I would buy a Jurassic Park adventure game game made by Telltale...

[V_Ben]

Just saying, I would! Would you?

(Go and get the new issue of Game Informer... If you know what I mean...)

[Secret Fawful]

Why?

[V_Ben]

Why?

Why would i say to buy the InFamous 2 issue of game informer? Maybe there's something about the topic of this thread in there... Or so i've heard.

[Secret Fawful]

I'll just read it next time I go to the store.

[JedExodus]

Just saying, I would! Would you?

...I wouldn't, i'd get out my hate-mail typing cap.

Or end up giving it a chance, you know, whatever

[roumeaz]

loool .. jurassic park seems completely braindead (storywise)
I bet though - that such a mediocre story is just ment to be the source
for an realy awesome adventure game :)

[FearMonkey]

If Telltale were to do this, would it all be part of their master plan to get Jeff Goldblum in the studio?

Other people I've heard have suspected this.

[JedExodus]

If Telltale were to do this, would it all be part of their master plan to get Jeff Goldblum in the studio?

Other people I've heard have suspected this.

It's Wayne Knight they're after you fool!!

[roumeaz]

slurp

[splash1]

Telltale may some day choose horrible franchises and make them into game, but they would never betray us by making something as horrible and mind warping as Jurassic Park.

[FearMonkey]

It's Wayne Knight they're after you fool!!

But his character is dead. :confused:

[Secret Fawful]

Dudes. The Jurassic Park hate. Why?

It's an amazing movie.

[roumeaz]

http://home.arcor.de/jedai/killkill.jpg

[JedExodus]

But his character is dead. :confused:

They'll be doing a prequel...because the dinosaurs didn't wanna do the VO work

[FearMonkey]

They'll be doing a prequel...because the dinosaurs didn't wanna do the VO work

LOL. Jurassic Park prequel with NO dinosaurs.

So the puzzles involve figuring out how to extract dinosaur DNA from pieces of amber and inserting the correct amphibian dna into the genetic code gaps so they can have actual dinosaurs in the movie. Brilliant. :p

[Epic Kiwi]

You know this is just viral advertising for Game Informer

[GTALostHeaven]

((Hmm Gameplay options?...))

'Enjoy' Dinosaur Theme Park

'Run' From Dinosaur

'Run' From Bigger Dinosaur

'Search' Dinosaur Poop

Wash Poopy Satellite Phone In River

etc

..not exactly Point n Click adventuregame material is it?

[SHODANFreeman]

Interesting, if true.

However, they could announce a Hello Kitty game and I'd be on board with it, they've yet to fail me thus far.

[Ne0n]

I'd love to see Telltale try out some new waters. I don't see this game as a fps-shoot&kill game, rather as a puzzle-game with a lot of cool cut-scenes.

And I hope they write the story with more sea-creatures than the Jurassic Park-series have presented previously.

Imagine the humans arriving to the Island by ship. During the voyage they suddenly feel a hard blow to the ship. Some seconds later the people witness a large creature jumping up from the water. Another creature can be seen on the surface, with the size of a bluewhale and huge razor-sharp teeth.

The sea changes color, as the humans witness the smaller creature getting ripped to parts by the Predator X:

http://www.nhm.uio.no/pliosaurus/thumbs/45-ton-pliosaur-attacking-a-plesiosaur-AtlanticZoo.jpghttp://www.nhm.uio.no/pliosaurus/images_highres/Dykker_&_hval_small.jpg
[Images Copyright: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway]

A few days after arriving on the Island, the humans have to enter the water to solve a puzzle (by diving, boat etc).
By combining creepy music, and knowing that these creatures are in the sea, I would be freaked out while playing that scene.

Another creepy seacreature is the Megalodon:
http://cache.desktopnexus.com/wallpapers/61374-bigthumbnail.jpg

[Secret Fawful]

((Hmm Gameplay options?...))

'Enjoy' Dinosaur Theme Park

'Run' From Dinosaur

'Run' From Bigger Dinosaur

'Search' Dinosaur Poop

Wash Poopy Satellite Phone In River

etc

..not exactly Point n Click adventuregame material is it?

Oh for crying out loud. Are you that guy that made the adventure game engine? If so you should know better than this how easily you could turn the movies into an adventure game. It's not like the game has to follow the movies to the letter. That's why a game is a game and a movie is a movie. This post pissed me off so bad. Argh.

[Alcoremortis]

I'd be okay with it as long as you got to play as Ian Malcolm at some point. That guy was awesome.

[puzzlebox]

Heh, unfortunate Google results...


http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4649/googletelltalejurassicp.jpg




Anyway, if this is true, I don't think Telltale would be doing it unless they thought they could make something awesome.

