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Old 10-25-2011, 04:34 AM
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Default armed apes

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Originally Posted by Mahatatain View Post
Reminds me of the original Planet of the Apes films where the apes, specifically the Gorillas, were armed with rifles.

It works as an idea for a game though - you just have to justify why the apes are now intelligent enough to use firearms. For example I ran a Morrow Project inspired game a few years ago where Alien invaders were breeding (and mentally enhancing) apes to use them as foot soldiers in their war against the humans.

As a little boy i got my hands on the marvel-comics (i didnt saw the movies at that age) , and i am sure thats what started my love for post-apocalyptic settings (intensified in a different way by MadMax a bit later).
Horse-riding gorillas with carbines, slugging it out with an army of mutated bunker-dwellers in an abandoned desert-wasteland...
None of my childhood-friends knew about that apes-stuff (which i was obsessed with as a kid) and i was the only one, craving for a line of action-figures like for star wars... (the mego-stuff was nowhere in sight in germany).
So i collected lots of "naked gorillas" in the form of chewbacca...

PS:
Targan wrote: "When you look into the eyes of a chimp, bonobo, orang or gorilla you can tell there is a person in there. A really weird (from our point of view) person admittedly, but they have their own complicated lives, wants and desires."
Very well said, exactly what i thought sometimes, but i didŽnt found these words. I would even go as far, as expanding that to most non-primate animals as well. Call me a tree-hugger, if you like.
But if you ever had a cat or a dog, which you loved, than youŽll know that there is something to it. And a good video, btw.

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