Beating EVERY N64 Game - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (85/394)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Goldeneye? Perfect Dark? These are top tier shooters on the N64. But many of you will have a different favorite being this game series. How does it hold up today?
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Beast: "Definately some of the biggest levels I've ever played on."
Turok 2: "Hold my beer."
I remember playing this as a kid - the most brutal death that sticks in my mind was when you shoot somebody in the neck. The animation and the sound it made were nuts. I hadn't seen anything like that in a video game up to that point.
The cerebral bore from Turok 2 is also something.
@@thefunkdroid2777 Hell yeah!
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@@elgoodo3148 came here to say this but you already delivered 👌
Perfect Dark also had guys choke to death on their blood if you shot them in the neck, and they'd grab their neck and drop their gun and just kinda collapse slowly onto the ground. I didn't particularly like when that would happen. Notice that CoD doesn't lean into realistic deaths despite their AAA visuals. Of course, CoD is imperial military propaganda, so it _can't_ show war in all its _real_ horror even if it wasn't concerned with making an arcade experience downright traumatizing
I am watching all of Thab's N64 videos, and I mean all of them. The twist is, I'm using a TH-cam watch list in shuffle mode, so I have no clue what's coming next. This is, the journey to me watching all of Thab's awesome videos.
@@moogibeans9822 I added the part about shuffle mode.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Regardless of if this is a joke or not (such as wording it using words from the intro) this might be useful to someone wanting to do anything like this...
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.You would want to make YOUR OWN saved playlist of them shuffled.
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.Otherwise, if you lose the order of the shuffled playlist, you would end up having to skip ones you already watched, each time the playlist gets remade.
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.However, since he hasn't made all the videos yet, shuffling them before the playlist is complete, is going to cause other complications when newer videos are uploaded.
@@FusionDeveloper It's not a joke, and this is good advice.
😂😂 i dig it!
The game doesn't really explain the lore much.
Turok is a title given to someone who's role is to protect The Lost Lands, Tal'Set is the current Turok for the first game.
The Lost Lands is an interdimensional nexus with portals connecting to multiple locations in the universe and at different points in time, so there's an amalgamation of prehistoric and futuristic settings, and why there are robots, aliens, dinosaurs, etc.
In the first game, Tal'Set has to stop The Campaigner from collecting Chronoscepter pieces so he wouldn't use the weapon to destroy the barrier between The Lost Lands and the universe. The final boss fight also sets up events leading to the second game.
You, sir, are not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. Super appreciate the lore dump for this game
@@wilhelmisaac glad to help
this is the kind of comic book stuff I wish we got movies about instead of marvel lol
This might single handedly be the nerdiest comment I’ve ever, and I’m here for it
I want to say the game came with a comic or the comic was built into the instruction manual
This is easily a top tier N64 game. Absolutely revolutionary, and you can see its influence in so many games throughout the years following its release.
It was a good game but hardly revolutionary. Its basically doom with dinosaurs, and doom was wolfenstein with demons.
@@Jeremycook_ Looks more like Quake with dinosaurs
@Jeremy Cook much greater emphasis on exploration, platforming, and limited nonlinearity to be simply dismissed as Doom with Dinosaurs. Obviously like all post-Doom FPSes it owes a huge debt to id soft
@@Jeremycook_ Stop talking crap.
@@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652 stop talking period
Me and my my brother loved saying the "I am Turok!" line. We always turned on the cheat codes for every weapon and disco mode, too. The simple jungle music was also a favorite. We could really channel the savage nature of Turok and we frickin loved it! Hard to believe this is from 25 years ago now. Seesh! Where did the time go?!?!
I had the worst feeling of dread when you said this game was 25 years old. Good grief time flies.
@@nin_tendo6458 I know, right? Time is advancing very rapidly. Seize the moment. Take opportunities that you normally would pass up because we're all just getting older.
