Jurassic World: Evolution (Zero Punctuation)

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[@donavandunn9824]

By the way, For those of you who play though this game all the way though, Your prize for beating the final Island, is the ability to shoot tranquilizer darts from both the Helicopters AND the jeeps. As well as shoot healing darts from the Helicopters. Yes, this is what you fought for so long in this game, the ability to shoot tranquilizer from both, After you're done with the game

[@TheTdw2000]

Remember when research and development was part of the business simulator, and not linked to arbitrary progression in a series of levels? Remember when you STARTED with everything you needed to make a functional park?

[@patrickharrington9394]

@@TheTdw2000 I certainly do. That's why I play Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, instead. The much better (if much older) game that JW:Evolution completely failed to rip off.

[@thed3m0n0id9]

@@patrickharrington9394 BRUH haven't thought about this game in YEARS. Used to play it on OG Xbox. Wonder if there was ever a PC port...

[@doslover]

"We had a nice time but our child is dead" -4/5 stars

[@alexnoman1498]

That's literally the reviews in Planet Zoo, it's hilarious.

[@smile_interactive5823]

RTgame streams in a nutshell

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

“We had a nice time *and* our child is dead!” -5/5 Stars

[@jonathancharron7360]

I'd argue at most 3 stars

[@redseagaming7832]

Less mouths to feed I say thank you Jurassic Park for taking care of a problem

[@rainymeadows3447]

Anyone who thinks dinosaurs aren't scary anymore because of feathers obviously has never met a goose

[@rickybobby144]

Or a fucking Cassowary, those monsters will rip you to shreds.

[@chrish6415]

@@rickybobby144 is that the one that's territorial to stupid levels or the one that likes to turn its prey into literal shish kebabs on branches?

[@alwest4472]

@@chrish6415 no, the spike one is a shrike

[@thatdieguy5310]

*peace was never an option*

[@stevenneiman9789]

Or a swan. Swans are basically dire geese.

[@ahzekahriman9379]

Anyone remember a game called Zoo Tycoon? That had a dinosaur DLC? Same experience, and at least $40 cheaper, and you can build it on the moon

[@Teru91333319]

Way i justify my ripping off the game files is that I already paid for literally everything that ZT had to offer. So instead of paying again, just have the files again. Been spending a good deal of time playing ZT, ZT2, and RCT the last few weeks :)

[@nongmoworm1267]

The Paladin exactly way better too

[@Zthewise]

On the moon you say? This has me intrigued.

[@Jamie-kg8ig]

It's still tolerable in terms of age. I literally started playing a few days ago. And at this point, I think it's fair to consider it abandonware.

[@TonySpike]

Or Jurassic Park Operation Genesis

[@DragonfameDracas]

I'm so sad Yatzee failed to mention your guest are immune to jeeps, I had tons of fun mowing down guest in them and reenacting Dukes of Hazard in the park and none of them cared a bit.

[@jackmaney4276]

"Right about now, them Duke Rangers are about to get into a whole heap of trouble refillin' the carnivore feeders..."

[@01oo011]

If the game is can be modded then it shall be done!

[@awsomesaucekirby]

Hypno-Thorax i just used the dinosaur section of zoo tycoon

[@Spyrocrab]

i’m sorry I’m too distracted by your name and the fact that you have angry marines as a banner.

[@ratdoller77]

Also you get plenty of other options its just you have to grind and grind and grind on each island for each of the 3 groups to unlock them. which would be fine if they didn't drop and to get higher stars you want you need the newer buildings and dinosaurs.

[@ToaArcan]

Anyone who thinks feathered Dinosaurs are less scary clearly hasn't had to deal with geese. Or swans. Let alone cassowaries. Tyrannosaurids being scavengers has been widely refuted and only Jack Horner (Who happens to be the Paleontology consultant for some of the Jurassic Park films) really championed it that much. Like most predators it wouldn't turn its nose up at a free fresh corpse, but there's clear evidence of Tyrannosaurus rex being an active hunter. It may or may not have been fluffier than expected. The confusion surrounding Velociraptor's size mostly stems from people hearing that the creature was 2 metres long and imagining something about the size of an adult male human. However, it's two metres *long*, not tall. Something like T rex was 12 metres in length on average, but only 6 metres tall, and Velociraptor's body length is mostly made up of tail.

[@Michae89]

Also moviemakers just got the velociraptors size wrong. I don't know if they were the same size in books. They could've just used austroraptor or utahraptor, but they don't have as cool names as velociraptor and I don't know whether they were discovered yet. Also they had feathers, so who cares ;)

[@isaacargesmith8217]

Ive heard in some places that the Velociraptors may have been based on Deinonychus.

[@StyryderX]

IIRC when the production crew were designing Velociraptor for the original Jurassic Park, they modeled it after Cassowary.

[@Khenfu_Cake]

Dan Gleeson Not to mention a younger (but perhaps thankfully; extinct) relative of the non-avian dinosaurs: Phorusrhacids aka the terrorbird. Yeah, having feathers doesn't automatically make you less terrifying. Especially when it's even a part of your name:S

[@Scroteydada]

Has anyone had an encounter with a swan when they were smaller than it?

[@BladeLigerV]

The human fungus made me laugh way more then it should.

