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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 7:04AM ZFK said

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I grew up as the biggest JP fan ever. I was 11 when it was released. This video did not spark any of that nostalgia at all. Hoping i'm proved wrong but this doesn't look great.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:53AM jamiepgs said

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I've been a fan of Jurassic Park ever since I first got it on VHS when I was about 3, but I'm a bit 'meh' about this game so far. I, like most JP fans, have been calling for a decent game for years. OG was probably the closest, and possibly even Trespasser, but this seems to be less like a 'game' and more of a movie where you have to press things. I hope I'm wrong but I probably won't be buying.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:43AM foxhound said

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@ZFK
I still have the derp-tastic JURASSIC PARK McDonalds hat from 1993 and a VHS copy of the movie around here somewhere, haha.
Also, for those who didn't know -- bluray collection supposedly is coming out this year. Not sure what'll be included or if there will be any kind of 3-D enhancement.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 3:04PM CrashTunoku said

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@jamiepgs They only showed cinematics, but it'll be an adventure game like all of Telltale's Games.
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Posted: Feb 23rd 2011 6:38AM ZFK said

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@foxhound I actually still have, and often wear, an original JP t-shirt, with 'Rap Attack' written on the front and a raptors face. Its frankly, the best thing my dad ever bought me!
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Posted: Mar 27th 2011 9:16PM alienclay3 said

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@foxhound
"Not sure what'll be included or if there will be any kind of 3-D enhancement. "

however, i can be sure that if there is some slap jawed half assed attempt to retrofit 3d on the classic non 3d movie that came out in the 90's that i won't be buyin it.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 7:18AM Cats said

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Haha, the female character reminds me of 'Return to Mysterious Island'...can't wait though!

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 7:39AM AquaPimp82 said

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PS3?

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:26AM ItsameMatt03 said

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@AquaPimp82

360? Wii?

Any console. I don't play PC games myself. My computer can't run much anyway.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:05AM Haggard said

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@ItsameMatt03

Telltale games are usually geared towards low hardware requirements, though 'low' is pretty subjective.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 12:47PM Jawmuncher said

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Well we know it's going to hit either PS3 or 360 no clue if both though
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 7:50AM Zebra said

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Yikes.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:00AM bm111 said

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Testing to see if this will let me post anything.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:01AM bm111 said

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Joystiq staff, why oh why will it let me make these posts, but not the other on-topic post I was trying to make, no matter how many times I try?
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:28AM bigwhiteyeti said

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@bm111

Did you have any swear words in the post? I've noticed those tend to disappear.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:56AM bm111 said

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I had one [insert name of the son of god] in there, which I suspected might be the culprit (that would be pretty draconian as far as censorship goes, though) so I removed it and tried again, but apparently it doesn't accept almost-identical posts, or something? I could imagine this is to prevent people from making the same post with the swearwords kinda written differently to get around it, but in this case it's just damn annoying (is that too much? Damn?).
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 12:53PM Drakkenfyre said

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Joystiq's commenting system sometimes seems to get a stick up it's ass. I have seen it rejects comments I make with absolutely no cursing at all.

On those same stories, it seems like comments stop, and occassionally someone else posts, and you might get one post in, and then it stops accepting posts again.

I think some stories sometime "bug out", and the comments decide to stop accepting anything.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 2:18PM bm111 said

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@Drakkenfyre Yeah but, I'm posting all this right now. Yet when I try to copypaste my original post again, it refuses. What nonsense is this.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 2:51PM Drakkenfyre said

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I also have another theory that, when in cases like this where posts are being accepted, that the filter sees innocent words, and thinks they are curses, and blocks it.

StarGate: Resistance had a filter at launch that was ridiculously strict. Saying "Pass" the filter thought you said "piss" because it was 4 letters, started with P, and ended with two S's. Maybe it's the same thing here? There are words in your post which look fine, but one line ends with something that connects to the next line which looks like a curse.

Stupid things like that have been known to happen.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:35AM StickyKrippy said

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I'd rather have a new Dino Crisis...

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:43AM Guhungus said

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@StickyKrippy

Indeed.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:35AM Kyle4 said

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I wasn't impressed with anything in the trailer. Everything from the roar of the T-Rex to the graphics and dialogue seemed ripped out of a late '90s PC game. Hope I'm proven wrong but Jurassic Park is looking like a bust so far.

Posted: Feb 20th 2011 5:22PM EeK85 said

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@Kyle4

The T-Rex's roar sounded a bit off to me, as well. How could they mess up with that?
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:41AM MasterBrief said

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idk if I like the episodic part

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:45AM mynameisjay said

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Why does this game even exist?

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:47AM Shinchi said

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Am I mad, or was there a trailer there originally.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:48AM SprtTracSniper2 said

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I have a question. I thought all these Telltale games were coming to XBLA too? I have been waiting on news of Back to the Future on XBLA and haven't seen anything yet....anyone want to help me out with that??

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:00AM Urethra Alfredo said

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@SprtTracSniper2

Telltale never seems to release their games for a single console. Wallace & Gromit only came out for XBLA. Sam & Max Seasons 1 and 2 came out for XBLA, yet Season 3 was a PSN exclusive. Strong Bad came out only for WiiWare, until Telltale finally put it on PSN over two years later. Back to the Future is currently only scheduled for PSN.

I dunno. It's weird.

So far, there's no word on which lucky console will be getting the upcoming Jurassic Park, Walking Dead and Fables games.