Disco Modes used to be relatively common cheats, and I miss them. I miss cheats in general. Nowadays with online leaderboards and achievements they have to make cheats lock you out of progress, often even if they're just fun ones. I always loved Paintball Mode as well―I remember I used to tell my mom that we'd _"only play Perfect Dark in Paintball Mode!",_ because that makes it less violent and mature, obviously. I also remember telling her I'd only play Humans in Warcraft II lol, because I guess killing Orcs was more acceptable in my mind
@@chompythebeast Man I used to do the same thing with Goldeneye/Perfect Dark, that's really funny thinking someone else was out there doing the same.
Right? We were blessed to have these hidden gems...
One thing about the animations is that this was one of the first games to use motion capture. This game has some pretty good death animations because of it. I'll never forget seeing enemies holding their throat while it spurts out blood and then drop to the ground.
Then a year later goldeneye followed up with even more great death animations
A year later? More like 5 months later
Easily one of the most iconic and ambitious N64 games right here.
Unless I’m mistaken, I believe that this was one of the first first-person shooters that separated the movement controls from the view controls. Loved this game for the rewards it provided you for thoroughly exploring the environment and the challenging (sometimes frustrating 😅) platforming.
It was also the first FPS on the N64, I believe. Doom 64 came out a few weeks later.
Correct.
PC had this ability for a while pre N64 (Doom and Duke 3d, both had some auto aim as well). It was certainly the first that I can remember also. I think one of the goldeneye control schemes (honey or kissy) is similar to turok's controls.
Now I'm pissed I never had this game. My friend showed me the endgame weapons one time. I watched it for like 30 minutes.
@@troydenbrum2979 I swear the first PC first person shooter that had both was a Lucas arts star wars first person shooter. I live in Australia so our releases were quite different.
Turok always had a special place in my heart. It was the cool weapon variety that made the series for me. The cerebral bore in Turok 2 was amazing back then.
I also preferred the controls over GoldenEye because you felt more in control of aiming.
Turok 2 controls were actually better before release. We had a left handed config in the options always that was pulled out in the last build. They claimed it was untested even though one of the testers played left handed from the first revision.
I remember turning on tiny mode and big head mode against the games final boss. It changes his voice. It's hilarious. Good times
My cousin and I died laughing over and over with those same cheats on. The boss screaming in a high pitched voice after the explosion in the end 🤣
Good times lol
Loved Turok! Never even got close to beating it as a kid lol. Just wandered around never ending levels until something crazy happened
Yeah same here. I cannot believe he only gave it a 6 for difficultly. Even with cheats on I never beat the game!
20:26 Tl;dr: It's a miniature version of the much bigger and heavier 20mm Vulcan rotary cannon which is like 200+ pounds for the cannon alone.
It's called a minigun because it's based on the M134 Minigun which is chambered for 7.62x51mm, a full size rifle calibre cartridge, and is basically a scaled down version of the M61 Vulcan which is a 20mm aircraft cannon that displaced the arrays of earlier reciprocating autocannon. There was also an even smaller rotary gun, the XM214 in 5.56x45mm, a smaller intermediate rifle cartridge but the US military didn't stay interested and the project got shelved.
Everyone attacks Turok. Its almost like Turok is the bad guy. Some kind of super villian. I mean he goes into all those temples and houses and kills everyone.
Gotta civilize those savages!
Like a colonizer
Honestly, he kind of is. Even though the campaigner is horrible, if He hadn't destroyed the crono scepter afterwards the primagan and subsequently oblivion conflicts wouldn't have come about.
I love that he’s like a Native American instead of a white guy 😂
@@MustObeyTheRules I'm surprised too!! It's usually the white man who occupies the land of others.
They're called miniguns because they're mounted to vehicles which are large enough to accommodate heavy cannons and large caliber shells, it's "mini" because it's smaller then one of those weapons and it's a gun because it uses conventional rifle ammunition
Yeah just imagine it in comparison to the rotary cannon on a fighter or a ship, that's what it's mini compared to.
