Hello there lovely people.
I would begin with stating that i am a JP/JW ultimate fan, i remember pre-ordering JWE the first day it was made possible to pre-order ( and i never pre-order games until seeing good amount of gameplay and positive reviews ! ).
I remember spending the entire night awake before the release day ( it was Monday, June 11th ), and the next day was literally the longest, i kept checking steam, updating web pages to just get the confirmation that it was released, and when it finally did, i was so tired and sleepy, but i went in and played it anyway.
It was nostalgic to hear Jeff as Ian Malcolm, as well as the awkwardly greedy and kind of funny Cabot Finch, i finished the main campaign in 4 days, well 3 days and a half to precise.
There was a phase later to get all the achievements and unlockables for the sandbox, after that i was just passing time playing and waiting for a dlc/update. I bought all the dlcs the first day they were announced, and finished the story packs in just a day, each. After the RtJP dlc, i played for a couple of months, but lost interest after Frontier suddenly cut communications with the fan base. That was more than than a year ago.
Recently.
I tried some mods but i didn't like the outcome, i decided to reinstall the game and start a fresh main campaign. Man, it felt good !
The game got so much more content that it is a thousand times better than its initial release state. I even had to change my management strategies. For example, i sent a jeep to restock some feeders, and the Triceratops destroyed it, i really had forgot about this implementation with the RtJP update. So i started using flares to distract dinosaurs whenever i am going for a refill.
The story itself was fun to replay and honestly i forgot about many details, but kept getting those déjà-vu moments once in a while.
I think the narrative was one of the strongest components of this game, but once the campaign ends, the game tends to become repetitive and limited.
Also the continued support for the game kept it alive, but once it stopped after only one year and a half from release, it became harder to enjoy the game and not get bored in the first 5 minutes of launching it, i wonder why did Frontier cut support ? I remember those dev videos at release, they kept announcing that they will support the game for 3 years, but they stopped at half that time with no explanation whatsoever.
Now to the next part, the sequel.
I believe a sequel is something that will definitely happen. Even if JWE had its hiccups, it sold really well, and that is the only thing a company needs to continue making products based on JW/JP. Many good games never got a sequel because they didn't sell enough, whilst others started entire franchises just because the first game generated extraordinary income.
I am not against a sequel, but i hope the first game's limitations don't pass to the second one. There was a time, whenever we got an update of JWE, they would say you could have this 'component x' but couldn't have that 'component y' because of engine limitations and technical difficulties. Like when they released the terrain paint, you couldn't have sand in all islands, later they fixed it but you couldn't get shale, and so on.
I really want the JW/JP theme to flourish in this supposed sequel, i don't want to hear about difficulties or issues. If the game has them in every turn then it isn't the right one.
I also want to address how will they link the two games ? Will my dlc dinosaur packs transfer to the second game ? If people own both games will they get access to special content ? ... and so on.
One thing that would definitely make me extremely thankful to Frontier, and encourage me to pre-order JWE2 from day one, is if they released a last quality of life update to JWE.
There is so many things they could work on, for example i still find it annoying that i paid for the Claire's Sanctuary dlc to unlock Botany, but i couldn't use it in the JP era. Dlcs that don't work with each other don't bode well, let alone two games.
Please forgive my manners, you people trying to get a good read and i am boring you with these what-if scenarios, trust me i don't mean to be rude, i am a just hopeless JP lover.
Thanks for reading, and i hope you enjoyed this ?!
Be Safe !
I would begin with stating that i am a JP/JW ultimate fan, i remember pre-ordering JWE the first day it was made possible to pre-order ( and i never pre-order games until seeing good amount of gameplay and positive reviews ! ).
I remember spending the entire night awake before the release day ( it was Monday, June 11th ), and the next day was literally the longest, i kept checking steam, updating web pages to just get the confirmation that it was released, and when it finally did, i was so tired and sleepy, but i went in and played it anyway.
It was nostalgic to hear Jeff as Ian Malcolm, as well as the awkwardly greedy and kind of funny Cabot Finch, i finished the main campaign in 4 days, well 3 days and a half to precise.
There was a phase later to get all the achievements and unlockables for the sandbox, after that i was just passing time playing and waiting for a dlc/update. I bought all the dlcs the first day they were announced, and finished the story packs in just a day, each. After the RtJP dlc, i played for a couple of months, but lost interest after Frontier suddenly cut communications with the fan base. That was more than than a year ago.
Recently.
I tried some mods but i didn't like the outcome, i decided to reinstall the game and start a fresh main campaign. Man, it felt good !
The game got so much more content that it is a thousand times better than its initial release state. I even had to change my management strategies. For example, i sent a jeep to restock some feeders, and the Triceratops destroyed it, i really had forgot about this implementation with the RtJP update. So i started using flares to distract dinosaurs whenever i am going for a refill.
The story itself was fun to replay and honestly i forgot about many details, but kept getting those déjà-vu moments once in a while.
I think the narrative was one of the strongest components of this game, but once the campaign ends, the game tends to become repetitive and limited.
Also the continued support for the game kept it alive, but once it stopped after only one year and a half from release, it became harder to enjoy the game and not get bored in the first 5 minutes of launching it, i wonder why did Frontier cut support ? I remember those dev videos at release, they kept announcing that they will support the game for 3 years, but they stopped at half that time with no explanation whatsoever.
Now to the next part, the sequel.
I believe a sequel is something that will definitely happen. Even if JWE had its hiccups, it sold really well, and that is the only thing a company needs to continue making products based on JW/JP. Many good games never got a sequel because they didn't sell enough, whilst others started entire franchises just because the first game generated extraordinary income.
I am not against a sequel, but i hope the first game's limitations don't pass to the second one. There was a time, whenever we got an update of JWE, they would say you could have this 'component x' but couldn't have that 'component y' because of engine limitations and technical difficulties. Like when they released the terrain paint, you couldn't have sand in all islands, later they fixed it but you couldn't get shale, and so on.
I really want the JW/JP theme to flourish in this supposed sequel, i don't want to hear about difficulties or issues. If the game has them in every turn then it isn't the right one.
I also want to address how will they link the two games ? Will my dlc dinosaur packs transfer to the second game ? If people own both games will they get access to special content ? ... and so on.
One thing that would definitely make me extremely thankful to Frontier, and encourage me to pre-order JWE2 from day one, is if they released a last quality of life update to JWE.
There is so many things they could work on, for example i still find it annoying that i paid for the Claire's Sanctuary dlc to unlock Botany, but i couldn't use it in the JP era. Dlcs that don't work with each other don't bode well, let alone two games.
Please forgive my manners, you people trying to get a good read and i am boring you with these what-if scenarios, trust me i don't mean to be rude, i am a just hopeless JP lover.
Thanks for reading, and i hope you enjoyed this ?!
Be Safe !
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