I'm not sure if this a good idea for TTG!
Telltale is really best at making adventure games! The Jurassic Park concept doesn't, for the most part, lend itself to adventure games! The best type of Jurassic Park game is one where you you get a bunch of different weapons and shoot at a bunch of cool looking dinosaurs! This isn't the type of game Telltale has made thus far and I'm not sure if they will start now! And Jurassic Park has, for the most part, no humor, so thats out! Unless your gonna spend you whole time running around looking for keys to open doors with dinosaurs chasing you or something, I don't really see what they can do with this!
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As I believe somebody on the Mixnmojo podcast said, Jurassic Park is not so story based as it is running from dinosaurs based. In that respect, Telltale could better the movies.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Shooting dinosaurs makes for a great Turok or Dino Crisis game... but not Jurassic Park.
Also, Jurassic Park has its humor-- not in dinosaurs doing funny songs and dances or anything, but simply in situational gags and dialog. I laughed often watching those movies. Malcom's wit. Grant avoiding the kids. The lawyer getting eaten off the can-- Jurassic Park is full of comic relief.
What makes Jurassic Park a great license for adventure gaming is matching wits with the brutal instinctive nature of these creatures. Horror. Suspense. And interesting characters with conflicting agendas.
In the first Jurassic Park movie there was one type of weapon-- a shotgun. And we never get to see a dinosaur get shot. In fact, the only one that does get shot is the Raptor being loaded into the paddock at the beginning of the movie, and the scene cuts before we see it. Muldoon mentions having to put another down.
In JP II, dinosaurs are shot at... but none are killed by gunfire. In fact, most of the shooting is done with tranquilizers. JP III, the Spinosaurus is simply chased off with a flare gun.
It's not a combat movie franchise.
I hope you'll give JP a chance, even though it's not going to be a run-and-gun Turok clone. I think you'll understand where we saw the "adventure" in the franchise.
It's gonna rock!
And it's a wonderful opportunity for Telltale because it gives them a chance to tell a story that is more realistic and doesn't hinge on completely absurd situations and characters (and yes, I realize how strange it is to say that about a story with dinosaurs in it).
I know Telltale has said this won't be a "point and click dinosaur game" but I hope they don't stray too far from the adventure game genre just because they think people want a Jurassic Park game that is more about shooting dinosaurs. There's a lot of adventure potential there.
You're definately the first person i know who says that JP has interesting characters.
I think the best aspects about JP (part 1 was way better than the rest) are Spielberg's capabilities, the dinos, ILM, Sam Neill & Jeff Goldblum, maybe some of the humour, did i mention the dinos already?
That's the great part. Everyone's been saying for years that Telltale should try their hand at a more serious, plot-driven game and here it is. It's a chance for them to branch out.
Yeah, to be honest, I think TTG would be definitely be better suited to Back to the Future than JP. Only time will tell.
But then again the characters from the movies are different from their novel counterparts, well at least thats the way I see it.
And Hammond is probably the most interesting character, at least in my opinion: He's trying to do good things, but ends up doing bad ones.
How come that isn't interesting???
Well Hammond in the novel, was a mean old man, and didn't care about anything but himself.
While in the movie, he was a jolly old man. Who cared about everybody.
Don't worry about it. It's just that there are so many newbies that post "OH MY GAWD TT CAN'T DO JP LOLOLOL" that we are kinda used to defend Telltale.
But I think they really know what they're doing
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I think they are stereotypical characters and so not really interesting, interesting characters really look different to me. I like Sam Neill as an actor and Jeff Goldblum has a few funny lines in the film but that doesn't make their characters more interesting, at least imho.
The dinos have more personality than the actors, but then they are the actual stars of the movie.
I expect the game to be a mix of an adventure and an action game which sometimes can will be frightening as well. I also expect it to be a good game but somehow i also again also don't expect it to a amazing or radical different game. You know just no Rage, no Bioshock, no Half Life, no The Dig, no Broken Sword, no Machinarium.
Entertaining but just not brilliant and to this a Jurassic Park scenario fits quite well. Personally i would prefer puzzling myself through some more serious spaceship/planet instead with interesting characters/situations but that's nothing new i guess... :O)
I think Crihtons estate still has a say in anything Jurassic Park. which is the reason it's been dormant for nine years, I could be wrong though.
They don't, really-- we have the rights to the films, and the canon of the films. We don't have rights to aspects of the book that were not in the films.
One small example of this-- we have to consider the fates of characters in the movies-- Spoiler (though, I think the statue of limitations has passed)
Ohh I didn't realise this. There's a lot of great Cricton material in the books to be mined. Still the movies are classics, so I'm still looking forward to this.
Don't forget, though-- that we are telling a new original story. So, though there may be great material in the books that could be mined, we don't really need that because we've developed our own original characters and storyline that fit within the canon of the films-- we've also been consulting with leading paleontologists for new scientific ideas to incorporate and add authenticity to the science part of our fiction.
We won't be adding feathers to raptors (because the film has already established otherwise, unfortunately) but some other interesting dino-science has come to light in the last couple decades that we think is pretty cool and hasn't been touched by either books or films.
Thank GOD!!! I can't wait to see what you guys are cooking
If I might ask, will you be doing a "What do you want to see in the JP game?" survey like the one that was done for BTTF?
As always, thanks in advance
malcom did survive we just don't figure it out til the second book.
Forgot about that-- but still, the sequence of events that we have to consider is that of the movies.
well it won't be so bad. the movies were still good too.
That is why i think a good story that matches JP's message would make an excellent game. Action and adventure are just the interactive part, but the rest should be a well rounded story.
IDW seems not to have such restrictions.
They killed some of the surviving characters in Redemption and one will most likely return from the dead.
I mean its pretty vague to determine who died anyway because many were killed off-screen to lower the shown violence in the movies.
Thanks for the info, it's fantastic to hear you are consulting with leading paleontologists.
JD, what do you think are the elements that made Jurassic Park a great franchise. Why was it so popular?
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Wait, didn't JPIII add feathers to some of its raptors? Or...at least little spiny things on their heads that looked like feathers.
There actually is a reason for that in the films.
During the time frame of JP III The raptors grew the quills, and there body colors changed to attract mate.
So only when mating season come to the JP World will they have feathers.
Anyway:
*stares in the skies and whistles*