This looks pretty impressive for an N64 game. I bet people were hyped for this when it came out.
Yes :)
I don't remember much hype for it tbh.
I am Turok. "Heck yeah brother." Had me dying.
Gotta love these videos! I’ve been meaning to check out Turok for a while now, and i gotta say, this game’s insane.
Fun fact! Turok is actually also a hidden character in the N64 version of WWF Warzone! He’s only accessible via gameshark codes, however.
That "Massive Stegosaurus" was actually a Triceratops. This was a great watch! Loved this game as a kid.
25:27
The Jeep was a Humvee too
Guess I need to study my dinosaurs
@@Thabeast721 and vehicles. That was a Hum-V, not a Jeep
@@WowOafus Slightly cathartic seeing it blown up, I must say. Pre-9/11 / Second Gulf War gaming moment
You're my guy! I remember playing this back in the day. The sound of the guys choking on their own blood has been stuck in my head for many, many years...
Gatling guns are called "miniguns" because they are based on giant 20mm machine guns much larger than any belt fed portable firearm.
You’re gonna love Carmageddon, I have hundreds of hours of amazing fun times with my brother playing that game, it’s hysterical!
He always sounds so surprised when he sees the number the random generator picks 😂
Can’t wait for Carmagedon! Staple of me and my cousins childhood
Keen on Carmageddon myself, not an overly hard game.
But oh so many memories with it.
Same! But I crashed that game so many times… Not sure if it was a PAL issue, but the N64 really didn't like the snow mountain level.
I’m so excited for Shadowgate 64. This has turned into my favorite series on TH-cam. Your natural delivery is just highly entertaining and hilarious.
I’m excited for Shadowgate too.I don’t think I’ll ever have the motivation to play it myself but I sure would be happy to watch THAB play it
GREAT GAME!!! Amazing music
@@dylanvalorfall Agreed! Amazing atmosphere! I was good friends with Dave Marsh from Zojoi around the time they remade Shadowgate in 2014. He sent me a really cool cloth map! Class act!
@@BeauCardwellReacts That's incredibly cool!
@@BeauCardwellReacts They remade Shadowgate 64?
Turok is the game that introduced me to the n64. Went to a friends house and he had this game - i was blown away but didn't know how to control it
Love this game, I like to beat it at least once a year. The ports for this game make it even better, like the motion controls are the icing on the cake, it helps with a lot of subtle aiming.
Absolutely LOVED this game when I was a 7 year old kid in 97❤️
I feel validated that this dude had the same frustrations as 9 year old me in the 90s.
Turok is such a kickass game series on the N64. One of the first actually good console shooters.
If I remember right, the reason it says Game Over at the end is because you didn't get the "actual" ending to the game. You have to get all the Chronoscepter pieces and fight the secret boss to get the actual ending, I think.
Edit: Upon further review, this is one of those things my memory completely made up. You can only use the chronoscepter in the final boss, but there doesn't seem to be a different cut scene or extra fight at all.
Yep
Yeah. I thought so
Is this true or are you guys joking? I have searched here on TH-cam, never see that "secret" boss and neither the other ending, maybe it was just collecting the weapon parts?
@@luismoreira6428 I think you are right, and my memory is faulty. Looking it up, the Chronoscepter is only available for The Campaigner if you collect all pieces, but it doesn't unlock a new boss or show a different ending. I thought it gave a different message, but I'm likewise not finding anything.
Finally a game I've played before! Can confirm the PC remaster is a lot better, mostly because aiming with a mouse allows for a lot finer accuracy. I'm very curious about how you'll react to some of the changes made for Turok 2 and 3
My uncle got me this game in Third Grade and my parents took it away four days later.
Ended up beating it at my friends’ house because his parents always fought and bought him any game he wanted.
The Turok remaster is how a remaster *should* be done.
First, that's not an arrow to the chest @ 31:50 and we both know it!
