Posts by dux

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Because otherwise you'll be just getting a paperweight which can barely play CS1.6 with high-fps config.

Uh... not quite. But okay.

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I would have ended up spending about the same.

I honestly doubt that.

Why spend so much on a laptop?

Looks tacky and soulless. Money trumps taste when you have it in abundance.

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IS THAT A PICTURE FOR ANTS

It's only temporary. I haven't heard a single story from new parents where the beginning was difficult with either work, homes, family, money or something. It all works out eventually. It just takes time and it's a test of character.

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Here's the expansion pack, not to be confused with game expansion packs I think it was extra ram.

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A whopping extra 4mb mate!

You're judging a book from 1937 on a modern day film interpritation. No need for that. It didn't win a lot of literary awards and become regarded as one of the best fantasy novels for nothing yo. That's not even discounting all of his other works like the silmarillion. The film itself was pretty poop but the book is something else.

It's a dumb game but removing it is dumber.

It's funny you should say that the controls are bad as I tried to play CoD Black Cocks on a ps controller a while ago and just for the life of me couldn't do it. I felt as if I was playing with two left hands. But with Turok 2 and the n64 controller, piece of piss. I guess I played it so much it was just muscle memory. But I found it funny how I struggled so hard with the ps controller.

ps4 xbone next gen

Can't fault the amount of coverage this is getting though lol!

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turok 2 was dope, but the first was better. Mutliplayer was batshit though, it's got that over the the first.

Orly. I love the first one as well, but in comparison it feels so empty compared to turok 2. It has always had a very unique atmosphere, though.

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What's that dux, you're playing a dirty console game? Go and have a wash, infidel!

Mate it's from 1998 back when consoles were good and could have graphics AND gameplay.

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Never played it. LOLOLOLOL

That's because you're Mapcores official scrub.

I'm feeling nostalgic and wanted to talk about an overlooked classic.

As some of you may have seen on the facetubes, I plugged in my old n64 for some nostalgia. I tried out Zelda to start with then Goldeneye then came across THE n64 game of all games: Turok 2 Seeds of Motherfucking Evil. Holy shit I haven't played this game in around 15 years. This was >the< game for me back in my n64 loving days along with Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Zelda64 and F-Zero X. I had never played anything like it. Even the first Turok which I loved couldn't have prepared me for how awesome this game was. When I learned of it's development and saw the first screenshots of it back in the good old magazine days I became obsessed with it. I'd stare at screenshots of it in N64 Magazine and Nintendo Magazine like Golum stares at his precious. It topped my obsession over even Goldenye! and that's saying something. It's graphics, style and design captures my little 10 year old mind like nothing before. Because fucking genetically engineered dinosaur hybrids, man!

Playing it on the console was great, but my modern TV doesn't really agree with my n64 too much so I was forced to look at alternative means of playing it. I remembered that this got ported to the PC all those years ago and I went in search of it. And lucky me! It's alive and fully available thanks to fans. I installed it and I've been jizzing my pants for the past hour. Seeing this old gem in 1680 res with full mouse support is really something.

So what made this game so special for me?

The box art for a start. Just fucking look at that shit. It's got dinosaur fucking scales on it! Only badass games have dinosaur scales. It was even textured and shiny! When I was younger I didn't have the internet until I was 13/14 so I had no real idea when a game was coming out so I had to rely on the flaky release dates provided by the mgazines. The game kept slipping and I had no idea when it was really coming out. I remember I was walking around Woolworths (heyoo we're old) with my mum one day and saw it on the shelves. I. fucking. SHIT.

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The music was god damn icnrediballs. I thought Goldeneye, Zelda, F-Zero and Banjo Kazooie had good music but damn this was something else for me. It was really different and caught my imagination. Music in games hadn't really managed to do before.

The GRAPPPHICIICICICSICSICISICSICSSSSOGGMGMMGMGGGGG

By far the best looking game for the n64 and even now while I was playing made me go "holy shit!" the stuff they had going on in this for a 32mb cartridge was INSANE. For example some of the shit they had going on:

Dismemberment. You could blast the fucking limbs and heads off of anything!

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Alignment to angled surfaces. Killed a guy on a slope? No problem, he fucking aligned perfectly. No dumb angle clipping here!

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The animations were, and still are even by today's standards amazing. I was really surprised at how well they stand up to today. Blew my mind back in 1998

The weapons were so imaginative and satisfying to shoot. I would go as far to say that Turok 2's shotugun is more enjoyable than Doom's for me. You get explosive shells! Anyone remember the Cerebral Bore? Fuck me that was awesomeeeeeee.

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The levels were huge and sprawling (for the time) with lots of variety and use of colour.

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Bad guys would react if you shot them. For example if you shot them in the arm they would clutch it and cry out in pain. Not even the glorious Half-Life had this!

Arrows fucking stuck into the bad guys and the environment. Holy shit.

You had full 3d movement. There weren't a great many 3d FPS games like this on the n64. If any from what I can remember. You couldn't jump in Goldeneye.

Fucking awesome looking bosses. Does this one look familiar? Quake 4 had a fatty like this. Turok 2 did it first, yo.

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Hot alien bitches

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You could ride a fucking Triceratops with huge fucking guns on it. Come onnnnnnn! You could even blow up buildings. 32mb cartridge GOTY.

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You just can't fault the quality on show there. Of course that's on ubersampling with 10 gtx titans but yeah. Nice. I know you guys really aren't bullshitting like Bungie did with Destiny. "you see that shit in the distance? you can go there and explore it." Oh sweet! *runs into the distance and gets insta killed by game* "LOL YOU CAN'T GO THERE SUCKER EVEN IF WE SAID SO".

Giev.

You really are sprouting an ignorass persona right now blackdog, for shame.

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Attempted watching The Hobbit (1), but fell asleep three times so fail! :-/

Gotta say it seems to lack much more rhythm compared to LOTR, also WATTAFFAK is that shit orange smear all over the film?? That color correction is so, so so out of place. Costumes for the dwarves look utter shit: you can see everything is fake miles away, it's like characters at the local circus wtf?? And then only the dwarf prince has his actual face without any prop, so pops out like Viggo Mortensen was compared to the hobbits in the first trilogy, just is even more awkward.

Oh, and story is very random, I'm really really surprised by the worshipping the book has if Gandalf just randomly decides Bilbo has to go on the adventure… and why the fuck a dragon should even ever care about gold???

What did Tolkien smoke before sitting down for this

Have you read the book? Judging by what you've written I'm assuming no?

The 3rd Hobbit film Battle of the Five Armies. Pretty dull if I'm honest, these Hobbit films just never really got going for me Billy Connolly was the highlight of the film.

Gotta keep the scrubby peasants appeased.