/vr/ - Retro Games

>WHY NOT
In case you didn't know, Turok was rebooted in the year 2008 and it was a massive blunder it killed the publisher.

And besides, if you take a different perspective and point of view, Turok always borrowed stuff from other popular FPS series
Quake->Turok:Dino Hunter
Goldeneye->Turok 2:Seeds of Evil
Unreal Tournament->Turok: Rage Wars
Half-Life->Turok 3:Shadow of Oblivion
Halo->Turok:Evolution [Note: There was no regenerating shields on Turok:Evolution but there were vehicle sections iirc]
Call of Duty->Turok '08

>>2311481
And also, here's one last thing about Turok's potential

Turok's formula was always like this
Your Native-american like protagonist
His starting Tek bow + explosive arrows[there were more arrow types on Turok:Evolution]
Your enemies that at first are Dinosaurs & Hunters to Cultists and big insects to Insectoids and Hunters riding big dinosaurs with cannons to Aliens and Cyborgs[Cyber-enchanced Dinosaurs included]
A Final weapon assembled by pikcing pieces placed on secret areas
And Badass Music [ example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BabSgX8J1eo ]

>>2311481
>Turok always borrowed stuff from other popular FPS series
>Unreal Tournament->Turok: Rage Wars

Turok Rage Wars: October 31, 1999
Unreal Tournament: November 30, 1999

>>2311454
I actually really enjoyed Turok evolution. Thought it was a great game. Got a bit tedious towards the end with the city levels, but nevertheless - LOADS of levels, lots of different environments, lots of weapons, secrets,... gg

>>2311667
fucking rekt

>>2311454
Either the new Jurassic Park movie will be a success and you'll see a resurgence of dinosaurs in fiction, including possibly Turok coming back, or more likely it'll be terrible and dinos will never come back into public consciousness and video games ever again ever.

There's still a monthly Turok comic, that must count for something

>>2311667
Unreal Tournament was in development for ages though if I remember right.

>>2311481
just because a series borrows from other games doesn't mean it doesn't have potential

>>2314927
leaving us with zombie-themed games for AT LEAST another 10 years until the resurgence WW2 games.

>>2314927
I don't think a stupid movie will prevent dinosaurs from ever becoming popular again.

I don't know OP.

This series does indeed deserve a good reboot.

There certainly is a fucktonne of potential there.

Sadly the problem is that 99% of devs in 2015 have no potential anymore.

>>2311667
he does have a bit of a point, quake 3, unreal tournament and rage wars all seemed to come out at the same time

i hate people who ask for reboots, even when it happened it's gonna turn out completely different from the source material

also turok is not a very good game. The level keys force you to search every nook and granny but the maps are actually designed in a VERY linear path. Miss one key and you're forced to redo the whole thing again.

>>2311676
I loved it too! Never played it seriously though, just liked to type in them cheats and murder the dinos in any way I pleased. Good times. Did the same shit with star wars jedi outcast.

>>2311454
>actually wants a reboot

>>2311454
>>2315523
Uh, you mean like this?

Wasn't the sequel to Seeds of Evil considered garbage, though? Which is pretty goddamn sad, as number 2 cannot really be played with the first game yet in isolation 3, thanks to ending on a cliffhanger only number 3 resolves.

>>2315523
buzz off shige, turok 1 and 2 were pretty fun in spite of their flaws

I am serious, fighting. cybernetically. enhanced. raptors.

If you're not sold on this, then you really need to GTFO b4 u get BTFO. Maybe Kirby is more up your alley.

>>2315530

whoa a new turok!!

>hes just an edgy bald space marine

o-oh ok

>>2315562

Yeah, it pretty much went the way of the Conan reboot: dead on arrival, heart and soul already destroyed.

>>2315581

Turok does have Ron Perlman at least

>>2315530
>YOU CAN CALL ME TUROK THE DINOSAUR HUNTER
>HAS A NICE RING TO IT, DON'T YOU THINK

>>2315589

You actually played it enough to quote it?

>get a load of deez niggas

Ok ppl enough of that non-/vr/ reboot reject

Any chance GoG will get the Turok games?

