Now that you mention it, I feel more depressed thinking about it.
Guess all those splints and stuff in promotional shots are all plot-based.
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Lara Croft can't swim in the reboot? The hell? + Regen health - 12/15 hr SP
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Guess all those splints and stuff in promotional shots are all plot-based.
Yeah, still weird and disappointing though -- I'm expecting more freedom from a 2013 game than from a 1996 game, not less.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
The way the needle swings from OMG SO AWESOME during its first reveal to WTF WHY YOU DO THIS DEVELOPERS lately for this game is truly a sight to behold.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol she can but can't
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I don't feel like looking it up but didn't the original trailer (the CG one) have her swimming?
Rickenslacker
Banned
Man, I really wanted this game to play up the survival element. Having health regen just ruins that.
NullPointer
Member
Mr. Enigma
Member
Overreaction? More like the result of critical thinking. If she can't swim, it's obvious there are other gameplay decisions like this that are in the game too. This game is going to be such a heavily directed, linear experience, it might as well be on rails.
Criminal Upper
Banned
A SURVIVOR IS BORN
...but get that fucking water away from me.
...but get that fucking water away from me.
DidntKnowJack
Member
You guys have it all wrong. Obviously, this just means swimming dlc. Get in on that season pass today!
speculawyer
Member
Whatever. It is not like the swim sequences were all that fun in previous games. Sometimes they were pretty and interesting exploring but it is not much fun in the way of a game.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
15 hours is lengthy now? How far we have fallen.
There's a big difference between swimming sections and dying instantly when your skin touches water.
EternalDarko
Member
Uhm maybe it just means that there are no water levels in the game...
The non swimming is just beyond dumb given the setting.
But what's worse is the regen. I thought the whole point of this game was survival on an island, with Lara being inexperienced. What exactly will we be surviving, overused set pieces and QTEs?
A fucking mess. I'm not one to exaggerate but my interest level definitely dropped (even more) now. I still hope it turns out to be good.
But what's worse is the regen. I thought the whole point of this game was survival on an island, with Lara being inexperienced. What exactly will we be surviving, overused set pieces and QTEs?
A fucking mess. I'm not one to exaggerate but my interest level definitely dropped (even more) now. I still hope it turns out to be good.
Deus Ex: HR.
Edit: No, wait, that system applied to energy, didn't it? Oops! I suppose the basic concept did return "in some form", though.
UnluckyKate
Member
Better with kinect
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Deleted member 81567
Unconfirmed Member
Why not? I wanna support devs that make good games. Screw the haters, this game actually does look like game of the gen material.
NullPointer
Member
So have we at least gotten confirmation that there are tombs? And that we can raid them?
or...
or...
Criminal Upper
Banned
Which makes sense, considering she's shipwrecked on AN ISLAND.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Yes and before that concept art and details were released when it was originally going to be a very different project. It was originally about lara marooned on a Japenese island that she could explore. The island was inhabitad by strange creatures from japenese folklore. It was open world with metroidvania elements and it would have had a survival horror slant.
Then somewhere along the way they decided to just make an uncharted clone
Oh my god, what if whenever you start going into a large body of water Lara gets post traumatic stress disorder due to her being shipwrecked at the beginning of the game. Like, when you're just about to go into the water the screen goes black and she faints and wakes up farther away from the water.
Count on that shit being in the game.
Count on that shit being in the game.
Yes and before that concept art and details were released when it was originally going to be a very different project. It was originally about lara marooned on a Japenese island that she could explore. The island was inhabitad by strange creatures from japenese folklore. It was open world with metroidvania elements and it would have had a survival horror slant.
Then somewhere along the way they decided to just make an uncharted clone
Sapphire Dreams
Member
So no more of this?
I miss the old series already
I miss the old series already
kunonabi
Member
Yes and before that concept art and details were released when it was originally going to be a very different project. It was originally about lara marooned on a Japenese island that she could explore. The island was inhabitad by strange creatures from japenese folklore. It was open world with metroidvania elements and it would have had a survival horror slant.
Then somewhere along the way they decided to just make an uncharted clone
....I would have loved that.
Why do you automatically swim on an island? The game starts with her finding refuge on the island because swimming in the middle of the ocean is a bad idea if you want to live.
Looks kind of ridiculous honestly.
No swimming does not mean instadeath when touching water. Do you know something about this I don't?
PinkCrayon
Member
No swimming isn't a big deal at all, but the health regen... isn't this game supposed to be all about survival? Having a bandage/health kit mechanic seems like a rather obvious shoe-in...
killertofu
Member
Yes and before that concept art and details were released when it was originally going to be a very different project. It was originally about lara marooned on a Japenese island that she could explore. The island was inhabitad by strange creatures from japenese folklore. It was open world with metroidvania elements and it would have had a survival horror slant.
Then somewhere along the way they decided to just make an uncharted clone
Wow, seriously? That would have been pretty cool.
Maybe the SURVIVAL mechanic is just really beating each little thing. You know, just a poor plot idea and not something heavily woven into the gameplay. I've seen nothing from footage that ever implied the game would actually have surviving as a gameplay mechanic, but maybe a plot focus at best. Maybe PR was really, really good at fluff?
Yes and before that concept art and details were released when it was originally going to be a very different project. It was originally about lara marooned on a Japenese island that she could explore. The island was inhabitad by strange creatures from japenese folklore. It was open world with metroidvania elements and it would have had a survival horror slant.
Then somewhere along the way they decided to just make an uncharted clone
And they thought bloody cut up teenager lara who can't swim was a better idea?
PinkCrayon
Member
They made a big deal about hunting at E3. But maybe they just do that once at the beginning of the game for story reasons... :/
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
The game team has a BRAND MANAGER. That should tell you things.
They've talked about hunting, ammo collection, campfires, and leveling up. They haven't really shown much besides the very beginning of the game.
Criminal Upper
Banned
Yeah, so glad they ditched it and just made a cover shooter instead.
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