Current Events > I'm only an hour into Rise of The Tomb Raider and I'm 10% done?

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Should I try and finish it by Monday?

I just acquired the pistol...
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Its a pretty short game but its a good game. Not every game needs to have a million plus colletables artificially extending the game play.
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Is this topic open for people who want to say it's overrated?
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It's a short game and there's more optional content than the 2013 one.

Personally I prefer that to adding 12 hours of needless padding like Ubisoft do
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Crepes posted...

Its a pretty short game but its a good game. Not every game needs to have a million plus colletables artificially extending the game play.

Oh I like it so far I'm just surprised.

Spring break ends on Monday so I want to finish it lol.

Solid Sonic posted...

Is this topic open for people who want to say it's overrated?

Go for it.
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I'm not fond of this generation of Tomb Raider.

It's like they saw Uncharted and thought their only way to make something unique was to "do that but gritty". None of Lara Croft's confidence and charm has been carried over into this universe, making her feel foreign and distant to me. I also don't really like the gunplay.
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Solid Sonic posted...

I'm not fond of this generation of Tomb Raider.

It's like they saw Uncharted and thought their only way to make something unique was to "do that but gritty".

Which I love considering Uncharted was openly a rip off of Tomb Raider.

None of Lara Croft's confidence and charm has been carried over into this universe, making her feel foreign and distant to me. I also don't really like the gunplay.

I don't mind Lara no longer being confident.

TR 1-6 Lara was a bitch
And Legend-Underworld Lara was goofy but pretty 2D

The thing they screwed up IMO was they made it "Gritty" and character driven... But then didn't give Lara a character.

She's just a girl who gets beaten up for 10 hours straight. Which sucks but you need to do more than just beat someone up to get us to sypathize with them. Christ we've seen Goomba's be destroyed for over 20 years.

I remember reading a TR Comic and the Blood Ties DLC as well made a note that Lara Croft loves Jaffa Cakes and stuck out to me that's in the new reboot that's like the only thing I can think of to describe her

Seriously take a moment, describe the new reboot Lara's personality.

I don't think it's the grit that made it not work, its the poor writing. Making a character heavy game about someone with no character.

It would be like taking God of War but instead of fighting Gods you're just a dude raising his son in the woods.
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lol i played it for 22 hrs and only got about halfway
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

I'm not fond of this generation of Tomb Raider.

It's like they saw Uncharted and thought their only way to make something unique was to "do that but gritty".

Which I love considering Uncharted was openly a rip off of Tomb Raider.

None of Lara Croft's confidence and charm has been carried over into this universe, making her feel foreign and distant to me. I also don't really like the gunplay.

I don't mind Lara no longer being confident.

TR 1-6 Lara was a bitch
And Legend-Underworld Lara was goofy but pretty 2D

The thing they screwed up IMO was they made it "Gritty" and character driven... But then didn't give Lara a character.

She's just a girl who gets beaten up for 10 hours straight. Which sucks but you need to do more than just beat someone up to get us to sypathize with them. Christ we've seen Goomba's be destroyed for over 20 years.

I remember reading a TR Comic and the Blood Ties DLC as well made a note that Lara Croft loves Jaffa Cakes and stuck out to me that's in the new reboot that's like the only thing I can think of to describe her

Seriously take a moment, describe the new reboot Lara's personality.

I don't think it's the grit that made it not work, its the poor writing. Making a character heavy game about someone with no character.

It would be like taking God of War but instead of fighting Gods you're just a dude raising his son in the woods.

I never thought of that but youre right

They give a lot of background to her crew and the people of the enemies, but nothing outside of "I want to prove myself to my dead father!"
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it's.. it's not bad, but man it wasn't even close to as good as the reboot.
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Ryetoast posted...

Should I try and finish it by Monday?

I just acquired the pistol...

welcome to gaming post gen 7 other wise known as "project: condition the consumer with the help of fanboys to accept incomplete games by gen 8"
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ArtVandelay posted...

it's.. it's not bad, but man it wasn't even close to as good as the reboot.

*2nd reboot.

ModLogic posted...

Ryetoast posted...

Should I try and finish it by Monday?

I just acquired the pistol...

welcome to gaming post gen 7 other wise known as "project: condition the consumer with the help of fanboys to accept incomplete games by gen 8"

Wut

Say what you feel about Rise, it feels like a complete game.

Hell not counting replay factor it's a lot longer than all the pre-2010 Tomb Raider games which were all pretty short. Legend especially.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

*2nd reboot.

you know what I meant >.<
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gen 7 was the start of mass dlc peddling and devs took that opportunity to test just how far they can push consumers. thanks to backstabbing fanboys, consumers lost so much ground.
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ArtVandelay posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

*2nd reboot.

you know what I meant >.<

I know I'm just really anal about this because I'm a fan of the Tomb Raider series and it makes me sad to see it forgotten by fans so quickly.

ModLogic posted...

gen 7 was the start of mass dlc peddling and devs took that opportunity to test just how far they can push consumers. thanks to backstabbing fanboys, consumers lost so much ground.

You're not wrong but Tomb Raider really isn't a good example for this point.

If you can look at Tomb Raider The Last Revelation and then look at Rise of the Tomb Raider and claim the latter is the cheap fanboy pushing lazy cash in then you're crazy.
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Solid Sonic posted...

I'm not fond of this generation of Tomb Raider.

It's like they saw Uncharted and thought their only way to make something unique was to "do that but gritty". None of Lara Croft's confidence and charm has been carried over into this universe, making her feel foreign and distant to me. I also don't really like the gunplay.

I hate it, too.

Too much emphasis on scripted action scenes that are akin to AAA Temple Run and really simple puzzles.

It's hard to get into the writing too when the whole story is "Hm, it appears this religion believed in a prophet" and it's obvious it's an eastern orthodox religion but they never just flatout say it. So it sounds dumb.

Plus the combat is boring.
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the pickaxe climbing shit in the last 2 games is awesome tho. so awesome that UC4 stole it but failed to make it as good
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