bloodforge
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sweetwasabi said:
How else would she hold it on her back? People do that all time.
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Rumor time: First details and artwork on new Tomb Raider?
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How else would she hold it on her back? People do that all time.
Phantast2k
Member
Vinterbird said:
No no wait, it's just a focus test. It could change and turn around 180°
But yeah, they'll probably hold on to it.
I are no good with NDAs
Black-Wind
Member
Thats what I thought too. :lolbatbeg said:
Put this sound . . . interesting. I have only played the first game a TINY bit so Im not against the change.
Oh, and the redesign looks WAAAYY more like how I would think she should look like. (A young female Indiana Jones)
Vinterbird
Member
Phantast2k said:
They could of course change details and stuff, but they are probably very far ahead in development on this. So I think the basic concept is a lock at this point.
bloodforge said:
Oh! I taught people had a little holster to hold it on their back, so it's easier to take out.
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^have no idea why I did that
The focus on combat is the main problem in TR. After so many years, it's still horrible. It's really depressing that a genre like this is fainting away. There is no other game like this, damn it. I don't know why they are trying to change it so much.
And no guns? Wow, handling that Sword thing in Underworld was sooo fun
SolidSnakex
Member
I actually like this.
This could be pretty amazing if they can pull it off. And one thing that gives me some faith that they can is that Toby Gard is now a lead designer at CD (he'd previously had much smaller roles in Legend and Underworld). There's no way that he's going to screw up TR.
This could be pretty amazing if they can pull it off. And one thing that gives me some faith that they can is that Toby Gard is now a lead designer at CD (he'd previously had much smaller roles in Legend and Underworld). There's no way that he's going to screw up TR.
BarrelMakingPenguin
Member
This negativity is hilarious. Have any of you even played a Tomb Raider in the past couple of years?
It's still too thin. If she is going to have enormous tits, they need to be in proportion with the rest of her body.ShockingAlberto said:
Something about her arm bothers me, but I can't quite place it.
That's supposing they're aiming for realism.
Is it really being rebooted again? Another origin story?
bloodforge
Member
SolidSnakex said:
That sounds fantastic.
Yeah some of that stuff sounds pretty good. The bullet points/descriptions for "Creative Survival" and "Free Movement" sound cool. I wouldn't mind the open-world. Maybe it could be a little like Metroid where the new abilities they talk about in those bullet points could be how you unlock new areas. There just still needs to be lots of platforming and exploration. As for the combat, I agree that there shouldn't be more of it, but at this point I'm open to a new style of combat if it will make it better. What they've been doing just isn't good. Even the stuff in Lara's Shadow wasn't any better.
Darkflight
Member
Man I hope it doesn't have a stupid horror style, I'd like to be able to play a Tomb Raider and just be afraid of the environment, not the enemies, first sodding great terrifying spiders in Underworld, now people with blade arms?
radioheadrule83
Banned
Fucking fail. The last Tomb Raider was buggy and nowhere near as good as Anniversary, so I can see why they've went back to the drawing board... but what they've come up with is Lady Turok on GTA-free-roaming Mirrors Edge free Running Silent Hill Island, with a horse and shit, because lol Zelda
Whatever happened to raiding tombs?
Whatever happened to raiding tombs?
SolidSnakex
Member
Y2Kev said:
It deserves it this time. This will be the first time that Toby's had a heavy hand in the development of a TR game since the original game. Like I said earlier, he's not going to screw up the series given that he left Eidos because he was upset with what they were doing with it.
radioheadrule83 said:
It sounds like it would be awesome if it were basically Metroid Prime in third person with a horror theme. But I don't like the redesign and this doesn't need to be ANOTHER origin story.
You just rebooted it and got me to care about the character. Now wipe it clean again!
You just rebooted it and got me to care about the character. Now wipe it clean again!
radioheadrule83
Banned
At least it sounds like it fits into the canon of the original TR... wasn't there meant to be a plane crash incident or something in her past that let to her becoming a 'hardened' solo adventurer?
I still don't like the sound of this.
I still don't like the sound of this.
Visualante
Member
Pfft, Eidos has no monies and fired loads of people at Crystal Dynamics. I find this very hard to believe.Vinterbird said:
She needs to be modeled and mocapped on a real chick.Y2Kev said:
Dark Stalkers
Member
Don't tell me I'm the only one who thought that was the witch from L4D in the middle.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I can't believe it took 15 years for Eidos to even attempt to make Lara look like an actual human being instead of a blowup doll.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
Sadness: Tomb Raider.
One Big Shit.
One Big Shit.
Since this thread seems bound for not much but comments about Lara and comparisons with Uncharted, I might as well take the comparison to Chloe Frazier. Look at her chest.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/uncharted_2_chloe.jpg
I think the thing that bothers me most about this "new" Lara design is her breasts (lolz I'm a gamer commenting on breasts). I'm all for women with smaller breasts, more realistic features, not airbrushed, etc. etc., but I feel like the shape they gave them combined with the vertical placement makes her look either really weirdly formed or else her breasts look saggy, i.e. she's not wearing a bra. And if she's NOT wearing a bra, then that means nipples in video games, which you can't have etc.
