Ed Boon expressed interest in creating a giant monster fighting game over Twitter, so “Primal Rage” might have some hope! 
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iI’d support it if this were true. How do I know he ain’t pulling our legs over the Godzilla vs Kong hype?
Also I highly doubt this would have anything to do with primal rage.
But to answer his question, ya is believe there are enough giant monsters. If not he can always make an original.
As far as Primal Rage is concerned, I don’t think this will have anything to do with them.
Well, the post was dated April 4th, so it would be too late for an April Fool’s Day joke. That said, it’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility that it could be him pulling fans’ legs.
True. That said, I don’t think this would be outside the realm of possibility since the creatures in PR are by definition kaiju.
Probably. Still, one lives in hope.
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That’s not entirely wrong, though Sauron I’d think would be larger than a T-rex but not anywhere near the size of Godzilla.
That being said I would love for them to bring in Premal Rage. as long as they focus only on the gods and not the humans I’d say it will be in good hands.
Still I doubt it, but I’m some what open to the idea. Still a video game with giant monsters would be so awesome. and given there record with MK and IJ I think this has potential to be the best Kaiju Fighting game. if it were to happen. Currently Godzilla save the earth has that title. (to me at least)
Still one could dream.
But by the looks of it, it looks like he’s expressing interest in a game that features a lot of fictions most iconic monsters.
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Also ever what happened to PR2?
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Really surprised they never included it in any of the ROM dump midway collections.
WB really should get NRS on a Primal Rage reboot.
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Maaaaan, that is tragic! They spent so much time making this, but upon being bought out, not only was the project canned, but a lot of the staff got fired as well?! What a di ck move! 
Can you explain to me what is it about Primal Rage in the video?
Sorry, could you clarify? I’m not sure what you mean.
Basically its explaining what happened to Primal Rage 2 that lead to its cancelation.
The thing is it puts abit of perspective on the bankruptcy that Midway Games went through in the 2000’s and makes me wonder if midway deserved it for that move. Thankfully Mortal Kombat was able to survive to this day but its still messed up.
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How exactly did PR2 ended up getting canceled? I wish the video has CC, so I can understand what’s going on.
Ah, since you are newcomer, I want to let you know that I can’t hear anything because I am deaf. I hope you understand and thank you!
I asked what did the dude saying about Primal Rage in the video. I really want to know what’s going on with the franchise.
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Ahh, I see! Thank you for clarifying.
So, basically there were plans to make a PR2, but they fell through. The team wanted to make the game as impressive impossible, with over twelve hundred to two thousand frames of animation, which is a daunting task since everything is stop motion. Because of all the data and custom hard-drive, porting the game onto consoles would be a HUGE undertaking, if not impossible to do. Cartridges wouldn’t be able to hold the amount of data it had. In 1996, Midway purchased Time Warner, but the former gutted the company, firing entire swaths of personnel. Midway bought the company just so they wouldn’t have competition. The team had asked about the possibility of using MK fighters for their game, but Midway said no and ultimately cancelled the game.
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Wow… This is messed up. Thank you for explaining.
It’s suck to know that PR2 got canceled for silly reason. I would love to see the franchise gets revived for XSX and PS5 like Microsoft did with Killer Instinct. However, I don’t think it will ever happen. I hope I am wrong…
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Ah that explains it. My apologies.
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It’s ok! 
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It took awhile and a very long wait but Talon is finally redone.
I had this model back in 2019 when I worked on him. Here he is now.
To be honest I love how my bro rigged it. I 've been wanted to pose this guy for a long time.
Oh and here’s blizzard
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OMG! I LOVE that Talon design - that is absolutely fantastic!
Nice!
Late to the party here but a couple of quick thoughts:
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Ed Boon asks a lot of questions in Twitter and is famous for trolling. So I wouldn’t get overly excited.
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Primal Rage 2 was, sadly, probably a smart cancellation. The game would have cost a ton to make and then probably released right around the time arcades died in the US. It was a hugely ambitious idea but I don’t know that the change in concept (to more of a Bloody Roar style) would have been popular. I also don’t think the home consoles at the time would have been able to handle it well. PS famously had trouble loading in Shang Tsung’s transformation animations when he switched characters. Holding all this animation frames in memory is a problem on ram limited CD rom systems. This is why even SF kept setting the standard for Cartridge sizes back on SNES.
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I think the biggest opportunity for a new PR game is to take the game and emulate the look of hand animated Harryhausen dinosaurs using modern 3D modeling. Something like ArcSys has done with GG.
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