[@hethrham123]

BladeLigerV funny because its true.

[@Zelkiiro]

The Humans are amused.

[@Sagnag]

BladeLigerV "They just seem to grow on the walkway like a fungus" My fucking sides have left me and took the kids.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

This Pleases The Humans.

[@heckinmemes6430]

The Humans enjoy this post.

[@Beriorn]

I'd play the hell out of Prison Architect: Jurassic Park Edition.

[@348joey]

Zoo Tycoon: Dino Digs

[@Firestar4041]

Shall you; shank the prison guard or eat him whole sale?

[@GECKman88]

That actually IS a thing, check out the old game: 'Jurrasic Park: Operation Genesis'

[@brainflash1]

Actually Yahtzee, they've changed their position on the T-rex being mostly a scavenger. But on the flip side, they couldn't run fast enough to catch a jeep. This game would've been a lot better if it was designed more like Rollercoaster Tycoon than the Sims. The each species could have a different ride or activity assigned to it and you have to work your way up to the cooler ones.

[@NickKinsman3D]

Yup, the T-Rex work was shoddy at best and has been widely refuted. You can also find pretty good breakdowns of why the velociraptor "umm actually" is a mixed signal more than a "scientific correction." The film version did have a real life basis that holds true to this day. The confusion stemmed from another type of velociraptor that was more akin to a rabid chicken. They're both existed (to the best of our knowledge) and the naysayers have long been dispelled on the topic.

[@brainflash1]

It's not another type of velocirapter. The velociraptor species was still only slightly taller than a foot. The only types of raptors that came close to the height of humans were the Achillobator and the Utahraptor, and they weren't even in the same family.

[@ToaArcan]

Utahraptor was also differently proportioned. It was stockier and bulkier than its smaller relatives. It also, of course, was fluffy.

[@brolo7234]

Nick Kinsman The velociraptors of Jurassic Park were based on Deinonychus, which, at the time when Michael Crichton written the books, were muddled in with velociraptors by earlier records and not properly distinguished yet.

[@ToaArcan]

They're actually almost a bit too large to be Deinonychus either, albeit more in the field of proportions.

[@quetzalthegamer]

1:32 "Kiss me Esmeralda." I found that way funnier than I should have.

[@brainflash1]

1:32

[@AngryHomunculus]

God of the Wind I somehow read that as "Kill me Esmerelda"

[@Lix0r]

Should be EsmerAlda, though.

[@quetzalthegamer]

Brainflash and Lixor, thanks for those corrections.

[@demrandom]

Not only is that pretty much the only theater release disney film where the main character didn't get the guy/girl, in the direct to video sequel he still didn't end up with anyone in a happy ending. Also, Frollo is a worse person in the movie then in the original book! Only major difference to the book is that all of the characters aren't dead at the end.

[@yserareborn]

Get that T-Rex slander out of here! That was just one dude pushing that theory, and even he mainly did it to promote critical thinking. The modern theory is that T-Rex probably hunted and scavenged.

[@tbthegr81]

Funny that the park guests are such a blobby thing, in the olden days Chris Sawyer coded a gameengine in assembly from scratch just so he could optimise everything and have thousands of individual guests roaming the parks with their own goals and liknesses. One would think a modern day tycoon game would look and learn from it's predecessors and not stomp on their legacy.

[@MyScorpion42]

The Humans are troubled by this

[@penwoopydo]

I'm guessing that it was a tie-in game and had to get it out of the door as fast as possible.

[@Simp_Zone]

Exactly. Just a cash grab get it done with no fuss dont bother making it special just do it kind of job. Pretty depressing, although it is pretty fun to play for a brief time

[@StandardGoose]

What's bizarre is that Jurassic World: Evolution was made by Frontier Developments at the same time that they were creating Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo.

[@dozergames2395]

@@StandardGoose I like both planet zoo and JWE

[@NomnomJawsnomnom]

I don't know why I found an Ankylosaurid yelling "Oi, dickhead!" at a T-Rex so funny, but here we are.

[@Phirestarter88]

Sidenote: Remember when Escapist used to make videos other than Zero Punctuation? Like Escape to the Movies, Unskipable, No Right Answer and God forbid Escapist News? I am so glad those days are over.

[@redfield2701]

James Smale That movie reviewer was fuckin awful. You could hear how fat that fucker was and I just wanted to slap the pretentious from his sagging phone book chin.

[@fodv93]

Why did they stop making them?

[@Phirestarter88]

Arthur Sullivan preeeetty much

[@4llfor1]

Wayne Higham i believe that was MovieBob. I tried watching him a few times but couldn't bear it for longer than about 2 minutes.

[@ladamedesaraignees1764]

@fodv93 Because literally everyone at the Escapist except Yahtzee left or was laid off.

[@verdethestarwarrior1088]

Let's face it, the best part of this game was to take two dinosaurs and...how did they put it in the new Godzilla? *LET THEM FIGHT*

[@user-vz1mg5gd3z]

Verde the Star Warrior The movie is 4 years old it’s not the new Godzilla

[@verdethestarwarrior1088]

Zeon did nothing wrong Relatively new compared to past Godzilla movies

[@Prox_C]

yea suck it Zeon

[@jodhod1498]

Verde the Star Warrior But old compared to the actual New Godzilla film.

