Beating EVERY N64 Game - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (85/394)

[@CATASTEROID934]

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.

[@JJ-hw4po]

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.

[@wilhelmisaac]

You, sir, are not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. Super appreciate the lore dump for this game

[@JJ-hw4po]

@@wilhelmisaac glad to help

[@JordanManfrey]

this is the kind of comic book stuff I wish we got movies about instead of marvel lol

[@huskerdee1431]

This might single handedly be the nerdiest comment I’ve ever, and I’m here for it

[@arimo3163]

I want to say the game came with a comic or the comic was built into the instruction manual

[@Kalabei]

Beast: "Definately some of the biggest levels I've ever played on." Turok 2: "Hold my beer."

[@troydenbrum2979]

I've never finished a turok 2 level with cheats on.

[@jclinton4473]

@@troydenbrum2979 not to brag but me either.

[@aaronkemp7789]

I am watching all of Thab's N64 videos, and I mean all of them. The twist is, I'm using a KZbin 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.

[@aaronkemp7789]

@@moogibeans9822 I added the part about shuffle mode.

[@chuckieWalsh]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FusionDeveloper]

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... . .You would want to make YOUR OWN saved playlist of them shuffled. . .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. . .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.

[@aaronkemp7789]

@@FusionDeveloper It's not a joke, and this is good advice.

[@theDjAranea]

😂😂 i dig it!

[@Deadhart72]

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.

[@thefunkdroid2777]

The cerebral bore from Turok 2 is also something.

[@ronronronronyo8358]

@@thefunkdroid2777 Hell yeah!

[@elgoodo3148]

Aakhkhchhh akhkhgggh uwuh uwwwouggghhh

[@DeeEfSea]

@@elgoodo3148 came here to say this but you already delivered 👌

[@chompythebeast]

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

[@GameMaster136]

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.

[@trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952]

Then a year later goldeneye followed up with even more great death animations

[@TheEchoingCalm]

8:50, you can return with the grenade launcher to break that wall for the juicy loot! You might also notice some trees bleed blue when hit with bullets, these trees can be destroyed with explosives and the falling trunks deal damage 🙂 Level 4 and 5 have tons of "mirage" walls, you can simply walk thru them and usually have sweet loot, i must have spent hours walk-hugging walls to find them all. Enemy infighting is also a thing and is really cool. When timed perfectly, Turok can also initiate a jump in thin air, right after starting to fall off the edge, mix this with diagonal jump and you can reach pretty far. I remember being able to multi jump over water. Another neat easter egg happens when you press the N64 reset button 😁 80's kids witnessed one of the greatest evolutions from ms-dos late 80's to n64 late 90's with NES and SNES in between. Ok nostalgic rant over!

[@chrisstrebor]

Years late to the comment sections but I just posted about the water jumping lol best this in just under an hour on easy Speedrunning it with all the knowledge and tricks eventually lol you can also any staircase going down with a ceiling above it if u jump and hit ur head on the ceiling and keep holding the jump button ull slide all the way down head stuck in the ceiling super fast lol loved that

[@Ghostyfrost9688]

Cheat codes were the only way to beat this game as a young child lol. This game is VERY HARD

[@wilhelmisaac]

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.

[@Jeremycook_]

It was a good game but hardly revolutionary. Its basically doom with dinosaurs, and doom was wolfenstein with demons.

[@joeshittheragman6252]

@@Jeremycook_ Looks more like Quake with dinosaurs

[@alexanon7799]

@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

[@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652]

​@@Jeremycook_ Stop talking crap.

[@Jeremycook_]

@@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652 stop talking period

[@FirebirdDude]

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?!?!

[@nin_tendo6458]

I had the worst feeling of dread when you said this game was 25 years old. Good grief time flies.

[@FirebirdDude]

@@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.

[@chompythebeast]

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

[@nin_tendo6458]

@@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.

[@niels1755]

Right? We were blessed to have these hidden gems...

[@Kalaida]

@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.

[@DeezScotts2023]

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.

[@Starbug1S1]

Correct.

[@troydenbrum2979]

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.

[@ColbyPrachyl]

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.

[@steveanton763]

@@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.

[@mcasias33]

Aliens Resurrection PS1

[@aleckermit]

Easily one of the most iconic and ambitious N64 games right here.

[@isaiahpetersen]

That "Massive Stegosaurus" was actually a Triceratops. This was a great watch! Loved this game as a kid.