[guitarsareboring]

I would definitely buy an adventure game based around dinosaurs. DINOSAURS! DiNoSaUrS! RAWR.

I don't know if Jurassic Park would work though, as much as I'd love it to.

[adhuin]

I'd be okay with it as long as you got to play as Ian Malcolm at some point. That guy was awesome.

pshaw!

Raptor as a main character and it would be perfect.

It could have door puzzles. Hunting puzzles. How to efficiently eat npcs puzzle.

[Tor]

Raptor as a main character and it would be perfect.
It could have door puzzles. Hunting puzzles. How to efficiently eat npcs puzzle.
How to drive a jeep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Road_Velociraptor_Safari) puzzle?

[Rather Dashing]

I'd skip it.

[Santar]

I'm very interested, however I feel that Jurassic Park deserves to be presented in a big budget production and not in a simple cartoony style.
The movies really feel like huge epic movies to me and I'm afraid it won't be done justice in a small episodic game with the sort of graphics Telltale has showed in it's engine till now.

[Icedhope]

I love Jurassic Park, but it's not an adventure game. It's more an Action game, and I would buy it, hell I'd get the exclusive McSuperawesome edition. But alas it's not adventure game material.

[PecanBlue]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8CeOptcaT4) badass mofo right here was the best damn Jurassic Park game ever made and anyone who doesn't agree is a SCRUB. A SCRUB I SAY.

[doodo!]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8CeOptcaT4) badass mofo right here was the best damn Jurassic Park game ever made and anyone who doesn't agree is a SCRUB. A SCRUB I SAY.

By the time anyone finished that at an arcade you would have paid full price for a video game back then....

[Avistew]

Didero made a very good point in the chatroom.

Nikki!

That's all.

[roumeaz]

i think stephen spielberg gave a good start with 'the dig'

[Trenchfoot]

YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!! Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

(Jumps of joy)

This is perfect! Finally we're getting a great game of my favorite movie of all times! Thank you, TellTale! :D

(Stands up and claps)

[SHODANFreeman]

My copy of Game Informer hasn't shown up yet.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/bigmeanflashgamer/LOLCatEscape/i_am_disappoint_trollcat.jpg

[[TTG] Yare]

Heh, unfortunate Google results...

Clever girl.

[Avistew]

I have to say I'm curious, I never would have though they'd make one. This being said, I don't see why it wouldn't work as an adventure game. You could think that a game about pirates wouldn't work, either, yet it did.

I've never seen the movie (I was too young when it came out, by the time I was old enough it was an "old" movie and I can't say I was interested) so I have no clue about any characters (haven't read the books either), or dinosaurs that might be featured.

I'm curious because I'm probably going to end up knitting something from there. At some point.

Also, telltale employees are spending a LOT of time reading this thread :p

[GTALostHeaven]

Oh for crying out loud. Are you that guy that made the adventure game engine? If so you should know better than this how easily you could turn the movies into an adventure game. It's not like the game has to follow the movies to the letter. That's why a game is a game and a movie is a movie. This post pissed me off so bad. Argh.

Dont have a cow dude! , this is what most humans call humour, I'm not the creator of the 'Dage Engine' but I have played the vast majority of point and click games and my main point however is that Jurrassic Park is more about adrenaline and fast paced action, than slowly walking around a jungle looking for a key, grow up.

FYI All 'Movie' Games SUCK they are usually ill concived and designed very quickly to be released just before the movie comes out. Merchandising is where most of the money for movies goes so they can spawn another badly constructed sequel, as for a movie being a movie and a game being a game, any gameto movie or movie to game, should follow the original to the letter have the same feel but usually they 'americanise' movies to explain things that dont need explaining or add in some random sidekick or hot chick for the sake of bastardising an original idea to make more money.

[puzzlebox]

I've never seen the movie (I was too young when it came out, by the time I was old enough it was an "old" movie and I can't say I was interested)

I was too young to see it when it came out, but my best friend's mother took us to see it anyway... pretty sure she didn't realise how gory it would be. She spent half the movie forcibly covering our eyes. :D

Also, telltale employees are spending a LOT of time reading this thread :p

Lack of denial = confirmation :p

[SHODANFreeman]

Jurrassic Park is more about adrenaline and fast paced action, than slowly walking around a jungle looking for a key, grow up.

Why couldn't an adventure game be fast paced and full of adrenaline? They could just do a lot of puzzles that require time sensitive actions, similar to the "final battle" sequences with Lechuck in MI games, where you have to solve puzzles while things chase and try to kill you. It could easily work.

[GTALostHeaven]

It could easily work.

As a FPS yeah, as an RPG maybe , as a 'Point n Click' , heck no.

[puzzlebox]

Yare;320476']Clever girl.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/velociraptor.jpg

[SHODANFreeman]

As a FPS yeah, as an RPG maybe , as a 'Point n Click' , heck no.

