still keeping it true to the spirit of the old games.
This was definitely interesting. Great video.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn't have put it better myself. The designs of the creatures in Carnivores are one of my favourite parts of the game. I don't think I've seen any other dinosaur media that intentionally uses inaccurate dinosaurs for artistic purposes without just being wilfully ignorant or anything. I think the old designs would have looked cool in the Reborn style and yeah I don't really like the Jurassic Park designs of that game. I'll definitely make some more videos talking about the extended lore of the mods. I think I'll start off with the Middle Islands mod which expands upon the lore of Carnivores Cityscape and gives an explanation as to why the dinos in that game looked way differently.
I can kind of see waht they were trying to do with the designs in the reboot. When the original Carnivores came out those old outdated 60s designs used were 30+ years old and now in the 2020s, those Jurassic Park 90s design are also becoming 30+ years old and are now also outdated. The 60s designs were better though, as they do feel more alien than the 90s designs.
@@BackToBackJames, I wish i can make the lore of carnivores
@@BackToBackJames
CARNIVORES:THE DOCUMENTARY-TEASER TRAILER / Genius primate
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Absolutely. I love the PS4 Carnivores, but it could more easily pass as Jurassic Poacher or Skull Island Survivor than an alien world.
Very enjoyable video! I know I’d be down for some more Delphaeus Hills Ghoul content 👀
Thank you Saurian! Glad you enjoyed it. I might make a Delphaeus Hills Ghouls video following this, or perhaps one looking at the extended lore from the mods.
Same now I'm obsessed with the ghouls
@@KillionairBoss same
Maybe the Delphaeus hills ghoul is the creature that destroyed the archeological outpost in the island
Good to see you here, Saurian!
And yeah, this video is great!
"Aliens would have evolved completely different from life on Earth."
I appreciate you making the distinction, because you're right, they're neither dinosaurs or animals, but don't sweep it under the rug how intense the convergent evolution is between the two planets. Sure, in the real world, that's the point, but in-universe, the fact that these aliens with no relation to Earthlings whatsoever independently evolved to look like this is kind of amazing and worth attention.
Of course, plenty of sci-fi stories do stuff like this all the time, like Star Trek aliens just being humans but different colors or w/e, but it's still kind of amazing to think about what that means for xenobiology in the stories where it happens.
Real dinosaurs would probably look extremely different than the organisms of FMM-UV 32. But yeah the convergent evolution is still really evident. Especially with the plants in the game which are basically Earth plants as well as the mammals in Ice Age. Perhaps it's because of how similar the planet's conditions are to Earth's conditions; similar moon, similar size, temperature, etc... And convergent evolution like this doesn't even seem that farfetched considering what has happened with animals like the shark, dolphin, and icthyosaur. I think Carnivores manages to strike a really great balance between still being considered a dinosaur/prehistoric hunting series while also letting you remember you're on an alien planet in the future. Unfortunately the remakes really throw this out the window by going for generic maps and the almost Jurassic Park style creature designs. Thanks for the comment by the way, I like reading ones like this.
@@BackToBackJames Or maybe aliens visited Earth millions of years ago and took samples of the flora and fauna to deposit on other worlds.
Yes, in more recent years, scientists have come to the conclusion that real dinosaurs probably looked very different from the classic depictions of them, but that wasn't so much the case when the original games were made. So an argument could be made that these were the evolution of dinosaurs taken from Earth.
@@lurkerrekrulThat argument makes zero sense since in 90s was the time more accurate depictions of dinosaurs became more widely known thanks to Jurassic Park, the game uses a older style remarking more to the 70s by choice.
@@CoracaoAcidental98You have a really good point. The depiction of dinosaurs in Carnivores is still very different from what they were thought to have looked like in the 90s. Carnivores came out 5 years after Jurassic Park. The retro styled dinosaurs in the game are definitely a deliberate artistic choice.
The biological definition of an animal is a multicellular eukaryote with an internal digestive system. Any alien that is multicellular with a stomach is an animal.