[@SC2TiMeLorD]

25:27

[@Defy_Convention]

The Jeep was a Humvee too

[@Thabeast721]

Guess I need to study my dinosaurs

[@WowOafus]

@@Thabeast721 and vehicles. That was a Hum-V, not a Jeep

[@chompythebeast]

@@WowOafus Slightly cathartic seeing it blown up, I must say. Pre-9/11 / Second Gulf War gaming moment

[@brentfry5540]

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.

[@NYC-Rock]

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.

[@calebfielding6352]

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.

[@michaelhulcy6680]

Gotta civilize those savages!

[@midwestdepressed]

Like a colonizer

[@walkerpierce5446]

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.

[@MustObeyTheRules]

I love that he’s like a Native American instead of a white guy 😂

[@andrewortiz5797]

@@MustObeyTheRules I'm surprised too!! It's usually the white man who occupies the land of others.

[@heckles5866]

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.

[@JayTheMan2828]

I am Turok. "Heck yeah brother." Had me dying.

[@helvio88]

You’re gonna love Carmageddon, I have hundreds of hours of amazing fun times with my brother playing that game, it’s hysterical!

[@MeyerBen27]

Gatling guns are called "miniguns" because they are based on giant 20mm machine guns much larger than any belt fed portable firearm.

[@FireTiger941]

30:07 You could say you got "T-wrecked" on your first attempt LOL

[@caseyp5665]

Loved Turok! Never even got close to beating it as a kid lol. Just wandered around never ending levels until something crazy happened

[@zachayres4959]

Yeah same here. I cannot believe he only gave it a 6 for difficultly. Even with cheats on I never beat the game!

[@ProjectAzar]

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.

[@majora36]

Yep

[@modernallie6326]

Yeah. I thought so

[@luismoreira6428]

Is this true or are you guys joking? I have searched here on KZbin, never see that "secret" boss and neither the other ending, maybe it was just collecting the weapon parts?

[@ProjectAzar]

@@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.

[@Dare1C]

Turok, the unofficial precursor to Metroid Prime. You can see it. Very cool game, esp for its time! Great vid!

[@uhhh_adam]

Ur right how'd I never notice that

[@costby1105]

Staff from iguana did eventually move on to for Retro Studios.

[@KingBat]

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.

[@cartervandenberg4771]

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

[@collinf9334]

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

[@Linkums]

This looks pretty impressive for an N64 game. I bet people were hyped for this when it came out.

[@commonsensei8719]

Yes :)

[@KingC89]

I don't remember much hype for it tbh.

[@macjack5978]

Can confirm

[@SneakyDecoy72]

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

[@brendanwilson8977]

Keen on Carmageddon myself, not an overly hard game. But oh so many memories with it.

[@Erlewyn]

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.

[@BeauCardwellReacts]

I’m so excited for Shadowgate 64. This has turned into my favorite series on KZbin. Your natural delivery is just highly entertaining and hilarious.

[@BigHit9922]

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

[@dylanvalorfall]

GREAT GAME!!! Amazing music

[@BeauCardwellReacts]

@@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!

[@dylanvalorfall]

@@BeauCardwellReacts That's incredibly cool!

[@dylanvalorfall]

@@BeauCardwellReacts They remade Shadowgate 64?

[@PolymerJones]

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

[@CrawYT]

yes they do lol

[@StealthHalberd01]

Turok is such a kickass game series on the N64. One of the first actually good console shooters.

[@cubaisdeath]

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

[@levirobbins3084]

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...

[@brickchains1]

Turok was the hypest when it came out. Stick w it kid you're doing great

[@kolo5141]

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 :)

[@danielgordon2907]

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

[@maudiojunky]

Yeah just imagine it in comparison to the rotary cannon on a fighter or a ship, that's what it's mini compared to.

[@fb1767]

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.

[@elephamoose]

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.

[@JordanEstes]

and don't forget the legendary Turok: Rage Wars! One of my all time faves

[@Proximity94]

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.

[@Monado6]

I remember turning on tiny mode and big head mode against the games final boss. It changes his voice. It's hilarious. Good times

[@seantv1510]

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 🤣

[@seantv1510]

Good times lol

[@CrybabyPierre]

Absolutely LOVED this game when I was a 7 year old kid in 97❤️

[@rhysm.5915]

The Turok remaster is how a remaster *should* be done.

[@evillovekitty]

I'm sorry a Stegosaurus? 25:29 that clearly has three horns, that's a Triceratops.

[@UltimaJC]

Turok and Doom 64 deserved the acclaim that Goldeneye got

[@shofarsogood7504]

New subscriber. I really like your style ( nice hair) and personality. Reminds me of my friend RIP and I appreciate sense of humor or not being vulgar and cussing. Thanks for doing these. I get to enjoy a game I never got to play but a speed run in todays too busy life.