[@supereldinho]

Except they totally ruined it by removing dinosaur-specific finishers. I remember how in Operation Genesis the fights would have specific death animations depending on who's fighting whom. A battle between a T-Rex and a Triceratops would end differently from a fight between a Rex and a Spinosaurus. Here, it's just a mindless slugging match until one of the combatants unceremoniously drops dead without any build-up or satisfying anomation. They had one fucking job and they fucking ruined it.

[@TylireousGaming]

"Easy peasy Murdoc sleazy." I'm gonna start using that now,

[@TheImpact0720]

Every second of this guy's videos are nothing less then true gold in the age we're living in, talks fast but if one can rewatch the vid about 65 times then the beauty in his commentary will be realized. Keep doing your thing man.

[@alexkogan9755]

To be fair Ben, more evidence suggests Tyrannosaurus was just as much built to be a badass hunter as well as a scavenger due to its forward facing eagle eyes and uber-powered jaws whose bite marks have been found on other fossil bones, even other Tyrannosaurs. The whole "scavenger only" shtick was mostly put out by Jack Horner while other paleontologists have since found strong evidence to the contrary.

[@BrownSofaGamer]

Metal Levite Alex I know right. Why would the creature with the strongest ever bite of any terrestrial carnivores solely use it to rip apart dead things instead of hunting. It makes no logical sense.

[@alexkogan9755]

BrownSofa Gamer Exactly

[@worldofthought8352]

Did John Horner had a dislike towards the T-Rex? (Which seems odd to say given it's been dead fr millions of years) but If I recall correctly he wasnown to be dismissive about the T-Rex in general. Really I never cared much if it was a predator or scavanger, just what was it's arms intended for! Were they to help push the T-rex of ground? Or just useless for the adult stage of it's life?

[@alexkogan9755]

World Of Thought The arms apparently were pretty muscular. As for what their use was, that's still up for debate. For all we know they could've worked like how you just described. As to why they're small I think it's an evolutionary result of T.rex getting more use out of its massive skull and as a result the arms shrunk to balance the weight of the animal, whereas other dinosaurs like Allosaurus had smaller skulls and used their arms more. I cannot speak on Horner's apparent dismissiveness of T.rex considering the amount of work he's put in the past but I would say it's partly excessive bias on his part.

[@solanceDarkMOW]

well, the scavenger aspect is certainly compelling, but most people seem to conflate the powerful jaws with devastating high-speed hunter. In many cases, the crushing jaws can work just as well for tearing flesh from dead things as killing living things and the adult T-rex's mass and estimated metabolism suggest that it was an especially active hunter, though it certainly could be in part. The utmost of conclusions to draw from any such discussion is that the paleontological community is by no means united and thus far we have very little that is concrete fact, so much of what we think is based on interperetations of the evidence, for which there can be more than one.

[@wp6192]

Still think Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis was the best Jurassic Park Game

[@MrProthall]

Literally the same game with worse graphics but nostalgia bonus.

[@danielgreenwood793]

I loved how you could feed an infinite number of janitors to the raptors and as long the the raptors ate all the janitors before the end of the month you never had to pay them. And since they were employees you were never penalized for their deaths.

[@boush1177]

MrProthall: Sorry but you are wrong, Operation Genesis had many more features not included in this new one. Evolution is literally just a devolution of Operation Genesis with better graphics. The only people who can call Genesis "literally the same game" are those who have never played it. Just to name a few things Genesis has and Evolution doesn't: - No-Park mode where you could just build dinosaurs and watch them live their lives without having to build the park and bother with humans. Nothing like this exists in Evolution, you have one island (or more accurately a quarter of an island) with infinite money but even in that one you must build a park. - Customizable islands. You could pick your own entire island and fill it and customize it however you wish, you could build on the entire island. Nothing like this exists in Evolution, you are given a few islands from the movies and you can only build on small parts of the island, the rest of the island is forever off-limits. - The dinosaurs had some sort of pack/herd behavior and actually roamed together. The predators could also hunt in groups if multiple ones happened to be hungry or in Hunt mode at the same time (except the big ones which are all solitary and fight each other). - The goats (and cows) had actual AI in Genesis and they could be seen roaming around and playing with each other/herbivore dinos. They would also run away when afraid of predators. In Evolution the goats have none of this. - Herbivores could actually escape predators. In Evolution when a predator is close enough to a non-combat herbivore the herbivore is already dead, it will stand still and an animation will play for the predator killing it, the herbivore can never escape this situation. In Genesis the herbivores could actually escape from predators if they were fast enough. This is literally a basic animal feature that lacks in Evolution. The non-combat herbivores are not animals with self-preservation but instead just glorified snacks. This ignores basic reality because in nature predators fail at hunting quite often. - In Genesis low health dinos would usually prioritize running away rather than fighting. In Evolution the dinos will literally self-destroy themselves by not caring about how much health they have and entering fights even if they have 1% health. - In Genesis the dinosaurs needed to sleep. No such thing at all in Evolution. - Park visitors were individuals. In Genesis they all had some pre-given names (you could also give them your own names if you mess with the files), they all had personal needs like hunger, tiredness, etc. and you could see what they think of your park by clicking them. The visitors will like the park if their needs are sated but will complain if your park is too dirty, if they cannot watch any dinosaurs, and so on. There were also a few types of visitors in the park like herbivore/predator fans, those who want to see dinosaurs kill each other, and nerds who complain if your park is not authentic. In Evolution they are just a mass of pixels that do not have any needs or individuality, like Yahtzee said. - In Genesis the predator dinos acted like actual real animals and did not kill herbivores just for the hell of it, only when they were hungry or their Hunt meter (separate from Hunger) got high. In Evolution they will murder herbivores for literally no reason. The only predator acting this way should be the Indominus Rex because of plot reasons but instead all predator dinos act this way and the Indominus has nothing special. This is not how animals work! Genesis was not a perfect game by any means and it had some problems of its own, but it was NOT the same game as Evolution since it had a lot more features than Evolution. Do I need to go on? I think I already made my point clear, though.

