Faris_3 :
When are they going to start making the dinosaurs anatomically correct and include the feathers?
I was initially thinking you were going to suggest something else. >_>
Really though, even if it's been shown that some dinosaurs had some amount of feather-like plumage, in most cases there's not enough evidence to indicate how those feathers were distributed on their bodies, and it's very possible that many dinosaurs didn't have feathers at all. Just because feathers work fine on the birds we have today, doesn't mean they would have been ideal on creatures that in many cases grew far larger than any of Earth's current land animals, and that generally bore little resemblance to today's birds. Think of some of the largest mammals currently alive on Earth, like elephants, rhinos, and hippos, and how they tend to have very little fur or hair covering their bodies, different from what you see with most smaller mammals. Likewise, large dinosaurs might not have had need for feathers on their bodies, or at least not noticeable feathers. It's not going to be any more "anatomically correct" if you're putting feathers wherever you want on creatures that might not have even had them, or that might have only had them on certain parts of their bodies. If we're going to be making up the details on a whim, we might as well give the dinosaurs long, flowing, rainbow-colored manes like My Little Ponies. : P
And of course that's okay, if that's what the designers of a game want, as there's always going to be a fair amount of guesswork and artistic interpretation in recreating environments and creatures from tens or hundreds of millions of years ago. It could be interesting to see a game like this where Tyrannosaurs and Stegosaurus were covered in plumage, but it would only be a guess at this point to say whether that representation would be any more accurate. And ultimately, the makers of this game didn't even make the models themselves, but are licensing them from another, existing game, which takes place in a sci-fi setting, and isn't exactly trying to be entirely scientifically accurate. Designing a hundred dinosaur models with feathers probably wouldn't be economically feasible for a niche VR experience.
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