</overanalysis which is very probably wrong because I'm not an artist> I guess overall, the pose combined with the chest placement combined with the skinny half-zombie arm looks weird. But it's concept art, assuming it's even real, so who knows what the final product might look like. I also totally don't get the apparent Silent Hill direction for the game, but whatever.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/uncharted_2_chloe.jpg
I think the thing that bothers me most about this "new" Lara design is her breasts (lolz I'm a gamer commenting on breasts). I'm all for women with smaller breasts, more realistic features, not airbrushed, etc. etc., but I feel like the shape they gave them combined with the vertical placement makes her look either really weirdly formed or else her breasts look saggy, i.e. she's not wearing a bra. And if she's NOT wearing a bra, then that means nipples in video games, which you can't have etc.
</overanalysis which is very probably wrong because I'm not an artist> I guess overall, the pose combined with the chest placement combined with the skinny half-zombie arm looks weird. But it's concept art, assuming it's even real, so who knows what the final product might look like. I also totally don't get the apparent Silent Hill direction for the game, but whatever.
Also, I am in no way claiming that Lara was realistically shaped in previous games. :lol
AdventureRacing
Member
Kate Beckinsale?
ShockingAlberto said:
Something about her arm bothers me, but I can't quite place it.
The torch light is washing out the musculature in her shoulder and screwing with the forshortening on her forearm leaving the whole thing looking a bit wonky. If it wasn't for the light she would look alright.
SolidSnakex
Member
Y2Kev said:
Yeah, they got a former gymnast named Heidi Moneymaker (I guess her parents like James Bond) to do the mocap for Lara.
Jaded Alyx
Member
For real?SolidSnakex said:
SolidSnakex
Member
Jaded Alyx said:
I meant Moneymaker.
sweetwasabi said:
Hopefully they model the combat more around Uncharted if they have to pick between that at the combat in the previous game, but honestly this sounds good to me. There's nothing wrong with a sandbox. Personally I've always found the hints of actual exploration/traversal from area to area to be cool, why not make Tomb Raider, a game about exploring, have more real exploring than just levels with linear transitions.
What's wrong with her design? You mean that she looks closer to an actual human? :lol
wow....
Save for the horror and origin story aspect of what's in the text, there was someone on GAF who was laying out almost exactly this concept in a TR thread a few months back. What the hell?
*goes to try and find the poster in question*
edit: stuburns! :lol :lol
I guess he called it
Save for the horror and origin story aspect of what's in the text, there was someone on GAF who was laying out almost exactly this concept in a TR thread a few months back. What the hell?
*goes to try and find the poster in question*
edit: stuburns! :lol :lol
I guess he called it
unless he's secretly a leak! D:!
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Zen said:
I'd prefer they rethink combat entirely, not just how it works but the pacing of it as well. I still think Tomb Raider would benefit from taking the SotC approach to combat. Not in having large enemies that you climb over and such, but rather stripping out all filler combat with scrub enemies and just having a handful of really unique enemy types that only appear once or twice.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Yep. Anniversary and Legend were great.BarrelMakingPenguin said:
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
I'm pretty sure there's a single guy who does the character concepts for all western games at this point. Maybe two.
Honestly, I feel about this now the same I felt when stuburns suggested the idea of a TR taking place on a remote island open world: skeptical and critical of potential un-TR-ness. I like the character redesign, for sure, but if they're going to do this, I hope they do it right.
Regardless of the horror aspect, the mere mention of co-op play in tow with not only survival horror, but new combat, makes me worried already. But the fact that its open-world on an island makes me question how they're going to handle the actual traversal. I feel like its just going to be a pain in the ass.
I don't know...
The art with her on horseback and bow makes me optimistic that they're completely rethinking the way she controls, including horseback archery, as I feel that SotC did an absolutely awesome job with that aspect.
(as for the people discussing her proportions: are you serious? Really? If it were up to me, she'd be B-cup, but hey, its a videogame, at least she doesn't have freaking Barbie's proportions).
Regardless of the horror aspect, the mere mention of co-op play in tow with not only survival horror, but new combat, makes me worried already. But the fact that its open-world on an island makes me question how they're going to handle the actual traversal. I feel like its just going to be a pain in the ass.
I don't know...
The art with her on horseback and bow makes me optimistic that they're completely rethinking the way she controls, including horseback archery, as I feel that SotC did an absolutely awesome job with that aspect.
(as for the people discussing her proportions: are you serious? Really? If it were up to me, she'd be B-cup, but hey, its a videogame, at least she doesn't have freaking Barbie's proportions).
Revelations
Banned
Kolgar said:
You first. People have been wanting an open world sand box type Tomb Raider for YEARS!! Now we finally get one and you want to kill it? Fuck that...
fortified_concept
Banned
Interesting. This is the first Tomb Raider game I'll keep on my radar after many many years.