[@the_feisty_yeti_4101]

JPOG's a fuckin classic, especially once you mod it so you can get all the dig sites, infinite fences/bins/cleaner stations, etc. Shame its a little bit hard to come by nowadays, at least it was for me.

[@DenGuleBalje]

Dude. I know that it's extremely janky, but Tresspasser. It was just amazing for me as a dinosaur crazy kid who loved Jurassic park to be able to walk around on the island. It was frustrating, but when you're a kid it's easier to look past it. I just loved that game.

[@kevinwilcox6605]

"That's the kind of superior attitude that makes people stop vaccinating their kids out of spite." This comment aged like the stinkiest, most delicious cheese there ever was.

[@rbwjakfjenwbw1009]

2:51 That little screaming lawsuit joke had me laughing for a good 5 minutes.

[@Praxics0815]

Actually... there is a restaurant called Restaurant.

[@Simp_Zone]

If I'm not mistaken I believe there is also a toy shop called Toy Shop. The imagination cup runneth over

[@thijsuitenbosch700]

Not to mention the bar called The Bar.

[@freakklomp]

dont forget, you also got a clothes shop called clothes shop

[@Cptn_Fabulous]

I see that the dinosaur trade has created wonderful job opportunities for the Crackdown 2 naming team.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

Such a well written script, just top notch stuff. Other you-tubers need to pay attention to this guy, this is how its done.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

This game has all the joys of washing the dishes, without having clean dishes as a reward. Maybe I just don't like dinosaurs enough.

[@ChestOfDoom]

Dont you like stiff robots with a couple of eat animations walking in a field?

[@Psychol-Snooper]

Even Nerd³ could not make it interesting for me! :(

[@drag0nboss2000]

No, Tedium is a hallmark of Fdev games, aside from planet coaster, apparently(though that could be incorrect)

[@kevinprehm]

This game does so much right, like the dinosaurs are astounding But it falls flat where JPOG didn't, like guest personality and actual consequences for failure, like loss of rating and less people in the park if a dinosaur eats someone

[@StyryderX]

What the hell, you don't get penalized for being terrible manager here?

[@kevinprehm]

StyryderX only slightly

[@18thskaven]

Dude, if you lose shit tonnes of money then heaven help you because that will end your game ultra fast.

[@kevinprehm]

Arron Litchfield not really, because the people just come back It's incredibly easy to bounce back

[@JustinY.]

It's basically a huge setup for Thunderdome: Dinosaur edition. Two dinos enters, one dino leaves.

[@cattolord33]

Justin Y. You're late

[@newman8r45]

that was one of the first things i did. Was surprised to see how successful the trikes are against the ceratosaurus

[@ReviewingMagnet]

Stop

[@stillnousername9796]

So basically Genesis but not Genesis

[@boiboi9314]

You are everywhere...

[@AGentertainmentofficial]

The game isn't as in depth as it could be but I've lost hours in it already. Love the Jurassic Park franchise, add that to sim / management genre and they got a purchase from me.

[@newcreationkoi4577]

Just recently found you and omg I’ve needed this channel in my life! Thank you!

[@Aliens2Exist]

Have been looking forward to this all week

[@Lillian2167]

Velociraptors were always the size of turkeys though, it was the film makers who decided to ignore that fact.

[@TheGuardDuck]

Lillian2167 No, they had a dino that was called Velociraptor at the time, but was renamed because of confusion. They DID use real dinos, just not quite the one we thought. There's youtube vids explaining it. There IS a velociraptor chicken-saur, but the JP raptor is now called something with a D, can't recall the whole name.

[@diversityisourstrength5279]

Deinonychus

[@brandonlyon730]

That was actually the author of the original books fault, apparently he thought the name sounded cool and put it in anyway.

[@DblDg1252]

@ theGuardDuck i think you are thinking of Utah Raptors

[@jamestang1227]

Deinonychus is bigger than what is portrayed in the film and has feathers. Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor have the proportions of the film's Velociraptors but they are feathered as well.

[@EnormousKingCrab]

The velociraptor saying 'daddy we want crisps' might be the funniest thing you've ever written

[@Daretobestupider]

This sounds an awful lot like the dino expansion for Zoo Tycoon, right down to the stats on the dinos, building their enclosures just right so they don't want to escape, the tiny gaps that they escape through, and having to wait for the helicopter to come round and stop their rampages.

