hello! here’s another video about a weird game you probably haven’t played! thanks for watching my stuff, and i hope you have a lovely holiday season. (also i tried holding the mic this time, not sure if i’ll stick with it but i’ve been in an experimenting mood lately)

This game being PVP is what killed it, everyone wanted a PvE game, many big content creators say "The game is amazing until you have to fight other players and it feels forced".

"I like playing as the big dinosaur" We all do. If only more games let you play as the big dinosaur

Me and my friends stuck with this game and really loved the last half. I wish the presentation was better though. Anyways, the bit about Leviathan is so on point. Leviathan is one of the most memorable video game announcers I've ever heard. We still randomly quote him even when playing totally different games. "Summoning raptors. Summoning raptors. Summoning raptors."

Those cooler gamemodes being locked until you progress the story further sounds cool in theory but that alone turns off a lot of newer players from wanting to push on from the first few hours if they arent aware of it and eventually, its gonna be really hard finding players in the cooler gamemodes if too many people dropped the game too soon.

Fun fact: the pure pve is basically gambit from destiny. It suffers from a lot of the same issues. I am glad to see a game try what gambit did all those years ago but it seems like the idea is a lot touchier than anybody thought and is incredibly difficult to execute. I have hope for these ideas in the future though.

I remember pretty much the consensus with this one was "oh; that's cool, but where's the PvE only mode?" and then the devs said it was on the way, and put out beta tests with the forced PvP that made a lot of people upset lol I think the devs had an interesting vision for this game; but I also feel like they needed someone to tell them to just focus on ONE aspect of the game, and tune it to perfection. If this was a solely PvE or PvP game, I imagine it would've been a lot better received.

Yeah, the problem I had with Exo was that there was genuinely a funny and campy story going on, but all that Live Service PvP stuff was getting in the way. I would've liked a PvE hero shooter.

As a Warframe player, I was put off from trying by the PvP. And I bet the people who like PvP were put off by almost all of it being PvE.

Savage Gauntlet's weekend exclusivity is almost certainly to centralize players towards the main queue during weekdays, which is especially important considering the lower player counts.

I played this game for a good while man like probably 20 plus hours and it still has some of the highest highs I have experienced in recent multiplayer. Running over to the enemy teams payload to blindside them with deadeye's ultimate was incredible. When every piece of exoprimal clicks its phenomenal, it just sucks that it hits that sweet spot like 15% of the time. This game feel like it might be a prime suspect for a 2.0 F2P update in like a year.

14:54 i guess we can now safely say that this issue has been alleviated as of the recent Season 3, where you can now see the exosuit's abilities from the hanger menu

All I wanted is a Dino Crisis remake. That is all.

absolutely hilarious that the devs decided to hide the majority of their game and as a result most people never even heard about it. This is the first time across multiple reviews that I've heard anyone mention more gamemodes etc. unlocking as you progress the story, presumably because reviewers aren't going to waste over five hours or more on repetitive gameplay that has no hint of change. As far as most of the world is concerned, Exoprimal has only one game mode and it's not an especially engaging one.

I think that one of the problems was that when the game was showed and the people saw: CAPCOM, red hair lady and dinosaurs you automatically think Dino Crisis and Capcom knows how much we want a remake or another game...it felt like a bad joke. Great video!

Not a lot of people mention it, but I was coasting along watching the hype train as I waited for this to come out. I knew what it was, and I was genuinely excited for what it was. And Capcom did an absolutely horrid job of explaining what it was. So many people didn't know, there were questions everywhere, and the general state was confusion and a total apathy to do one's own research. And for goodness sake, with this hamstring already nipping the game...they came to a preview event with a "battlepass trailer." Instead of, you know, "Hey this is overwatch but with dinosaur killing before the player killing." As excited as I was for the game, I instantly saw that battlepass trailer and went "oh no this is going to be dead fast...am I going to waste $60 on it anyway..?" And I did and it was a ton of fun...but yeah. They messed this up real, real bad. Which is truly a shame because it's such a fun and good game. It just buries itself under it's problems and the absolutely concern-inducing furious drive of the devs/publisher to make this live service.

In the first trailer we've got time travel, dinosaurs and a redhead protagonist. A lot of us assumed that maybe a Dino Crisis reboot is in the works. A lot of us old fans were upset when it turned out to be an another online shooter

I actually played a couple matches of exoprimal but only as Roadblock, I had a couple moments i thought was cool (and i liked the voice, it sounded like he was struggling a bit when the shield was about to go down) but i was really in it for the PvE, and if exoprimal wasnt on gamepass, it would've been even more of a flop edit: I did remember as roadblock actually tanking a dinosaur charging at me with my shield up as it pushes me back, and that. was. epic. I love that so much.