>>2315591
I was talking about another, non-/vr/ reboot. Both fared about the same, though, only difference is that one killed a franchise, the other just bombed.

>>2315596
I hope not.

>>2315598
>just bombed

Didn't you see all those 9-9.5/10s from reviewers?
Or the fact it was so 'popular' it got an upgrade to XBone and PS4?

You probably think TLoU was bad too.

This was all sarcasm.

>>2315603
It didn't even hit a million in sales. Game quality is insignificant if it sells like shit.

>>2315596

theyre easy enough to pirate, who cares. Except 3. A PC port of that would be nice.

Gamespay servers for 2 used to be still alive a few years back aswell.

>>2315612

I remember trying to get an iso working once for Turok 2 and it just wouldn't work. I'd rather have the series on GoG

Turok 2 on PC is serviceable. But I'm not a fan of these old FPS maze-like maps.
>>2315612
Yeah I remember there being like 2 people online when I pirated Turok 2 PC about two years ago.

>>2315614
http://dk.toastednet.org/FPS_Legends/
Have fun m8rino. This is the website I downloaded it from.
No clue about Turok 1 PC, though. But from what I remember they didn't fix the fog from that one.

>>2315614
>>2315617
I managed to get them both working on my Win7 machine, I remember I had to download some kidn of driver file and to put it in a folder somewhere in the game installation.

All for naught, I wound up uninstalling both of them after 1 bored me and 2 was going to give me my first bout of motion sickness in my life with that shitty and bouncy FOV.

>>2315617

you wouldnt want to fix the fog, its part of turoks whole aesthetic appeal

>>2311481
>Quake
>Turok: Dino Hunter
Quake still had level based progression like Doom. The first Turok you hunted for keys in levels to open up new levels and sometimes backtracked to previous levels you've been to. You can't do that in Quake, it was a much more open game compared to Quake.

>>2314994
The comic sucks

>>2315715
Heretic->Turok: Dino Hunter

:^)

>>2311491

lost land was always my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPfdYoefeA

>>2315804
You mean Hexen. Heretic was straight episodic, level to level gameplay like Doom.

>>2315815
>mfw Ancient City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRJmgAwEb9E#t=17

>>2315858
I'm always getting them mixed up.

>>2315598

FUCK YOU

>>2314994
/co/ here

Dynamite's work is usually hit or miss, but more often than not, they produce more misses than hits. Do yourself a favor and go read Turok: Dinosaur Hunter by Valiant or the original Turok: Son Of Stone by Dell/Gold Key, they're both really, really good

Wasn't there a petition to port Turok 1&2 to XBLA/PSN recently? What happened with that?

Also: Dinosaur Hunter>2>3>Rage Wars>>>Evolution>>>>>>>Reboot

>>2317526
It was for the Wii U e-shop, unless there was another one that I was aware of.

DH = 2 > Rage Wars > Evolution > 3 > dinosaur shit > 2008

I might be remembering shit wrong, but I could've sworn Turok 2 had some advanced graphical effects in place. For example, I could swear it had ambient occlusion in some areas, and it had some bloom when you looked at the sky.

>>2311454
Turok hasn't aged well. inb4 autism.

I liked the games as a kid somewhat but I feel no reason to play them now in 2015. Even as a kid though Turok 2 felt bad to me. Its movement was so goddamn slow and clunky, enemies weren't interesting and gunplay felt crappy, too. The weapons themselves were cool and had some interesting effects, if not a little gimmicky (cerebral bore), but the actual gunplay itself was pretty meh. On the plus side the world looked beautiful for N64 standards and the level design could be really interesting; both in terms of layout and aesthetic, which had really awesome variety.

I preferred the first game to the second.

>>2320395
*But yeah, in terms of OP's point, this IP does have a fucktonne of potential with what a good dev could do with it. But like >>2315460 said, devs just don't seem to have talent anymore for FPS games it seems.

>>2320395
>Even as a kid though Turok 2 felt bad to me
*well, not outright BAD, but not too great. Definitely playable though.

Forgot to mention the slideshow framerate, too. I preferred to play it without the expansion pack graphics to improve it.