I don't think you read my post, but okay.

[roumeaz]

http://home.arcor.de/jedai/roumeaz.jpg
YOU ... prey like the grand-mother of a mediocre tyranossaur

[V_Ben]

Well, It's pretty much official;

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/06/08/telltale-creating-episodic-jurassic-park-games.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

[FearMonkey]

Awesome. I hope we see more of this at E3 next week. :)

[Ribs]

'Telltale has a new deal with NBC Universal to create games based on their intellectual properties.'

I was sort of like meh up until this bit. Wootsauce.

[SHODANFreeman]

sort of

You spelled it wrong. Everyone here knows it's supposed to be "soughta".

[KuroShiro]

I... have no idea how this would work.

I enjoyed the movies and the books, but it really doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would translate to an adventure game. I will probably skip this unless it gets absolutely rave reviews.

[Toast_Burner]

It could work if its like Penumbra.
I cant see it working in Telltales normal style

[TeachingFellow]

Anyone play Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis? It was basically Zoo Tycoon, except with dinosaurs. Oh, and it had a 3D engine that both looked decent and ran well (as opposed to neither in ZT2), let you fly helicopters and drive jeeps, and was paced very well. I still play that game from time to time. I will never understand why there wasn't a sequel. Isn't everyone's secret dream to own an island populated with dinosaurs? In my heart of hearts, I hope that Telltale is at least considering doing something like this rather than just adapting the franchise into a point-and-click.

Also, I'll be curious about the graphics engine. Jurassic Park in the Telltale Engine? I really like the engine and I think they've done more and more cool things with it, but it doesn't seem like it's well-suited for anything fast-paced. Still, hugely optimistic.

And, to repeat: if I see or hear "spiritual successor to Operation Genesis," I will pre-order. Think about it.;)

[Harukuro]

While I'm not 100% sure how something like Jurrasic Park can translate into an adventure game, I think this would be a great game to take the whole trial and error gameplay implimented in "Tomb of Sammun-Mak" even farther. Basically the game focusses on a character that's trying to stay alive and avoid getting eatten by the dinosaurs, and if they mess up they can be killed. Even if they don't use this system I'm sure Telltale can figure something out to make a great adventure game.

[JedExodus]

'Telltale has a new deal with NBC Universal to create games based on their intellectual properties.'.

Seinfeld: The Game

That, I would buy

[guitarsareboring]

Yare;320476']Clever girl.

Subtle Jurassic Park quote FTW.

[Santar]

If Telltale are going to be creating several series based on NBC universal properties it doesn't bode well for any more Monkey Island from them :(

[corruptbiggins]

Coincidentally I'm listening to Weird Al Yankovic's Jurassic Park while I've been reading this thread.

[guitarsareboring]

If Telltale are going to be creating several series based on NBC universal properties it doesn't bode well for any more Monkey Island from them :(

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut surely there's potential for a BACK TO THE FUTURE game!

[Ribs]

Seinfeld: The Game

That, I would buy

PLAYER: KRAMER

Use... Puffy Shirt... on... Jerry

KRAMER: Jerry, - this is gonna be the new look for the 90's. You're gonna be the first pirate!

JERRY: But, I don't want to be a pirate!

[PecanBlue]

By the time anyone finished that at an arcade you would have paid full price for a video game back then....

Yeah that game was an unfair quarter eater... At first. Then you realize it's meant to be played with two people, and after that I could beat it with only two continues at most, my friend beat it with one.

[jp-30]

Wow - very exciting!

[Udvarnoky]

What have they got in there, King Kong?

[Secret Fawful]

As a FPS yeah, as an RPG maybe , as a 'Point n Click' , heck no.

Well. You're wrong. And when they make the game, and it's a good game, I'm going to laugh. Right in your face.

[splash1]

These are all just rumors right? Telltale would never make a Jurassic Park game.... right..?

EDIT: Nope not rumors, we're screwed.

[jp-30]

Looks legit to me;

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/06/08/telltale-creating-episodic-jurassic-park-games.aspx

[Udvarnoky]

EDIT: Nope not rumors, we're screwed.

Screwed? You do realize that even if you don't like them (though how any geek at heart can't be thrilled by the prospect of a dinosaur game is beyond me), gigantic licenses like CSI and Jurassic Park probably play a large part in making the more niche licenses, like Monkey Island, and the crazy new(ish) IPs like Nelson Tethers, possible, right? And given that Telltale has yet to fumble a license, it's hard for me to look at this news as anything but exciting no matter which angle I view it from.