Something about the payload race mode is that, it used to be like what you wanted. The city payload mission had both teams start at the coastline and push up to the museum, resulting in a lot of Vigilant and Nimbus harrassing over the coast from atop their payloads, with stuff like Murasama and Zephyr rushing down to push them out from behind tank shields, and then more closer ranged skirmishes as they pass by the openings between the buildings. It was a lot more directly engaging, but then they just outright removed that varient? And then to add insult to injury, made it so that whatever team arrives second on it is forced to be on the coastline giving super easy access for the team ALREADY IN THE LEAD to rush over to their payload and do a cheese teamwipe with Roadblock or Nimbus ults.

In my opinion Exoprimals greatest issue was the replayability. I thought the rush to complete the pve sections to get a head start in the pvp section was really fun, and choosing the best exosuits to play based on my teams composition and the types of Dino’s that would be present (for example, Barrage is excellent for tanky dinos like ankylosaurus, meanwhile Kreiger is great for hordes of smaller dinos.). However once I completed the story (which I thought was great) and maxed out my favorite exosuits there wasn’t any reason to play the game. Sure there was the savage gauntlets which I think are really fun, but those are only for two days in a week, and when they’re the only postgame content it can get boring fast. I’ll definitely see if it’s worth it when the title updates are done, but until then there’s other games I’d rather be playing.

Had a grand time with the game, just felt like after I finished the story there wasn't enough to keep me interested, and the alpha variants (which were post launch content) just weren't enough

when you said dinosaur overwatch I was hoping you played as the dinosaurs in pvp,,, now im sad

I have hit max level and max suit level for this game. And I can safely say this has been the best multiplayer game I’ve played in so so long. It’s a shame the inevitable end it will receive but I am glad to have experienced it and I hope there will be more of it whether be a sequel or a new strategy to get more players. I’ll be there playing regardless until the future hits

i was so excited for this game because being cool mech/robot dudes fighting hordes of dinosaurs together sounds fucking amazing but then i found out it doesn't have singleplayer/offline and it's a full price game with a battle pass and tons of things it begs you to buy. i feel like if this game succeeded, it would've been bad for future monster hunter games specifically

The way you describe getting thrown into low level missions reminds me of how picking roulettes in XIV can have similar results, like you'd end up having to play through Sastasha or the Crystal Tower raids for the millionth time... except if roulettes were also the only way to access dungeons you just got, which sounds like a maaaaajor pain in the ass.

It's because we've got the hype af dinosaur souls-like coming -soon- at some point hopefully (It's DinoBlade) (Jean Nguyen on youtube has posted some updates)

Someone in the Capcom office after Exo-pPrimal flops: Told you we should've gone with making Dino Crisis but, no, we need to make our own Overwatch.

The "Live Service" thing feels kind of an afterthought, almost. Like this was designed to be a unique PvEvP-type game, with a cohesive story happening in the background, but Capcom got their executive grubby hands on it and added enough microtransactions and bonuses to muddle the meaning of the game. In other news, remember what happened to Battleborn?

I was so unbelievably excited for this game until I saw it was online multiplayer only.

I would tell Capcom to keep the assets and maybe build something even cooler

13:02 Honestly Exoprimal is basically ''But instead it's just f*cking weird'' The game

i like how we had the same brain wave here "I want to love this game but i can't" like it's really cool game melee and gunplay is super smooth(it's really hard to balance the gun and melee to be this good) but damn this game is like shoot themselves in the foot huh

I PLAYED IT YAKKO, I DID IT, IT WAS ME, I MAXXED OUT HOT ROBOT LADY ON SKATES

Is that a Thank You Scientist album art i see behind you? What a chad

That Vocal theme from Casey Edwards single handedly made this game memorable. God it’s a banger.

I wish this game either was a Solo experience or a PVE multiplayer. I hope get Dino Crisis at least

I played this on launch while i was recovering from a broken arm and I absolutely loved it. It was a blast to play.

