A sucessor to Jurassic Park Operation Genesis just got announced. It's being developed by Frontier, the guys behind Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Planet Coaster. Thoughts?
That sounds fantastic, and I’m really excited to see what those guys cook up.
Operation Genesis was a game I’ve had a lot of fun with – it’s just the main problem is that it’s not sustainable for very long. I get the itch to play it again every 2-3 years, and after about an hour or two, I’ve found I’ve done basically everything there is to do. There’s not enough buildings to place, you run out of dig sites to mine for DNA sources, and the only really unpredictable things that happen are rainstorms, which are actually super easy to survive. It checks off a lot of “bare minimum” features for that sort of game.
But it’s still fun while it lasts! It has authentic music, authentic sounds, and isn’t actively terrible, just kind of thin on content.
I’d like a little more difficulty, really. The message of the movies is “life finds a way” and Operation Genesis doesn’t really have that. Dinosaurs never actively try to escape or cause trouble. Maybe if you mix too many dinosaur types together they’ll attack each other, and there’s a “dangerous” ride where you can let visitors ride a jeep through animal enclosures that can sometimes go wrong, but it’s not really very dangerous feeling. There’s not a lot to keeping the dinosaurs under control. It’s more about vaccinating them from diseases like “dinobelly.”
There should be more back and forth. It should be a constant struggle of the dinosaurs figuring out how to do something to escape, and you having to figure out how to stop them. Like babyproofing a house, but it’s an amusement park full of dinosaurs.
I also hope it has mod support.