Well, so far I've only watched a few hours of footage and the IGN and GT reviews and saw much less "Tomb Raider" than Crystal's previous games, so what do I know.
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Tomb Raider Review Thread!
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Well, so far I've only watched a few hours of footage and the IGN and GT reviews and saw much less "Tomb Raider" than Crystal's previous games, so what do I know.
I'm saying that's not only a good thing, but a GREAT thing.
SlasherJPC
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True but your seeing minutes out of HOURS of gameplay here bud. Remember this.
How is it his personal take on the reviews when flat out the comments in the reviews use negative words to describe the puzzles, platforming, or tombs?
Relaxed Muscle
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After reading the reviews seems like he's not wrong....
plagiarize
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and both are valid. to infer that one should always score higher than the other, is to concede that scores are completely futile in the first place.
which they are. different people look to reviews for different things. this notion some of you have that reviews should all try to do the same exact 'objective' thing... kind of makes the whole point of multiple reviews existing pointless.
The initial response (the leaked concept art) when everyone thought the reboot was going to be survival horror was fairly positive.
Always-honest
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I think hat depsnds on what you choose to read.
Just WATCH the reviews and make up your own mind. Nobody is forcing you to blindly follow another person (not even the reviewers).
Personally i wasn't hyped for the game. Then i saw the scores and though that there MUST be something great that i missed.
So i watched some reviews, wanting to get hyped aout the game again, but from what i could see in the bideo rebiews, the game just doesn't look that great to me.
So be sure not to go from one hyvemind to another hyvemind is all i'm saying. Just judge for yourself.
Unfortunately, and i mean that, i was the same for me. And that was a good review.
sublimit
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Mystic_Wanderer
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The story was pretty lackluster in FC3, admittedly (except for naked tribal chick), but the game was so awesome it made (to me at least) it wholly unimportant.
No, I've literally seen like the entire first 2 hours of the game. Plus the reviews even say that the classic Tomb Raider exploration and puzzle solving is lacking in favor of telling a story.
Paul Alexander
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Because he offers nothing to prove anyone's been bribed?
That people offered negative sentiments about certain portions of the game tells us nothing about their overall opinion. That's what the entire review is for.
SlasherJPC
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Wrong/right its all subjective. I'm playing the game now... but what do I know?
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People hate change. Just like when RE4 first came out, people were like "WTf...this isn't RE"? So why other series can't do this, and get away with it I don't understand.
It's been said a few times already, but the sheer amount of fluff in these reviews is pitiful. I'm interested in how the third-person shooting and platforming handles. I'm much less interested in the story and how it affects Lara Croft's character development, but here were are with the vast majority of criticism zeroing in on this tripe.
It's fine to discuss that stuff since it adds (or detracts) from the whole package, but I'm only finding a handful of succinct points on the game mechanics in each review.
It's fine to discuss that stuff since it adds (or detracts) from the whole package, but I'm only finding a handful of succinct points on the game mechanics in each review.
plagiarize
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Wrong/right its all subjective. I'm playing the game now... but what do I know?
what's your brief take on it? you and Jim Sterling are my go to barometers right now.
BigWeather
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Why is that a good, or even GREAT, thing? There are already several franchises that are already doing what the newest Tomb Raider seems to be trying to do. There were not many doing what the prior Tomb Raiders tried (and often succeeded) to do. Are there any?
Heart Attack
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The secret tombs that are often 1 room, and over simplified? SOUNDS GREAT.....
Tricky I Shadow
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My excitement level is so damn high right now! I havent been this hyped for a game since Resident Evil 4 - this has a really big shot at being my game of the generation. It looks like everything I could have wanted.
Welp, Im off to bed now considering its 4:05am. Ive updated the OP with all the English written reviews posted so far in this thread...Ill keep updating when more eventually come in, but for now I need some sleep.
Welp, Im off to bed now considering its 4:05am. Ive updated the OP with all the English written reviews posted so far in this thread...Ill keep updating when more eventually come in, but for now I need some sleep.
GenoZStriker
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At this point if you disapprove of that, then it should be the sign to tell you not to get it.
Paul Alexander
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I feel just the opposite, but maybe that's because I've already played it and am familiar with the mechanics.
