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Quick Look: Road Show: Jurassic Park

Quiet, all of you! Brad is approaching the Telltale paddock.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Feb. 18 2011

Cast: Brad

Posted by: Drew

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Jurassic Park

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@WinterSnowblind:  Good small games usually succeed by picking one specific thing and focusing on it. They don't have all the production or complexity of bigger titles, but make good use out of what they do have and refine it. Something like Super Meat Boy is simply about platforming and works because the movement controls are some of the best.
 
This game chose a structure that is very much about presentation. The reason Heavy Rain worked was because it felt and looked like the onscreen motions fit naturally with the controls. Here both seem awkward. I don't think it's that bad, but I totally understand why people are doubtful. Meat Boy would have sucked if input felt sluggish.
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I see this daughter is just as stupid as the one in the movie.

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I hope Telltale does really, really well so they can afford some more character artists. Seriously! But I'm just saying that because I think the graphics may be turning off people who would probably enjoy the game if they just tried it. I think this looks great! I like where they've taken the control scheme and dialog systems. It's like they went back to old-school adventure games playing like old adventure games did, and now they're starting to evolve the genre back up to modern times, all on their own, the way they think it should be done. I'm curious to see how far they'll take it.

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Edited By commandercup

Looks pretty meh, especially with the QTE's and the somewhat clunky graphics/animations. Doesn't look like it has the charm that Telltale games normally have (at least not as much).

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Edited By thomasmolby

Nice, i'm looking forward to this 

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DrunK!

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Looks interesting.  However, the new design seems to have eliminated the "pointing" from point-and-click, and I don't really like that. Still, we'll wait and see.
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Sheez. The animations look awful.

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That last death was pretty cool.

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@HellBound: I think the clue is the fact that Telltale is in business and making money. Opinions seem to be very flaky, money is the standard meter of what to do in business. I think many people are bored of all the shooting. Different things cater to different markets otherwise there is too much saturation. 
 
I have tried some telltale games but they don't seem to be my thing and this doesn't seem to change that.
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Im pretty disappointed by this, It gives the impression of a QTE guided movie from what they have shown. Love what they are doing with BTTF though so not going to write it off totally and i CANNOT wait for Walking Dead.

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3 - 3 - 7

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Now I remember how awfully slow the pacing of adventure games is...

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...this looks bad.
 
the deaths are stupid...the tric ran OVER the girl..it freezes for a second..then she's thrown without blood or anything? lol...
 
looks like garbage.

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I want this now!

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This looks absolutely amazing. I can't wait to dive into another Telltale title!

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The animations and character models for the humans just look ugly. But dinosaur fights!

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Nice graphics for a Wii game. Wait, is that an Xbox controller..?

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The animation is so-so. Perhaps a more animated look like the Back to the Future episodes? I am still excited to play it though.

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Now why would you tell me to go to the door if you knew the manual was in the car? Shit

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I think they might be better off going with a more stylized look if they're not budgeted to make the game look super good. When you go for a realistic style that's low budget, you're left with a kind of cheap looking game. Make it more stylized, it works a bit better.

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Telltale's on a hotstreak.

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@WinterSnowblind said:
" @FuzzYLemoN said:
" @WinterSnowblind said:
" @FuzzYLemoN said:
" @JustinSane311 said:
" Looks like a crappier version of Heavy Rain "
I was going to say the exact same thing. "
Yeah, who'd have thought a small indie developer can't release a download title on the same level of quality as a multi-million dollar full release title backed by Sony?  Lol. "
It's their own fault for making it so similar. People are naturally going to compare the two. "
No, I completely disagree.  I've never seen comments with people complaining about how.. say, Shadow Complex doesn't look as good as Gears of War or Uncharted 3 or for any other download title that's clearly been inspired by a big budget game, so I really don't understand the fuss here, unless it's from people who simply don't understand what it is. 
 