[thesporkman]

I'm really surprised by all the negativity. I certainly wasn't expecting this, and I'm not the biggest fan of the movies, but I don't see anything inherently bad about the idea of a Jurassic Park adventure game. And I don't see why people think it wouldn't work. Sure, other Jurassic Park games have been about shooting dinosaurs; this one will probably be about finding clever ways to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs. I don't know what the problem is.

[Remolay]

I'd be the first to tell you that Jurassic Park is crap, but this is a good idea.

Think about how more known Telltale will become

More well known=More Customers=More Money

and thus more likely for us to get more games

[Trenchfoot]

Maybe it will be a proper version of Trespasser! Man I love that game!

[Wapcaplet]

Admittedly, I'm not a huge Futurama fan, but Jurassic Bark was one of the best episodes. I think...

Wait, what?

Jurassic PARK?

Oh. Well. Hey, good luck with that.

[Secret Fawful]

Admittedly, I'm not a huge Futurama fan, but Jurassic Bark was one of the best episodes. I think...

Wait, what?

Jurassic PARK?

Oh. Well. Hey, good luck with that.

You bastard. You made me forget NBC doesn't own Futurama for a few minutes there. You raised my hopes then dashed them expertly, sir.

[jp-30]

I'd be the first to tell you that Jurassic Park is crap...

I'd like it if people explained what is so crap about it?

Admittedly the movies are not all as good as the first one (especially the daft Godzilla vs. San Deigo ending on #2), but it's a solid premise and the movies are all entertaining to say the least.

[Udvarnoky]

The Jurassic Park movies are thoroughly "okay" in my book, but that does little to make the fact that the best story game studio in the business is at work on an episodic series involving dinosaurs any less sweet. The blockbuster status of the license will only make it more certain that lots of people will play it. What's not to love?

[roumeaz]

You bastard. You made me forget NBC doesn't own Futurama for a few minutes there. You raised my hopes then dashed them expertly, sir.
http://home.arcor.de/jedai/upyours.jpg

[Secret Fawful]

http://home.arcor.de/jedai/upyours.jpg

http://intensities.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/fry.jpg

[Nagaoka]

Jurassic Park and its sequels are all firmly under the "nightmare fuel to this day" category in my brain. A small part of me doesn't want my favorite developer of happy, fun, adorable,and all-together wacky games and this series to mix, but I suppose I'll have to wait and see what the final product will be like. O_O

[Icedhope]

*Sigh*

[jp-30]

I hope we get to play as a velociraptor.

:p

[Alcoremortis]

I hope we get to play as a velociraptor.

:p

I'm still hoping for Ian Malcolm. Or Grant. Maybe a velociraptor side quest.:D

[SHODANFreeman]

I'm still hoping for Ian Malcolm. Or Grant. Maybe a velociraptor side quest.:D

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[Vainamoinen]

But his character is dead. :confused:

That is unconfirmed in the first movie. He was just screaming very loud. :D

[Soup]

I'm cautiously optimistic. I like TellTale; I like Jurassic Park (the first one anyway), but I can't seem to picture it in my mind.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut surely there's potential for a BACK TO THE FUTURE game!
I'm sold! Oh man, think of the wackiness that could ensue from time travel.

if it's NBC/Universal in general, does that mean we're going to see, like, games based on Chuck, 30 Rock, or The Office? Are you going to open this up fully to speculate what other properties are going into the pipeline?

[Macmooglex]

Oh no! An adventure game? Based on a MOVIE? SUXXXOR!!!

I'm having flashbacks from the nineties. "Indiana Jones? As a point and click game? THAT WILL SURELY SUCK!". ;)

[jp-30]

if it's NBC/Universal in general, does that mean we're going to see, like, games based on Chuck, 30 Rock, or The Office? Are you going to open this up fully to speculate what other properties are going into the pipeline?

Like this, you mean?

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17232

[Sadonicus]

I dont know if this would work!

Jurassic Park was never about story or characters, it was about situations, the feeling of threat and just dinosaur-action. How can this be adequatly delivered in an "Point n Click"-game?

A good JP-Game needs immersion and survival-horror-elements and maybe be fast-paced from time to time, only an FPS-Adventure would do that, maybe like Penumbra or something, but like Black Mirror or Sam and Max?? No way!

To prove my point, look at the SEGA-CD JP-Adventure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gucxiF3PYDU
A good example of how it cannot work, and this is actually the only way I can imagine how to translate that movie into a PointNClick.

I hope I will be proven wrong, at least its something.

[jp-30]

It's been a while since Telltale has had point and click control in a game.

[Secret Fawful]

I dont know if this would work!

Jurassic Park was never about story or characters, it was about situations, the feeling of threat and just dinosaur-action. How can this be adequatly delivered in an "Point n Click"-game?


