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** "[[Memetic Mutation|World War two was started BY LEAPERS!!!!!!]]" |
** "[[Memetic Mutation|World War two was started BY LEAPERS!!!!!!]]" |
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** "[[Memetic Mutation|And if you don't think that the leapers were that bad than YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF]]" |
** "[[Memetic Mutation|And if you don't think that the leapers were that bad than YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF]]" |
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* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Subverted. With the exception of the original comics and the 2008 reboot, Turok is not the name of the protagonists in the games or the reboot comics, but rather a title that they are referred to. The confusion comes from the fact that in the first two games the characters shout [[ |
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Subverted. With the exception of the original comics and the 2008 reboot, Turok is not the name of the protagonists in the games or the reboot comics, but rather a title that they are referred to. The confusion comes from the fact that in the first two games the characters shout [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|"I....am Turok!"]] every time they get a extra life. Also, Tal'Set's name [[All There in the Manual|isn't mentioned at all in the first game.]] |
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]] - ''Seeds of Evil'' and ''Shadow of Oblivion'' have their moments. |
* [[Nightmare Fuel]] - ''Seeds of Evil'' and ''Shadow of Oblivion'' have their moments. |
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* [[Porting Disaster]] - Part of why ''Evolution'' has such a bad reputation is the awful [[ |
* [[Porting Disaster]] - Part of why ''Evolution'' has such a bad reputation is the awful [[PlayStation 2]] port, which has significantly degraded graphics and framerate issues. The [[Xbox]] and [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] versions have pretty respectable graphics for those systems, but with the PS2 being a far more popular system than those two, that ended up being the version that most people were familiar with. |
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* [[Sci-Fi]] - For the most part. |
* [[Sci-Fi]] - For the most part. |
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* [[That One Boss]]: The giant sea-serpent/octopus monster in the 2008 game, with its cheap attacks, rock-throwing abilities and awkward weakness, is loathed by just about everyone who's played the game. |
* [[That One Boss]]: The giant sea-serpent/octopus monster in the 2008 game, with its cheap attacks, rock-throwing abilities and awkward weakness, is loathed by just about everyone who's played the game. |
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Latest revision as of 23:26, 16 January 2021
- Adaptation Displacement: "There was a comic? AND IT CAME FIRST!?"
- Crowning Music of Awesome: All the games had good music, but Seeds of Evil took the cake.
- Hive of the Mantids from Turok 2, has some of the best atmospheric and intense build up in a song.
- Port of Adia and River of Souls are great as well.
- The soundtrack to first game, done entirely on synthesizers manages to stay Uber-Badass and still be classic-video game style at the same time. Thus qualifying it for Crowning music of awesome.
- And while everybody and their sixth cousin five times removed seemed to think Turok: Evolution one of the worst peices of crap ever concieved, The Music was absolutely E-P-I-C (especially the Track, Lost Temple).
- Demonic Spiders: Literally in The Lair of the Blind Ones.
- Even Better Sequel: Seeds of Evil was near-universally rated as being one of these when it first came out. Nowadays there tends to be a 50-50 split as to whether the first or second game is the best.
- Goddamn Bats: The designers apparently felt that every cave in the first game needed to have Leapers: Freaked-up demonic monkeys that looked like a deformed kid in somebody's bad acid trip; that did virtually no damage but just kept making this HORRIBLE SCREECH that made everybody who played the game want to lobotomize themselves with a Garden Gnome. Don't believe it could be that bad? Just check out Turok: Dinosaur Hunter LP by Eexecute on Youtube.
- I Am Not Shazam: Subverted. With the exception of the original comics and the 2008 reboot, Turok is not the name of the protagonists in the games or the reboot comics, but rather a title that they are referred to. The confusion comes from the fact that in the first two games the characters shout "I....am Turok!" every time they get a extra life. Also, Tal'Set's name isn't mentioned at all in the first game.
- Nightmare Fuel - Seeds of Evil and Shadow of Oblivion have their moments.
- Porting Disaster - Part of why Evolution has such a bad reputation is the awful PlayStation 2 port, which has significantly degraded graphics and framerate issues. The Xbox and GameCube versions have pretty respectable graphics for those systems, but with the PS2 being a far more popular system than those two, that ended up being the version that most people were familiar with.
- Sci-Fi - For the most part.
- That One Boss: The giant sea-serpent/octopus monster in the 2008 game, with its cheap attacks, rock-throwing abilities and awkward weakness, is loathed by just about everyone who's played the game.
- That One Level: Turok 2's Lair of The Blind Ones. Huge, repetitive, full of cramped tunnels, extremely easy to get lost in and God help you if you're arachnophobic.