Second, how much better would any of the Jurassic Park sequels have been if they had featured that fire breathing, laser armed robo T Rex?
How much of the time do you want to keep the map open, Beast?
"Yes."
Lol was killing me
You can unzoom the map, too
This game looked pretty Daum good. This quick review makes me want to play it. I really like how it seems everything in the map you can use.
It's on PC and the Switch these days if you're curious to try it! I'm thinking I should finally pick it up myself as well. I remember it from back in the day, but it was a little too mature for me at first, and when I finally got around to trying it I was so used to later releases like Goldeneye that the control scheme using the C-Buttons just really turned me off. Those controls are all modernized in the remaster releases, though
I LOVE this game and the remaster by nightdive studios is fantastic.
Turok was the hypest when it came out. Stick w it kid you're doing great
30:07 You could say you got "T-wrecked" on your first attempt LOL
Watching this video caused me to realize its been about 20 years since I really played this game. Is a weird feeling, doesnt even feel like it was really that long ago
Turok, the unofficial precursor to Metroid Prime. You can see it.
Very cool game, esp for its time! Great vid!
Ur right how'd I never notice that
Staff from iguana did eventually move on to for Retro Studios.
It seems like this video would take a massive amount of time to make like it’s literally a verbal play by play of the entire game
yes they do lol
The backtracking was actually pretty ingenious for its time. The devs knew that keys would be missed so they have the player open up gates back to earlier in the level to make replaying it faster
Same thing with Dark Souls' shortcuts
Ive always thought that turoks level designs inspired fromsoft levels
I loved this game as a kid, and especially the sequel. I could never beat either as a kid without cheats, but it felt great to beat them as an adult several years later. Damn hard games lol
@17:40 "Definitely the worst part of this level was this area with 8 different portals. Like they all look identical so you just got to guess where to go. Like some of them were just trolls. They drop you into a pool of lava! I've seen better level design in Mario Maker by children."
The solution to this portal puzzle is the tree in the center. It's leaning towards the portal you should take.
This was one of the first games released for the n64. The commercials were EPIC! The graphics! Wow this was soooo amazing.
My mom saw something on Opera once how violent video games were bad and my mom took away this game and all my other “violent” video games. I was able to get star fox back by telling her the ships were just shooting food at people 😆.
Dang. Wasn't expecting this game to be as challenging as it was. That explains why I never beat this as a kid. Glad to see we what I missed.
this was an era of gaming that didn't hold you hand. This was really THE first person shooter to have on the N64 up until GoldenEye a few months later.
Wait till turok 2 he'll really get lost
Cannot wait for you to get your hands on Turok 2! Is the team at Iguana really learned lessons from the 1st game and give you a much better sense of why each level is important and what your goal is.
and don't forget the legendary Turok: Rage Wars! One of my all time faves
man turok 2 was a masterpiece, I've found myself coming back to that game multiple times, including the remastered version, even managed to beat it on hardcore mode. I never complained about levels being a maze, on the contrary, it posed a challenge and I loved it. The weapons and level designs were among things that really stood out.
He is going to hate T2...and lmao at "what your goal is". T2 is infamous for aimlessly wandering around not knowing what to do
The 2nd game is such a massive improvement to the first. Just prepair to constantly be lost because the maps put the first games to shame lol.
BewareOblivionIsAtHand - can remember my most favorite cheat code to this day (Turok 2)
Damn, that draw distance is quite.. something. You can almost see what's right beneath you if you're lucky!
I still vividly remember my dad buying this game in 1997.
They had human enemies in the trailer, however, in the european release, they were replaced by robots.
Love this series to this day. Shame it became such a pile of garbage in the 2000s and 2010s
Seems like you are german.
If you are interested in a german Video about Turok i can recomend you "Turok Aufstieg und Fall" from Spielewelten.
I really enjoyed watching it.