I know I'm just going on and on here but-

That's not true. In a nutshell the story had a LOT of important themes like "can science go too far" and "can man always control his environment" and "nature will always find a way". The characters were intriguing and charismatic. These are story elements that Telltale shouldn't forget when making the game. The movies weren't just about the terror and nastiness in the jaws of the most fearsome of the dinosaurs, but it also projected the majesty and grandeur of some of the mightier creatures that ever walked the earth, and the discovery and adventure in stepping into a world that man never knew, that passed this earth millions of years ago. The fear and tenseness of the creatures was only ONE part of the excitement. I think Dan Connors said something fantastic when he said he wanted the game to be a "cinematic experience".

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/V1GRTzQW8u0/default.jpg
Jurassic Park - Journey to the Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTMtNly-A-M)

Listen to this song from the movie, and tell me it doesn't express so much more than "lawl dinosaurs eating people and roaring". Adventure, discovery, knowledge, etc. That's what the first movie was really about.

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

I will be frank*:
I'll buy ANY adventure game made by Telltale, so... Jurassic Park? Why not? I quite like the franchise.


* I've always wondered who this "Frank" is, but it will always be better than the Spanish version: "Voy a ser franco", because Franco was the dictator who ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975.

[Sadonicus]

I know I'm just going on and on here but-

That's not true. In a nutshell the story had a LOT of important themes like "can science go too far" and "can man always control his environment" and "nature will always find a way". The characters were intriguing and charismatic. These are story elements that Telltale shouldn't forget when making the game. The movies weren't just about the terror and nastiness in the jaws of the most fearsome of the dinosaurs, but it also projected the majesty and grandeur of some of the mightier creatures that ever walked the earth, and the discovery and adventure in stepping into a world that man never knew, that passed this earth millions of years ago. The fear and tenseness of the creatures was only ONE part of the excitement. I think Dan Connors said something fantastic when he said he wanted the game to be a "cinematic experience".

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/V1GRTzQW8u0/default.jpg
Jurassic Park - Journey to the Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTMtNly-A-M)

Listen to this song from the movie, and tell me it doesn't express so much more than "lawl dinosaurs eating people and roaring". Adventure, discovery, knowledge, etc. That's what the first movie was really about.

You are right, Jurassic Park had a lot of big emotional adventure feeling in the first half, I remember the Brachiosaur scene. But even that can only be delivered in cut-scenes when doing it PointNClick style, wich would have not half of the feeling when you would do it yourself in an FPS-game! Imagine Half Life as an PointNClick-Adventure, you get te point!

The quotes you said were nice, but were not so important in the first movie in my opinion. The reason why I really love that movie and what really stayed in my mind, were the T-Rex-Scene, the Velociraptors, the whole second half of the film, the excitement as a child knowing the T-Rex will come, the perfect survival-horror feeling, knowing that there are dangerous animals chasing and you must flee and hide, THATS what Jurassic Park is really about.

That feeling cannot really be deliverd in a PointNClick-Adventure-game.

[Tjibbbe]

Wow, lots of hate in here. I still can't quite believe it, but I think it's insanely exciting. It's Jurassic Park! I think I can understand younger people (and I'm not even that old!) not understanding the love some people have for movies like Jurassic Park, but I can still remember how those movies made me feel as a kid, especially the first one. One of the big Hollywood blockbusters that made the biggest impact on me when I was young, together with Indiana Jones and Back to the Future. This is amazing. I never saw this coming, but yeah, I'm excited. I consider this the most surprising Telltale franchise, even after Monkey Island, which already was an impossible event.

[Secret Fawful]

BTW I was reading around on the net about this and I came across a great EPIC topic on these forums. And I do not use the word EPIC a lot.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397537

This is how this forum should have reacted.

Stand out posts include -

Point and click finds a way.

Genius plan to get Jeff Goldblum in the studio


Telltale is making a Jurassic Park adventure gamehttp://i25.tinypic.com/6i6tte.jpg

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man creates adventure games. Man destroys adventure games. Man destroys god. Man creates adventure games with dinosaurs.

People ARE excited for this.

[jp-30]

I've split the BttF posts off into their own thread here;

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17241

[Little Writer]

The best Jurassic Park game I ever played was actually called Dino Crisis 2 :D

They already said that the fourth movie would go in a completely different direction than the others, perhaps this game will follow its lead?

You know, I think Telltale has proven that they can work in a sense of urgency in their adventure games. I remember the rampaging robot in the opening sequence of S&M season 2, the battle with LeChuck at the end of Tales, and fighting Skun'kapé on board his ship in S&M season 3. I think a similar thing can be achieved while the player is threatened by raptors. The only question I have is: will you be able to die? I don't hate anything more than a trial & error sequence which resets the scene everytime you fail - after the twentieth attempt I no longer feel like continuing the game ... But for JP death should be an actual threat, being more about "horror" than "comedy".

