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Leynos said:

Know of a series that started in one generation was well-liked and reviewed but by the next-gen just turned to trash?

This about the generation directly succeeding the last. 4th to 5th. 6th to 7th. 7th to 8th. Not 5th to 7th or something like that.

I liked Turok a lot on N64. Esp 1-2. 3 was fine and technically very impressive for N64 (even had lip sync). Then came the PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox. Turok Evolution happened It was a massive pile of shit. Turok pushed N64 technical limits and was very fun. Evo looked terrible and played terribly. Not to mention the name your kid Turok contest. Oh and one of the dumbest villains in gaming ever. It was straight out of Wild Wild West the movie.

You might know, but Turok was developed by iquana on n64. The team was acquired by Nintendo and renamed itself Retro Studios. Prime is the spiritual successor however unfortunate that Nintendo of Japan forced them to be more “creative” with first person controls.

I remember anticipating Turok on Xbox with fervor. I thought it was pretty at first. When I got it home I had to close the blinds to see the night time levels because the graphical lighting was so terrible. There’s definitely a trend with games falling off a cliff when their sequel gets developed by a different studio. 


I think F-Zero fell off a cliff when it moved to 3D. F-Zero was an intense racer whose best feature was the hydro planing feel when you slid and hovered across gaps. Moving from a flat earth track space to a magnetic pipeline ruined it for me. All the things I felt were removed. Total crash ‘n burn.