>>717035195
I saw a few interviewers with the lead designers behind Primal Rage I and II. The reason they did the whole "dino-gods transform into giant humans" was because enough of the playtesters, fans, and company executives thought the controls and characters were too off-putting for gamers that had become used to rosters that had humans and human-sized fighters. So there solution to please all sides was to come up with some weird backstory about the dino-gods' human avatars absorbing their powers to fight in their place while also having the ability to morph back and forth between them.

I liked that they were trying to flesh out the human tribes that worshipped these gods, but making them stand-ins for the actual gods was a stupid move. Also didn't help that the human models looked like cheap plastic action figures compared with the highly detailed stop-motion rigs for the gods themselves. For a revival, I could see the avatars still being used, but more as emissaries for their respective gods that handle the small-scale human matters and battles while the giant monsters fight things out.