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Rise of the Tomb Raider Gameplay Demo (E3 2015), out November 10th
- Thread starter zakislam
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You know, I hoped/assumed that that was going to be the case with the first game. Needless to say I was utterly disappointed. So yeah, I wouldn't count on it being any different this time around.
benicillin
Banned
That was the exact same way the intro of Tomb Raider 1 played out, most of the gameplay came after the intro section.
No Ragnarok, I'm not doing this again with you.
You never did it in the first place. Is it so much to ask that someone make a meaningful counterargument? It's always "haters" or posting gifs.
They kept saying "The game has puzzles! There's platforming! We just aren't showing it yet!" And so we waited, and waited, and then the game came out and nope. The game was exactly what it looked like in all of the previews.
If they want to dispel fears that this game is not more of what we didn't like about the first game they picked an awful way to do it with this demo.
michaelius
Banned
Looks great definitly getting this once exclusivity period is over.
Whoever is calling the shots at Crystal is living at least about five years in the past. Most other big developers have at least started to move on from the cinematic action set-piece stuff. Crystal are only just now getting warm with it.
Exactly. I won't believe any of their PR bullshit until I play the game and can actually see it with my own eyes.
Cheat Code
Member
Fucking terrible demo, worst of the show.
Tomb Raider's combat was actually fun, show some of that, not this scripted cinematic nonsense.
Tomb Raider's combat was actually fun, show some of that, not this scripted cinematic nonsense.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Remember that they had around five minutes for an actual demo. Compared to UC4 getting 15 minutes at PSX. Any high resolution links yet? Wanna make a gif of Lara's facial animation, which was a huge step forward. That tech.
Shadow_FFVI
Member
It will be easier to compare both games now that they are releasing close to each other.
In my opinion Naughty Dog are on another level, and this demo didn't do much to convince me otherwise. We'll see when we get to play the full game. The small clips at then end looked more exciting than the whole avalanche thing.
Dull, uninspired, and highlighting the few things that didn't work on the original reboot, rather than the great parts of it.
As I said on a different thread, I can only hope that it was for demo purposes. But it IS possible to have the kind of gameplay reveal that highlights other parts of the game, especially when they had this much time.
As I said on a different thread, I can only hope that it was for demo purposes. But it IS possible to have the kind of gameplay reveal that highlights other parts of the game, especially when they had this much time.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
And they were 100% confirmed?
Honestly, showing a demo full of combat would've been about as terrible.
Domcorleone
Member
No excuse, show combat then. Not some COD/Uncharted scripted sequence that I know ill just be pressing up for. Show swimming, anything but what they showed.
They showed off some bits in the montage that hint at it. Like the minecart thing, for example, it looks like it's part of a larger puzzle to solve and the environment it was in looked rather large. I know CD is capable of designing some pretty complex levels if the Lara Croft games and Underworld are any indication.
And in the last game, I believe the last third of it is pretty isolated with some bang-bang stuff thrown in for some variety. Everything from the coast and going onto the final showdown on the snowy mountain was perfectly paced. If this new game can strike that same balance with just a little more puzzles and traversal like in that last third, GOTY for me easily.
HORRORSHØW
Member
yup. that looked great. the actual stage stuff though...The montage at the end looks amazing
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
The gameplay demo was pretty boring. The highlight cut that followed looked cool though.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
IIRC there will be less combat in this game with the environment being the main antagonist instead. So more exploration and such.
You go Lara, she's been working out big time.
Looks very nice i think, looking forward to playing it.
What's gravity?
Larson Conway
Member
That's an odd thing to say considering she's actually British.
I enjoyed the first game so I'm looking forward to the eventual PC release.
I don't trust any of this "looks like"-reasoning. That's exactly the kind of stuff I used to tell myself before the first reboot game's release and none of it turned out to be true. You can even find my posts on here where I was defending the game before its release, saying shit like "of course it's gonna have big story tombs in it with exploration and puzzles, they'll probably have a whole, huge hub that's just a tomb". Yeah... right.
Uhm. Agree to disagree. Heavily.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
What do you want to see? They said that everything you want is coming back one way or the other. Naturally that doesn't mean they will abandon the stuff that made the last Tomb Raider popular (yes, I liked the action set pieces). This is an E³ presser demo. They cannot do anything else. Just look at all the other demos. It's always the same scripted scenes because there is no time for anything else.
You go Lara, she's been working out big time.
Looks very nice i think, looking forward to playing it.
Just think of it as an epic one handed muscle up.
Stillmatic
Member
I was expecting a better looking game, maybe it was just the section they demoed. It looked just like DE, which was cross gen. The demo in general was pretty boring also.
Also I don't get why they keep say "Xbox One Exclusive | Holiday 2015", when every other timed exclusive they'd shown in the conference said something like "Console First". Seems a bit intentionally cryptic.
Also I don't get why they keep say "Xbox One Exclusive | Holiday 2015", when every other timed exclusive they'd shown in the conference said something like "Console First". Seems a bit intentionally cryptic.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
Looks alright, but they still have the nausea-inducing camera shake.
If you thought the last one was terrible then yes, from the looks of it, this won't chance your mind.
I thought the first game was fun. Nothing incredible, but I might get the sequel at some point if it comes out for PS4. Unless the reviews end up being being mediocre then maybe not.
martino
Member
Yeah it seems it reverse priorites from last gen games of the franchise
So uncharted 4 will be probably better than next tr this time for me from what i see.
But she's lost her accent from living and working in America for so long. A lot of people complain about her accent not sounding authentic.
I'd be very surprised if we don't see a big action set peice stuff from uncharted 4 today
he who dwells
Member
Gameplay was pretty boring.
British people can do bad British accent, something the entire cast of Xenoblade does as well.
These are my exact thoughts as well.
We need to see gameplay, though. The first game had sets that looked promising and would fool you in a 2 second clip, but in the actual game your interactivity with them was to run straight while they exploded around you. I mean, the minecart did look promising... until it exploded.
You go Lara, she's been working out big time.
Looks very nice i think, looking forward to playing it.
This is actually the most plausible jump that Lara made.
BluenoseGames
Member
1 word. SWIMMING !!!