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First Tomb Raider Review out in the wild - Embargo up on Monday 02/25
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I H8 Memes
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No point in listening to review scores from any website or magazine. Their reviews are completely useless. Just use those sources for the early pics and vids they can bring you and wait for the impressions from your fellow gamers for a real perspective on a game.
Raitosaito
Member
Probably
the perfect safe game!
exactly they're all garbage.
Even GT whom I used to watch all reviews from and only watched reviews from is complete nonsense
Jawmuncher
Member
Not really everything from what I have read and seen indicates to a polished and competent product.
The only flak it's been getting is for not being like earlier TR games. But most of that flak I've noticed is sitting mainly on the forums. Sort of like DmC but much less in scale and backlash.
Baconsammy
Banned
Good score, but I have zero trust in exclusive reviews. Too jaded for that.
It will be.
I'm not surprised at high reviews because this game has every crummy modern game element the gaming press loves.
Raitosaito
Member
Games started sucking.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or being sincere about thinking that game reviews, especially the ones of AAA games, are properly indicative of the actual quality of the game in question.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I like the way you think boy.
Not if you actually read impressions and what the press have said about it.
It seems the game has a big issue with cognitive dissonance in that the premise - what the game tells you - is that you're Lara and she's very inexperienced, but five minutes later you're hunting, and steal thing, and killing.
Plus they've only shown the first hour really which is obviously very linear. No, I don't think this game has been promised good reviews for quite some time. Once they started really showing it last year people started noticing some issues.
Arlecchino
Member
I hope I don't leave indifferent.
Disagree. There has been a lot of skepticism about this title among the press.
Protect me.
The only thing they need to protect in that game is the savages from the serial killer that is Laura Croft
User reviews are pretty much complete garbage.
Voice of Reason
Banned
Eidos and Gamesmaster always do this. They also did it with Arkham Asylum.
Raitosaito
Member
I enjoyed the mass murdered Nathan Drake also.
This is just an excerpt from the review. The full thing does have several criticisms (like the characters being too stereotypical and the dialogue being flat at times).
Reboot. ✔
RPG elements such as collecting and linear semi planned skill unlocks. ✔
"A character that actually feels something" ✔
Characters feelings or personality don't match what you do gameplay wise. ✔
Bow and arrow usage even though you have a fully automatic assault rifle. ✔
Forced multiplayer built around mechanics that feel clunky. ✔
An actual Tomb Raider game. X
RPG elements such as collecting and linear semi planned skill unlocks. ✔
"A character that actually feels something" ✔
Characters feelings or personality don't match what you do gameplay wise. ✔
Bow and arrow usage even though you have a fully automatic assault rifle. ✔
Forced multiplayer built around mechanics that feel clunky. ✔
An actual Tomb Raider game. X
Riposte
Member
Those are hardly reviews. They are usually very inconclusive. They are neat for what they are though.
Raitosaito
Member
I don't think game journalist are being paid or anything like that, I just feel like they have really bad taste.
Tomb Raider games we're garbage anyways. I actually went back and played a few of them, pretty terrible.
Also, how exactly is it not tomb raider game? Because it doesn't meet your nebulous definition of what a tomb raider game should be?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Exclusive reviews?
So now we'll get another one added to those, just a different kind of terrible. A brainless kind.
Okay ...obviously you don't like tomb raider games. They actually do hold up. I just played the first one a while back.
Reviewers aren't journalists, they're reviewers. I do agree that many have bad taste.
Voice of Reason
Banned
Yeah, Gamesmaster is very infamous for it.
Raitosaito
Member
In this industry they're kind of mesh into one blob.
Nah, Tomb Raider essentially should be about platforming and the risks involved with it. Also story or narrative should be subtle and nuanced instead of being shotgun blasted into the player's face, the Tomb Raider reboot is the polar opposite of those things.
You seem to be pretty creepy in your style of posting, GrayFoxPL. Just take a look at your other posts in other Tomb Raider threads:
Please think a bit on who else might be reading the threads before you post.
Yep, I'm with you. Really liked DmC, and trying to go into the new Tomb Raider with an open mind as well.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
This is so bad it actually has the opposite effect on me. Good lord it makes me love Edge and I don't want to
Baconsammy
Banned
It makes me wish English wasn't my first language.
Absoludacrous
Member
We must have played different Tomb Raider games if you experienced some kind of nuanced story in them.
sounds worse than a line from one of those new shitty sitcoms
Raitosaito
Member
Lara is back!1!1!1
I didn't say the past ones did, I was talking about story telling in general.
Sometimes after a really shitty day at work I need some good old fashioned brainless entertainment. Day 1.
Absoludacrous
Member
Ah, ok. Fair enough then.
I heard they're putting this in the special edition of the game, you're supposed to use it on the left analog stick or something.
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