Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge coming to 360 in May

by Ben Gilbert on Jan 22nd 2010 12:00AM

It can be hard being a a total outdoorsman every now and then -- don't we know it! Sometimes it snows, or there are vicious bears, or maybe we're just feeling like snuggling up inside with a warm mug of hot cocoa instead of mercilessly hunting down animals for sport. Thankfully, development studio Beast understand our predicament and has announced a March release date for upcoming Xbox 360 hunting sim Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge. Finally, a solution!

At last, we can "brave the elements" of the wild without having to actually experience the raw elements that make us want to stay safely indoors. And considering that the closest we get to "the wild" is the local zoo, it's good to know that the game will feature "more than 30 big game, native, and fowl species across multiple environments." Heck, we can even polish up our lacking rifleman skills with F&S:TOC's free hunt and practice modes. How could we go wrong!

What's this about Cabela's somethingorother, you say?

Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge

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Now why would you want to shoot a goat. They're incredibly inoffensive and adorable creatures.

What did that goat ever do to you?

Wouldn't you rather have people shoot animals in a GAME?

Next you're going to tell me Duck Hunt is murder.

Look out its coming right for us!!! Ned shoot it!

A goat once urinated on the hood of my car, while standing on the hood of my car, which he scratched the hell out of to get onto in the first place. So he could urinate on it. Yeah, I wanted to shoot that goat.

Goat or not someone is about to yell "Boom, headshot"!

Because they taste good and look good mounted on walls.

Oh, and wcarnation, get off your high horse. I hunt, and I enjoy it. If you don't like it, then don't pay attention to it. Just because you fail at understanding the purpose does not mean that it shouldn't exist. If you buy into that mentality, then should it be ok for you not to exist because I don't buy your pathetic mentality?

Here's an idea, let's take two people and send them out into the woods. One, a vegan (assuming you are, because if you eat meat and are bitching here then I need to put your picture under "hypocrisy"), and one hunter. They each get basic supplies, a gun, knife, method of starting a fire and send each out into the wilderness in Montana. They have to survive for 2 weeks.

How many beans are you going to find in the woods there? Yeah, didn't think so.

Like it or not, humans eat meat, and because you don't like the idea of me going out and harvesting my own meet, or simply eating meat in general puts you in the "pretentious asshole club" along with the rest of the "I'm right and everyone who doesn't agree with me is WRONG" crowd.

Get over yourself.

I would have hoped for a total outdoorsman challenge to involve boxing with bears or something. : / Disappointing

I know, right?

You're shooting animals. Animals.

Animals:

Are more concerned about berries, grass and keeping your redneck ass away from their extra adorable babies
Are usually docile unless you piss them off with your redneck ass
Have neither firearms to return fire nor grenades to lob back at you, or any armor protection

This is like playing the boss character in a fighting game when going Vs. your friends, and they picked the gag characters.

Total pompous assclown.

You seem to have gotten lost. Here, let me help you with that:

http://www.peta.org/

@david

You really aren't helping hunters with your ignorance... A human could easily survive in a "Montana" forest avoiding meat...

1. Most of the animals you are hunting are not carnivores. Last time I checked, deer do not eat meat yet they are able to survive.

2. Vegans and vegetarians eat more than just beans.

For the record I eat meat and if I hunted I would only kill to eat...

gescom7,

Perhaps you are right, you could survive without eating meat in the wilderness of Montana, but I'll tell you this, it'd be a hell of a lot easier if you did eat meat. Simply calculating the calories you can get from eating meat vs. leaves, flowers, roots, nuts, berries would definitely lead me to believe that eating meat would make life easier.

Thanks for pointing out to me that deer are not carnivores, my dumbass redneck side didn't know that.... oh, that's right, I'm being sarcastic. No kidding deers survive, their digestive system is different than ours, hence them surviving. If you want to prove it to me, go eat like a deer for a week. Simply put, we are different creatures and what works for a deer probably wouldn't work too well for a human.

I know vegans eat more than beans, the point I was attempting to make (but clearly not 'clear' enough for you) is that a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle DOES limit the foods you can eat, and when in a survival situation, it's not the wisest choice.

I only kill to eat as well. I'm not a fan of trophy hunting. That being said, so long as the animal isn't threatened I don't care if others choose to trophy hunt.

Finally I can feel like a true man killing dangerous goats from 1000 yards distance with my .50 caliber sniper rifle to mount on my wall. It's a fair fight I assure you.

Day one and GOTY for sure!

BTW I have no problem with hunting, I just have a problem with calling it sporting. Now you have a bow, then there's some skill involved.

I went into this ridiculous ass hunting store near here, and I'll stow my opinions on why hunting is ridiculous while alluding to them constantly, BUT, they had a goddamn stuffed and mounted beaver on display.

A mother fucking beaver. What the christ is so compelling to hunt a beaver? They swim around in the fucking river, and just knock over trees and make little homes. It's rather adorable, admirable and meek, then some smug ass mother fucker comes over with some dopey ass gun that's "Part of exercising my rights, and home protection from all those shady people who aren't white" and kills one, and THEN turns in into a trophy to brag about it.

Okay, first off, why "hunt" an otter? What objective purpose does that serve? Just to do it? Then on top of all this, you want a trophy?

