Zero Punctuation: Turok

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Sniper_Zegai

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ccesarano said:
Pointless to make such a comment now, but I actually enjoy the game despite its flaws. I think the following were sadly missing, though:

1) It's a problem when all of your bad guys sound like John Madden
2) It's also a problem when you get knocked to your feet constantly in the game, and are still susceptible to damage for all five seconds it takes for you to get back up.

Granted I knew Yahtzee was going to hate the game, as I can tell you right now it's not a beacon of light in any way. However, the single player isn't bad, and the co-op is really interesting as they created custom missions for it (that are near impossible with only two people). I haven't gotten to try out the regular multiplayer yet, but I like the idea of a CTF game where the flag carrier could randomly become swallowed up by a T.Rex. Makes things a lot more interesting.
I agree, I really enjoyed Turok. It may not have been anything original but its hardly fair to judge it on the basis that its simular to Halo in some ways. There have been many games that have done the same and have been far worse than Turok and as far as I was concerned the story was a vast improvment over the original Turok.

The main thing I really did feel bad about though was the lack of the more fantasical weapons we saw in Turok originally. Need I mention the cerebral bore. . .
 

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Sniper_Zegai said:
The main thing I really did feel bad about though was the lack of the more fantasical weapons we saw in Turok originally. Need I mention the cerebral bore. . .
Pretty much my opinion - Turok 2 had a brilliant weapon selection. Who would not include a gun that sprays out brain matter of your victim?????
 

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Joeshie said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
I doubt he'll retrospective. He made an exception to Psychonauts cause it was a great game (I assume) that was severely underrated. He's not going to review a game that was popular and got more than enough attention (which I'm not saying it didn't deserve, but it did get a lot of attention).

For more info on how John McCain will kill us all, please IM me.
Man, you must be one of the cool kids! You are ridiculing America!

I would ask you to name some of John McCain's policies off the top of your head, but I doubt you even know them. The only association you know of McCain is that
Actually, its more his favouring the bombing of Iran, despite Iran, well, not doing anything, coupled with his continued statement that peace is impossible. I see 3 things happening.

1. People will see the attack on Iran as being unprovoked, naked empire building.

2. Countries wishing to remain independent, such as China, North Korea, and India, will increase their nuclear arsenal

3. A second Cold War will be created, this time on four fronts. Considering how extremely close you came on one with just Russia, how are you supposed to survive one against four seperate countries?

I wouldn't actually simply state off the bat that I hate McCain simply cause he's a Republicans. Republicans could come up with the better man too. However, what it comes down to is that McCain, to me, represents an oncoming Nuclear War, which scares the shit out of me, as it should really scare the shit out of everyone.

But oh, there can't be good reasons, it must be just cause he's a republican that I hate him, as there can be no other reason.
Not fond of mcain because he has sold out to the neo reapers that run the Republican party, sorry a bunch of vile businessmen who use the bible to thump people inline with when they wear their black boots is not a good thing, I don't mind "Republicans" but we have not had any since the early 90s, the neo dims are not much better a bunch of rich kids who know nothing of real life who want to head efforts to save the starving masses and workers of foreign lands...and constantly screw the middle class because in their mind set they do nothing but but for their own and have enough money to get buy, the trouble is everythign revolves around the middle, you ignore them and let gas go to high you'll create mini local depressions because goods and services can not be used because tis costing normal people 1/3rd of their income or more to go to work.....

fck opec and gas prices we need 2.50 per gallon prices to get this economy rolling and they need to lock it for 10-15 years so we can forceably move to compressed hydrogen within 20 years its the only choice we as a nation have.
 

renard

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Time for a translation to spanish:

Australia, como la mayoría de la gente inteligente sabe, esta poblada por los descendientes de convictos condenados al exilio por rajar gargantas y monederos en las calles de Londres. En cuanto a la gente cuyas gargantas y monederos fueron rajados, todos sus descendientes trabajan en la industria del videojuego y conspiran para continuar con el castigo de los australianos retrasando de golpe un numero arbitrario de meses cada puta fecha de lanzamiento. Así que mientras esperamos a que cosas como no more heroes y rock band se dignen a asomar la cara por aquí vamos a descargar nuestras frustraciones en una mierda de juego de dinosaurios.

Estoy bastante contento de que un FPS inequívocamente malo haya sido cagado delante de mi, por que hay un montón de problemas con los juegos de disparos en primera persona hoy en día, y Turok es como una lista de todos ellos. Así que en vez de hacer lo que hago normalmente, crucificar el juego con grandes y punzantes clavos oxidados con forma de pene, voy a usar a Turok como ejemplo para ilustrar unos cuantos fallos que los FPS continúan haciendo. Quizás podría persuadir a los desarrolladores de que dejen de hacerlo, y entonces a lo mejor podría persuadir a la marea para que bajase y volar en un malvavisco con alas al reino sorbete.

