Could we have a Jurassic Park focused cast of characters as an option in sandbox mode?

[Pixelated Sparkster]

One thing I loved in the main game are the cast of characters that would communicate with the player or comment on the events happening in the park. From the ambitious John Hammond to the comical Cabot Finch, as corny as their lines are at times, I do enjoy there presence in my playthrough as it adds to the immersion.

Now when it comes to the sandbox game mode, we would only hear from the default cast of characters: Cabot Finch, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, Dr. Henry Wu, Dr. Kajal Dua, Isaac Clement, and George Lambert.

This is fine for normal play, but I always thought what it would be like if we had a seperate optional cast of characters for the Jurassic Park sandbox playthroughs. It doesn’t destroy my enjoyment, but it is weird when I use Jurassic Park assets, lighting, dinosaurs, guests and staff, but hear characters like Owen Grady talk about the raptors I just released. It does pull me out a bit as characters like Owen are a bit out of place when compared to the park era and aesthetics I was going for. This is more noticeable when the chaos theory for Jurassic Park and the lost world have unique characters exclusive to the old era, providing their dialogue during your playthrough.

So I wanted to ask if we could have the sandbox option to choose between the Jurassic Park cast of supporting characters, or the default Jurassic World cast of characters. It would be like the option for the assets, guest and staff that would appear in our sandbox game, something we decide when setting up the game but not changeable during gameplay.

So the cast could be like:

Jurassic World (Default): Cabot Finch, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, Dr. Henry Wu, Dr. Kajal Dua, Isaac Clement, and George Lambert.
Jurassic Park: John Hammond, Dr. Henry Wu, Lily Halford, Ron Thompson, and maybe Dr. Ian Malcolm, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie Sattler.

This would have the game's aesthetic feel more retro and would deliver a more immersive experience if players want to go full on Jurassic Park for a sandbox playthrough.

So far dialogue in the sandbox mode would cover 4 areas, dinosaur introductions, park status, dinosaur welfare, or contract mission briefings. So the hurdle here is to have the Jurassic Park cast of characters record new lines to fill in the gaps. Which is an effort, but I think would deliver a wonderfully fresh experiences for familiar situations, such as accepting contracts or incubating dinosaurs and hearing the Jurassic Park commentary instead of the Jurassic World one.

I was feeling nostalgic to the Jurassic Park era from the original Jurassic World Evolution game while I was writing this, and with update 2.0 coming soon and expanding the sandbox mode greatly with digsites, research, and plenty of QOL updates, I was thinking if such a request for a different cast of characters could be possible, as it may bring a charm from the JP and TLWJP chaos theory modes to the more replayable sandbox mode.

Thanks for reading!

 

[Morales]

The issue is that they will need to bring the actors to record the lines and you are leaving out the DFW setting .

 

[Pixelated Sparkster]

The issue is that they will need to bring the actors to record the lines and you are leaving out the DFW setting .

I think the default Jurassic World cast would cover the DFW setting, at least in terms of the ingame universe, these characters have connections with the DFW like Cabot Finch, so it would be like the main campaign. So I could see the current cast work for both settings.

I do admit that it would require effort to connect with certain actors, like Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, but I feel rather optimistic about it. Given that Frontier has worked with them prior for JWE1, the possibility to record new lines with them is there.

 

[Morales]

Good points

 

[Ceratosaurus]

One thing I loved in the main game are the cast of characters that would communicate with the player or comment on the events happening in the park. From the ambitious John Hammond to the comical Cabot Finch, as corny as their lines are at times, I do enjoy there presence in my playthrough as it adds to the immersion.

Now when it comes to the sandbox game mode, we would only hear from the default cast of characters: Cabot Finch, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, Dr. Henry Wu, Dr. Kajal Dua, Isaac Clement, and George Lambert.

This is fine for normal play, but I always thought what it would be like if we had a seperate optional cast of characters for the Jurassic Park sandbox playthroughs. It doesn’t destroy my enjoyment, but it is weird when I use Jurassic Park assets, lighting, dinosaurs, guests and staff, but hear characters like Owen Grady talk about the raptors I just released. It does pull me out a bit as characters like Owen are a bit out of place when compared to the park era and aesthetics I was going for. This is more noticeable when the chaos theory for Jurassic Park and the lost world have unique characters exclusive to the old era, providing their dialogue during your playthrough.

So I wanted to ask if we could have the sandbox option to choose between the Jurassic Park cast of supporting characters, or the default Jurassic World cast of characters. It would be like the option for the assets, guest and staff that would appear in our sandbox game, something we decide when setting up the game but not changeable during gameplay.

So the cast could be like:

Jurassic World (Default): Cabot Finch, Claire Dearing, Owen Grady, Dr. Henry Wu, Dr. Kajal Dua, Isaac Clement, and George Lambert.
Jurassic Park: John Hammond, Dr. Henry Wu, Lily Halford, Ron Thompson, and maybe Dr. Ian Malcolm, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Ellie Sattler.

This would have the game's aesthetic feel more retro and would deliver a more immersive experience if players want to go full on Jurassic Park for a sandbox playthrough.

So far dialogue in the sandbox mode would cover 4 areas, dinosaur introductions, park status, dinosaur welfare, or contract mission briefings. So the hurdle here is to have the Jurassic Park cast of characters record new lines to fill in the gaps. Which is an effort, but I think would deliver a wonderfully fresh experiences for familiar situations, such as accepting contracts or incubating dinosaurs and hearing the Jurassic Park commentary instead of the Jurassic World one.

I was feeling nostalgic to the Jurassic Park era from the original Jurassic World Evolution game while I was writing this, and with update 2.0 coming soon and expanding the sandbox mode greatly with digsites, research, and plenty of QOL updates, I was thinking if such a request for a different cast of characters could be possible, as it may bring a charm from the JP and TLWJP chaos theory modes to the more replayable sandbox mode.

Thanks for reading!

Yes, I feel that the Jurassic Park era is really lacking in JWE2, this is one of the reasons why...
It seems odd that we have John Hammond, Lily Halford and Ron Thompson being starred but never actually getting fully implemented.

However, I'd like to have the character voices be changed in game too, as I don't want to have to scrap my San Diego park (for example) just to change the voices.

Please Frontier, make this a reality...!!!

 

[Pixelated Sparkster]

Now after playing with Jurassic Park 1, 2, and 3 challenge mode, I really am curious if this could be applied as a sandbox option, as the voice samples used in those game modes + Chaos theory would work well in sandbox map if we could toggle between a retro or modern cast of characters.