Which Movie is it Based On?
Will this new game be based on the First Movie, the second, the Third, or Is it something completely different?
I'm hoping it will be one of the first two movies, but even more so, I want both.
I'm hoping it will be one of the first two movies, but even more so, I want both.
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I would also expect to see some homages to classic JP movie scenes in some of the locations and puzzles in the episodes.
Though I hope no dangling bus over a cliff, I hated that scene.
Well they have the license agreement with universal, not crichton. so it wuill definately based on the movies.
Anyway, aside from my lack of knowledge of the movies and the whole world and the characters and the dinosaur breeds and the history, I'm quite excited about this game. I hope to be more excited after I actually watch the films. A lot of people are treating this whole thing (the fact that Telltale has picked up the license and are developing the games as we speak... err, type) as an absolute disaster and the worst possible move for the company, but I have confidence in Telltale. I feel that they will be able to put their own unique flavour into the franchise, and make it different, but also good. What am I basing this on? Their entire record and catalogue of games, that's what!
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Oh well, that argument aside, I would personally like the game to be a sequel to the third and I would like the main (and playable) characters to be Alan Grant and Billy Brennan because I like both characters and I think that they make a great duo. Alan Grant is sort of like an Indiana Jones-like figure while Billy is just a likable sidekick. I really think that it would work.
Alan Grant would be a brilliant main character, because throughout the third film, just look at how many times he uses items to solve problems. Just a few off of the top of my head:
- Using the raptor eggs to get rid of the raptors surrounding them.
- Using the raptor voicebox replica with his mouth to try and shoo the raptors
- Using the flare gun with the gasoline in the water in order to shoo the Spinosaurus (though this was accidental, I think)
I know there were more, I just can't think of them, but my point is that Alan Grant used his brain to get out of situations, meaning that he'd be a great adventure game character because it's not just 'shoot-at-the-dinosaurs-and-hope-for-the-best'. And Billy, as I said before, just seems like a good sidekick.
It's... Monty Python's Flying Circus
I actually thought 3 was better than 2. Lost World was always the abomination to me (though I still sort of enjoyed it.)
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JP3
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I think this would be the worst case scenario, I definetly wouldnt buy it if it would be that way. Just the story: Why would Grant return with Billy to the island???? Making a safari for fun? So stupid :rolleyes:...
I that case, why would anyone return to the island? Who says it's even going to take place on the island? It might not even take place on either of the islands, 'Jurassic Park IV' (the film) isn't going to include the island. All I'm saying is that I'd like to see those to characters (Billy and Alan Grant) in another 'Jurassic Park' installment.
That's what I would guess.
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A shame there are no Dinosaurs left alive on the first island, it always bothered me they weren't able to return to the first Island in the sequels for that very reason. I would have LOVED to see the ruins of familiar locations, like the great hall with the destroyed T-rex skeleton and that banner lying on the floor.
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I actually quite like the 2nd movie, they went a bit too big in certain places but it was definitely a Spielberg movie with some great FX and great nailbiting scenes...it kinda went downhill the moment they set foot in San Fransisco though, more Godzilla than Jurassic Park.
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The 3rd movie was just ridiculous, the dinosaurs looked extremely fake and monster-ish compared to the "real" animals of the first 2 movies.
That was San Diego
Lol, San Diego...right, right.
I compared JP2 to King Kong in another thread. Just something about bringing some giant creature back to civilization to show it off only for it to go apeshit* that makes it sound the same.
* Unfortunately this pun does not apply to dinosaurs.
Source please! :P
Hmmm... how about NO.
Kidding aside, I imagine that the game could take place in a prototype lab in which they first tested dinosaur behavior before starting to build the park... or did I not remember something from the first film? It's been a LONG time since I've seen Jurassic Park or the Lost World...
How about YES! I didn't see you suggest anything beyond "Like the movies" when most people want something different. Of course my vision is more awesome with gore (the combination of Dinos and People means people get eaten) and an M rating. I doubt TTG would go so far as to make it not "family friendly" unfortunately, but it should be some kind of scary (We're talking JP! Those Velociraptors gave me some nightmares!)! More than Puzzle agent scary.
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I know this probably won't happen with the NBC/Universal contract, buuut, if Telltale felt like developing their own game of an unlimited bloody and mature nature (Not that they would), they could release it via their own store to at least moderate success. They only need a rating to sell it via retail.
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Some people are in an unending quest for ultra-realism, some for ultra-violence. The world is full of all kinds.
And if you watch the first one, PG was probably not a very appropriate rating. There were shots of dinos killing and eating people. Severed limbs and other gore. Animals being devoured and reduced to bones with only bits and pieces left hanging. IMO, I doubt it would get a PG today. The equivalent in a video game is a pretty straight shot to M (T if half the ratings board isn't paying attention).
Realism doesn't seem to be a factor really when bringing back dinosaurs from extinction. Simply, the blatant plot point that is Jurassic Park is easily summed up: Dinosaurs are murder machines that kill people and destroy cities. We shouldn't be talking about some kind of revisionist universe where man has suddenly domesticated all the dinos to serve as pets, and, heck why not, they talk too in cutesy voices. I guess 4th time is the charm at breeding out the malevolence that has been dinos in the JP universe.
The Only Telltale Series to have ever gotten an M rating is CSI. But that was because of a mix of blood, drugs, and language. Believe it or not, I remember NONE of those things being in the movies. (Aside from Samuel L. Jackson saying "***damn it" about halfway through the first one. And the occasional smoker.)
Shh! Don't let Nikasaur hear you!
I can't speak for JP 2/3 because those were less than memorable for me, but 1 is burned in my memory. It certainly wouldn't fit to have it any other way (I'd compare it to alien in some ways).
Jurassic Park Deaths:
#1, Security guard eaten live by Velociraptors (who seem to be invulnerable to stun guns)
#2, Lawyer guy bitten by T-rex and corpse flung about
#3, Newman gets eaten by Dilophosarus complete with face blinding acid and killed in car
#4, Samual Jackson killed by Velociraptors, note severed limb conviniently placed to freak out female lead (there were other cases of severed limbs but this happened to be in the death scene, I remember an eye thing)
#5: Hunter guy gets face ripped off by Velociraptor.
Also not shown: Velociraptor feeding time which was near the beginning of the movie before they lost control where they basically pulled the piranha trick by feeding them a whole cow but with Velociraptors instead.
As I recall, this was the movie Steven Spielberg wouldn't take his kid to and said that taking your kids to this movie was like child abuse.