I played this game a whole lot back then, this hits different.
I agree. Used to play it on mobile until I discovered it originated on PC.
Carnivores 2 was the first video game I remember playing, on my dad's pc probably around 99/2000. It absolutely blew my mind and it remains the most nostalgic game of all time for me
I haven't played in years and randomly remembered it when I woke up today, I love that there's such a dedicated community to this day ❤ stay safe out there hunters
This is one of the first mobile games I remember too.
CSR Racing, Road Warrior, and the Carnivores games.
My buddy Jake loved this game when we were in middle school to highschool. He showed me a bunch of these cool mods whenever we hung out at his house and they're some of my favorite memories. If you see this Jake, keep it real homie.
Shit scared me as a child, especially the allosaurus
It was spino for me-
The f*cker kept pouncing me from behind while I was walking through the middle of the island-😭
It became my favorite dinosaur for that-
I'd like to think that the Ancients look like Dale Russel's "Dinosauroid", given how the series has a running theme of purposely using outdated reconstruction of dinosaurs.
I think that's likely
Maybe it's that creepy pasta to the lizard man that was buff
Until we get down to Cityscape and HD.
I think they could be more like C.M. Kosemen's dinosauroids, but without feathers and more resembling of the game's raptors
Thanks for making this vid, just felt really depressed after a breakup and this was what I needed.
You've really unlocked an old childhood memory I have playing the game on my mom's phone lol.
This vid was made some years ago but I'd love a sequel video
Wow, you wouldn't believe how much this comment means to me. Thank you a lot. If you're interested I have a few other videos of this game on my channel similar to this one. And I'll definitely make more in the future.
I only recently remembered I used to play this when I was younger. It's a shame steam port isn't here but it's good to still see people breathing life to such a chill game. Coming home from work and you got nothing to do, you can just bing chilling play this game and slowly go through the whole series and all the amazing mods.
This game was the first thing to make me realize how scary dinosaurs would actually be to encounter in real life even more so than Jurassic Park did believe it or not. I guess its just one of those things that videogames sometimes can get right more than a movie ever could because you really get immersed in a game like this (especially as a kid, as I and many other here were when playing for the first time)
Devs: Ok so there is no story in this game...
Fans: *Fine I´ll do it myself.*
The story actually comes from the devs believe it or not.
@@BackToBackJames Where did you find it tho
The lore is explained in the game credits.
@@BackToBackJames It´s not lol
Yea it is
Holy shit I thought I was the only one who remembered this game. I played the original and the ice age one on my family’s iPad as a kid when I was really into dinosaurs I every once in a while I look back fondly on it remembering when times were simpler. I had no idea there was any lore to these games and honestly it makes me have a whole new appreciation for it.
same, it’s heartwarming to see people play this nowadays
TH-cam just randomly recommended me videos on this game, and its wild to hear "Oh yeah, these are just aliens that look like dinosaurs" as somebody who's never heard of this game before. Like what the actual fuck.
Awesome. Played the whole series cover to cover and was always captivated by the mysterious structures and disembodied voice of the temple in the first game - just those small atmospheric components did so much for a seemingly straight forward dinosaur hunting game. Thanks for the coverage and keeping the game alive in 22'!
I aporeciate it! Your comment perfectly sums up why I like the game so much!
I remember I figured out how to hack the game and fly around. You had to shoot the T-Rex directly in the eye. I loved this game.
Wait...the Dinosaurs in this game are Aliens, and this game doesn't even take place on Earth? That...honestly explains a lot.
so dosent that mean that the creatures in the ice age version are also.. aliens…..?
@@TPNDPOOOOLEG ye pretty much
amazing video man, as someone who plays this game religiously I can say this video is very well done
Thank you! It came out better than I expected
Ah Carnivores...this brings back some nostalgia!