@@GamingMythen danke :D
Just for you poor Germans. I think the rest of Europe got blood and Aztecs.
I lived in Belgium in the early 90s and so I grew up shooting robots in Contra.
@@SHKEVE That one we all had to suffer i'm afraid.
As kids, we always to say Turok was drinking the Key🤣
the tree top level is awesome. I remember it from when I was a child to be intense
You really are ThaBeast beating all these games I could never , let alone try to beat .
Turok and Doom 64 deserved the acclaim that Goldeneye got
the soundtrack of this game is the most aesthetically appropriate choice I can imagine
Playing the remaster of this game on PC all these years later really made me rethink my original position on this game as a kid. Back then, this and Golden Eye were the two FPS games on everyone's minds in the early days of the N64, and the control scheme on this game decided to make it so that you would move with the join stick and look around using the c-pad. This allowed you to move and aim while shooting, but was not really that intuitive or fun, and EVERYBODY swore by the decision to have single joystick control methods, similar to what goldeneye went with.
A method in which your joystick would control all movement and holding down the right bumper would be used to look around or aim instead. The trade being you couldn't move and aim particularly well while shooting unless it was straight forward down the middle of your screen.
Little did I know that in the future, Turok's control scheme design would lend itself beautifully to a dual analog set up or a mouse and keyboard and the ability to run, shoot AND aim/look around all together would work wonders when the right controller was in your hand. This game was high speed, high action run and gun fun. Reminiscent of OG Doom and Quake style shooters, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Def give the remaster on Steam a try. It and Turok 2 have aged so well now that they have proper hardware to control them while you play.
As I recall, each of the bosses had a unique animation when they killed you. The T-Rex actually ate you!
You have a wonderful channel man. Love this series and the achievement you’re taking on. I watch this stuff all the time while I’m working and it’s wonderful. So many games I’m excited for you to get to, but in the meantime I enjoy even the games I’ve never heard of. Keep up the good work dude. Best wishes for you and your channel.
This entire game is an homage to Doom. The super shotgun was replaced by the automatic shotgun, but all the other weapons are there. When I was a kid I hoped id made a full 3D Doom game for N64.
My favorite series on youtube hands down!! Keep it up man, almost 25% of the way through the list! Lol
I was hyped for this game after I first saw it in Nintendo Power. I played it a lot but did not have the patience to beat it without cheat codes.
Turok is underrated in the land of shooters. Turok evolution has some crazy stuff in it.
I freaking love the torok series as a kid and i still do get a crave to play them again even today
This game kicked my ass as a kid. Between the low draw distance and the map design, I was just constantly lost. It was the definition of a "where the fuck do you go" kind of game.
I'm sorry a Stegosaurus? 25:29 that clearly has three horns, that's a Triceratops.
"Hmmm, something's missing here, it lacks punch... What is it... OH! of course, the startled sound of the jaguar he lands on! Duh, it's always the most obvious things ya wind up overlooking, I swear."
~Falling Death Animator (three hours after he should have knocked off for the night)
Cheat codes were the only way to beat this game as a young child lol. This game is VERY HARD
I spent so much time walking in circles in the game. I didn’t know there was a map 😫
I’m so glad to hear him complain about the size of these levels. A friend and I still to this game refer to overly large complex levels as “Turok Levels”
I remember I rented this game and couldn't even make it past the training. I was terrified because the only weapon I had was a bow and I expected realistic dinosaur action, like one attack and you're dead. Just too nerve wracking for my child self to even try lol
I love how easily scared we were by 3D games back then. We were really like the audience that dove out of their chairs for cover when that early film footage of a train rolling straight over the camera debuted. It was so novel and "real" to us in a way that we don't even really imagine modern AAA visuals to be. I couldn't play horror games for that same reason, and even Ocarina's Shadow Temple and Conker's Bad Fur Day's spooky mission creeped me out lol
You can climb up from every pit.
You can run around the car boss to collect reappearing ammo.