It's a $30 download title, which will be released episodically by a small team of people.  There are some technical hiccups I hope can be fixed by released but I think it overall looks pretty good and expecting it to have state of the art graphics and facial animation is just stupid. "
I'm not expecting it to be as technically proficient as Heavy Rain by any means. All I'm saying is that the gameplay looks exactly like Heavy Rain, and it's an odd choice of direction when Telltale has built their reputation on point & click adventure games.
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Oh my god, I'm not the only one that's been wondering about the aerosol can for 20 years.

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There need to be more, good dinosaur games.

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were the dinosaurs mo-capped for this game?

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is it just me or does the visuals look kinda shit??  ummm no thanks i think ill pass on this one

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Looks interesting, hope it is good!!!

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Needs... polish.

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oh i thought the deaths were gonna be really brutal...  i wasnt satisfied

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If the animation can be polished up a little by their April release, this looks like it could be pretty engaging! I need to go finally play that last half of Heavy Rain....

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I don't play Telltale games for state of the art graphics but these were horrendous.
 
Heavy Rain was great but it's gameplay only works if there's a sense of urgency attached. This just looks like they've just taken their standard adventure game formula and dumbed it down several shades. Very uninterested.

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That triceratops looked like it was made out of 20 polygons, and its texture was fit for the PS1. Hopefully this a really early build.

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This is looking pretty good!
Love the way they updated their engine, visually.

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Not entirely impressed by this. But maybe I'm just not a fan of telltale's adventure-style games. Also, not sure where/how this sits between realism and cartoon, but I don't like it.

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Understandable that people are worried that TellTale will screw up a property that people want to see in succeed today. What I saw had issues but I'm sure they will get things figured out. The lag between success or failure "has" to be fixed to keep the game moving.  
 
Asking TellTale to make a game on par with Heavy Rain or to make the game a pixel hunt that wouldn't allow for any kind of quick time events wasn't the right decision. It is a nice balance of the two that works.
 
Can we seriously ask for blood and dismemberment that reaches Gears of War? Of course not. The original movie was only PG-13 so I'm sure they are trying to get make it a Teen rated game. And really, the last death was pretty enjoyable. Never saw that happening.
 
Last, the style looks fine for the small team at TellTale. I prefer still slightly realistic cartoon-ish style with no odd body proportions. The small team at TellTale probably has no way to invest months of art assets and development to make a realistic engine that would be on par with Heavy Rain. It was a strategy that worked in Back to the Future and it still looks fine.  
 
TellTale has yet to really screw the pooch on any of the games they have worked on. I would prefer what they are doing compared to what anybody else might have tried. Last thing I want is another FPS or bad third person adventure game.  
 
TL:DR 
Definitely a TellTale game but making their point and click system work with the property.

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Ya know, the idea of being on an island filled with loose velociraptors is akin in horror to zombies.

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Looks awesome, but that hitching between scenes is super distracting. Hopefully that's just a non-final-build thing, like it was in YDKJ!

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Anyone else find it hilarious that the guy playing kinda looks like jeff goldblum?

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I love it! Man, those deaths are gruesome.

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oh man... please tell me this is a VERY early build...

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So they're picking up after Newman...I mean, Wayne Knight's character, gets killed by the Spitter and drops that stuff in the first movie? I wonder if Newman...dammit, Wayne Knight! Is still alive? And, if he is, can he reprise his role in the game and do his voice? I'm sure Newman ain't doing much these days; it's not like Seinfeld and 3rd Rock from the Sun are still on. 
 
Man, he was in some great tv shows:)

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@Zabant said:
" Anyone else find it hilarious that the guy playing kinda looks like jeff goldblum? "
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"buh buh buh the graphics are so bad lol who would buy this crap"
 
 
Ffffffffuck you.

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So there

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SHOOOOOOOOOOOOT TARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR SHOOOOOOOOOOT TARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Never thought Telltale would become  the go to company from videogame conversions of older movies. 

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I'm not a hater or a fan of tell-tale but I'd play this, for sure.

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Looks interesting. The game isn't coming out for a few months correct?