I was obsessed with this game as a kid and had so many theories about all the unique areas. I never thought I would find a video like this but I'm so glad I did. This is amazing.
i still remember playing this back when i was young back in the 90's and i would play it with my friend on my computer but the t rex scared the crap out of me to be honest because one he was faster than the flash and two you had to shoot him in the eye i mean how do you shoot something you can't see lol i did eventually get him and now because of that i became a faster of call of duty and battlefield and i actually think it helped me when i got a near perfect score on the shooting range when i served in the Marines i guess i just kept thinking its just the scary t rex lets get that black circle in the center and score some points haha
Thanks for giving these games the love they deserve! I used to play the mobile version all the time, so happy to see it's still around and appreciated.
For sure dude. I'm glad these games still have an active and passionate community after so long
I played the hell out of “Carnivores 2” back in 2000. It was a Christmas present from my Mom in 1999. It had a lot of flaws with the game mechanics (mostly dinosaurs clipping through the scenery and bad dino AI), but it was a lot of fun for its day. The entire franchise was a really novel idea for the late-90s/early-2000s.
One of my favorite mobile games. So much Nostalgia ngl
Great video! I grew up playing the mobile ports of Dino Hunter and Ice-Age. Its awesome to see that this series still has a following, and even a modding community!
7:45 Damn! I thought I was a genius for discovering that one when I was 13
i remember loving this game as a kid but i only played the lite version on mobile and just assumed it was a mobile game. awesome to see its a more expanded universe
Wow. Core memory unlocked, thank you for this man.
Glad I could make you feel that way, thanks for the comment!
This by the way explains why the ships that come by in carnivores are all space looking. Great lore, and great video. (:
I remember playing the first game as a kid. I literally shat my pants when I was out in the water and the T-Rex started swimming towards me. I was always told that T-Rexes can't swim because of their tiny arms. So little me was terrified when that thing started coming after me out into the ocean.
Tbh people weren’t big on cityscape but it was my favorite one, the maps were so cool and playing as a dinosaur was fun
Holy crap! There’s lore to this game! Count me interested
I had this game for years. I love it.
Wow, it’s either random or so put together either way, it’s some good lore 👍🏻
I did not know this games lore was this rich 😭 almost as crazy as Arks lore
Oh that’s the lore I always thought you play as some rich guy who hunts dinosaurs, but this makes more sense
You're a hero, man. This is my nostalgia
I loved this so so much as a kid
The sentient species is probably a restive of the yeti
Maybe, but even though the Yeti is humanoid it appears to be very unintelligent.
I still play these games, they have different maps and plant diversity.
There must be a story behind this, but it has never been told.
It would be nice to hear fan theories.
Thank you for making this video, this wonderful series should not be forgotten! :)
I’m glad this game series has an active modding scene to expand on this lore,it’s REALLY cool.
Same
I always loved this game, but I’m really glad it has lore
Holy crap, I just bought both mobile ports of Dinosaur Hunter and Ice Age to relive my childhood and this video just popped up for me.
I used to play this and the ice age version for hours as a teen
You just gave me a whole lot of memories my friend/ I subbed, keep this up.
Thanks a lot!
no wayyyyy i've not heard this since i was a child bro, it has lore?! epic video bro
Yup it has lore. Thanks for the support!
I played the first game way back when I got my first Intel system, which was a Pentium 233Mhz with a Voodoo 1 card. I tried installing it on a later system, but never got it to work properly. I did play Carnivores 2 on that system though. I have copies of Ice Age and Cityscape, but I've never gotten around to playing them. I wasn't all that interested in Ice age to be honest, but a local store had it cheap and I'd read that you could swap the files between the games to have dinosaurs in the snow, or mammoths in the tropical maps.
On Carnivores 2, I managed to get out of the trophy room, by running and jumping in one of the corners. It can take a while, but when you get up on top, it's just a vast, flat plain with a repeating texture. I think I also managed to get on top of the block in the center of the trophy room as well.
There is of course the question of *why* this alien planet for some reason has lifeforms that resemble what we used to think dinosaurs looked like...
But eh, screw it, it's cool that's why.