This is like asking for an Olympic Gold Medal for finishing fucking 1-1 in Mario Bros.

Beaver, excuse me. It's pitiful.

Don't even get me started on bird hunting, the mother fuckers don't even have hands! Or solid bones! Some can't even fly!

Everyone who hunts obviously is also racist /s

NOT arguing, or saying you're wrong, but MOST of these guys eat those animals right after. I like animals just as much as the next guy and I know some are killed as mere entertainment , that's a disgrace to me, but put a steak in your mouth once in awhile and grow a pair. This is just a game, and no one or anything is getting hurt, aside from your feelings of course. Now calm down, its not like some kids might play the game then grow up to say, "lets go kill a fukin' beaver for no damn reason n' stuff his lil' ass, I hear they have some in mexico where there are no hunting restrictions, n' we could use nades!". Come on enough of this, just a game, chill out.

Tip: keep your ass away from hunting stores, not a very bright thing to do. I know I don't go, its sad seeing all that technology and efforts go into killing creatures, instead of building giant twinkies to end world hunger.. I too feel that pain, now lets not buy this game and forgot this happened .

forget* an;sjdna[sihd

"grow a pair"

That's the point I was making, aside from pointing out the other sides of pathetic it is.

@wcarnation.

Lots of men hunt beaver.

I'm not a big fan of hunting "for sport" either, as I don't see much "sport" in killing an animal from 500 yards with a scoped rifle unless they get the same utilities and training. All the same, hunting has been a part of humanity since the earliest of days, and if you cut out hunting you risk overpopulation of certain species. It never bothers me when someone feeds their families with a kill, but when they utilize nothing from the animal except maybe the head for taxidermy, that's when it bugs me.

Try Carnivores. A hunting series based on hunting dinosaurs. It's a little harder when the animals are hunting you back.

Wasn't this game called Turok?

No, unlike Turok, you used normal weapons against a realistical dinosaur, and kept trophies. It also had realistic a hunting simulation down to sound and scent (them detecting you, not you them.).

It was a real bitch taking some of them down.

Holy shit, was my typing terrrible.

"Realistical"

"It also had realistic a hunting simulation"

I wonder, what the sales for this and Cabela are like. I can't imagine them breaking 10,000 over their lifespan.

But look at dem graphics, man. I'm sure they do okay, they're always pretty well stocked at Wal-Marts.

The screenshots are hilariously awful, like every goddamn animal is just hanging out and grazing and the player's arms are all tense with a shotgun, it's just jesus christ, man, you're a fucking psychopath.

You know, I played the demo for Cabela's on a lark and it really wasn't that terrible. At least the graphics looked good, you know? And the shooting wasn't abysmal. But this.. it's so fucking ugly that it's criminal.

I found the cabela's game enjoyable really. The 08 Big Game Hunter was pure cluster fuck that i shamfully got 1000/1000 out of, but the 2010 was actually pretty cool and had a lot of neat stuff like the hunter vision that let you see poop.

I've never quite got the allure of the console versions. The arcade versions I admit to having a rather good time with. Always enjoyed having a beer with a buddy and trying to aim drunk with the bright blue fake shotgun.

Just doesn't seem like it would be the same outside of a bar.

well, aside from being an achievement whore, I've always wanted to hunt, but animals are too fluffy and adorable for me to actually kill them, and i dont even have to get off the couch with the console versions!

I still hunt occasionally, but I've kind of lost my love of it over the years, mostly because I don't really enjoy killing things anymore. When I go out, it's more for the social aspects of it (an interesting way to hang out with friends/family).

But it never fails, even if I don't really plan on killing anything, I always manage to make at least one good shot. And I go ahead and shoot because I don't want to look like pansy in front of who I'm with. And if I'm going to pull the trigger, I might as well try and hit what I'm aiming out. I find it very hard to intentionally fail. So every year I end up killing something.

@Courtney:

I doubt that your name is in sync with your gender. Unless you are one hardcore chick.

Protip: Courtney can be a guy's name too. Heh.

The Jerk nailed it, I am in fact a guy named Courtney. My avatar is actually a pencil sketch of me done by a friend a few years ago.

100 successful kills unlocks the Bazooka.

I thought 25 kills in a row gave you a tactical nuclear strike...

He's like, 'Put up your dukes, Goat' and I'm
like, 'I got fuckin no dukes old man.' Go to
sleep, you've got a big day of drinking and
beating the fuck out of me tomorrow, so get
your rest!

Can't click plus enough!

Well it's good to see that some developers are still supporting the PS2.

...

Wait.

This.. this does not look like a quality product.

Morrowind with guns

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica!

MAH YOU HIPPIES GET OFF MY JOYSTIQ!

Black Bears are the best kind of bear

Lol, at first I thought that picture was shopped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5C2gihnEkE

From my local news... This is why I love Ohio

I wonder what the kill streak bonuses are...

3 kills - Bottle of whiskey
5 kills - Cable TV
10 kills - A new trailer

I read somewhere that women's periods attract bears. Bears can smell the menstruation.

They should put some furries in it.

And we should get flamethrowers as starting weapons.

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Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge coming to 360 in May

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