[@spamuraigranatabru1149]

That intro, damn. Does 'Meet the engineer' mean anything anymore?

[@Redvox57]

My fondest memory of this game is when I parked a jeep in the middle of the main walkway and all the tourist morphed into eachother cause they didn't know how to walk around said jeep then once I moved it out of the way hundreds exploded out in all directions lmao

[@gabek5760]

Forgot to mention how the citizens will run into the dinosaurs pens during a break out, then literally refuse to leave at times. It becomes their home.

[@endersblade]

OMG I was in stitches by the end of this! Best one yet!

[@dontpanic9772]

So this is the Zoo Tycoon ad-on with the dinos, but a bit shit?

[@damnedforyoursins3459]

Dont Panic that game is the shit lol

[@thelaughingman4791]

nailed it

[@diversityisourstrength5279]

yes exactly

[@BlackStarGabusGaben]

Now I want to see a dinosaur high school cartoon done by Adult Swim.

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

"Well....I...OPRESSION!" Well damn, spot on.

[@scrumpymunchin]

I like how your content hasn't changed in *any way* whatsoever in the past 4 years

[@zerofighter99alphazero42]

I'm just glad they made it like Genesis.Overall it wasn't a bad game, the islands provided a good challenge on each and then rewarded you after you completed them with a new Dino or something. Can get a bit repetitive after awhile, though. If they add a little more to it every now and then, the game should quite nice (or a least a little more interesting) in like a half a year to a year. They already added a new Dino pack (for free) so hopefully they're not completely done yet. I miss random island generation, too. They really gave genesis a unique feel to it and gave it replay value. Oh, well. 8.8 I guess....

[@kemvalen4784]

Zerofighter99 (Alpha Zero) I have the belief that the developers were divided between making it a Sim like game or a Rollercoaster Tycoon game and sadly the Sim side got their side

[@rwc1940]

I dunno, one of the best things about Genesis was the dino ai, with which this game seems to be severely lacking. Instead of socializing in herds and following an alpha, they just seem to fuck around in this new game. In Genesis, carnivores wouldn't bother herbivores unless they were hungry or needed to satisfy their hunting instinct, whereas Yahtzee pointed out they're just going to go apeshit on anything they see for no reason in Evolution. Their needs were much more complex too, and you would even have to take things into account like avoiding making dino exhibits under the flight path of the visitor helicopter, since the noise stresses them out. Even the visitors were unique and each had their own name, hometown, needs, and what they wanted from the park (herbivores playing, carnos fighting, etc). Though there were less dinos and only like five different character models for the visitors, JPOG just felt so much more alive.

[@zerofighter99alphazero42]

You do bring up a good point Napoleon. I miss the alpha thing. They do socialize at times, though.

[@zerofighter99alphazero42]

Yeah, you can get through pretty quick. Like a few days or so. It is fun, though.

[@zerofighter99alphazero42]

Yes, allow me to explain. To unlock dinos, you must unlock islands. To unlock islands, you must get the current island you are on to three stars through dinos and good park facility's. You can unlock dinos through special goals as well. Once you have all the dinos, what you can do is go an island with infinite money and well, create a giant dinosaur gladiator pit. That's what I did :P Of course the quest people will complain on all the other islands and like Yahtzee said, got sit around to get that money on all the other islands.(Also, to unlock the infinite money island you have to get five stars on I think the first island.) It's fun, plus you can mess with genetics to make them stronger or have more health. The indoraptor and indinomus rex are in the game, as well.

[@sharkfrenzy213]

I find Operation Genesis to be a far superior game

[@jackwilliams-bukac7986]

Glad to see other people feel the same way.

[@danielhale1]

Knowing details of the human NPCs' lives would only incentivize me to open the raptor pens. Have you *met* humans?

[@TheKeeperOfKnowledge]

Somebody should make a Jurassic Park game that is a reverse management sim. You start out with a perfectly functional park, then spies/terrorists/foreign governments start doing things in the park that make the dinosaurs escape and the game is to make as much money as you can before the place is shut down, frantically averting PR disasters as fast as they arrive and covering up particularly bad incidents with bribes and military contracts that might end up making things worse later on.

[@TheTimeSlider]

Saw him play thiswith Gabriel. Ah reminded me of the good old days.

[@haftashaft]

TheTimeSlider where is that video? Twitch or on another KZbin channel? He hasn't used his let's drown out page in like a year or so.

[@haftashaft]

Nvm I found it lol. Thanks for letting me know about it

[@VikingFyre]

Mitch Haft what’s that video called???

[@haftashaft]

Vikingfyre Its Yahtzees Post ZP Stream, its on twitch

[@Carlosvelasquez530]

This game has gotten a lot better in case anyone was interested

[@SilverKnight16]

"And here's little Timmy over here dying of Polio" OMFG

[@vgamesx1]

3:10 Well does a cat stop being a vicious little murderer simply because you feed it and give it a nice place to sleep? Yeah exactly.

