Lord Error
Insane For Sony
They've been trying to copy the ND character animation system already in Underworld. They failed badly there, and while it's better here, it's still pretty far behind in that regard.
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Tomb Raider |OT| Lara's Misfortune
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JumpJeff84
Member
Man, this is annoying! I've played for about five hours on PC, having a great time. Using a 360 controller. A few minutes ago I fast-travelled from one camp to another, and all of a sudden the game has decided to invert the Y axis when I aim weapons. And there's nothing I can do I fix it- I've combed the options. If I invert the Y axis in the options, it just inverts the camera controls as well. This kinda sucks.
The Lost Adventurer Tomb,if you can call it that,that you get for one of the pre-orders is in the middle camp,once I got fast travel,I went back to the other camps anyway and did it,ok for a pre-order DLC I guess...game is pretty awesome so far...some collectables will be very hard to find I see,like those Ghost hunt things,only saw 1 so far...
Messofanego
Banned
Welp that sounds bad. I hate Uncharted so I'll just skip this game.
XANDER CAGE
Member
This game, for better and worse, feels like "This Generation: Greatest Hits" so far. It's every major game mechanic and trait that got popular this gen wrapped up into one game.
-Third-person cover.
-It has all of the advances in animation and visuals we've come to expect from AAA games.
-"platforming" as a means of scaling huge levels.
-Arkham progression.
-Cnematic "setpiece" moments.
-Mildly pointless XP progression with upgrades.
-A terrible overabundance of QTEs (which are technically older than this gen, but found great proliferation this gen)
-Audiologs!
-Item upgrades points!
-COLLECTABLESSSS
It just feels like every major trend mashed into one. That's yielding some great results and some annoying ones, in my opinion. The game is good, although the 10/10 and 9/10 scores hailing it as the best of the generation are still sort of headscratchers for me. It's not the best of this generation (in my opinion so far, at least), it's the most of this generation.
-Third-person cover.
-It has all of the advances in animation and visuals we've come to expect from AAA games.
-"platforming" as a means of scaling huge levels.
-Arkham progression.
-Cnematic "setpiece" moments.
-Mildly pointless XP progression with upgrades.
-A terrible overabundance of QTEs (which are technically older than this gen, but found great proliferation this gen)
-Audiologs!
-Item upgrades points!
-COLLECTABLESSSS
It just feels like every major trend mashed into one. That's yielding some great results and some annoying ones, in my opinion. The game is good, although the 10/10 and 9/10 scores hailing it as the best of the generation are still sort of headscratchers for me. It's not the best of this generation (in my opinion so far, at least), it's the most of this generation.
That's pretty much the game in a nutshell.
I just did the first optional tomb (or first I found at least) and it was insulting. It took me about 40 seconds to figure out and it was just that 1 simple physics puzzle before getting the treasure.
And the game had the gall to call the achievement one smart cookie. Now I'm being mocked as well.
I think I did the same one. The achievement made me chuckle.
FairXchange
Member
The game has all the 'AAA' elements, but it does the well and in a cohesive package that's fun.
I buy games from Ni No Kuni, to Black Ops 2 and everything in between on numerous platforms, and I am thoroughly entertained by how this game plays.
I buy games from Ni No Kuni, to Black Ops 2 and everything in between on numerous platforms, and I am thoroughly entertained by how this game plays.
Any game with abundant cinematic QTEs getting 10s or 9s in this day and age is too blatantly money hatted. It's a mechanic made popular in the PS2/GCN era with God of War and RE4 yet developers use this still because the press seems to love it. The critics really need to mark down games with QTEs extensively otherwise we are going to keep getting QTEs in our AAA games. At least they tried with RE6.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Dahbomb callin' out moneyhats
LOL
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Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Saw that in one of the videos I think. I thought it seemed kinda insulting to the character, heh. Might as well have called the achievement "Hey, you're smarter than you look, kitten."
This is....an excellent summary of the experience so far. Spot on.
tomb raider always felt like a a series that occupied its own little niche to me. theres something about the mix of isolation, environment traversal and puzzles that i cant recall finding in any other game, though i havent looked very closely at either dreamfall or gone home.
I will never give a game with QTEs over a 9 no matter how much money hats they lay on me. Bayonetta was the last game with QTEs that I gave a flat 9 to and even then I chopped off a good 0.5 for it. At this point they can lay on my dream DMC5 with Papa Vergil on me and if they put in QTEs I would still never rate it high.
