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Turok was pretty cool back in the day, blowing up dudes and raptors with ridiculous guns was a lot of fun. The janky platforming kind of ruined things for me, though, these games were balls hard even without the risk of falling into a bottomless pit every ten seconds. I didn't watch the second video yet so apologies if I'm repeating things you've already said, but some of the people from Iguana Entertainment went on to form Retro Studios. I guess there was a reason why playing Metroid Prime reminded me of Turok in many ways.
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Supersonic Shine posted:Now I've got about 100 games and 9 consoles. Mario and Turok basically gave the reason I'll never get married. Me? I'm a lost cause at this point. 
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:To put things in context, my mom banned Power Rangers because she thought it was too violent.  As for Turok 2, that game actually is pretty drat violent, especially for a 1998 Nintendo 64 game. You get to sever enemies' limbs and heads, blow these huge gaping holes in their chests (you can see the ribs sticking out and everything), and suck their brains out with the cerebral bore. I guess Nintendo allowed it because most of the enemies in that game were these weird vaguely dinosaur-like alien monsters.
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Mzbundifund posted:Did the original game have your vision clip through walls all the time or is that also an artifact of the emulation?
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Body Harvest went through such ridiculous development hell that I'm surprised the game ended up being as good as it was. Nintendo Life did a feature on the making of Body Harvest recently, and it's a good read: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/06/feature_the_making_of_body_harvest I want a Body Harvest remake with the GTA V engine.
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It's a bit of a shame DMA/Rockstar North is just the Grand Theft Auto developer now, because I'm not a huge fan of modern GTA (2 and 3 are my favorites to this day) and would definitely like to see them try a smaller project more in line with their earlier work. A new Body Harvest or a spiritual successor would be perfect.
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Velocity Raptor posted:I play way too much Turok as a kid (with cheats, though, because who didn't). That's the master cheat, which I still remember despite not playing this game since 1998. Well, almost remember, because it's supposed to say "on the eighth day God created Turok" without vowels but they wrote "eigth" instead.  I used that cheat a lot back in the day. The one for Turok 2 is, of course, BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND. I was not good at these games.
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Speaking of old game magazines, the Internet Archive has a bunch of old N64 Magazine issues up and I've been reading some of them. While I generally liked N64 Magazine and those old issues are still fun to read, they certainly weren't above writing ludicrous bullshit: Yes, the concept of Doom was really improved by a bunch of platforming, a life/checkpoint system and constantly respawning enemies. I'd assume the reviewer has changed his opinion in the last 18 years. edit: and yes, I know Doom has respawning enemies in Nightmare mode, but that's supposed to be the optional bullshit hard mode DMorbid fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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I can see how Turok would've made an impression in 1997 because it did have pretty spectacular boss fights and weapons (I definitely thought the graphics looked cool, even though I wasn't a fan of the gameplay itself), and I do suppose the levels being more open than the usual tunnels and mazes you'd see in other FPS games was neat as well. Turok does also have the free 3D aiming, which is definitely an improvement over regular Doom and I think this might be the first console shooter that did it, so that's something. That said, I don't think Turok: Dinosaur Hunter holds up at all in comparison to the original Doom, and neither does Doom 64 (or even Doom II) for that matter. Turok has more gameplay features, but in this case I don't think more equals better and Doom in all its simplicity is a far more playable game (which is why I thought that review quote was funny). There is a reason why first person shooters rarely do platforming over instadeath pits (even Turok 2 toned down that stuff and is a far better game for it), and when you add in some of the fun "welp I landed on the platform but fell through it because the collision detection is janky" moments and the lives system, it's really an exercise in frustration. As for the enemy respawns, maybe I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't literally warp into existence next to you. I'm sure I'd look back on this game more fondly if I hadn't grown up playing Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D on PC. Again, Turok 2 is a massive improvement and I'll probably pick up the PC remaster (I still have my original cart, but I'm not playing anything with the N64 Turok controls ever again), but in my opinion the original was fairly mediocre back then and is borderline unplayable now.
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Looking forward to Turok 2. I didn't watch beyond the first few videos of the first game because it all starts to look a bit samey after a while, but 2 should be a lot more interesting. I recall Nintendo Official Magazine UK trying desperately to sell Turok 2 as the SCARIEST GAME EVER, which I thought was ridiculous even as a kid but I did really enjoy the game itself at the time. I played through that first level countless times.
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I always thought those yellow dinosoid enemies were called "Fireborn".
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Oh god drat it Nintendo Official Magazine UK you lied to me AGAIN
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Y-Hat posted:NBA Jam and NHL Hitz are owned by EA, and they'd rather make sports simulators than sports games where you can do fun stuff.  edit: okay 2K Sports isn't dead and they're still doing their NBA games and WWE stuff, but no more NHL 2K DMorbid fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Apr 26, 2016 |
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Autonomous Monster posted:I desperately want to replay Turok 2/Perfect Dark/Jet Force Gemini with non-lovely controls. That same port is on the Rare Replay compilation, which also has a version of Jet Force Gemini with updated controls. The one slight caveat there is the fact you need an Xbox One to play the compilation. 
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PSWII60 posted:I'm gonna guess the XBLA and XBone ports do not have KB+M support sadly.
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Rare is an old-school British developer in everything that entails, including filling their games with time-wasting bullshit that is passed off as "replay value" and frustrating difficulty spikes passed off as "challenge". I love some of their games and hate most others in equal measure.
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