Aquatic DLC???
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They actually said they had no plans atm, which is boubd to change at some point. You can't call it Jurassic World if you leave a third of the attractions out, can you?
They actually said they had no plans atm, which is boubd to change at some point. You can't call it Jurassic World if you leave a third of the attractions out, can you?
Of course they can. They are not dinosaurs anyway.
Of course they can. They are not dinosaurs anyway.
No, they can't. Hybrids are no dinosaurs either, and yet they stared in the movie. Mosasaur had quite an equally prominent role. Why having the Indominus, but not Mosa?
I do hope they consider taking note of some of the wonderful concepts suggested by the community, like that Malcolm's Fatal Attraction, with the new building for setting up lures/repellents and small species!
I hoped they didn't include the hybrids as well. I haven't bred one of them in the game yet. And the Indominous was the lead animal in the movies. Getting huge amounts of time on screen. The Mosa has been seen for what, 5 minutes total?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why shouldn't the hybrids be dinosaurs? The Indominus' main genome derived from dinosaurs, basically the most important part. So, if it is no dinosaur, what else is it then? Is it correct to just call it a "hybrid"?
Regarding the original topic.
I can see the problems, but I'd also like to see the Mosasaurus. Why not place the water pool she's inside as a building the player can click on? After that it'll load/open as a whole screen and will replace the park until the player decides to leave the building again. Just an idea.
+1
And, yet, Mosa had a far more prominent role both in JW and FK but, if her screentime isn't enough to include her, then move to the pterosaurs: they were another major JW attraction, they have plenty more screentime and protagonism than the Mosasaur and they aren't dinosaurs either. Why aren't they in JWE? They should be.
They are hybrids, no dinosaurs. Since the moment they were genetically designed they stopped to be dinosaurs, in my opinion. Owen Grady apparently thought the same when he shouted the IR he saw on the screen while the ACU were slaughtered was no dinosaur.
Anyway, that doesn't invalidate my point at all: if the Indominus was so relevant and star-character to make it's way into the game, why not the Mosasaur? Why not the pterosaurs? They had almost equal impact and screenplay relevance and both were certainly major attractions of JW since long before the Indominus was even designed. The Mosasaur in particular was bound to be a landmark in the technology advacement, since the cloning of animals well outside the scope of blood-sucking mosquitoes would certainly have redouble the interest in the whole JW business and I'm sure they would have advertised it so. Both Mosasaur and pterosaurs should be in JWE too, there is no JW without them.
Well, I'm not sure about that. Your points make sense, but at the same time it seems odd to me to simply call an animal "hybrid" although it's based heavily upon a wide base of creatures that really existed; dinosaurs.
Well, the point about adding the hybrids and leaving out Mosa and Pteranodons is that Frontier developed animations and mechanics for dinosaurs/creatures that are either bipedal or even quadrupedal, so both the Indominus rex and the Indoraptor fit in there. Implementing the Pteranodons and the Mosasaurus would've required completely new, unique animations and mechanics. More effort and work for the developers. I believe it's simple as that.
Oh, and regarding the Mosa: In my opinion she is just the waterborne copy of Rexy. Yes, she did serve a purpose in JW, but scrap all her appereances in FK, it wouldn't change the plot in the slightest. Just less many eye-catching scenes, that's it. I'd classify her as a badass, but useless character without much immersion and necessity to be part of the movie.
Odd, maybe, but words are important and you hardly can clasify the Indoraptor and the like as regular dinosaurs. We don't even know if they actually sport all the anatomically clasifying characteristics, but if JP/JW were real, chances are more definying traits outside of skeletons would have been discovered, and I'm pretty sure they might not have them all, seeing their unnatural intelligence and kill-oriented behaviour.
Anyway, regular taxonomy already sets them appart, quite rightly, as new, different species but taxonony has already it's problems and limits for debates on what makes a new species "new" are sometimes heated and endless. And those issues became bigger and harder with natural hybrids. And we are speaking of lab-made-up hybrids here.
I understand that. However, that's no good reason at all for completely excluding both from a game based on Jurassic World. You can't have Jurassic World without Mosasaur and Pterosaurs at the very least. Hell, the later were even canon attractions since JP!
Of course, I'm aware those would mean more work from developers but I'd think no one is asking for marine or avian animals for free. I am certainly neither wanting nor expecting it, but I simply refuse to pay for things such as Ankylodocus or that other freak pal with canditates much more requested and suitable already on the source's canon.
Maybe you're right but, still, they are part of JW. So, again, why Ankylodocus or whatever made-up godzilla and not more movie-characters?
Anyway, about the point of not having so much impact in the plot, I disagree: the concept of "Jurassic World" dramatically expanded itself with Dr. Malcolm's words after the animals scaped into the mainland. I think the portraying of both flying and marine reptiles was done not only out of settings' needs (any competent zoo would have made to expand their species roster beyond the usual ones, particularly if they needed to increase public interest from time to time: Indominus wouldn't have even existed if both air and marine "barriers" weren't already reached on the cloning tech) but also to stress the sudden paradigm-change for humanity. JW3 will, I think, be all about that: it is a truly Jurassic World when prehistoric animals can be found on air, land and sea. There is no more "safe places" on Earth anymore.
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Well, okay. Let's just cut it here as this also gets into stuff I don't really know much about, haha.
I agree, I'd also like to see both in-game, haha.
Spinoraptor was cool, but I don't like the other hybrids from Wu's DLC. Especially the Stegoceratops, with the horns and those things (missing the fitting word) on its back it just looks overcrowded. Eww.
Yeah well, no more "safe places" on Earth in a world where humanity and especially Malcom seemingly forgot that they have machine guns and high-calibre weapons they can use to literally wipe any dinosaur off the surface.
The Mosasaurus was one of the reasons why I dislike Fallen Kingdom; the movie had too much plot armour (Blue vs Indoraptor), illogical and predictable scenes (Rexy vs Carnotaurus (come on, the entire island explodes behind them and both have nothing better to do than fighting each other and then even roaring around) and scenes that didn't serve another purpose besides grabbing one's attention with some over-the-top action.
However, this is starting to get off-topic, I suggest we cut it here.
Yeah well, no more "safe places" on Earth in a world where humanity and especially Malcom seemingly forgot that they have machine guns and high-calibre weapons they can use to literally wipe any dinosaur off the surface.
The Mosasaurus was one of the reasons why I dislike Fallen Kingdom; the movie had too much plot armour (Blue vs Indoraptor), illogical and predictable scenes (Rexy vs Carnotaurus (come on, the entire island explodes behind them and both have nothing better to do than fighting each other and then even roaring around) and scenes that didn't serve another purpose besides grabbing one's attention with some over-the-top action.
However, this is starting to get off-topic, I suggest we cut it here.
Just to clarify, I used "safe places" as a figure of speech not in a literal sense. Prehistoric animals are what would have made of human-Earth a "Jurassic World". They were set loose on North America and some of them traffiched to another countries, so islands and smart countries would have been dinosaur-free.
I didn't like FK either