>>2320401
The highest framerate is playing it in letterboxed high-res which does require the pak.

it's not /vr/, but turok: evolution was okay. it had a lot of cool guns and fun multiplayer. me and my friends always played this map that had a bunker you could go in where you nuke everyone else in the level

>>2311454
the PC version of this game, specifically Turok 2, actually fully holds it's own when compared to similar contemporary games of that time. By no means does it surpass, but it's still pretty damn fun. the production quality of the enemies, how they behave and the sound effects is phenomenal.

The sound of the dinosoid arm-blaster thing is etched into my memory, and the way they run around, toss those little nades' and do those melee combos. fucking cool stuff.

lots of interactivity with the enemies in terms of both injury and death...there honestly isn't a whole lot of games that do the things you see in Turok 2 and it's too damn bad.

>>2320624
The game would be a million times better if Turok didn't move like he was handicapped. It's like he's hobbling from leg to leg and has no control of his arms (particularly noticeable when the talon is out). Just a general spastic really.

Because it was a shitty FPS for what was available at the time. Apparently the remake was shitty too.
Goldeneye > Daikatana > Turok

>>2320965
>Daikatana
Well, I can't leave without my buddy superfly.

Sorry to say, but my Turok 2 experiences were a bit different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=668WsLql73I

>>2311454
Turok 2 is one of my favorite games, but there was a huge drop off in quality about halfway through. The first few levels are amazing and fun to explore, but the last few are maze-like and confusing. Having to backtrack to find all the Primagen keys was also a pain.

The music was fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlRl_HP6e4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-4ooTy8FYE

>>2315868
>that switch to techno-beat at 2:18

>>2320624
Enemies in Turok 2 were decently intelligent and also had great animations and lots of detail.

Did you know that when the Dinosoids activate their invisibility cloaks, they wave goodbye at you right as it activates?

Turok 3 will never get a sequel.
Turok 3 will never get a remake.
Turok 3 will never get a remaster with all the cut stuff restored like human NPCs and co-op and scripted events in levels.

>>2321281
could the Turok series have peaked at 3 instead of 2 if 3 had all dat stuff in it?

>>2321249
have a webm of that

>>2321249
>>2321298
It's a cyber raptor, that gesture could mean anything to those guys.

>>2321298
>Endtrail's energy blasts are green instead of purple
Fucking PC version.

also an even neater aspect of the AI is that they will run away in cowardice whenever the player's wielding a very powerful weapon

>>2321307
it's usually purple, just in some locations it's in different colors

>>2321317
>>2321323
It was fun discovering how to kill the triceratops.

>>2321281
>those clearly visible tits and nipples
>those abs
Delicious.

>>2321281
>game ends with a cliffhanger
>next game is a prequel
>game after that is a reboot

What the hell

>>2321492
>ONORE!!!

Because dinosaurs stopped being cool after the 90s. It's all about shooting nationally ambiguous middle eastern guys now.

>>2321752
Why can't they just dress the dinosaurs up like middle easterners?

>>2321762
Because that's race denial violates their rights under U.N. legislation.

>>2321762
What if they were dinos the whole time?

>>2314927
Dinosaurs will never not be cool, motherfucker.

>>2321298
Turok 2 is really a very beautiful game.

>>2311481
>Turok was rebooted in the year 2008 and it was a massive blunder it killed the publisher
>Turok was a commercial success, shifting over 1 million units in its first two months of sales. The game was popular enough for Propaganda Games to begin working on a sequel for the Xbox 360 before the Touchstone games division was shuttered.

>>2322146
Muh Fax: The Post

>>2321249
>>2321298
fuck yeah, cheeky-ass dinosoid. I love that kinda stuff. the predator self-destruct too was awesome too.

Guys please, when talking Turok 2, it's all about dat Cerebral Bore, all day erry day.

>>2322180
>gets told
>resorts to meeming
stop being such an asshat dude

>>2322234
>gets told
diff anon here, hehe

>resorts to meeming
that was meant as lighthearted post, lighten up you're experience will be better that way

>stop being such an asshat
:^)

>>2322278
>mfw I'm a different anon to that convo too
>mfw my post was lighthearted
>mfw you're actually an asshat
:^)

>>2322640
>mfw autistic child who took 3 hours to come up with an unoriginal comeback

Reported and ignored