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Tomb Raider comic coming - leads up to sequel
- Thread starter NotTheGuyYouKill
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The story was fine. I don't get what's so offensive about it. Lara crashes on a haunted island and does the impossible to save her friends. It's a simple story that gives you some
amazing moments and Lara is a star. She's easy to like and cheer for.
I mean, for an action game, the story works.
amazing moments and Lara is a star. She's easy to like and cheer for.
I mean, for an action game, the story works.
NullPointer
Member
Its very pretty, so you'll love it.
Rodney McKay
Member
grosvenor_92
Member
I liked the game so I'd most likely play a sequel
I haven't reached the end of Tomb Raider yet. Do they say that the Croft bloodline is a magic one?
The moment I stopped caring about the new Tomb Raider is when I was walking near one of those "Secret Tombs" and a popup appeared to tell me that "There is a Secret Tomb nearby! Go check it out". The entrance of the tomb was clearly marked with symbols and arrows around it and it was obviously placed near a waterfall on top of that.
Even with all of that, the designers still don't trust the player and felt compelled to point out the damn obvious. I mean it's not like players in general are driven to discover the unknown by themselves. Pfft.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a fine game by itself and yeah I may be just nitpicking but I just never found myself invested in the game as much I'd liked.
Even with all of that, the designers still don't trust the player and felt compelled to point out the damn obvious. I mean it's not like players in general are driven to discover the unknown by themselves. Pfft.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a fine game by itself and yeah I may be just nitpicking but I just never found myself invested in the game as much I'd liked.
These are pretty big spoilers, but the Crofts are actually magical aliens that can instantly become combat experts just by touching a weapon by encoding the memory of its previous users into their genetic code. This causes them to become increasingly violent and unhinged as they absorb the personalities of killers.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
The entire crazy super fast jump from weak girl to the T-850 master of all skills was absolutely hilarious. and it's pretty sad because the "story" was their excuse to not do this crap yet they screwed, now a sequels will be the just like Shanty town and onward. (aka Horde Raider)
JehutyRunner
Banned
She's already said she's not involved with ME2.
dragonbane
Member
The graphics are pretty good, so you have to play it.
Femmeworth
Banned
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
The only time I ran out of ammo was farming the deers for salvage to max all the weapons.
I expected things like a hunger meter or some shit, but it is a total third person shooter with some puzzles here and there....
Way different from something like Tomb Raider Anniversary.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Well, let's get the positive responses out of the way before the hate brigade comes.
Awesome, sounds great that they're sticking to the tone of the first one. I hope they keep the mystery and feeling of unveiling the island's secrets layer by layer intact, even though they're "going globe trotting" this time.
Can't wait.
*leaves thread*
Awesome, sounds great that they're sticking to the tone of the first one. I hope they keep the mystery and feeling of unveiling the island's secrets layer by layer intact, even though they're "going globe trotting" this time.
Can't wait.
*leaves thread*
It gets worse the more you think about it. Think about what Lara was able to accomplish single-handedly that entire militaries were incapable of doing.
The Japanese military was incapable of taking down the storm guard and the US government was incapable of taking down the Solari. If only they had thought to bring a bow and arrow!
I'm glad there wasn't a hunger meter. Tedious shit like that only bogs a game down. But if they were dead set on the survival bullshit they should have stuck to a smaller number of more intense encounters. Made stealth much more prevalent with instant death or extremely difficult combat as a consequence for failure. Have Lara be able to hide and go back into stealth. Have exploration, platforming, puzzle solving, and avoiding ancient traps be a much bigger part of the game.
Mystery? You mean the one that was extremely obvious within the first few hours but Lara didn't figure out until the room right before the final boss in a "plot twist" that made my eyes roll out of their sockets?
Oh man Tomb Raider with TLoU's combat would've been spectacular.
Luckily that's probably what they're going to rip off next ;p
Yes I mean the new one. I actually enjoyed the game over all (and never played any of the old ones. I know I wouldn't be able to stomach the early polygonal graphic, is Anniversary worth checking out?), but my goodness, some of those documents.
I think it's Sam who talks about bringing out Lara's "party girl" or something? Ugh, I literally cringed. As a fan of what the game did right, I simply hope for improvements in future installments.