[@Hedgpig]

I am a humans, AMA

[@novaseer]

Yahtzee yells at dinosaurs: the video

[@oshkeet]

Funnily enough "carnivores are just pricks" is a documented zoo phenomenon, even among well-cared for and well-fed animals. Prey who don't/can't run away but also don't try to fight back short circuit some expectation center of a newly-introduced carnivore's brains and they'll go on a kill spree if allowed, often without eating the kill. Animals that hop between exhibits (local rabbits and vermin, peacocks and gamefowl in smaller parks, etc.) are the usual victims, though the carnivore usually grows out of it when the other prey animals catch on Over There is not a safe place and stop encouraging them.

[@PcPFilmsDayton]

I became mildly addicted to this game, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

[@julianx2rl]

The GBA's Park Builder its also pretty cool, you can check that out.

[@Spyrocrab]

Scientists also tend to insist they know things outside of their sphere of influence *cough cough* Niel Degrass *cough cough*

[@hoodedman6579]

Neil can be a twat, for certain, but he doesn't represent scientists in general...

[@kumaclimber]

But yahtzee you manimal, you can make a dinosaur fight club

[@jasmine-ruff-puff9951]

In the old PS2 game you could read what the guests were thinking. When I was a kid I loved reading their thoughts as the carnivores ran around eating everybody.

[@CdrChaos]

You can put herbivores in the same enclosure as carnivores. Just make sure to put them in an enclosure with herbivores significantly taller than the carnivores. Dilophosaurus won’t bother an Ankylosaurus, and the T-Rex won’t bother a Brachiosaurus.

[@kevinallain2415]

This intro is even weirder with anti vax during COVID.

[@boingboingerson1649]

" human beings just sort of seemed to grow on the sidewalk like a fungus" kinda sounds like real people to me 0 personality 90% of the time and spread out like a bad rash

[@neoblackheart746]

He also only seemed to talk about the FIRST island. Never once did you hear about Storms or the fact you had to build a park with a negative starting balance, or the 4th island... that thing had me banging my head on a wall. Also there is a Restaurant you have to unlock it via that reputation thing.

[@metodoinstinto]

THIS IS THE BEST SHOW ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET. I NEVER MISS ONE. THE BEST IS STILL "HATRED".

[@michaelmcdonnell5574]

Don't you mean Jurassic World (HURK) Evolution

[@TARINunit9]

The game's official title doesn't actually have a colon in it

[@E1craZ4life]

I think the dry heave is if the game is not part of a series.

[@69Starmix96]

Hello Rappy, what are you doing in this video?

[@evilbird4012]

Laughing?

[@andrewcurlutu6422]

Hillarious as always, Mr. Yahtzee. Just played that dice game today, incidentally. I won after getting several Yahtzees in the first heat. Don't ask me how I did it, I don't even know HOW I managed it.

[@bito2041]

Has yatz reviewed Lisa yet?

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

So it’s just Zoo Tycoon: Dino Digs, but without the cool cheats and stuff? Lame!

[@MrXemrox]

2:18 They should do a patch that the trees become translucent when building fences and paths. NOT PERMANENTLY, just turns translucent when you drop the fence so you don't build it blindly, when you're away from that spot, it turns opaque again.

[@NeoWasami]

I just like coming back here for the fungus. It is amusing and accurate.

[@TheSpiralComet]

...Healing darts?

[@timebrain3188]

TheSpiralComet medical darts for illnesses and the sort.

[@DenGuleBalje]

Switch the name of the Velociraptors with Deinonychus. Fixed

[@Ozraptor4]

Trouble is there are Deinonychus in the game... and they look utterly hideous = vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jurassicworld-evolution/images/2/27/DeinonychusMain.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180614021959

[@Michae89]

Utahraptor then?

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Deinonychus is still far smaller than JP raptors.

[@DenGuleBalje]

Yes, maybe the Utahraptor is closer, but that thing was massive.

[@Michae89]

Austroraptor then. Happy? =P

[@mad87645]

I think from the start of the video up to 1:21 was Yahtzee's greatest opening ever. It was just one beautifully set up burn after another

[@dtam9051]

You've saved me so much money, and I thank you for that.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

JPOG did it better 15 years earlier.

[@MasterOphSky]

JW:E did exactly what JPOG did, but refined the mechanics and added more guff in. It's the same game, just older and therefore the nostalgia's clouding your judgement.

[@travislyonsgary]

Except the ai,visitors,physics and actual way to make enclosures.

[@TheGuardDuck]

Yeah, OG had some good bits. Did you know you could tweak a file to unlock all the dig sites and get all the dinos?

[@rm2569]

Nomulus Well kind of? Jpog was less goal oriented than jwe, so i can kind of agree, though i prefered if we could use all the space on a island. However, the dinosaur fighting isn't very good, and the genetic modification system i feel was sorely underdeveloped( they don't need to choose between accuracy to rl or to the movies) and also no modding is a serious constraint. Modding the original jpog was an underhanded business until very recently, because now there is a tool to put new models into the game now.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Yes, but given it's been 15 freaking years, you would expect they could had done so much more progress. Also two words. SITE B.

[@brolo7234]

Kinda wish Yahtzee knew that this was essentially JPOG HD edition

[@TheJrbdog]

Corinus Richen It's more like JPOG Lite

[@benjaminrosiek5007]

fun fact, when the book was being written there were 2 types of velociraptors, the chicken ones.... and Deinonychus, the later being the man sized murder machine. and later Deinonychus got split off completely from the velociraptor tag, leading to smarmy pricks pointing out the "flaw" without realizing any history behind anything.