Hey, I remembered playing this in 2012 to 2014. It was the time where we get our first Apple product which is the Ipad 2. I still remember the frutiger aero UI design and the metally scent of the Ipad, as well as the leathery smell of the white capdase casing. Thank you for unlocking my memory when I was younger back then.
I remember playing apache helicopter Sim, Barry Steakfries monster run, Sudoku by Zynga, talking games. And all the good stuff in the appstore of the early 2010's. Once again thank you for the video❤❤
Dude, I’ve had very blurry deja-vu type memories of playing this game as a little kid, but I’ve never known the name, or if it was something I just imagined. I can’t believe this was a real game, holy shit.
Very interesting, I never know that this game actually took place on an alien planet with "Dinosaur-Like" Aliens and the lore itself is really intreating, hell it's a great setting for a RPG.
My childhood from home to home I was able to keep this game and played it all the time truly one of my core memories.
This was my favorite game as a kid
Very nice Video there! Keep Content Coming .)
It's an honour to hunt for you
Loved the series. Wish the game saw more popularity and continued over the years.
Dinos being aliens that just *look* like outdated depictions of dinos is a pretty 5D-chess play.
Waaaaay ahead of its time.
If they sell the game for a good company and make new undateds and make it as multiplayer game its will be a huge thing
Hello! Long time fan of the games, This is a great lore summary!
Thanks!
I didn't remember that carnivores ice age had a wendigo in the game 😅
It doesn't
I never knew those dinosaurs were aliens when I was a kid playing this game I thought I was actually shooting dinos
Mine blown
Thank you for making this video! Carnivores hands down is one of the greatest games!
You're right about that!
@@BackToBackJames In your opinion out of the original 3 Carnivore Games (the first two were dinosaur focused, I think the 3rd was the ice age one), which do you think was the best?
@@TrueTributes13 I personally like the second game the best.
@@BackToBackJames solid choice!
Yooo I forgot about this game, I used to play it on my brother's Ipad while we were waiting to get picked up from school 😭😭😭
Lmao I used to play it on my brother's iPod touch. Those were good times
Use to play this on my 4th gen iPod touch 🤣
Lmao that's what I started playing this on too, way back in like 2011
Very enjoyable video
Thanks!
This game is my childhood
Same!
2:40. Adjacent to a dinosaur is a dinosaur. If the morphology and behavior resembles the same body plan as Earth's Dinosaurs, why denounce FMM-UV 32's animals as anything else but? It's like saying Humans aren't animals despite the lineage coming from rodent-like mammals.
Humans share the same DNA with all other animals on Earth, and also directly evolved from other animals. The "dinosaurs" on FMM-UV 32 don't actually resemble dinosaurs from Earth. They resemble outdated depictions, but in terms of what dinosaurs actually looked like, the morphology and behavior is very different. It's a case of convergent evolution and even when it happens with two animals on Earth they're not considered to be the same animal.
@@BackToBackJames And yet here we are...people still consider stem-mammals as dinosaurs and humans as not animals. It is possible to classify an alien organism into a similar category. No matter how you spice it, those creatures are dinosaurs; just not the ones from Earth--and demonstrated by the HD new comers, does give an 'X' to doubt behind your head-canon.
Humans are objectively animals and stem-mammals are objectively not dinosaurs. It doesn't matter what the layman may refer to either as. If the animals on FMM-UV 32 aren't the dinosaurs from Earth, and only superficially resemble outdated depictions of them, why would we still call them dinosaurs instead of using a new term or classification?
@@BackToBackJames Okay. But Bananas are objectively fruit yet share DNA similar to Man, despite the Evolutionary lineage; so, by that logic, we should direct your question under the notion just the same with the simple replay of, "Why wouldn't you?" Regardless of whether most FMM-UV 32's organisms are outdated in appearance, they share the same physiology as their Earthly Mesozoic, Permian, and Cenozoic counterparts. If a creature resembles a Mammoth down to the last detail but were separated by other words, it doesn't anymore close related? What you're trying to convey seems like a double-standard based preservation bias.
