KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
It most certainly is. Counter Sony's biggest 2015 game with the "original" character. While bringing your own big guns (Halo, possibly Scalebound and Fable).
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Rise of the Tomb Raider timed Xbox exclusive for Holiday 2015 (No PS/PC, SE publish)
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Leafhopper
Banned
If anything it will come out on PC eventually, regardless if MS or SE is publishing it.
JetBlackPanda
Member
think about it.
/shrug
I am a Tomb Raider fan, all the way back to the first on PSOne and the second on PC and the reboot on PC...
Delicious Waffles
Member
People who can't come to grips with the announcement.
shinra-bansho
Member
I want to protect her.Even she gets bombarded with tweets
Pretty much this. All and all, Forza Horizon has been created as a direct competitor to DC. They bombarded with words like social integration, clubs and the 'best social racing game ever'. I do think that competition is good but copying a game or in this case, buying exclusivity deals to have a direct competitor to Uncharted is lame and should not be applauded.
Edit: I meant Horizon 2.
Love Deterrence
Member
Even she gets bombarded with tweets
*Jack Bauer interrogation commences* "Where is the multiplatform support? I don't want to hurt your family, but I will if I have to. TELL ME WHERE THE PS4 VERSION IS! WHERE IS IT?!"
Megatron
Member
It was NeoGaf's #8 game of the year last year in what was quite frankly, a really stacked year for games. It's fine to be upset that the game may be a timed exclusive but let's not act like it's 'mediocre'.
Dreamgazer
Member
lol, just fond this from one of CD's level designers:
Hamlet Machine
Member
I call only speak for myself, ergo, this is my opinion on what is a very trivial matter in the end. I have a PS4 and I have no problem with a game being an exclusive on either console. Sunset Overdrive is an X1 exclusive, fine. If I want to play that game, I'll buy an Xbox. That game was defined as an exclusive from the beginning.
The thing that bothers me with TR is that it was first announced as a multiplatform title. Now, if I want to play the game I have no other choice but to buy an Xbox (considering it really is an absolute exclusive and not a timed one). Basically, Microsoft is aggressively trying to force me to buy their console if I want to play a game that was once announced as being multiplatform and that they bought. Its tactics, but cheap tactics.
I had a PS3 and a 360. I could not care less about brands. I could have bought an X1 for Sunset Overdrive, but, I wont because I dont like the strategy Microsoft is using. What was done by them with FFXIII going multi was clever and it didnt lock down things, it opened the game.
This, is the other way around, it is a coercive measure.
So in a nutshell, if TR was announced from the start as an exclusive, I wouldnt object, but seeing as it was first a multiplatform game, it bothers me. In the end I don't even think it helps them.
BUT, ultimately, I think that this is a timed exclusive
The thing that bothers me with TR is that it was first announced as a multiplatform title. Now, if I want to play the game I have no other choice but to buy an Xbox (considering it really is an absolute exclusive and not a timed one). Basically, Microsoft is aggressively trying to force me to buy their console if I want to play a game that was once announced as being multiplatform and that they bought. Its tactics, but cheap tactics.
I had a PS3 and a 360. I could not care less about brands. I could have bought an X1 for Sunset Overdrive, but, I wont because I dont like the strategy Microsoft is using. What was done by them with FFXIII going multi was clever and it didnt lock down things, it opened the game.
This, is the other way around, it is a coercive measure.
So in a nutshell, if TR was announced from the start as an exclusive, I wouldnt object, but seeing as it was first a multiplatform game, it bothers me. In the end I don't even think it helps them.
BUT, ultimately, I think that this is a timed exclusive
sublimit
Banned
I agree and that's why i WISH it to be a lifetime exclusive.A big flop is the only way Crystal Dynamics gets removed from the franchise.
Poor Camilla, I want to protect her...Even she gets bombarded with tweets
drak_dreamer
Member
I'm telling you, exclusively on x1 holiday 2015. march 2016 ps4/PC.
believe
I never played the first spin-off but it just seemed like a top down shooter. Not exactly what the classics were.