[@ty_teynium]

There’s a demo of the Trex breakout scene from the first movie. Not sure which engine or when it was. It’s so short, and yet it’s concept does deliver.

[@williamlohrmann2021]

Ooof, that anti vax movement... funny you saw it coming!

[@francis6775]

Didn't JPOG do a lot of what this game doesn't? Embarrassing when that game came out 15 years ago

[@MasterOphSky]

Pretty sure everything JPOG did this game *also* did, soooo

[@TheGuardDuck]

I'd love to see a comparison of the two. I had OG.

[@bobcatou23]

I played JPOG, and while it was tycoon, Evolution has the same aspect but it is far more challenging. The dinos require far more to control them and the raptor can just f**k off because nothing makes them happy or keeps them confined. But seriously I loved OG and while I was thrilled to have played it Evo needed to happen to provide an new age challenge. I just wish someone would do a remake of the original SNES Jurassic Park. It would be great to have a more personal view of dinosaurs and I do not mean Dino Crisis for f**k sake...I mean a remodeled version with a open world style, objective based RPG Jurassic Park. I miss the days when graphics made no difference to us and it was about the experience.

[@boush1177]

Yes, Operation Genesis did a lot of things that this game lacks. I made a list of some examples in another comment and I will copy-paste that here. Keep in mind this is not even a full list, I left out some small details. - No-Park mode where you could just build dinosaurs and watch them live their lives without having to build the park and bother with humans. Nothing like this exists in Evolution, you have one island (or more accurately a quarter of an island) with infinite money but even in that one you must build a park. - Customizable islands. You could pick your own entire island and fill it and customize it however you wish, you could build on the entire island. Nothing like this exists in Evolution, you are given a few islands from the movies and you can only build on small parts of the island, the rest of the island is forever off-limits. - In Genesis the dinosaurs had some sort of pack/herd behavior and actually roamed together. The predators could also hunt in groups if multiple ones happened to be hungry or in Hunt mode at the same time (except the big ones which are all solitary and fight each other). - The goats (and cows) had actual AI in Genesis and they could be seen roaming around and playing with each other/herbivore dinos. They would also run away when afraid of predators. In Evolution the goats have none of this. - Herbivores could actually escape predators. In Evolution when a predator is close enough to a non-combat herbivore the herbivore is already dead, it will stand still and an animation will play for the predator killing it, the herbivore can never escape this situation. In Genesis the herbivores could actually escape from predators if they were fast enough. This is literally a basic animal feature that lacks in Evolution. The non-combat herbivores are not animals with self-preservation but instead just glorified snacks. This ignores basic reality because in nature predators fail at hunting quite often. - In Genesis low health dinos would usually prioritize running away rather than fighting. In Evolution the dinos will literally self-destroy themselves by not caring about how much health they have and entering fights even if they have 1% health. - In Genesis the dinosaurs needed to sleep. No such thing at all in Evolution. - Park visitors were individuals. In Genesis they all had some pre-given names (you could also give them your own names if you mess with the files), they all had personal needs like hunger, tiredness, etc. and you could see what they think of your park by clicking them. The visitors will like the park if their needs are sated but will complain if your park is too dirty, if they cannot watch any dinosaurs, and so on. There were also a few types of visitors in the park like herbivore/predator fans, those who want to see dinosaurs kill each other, and nerds who complain if your park is not authentic. In Evolution they are just a mass of pixels that do not have any needs or individuality, like Yahtzee said. - In Genesis the predator dinos acted like actual real animals and did not kill herbivores just for the hell of it, only when they were hungry or their Hunt meter (separate from Hunger) got high. In Evolution they will murder herbivores for literally no reason. The only predator acting this way should be the Indominus Rex because of plot reasons but instead all predator dinos act this way and the Indominus has nothing special. This is not how animals work!

[@TheGuardDuck]

Boush 117 Excellent comparison! Thanks! Imma go re-install Genesis again! Back when I first got it, my machine was SOO OLD it lagged terribly. Now it'll run perfect!

[@glenellisquinn]

Best zero punctuation in a long time

[@togekiss1995]

You know when you’ve accumulated stress and just need something to blow it off? Well Yahtzee is my stress blower... wait...

[@MagicalFruitBasket]

Somehow I knew preemptively this was going to include whining about current knowledge of dinosaurs but I was wrongly optimistic and clicked anyways. The original Jurassic Park helped popularize new knowledge on dinosaurs and ignoring that aspect of the movies is a fatal flaw of it's sequels. It's mindless entertainment, nothing else. The original JP had an educational value to it and now that dinosaurs have gotten some new skin patterns JP fans very ironically started losing their shit. Science said "hey dinosaurs are actually more like birds" and everyone was fine with it. Suddenly they also comment "hey dinosaurs are actually even MORE like birds" and that makes people angry. This is particularly odd considering dinosaurs have gone through a much more drastic during the dinosaur renaissance that completely changed the way we know they walked and stood, drastically altering their silhouette as we'd once perceived it. This wasn't a simple change, the discovery of deinonychus lead to entirely reshaping the animals from saurian kangaroos to tail and tooth bearing ostriches and cassowaries. And yet, the release of JP made this change welcoming. However when the same science that made JP so unique merely added a new coat of paint to those same bird-like reptiles the movie portrayed it seemed to attract a whole heap of unwarranted backlash from the JP fan community. Go fuck yourselves.

