captainnapalm
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I can't help but notice that a fair number of guys on that list seem to hate all modern videogames. I guess that's kind of ironic then.
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Tomb Raider is biggest UK launch of year so far
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I can't help but notice that a fair number of guys on that list seem to hate all modern videogames. I guess that's kind of ironic then.
Yup. Hitman was like the 5th highest selling game over there for all of last year and that game tanked so hard that SE pretends it doesn't exist.
Tricky I Shadow
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Miles Quaritch
Member
It's okay, Derrick. You're still Mr. Accurate to me.
I guess the real question is - will TR hold or is it extremely front loaded. I'm guessing the latter.
djplaeskool
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I'm trying to hold back laughter...
It was half price within 2 weeks. It also had a pretty big marketing push at the same time so that probably helped
MrCookiepants
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Miles Quaritch
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An impressive ad campaign and heavy discounting led to them achieving fifth place.
Starwolf_UK
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My thoughts are:
-Will it have legs? Square-Enix tend to force the legs by price dropping within a few months of release (that said, if the people inclined to wait for this did so then it would be a second wind in sales numbers)
-How long will it hold this title (best seller) for? I mean Starcraft 2 is out tomorrow so it could be as quick as 1 week...(wings of liberty was no 1 when it came out but was the only new release in the charts).
-From the above I just noticed? Did Aliens come out on a Friday? If so then Tomb Raider had more days to make the numbers.
-Will it have legs? Square-Enix tend to force the legs by price dropping within a few months of release (that said, if the people inclined to wait for this did so then it would be a second wind in sales numbers)
-How long will it hold this title (best seller) for? I mean Starcraft 2 is out tomorrow so it could be as quick as 1 week...(wings of liberty was no 1 when it came out but was the only new release in the charts).
-From the above I just noticed? Did Aliens come out on a Friday? If so then Tomb Raider had more days to make the numbers.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Forcing legs? Reducing the price isn't forcing legs. That's an odd thing to say.
It will hold it until March 26.
Tuesday.
Aquamarine
Member
SO glad to see this game doing so well! It really deserves the sales.
drkOne
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Seriously, GAF hates every new game nowadays.
Between DmC and Tomb Raider I have been avoiding threads since around the time they were revealed.
KillerMan91
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grimshawish
Banned
Massive marketing push. Posters were everywhere.
Appollowexx
Member
Good it deserves all the success it can get. Excellent reboot, I thourally enjoyed my playthrough.
Yeah but it didn't mean much. The market over there for most games is horrible, that's why I'm trying to say don't celebrate just yet unless specific numbers were given.
And of course it's the biggest launch this year. What else has come out for the mass market, Dead space and crysis 3? Those aren't exactly blowing the doors off in sales either.
edit: Oh yeah....Aliens hahahaha
Miles Quaritch
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Aliens is still a highly respected licence or at least it was until Prometheus and CM.
It basically means DmC and Dead Space 3 flopped, while NnK was hardly expected to ignite fires.
Do we have concrete sale figures for TRUnderworld? I recall something like 1.5 shipped first month or something, nothing else.
And if TR 2013 indeed sells as much or less than TRUnderworld, then I imagine it would be a disappointment. Sales decline is why they rebooted it in the first place (well I guess franchise fatigue too but whatever). Not to mention TR definitely has a much larger budget than the other 3 CD Tomb Raider games.
lucius
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After playing it I thought for sure it would hit at least 4 million lifetime being multi-platform, big marketing push very well done besides some silly stuff developers were saying that most mainstream gamers never even heard about, good game with iconic video game character that people never really tired of, even her less than average games have sold more than they should have. Isn't TR Legend close to 5 million which this game should do more. This game deserves it, I enjoy collecting things on my own more than the main game, but it is right behind TR1/2 as best in series, sky's the limit for a sequel on new harware. Crystal Dynamics finally delivers been a while imo, was a fan of pretty much all there games on 3D0, but then the they were not to be trusted for a while, glad they are back.
Isn't Uncharted over yet anyway? Wasn't it meant to be a trilogy? Can't tell myself, never played those; can't stand Drake for the life of me.
Ninja Moomin
Banned
Yeah make it really old fashioned and dated and just like all the things they chucked out to make it a better game.
I really, really hope they do that.
Agreed. Great game and it deserves the success.
Unspeakable Evil
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Is Lara going to dance in the blood of the non-believers with Tricky Shadow?
What? How is that change? Most games I played this gen were action adventure! If it went for puzzle and exploration, that would be change. It's the reason I didn't buy the game, most people are saying it's just like uncharted, which I've already played to death.
It's the biggest Tomb Raider launch since ever:
But keep spinning. And no, the market there is not horrible for games (TR just proved it by beating the PS2 one), people who follow the EU sales thread know that UK is doing perfectly fine.
I've really enjoyed playing Tomb Raider, great game and it deserves to do well. I'm more of an Uncharted 2 person myself, but still had a complete blast playing TR. Yes, some things were a bit ludicrous, but I don't necessarily want to plug into a digital Dostoyevsky every time I click "load save".
Miles Quaritch
Member
Indeed, best selling game of the year. I can feel it in my bone marrow.
see Tomb Raider pre-release
IdreamofHIME
Member
It's disappointing that people are still riding the hate train because of the mess ups of Eidos' PR during the development of TR, but screw them. It's a phenomenal game and really nails what they promised back at the start of this journey.
Don't go blaming "hive-mind gaf", it doesn't exist. What exists is small vocal groups of haters for different things that somehow always seemed to be heard over the majority who like or are neutral on the subjects in question. But that's the way of the world, negativity always gets heard 1st.
.....that's not very accurate.
Don't go blaming "hive-mind gaf", it doesn't exist. What exists is small vocal groups of haters for different things that somehow always seemed to be heard over the majority who like or are neutral on the subjects in question. But that's the way of the world, negativity always gets heard 1st.
.....that's not very accurate.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
They're not that good at it then as Sleeping Dogs & Tomb Raider has Hitman related dlc
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
LOL!
But the game isn't different. It's like tons of other games.
And it's not hating if I can explain my dislikes in a coherent and detailed manner.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Not to toot my horn... wait fuck it i'm tooting, but i was one of the few who said to give the game a chance and that this move to more action/adventure was probably a good idea since the sales of the previous games went down with every new installment, and that times had changed. Just to give it a chance before writing it off...