WHAT HAPPENED TO DEINONYCHUS?

[Baby Schwarzenegger]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i was so excited to see that deinonychus were in the game! The raptor "big cousin" has always been one of my favorite dinosaur, especially knowing that jurassic park raptor actually look like more deynonichus than real raptors.
But then i unlocked the beast and...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Deinonychus in this game are ugly as hell, don't look like real deinonychus AT ALL and are actually smaller than raptor?
I know jurassic park changed some dino(dilophausorus are small, raptors are big) but wow...If you wanted to create an ugly ass dino like that why don't name it oviraptor. The in-game model actually look like more oviraptor than deinonychus.
I just want a dev explanation please.....

[drekdasnek]

What the hell are you talking about? The Deinonychus looks awesome in this game.

[DarthTomato]

Opprinnelig skrevet av drekdasnek:

What the hell are you talking about? The Deinonychus looks awesome in this game.

I know I'm late, but in my opinion it looks like absolute ♥♥♥♥. I know they had to differentiate it from the Velociraptor, but giving it a finned-dragon like tail and a head crest that looks like a retarded cassowary hurts me on a whole other level.
I know it's not aiming for accurate, I'm perfectly fine with that. But making it that hideous doesn't seem like a smart option.
If you have other opinions, that's absolutely great. This is just my two cents.

[Paleo Jake]

Neither creature is actually a dinosaur! They are just genetic cess pools of DNA slapped together in a lab to satisfy the needs of jurassic park enthusiasts and science fiction fans.

[Wylie28]

Opprinnelig skrevet av VENT1N#NOCHEATS#FAIRPLAY:

I think is a missinterpretation of the film (They did it consciously by the show, Velociraptor sounds way better) what they call velociraptor is actually a deinonychus (Deinonychus was way bigger than velociraptor). "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-say-velociraptor-i-say-deinonychus-33789870/"

In my aopinion 2 options/solutions here:
>Exchange this 2 dinos names.
>Accep it as and interesting thing from the film series and the book. John Ostrom was the deinonychus discoverer and Michael Crichton use his work tho create the character but change the name.

Small misconception based around assumption. This started with Crichton. The park in the book was a sham. Grant points out to Wu that he disagrees with his classification and that what we saw was NOT a velociraptor. As the book goes on you slowly find out the dinosaurs arent accurate at all and it was a simple misclassification. They arent dinosaurs.

The velociraptor not looking like one is entirely plot. Nothing to do with "because it looked better". Dein was just the reference they decided to use as they had to pick something roughly man sized like what was in the book.

[Eldar]

Opprinnelig skrevet av 61eBaby Schwarzenegger:

Holy♥♥♥♥♥♥i was so excited to see that deinonychus were in the game! The raptor "big cousin" has always been one of my favorite dinosaur, especially knowing that jurassic park raptor actually look like more deynonichus than real raptors.
But then i unlocked the beast and...holy♥♥♥♥♥♥Deinonychus in this game are ugly as hell, don't look like real deinonychus AT ALL and are actually smaller than raptor?
I know jurassic park changed some dino(dilophausorus are small, raptors are big) but wow...If you wanted to create an ugly♥♥♥♥♥dino like that why don't name it oviraptor. The in-game model actually look like more oviraptor than deinonychus.
I just want a dev explanation please.....

The biggest problem with Deinonychus in this game is that Velociraptor is Deinonychus. In the continuity from the books and the first movie, the Raptors of Jurassic Park are Velociraptor Antirrhopus, which are really Deinonychus Antirrhopus. When Crichton wrote Jurassic Park he based his raptors off of a small study that had named Deinonychus as Velociraptor. You can see this in the movie when the "Velociraptor" skeleton was dug up in Montana, not Mongolia. Also, in the original story boards the animal was called "Deinonychus" but Spielburg thought Velociraptor sounded scarier and cooler.

They should never have added "Deinonychus" to the game and just had "Velociraptor" be dug up in places where Deinonychus is in the game. It doesn't have to be scientfically correct, it has to be canonically correct in my opinion.


It's the same thing for feathers on the "Raptors". In 1993 no scientists were claiming that Dromaeosaurs were feathered. I wish that Universal had stuck to that canon instead of trying to explain away the "mistakes". The Raptors of Jurassic Park were extremely scientifically correct, even if the naming was controvercial, in 1993.

[Just Chill]

Bah! It isn't that bad.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1631769732

[Lord Trilobite]

Yeah the Deinonychus looks kinda terrible. Like an overgrown tadpole.

[Jack Mills]

They want to make Deinonychus different enough so it doesn't look like a Velociraptor, but not it's behavouir apprently... :\

[DeathbyPixels]

Deinonychus is a monstrosity in this game. I can't handle having it in any of my parks. Dilophosaurus is almost as bad to me. I'm fine with the frills and tiny size and weird face, but it's the hip and shoulder angles that bother me to no end. It looks like it was born with a spine defect.