[@paradoxacres1063]

Knowing that Yahtzee will one day review *HuniePop* it fills me with determination!

[@langit2423]

Do you comment this on every video he uploads?

[@anexplosion5436]

+Paradox Acres It drains me of mine. And replaces it with depression.

[@BigT.Larrity]

Liam Masters Why, Huniepop was actually really good. I wish they'd port the date puzzle game to the play store, it's the best version of the Bejeweled matching games imo. Also Kyu best girl, Audrey a close second.

[@mrlegendary3207]

I'd like to see that

[@anexplosion5436]

+Big T. Larrity Because its EVERY GOD DAMN VIDEO someone comments it. And im sick of hearing about it. Yahtzee, at this point, probably doesn't even care about doing anymore.

[@Michael_RA_Duffy]

i loved the human animation bit, that was great.

[@SolidLMG]

ive been watching you for years, but while watching this one i realised the graphics you use it looks like they are wearing thigh high boots and not i cant unsee it

[@dasaniwaterbottle71]

I saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the other day. Don't watch it.

[@thequillster]

Please review ark

[@theflyingkahoon1099]

yes!

[@srbearshark6628]

He basically hated it, he mentioned it in the Cave Story Review, I believe.

[@theflyingkahoon1099]

oh okay :D

[@Bird_Dog00]

Sr BearShark And that's why we want a full review. Nothing beats watching Yahtzee painfully drilling a game he despises a new one for 5 minutes...

[@ReleasedHollow]

Bird_Dog I love Ark but I also have this weird fixation on Yahtzee demeaning and humiliating any game I love.

[@AnonJuggerbot]

On Yahtzee's criticism of the carnivores eating the herbivores despite being well cared for, I will quote the first movie: "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt."

[@9seed.]

"The humans are pleased" I died.

[@TheWuffball]

#ThanosDidNothingWrong

[@TARINunit9]

THE HUMANS ARE AMUSED

[@LoliconSamalik]

except kill half the universe rather than make more resources.

[@MasterOphSky]

Ever considered anger management?

[@RacingSnails64]

why here, why now, why that

[@lillydalliesaboutthings]

I'm guessing your a fan of BestGuyEver / KegStandard

[@Gruntvc]

Scientists tend to be full of themselves. If anything they should be thankful to Jurassic Park/World as they keep dinosaurs and paleontology in the mainstream. It was thanks to JP1 that there was a big dino craze, many of us bought books and went to museums to learn about the real life dinos.

[@hellblaze10]

Not sciences fult that people are spite ful

[@ddgnp1057]

Paleontologists tend to be incredibly spiteful and petty people as far as the scientific community goes. It's fiercely competitive for whatever reason.

[@jamestang1227]

DD GNP There just isn't that much evidence in palaeontology which leads to there being more leeway to have different interpretations on what the animal was/looked like/did/etc.

[@jamestang1227]

Dracorex We only know Pachycephalosaurus from its skull, we have to fill out the rest to the body with what its relatives or juveniles looked like. T-rex skin is another example, we don't have very many examples of its skin, most are very small and some come from T-rex relatives.

[@jamestang1227]

I'm not denying that, fossils definitely change our understanding of a certain group's evolution. My point was to work in tandem with yours as individual fossils may change our understanding however there are instances where different interpretations arise because there aren't that many fossils to examine.

[@patriciaholmes3779]

I like to imagine yahtzees work week consists entirely of playing video games, drawing googly eyes on dinosaurs and then talking fast into a microphone with a slightly cockney accent

[@gamersdestiny8239]

I was eating grapes and I nearly chocked when he said velosorapters could fetch slippers

[@johnmcconnell7052]

Nice video as always

[@IstasPumaNevada]

I've got 70 hours in the game and I'd say all these criticisms are valid. Add to that that the sandbox map (which is nice and open with more building area) doesn't have an option to turn on the need to worry about finances. I still quite enjoy it though. Because dinosaurs, and fences.

[@realsteel9877]

I love this.

[@AusSP]

C'mon, Yahtzee. You know Australian tobacconists don't sell stuff in featureless grey packaging. They're in warning stickers and pictures of people dying of cigarette smoke.

[@ShroudedWolf51]

I think that the funniest bit to mention would have been when the SECURITY division tells you to breed the aggressive gene into a T-Rex or some other dinosaur and then reprimands you for trying to keep your park safe and operational.

[@41Extremo]

Still have my operation genesis disc, loved that game so much

[@Xegethra]

My friend said the same thing about the shallow business aspect of it. The previous game had deeper management and more things to build apparently. Wouldn't really know, I haven't played either.

[@jonathanhodges8752]

I haven't played this but it seems a lot like the dinosaur add on to Zoo Tycoon. Ahhh memories

[@garlicfries85]

I just saw the end of the match. My condolences, yatzhee