Because Tomb Raider as a franchise has been an embarrassment to games since the early 2000's.
Glad they finally did something interesting with it, even if Uncharted got there first. This is the most exciting thing about the Tomb Raider brand since the first film.
I think he's trying to just point out that there seems to be a disconnect between the 'score' and the actual text in the review. Whether or not you interpret that as something suspicious is up to you.
Diablo Rosso
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Nice edit there. You said 1998 originally. Chronicles was shit because Eidos wanted to fill the gap until AoD and that was shit because Eidos wanted stealth shit thrown in, among other things.
Paul Alexander
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Again, any legitimate critiques of the content of the review (not that I'm saying any have been offered here) are undermined by tinfoil-hat snark.
From everything I'm seeing, the game looks like a lot of fun and seems to play well...but it feels as if the story telling is at odds with the game. Furthermore, I'm disappointed by the heavy reliance on modern tropes such as XP, loot, and filling status bars.
There's really not, though.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Wrong/right its all subjective. I'm playing the game now... but what do I know?
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People hate change. Just like when RE4 first came out, people were like "WTf...this isn't RE"? So why other series can't do this, and get away with it I don't understand.
"Crystal Dynamics, I knew Resident Evil 4. Resident Evil 4 was a friend of mine. Tomb Raider, you're no Resident Evil 4."
that is not correct and Uncharted didn't define a genre or something.. Why do people keep bringing that series on this thread?
SlasherJPC
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I'm early in... but I'm highly enjoying it and not just because "OMFG SET PIECES!" Yes those are in and damn cool too. What's really, really pulling me in, is the sense of dread and hostility. The game atmosphere so far feels grim, the nightlight sky piercing through the trees . The sound design is great as well. Rushing water, croaking frogs, explosions, rubble. . The game is just (so far) doing a game good job of pulling me into the world. I'm digging the slightly open world feeling to the hub areas as well. They're not HUGE (so far as I know) But give me that itch to explore and have fun doing it. One note I found already was from a character talkin about the
curse of the island
Messofanego
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Those of us who want challenging puzzles and tombs with more focus on problem solving in a Tomb Raider game and not much combat or humans are in the minority.
Well, at least adventure game are thriving while action-adventure with memorable puzzles are dying.
Well, at least adventure game are thriving while action-adventure with memorable puzzles are dying.
I said 1998 originally because Tomb Raider 3 is where the series started to go downhill, but that game wasn't awful.
The series didn't really become awful until a few years after that, so I edited appropriately.
Agreed. The series released when I was 14 or 15 and even back then I found it to be boring as fuck. I mean, I totally understand the butthurt coming from the kids that used to yank their cranks to Lara spreads in old EGMs and GamePros, but that polygonal ass and tits just didn't do anything for me or my 120mhz Packard Bell.
Agreed. MP aside, this game looked great from day 1.
I think suggesting that everyone is paid off is ludicrous. But honestly game reviewers tend to have an awful lot of power when it comes to the success of a game, assuming everyone is clean as a whistle is equally ludicrous.
BigWeather
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Why is it an embarrassment to games? The style of play is woefully underrepresented in modern gaming. Who will take up the mantle and give us compelling environments filled with deadly traps and puzzles? As mentioned up-thread perhaps From, but still they will keep an emphasis on combat that is beyond what traditional Tomb Raiders have been about.
suddenlyissoon
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I wish there were some PC vs. 360/PS3 comparisons.
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Fine Ham Abounds
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I actually stopped playing the whole series I think after 4. I watched a friend play 5 and thought it looked poor. AoD I've never touched, watched videos, looked pretty poor to me, and Lara seemed like a psychopath.
Until I bought the PS3 CD Trilogy a couple months ago, I had only played about an hour of Underworld on a rental and sorta gave up on it. Really enjoyed Anniversary like I said.
1 and 2 are the most memorable to me.
Heart Attack
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hang in there brah.
Baconsammy
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Sounds like it turned out great. Went from try to buy.
BigWeather
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Or, you know, the butthurt coming from mature adults that welcomed as close to Indiana Jones in a computer game that we've ever gotten...