Yes, but for other who think T.rex can have feathers like me, that will be cool to have this, everyone can do what he want
An option for feathers ?...
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I'm not saying it shouldn't be in the game, I just don't think it's a priority for me.
The thing about video games is they are very much an art form as well as a product. I imagine featherless dinosaurs is their artistic vision of the game. And from the business side of things, it's a Jurassic Park game. The dinosaurs won't be feathered by that aspect alone. We might see something like a quill of proto-feathers akin to JP3's male velociraptor, but nothing really beyond that.
If feathered dinos come into the picture, it'll most likely be post launch. The game we see at launch is their vision. How they update it in the future will be based on our feedback.
If feathered dinos come into the picture, it'll most likely be post launch. The game we see at launch is their vision. How they update it in the future will be based on our feedback.
Yeah, I agree with that.
True. But the notion of diversity is fascinating to me!
I just like to see all different versions of raptors - different colors, sizes, from different movies, and fully-feathered, being on the same paddock together.
Edited: As said earlier, I don't think Universal has issues with fully-feathered version as long as it is properly designed (I suppose it is challenging though).
A thing that hasn't been done does not, in any way, implies that it couldn't be done.
I just like to see all different versions of raptors - different colors, sizes, from different movies, and fully-feathered, being on the same paddock together.
Edited: As said earlier, I don't think Universal has issues with fully-feathered version as long as it is properly designed (I suppose it is challenging though).
A thing that hasn't been done does not, in any way, implies that it couldn't be done.
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I don't see how add an option for add feathers on dinosaurs with genetics ruin everything, Whu had a feathered lizard in his lab in the movie x)
As long as it's an option I wouldn't care. But as I said before a lot of people have nostalgic feelings about Jurassic Park and seeing Dinosaurs with feathers that didn't have any would kind of ruin that.
Feathers are actually pretty hard to animate, at least of you want to do them justice. So please bear in mind that this wont be a minor thing to pull off.
If there are Feathers in the Game I want them only on Dinosaurs that actually had feathers. So on Ornithomimids and Dromeosaurs. Since last year we know that the T.rex didn't have feathers so it should remain scaly.
If there are Feathers in the Game I want them only on Dinosaurs that actually had feathers. So on Ornithomimids and Dromeosaurs. Since last year we know that the T.rex didn't have feathers so it should remain scaly.
the study of the last year show that T.rex had more scutes (scales are for lizards, dinosaurs had scutes) than feathers but the research don't show that he can't have feathers, they even said in the article that it have a great chance to had them, but in small quantity (on the neck and the arms only for example)
And after, that a mutation that you will can do on other dinosaur, even if it's not accurate, that could be fun just to see for example a Camarasaurus with some feathers on the neck or something like that, that will be totally innacurate, but as innacurate as the classic Jurassic Park dinosaurs, so why not, why we would stop to something when you can have more ?
And after, that a mutation that you will can do on other dinosaur, even if it's not accurate, that could be fun just to see for example a Camarasaurus with some feathers on the neck or something like that, that will be totally innacurate, but as innacurate as the classic Jurassic Park dinosaurs, so why not, why we would stop to something when you can have more ?
I mean, it's like asking Jurassic Park to not be Jurassic Park, to put it simply. The Jurassic Park dinosaurs throughout the franchise have not had feathers as we know them to have. After their first introduction of feathered dinosaurs, they back tracked on that in the next film.
Featherless dinosaurs are not simply just for the sake of consistency. They're an art direction choice. Imagine how different the Rexy reveal in the first movie would feel if she had feathers, wet and drooping from the rainfall, in contrast to her actual portrayal. It just wouldn't work as well.
Featherless dinosaurs are not simply just for the sake of consistency. They're an art direction choice. Imagine how different the Rexy reveal in the first movie would feel if she had feathers, wet and drooping from the rainfall, in contrast to her actual portrayal. It just wouldn't work as well.
If it's really an art direction choise, it's a bad art direction choise sorry x)
How is it a bad Art direction choice? there is no Feathers on the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, Sorna or Jurassic World. They are sticking to what 99% of their customer base knows. Why would they waste a ton of money, time and energy on something that is a minor detail that has no impact on the game play at all.