[jp-30]

They already said that the fourth movie would go in a completely different direction than the others, perhaps this game will follow its lead?
Connors said the games, which are in the early stages of development, would tell new stories extending the "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park" lore. He teased that the "Back to the Future" games may include a DeLorean ride back to the 1970s while the "Jurassic Park" games would be intense and add new backstories to the series' man-versus-dinosaur mythology.

"The games are going to exist within these worlds," said Connors. "I wouldn't call these games sequels per se but a new interpretation of their worlds for a new medium. For one generation, it's an introduction to these series. For another generation, it's a thing they can look back on and something they can share warmly with their family and friends."

From here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5nxzcnlNVZIOXev0Elw-ub182YgD9G7MFF80

[stemot]

Not sure how this one is going to work. I remain sceptical about this one and look foward to Back To The Future instead.

[brunner]

I couldn't be more pleased. This is right in my wheelhouse. I was obsessed with Jurassic Park as a kid. I will buy this ASAP.

Telltale knows how to tug on my heart strings.

[Gman5852]

Im interested on this but I KNOW my little cousin is going to buy/preorder this instantly(if he ever figures it out and his laptop can play it)

[Spadge]

I'm not too thrilled about this. There's just something wrong with this idea. But I have to wait and see, maybe Telltale can somehow make this work.

[ark4869]

Not quite sure, but I think worth mentioning(if not done before... 5 pages of... let's say, not perfect english, are too much for a not native speaker^^), but:
I think JP might end up not being an Adventure. The press release only mentions "episodic interactive entertainment" all the time and never speaks of Advnetures(of which I am not quite sure), and although TTG only did this one poker game before, JP could end up being an action game. Seeing how they try a "new" Genre with Puzzle Agent (kind of, at least), this isn't even impropable, and would give the new pilot system even more sense.
I only say this because I can't see an Adventure based on such a film. Not that I'd hate JP, never really saw them, but you hear stuff. Nevertheless, I, for my part, will probably not buy any TTG-JP-Game, since I am no fan(didnt buy W&G or this other adventure with the long name either).

Again, I sincerely hope noone mentioned it before, and if someone did, you won't toast my delicious meat or push me into a fire... :)

[The Gentleman]

Clever girl.

[Tor]

I think JP might end up not being an Adventure.(...) JP could end up being an action game.
Yes, I suppose it is a possibility. Or maybe some kind of hybrid between the two.

[Trenchfoot]

Dogson, we've got Dogson here!

Sorry, I just had to quote that :p

Long live to Jurassic Park!

[Crrash]

I love this trilogy (except for part 3)! Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park and Back to the Future are THE movies from my youth (Well theres more, but those stick out). We already have ghostbusters and now there'll be Jurassic Park and back to the future! yay.


You better not mess this up Telltale! :mad:

[Steve2911]

Instant buy. Can't wait. <3

[FearMonkey]

Just read the Back to the Future game is coming first. I want the Jurassic Park game first. :(

[Pak-Man]

Here's a question to consider and discuss:

In order to get the tension that the Jurassic Park movies attained, and assuming they're sticking with adventure games, which is what they do best, would it be necessary for them to make an exception to their "You can't die in a Telltale Game" rule? Can the same level of terror be obtained if we always know that whatever we do, those Velociraptors are going to be stuck behind that door until you have the trap completely set up to keep them from eating you? Or is it more important that they stand by their policy and keep the game unfrustrating?

[Crrash]

Here's a question to consider and discuss:

In order to get the tension that the Jurassic Park movies attained, and assuming they're sticking with adventure games, which is what they do best, would it be necessary for them to make an exception to their "You can't die in a Telltale Game" rule? Can the same level of terror be obtained if we always know that whatever we do, those Velociraptors are going to be stuck behind that door until you have the trap completely set up to keep them from eating you? Or is it more important that they stand by their policy and keep the game unfrustrating?

yeah, i think this should be an exception. Actually i think a game like the human portions of the King Kong game would fit Jurass Park best, but i'm looking forward to this

[ark4869]

Yes, I suppose it is a possibility. Or maybe some kind of hybrid between the two.

Yeah. In another board, someone said it could be like Heavy Rain, and I could imagine this indeed. Although the two pre-posters are right, dying should be... "essential", or many, many variable endings. But in a episodic game, this is impropable...

[baron_calamity]

Here's a question to consider and discuss:

In order to get the tension that the Jurassic Park movies attained, and assuming they're sticking with adventure games, which is what they do best, would it be necessary for them to make an exception to their "You can't die in a Telltale Game" rule?


That is assuming ofcourse we play as the humans. You could even have puzzles:

http://www.wolfgnards.com/media/blogs/photos/miscellaneous/jurassic-park-center-door.jpg

[Steve2911]

Use "Forehead" On "Display"

Doing that puzzle over and over for the duration of the game would be the most fun ever.