Anniversary. Retains the great atmosphere of the original game with updated controls for the modern era. Some of the areas (St Francis Folly comes to mind) are absolutely jaw-dropping, one of my favourite games of all time. Story is pretty laughable though, and I've heard people complain the controls aren't 'pure' enough (I would argue that the 'pure' controls in the originals are archaic), but I personally don't mind. Oh, and stop playing after
Egypt
natkingcoleslaw
Neo Member
I'm quite happy about this. Tomb Raider was easily one of the best games I played, and finished, this year,
Everything you're saying is ridiculous.
Throughout the ENTIRE game these men are trying to killer her and relishing it in their dialogue and their actions. A couple of them voice concern and dissatisfaction, showing how fanatical the cultists are and because they get killed it's bad writing? Sorry, but that's actually good writing because they decided not to make all of them mustache twirling bad guys.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I just want the next one to have more horror in it. This game at the very least did a pretty good job of building up suspense and creepiness about various aspects of the island's history and its supernatural nature (though it felt like it shot itself in the foot a bit at the ending with that).
But there were some spectacularly creepy and moody bits about that. I want more of that horror and creepy supernatural edge in the next one. And don't make the supernatural enemies just ultimately a pallet swap of the regular baddies. I wanna see something terrifying and unique (which I thought the Oni were gonna be right up till the finale).
Scare me with the supernatural, people. Let's survive that. And tombs.
But there were some spectacularly creepy and moody bits about that. I want more of that horror and creepy supernatural edge in the next one. And don't make the supernatural enemies just ultimately a pallet swap of the regular baddies. I wanna see something terrifying and unique (which I thought the Oni were gonna be right up till the finale).
Scare me with the supernatural, people. Let's survive that. And tombs.
They expected more, doesn't mean they will shut Lara to the same vault Chrono is in. It DID manage to sell 3,5 million copies, no matter if that's less than they wanted, that's still great sales and they do understand that.
It's bad writing because apart from a few exceptions like Mathias and the Russains the game says cult members are forced to do the cult's bidding and Lara never acknowledges that. She dismisses them as insane murderers near the start and that's the end of her moral dilemma. It's also poor writing because despite whatever they say cult members will just devolve into the generic AI when alerted. No matter what personality they displayed, alerting them causes them to grow mustaches to twirl. The cult even
spares her life. A guy wanted to kill her in revenge for her killing his brother, but Mathias tells him to stop and he does. Lara later shoots that guy in the back of the head with an arrow.
Wait,
so the guy who wants to kill Lara but is ordered to stop spared her life?
I Wanna Be The Guy
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By most game standards the story was fine. But when a game is marketed the way Tomb Raider was and the developers are telling us how deep the story is supposed to be, it's all the more of a joke when the story turns out to be so mediocre. Mediocre storytelling in games is nothing new. I don't even have a problem with it. But when a game is advertised to have a supposedly deep story and I'm apparantly supposed to really care about this supposed vulnerable Lara, then you better fucking deliver. They didn't. The writing was no more of a joke in TR than it is in a lot of other games. The difference is that most games don't try to pretend the writing is anything special the way TR did.
I think a lot of the writing/voice acting was good, even if the overall plot was kind of mediocre. In the case of games I'm also always a bit hesitant to blame the writer as quite often there have to be a bunch of compromises made for gameplay reasons they probably had no say in. I also think the game got a bit too much flak for some of the tropes people are tired of in a bunch of recent AAA games.
legacyzero
Banned
Reboot had too much shooting, and not enough exploration and puzzles.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Alex: Lara you must go take the screwdriver :c
Lara: No....
Alex: Do it
Lara: Okay
Lara: Alex
Then proceed to never mention Alex again for the rest of the game
He wanted to kill her because she killed his brother and a few hundred of his friends. Mathias ordered him to stop and he did. Lara shoots him in the back of the head while he's not even looking. His death doesn't acknowledge his status as a named character at all.
Lara: I got the screwdriver and wrench you needed.
Reyes: That's okay, I already found some. Turns out a beach full of shipwrecks has a ton of tools just laying around!
Lara: ...
Reyes: That's okay, I already found some. Turns out a beach full of shipwrecks has a ton of tools just laying around!
Lara: ...
But he only not killed her because he was ordered not to, not because he had some moral objection to it. Not to mention they only spared her because they wanted to use her as a human sacrifice.
She killed his brother because he was going to rape her. He still wanted to killer her, he didn't spare her life, he was ordered not to.
The bad writing would be the poorly developed supporting characters.
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If comedy is what they're going for, they nailed it. I'm loling pretty hard