I played it .. was ok. Wish it was offline though, dynasty warriors but with dinosaurs...dinoysty warriors if you will.

dinosaur tornado...a *dinado* if you will. also you right, that track SLAPS thank you

Thankfully Capcom has heard some of the issues that people have and have made some changes. Most notably in the upcoming season 4 update in mid April, you'll be able to create a lobby and play those special raid missions. You also get xp and campaign progress while doing it. Which is a big win and something they should of done a long time ago

I appreciate and commend them for trying something new bc that's how new genres are born, the reality is not everything sticks but maybe now other developers will take elements from this game to create something in their game that will stick. Great video sir.

thanks for the Christmas present - this game seems really cool and refreshing, would be awesome to see another game like this just more fleshed out- though it is mostly unlikely:(

I think one of the absolute worse parts of this game is that despite making you sign in with a separate Capcom ID, It's never used for well, anything other than random matchmaking. You can't even party up cross-platform; which includes Steam and Gamepass being separate platforms. It doesn't offer any form of cross-progression between platforms with the Capcom ID either, I had started in the very first day of the game with a friend. We played a few hours and enjoyed it. Next day they convinced someone else to try it out, but they bought it on steam, so both of us ended up having to redo that first day of progression over just to play as a small party. At least they started with cross-platform matchmaking, otherwise that would have absolutely destroyed it out of the gate for PC, at least for Steam. It's definitely fun, but they really messed up a number of key points like you pointed out that makes it a very weird experience. Mind you, not a bad experience, just weird.

I started playing this game 3 days ago from Yakko's recommendation and i'm thoroughly enjoying it. I really hope more people get into this game cause it deserves a bigger player base. As mentioned its also free on xbox games pass and it is really surpising me at how much i enjoy the story and actually care about the characters a little bit. In reality i know no one is gonna read my message. But if you do, thank you. I hope you give the game a shot.

I want to play now mainly because of Leviathan, he sounds amazing!

So it's a game for people who really, *REALLY* hate dinosaurs.

4:20 Oh White Chocolate Charlie, how I've missed you.

This was fantastic. This kind of video is why I subscribed. Even the overall references to Sonic Unleashed, likely because its another weird game with two very different modes smashed together and you don't actually understand how cool it is until you just play the game for a few dozen hours. Even the dinosaur joke you made at the end and the outro, man. Keep doing what you do man. Fan who used to live in Indiana

I always tought the game was focused on the PVE experience, so when i tried it with few friend, and we understood the main gamemode was the PvP we just left the game. We try the game few month ago when we learnt we could queue for the "PVE mode" only. But its was just a time trial against the enemy team we loose eevery hope we had. But it was cool to play the big dino

I hadn't heard a thing about Exoprimal since it came out, and yea I would expect it to flop on reviews with how you said the game opens up with more you play since game journalist normally only play a couple of missions before giving a review and move on to the next game. All I heard was how the Dino Crisis community was in such a uproar that Capcom director Takuro Hiraoka had to state in a interview it wasn't apart of the Dino Crisis franchise and I stopped paying attention to the game when they announced that.

there's one thing you didn't acknowledge, during the pve sections of the game you can just go to the whole other end of the map and attack the enemy prematurely. most fun I had in this game

Yoo i just noticed the Thank You Scientist Vinyl, nice. Love your videos, well done as always

Exoprimal is good but the main issue isn't anything about the gameplay loop or pvp vs pve. It's the lack of content. The alpha variants of suits weren't available on launch and there were like 3-4 maps.

I absolutely love this game, even the PVP side. I just feel like Capcom didn't really do a good job marketing it and it's suffering as a result.

overwatch warframe jurassic park... three things i love

Some of the PvE progression style reminds me of Resistance Fall of Man 2's online PvE. There were multiple campaigns that each had 5-6 parts, but what you matched into was random and based on all players' progression in the lobby. Amazing game tho, probably the most underrated FPS ever imo

Da king is back baby he neva miss

Honestly, I love Exoprimal as a fun game I can turn my brain off for a couple of hours. I'm glad you had some fun with it too. I agree, it's not worth $60; but it's on gamepass where the majority of people play it on (which explains the terrible Stream numbers.) Even playing yesterday, matches always queued up quickly and I had very few bots (even with a Mangum mission.) Also, the bots are surprisingly competent. You bring up a lot of valid points and I can tell you really played into the game. I feel like it's just a game to have fun for a bit and then play something else and def not meant to always scratch that live service itch. I truly hope the game sticks around and I'm sure the MH collab and Neo Triceratops will breathe life back into the game. But as it is now, it's hanging in there.

This video made my Christmas even better.

If Exoprimal was a single player / offline game, I’d have been totally interested, but it being online only absolutely killed the idea for me, I’ve not even bothered giving it a proper look.