@mr.n7237 The FMM-UV 32 dinos are not outdated in appearance because the game is outdated, they are outdated in appearance because it was a deliberate artistic choice showing that these are alien creatures. There are more similarities between humans and depictions of grey aliens than there are between Earth dinosaurs and FMM-UV 32 dinosaurs, yet grey aliens are not reffered to as humans. I don't understand your point because they are not similar down the last detail, like at all. If you took an animal that resembled a mammoth and changed its colour, size, anatomy, behaviour, and it's entire DNA sequence than why would/should it still be called a mammoth?
So basically..."We are the aliens that invading their planet" For them..Damn !
6:41
That’s definitely a horn coral
When you put pictures of dinosaurs from Zdeněk Burian you reminded me that I have his book that I should read now :D as a Czech it warms my heart
He's an amazing artist
same here. :D ahoj!
I enjoyed this vid!
Thanks!
Dayum bro you brought shit out of the back of my mind man.
Fun Fact:In Carnivores: Cityscape, Dinohunt Corp actually attempts to use Historically accurate dinosaurs by using time travel, this was a side plot for Carnivores: Cityscape, that's why there some goofy ah ah looking animals there,
Those are actual dinosaurs.
I have not thought about this game in YEARS bro. I genuinely thought I might’ve dreamt it lol
Bro I’ve been playing carnivores pro for over 8 years and I never knew any of this 😂
I've never heard of this game but hunting alien dinosaur things sounds crazy
HOLY SHIT I HAVENT SEEN THIS GAME SINCE I WAS A KID I FORGOT THE NAME AND JUST SAW THE TITLE AND HAD A WAVE OF NOSTALGIA
Have this game on my phone… still play it from time to time. One question… is the “facehugger” eggs part of the lore? Or is that just an Easter egg
Both. It's an easter egg of Alien like you mentioned, but lore-wise they are said to be the eggs of breeding dinosaurs in the area.
My god you just made me remember this game's name and how much I LOVED playing it on my parents phone back in the days.
I sometimes thought about it but didn't remember the name.
Now I do so I think I'm going to play a bit!
And there is LORE!? That is cool. I never knew! Istill wonder what's the lore behind those Xenomorph eggs 6:45 tho. I remember finding them being kinda creeped out.
The in-game description hints at those being dinosaur eggs
@@BackToBackJames That makes sense
amazing video
Thanks!
Liked and subscribed
Thanks
Maybe FMM UV-32 is a seed world.
Never thought of that, it's definitely possible.
The exciting thing about the game is it recently got an update (on mobile anyways)
THE OWNERS ARE ALIVE?
all the unplayed AAA games i have and im about to download this one.
It’d be cool to see a mod from the perspective of one of the intelligent aliens who inhabited FMMUV-32
This game was horrifying
The jump-scares from certain dinosaurs absolutely messed me up as a kid lol
I ran every time I saw a raptor
You deserve more subscribers
Thanks!
I love this franchise! Carnivores was the first Dinosaur and PC game I ever played 😊 sadly I only ever played the first one. I missed out on the much better second and ice age games. In recent years I tried to play some of the modded versions as well as the original but I’m no good with computers and can’t make the games run perfectly or well. Maybe one day I’ll follow a guide to optimize it
Wait. This thing has lore? My dumbass used to play for hours scared that a carnivore would woop my ass so id just hunt herbivores
such a good game
Im an absolute coward at this game. I would teleport to the highest places such as mountains so the dinosaurs couldn’t reach me. Except it didn’t work with the Trex so i was scared shitless
Headcanon, the game turok is a prequel
Ah Carnivores.... Good times!
I'm really hoping we get a super good dino hunting game some day.
this game is my real childhood i remember playing this game with my cousins it SO FUN WHEN I WAS LITTLE this game is the real nostalogia yet its lore is scary
Oh my god I remember playing the carnivores dinosaur hunter game on my iPod touch when I was like 10. Anything remotely stronger than a parasaurolophus scared the shit out of me lol.
So basically warhammer 40k death planet covered dino
4:03 whachu looking at
Wow thats something i didn't know i had forgotten