1. Usad los controles responsablemente: Cuando estoy apuntando a algo y sacudo un poco el analógico derecho, es normalmente por que quiero apuntar a algo que esta un poco al lado de a lo que apunto en ese momento. No quiere decir que quiera girar mi cuerpo 90 grados, y especialmente no quiero que pase cuando un velociraptor corre hacia mi cara blandiendo un tenedor de postre. Por supuesto, la ausencia de apuntar con el ratón siempre mermaran a los FPS de consola, aunque los buenos FPS de consola normalmente lo compensan con control mas suave o auto-apuntado pero, como hemos dicho antes, el Turok no es un buen FPS y apuntar a las cosas es como jugar a los dardos con los brazos dormidos.

2. Traed de vuelta las barras de salud: No se por que la industria del videojuego ha abandonado los medidores de salud; quizás alguien organizo una macro-fiesta de interfaces de juego y el Sr. Barra de salud se puso pedo y se comporto como un capullo, con lo que todos le rechazan. En fin, que los juegos ya no tienen barra de salud. Cuando te dañan te curas sentado en una esquina, chupándote el dedo por unos segundos lo que hace del resto un simple patrón, pero es muy cómodo para jugadores que al parecer son niños de 3 años hijos de leprosos sifilicos. Que hay de malo en las barras de salud entonces? Vale, no es realista pero juraría que el realismo lo abandonamos cuando los marines espaciales empezaron a acuchillar dinosaurios en el planeta zog

3. Dadle a las granadas un radio de acción decente

4. Parad de plagiar ?Aliens?: ?Aliens? era una buena película, ningún problema con eso, pero parece que no puedas dar 10 pasos en el mercado FPS actual sin tropezarte con militares cachas, peludos e imprudentes de razas varias, que a menudo llevan (o se encuentran en algún lugar dentro) Armaduras potenciadas del tamaño de 4 urinarios portátiles apilados. Turok se pasa 3 pueblos, llegando a plagiar por completo la escena de las vainas criogénicas de ?aliens?, excepto que en vez de Sigourney Weaver ahora hay un tio con un corte de pelo estúpido. No cambia mucho, la verdad (har har har, risa estridente). Cuando consideras que los antiguos juegos de Turok tratan de un indio apache que viaja en el tiempo te das cuenta de lo duro que han tenido que trabajar en esta entrega para plagiar aliens. Han metido toda la historia en un armario, han hechado la llave y lo han despeñado por un acantilado. Se han dedicado a plagiar a ?Aliens? con la misma determinación con la que la mayoría de desarrolladores se dedicarian a hacer un buen juego, cosa admirable, supongo, desde un punto de vista gilipollesco.

5. Parad de acercar la cámara a la nuca de los personajes para mostrar que tomas el control de ellos

6. Dejad de gastaros la pasta en grandes actores de doblaje que luego no dan la talla. Turok tiene a este tío gruñón que parece un cruce entre Gimli, hijo de Gloin, y Popeye el marino, y cuya voz indica que a) es incapaz de emoción alguna y b) ha sido victima de un trepanamiento reciente. Lleno de curiosidad, me fui a IMDB para ver que actor principiante había dado voz a esta mierda y me encontré que no era otro sino el mismísimo jodido Ron Perlman. Un Ron Perlman que, solo puedo asumir, se dio cuenta pronto de en que truño se había metido y juro que su actuación seria de nivel semejante, y si Ron Perlman pensó que el Turok era una mierda ¿Quien eres tu para discutir? ¿Has calentado los helados corazones del publico mundial en ?la ciudad de los niños perdidos?? ¿no? Bien, entonces calla.

7. Conclusión: La mayoría de estos problemas con los FPS?s modernos se pueden resumir en 4 palabras ?seamos como el Halo. Pero yo recuerdo un tiempo en el que los FPS no marchaban detrás de un popular festival de mediocridad; cuando los FPS no eran solo sobre soldados y marines espaciales.; cuando podían tratar de vaqueros no-muertos, o violadores de cerdos, o de gilipollas misóginos chistosos. Recuerdo cuando los FPS tenían sentido del humor y habían otros colores que no fuese gris acero o marrón mierda. Recuerdo títulos como Exhumed, y Chasm, y Witchhaven 2? aunque, por otra parte, preferiría olvidarme de ellos
 

Stelman257

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trlkly said:
Well, that and it would give him a lot more material to rip since he's stuck in stupid six-months-behind Australia.
Hey I'm here too. Don't call us stupid, though by all means i really hate the 6-months behind in the gaming industry thing. Oh and Smash bros. Brawl comes out in june for us so Yahtzee might review it by July i would say. Rock band as he said before comes out in may for us and No more Heroes only just came out a week ago. Where not stupid for being a little behind in the gaming industry, we just have a smaller gaming market then America.
 

