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Turok 2 releases on Switch August 9th
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Switch is a great home for classic FPS games at this point, I love it. I may get Turok 1 after beating Doom 1, and eventually get 2 if I like Turok enough.
I just watched the Digital Foundry video on Turok. If I wasn't in my Doom craze, I'd buy this and the first Turok in a second. I'll add both to my wishlist and get them on sale.
Gimme every 5th gen shooter in hd for modern platforms/switch, hoping for something like a quake or quake 2 release or power slave or something
Yes. Since like May or so. They announced Limited Run releases for both at E3 even.
I played Turok for the first time on Switch and thought it was pretty cool but a bit too dated. I hear 2 is a huge upgrade so I'm looking forward to it.
Own the PC remaster that got released and I'm sure any console version will not control nearly as well, but I'm Day 1 on this no matter what.
I have never played a Turok game.
I wonder how I might do with #2 without the sweet sweet power of nostalgia fueling my play.
I wonder how I might do with #2 without the sweet sweet power of nostalgia fueling my play.
Bought both games for PC, then Xbox One, now on Switch.
I'm hopeful for an eventual remaster of Part 3. Played very little of it. I only remember it pretty much breaking the N64.
I'm hopeful for an eventual remaster of Part 3. Played very little of it. I only remember it pretty much breaking the N64.
Unrelated Turok. The Turok name IP is owned by NBC Universal. The N64 Turok game series is based on the then more recent rebooted comics. Different license.
Splitscreen is unlikely. The multiplayer is based on the original PC version and requires a frankly absurd about of CPU power to draw out the scene due to the more complex maps, we couldn't even get it working properly on the Xbox.
As for why no network multiplayer, we are actually in the process of rewriting netcode so it's only temporary (although there's currently no timeline). The existing netcode we wrote turned out to be quite unstable on wifi at times so I'm rewrite some chunks of its core logic to use delta frames exclusively (thus packetloss resilient as the next frame will contain all the same data) and backporting some improvements that have developed since Forsaken and Blood:FS.
N64 more powerful than Xbox One X, confirmed!
All kidding aside, thanks for the informative post Edward.
Wait so you're saying there is some form of the MP still in the Switch version after all?
I actually meant online multiplayer but your enthusiasm is noted. I personally really want to do local multiplayer, it's however it's a bit complicated to do given how Nightdive is situated. We programmers are situated around the world, not in a central location. I'm in New Zealand myself, the others are spread amongst the UK and US, not even in the same state.
That's the plan, just not on launch.
Turok 1 and 2 are pretty different games by the way. They don't really play the same.
The basic shooting feels much different as Turok 1 had very aggressively large hit boxes while Turok 2 had aggressively small hit boxes.
I wonder how Turok 2 will play with dual analog. I remember I desperately wanted to love Turok 2 when it first came out on the N64 but I ended up being really disappointed by the tiny hitboxes and God awful framerate.
When the remaster came out for PC I was finally able to play the game I always wanted to.
Very curious to see how this holds up on Switch. I'm scared the game will control poorly like the N64 version.
The basic shooting feels much different as Turok 1 had very aggressively large hit boxes while Turok 2 had aggressively small hit boxes.
I wonder how Turok 2 will play with dual analog. I remember I desperately wanted to love Turok 2 when it first came out on the N64 but I ended up being really disappointed by the tiny hitboxes and God awful framerate.
When the remaster came out for PC I was finally able to play the game I always wanted to.
Very curious to see how this holds up on Switch. I'm scared the game will control poorly like the N64 version.
Even better!
Hey I know you're a small company and I just want to extend my thanks and gratitude for everything you and the others have done to keep old games like this alive.
I bought Turok 1 on Switch day 1 and this will likely be no different.
PS: your continuing support for Blood is better than most AAA studios.
Nightdive are a treasure. Great work, on great games.
Shadowman to consoles pleeeeeeeeeeeeease. I'll buy every version of it, I promise!
Badly. :D
Alright, I didn't play that much of the game, but first couple of levels were really really bad. Cut&paste level design where you got lost because so many sections looked the same, pretty repetitive encounters, and the combat was that fun either. Everything related to something of a story was pretty appaling as well.
IMHO, of course, based on the first parts of the game.
People seem to like this one, but based on what I played, but from what little I played, I saw nothing that should have earned the level of "cult" following this seems to have.
But perhaps people who know the series then I do, can explain where I'm wrong.
Same. I remember being so damn hyped for this game and it delivering in spades.
Can't wait for August 9
You're in luck...the Switch has two analogue sticks and not one like the N64...! :)
I'm torn between knowing I'd only play about five minutes of this and knowing those five minutes would be filled with some excellent Cerebral Bore action.
post 25 has the digital foundry video :)
tl;dr perfect
this sounds even better then!?! :O
The Swich version even has gyro assisted aim. It could not possibly control any better.
I hope they do Rage Wars and Turok 3 too.
Rage Wars had some of the best weapons in an FPS lol. "The Inflator" "The Emaciator" "Cerebral Bore"
Turok 3 was a rip off of Half Life, but I still liked it when it came out.
Rage Wars had some of the best weapons in an FPS lol. "The Inflator" "The Emaciator" "Cerebral Bore"
Turok 3 was a rip off of Half Life, but I still liked it when it came out.
Needs more half life rip offs.
Create new thread: "Half Life, 3 rd Turok was very much like it."
I'm so ready for those. Especially quake 1. They always forget about it. At this point power slave seems very unlikely though.
That's nice to hear.
Power Slave when? Pretty please!!!
Already bought and played Turok 1, 2 and Forsaken on xbox one.
I don't remember Turok 1 working very well with the Gyro, but then again I didn't tweak it very much or anything.
I'll give it another go when 2 releases. Hope it's to my liking.