I expected more PVE than PVP. It is a decent game at the core, but it has immense flaws that keeps it from succeeding. Game looks really good though. I admit, I did play it on Gamepass, so I saved money on it. PVE raid moments really start kicking in after 10 hours or so. Didn't have a lot of variety in game modes. It was a DPS check simulator in the end. Did play really early. Don't know how it is now.

Everytime I see someone chill looking at this game, I ask them, "What do you think this could have become if it was a EDF like game?"

Thank you for another great year of content!

As a Overwatch fan, Dinosaur Nut, Singe player adventures, and coop...TAKE MY MONEY.

Why'd it flop? People wanted dino EDF, capcom gave them Overbotched. Pure co-op and story would have been the way to go, it could have been a big deal.

"Yah know, the game has it's flaws but it sounds pretty fun if you're willing to look past it. Maybe I'll get some friends together and give it a sho-" *$60 price tag* No, absolutely not. This game can die.

Your videos are getting better :)

I played this game for a few minutes to an hour but I never dedicated time to it. I got it on Game Pass so even though I was kind of excited it was just whatever to me. Your video tells me why I was interested in the first place but it also lets me know I probably don't need to go back anytime soon. I also have to thank you for pointing out that amazing theme song that I didn't hear my first time so now I get to add that to my playlist

"you can see what your abilities do" ignores the training area that you can play even locked characters to get an idea for.

I actually enjoyed Exoprimal! I had 0 intention to buy but it was on gamepass. I expected 3 hours of fun before i'd delete it. I ended up putting in a LOT more time tho. It's impressively well made. I actually loved PvP more than PvE, so i wish we had a mode just for PvP... (Even when you select PvP you always have to do PvE objectives first).

excellent, excellent analysis, yakko

Yakko video on Christmas Eve? Lets goooo!

I have being playing since launch and never had any wait time really getting into matches, I think it was an overall good game for what it tried to do

It really sucks that nobody seems to be able to make a good dinosaur game that has staying power.

Thank you for quality caption transcriptions, the auto generated ones leave much to be desired 💜

I just want to say for some of the pay load missions , on some of the later missions in the game,they will have both of the payloads near each other aside from the end, for example on the lava map theres a payload mission that puts both team super close to each other at the start, same goes for a late game downtown payload mission where both payload’s are place relatively close to each other around the edge of the shore area and get closer around the 50-60% and honestly these are when payload hits it peak, thought i do wish they had this in earlier missions

God i remember exoprimal, I used to love the game (and the idea was incredibly interesting to me), it sucked that it was trying to be something it shouldn't been.

This game is one I found extremely fun to play but I was hoping to find the next EDF for me and my friends and the biggest issue is that I have gamepass and they don't. I played and had a good bit of fun on my own but without a consistent group, I tend to drop pvp games decently fast and even though I did play longer than I usually do, the progress to unlock new game modes is so slow that I unfortunately hardly reached most of them. Maybe I'll play again, but I just feel sad knowing that I will likely never see this game at full glory with my friends.

So listen, that ending gave me goosebumps, yeah, the guy with rose tinted sunglasses too, yakko ending this year with this video would be perfection

Just wanted to add that the vocal theme “Exohuman” at the end was made by Cassey Edwards, THE SAME GUY WHO MADE THE VOCAL SONGS FROM DEVIL MAY CRY 5

I love this game, one of the most fun and unique multyplayer games I have played. Looking forward to Season 3 and Season 4.

i played more than hundred hours in this game, loved it, loved the cheesyness, love the dynamic fights, love the exo design, shame that it did not fight theyr players

