Thoughts after seeing the trilogy
Yesterday, I saw the Back to the Future trilogy in a row. I wrote a few comments on its forum.
Today, I've seen the Jurassic Park trilogy in a row. Now these are my comments for the game:
* I'd gladly see Isla Nublar again. After two adventures on Sorna, returning to the first island would be very nice.
* I don't care what Spielberg, Koepp or anyone else could say: I just don't believe that the T-Rex is the only dinosaur that comes to San Diego on the ship. Even with the suspension of disbelief while you're watching the movie, it's plain impossible that something as big as the T-Rex could kill the people inside the bridge without wrecking the bridge itself. That severed hand hanging from the helm? Come on, there must have been raptors, compis or other smaller dinosaurs on the ship to make that slaughter. Those unnoticed dinosaurs could be a nice starting point for a game story, taking something already on the movies and continuing from there.
* Even if we like or not, there should be kids on the story. For better or worse, the "kids-on-danger" factor is a trademark of the Jurassic Park franchise. I only hope they add the kid on the script better than in The Lost World. Malcom's daughter? Oh, man! And that ludicrous gymnastics scene? That scene is for The Lost World the same as Monkey Kombat is for Escape from Monkey Island... Even in JPIII the kid is better added to the story. Actually, without the kid, there wouldn't be story at all...
* Regarding the playable characters, I think Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant are great characters, but they are a little burnt-out. Nick van Owen and/or Billy Brennan could be a nice idea, though. Or a grown-up Tim (and/or Lex).
Today, I've seen the Jurassic Park trilogy in a row. Now these are my comments for the game:
* I'd gladly see Isla Nublar again. After two adventures on Sorna, returning to the first island would be very nice.
* I don't care what Spielberg, Koepp or anyone else could say: I just don't believe that the T-Rex is the only dinosaur that comes to San Diego on the ship. Even with the suspension of disbelief while you're watching the movie, it's plain impossible that something as big as the T-Rex could kill the people inside the bridge without wrecking the bridge itself. That severed hand hanging from the helm? Come on, there must have been raptors, compis or other smaller dinosaurs on the ship to make that slaughter. Those unnoticed dinosaurs could be a nice starting point for a game story, taking something already on the movies and continuing from there.
* Even if we like or not, there should be kids on the story. For better or worse, the "kids-on-danger" factor is a trademark of the Jurassic Park franchise. I only hope they add the kid on the script better than in The Lost World. Malcom's daughter? Oh, man! And that ludicrous gymnastics scene? That scene is for The Lost World the same as Monkey Kombat is for Escape from Monkey Island... Even in JPIII the kid is better added to the story. Actually, without the kid, there wouldn't be story at all...
* Regarding the playable characters, I think Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant are great characters, but they are a little burnt-out. Nick van Owen and/or Billy Brennan could be a nice idea, though. Or a grown-up Tim (and/or Lex).
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You have a point about the boat in The Lost World. And it is possible that raptors made it on the boat. In the first novel, raptors made it onto the boat and they had to try and contact them before they made it to the mainland.
Yes, kids in danger is a bit of a Jurassic Park trademark isn't it? I have no problem with that. It never bothered me as much as it did others but I do draw the line at the gymnastic scene. Malcolm could have kicked that raptors ass on his own. lol
I would love to have Ian Malcolm as a playable character. He is by far my favorite character out of the entire series. And Jeff Goldblum is also my favortie actor. So it'll be awesome to have him voice the character as well.
How did his step dad (or whatever) die anyway? He was still hanging in the tree by the parasail straps. He was not eaten by a dinosaur. Did the kid just leave him up there to bleed or starve to death? If he's so resourceful, couldn't he have done something to help him? I think he just left him up there as a decoy for the dinosaurs, so that he could get on with his own selfish survival.
They should have just left the little bastard on the island. Now he's probably going to grow up to be a serial killer.
Now, the main character for the Jurassic Park GTA-style game that many people is waiting for!!!
Well, in the first Jurassic Park Novel there were Raptors getting on board the vessel, but they were shot and Killed, and thrown overboard, but Dinosaurs in the city as cool as it sounds, think about cops have guns, and it would really be hard to hide a Jurassic Park Velociraptor in a city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_%28franchise%29
According to wiki it is in the works (for years) but in development hell. lol hope we see it eventually.
There is a chance, it will be released after Captain America comes out in 2011, but...I'm weary on this.
Although i hope he's able to have at least a cameo because Jeff Goldblum is awesome.
JP3 made me realise that an adventure game could work. The characters are always adding to their inventory - food, flares, parachutes etc.
However, it also made me want film-like graphics and I'm not sure TT are capable of that.
There are worser follow ups. Could you imagin if Jurassic Park ended up like Lake Placid? The first was awesome but then part two became a made for tv movie as well as a part 3 coming out.
I'm glad that didn't happen to Jurassic park.
I know some have said (like Kathleen Kennedy) that the film series shouldn't continue because of Crichton's death but I think others are wanting to continue with it, like the director of JP3 who wants to start a second trilogy of films.
I recently rewatched the trilogy too. I still love the films just as much as I always did, but something did stick out at me this time and it kind of left a sour taste in my mouth. The trilogy - especially the second and third films - always treat the dinosaurs as movie monsters instead of animals. What I mean is, each film has the requisite "ooh and ahh" scene where the characters are wowed by the fact that there are dinos walking around, but after that the films seem to go out of the way to show that every dinosaur these people come across is going to try to kill them. Even when they come across the dinosaur equivalents of elephants, ostriches or giraffes, the dinos will try to kill them. Sometimes it makes sense - the gallimimus stampede from the first film I get. But other times, it really doesn't. Why would a huge flock of fish eating pteranodons feel the need to attack a group of humans? Why would a newly-released triceratops stick around to rampage through a human camp instead of just running into the woods? Why would a giant spinosaur with an island full of food take the time to casually stalk a group of barely snack-sized people? Why would a group of tiny scavenger compys attack a healthy full-grown man carrying a machine gun for no good reason? I get the monster movie feel and the excitement of these scenes, but I preferred the first film's slightly more nuanced approach where the dinos acted, for the most part, more realistically. I hope the longer play time of a videogame will allow Telltale to include a larger variety of interactions with dinos, instead of just "this thing wants to kill you" all the time.
Well the second movie in my opinion treated them like animals too, and they did show a lot of animalistic behavior. Why the Stegosaurs attacked sarah, was because they saw her as a predator.
The Tyranosaurs were the same.
The Compies attacking dieter, was a little bit of vengence for when he shocked one for sniffing his boot.
The Trike, well you'd be pissy too, if you were man handled and stuck in a cage.
JP III Basically repeats the same as TLW except for the Spino, and the Pointless Rex fight.
The Pteranodons, were protecting their territory and the Raptors saw the humans as theives.
The first one is still one of my favourite movies though. It had really strong themes like the hybris of man, unpredictability and uncontrollability of nature, one old man's dream gone horribly wrong... And still had good action. So I really hope TTG are going to build on that.
Telltale have the rights to the movies only, not the books.