8:48 You can destroy it by using trek arrows
10:56 You can see trees, that's the hint
16:44 For pushing the button xD
24:30 There is a small ledge
25:28 Triceratops :)
Turok is astonishingly atmospheric, and doesn’t even try to be conventionally enjoyable. It’s a muddy, confusing, frightening monster. Nobody should play if they’re feeling sad.
My N64 had only seen Nintendo games until one night a buddy rented this, Duke Nukem and the film Blade. Very gnarly 90s night. The jungle sounds and the disco mode were so surreal.
Explosive Shotgun is the true champion of weapons in this game.
The levels of the Turok games were always too big and confusing for my taste. It gets even worse in Part 2. lol
For some reason I still remember the master cheat for this game....NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK
Remember sinking so many hours into Turok 1 and 2 and generally having a great time as well as also getting very lost. The levels were just utterly massive (at the time) for a console game so that plus the fog viewing occlusion made it challenging to remember what was next or where you were.
All I remember from this game is my friends and I joking about how much “fog” they had (to hide the rendering)
If anyone reading these comments is interested in playing Turok, as Thab mentioned in the video, there are remasters of Turok 1 and Turok 2 available. They do a good job of making the games playable, while still maintaining the original soul of the games, blemishes and all. They're definitely worth checking out. The level design is utterly inscrutable, but the movement is fun.
How have I forgotten about this series over the last several weeks/couple months? Aaahhhh
Loved watching this! I remember this game as being “too scary” for me when it came out 😂😂😂 I think I heard that a bunch of devs from this game went on to develop Metroid Prime, and I can definitely see some similarities!
I was just a little guy watching my dad knife the cave dweller's on a tube tv, we always played in the dark. I'm happy I wasn't the only one scared lol.
@@gondwannagondwanna4471 lol that’s amazing
I personally remember playing it for the first time around the age of 7 and being too scared to even take the first few steps into the fog because I saw something move then disappear (convinced myself it was a dino). After 15-20 minutes I finally gained the courage to move forward and as the fog cleared, I realised it was just a monkey 😭
Should've seen me hide under the dock at the start of Turok 2 to avoid the Raptoids and Endtrails 😂
Even the Iguana Entertainment intro in T2 made me feel uncomfortable. Good games, great memories
@@YeahTheGoys lollll incredible
I played all these games in every summer before smart phones were a thing, I remember every single little detail, we were built different back then.
The minimap that overlays the whole screen and rotates is unique and really cool
The Turok games on N64 were amazing. Currently trying to track down as many of the 90s Valient comics as i can that this first game was based off of
Ah, good memories. But I have even better memories of Turok 2, which was bigger and better in every way.
Ogre Battle is gonna be like an hour long video lol
I loved how there were no markers or anything. forced you to PLAY THE GAME and not just look at a bleep on the map. you had to learn levels, remember where you had been. it actually felt great when you finally found that key.
Can't wait till you hit Turok 2. the best one of the four in my opinion. I adore Turok 3 as well. You thought the deaths were brutal in this game... OOoo boy.
"The music is boring"
Gotta disagree there. This soundtrack has been on my work playlist for more than a decade.
Somehow this gory game got past my cousin's household catholic censorship when we were little kids. The draw distance being so short made it feel so spooky and huge. We didn't even get half way.
I wouldn't say that final arrow was aimed at the boss's chest...
I’m convinced that spiritual invincibility is just Turok on psychedelics 😂
This was the first FPS that I really played in depth. The controls don't hold up too well, but the atmosphere was amazing.
I remember my brother playing this game a lot. Kind of interesting seeing such realistic guns in a dinosaur hunter game.
Also, if you don't die in a corner or under something, both the Mantis and T-Rex bosses also have unique death animations. The Mantis slashes you a few times, then cuts to your PoV as it spits acid turning the screen red (iirc). The T-Rex, however, just fuckin eats you, then burps out the feathers in your hair.