[@moogibeans9822]

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

[@jordanbridges]

Miniguns are called that because they're 'mini' in comparison to the gun they were based off of. gatling guns

[@Retrofun69]

I LOVE this game and the remaster by nightdive studios is fantastic.

[@Kalabei]

How much of the time do you want to keep the map open, Beast? "Yes."

[@chaykuh]

Lol was killing me

[@dirty-moto]

You can unzoom the map, too

[@Mecheye]

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

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

Ive always thought that turoks level designs inspired fromsoft levels

[@Kawaiilolrofl]

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

[@GamingMythen]

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.

[@Kawaiilolrofl]

@@GamingMythen danke :D

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

Just for you poor Germans. I think the rest of Europe got blood and Aztecs.

[@SHKEVE]

I lived in Belgium in the early 90s and so I grew up shooting robots in Contra.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

@@SHKEVE That one we all had to suffer i'm afraid.

[@David-qi1ys]

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?

[@Blue-ke5sb]

I can't wait to see you play Turok: Rage Wars. I loved that game as a kid, but I had a cartridge where the coop mutliplayer was broken. When playing one of the animal tag levels, the game registered both players as versus rather than coop so you could never officially win those levels and eventually you got bottlenecked and couldn't complete the campaign.

[@jesseherman5540]

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.

[@gmun]

i get how the music probably gets repetitive as you actually play the long levels, but damn looking back at the soundtrack it just has this vibe to it that I can't help but love. Oh, also, those are some really nice animations for the N64!

[@wet-read]

What about the ambient sounds? I like the cave ones most, and happen to find the ambient noises in the fortress levels near the end (and also while floating in the really deep column of water leading to the portal in the Catacombs) creepy and unsettling.

[@111000254]

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

[@TheRealLink]

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.

[@fernandovazquez7272]

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.

[@chompythebeast]

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

[@Ryzeu]

My favorite series on youtube hands down!! Keep it up man, almost 25% of the way through the list! Lol

[@TheRealFutureMillionaire]

For some reason I still remember the master cheat for this game....NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK

[@InjusticeHater]

Nice! I got lost so many times... What I find funny: you don't mention how great the nuke and chroniceptor look. I couldn't believe what I was seeing back in the 90s. Those explosions with shockwaves were like seeing the BFg from doom in 3D for the first time. Also when doing those closecall jumps the camera will slightly shake when stepping over the edge. Jump directly whe the cam shakes or slightly after and without strafing you will succeed all those hard jumps

[@TheRealHoMaLoN]

As kids, we always to say Turok was drinking the Key🤣

[@hunter5028]

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

[@chompythebeast]

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

[@yumyumeatemup]

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.

[@smithclone]

To get the items behind the spikes on level 2 you just need to shoot the rock spikes with explosives.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Turok didn't hold your hand.

[@ieatstheinternet]

Hey Beast, Minigun is a real world reference to spinning barrel a machine gun the US army and navy used. It was referenced a lot in pop culture in the 80s 90s because of its unique design, "brrrt" sound, and devastating power. It was called "Mini" because it used a smaller caliber bullet than its predecessors. Gun/cannon design around that time was following a "bigger is better" trajectory and the Minigun proved a smaller round could still be quite effective and destructive.

[@lasskinn474]

it's a mini version of gatling guns, specifically of those used in planes, like the vulcan, which was also made by the same company, so the project was to miniaturize the vulcan down to rifle cartridge.

[@troydenbrum2979]

Those lava pillars in lvl 7 (The lost lands), are the worst.

[@lesliestiers]

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.

[@Corosar]

That juicy loot found in level 2 requires that you have some sort of explosive weapon. Tek arrows will not allow you to get into there though. All (or most) Levels have 2 bonus areas actually. Kinda nice. Though if you enter the same bonus area. it won't respawn the items. The lost land is an insane place and the entire game takes place in it. Storywise. its a borderland between multiple dimensions where time means nothing. Things fall into it all the time. and its the job of Turok to regulate and keep the denizens from causing trouble. The job of turok is also extremely fatal. and is a family heritage. Basically they are guardians of the multiverse. and that is a very simplified version of the story. The Campaigner wishes to gather the pieces of the Chronoscepter so that he can.. you guessed it. Take over the world. The chronoscepter's destruction leads directly to the story of Turok 2. The T-rex boss (Their name is Thunder). if you die to its attacks while out in the main arena. you also get a unique death animation as well. Where thunder just eats Turok.