For the dinosaur of the 3 first films, it's normal they don't have feathers because we don't know that dinosaurs can had feathers, but the error of Jurassic World is to try to keep (even if the dinosaur of JW is even worst than the JP one finally) the art direction choise, while the 3 firsts films show dinosaurs which are differents in each movie because they tried to make them more realistic, so I'm sorry, if Jurassic World Evolution want to be the best dinosaur game never created, they need to have what even the 3 first JP movies tried to do : have more credible dinosaurs, after as I said that need to be as an option or even a DLC, the main game need to have JP/JW dinosaurs, even if the devs create some species more accurate than others (like the Edmontosaurus for example or the Metriacanthosaurus which are really good, but this deinonychus still a riddle for me, how can you create a so bad concept for this creature, and I don't talk about feathers but about the body itself)
That maybe need more time (and even, I think that this team can create something really good) but you can't call this the best dino game ever if you don't have true dinosaurs, call this the best monster park game or the best JP game never created, but no the best dinosaur game sorry
That maybe need more time (and even, I think that this team can create something really good) but you can't call this the best dino game ever if you don't have true dinosaurs, call this the best monster park game or the best JP game never created, but no the best dinosaur game sorry
If it was a bad art direction choice, Jurassic Park wouldn't have done so well lol. Jurassic Park is a thriller in many aspects. A floofy feathered dinosaur does not a thriller make.
Regardless of your opinion, feathered dinosaurs are not Jurassic Park. That's just how it is.
the study of the last year show that T.rex had more scutes (scales are for lizards, dinosaurs had scutes) than feathers but the research don't show that he can't have feathers, they even said in the article that it have a great chance to had them, but in small quantity (on the neck and the arms only for example)
And after, that a mutation that you will can do on other dinosaur, even if it's not accurate, that could be fun just to see for example a Camarasaurus with some feathers on the neck or something like that, that will be totally innacurate, but as innacurate as the classic Jurassic Park dinosaurs, so why not, why we would stop to something when you can have more ?
There is also no evidence for feathers on Tyrannosaurus, while there is a lot of evidence for scutes or scales whatever you want to call them. (This isn't meant agressive, English just isn't my first language) I think they just sad the only possibility for feather would be on the neck, but it is highly unlikely. I have read the paper actually, I think I still got it somwhere.
Look I'm all for feathers on Dinosaurs, but only if they are used realisticly, I see no reason in using feathers on Sauropods for example. Feathers on Dinosaurs are still the most rejected thing to non scientific interested people in Dinosaurs and I don't think it is helping the cause to just throw them at everything.
I think this is where you're very mistaken. Frontier never advertised Evolution as being the best dinosaur game, and I don't think it was ever meant to. It was meant to be a game that gave you the feeling of creating and managing your own Jurassic World. Jurassic World is science fiction. It's not meant to be realistic. The first three Jurassic Parks weren't realistic either. The book diverged from our understanding of these animals as well. You sound very opinionated on this subject, but it is what it is: Jurassic Park dinosaurs don't have feathers like true dinosaurs. The only slight exception is the JP3 male Velociraptor, which isn't even a true Velociraptor. As a game that's a part of the Jurassic Park franchise, Evolution is probably not going to change that, not at launch anyway. You're arguing for something that isn't really up for debate anymore.
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As I said everytime, you don't have any proof for show that Tyrannosaurus didn't had them, so why not, feathers like this still really plausible and it's what more paleontologist admit for the T.rex (I don't talk about T.rex like the Saurian one which is not the best honestly with lips and others stranges things like this)
More we discover on dinosaurs more we find family and group of them which had feathers, maybe the theory that feathers is in reality an ancestral character for all dinosaurs and disseapear on some family like big Hadrosaurs or Sauropod is maybe more adapt
And if many people are resiliant about feathers on dinosaurs, a Jurassic Park/World game (or even movie) is maybe the best way for show the reality to people, even if things are not perfect, that already a beginning, and thanks to this, people who don't know about feathered dinosaurs will begin to see them maybe with feathers (if they search a little on internet too sure) and people which know dinosaurs will see an effort about devs to make the game more realistic, even with an option or a DLC, and everyone will finally happy, people learned things, JP fan just don't create feathered mutation and dinos fan can create the dinos that they want in what know can be called one the best dino game never created
More we discover on dinosaurs more we find family and group of them which had feathers, maybe the theory that feathers is in reality an ancestral character for all dinosaurs and disseapear on some family like big Hadrosaurs or Sauropod is maybe more adapt
And if many people are resiliant about feathers on dinosaurs, a Jurassic Park/World game (or even movie) is maybe the best way for show the reality to people, even if things are not perfect, that already a beginning, and thanks to this, people who don't know about feathered dinosaurs will begin to see them maybe with feathers (if they search a little on internet too sure) and people which know dinosaurs will see an effort about devs to make the game more realistic, even with an option or a DLC, and everyone will finally happy, people learned things, JP fan just don't create feathered mutation and dinos fan can create the dinos that they want in what know can be called one the best dino game never created
If I recall correctly, there were already cosmetic gene-alterations in the game, so I'd be surprised if feathers couldn't be implemented trough that. Of course, animating could be a pain, but still, it'd be nice to have the option (keyword option). If you don't like feathers, don't make dinos with them, but don't deny them for those that do want to.