Yup, sounded exactly like that. Really insulting.
I have all Tomb Raiders (well, my dad has) and this is just disappointing.
Obviously I won't buy a Xbox One for this so I guess I'll save 60 bucks. Uncharted will probably suffice if I want to play an adventure game with my dad.
Yea I do think it's a bit complex otherwise there wouldn't be so much confusion over something as simple as who is publishing. That said, Microsoft might be trying to do their usual PR speak and is just fucking up spectacularly in this case.
The forumgoers on the major TR forum are pretty outraged too.
http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=206689&page=19
some sketchy language going on
FunkyPajamas
Member
I understood that reference.
CylonLogicBomb
Member
Gamers dude. Duh!
Garrett Hawke
Member
Because their announcements are controversial? Presumably moneyhatting the sequel to a multiplatform franchise that sold better on Playstation is clearly NOT going to go down well...
i was under the impression the game was in no danger of being canceled.
You're assuming Microsoft funded the game and not just secured exclusivity.
Yeah, I'm starting to think this might be a full exclusive. The only thing I find strange, is the wording of the announcement. But what I said earlier about the cost, and other things, kind of falls apart under more examination.
Sigh.
fuck me, so did I and so far off to a bad start.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Dude, not at all. It's a really great puzzle platformer. Go play it.
cebri.one
Member
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I wanted to play both.
Paracelsus
Member
So they are sending Tomb Raider to die against Uncharted in late 2015? Methinks it's full exclusive, they can't be this crazy.
because they just cant live without those timed exclusives
Denton
Member
They know, but they do not want to say. Saying up front "this is a timed exclusive" would be like throwing money out the window for MS.
However due to the pressure they might actually admit it, which would be funny.
MS is a really stupid, clueless company if they did not realize what would moneyhatting this game cause (not an increase in Xbone sales!). Kinda like they were stupid to realize that Xbox One would get shorthanded as Xbone.
Leafhopper
Banned
lol, just fond this from one of CD's level designers:
Dead.
I can't believe there's this much of a blow-up over Tomb Raider, the reboot that wasn't anything like the original games.
I understand going this crazy on this because it's a third party series that was multiplatform before (and literally was just a year ago). I get that. But blowing up this much just seems a little overboard to me when looking at what game it is that people are getting upset over. We've not even seen any gameplay of it to even know whether it's good or going to live up to what most TR fans even want.
Cool down a bit.
The principle behind MS funding it to be exclusive at all is shitty, not much else I can say until more of the game is shown.
I understand going this crazy on this because it's a third party series that was multiplatform before (and literally was just a year ago). I get that. But blowing up this much just seems a little overboard to me when looking at what game it is that people are getting upset over. We've not even seen any gameplay of it to even know whether it's good or going to live up to what most TR fans even want.
Cool down a bit.
The principle behind MS funding it to be exclusive at all is shitty, not much else I can say until more of the game is shown.
Goodacre0081
Member
very rare. actual investigative journalism from a member of the gaming press
BronsonLee
Member
Yeah, I forgot how stupid/dark the internet can be. It just astounds me that people would be so daft about it.
No wonder it's called Rise of the Tomb Raider! It's the dark middle chapter where Lara begins her villainy!
And Crystal Dynamics is getting dragged along with them, and they can't do shit about it. Ugh. Microsoft's really got to figure out things on a PR level.
I'll see if I give it more attention there.
But those it have exploration too?
My dad was the Tomb Raider fan in the family but I'll show him to see if he likes it then.
razgriz417
Member
Same this was a shocking announcement for me. My friend who loved playing the reboot on PC is pissed as hell about this, really hope this is a timed exclusive. Seems odd to kill the momentum of your rebooted franchise by alienating large swaths of your audience. That had to have been one big check from MS. Anyway grats to MS for dominating the Gamescom talk about the xbone, the announcement did what it was designed to
Wait, Forza Horizon, a spin off to the Forza series that came out in 2012 was created to be a direct competitor to DriveClub, a game that has yet to release?
That's some serious future planning right there, and I'd say it's working out for Xbox.