[@hagzomush]

16:35 You can run back after activating all of the monsters and let them fight each other! Back when I played this as a kid; my little brother and I would make bets on which enemy would come out on top.

[@hatsuneelissu5924]

Good luck IF Turok 2 gets picked! Because O-M-G was it boring for me! i liked how Turok 1 was just straight forwards but Turok 2... UGH! the insane backtracking for keys & feathers, the long big levels not to forget that you have to backtrack AGAIN for the final boss keys! and IF u want to hurt u even more then there are nuke parts to collect! so that means backtracking even more! Just....... PFT! I completed turok 2 ONCE and i was done with it!

[@TheGamingChad.]

8:52, this took me many years to figure out, all you need is an explosive arrow to break those spikes, fantastic game, pretty much the first one to include motion capture, real-time lighting, and an actual 3D environment with real 3D model enemies, unlike doom using 2D sprites, you should absolutely give the remaster a try, up to 120 FOV, supports 8K 60fps, better and smoother controls, levels have been slightly modified too! also there is a steam workshop with a lot of cool mods! you should absolutely try Turok 2 and 3, and even 4!

[@DjPyro2010]

The minimap that overlays the whole screen and rotates is unique and really cool

[@GovernorPemulis]

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.

[@inybisinsulate]

You're gonna love Turok 2 hearing 4:15 only 2 places in the first game you get lost at. Maybe more with the broken map in some ports.

[@DezziGuy]

"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)

[@theotenbrink8834]

the tree top level is awesome. I remember it from when I was a child to be intense

[@camrsr5463]

gold shark tooth......aslo called a triangle

[@Badspot]

20:25 It's called a minigun because it is a miniature version of a rotary autocannon used in aircraft.

[@RealAlphaDrum]

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.

[@Sweetguy1821]

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.

[@Corosar]

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.

[@GoandLove]

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!

[@gondwannagondwanna4471]

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.

[@GoandLove]

@@gondwannagondwanna4471 lol that’s amazing

[@YeahTheGoys]

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

[@GoandLove]

@@YeahTheGoys lollll incredible

[@Apanblod]

Damn, that draw distance is quite.. something. You can almost see what's right beneath you if you're lucky!

[@garyindiana8075]

This was one of the first games released for the n64. The commercials were EPIC! The graphics! Wow this was soooo amazing.

[@kalgon57]

1) The key from level 2 was not hidden, you should have noticed the top of the trees so you should have guessed that there was a ground down there. 2) When you kill with the knife, you have a chance to get a mortal wound that raises your base health (over 100) that's why when you took a full health, you got to 120. mortal wounds are like a level up.

[@MrChristoph0r]

Turok is underrated in the land of shooters. Turok evolution has some crazy stuff in it.

[@nathaniel2794]

You beat Turok, I’m very impressed, you can accomplish anything! I’m now subscribed

[@IronyNinja]

How to get the minigun + body armor pictured at 8:50: gotta come back with an explosive weapon (greande launcher or quad R launcher). I believe you do it the grenade launcher in level 4 for free early on; you can claim an early mini gun if you come back to level 2, but the minigun itself is like halfway through level 5 so it doesn't get you it all that much earlier. Level 5 is one of the tougher ones though so every bit of gear helps. Could be wrong on some of this it's been a LONG time since I played this game.

[@Konton_No_Tenshi]

I freaking love the torok series as a kid and i still do get a crave to play them again even today

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

All I remember from this game is my friends and I joking about how much “fog” they had (to hide the rendering)

[@じょせふ-v2z]

Surprised he didn't like the music much, everyone else loves it 😢

[@andrewoverhere8525]

Dude I have like 3 days of time to chill. Going to get caught up on all these this weekend. You're the best

[@yellaboiroc3188]

Short yet funny backstory on this game, my mother and grandma beat this game before we even had a change. In fact since we had no memory pack there'd be times when we didn't get to play for weeks....she refused to turn the game off until it was beat (each and ever single time either one played)

[@mistahl5350]

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.

[@larrytaylor2692]

Turoks graphics blew my mind when it came out. My friend bought it and I was always asking him to let me watch him play when I’d come over.

[@elwyndude]

I didnt play this game, but I was hooked on Turok 2 and played them obsessively. Never finished it and now I am tempted to get the PC rerelease. Looking forward to seeing you play it and also Carmageddon - another great game from my past.

[@gabrielhersey5546]

One of n64’s top games. Brilliant masterpiece Love it

[@GatCat]

Turok was the first N64 game I played and it blew me away at first.