I'm sure we'll find out soon enough as Telltale throws a dart at a picture of all three pieces of hardware.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:30AM bigwhiteyeti said

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@Urethra Alfredo

The only platform that has all of telltale's games is PC. They're all available on Steam.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 3:03PM CrashTunoku said

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@SprtTracSniper2 They don't like XBLA since it can't support episodic series and subscriptions like PSN does, so they're pretty much only releasing on PSN for the foreseeable future.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:50AM mguniverse said

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I had no idea this was supposed to come out for Mac...

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:53AM Aerothorn said

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@mguniverse

Telltale releases everything for Mac at this point.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:53AM McSmack said

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I'd like a realistic survival game like the old Jurassic Park: Trespasser game. Minus the crappy controls.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:53AM Aerothorn said

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@McSmack

Oh man, there's a game that needs to be remade. And never will be. Sigh.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:56AM Temidien said

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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 8:57AM InDurdenWeTrust said

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That t-Rex roar was weak...

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:11AM Zebra said

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@InDurdenWeTrust

Hell yes it was, which is hilarious considering it became the ubiquitous big bad monster roar for every cartoon and video game baddie in the last 10 years. How do you screw it up at this point?
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:02AM Tappybot said

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How does Telltale get all these big name licenses?

Now, I think from what I played so far, the game is fun, nostalgic... But Back to the Future feels just about as rough as Sam and Max and every other Telltale game I've played in recent memory. The visuals are rather weak, which wouldn't be so bad if the animation weren't so stiff and clunky. It looks kinda bad..

Within seconds of starting Back to the Future Episode 1, Doc puts an invisible seatbelt on Einstein... Could they really not get the seatbelt in the game? It's just so rough and stiff and ... Ugh. The faces aren't bad, but in general the graphics look a bit like a Dreamcast game. I guess my expectations were too high, though I didn't really expect too much.

Is it just that this engine is 15 years old or what, because even Jurassic Park looks like it's in the same league as all the Telltale stuff before it.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:08AM Urethra Alfredo said

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@Aerothorn

Ah yes, Trespasser.

Sure, plenty of games have explored the notion of the HUD-less interface, but none had the vision to indicate health through the wonders of the magical titty-tattoo.

In all seriousness, though, I think Tresspasser got a bad rap upon its release. It was really ahead of its time, yet it was received an almost Daikatana level of hate back when it launched. It'd be nice what a decade's worth of knowledge could do with Trespasser's physics-based, realism-insistent design.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 12:46PM Jawmuncher said

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I would love to see a remake of trespasser as well with today's tech and not pushed out the with bugs and unfinished.
Still it really was one of those games, where you could look past the broken parts and see something great.

Sort of like how for most Two Worlds is a horrible RPG but their's a lot of people who get past the hump and enjoy it greatly. (taking about the first game)
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 1:03PM Drakkenfyre said

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If you read the extremely long behind-the-scenes story on the game, you would find out why.

They were getting their asses ridden to get the game out for the release of The Lost World on VHS. The manager who was coming down (from Dreamworks) to push them simply didn't know what writing games were like. He would come down, and arbitrarily set goals with no knowledge. "Get this done by next week", and what he pointed out was a feature that was still on paper. Or something would be in the alpha stage, he'd come in, and say "This better be done by the end of this week."

They kept pushing and pushing the programmers. Stuff was scrapped, stuff was left unfinished. The dinosaurs were supposed to have emotional states that controlled their reactions. That was scrapped, and all of them were set to "angry". 3D acceleration came late in the game, originally designed for software rendering, now they had to support 3D acceleration. The dinosaurs never did. The game runs in a hybrid software/hardware acceleration mode. everything else is hardware accelerated, except the dinosaurs.

At the end of the project, because of the interference of the publisher, and the idiotic managers who had no idea what it was like to write a game, it left the company in a "early beta state", according to one of the game's designers.

To this day, the manager of the project (not the idiot who kept pushing them) refuses to talk about the game.

If it weren't for the interference of the publisher, and the pushing to make a release date, it would have turned out much better.
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:28AM ItsameMatt03 said

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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:37AM zack11190 said

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Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:58AM XperimntNterror said

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@zack11190

was (not was)

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:)
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Posted: Feb 18th 2011 9:58AM betabetamax said

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I entered a contest when I was 11 to write the plot to the second movie. It was about that can of DNA and a team of people that came to the island the next day and tried to work their way through the park to find that can. THEY STOLE MY 11 YEAR OLD FAN FIC!!!!!

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:15AM mguniverse said

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@Aerothorn As they should. It opens the game to a whole new audience. I would not be buying it if it wasn't for Mac, but now that its on my platform I am very excited to pick it up.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:19AM mguniverse said

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They used the Carnivores t-rex sound effects?

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 10:47AM Guhungus said

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The Back to the Future games appeared to have more soul and personality put into them. This trailer does not compliment the game. Forced voice acting, shoddy sound effects...

I think the graphics are what is killing the tension they're trying to present. It comes off as too cartoon. I'm actually expecting sarcastic dialog and goofy animations from their game engine. It worked well with Sam & Max and Back to the Future, but it doesn't give that serious, suspenseful tone that this Jurassic Park game requires.

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 11:52AM Anticrawl said

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The only thing I want to know is if Dodgson and/or Jeff Goldblum will make an appearance. This will make or break it for me.

Also

http://dodgson.ytmnd.com/

Posted: Feb 18th 2011 12:39PM Urethra Alfredo said

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@Anticrawl

No dice, at least, not according to the article in Game Informer a couple of months back.

In fact, the only returning talent from the original film is the guy who played the park's chief veterinarian. That's right...that guy. Because he was super-memorable.
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