[Soup]

Like this, you mean?

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17232
ach. thanks for setting me straight. In the flurry of late-night excitement, i must have missed that. sorry!

anyway, Jurassic park game! We need a sick dinosaur diagnosing minigame, complete with big pile of dinosaur poop!

[Avistew]

I [...] look forward to Back To The Future instead.

*giggles*

[Thriftweed Fancy Pants]

I'm still hoping for Ian Malcolm.

http://stoffgozhare.net/jeff-jp1.jpg

[Tor]

complete with big pile of dinosaur poop!
I support this. Dinosaur poop pile for president!

[Neikron]

Here's a question to consider and discuss:

In order to get the tension that the Jurassic Park movies attained, and assuming they're sticking with adventure games, which is what they do best, would it be necessary for them to make an exception to their "You can't die in a Telltale Game" rule? Can the same level of terror be obtained if we always know that whatever we do, those Velociraptors are going to be stuck behind that door until you have the trap completely set up to keep them from eating you? Or is it more important that they stand by their policy and keep the game unfrustrating? It was not uncommon for old adventure games to let you die and need to restore your last saved game. Most old Sierra games, like King's Quest or Space Quest, for example, allowed you to die. In this case, I hope it autosaves, because repeating the last hour of play is annoying.

[corruptbiggins]

I'm curious about how they're going do this. I mean, I think Back to the Future is the easier series to make a game like Telltale usually do so will they be adapting the style of the Jurassic Park series to what they're used to making or will this see a different approach to adventure games being created by Telltale. I'll look on in interest in the coming months, but I (like most people on this forum I would guess, given the amount of attention the respective areas of the forum are getting) am more looking forward to the Back to the Future games.

[Alcoremortis]

http://stoffgozhare.net/jeff-jp1.jpg

All of my reasons for wanting Ian Malcolm, handily surmised in a single image. :p

[Voodoo Lord]

Even though I'm not particullary fond of the Jurassic Park franchise, I look foward to this.
Oh, and I want a "You didn't say the magic word!" screen put in the game. I don't care how, just do it Telltale, please.

[LuigiHann]

I do think this could work. My mind is drawn to Jurassic Park The Ride, in Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, which successfully conveyed the whole range of Jurassic Park related experiences and emotions. There's a strong kinship between video games and theme park rides, so I trust those experiences can be conveyed well by Telltale too.

[taumel]

Sounds better than Back to the Future to me but is also doesn't get me excited.

Again part one was great and then things got worse whilst in comparison to Back to the Future the successors were more enjoyable. I like Sam Neil as an actor, especially in Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness.

I just don't think that going this film licence route is the right way for me as an adventure games player. But if they are going this route i would have hoped for different licences.

[sfox]

Dudes. The Jurassic Park hate. Why?

It's an amazing movie.

After having read the book, I can't agree. The movie butchered the book so badly that I can't look at it in a positive manner.

[puzzlebox]

All of my reasons for wanting Ian Malcolm, handily surmised in a single image. :p

As a child, I was slightly confused by this scene because I didn't understand why Malcolm was acting weird. Now I get it! He's being sexy. :p

[SHODANFreeman]

After having read the book, I can't agree. The movie butchered the book so badly that I can't look at it in a positive manner.

Did the book have Jeff Goldblum? I think not.

[Chyron8472]

I'd try it. It's Telltale, so I'd try it.

[Tor]

After having read the book, I can't agree. The movie butchered the book so badly that I can't look at it in a positive manner.
I've read the novel as well and I don't mind the differences; I never expect a movie to be the same as the novel it's based on anyway. I thought the movie was very entertaining in its own right, and that's what matters to my mind. The novel definitely had good stuff that wasn't in the movie, but so what? If I miss it I can go back and read the novel again.

The novel has more substance to it, but that doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the movie. I have an entertaining movie and a good book, I can enjoy each of them for their own strengths. The fact that they happen to have the same title on the cover doesn't change that.

[SHODANFreeman]

I've read the novel as well and I don't mind the differences; I never expect a movie to be the same as the novel it's based on anyway. I thought the movie was very entertaining in its own right, and that's what matters to my mind. The novel definitely had good stuff that wasn't in the movie, but so what? If I miss it I can go back and read the novel again.

The novel has more substance to it, but that doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the movie. I have an entertaining movie and a good book, I can enjoy each of them for their own strengths. The fact that they happen to have the same title on the cover doesn't change that.

You are my new hero. Someone who recognizes that movies and novels are different media formats entirely and that a movie doesn't have to 100% follow the novel is such a rarity.