Like I said above in my post,this is the DLC pre-order Lost Adventurer Tomb hehe but yeah,that achievement made me grin also but I was happy since after playing like 2 hours,it's the first one I got...no worst then the finished the Tutorial achievements from other games
It is the modern game of the generation. They took every single thing and dialed it to 11. Even scenes that John Woo and Michael Bay would find ridiculous.
I'm leaning toward calling Dark Souls or Demon's Souls the game of the generation and Tomb Raider the cinematic game of the generation.
You sound like the worst reviewer imaginable.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I've came across 1 large story related Tomb
( the part when she says she hates Tombs)
Shanty Town
You'll know when you reach it, truly amazing stuff.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
This is how I feel about everyone who gave Skyrim anything higher than a 7 lol.
I'm a self made parody of genuinely unbiased non-money hat reviews.
I honestly cannot understand this mentality.
What is it about QTEs that bother you so much?
NullPointer
Member
Whats there to like about having a small interval to push a random button or reload?
It's an overused bad game design that people associate with good games (RE4 and GoW as they popularized it). Any time there is a QTE you can replace it with an in-game mechanic or a cutscene/scripted event. It's especially great at breaking immersion in these "cinematic" games that go out of their way to remove HUDs.
Nothing like a big ol' Y flashing on the screen to remind you that you are playing a video game.
There are ways to make QTEs more organic to a game. Stuff like Devil Bringer/Buster or the Demon/Angel Pull in a DMC game is more in-line with a game mechanic than a giant X/Y floating on contact sensitive points in a game.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Zero
Use a controller. The game is bugged.
Personally they popped up for me during the latter part of the game.
I actually just completed it. Pretty satisfied, looking forward to what CD can do with the next gen systems.
Would like more boss battles in the next one though.
Welp, see you in a couple of weeks Lara!
Wait until you get to the multiplayer one. One requires 60ish hours of gameplay...and is 20 points. Scratching that one off my 'to do' list.
Yeah I only have those two and complete 1 challenge (I've done the challenges in both areas I've been in so far). Steam says I've done 4 hours too but I'm pretty sure at least an hour of that is me tabbing out to gaf, especially last night when I was incredibly bored.
razgriz417
Member
Or just try F the first time, then E the second. Gotta be one of those two.
Ive found that QTEs that require Lara to use her hands use E and ones where she uses her legs use F
I'm in the minority that really don't mind QTE's. Sure some devs do them better than others, but it's whatever to me. I like having them pop out of the middle of nowhere. It teaches you to stay on your toes and have a heightened sense of awareness of your surroundings.
Oh and I love the QTEs in RE6. Crucify me now.
Oh and I love the QTEs in RE6. Crucify me now.
WiiRevolution1
Member
I don't plan to get this anytime soon but from what I've seen of the game it looks fantastic and I love Uncharted so I will get it probably sometime later this year. Just don't have the money right now.
Anywayz: Wanted to post a video I made with my neice in my YouTube News Series. I do these videos for fun and they ain't really that good but if anyone wants to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DYfZglh7OQ
I of course protect my neice. And most of the video is actually bloopers but whatever lol.
Anywayz: Wanted to post a video I made with my neice in my YouTube News Series. I do these videos for fun and they ain't really that good but if anyone wants to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DYfZglh7OQ
I of course protect my neice. And most of the video is actually bloopers but whatever lol.
The explanation happens at the bottom of the screen the first time. Why they didn't put it near the actual prompt or do it every time is beyond me.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Thanks.
Comes into the Tomb Raider thread to spread family video in order to get hits on YouTube...
You serious bro?
Or just try F the first time, then E the second. Gotta be one of those two.
The QTEs are seemingly not showing their input value when using a keyboard. Most of the time it's the same value but there are times when it's different.
After about 3 hours of play.
Things I like:
Visuals are fantastic on PC
Great atmosphere
Exploration is as good as it can be in the relatively linear environments
Lara
The Tombs are okay, way too short though.
Things I don't like:
QTE's
Push forward segments
Combat is nothing special so far
Story doesn't interest me whatsoever. (I expected this, though)
Platforming is just as boring and easy as Uncharted
HERE HAVE 100 XP FOR THIS TRIVIAL TASK
Things I like:
Visuals are fantastic on PC
Great atmosphere
Exploration is as good as it can be in the relatively linear environments
Lara
The Tombs are okay, way too short though.
Things I don't like:
QTE's
Push forward segments
Combat is nothing special so far
Story doesn't interest me whatsoever. (I expected this, though)
Platforming is just as boring and easy as Uncharted
HERE HAVE 100 XP FOR THIS TRIVIAL TASK
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Holy geezus what happened to those figures' faces?