Tomb Raider 2013

[Great Deceiver]

finished this today, it's a pretty terrible game overall, and an even worse tomb raider - in fact, it's not tomb raider at all. there's literally zero challenge throughout the entire thing except for the bad placement of rifle-wearing enemies in a couple of encounters. control is wrestled away from the player at way too many points, including the final boss fight.

it's a sort of shut your brain off and press a for awesome kind of game. pretty depressing that developers think so lowly of players that they would make something like this - even the "optional tombs" are, without exception, a laughable, one toddler-level puzzle room.

i guess it does look pretty, which means it deserves nothing less than 8+ from most major review sites.

 

[Morgoth]

But instead we got a Lara Croft orgasm squealer.

 

[Diablo169]

The optional tombs were the worst part. I was expecting something like the optional levels from the later Assassins Creeds, ie puzzle platformers that last a good chunk of time. Instead it was a bunch of no brainer single puzzle areas that took all of 2 minutes. Even the animation where she opens the chest at the end of each tomb is exactly the same every single time. Even the fucking sound clip gasp she makes is the same.

 

[SoupNazi]

I remember Tomb Raider two. The search for that Chinese dagger. I think it was in the demo, you start out in a cavern and almost immediately get attacked by a tiger. It was nearly impossible to kill, so the only viable (easy) option was to jump onto a platform, which was incidentally a way to get out of the cavern. The great thing was, whenever you failed a jump, you'd fall down and before you could unholster, you'd likely be devoured by the tiger. It added a great sense of fear, which at the same time, was only driven by your own inability to make the jump, and not some scripted sequence, Lara's "hold onto something" meter, or anything the like.

Then I remember Tomb Raider 3, I think, in which you could tour Lara's mansion, jump around on the obstacle course, and look for various secrets. Specifically, there was a library secret door that would only open from another room and you had to run there etc... I don't even remember what was inside, but the rush from finally reaching it is something I'll probably always remember.

The game - I don't remember which number it is - where you start out as a young Lara Croft following her uncle (or whatever) through a pyramid (I think) and it's the best "prequel" there ever could have been. It's very fun, very natural, and shows how Lara came to be in a believable and fun way.

This game, on the other hand, is character-less, with no real atmosphere to speak of, it kind of reeks of "fake" and there is simply nothing to remember at all.

 

[JarlFrank]

The game - I don't remember which number it is - where you start out as a young Lara Croft following her uncle (or whatever) through a pyramid (I think) and it's the best "prequel" there ever could have been. It's very fun, very natural, and shows how Lara came to be in a believable and fun way.

The tutorial level of TR4: The Last Revelation, where you follow your mentor, the German archaeologist von Croy, as a young Lara.
Sure it had some silly stuff - "To cross this gap you must jump, Lara! In order to jump, press ALT." - but it was pretty great and showed her origin pretty nicely, how she dicovered her love for archaeology as a young girl.

Also, DAT THEME

And that fly-through through a tomb at the title screen just makes you want to explore that tomb. It's like an invitation that says "discovery and adventure await you!".

 

[MapMan]

TR IV is one of my favourites... Why did you have to remind me?

 

[Morgoth]

These were the times when games were still games and game designers game designers, not corporate and Hollywood prostitutes.

 

[JarlFrank]

You guys might enjoy this.

 

[Metro]

Random Codexer: "Oh man, this game totally sucked, total popamole decline... took me twelve hours to finish it."

Bros, if you hate a game, you won't finish it. I uninstalled Arcania after about six hours. Some of you are closet popamolers.

 

[Zewp]

It took you 6 hours to realise you hate Arcania?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Random Codexer: "Oh man, this game totally sucked, total popamole decline... took me twelve hours to finish it."

Bros, if you hate a game, you won't finish it. I uninstalled Arcania after about six hours. Some of you are closet popamolers.

Some people think that you can't knowledgably dislike a game without finishing it.

 

[ohWOW]

It's a logical loophole, that lets fanboys to live in delusion.

You didn't finish it and you say it sucks?! YOU KNOW NOTHING, FINISH IT.
You finished it and you're saying it sucks? It doesn't suck and you liked it, you finished it after all!


You can't fight morons.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

If you go through the trouble of downloading and installing it, might as well finish it once (I"ve seen someone saying that he tried ME3 for five minutes and uninstalled - according to piratebay, that thing is like 10GB). Few modern games take too long to finish, especially if you're rushing through. It's people who finish said declineshit twelve times that you have to be wary of.

 

[Metro]

Five minutes is ludicrous but a couple of hours is more than enough. Never mind the fact you can tell something like the new Tomb Raider is QTE garbage just by looking at it so you can save yourself the download altogether.

 

[Kirtai]

TR IV is one of my favourites... Why did you have to remind me?

That reminds me, I have it from GOG but haven't played it yet. Argh.

 

[MapMan]

If you go through the trouble of downloading and installing it, might as well finish it once (I"ve seen someone saying that he tried ME3 for five minutes and uninstalled - according to piratebay, that thing is like 10GB). Few modern games take too long to finish, especially if you're rushing through. It's people who finish said declineshit twelve times that you have to be wary of.

I did exactly that to ME1 and ME2. Sometimes I download a game, read opinions on the codex and then delete it without even installing

Not everyone lives in BR where internets are delivered weekly in buckets or whatever. Hue.

 

[Menckenstein]

I finished it, it was pretty okay. I've definitely finished worse games. The whole island is basically plays like a giant tomb sans puzzles other than quicking glancing around to use your rope arrows or zip lines and shit. About the same as Uncharted, which I guess was their goal.

I want to feed the bone to Camilla Luddington.

 

[Machocruz]

People are really buying the whole New Lara is Every Woman ruse. There is really no possibility of inclining an audience who can't detect obvious and sloppy dissonance or don't care because emoshital engayment/low breeding. Thre will always be an us vs. them divide

 

[DeepOcean]

It takes only the gameplay trailer to make me don't even bother downloading this thing. After seeing Lara put fire on herself when trapped in flamable cloth and miraculously not being burn alive, then being impaled by a metal spike and not bleeding to death or getting a serious infection. I knew that a developer dumb enough to make those cutscenes then claim about how Lara is fragile would be too dumb to make a decent gameplay.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I did exactly that to ME1 and ME2. Sometimes I download a game, read opinions on the codex and then delete it without even installing

Not everyone lives in BR where internets are delivered weekly in buckets or whatever. Hue.

Better to have steam-powered internet than to be a sheeperson easily swayed by the opinions of others, even if they're kodex kompatriots

 

[Melcar]

The tutorial level of TR4: The Last Revelation, where you follow your mentor, the German archaeologist von Croy, as a young Lara.
Sure it had some silly stuff - "To cross this gap you must jump, Lara! In order to jump, press ALT." - but it was pretty great and showed her origin pretty nicely, how she dicovered her love for archaeology as a young girl.

Also, DAT THEME

And that fly-through through a tomb at the title screen just makes you want to explore that tomb. It's like an invitation that says "discovery and adventure await you!".

Need to dig out this game from my boxes.

 

[Ermm]

Nostalgia rush.

 

[Cyberarmy]

TR IV is one of my favourites... Why did you have to remind me?

Same here! 4th game is my favorite, i have given some of my youth to climb that friggin pyramid...

 

[Cyberarmy]

But instead we got a Lara Croft orgasm squealer.

Also there are these;

But they ditched all this and all we got an Uncharted clone (which was "insipired from Tomb Raider ironically...) with boobs and moanings...

 

[Morgoth]

This really looked more akin to Shadow of the Colossus.

Guess somebody figured cover-shooters just sell better.

...

Goddammit!