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Tomb Raider multiplayer confirmed [Up: Developed by Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex)]
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Meccanical
Member
This is the most by the numbers modern reboot I ever saw.
brandonh83
Banned
It honestly should have been expected. No multiplayer, no sale!
I'm European and i guarantee you that Multiplayer is a world wide phenomenon. It's pretty popular in asia too.
I laughed so hard.
That's Square Enix Montreal.
Eidos Montreal is the 400 person studio making Thi4f, Deus Ex 4, and a new IP that's sort of like medieval Uncharted.
Well, they have to practice for making the multiplayer in Thi4f, Deus Ex 4, and their new IP.
TheJollyCorner
Member
the sad reality of modern gaming, I guess.
I guess as long as it doesn't take resources away from the single-player game (ala Uncharted 2), that's all that matters.
Really?
I mean, it's a heavily linear third person shooter.
That's like a neon sign for having multiplayer.
TouchMyBox
Member
Hey, if I can get a copy pasta of Uncharted's multiplayer on PC, that would be just dandy.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
What? First I'm hearing of that.
As for multiplayer for TR, no big deal. I don't play multiplayer anyway (though I try it out occasionally to see how it is but I don't stick around). No time or resources were taken away from single player, so no big deal.
I'm waiting to see if someone pissed off at the reboot yells "NOW THEY'RE DOING MP AND TAKING RESOURCES AWAY FROM SP FUCK"
GravityMan
Member
Well, we can add Tomb Raider to the growing list of games that have unnecessary multiplayer. A list that includes Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2 and 3, Uncharted 2 and 3, Resident Evil 5 and 6 (co-op), and many others.
TheJollyCorner
Member
I thought they were pushing this as a story-driven exploration/survival game?
Haven't been following it enough to realize it had transitioned into "third person shooter' territory.
Very disappointing.
I can't make a face that's angry enough for this.
Who am I kidding based on their most recent stealth outputs (HR and Hitman) a blind 5 year old could see that Thief 4 is going to be some crummy hybrid stealth/action game instead of a worthy Thief sequel. MP is just kicking me while I'm down.
....thanks for the correction and info
but can't they name their studios better? like call one Montreal and the other is SE Canada Magic Force or something.
Well I was already expecting Thi4f to be a Cover Based Looter.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I did think we were past the "MP? This will hurt SP and suck!" phase. Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, etc, etc all showed that MP can be great in a SP focused game.
If anything those games back that fear up. Shitty single players and more impressive/fun MP modes.
TheJollyCorner
Member
2013 - Year of the Bow (part dos)
I'm fairly certain ME2 didn't have multiplayer.
Well, here's a video from Microsoft's E3 2012 conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFhLS7DmLlc
Well, at minimum, we've seen this for Thi4f:
Discotheque
Banned
What the hell happened to Eidos Montreal? Deus Ex HR was one of the best games this gen and a great revival.
Thief 4 seemed like an easy no brainer for them but all of a sudden the team there just lost a bunch of members and the game disappeared from the radar.
And now they're delegated to shite like this.
Thief 4 seemed like an easy no brainer for them but all of a sudden the team there just lost a bunch of members and the game disappeared from the radar.
And now they're delegated to shite like this.
That's a given.
UpperCaseN
Member
I hope they're not making Anything that's like UC.
brandonh83
Banned
Yeah. I've been playing and buying games a lot less recently because I don't feel like I "connect" with modern gaming. Obviously there's always stuff for everyone and newer games that aren't entirely on the radar, which is why I'm looking big into PC gaming at the moment and finding "smaller" titles that appeal to my more old-school gaming sensibilities. I can't speak for everyone so I'm not going to say multiplayer is something sacrilegious as people have fun with it and it can help sell games, but it's just not for me. And the franchises that have been carried over that I used to absolutely adore like Final Fantasy and Resident Evil are falling prey to these new development and marketing practices, with the developers almost completely changing what they are in some cases (like RE) to help them "fit" in with the "cool guys" and all its doing is turning them and their products into a laughing stock and deservedly so.
It's more than a little distressing, but I'll go back to screaming at the clouds I guess.
It's the way of the industry now. They think no one will buy games unless it has MP in it even though the majority of these games' MP modes are empty after a month or two. This industry's not a fan of logic and common sense. After all who should we trust, common sense or the marketing department who knows everything?
Well, at minimum, we've seen this for Thi4f:
Meh, can't end up worse than Thief 3.
Mr Accurate 2.0
I want to give the game a fair shot since we really don't know anything yet, but based on how Eidos/SE operates now and based on their most recent output I feel if I wanted to I could already give you a guarantee that T4 will make Thief 3 look like Thief 2. If they go the hybrid route which I expect them to do we'll be looking back at Thief 3 as a masterful stealth game.
Yep, they're all after a slice of the COD pie. whilst completely failing to see they should be going in the opposite direction from COD, that's where the next big idea will be.
I get the feeling it will be some co-operative stuff rather than straight up Team Deathmatch but we'll have to wait until the issue lands to find out.
brandonh83
Banned
No, if it fails, people just don't care about Tomb Raider anymore.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
/thread.
sublimit
Banned
So if any game fails is because suddenly people don't care about the IP anymore?
Riiiiight...
It wil sell considerably less then Underworld IMO.
That's how publishers look at things.
Old IP brought to new era ---->modernized with shit new age elements that ruin the IP ---->game bombs for any number of reasons ----->obviously because people don't care about it anymore.