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Turok is ok game i don't recomend buying it i played the pc version and it is standard stuff if you dinosaur fan you can rent or download it but for the rest it not worth the purchase
 

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MassiveballS said:
Turok is ok game i don't recomend buying it i played the pc version and it is standard stuff if you dinosaur fan you can rent or download it but for the rest it not worth the purchase
I am a fan of FPSs and turok, however to me DOOM 3,Quake 4 and Bioshock are mediocre titles.

So turok is pretty much a normal casaul gun and run? ew....*marks his list off* 20$ or less....NEXT!.....
 

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I love this review, and more to the point I agree that 1st person shooters have become completely crap in the last decade.
It seems ever since Half-life came out (which was cool in its original way), no one has been willing to make a good 'standard' 1st person shooter like Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3D, and Wolfenstein 3D. They had good start-finish maps, with lots of things to shoot in between, with the added bonus you could pause, walk away and not miss plot points. These days we get 5 minutes of gun blazing glory for 2 hours of strafing down corridors - Doom 3, Half-life 2, and Halo(pick-one, I don't care) are all like that. Now it seems that if you want to play a mindless shooter game after a crippling day of whatever it has to be a rail shooter like Time Crisis 4.
I most of my favourite games growing up were 1st person shooters and I miss finding good ones. Anyone else remember Heretic, or Shadow Warrior? Good games, with a side of humour and originality to spare.

Great review, can't wait for next weeks.
 

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Agreed on the targeting system. I played Turok for 10 minutes, after running about the jungle for 5 minutes i finally saw someone get dragged off by a dinosaur, I shot like a storm trooper and ended up having to knife anything that moved after running out of bullets.
 

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this vid is truly awsome and you better read what is staying down at the voice actor page yahtsee whas looking for cus it stood Cristopher Judge (Teal'c from Stargate SG1) :D however i think you should have both health meters and regeneration but only should regenerate when lightly hurt and when you are badly hurt then pick up a medkit :p.
 

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Turok was without a doubt the worst game i've ever played, there was no auto aim to help with the enemies that run around like chickens with their heads cut off, i.e. the crocodile like dinos, the human enemies could spot you 300yds away while you were hiding in a fucking bush, and the boss fights were incredibly difficult like the T-Rex fight at the very end. Also Yahtzee makes a good point about the grenades, unless you toss it directly under a bad guy it does shit except piss them off.
 

Ezzay

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Gotta love the introduction music, classic Jurassic park, always a winner.
 

DoctorObviously

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This review and especially the last part should be shown to every single fucking developer. "Let's be like Halo" should be the motto for every fps (and actually every game) these days.
 

HV646

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beddo:
Oddly, Halo did feature a health bar.
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Unfortunately only the first Halo game has a helth bar while the others disgrace the memory with only a shield bar which drains rapidly.
1. Does not apply to Halo
2. Only 1st Halo had one (also was the best instalment)<H2 and H3 don't>
3. Does not apply
4. Don't know never seen alien
5. Halo only does that twice
6. Not qualified to answer

Inconclusion and in defence of the ONLY good halo game most of the formentioned problems don't apply. All the other halo's beside the 1st can go to HELL.
 

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I think the reason that health bars were abandoned was more of an immersion issue than a function issue. When you are constantly monitoring a red bar and chowing down on enough medical supplies to start your own private hospital, it becomes a little hard to take the game seriously. However, waiting behind a rock for the strawberry jam to clear off your screen is not a step in the right direction. Furthermore, the only reason why the whole regenerating, red blinking screen health system got so popular is because Call Of Duty 2 did it first and since that day it has become the default health mechanic for every shooter and it's mum. A new system is definitely needed. One that has the realism of using medical supplies to heal yourself, and not the power of your very mind, and the immersion of a refreshing face full of delicious strawberry jam. There is my spiel on health systems. Take it with a grain of salt.
 

yaoinut

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I can acknowledge some of the problems of the modern FPS. I think lacking a health bar can be debatable, depending on your player type. I prefer having them, so I can top up health before I get too bad. I know red glowing screens or the other methods aren't bad but I just prefer the health meter. My other major gripe really just applies to most games. Get some decent voice actors, please. Either have them be amazing or keep them mute. If they sound like broken glass, I'm going to get swiftly annoyed.