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Bump. I tried looking under Shadow Discretion Shot but didn't find anything, even with checking the other folders just in cse.
Could you be looking for Breath of Fire III? As the game begins with you playing as a dragon, who goes around killing people in a dark cave. Here's a video of the scene
, it runs from 2:00 to 5:00.
I haven't heard back from him about either, but I don't think they are it. He said it was a 3d game so it can't be the first one. As for Dino Crisis, the dinosaur is the only thing that fits, otherwise, it's completely different. He also suggested his friend might have got a beta copy of the game, as there was apparently a store nearby which sometimes had those. However, I tried looking up "Turok beta intro", and found nothing.
Ok, I talked to him and he confirmed neither is correct.
bump since something made me think of this
I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. Here is what he said:
"It was a very simple memory really, it's a friend I used to visit in the 90s, I'm fairly sure this was on the N64 though I have looked into other consoles of the time since. He was showing the games he had and he had one in particular that his parents didn't let him play until he was older, I assume he got it on like a thrift sale and they didn't check, but then later when he booted it up and they saw him they figured he couldn't play it yet
Anyways
I was so curious and I asked him to boot it up anyways because I wanted to see, he was reluctant at first because he said that it scared him on top of his parents not letting him playing it, but I eventually convinced him to just let me peek, he didn't have to see
He turned it on, it may have gone through the usual company logo or whatever. What I remember next was some sorta dark room, looked kinda like a damp cave
It was not very well illuminated, kinda poor textures that seem a lot like something from PS 1 or N64 age
And the camera was on one of the corners of the room, facing against one of the walls
You could see the shadow of what looked like some sorta monster, but it really looked like a dinosaur and what I believe was a person
And the camera was just panning around the room, though you couldnt really see the person. It showed the wall shadows a bit and then it looked like the "dinosaur" suddenly attacked the person while he screamed
I watched that a bit and then he shut off the console suddenly being all like "See? I told you it was too scary" and I just kinda nodded and agreed even though I didn't think it was THAT violent, just a bit disturbing
There may have been some blood. Then we went on to eat some food or whatever lol"
He said he thought for sure it was Turok, but he can't find the intro anywhere. Since then, he said he's looked up the intros for tons of games from the n64, PS 1 and other but can't find it. He said he thinks it might have been a dream, but that it's so vivid he could recreate it on a 3d program if given the chance.