ViewtifulJC
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Guess you'll just have to settle for the other shoddily-written AAA shooter packed with collectibles and RPG elements that comes out tomorrow.
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Review Thread
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Guess you'll just have to settle for the other shoddily-written AAA shooter packed with collectibles and RPG elements that comes out tomorrow.
The Artisan
Member
I don't know buddy. I'm just saying I hear a lot more people saying they won't buy xbone for this game rather than will.
It'll be a system seller for some people... but not most people. If any game were a system seller for most people, it'd win the console war on its own (think Wii Sports).
The term system seller is honestly a little silly. How many systems should a game sell to qualify? I bought an OG Xbox specifically to play Jet Set Radio Future (turned out to be shit unfortunately). System seller?
It'd be pretty easy to argue that nobody other than Nintendo's ever had a system seller.
God damn it, why did you guys make me read that Eurogamer review. All the story complaints, including the overly breathy performance by Camilla were some of my biggest problems with the first one.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Someone please tell me they toned down the shaky cam a lot. It was outrageous in the first, giving a lot of players headaches and nausea, becoming the number one complaint among fans (by far in polls on their own forums) that they never patched. I didn't see why they thought tech problems were of greater concern than the fact their game was literally making people who genuinely wanted to enjoy it instead want to vomit, but that it was never patched made me worried for this one.
I'd watch a let's play, but that is inherently spoilers in linear games like this.
I'd watch a let's play, but that is inherently spoilers in linear games like this.
Fushichou187
Member
Better than I expected, tbh. Sounds like CD really did their homework building on the previous game while addressing some of its shortcomings. As I'm on PS4 I won't get to play this until next year but sounds like I'm in for a treat when I do. Good stuff!
Violence Jack
Member
That's good to hear. The last game was my first platinum trophy, and I expect to spend the same amount of time with this one on PS4.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Good to hear that it's getting great reviews. I loved the first game. I'll have to wait till next year to pick this one up though.
TalesFromHoth
Neo Member
I'm a super huge Tomb Raider fan - been playing it since Lara first appeared on the PC in those strangely shaped PC boxes these came in.
I'm actually more excited to play this then Fallout 4!
Sounds like the game doesn't disappoint.
I'm actually more excited to play this then Fallout 4!
Sounds like the game doesn't disappoint.
Real question? Why does it matter?
SEGAvangelist
Member
Did you forget Halo CE?
bananafactory
Banned
Who cares?
I would be very surprised if UC4 ends up lower.
SplitYourInfinities
Member
I'm definitely buying this over Fallout 4.
Vincent Alexander
Member
I can't wait to play this...on PC!
The game is going to bomb so hard as a single platform release on a smaller user base and with tough competition alongside it. I hope Square Enix got a good deal out of it, because the IP is going to take a hit from lower sales and less mindshare. Momentum isn't going to be the same come spring or December.
I wouldn't mind if this meant that they made it more like the old games but I don't have any hopes of it at all. Dumb murder simulators apparently sell and are reviewed well without much criticism, so I guess that's that.
I wouldn't mind if this meant that they made it more like the old games but I don't have any hopes of it at all. Dumb murder simulators apparently sell and are reviewed well without much criticism, so I guess that's that.
After hearing so many good impressions about this game recently, I put an order in yesterday. I was going to wait for the PC version, but I think I'll do what I normally do and play it on console and get it again for PC when it goes on sale.
It's great that it's getting so many good reviews, gonna have a hard time playing this with Fallout 4 in the back of my head though, as that Pip-boy thingy's coming tomorrow, too.
It's great that it's getting so many good reviews, gonna have a hard time playing this with Fallout 4 in the back of my head though, as that Pip-boy thingy's coming tomorrow, too.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
Glad to see this game is reviewing better than I had expected
Birgitte2004
Member
How many people are in the situation that they aren't already saturated with enough other games to patiently wait until next year to pick up the title for a system they already own?
Even with all the delays to 2016 I find myself staring at my stack of games and asking "how?", and that's before I throw Fallout 4 on the pile.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Agreed.
Don't take what people write on internet so serious.
Just picked up a random post in the game OT
Just booted it now, based Singapore. I am so hyped.
Same poster way back when PC version got announced:
Well, it has issues as well but NOTHING like Fallout. It's much more polished and beautiful.Going to pick this up instead of Fallout i think. Lucky the DF article came today for Fallout and this got some great reviews.
Or maybe this game is bad framedrops also. Then i am screwed.
But i doubt it.
Effigenius
Member
We don't know. They just said 'early 2016'.
Romars202129
Member
They're not though. Drake is a thousand more mellow than Indy. And a thousand times more the killer.
Drake's silly humor and emotional reactions to 'evil' are not present in Indy. Whereas, Indy's cold cruelty of basically executing a guy who brought a sword to a gun fight, never really presents itself in Nathan Drake.... not in a cutscene anyway.
The Artisan
Member
is that really true?
victreeb3l
Member
Good scores. Any idea on the length of the game?
Yes, 2015 has been great so far, good year to be a gamer.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I found the first very average in fights but I did enjoy the actual exploration and the couple tombs.
Is this one less shooting and more exploring and are there more actual tombs?
Is this one less shooting and more exploring and are there more actual tombs?
SEGAvangelist
Member
Weird. The review reads like a 5/5. I wonder why Brad went with a 4/5.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Sounds like a good title. Now I have to decide if I want to play it now on XB1 or wait for the PC version!
viveks86
Member
Holy cow at brads 30+ hour play through. Sounds like he really got into it
Journey
Banned
I will never understand this logic. So a PS4 customer will walk into GameStop, look at Tomb Raider New release on PS4 with excellent 9+ reviews, the clerk tells him how great the game is, that he beat it more than once, and as he's about to check out the copy, he says wait a minute, how could you have beat this game if it just released today? and when the clerk reveals that he played it a year ago on Xbox One, he goes Yuck, I feel dirty now, return his crap to the shelf immediately! Unless you think this is the MO of anyone outside of Tomb Raider fans, then I don't get it, especially when the game will likely see some improvements.
Romars202129
Member
Alright, you got me. Gross exaggeration on my part.
He's probably only killed a 100x as many people as Indy.