Anything depicting a dinosaur was incredible. When I was a kid, I probably wouldn’t have minded about all this much. “If you're going to name your creature after a dinosaur – and the majority of the species in this game are placed in existing dinosaur genera – then you should probably be prepared to make it resemble the animal in question.” “As a dinosaur geek, one can't help but be a little disappointed that the developers have opted to tack dinosaurs' names onto what are, essentially, fantasy creatures,” he told me. Marc Vincent understands that, too, but the way they’re presented in the game frustrates him. That’s completely understandable in the context of making a fun game, especially one where you can ride your captured dino and put glasses on it. It’s actually kind of stressful because people are really passionate about dinosaurs.” He also said that “it’s really hard to do good feathers in a game.” The big lizard thing is not scientifically accurate any more’. Rapczak later told MCV: “We’ve noticed that a lot of people are quick to point out: ‘Hey, dinosaurs have feathers now. Studio Wildcard explains them with some mysteriously undisclosed “in-world context for why these species may have evolved slightly from their historical counterparts,” but it’s also a bit of a get-out. And maybe sometimes don’t, like Doedicurus, which rolls around Ark like Sonic the Hedgehog. Creative director Jesse Rapczak told Gamasutra that he and his team didn’t go out to attempt accuracy, instead designing creatures that look and behave how players expect. Its island is also home to ape men and giant snakes. It’s important to note that Ark’s dinos aren’t meant to be scientifically correct. Guess what? Ark’s dinosaurs aren’t very dinosaury. So I asked one of its writers, Marc Vincent, about how games and popular culture depict dinosaurs, and to look at a few of Ark’s. I’m interested in all this stuff because for the past few years I’ve been reading a wonderfully When the Internet Was Great-style blog called Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs, which documents representations of dinosaurs, mostly from old picture books, many of which I pored over when I was little, and critiques them according to current scientific thinking. I mean, who wouldn’t? But since the very first video that came out about the game, I’ve wondered how close to modern paleontological thinking they are. I play Ark: Survival Evolved mostly to look at its dinosaurs.
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