#primal carnage

this was dusting in my art folder for MONTHS. came back and finally finished it, it went through a lot of changes (landscape wise, see below)

Because that's what it is, and you can't fool me. Deinonychus is what Jurassic Park's iconic raptors were based on and that's what Primal Carnage's raptors are based on. They did right in not calling them Velociraptor but why give them a fake name? All of the other dinos have real names.

The official reason that it was to avoid complaints of inaccuracy doesn't hold up because it's no more inaccurate than the other dinosaurs. So it's a little big. So what? The pterosaurs are naked, the Dilo and Cryo are too small and have spit attacks, the compies hunt in packs, the Oviraptor is hugely oversized, the Spinosaurus model is very dated and the T. rex has the boxy Jurassic Park skull shape. I have no problem with any of these things, but I'm pointing them out to underscore how unnecessary it was to mask the raptor's inaccuracies with a fake name.

I wouldn't mind if they all had made up names. Say if it was a lost world scenario with fictional dinosaurs that evolved from the existing dinos. But it's really jarring when all of the dinosaurs have real names except one. It's like if in The Lion King they just called zebras unicorns for some reason.

I am definitely biased because Deinonychus is my favorite dinosaur and it bugs me that it never gets any recognition in media since Velociraptor stole its thunder. But you see what I mean? Why give a fake name to a clearly recognizable dinosaur? It can't be an issue of name recognition when they're including really obscure ones like Acrocanthosaurus, Tupandactylus and Cryolophosaurus.