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(Rumor) TOMB RAIDER 7 DATED?
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SolidSnakex
Member
Can't wait to see how this turned out. I thought AoD was alot better than people gave it credit for but it still had alot of problems that shouldn't have been there with all the development. I do hope they return the game completely to the tombs this time around though.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I didn't know they handed it to Crystal Dynamics, thats good. If the industry were about making good games rather than making money Core Design would have been dead a long time ago. Still, they'll really have to do a number on the game if they want it to do well. Most people don't pay attendtion to the developer and the series has only further and further proven itself to be crap. It's going to first need to be completely different to get more than a glance from people, then be really good to make them forget all the horrors associated with the franchise.
ManDudeChild
Member
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=15632
http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/puls...in/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=003005
This is legit. Just C&VG forgot to do a couple little things.
http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/puls...in/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=003005
This is legit. Just C&VG forgot to do a couple little things.
sonycowboy
Member
xsarien said:
Which makes it different from every other franchise, how???
SolidSnakex
Member
xsarien said:
I don't think you can really make that claim since if that was the case they'd just left it with Core. I think it's obvious that they want the series to be good again. Core created an awesome engine for AoD it just didn't polish it enough. While CD's engines might not be as nice as AoD's their games usually have alot of polish which will help.
ManDudeChild
Member
Dice said:
Considering it's C&VG, wouldn't surprise me.
sonycowboy said:
Just sayin'. But if you'd really like it quantified, it can be reasonably argued that other milked franchises haven't had such drastic falls from grace. Castlevania's still going, Nintendo's managed to not fuck up Mario completely, all Capcom has to do is utter the words "Street Fighter" or "Megaman" and they've got a line wrapped around the block.
sonycowboy
Member
xsarien said:
Nah. I was just saying everybody's in it for the money. Clearly, they peaked at #2 and it's been downhill from there. Who knows, maybe they've hit rock bottom. In which case, they can only go up!
sonycowboy
Member
Guzim said:
1) Tomb Raider
2) Tomb Raider 2
3) Tomb Raider 3
4) Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
5) Tomb Raider Chronicles
6) Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
7) ???
MrPing1000
Member
hey since they are having a much larger development time, maybe this will be the first tomb raider game thats actually good
sonycowboy
Member
MrPing1000 said:
Angel of Darkness was reportedly in development for ~4 years. Didn't help much there.
sonycowboy
Member
Shinobi said:
Maybe because there will be over 100 million next gen consoles next year. I'd expect it to go Multiplatform as well.
Well if they're gonna do a bit of a reboot to the franchise (and taking away the developer that created the character and series is a pretty serious change), saving it for new tech would be a pretty good way to enforce it. But that's me. Though if it is going to be multiplatform, then I suppose that would change things.
BTW, is a third TR movie due out next summer? Perhaps that's another reason.
BTW, is a third TR movie due out next summer? Perhaps that's another reason.
Cafeman said:
Really? I enjoyed what I played of Chronicles far more than TR2-4 myself.(Never finished the last few missions of the final chapter) IMO the worst TR game is still TR3; I couldn't even see what the hell I was doing thanks to bad lighting/stage design in some levels. TR4 and TR5 were pretty good, and AoD isn't as bad as most people say it is. It's far from being an amazing game, but not too bad, and far from being one of the worst PS2 games that was released like some label it.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
AoD wasn't as bad as people make out. But then again it's not particularly great. To be honest I'm still kinda worried about CD taking it over. They aren't exactly the greatest of developers. I recently finished LoK: Defiance and it seems that they only seem able to make baby step improvements with their games (and in the case of going with predetermined cameras a step back) and I don't know if they have got what it takes to totally overhaul TR like it needs.
An analogy when Soul Reaver 1 came out it was actually a top tier title. By Soul Reaver 2 though things started to go a bit shaky. Maybe it was just bad timing but while it's puzzles were good, its combat was laughable next to DMC released around the same time. Not only that but fans of the series had been crying out for an expansive Nosgoth to explore, something akin to Zelda: OoT. What they got was a lot of backtracking through corridors. Now Defiance. Combat was still pants compared to other games attempting similar things. And the feeling of an expansive Nosgoth, arguably less present than SR2.
I just don't have that much faith in CD to create a TR that's going to stand up to the likes of PoP2 or Ico in the whole, non-colourful platformer/puzzler/combat genre, based on passed records. I'd liked to be proven wrong, I've had more fun with the TR series than most people, and I'd like to admit that without feeling like a red-headed stepchild.
An analogy when Soul Reaver 1 came out it was actually a top tier title. By Soul Reaver 2 though things started to go a bit shaky. Maybe it was just bad timing but while it's puzzles were good, its combat was laughable next to DMC released around the same time. Not only that but fans of the series had been crying out for an expansive Nosgoth to explore, something akin to Zelda: OoT. What they got was a lot of backtracking through corridors. Now Defiance. Combat was still pants compared to other games attempting similar things. And the feeling of an expansive Nosgoth, arguably less present than SR2.
I just don't have that much faith in CD to create a TR that's going to stand up to the likes of PoP2 or Ico in the whole, non-colourful platformer/puzzler/combat genre, based on passed records. I'd liked to be proven wrong, I've had more fun with the TR series than most people, and I'd like to admit that without feeling like a red-headed stepchild.
Cafeman said:
I was a huge Tomb Raider fan, and I avoided Not-Tomb Raider: Marketing Angle of Darkness altogether. From everything I've read, it may have had the core gamplay, but not the atmosphere.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first four Tomb Raider games. During that time, I heard a lot people bitch about how the sequels all sucked because of the new levels not being tombs and whatnot. I saw it differently; levels like the oil rig and the prison were far outnumbered by the tomb/ruin/jungle levels, so the feel of that kind of exploration remained intact for me.
However, when I played Chronicles, I felt that the game had finally caught up to the complaints. The majority of the game was indeed not in ruins or tombs, but in modern settings. I quit playing halfway through the last third of the game, where I was just sneaking through a bunch of high tech security crap. This wasn't what I wanted.
When AoD started being shown, there was not ONE video or screenshot that I could find that reassured me that this trend would be reversed. And indeed when the game came out, reviews pretty much made it clear that the original tomb raiding focus was gone. I remember someone in an old thread posting that I was foolish to complain about this, because he had just made it to a level that was in the old style, so the game had tombs, don't worry. A day or two after that, he came back and posted a rant about how after he got past that relatively short section, it was back to the high tech security base crap, and he wanted more tombs.
If Crystal Dynamics manages to keep the puzzle platforming gameplay intact, and return Tomb Raider to the original TOMB RAIDING feel, I'll be happy to get it. But I'm really not expecting much.