Even if it’s driven to extinction in a few years by some modern live service pitfalls, there’s so much innovation hiding in its bones that will leave future developers with a ton of great ideas to exhume.
It’s a creative multiplayer premise that prioritizes moment-to-moment thrills above all else and that’s refreshing in 2023. So long as you’re willing to give in to its extreme silliness, Exoprimal is a deliriously fun team-based dinosaur shooter that delivers popcorn spectacle better than most modern action games. That’s the evolutionary what-if scenario Exoprimal delivers and I wish I could stay there with it. Every other modern trend, like battle pass driven online multiplayer, would continue, but games would continue to evolve from the kind of unabashedly bombastic games that were commonplace before the 2010s. Grounded realism would be a niche reserved for high-budget simulations like Call of Duty. Grimdark storytelling would never become fashionable. Imagine this brave new world: We never get a groundbreaking piece of interactive storytelling that would push developers to chase Hollywood style and produce “cinematic” games.
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