[Crrash]

I've read the novel as well and I don't mind the differences; I never expect a movie to be the same as the novel it's based on anyway. I thought the movie was very entertaining in its own right, and that's what matters to my mind. The novel definitely had good stuff that wasn't in the movie, but so what? If I miss it I can go back and read the novel again.

The novel has more substance to it, but that doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the movie. I have an entertaining movie and a good book, I can enjoy each of them for their own strengths. The fact that they happen to have the same title on the cover doesn't change that.

thank you for writing what i wanted to say, and even so well!

[Tor]

You are my new hero.
Careful, I don't always handle praise very well. I often let it get to my he-
*twitch*

Have no fear, citizens!

Wherever movies are being unfairly compared to novels...
Whenever someone thinks they're better than you because "they read the book"...
Wherever there's injustice: I'll be there.

For I am... BOOK SLASH MOVIE GUY!
http://i49.tinypic.com/53u2z4.png

Now stay safe, citizens. Don't forget to recycle!

[Alcoremortis]

Jurassic Park is probably one of my favorite movies that was based on a book (I think it's tied with LotR). For me, the differences between the movie and the book only means that I get twice as much story. :D

[Soup]

Personally, the divergences between "The Lost World" movie and book was too much, but "Jurassic Park" was just fine. With the latter, the exposition was stripped away to keep the pace of the story, which was fine.

With "The Lost World," I felt the divergences were contrived in an attempt to recapture/recreate the feeling of the first film, unsuccessfully. The tacked on ending sequence in San Diego also failed to gel for me.

plus, er, I was like ten when i saw the first film, and I had the biggest crush on Alexis. :p

[Little Writer]

plus, er, I was like ten when i saw the first film, and I had the biggest crush on Alexis. :p

I'm the same age as Ariana Richards (two week difference) and I shared the feeling.

[cocomonk22]

Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movie series!

[techie775]

yeah, i think this should be an exception. Actually i think a game like the human portions of the King Kong game would fit Jurass Park best, but i'm looking forward to this

you could die in the last crusade and fate of atlantis adventure games

[techie775]

I hope we get to play as a velociraptor.

:p

those would be interesting puzzles; eat human, eat another human, avoid bullets, kill two humans at the same time, sneak up on human and shut power to the island. What more can you do as a raptor? Oh maybe break out of a cell, but I don't see a worthy story behind that.

[thesporkman]

those would be interesting puzzles; eat human, eat another human, avoid bullets, kill two humans at the same time, sneak up on human and shut power to the island. What more can you do as a raptor? Oh maybe break out of a cell, but I don't see a worthy story behind that.

Open door.

[jp-30]

Use a gun.

[sintarsis]

Jurassic Park Game well its about time

[cornholio1980]

In another thread someone pointed to an E3-Interview where Dave Grossman (?) stated that JP will be some kind of a departure for TellTale. I have to say, since the very first announcement I asked myself how you could make a great classic adventure-game out of this property, and was at a total loss. Since the 3rd season of S&M already introduced the first person-perspective with Max' abilities, I assume that they'll go down that road for JP. I don't expect a dumbed down shooter, but I think a first person action adventure is likely what they're planning to do here.

Which could be totally awesome, by the way. If the engine can handle some nifty dinosaurs, that is.

[Cyphox]

wait... you would buy a jurassic park game about a jurassic park game?

[Icedhope]

wait... you would buy a jurassic park game about a jurassic park game?

Wow, that is the best Idea ever.

[Alcoremortis]

I can see it now: A random dude is playing a Jurassic Park game on his computer, when the dinosaurs come out of the monitor and take over the earth!

[sintarsis]

i hope its a great game with great graphics and please give it a goood story line cuz if it sucks then a lot of jurassic park fans will be pissed

[Icedhope]

i hope its a great game with great graphics and please give it a goood story line cuz if it sucks then a lot of jurassic park fans will be pissed


Jurassic Park has never been really about story, especially the movies. The first one had a decent story(The Book was better.) The Lost World had a allright story(Book was way better.) and Jurassic Park /// Didn't have a story it was all action, and not enough story.(The Junior Novelization, was way better.)

[sintarsis]

the third one sucked if they made it less action and more like the other two then it would have been better and killing off t-rex **** you dude t-rex owns the jurassic park films

[Icedhope]

the third one sucked if they made it less action and more like the other two then it would have been better and killing off t-rex **** you dude t-rex owns the jurassic park films

Non of that, I will not allow T-rex vs Spino talk on this forum, it's troll bait.

[evolution_rex]

I will buy this game for sure. I love Jurassic Park, and TellTale is not making a mistake making it. Even if the story is great, i am still buying it for sure.

[waroftheworlds01]

I'll by almost anything with Jurassic Park on the cover. lol

[russell19831983]

i'd get it, it will be fun