Seems like an interesting test to see what a PvEvP game like this would look like. I'm not under the impression that the fundamental concept of it is what doomed it to fail, but I think this is the sort of thing I'd like to see future games take and innovate/improve upon. Things I'd like to see from new games inspired by this: - All modes unlocked from the beginning, or at least made clear that they will be unlocked the more you play - New modes being unlocked with story progression is a cool novelty, but for a live service PvP game, it would really struggle to bring in new players since the barrier to entry of playing different (potentially more interesting) parts of the game is locked behind a linear progression system - Alongside the whole "new modes no longer being locked behind story progression," being forced to play the levels the lowest level player is on would be done away with as well. Modes would be more standardized and wouldn't inherently be restricted by relative progression with the main story being a separate entity. - Maybe the game would take inspiration from Helldivers 2, where everyone is part of a massive cohesive story, and everyone works to fulfill Major Orders. But instead of Major Orders, you're working to reach your personal next story beat/cutscene. Maybe you get unique dialogue or visuals for whatever part of the story you are at, but at that point it's be less of an experience with others and more of a personal experience that others just happen to be the backdrop of, so I'm leaving that one of the backburner. - Make playing new characters/versions more accessible. While I do think personal progression systems in PvE games are pretty cool, I think a more parallel progression system could work better in a PvEvP game, working to diversify playstyles while still keeping it relatively balanced. - Allow all players to use beeg dino boi, or this new game's equivalent. Maybe make it so that only one teammember can do it at a time or something, but everyone should be allowed to dino it up. - Stylize it, or just reduce the visual clutter because dear god there is a lot going on and its hard to follow. Visual and audio feedback should be made more impactful and distinct, and keep as much stuff off the screen that doesn't immidiately need to be there. Another example from Helldivers, being able to pull up the map when you want, but having it off screen whenever you dont want it/aren't using it. Apply that principal to the stuff n things and maybe itll help. I also just think theres a lotta dinos and a lotta numbers and not enough visual feedback to help make heads or tails of most of it. - Make PvP more prominant and frequent, it shouldn't be a race of optimizing your payload push until you finally meet at the end, it should be a constant back and forth until one of you can pull through. - All major events to play out and maybe even halt each's progression until its taken care of (da flyin dinos mane) - erm. Uhm. Hrmsh. Idk maybe a thousand other things but ill think brainstorming more for this fairytale game some other day. I don't even understand a good chunk of how this game actually functions so im really just spit balling cuz it seems interesting, but i aint throwing 60 bucks and several hours at a, "ok" experience. I just wants someone to be like "shit mane, this could be rlly cool, lets doing something like that, but restructure it without the fundamental flaws"

Don't know how I've never seen your vids before this one, excellent video 😊 you've earned my sub for sure!!

I was super tempted to get this game a while back when I saw the raptor cascade down the tower, then I looked at the steam player numbers and decided against it. If they game had more players, I would have definitely gotten it because this is totally my thing.

The game is soo interesting, I wish more people played it :)

yo the thumbnail was an instant eyecatcher, never before did a thumbnail catch my attention that fast - I laughed irl 😆 and watched the video as well lol.

"Imagine being invited to a banquet and when you arrive there isn't much food set out and what you do try is good if not a bit average. Still being a bit hungry you go for seconds and find that the attendants have set out more dishes that turn out to be better than what was originally out. Curious to see if it'll happen again, you go for thirds only to find that the attendants have hidden all the good food because someone new had showed up. On a completely unrelated note, have you heard of Exoprimal?"

I have +100 Hours in this game and I find it a damn shame that the game's doing so poorly but I absolutely get why: PvEvP is generally a weird balance to strike and thus far the pure PvE people were hoping for doesn't exist yet and thus far all the new Mechs we got are alternative versions of the regular ones, with more to come and no new original one in sight. I hope they miraculously manage to make a comeback, They planned cross invites and custom games by the over next Season (with the coming one starting January that adds MH crossover content like a new Map and even Rathalos as a boss) but I fear it might be too late by then. It seems like a badly mismanaged game that had weird progression but a really cool story, a massively fun base gameplay but an odd system in terms of the PvEvP. It's great but flawed and I wish it the best because damn: capcom cooked with this but they forgot the Bread and butter. Also yeah Leviathan is hilarious in his delivery and me and my friend quote that mad AI every now and then.

This game is criminally underrated and it deserves so much more. Its such a joy to play!

Happy Holidays yakko ❤️🎄

I'm so excited that they announced you will be able to pick specific miaaions soon. I'm just gonna spam raid battles.

damn this looks fun... if this game were pve or free i would play it in a heartbeat. Love the video, keep up the great content!

Wow. Never thought I'd see the day where a proper multiplayer progression system was a negative.

I just subscribed to you purely on the fact that you have a Thank You Science vinyl hanging up and I respect it also your analysis of video games is good as well.

crazy me and my friends put hours into this game and never got to any of the cool stuff you showed. might be time to start it up again

I have never in my life been sold a game to on its flaws. You are a genius yak. And then passing it off to the games soundtrack. You are wild.

Yakko, everytime: So Why do I like game? well its simple, Have you heard music? *Montage to epic game soundtrack*

omg i had no idea there was more to the game, i have to give it another shot now

5 hours is alot to ask if the promise is "Trust me, it will get good soon"