Tomb Raider

[Furiously]

So I usually quit tomb raider games after about 30 minutes. I'm enjoying the reboot a lot.

The graphics are amazing, it has a decent story, its basically Batman: Lara Croft. Only with more scripting/movie bits.

Plus! They are rebooting Thief!!

[schpain]

its pre-loaded, when i get home tonight i'm going to get my almost getting raped on! 

that doesn't read the way its said...

[Venkman]

I got bored with the original, but this reboot is pretty interesting. Downloading now.

[Merusk]

So how do the allegations of a sexist twist* with a 'fragile Laura you want to Protect' actually play out vs the hype 6 months ago?


*Because super-boobed tank-top-and-short-short-wearing gun-toting teenage fantasy wasn't sexist.

[Evildrider]

The Clueless Gamer plays Tomb Raider video is what sold me on trying this game.   

[rk47]

all death reels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWrSUmhn-Xs

9/10  

[Malakili]

Yikes.

[rk47]

warning: al gore

[Sir T]

What the hell??

[Xuri]

Not sure if it's just something funky with my PC, but navigating through the menu-system for the "campfire"-mode where you upgrade your skills and/or equipment is making me nauseous. Stuff is blinking, flashing, scrolling in all directions (looks intended and not like graphical glitches or anything like that.)

[schpain]

I think some of those death reels were inspired by resident evil 4...  is it just me, or were ALOT of those QTE based?

[rk47]

I think some of those death reels were inspired by resident evil 4...  is it just me, or were ALOT of those QTE based?

u mean all of them? 

[tgr]

Friend of mine complained about CTDs all the time, apparently it's a problem with nvidia's drivers.

[shiznitz]

How similar is it to the 2D cartoony game from the 80s Dragon's Lair?  Are you always reacting to the story to save Lara or are there more traditional adventure aspects as well?

[murdoc]

Conan O'Brien plays Tomb Raider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCe8-1dbXZc

I'm actually really interested in this.

[Ratman_tf]

How similar is it to the 2D cartoony game from the 80s Dragon's Lair?  Are you always reacting to the story to save Lara or are there more traditional adventure aspects as well?

The videos I've seen seem to have a lot of quick time events. Doesn't look very fun to me.

[Furiously]

There are a lot in the beginning. Then one every now and then.  I was not a huge fan of "hit button x at right time"  if you liked Batman, you'll like this.

[Paelos]

Trees are apparently very pointy in that game.

[Sky]

Did I see an achievement for beating the game, Furi?

Because wow. Short.

[Furiously]

Did I see an achievement for beating the game, Furi?

Because wow. Short.

Yea. No backtracking or repeating areas, or multi-tiered puzzles and me staying awake until 4 playing it the first night makes for short game. I'm hoping they add some dlc.

[schpain]

So far its fun.  QTE's are better than most because they are either the furious mashing two keys variety or hitting a key at the right time (so you aren't waiting for the QTE to come up, you see it come up and wait for the circle to align) Furi, I'm at the:

Spoiler

I figure i'm probably about 1/3 through??  So far it feels like a cross between resident evil, uncharted and farcry3 but if i was to compare farcry3 and this game I'd say tomb raider does the whole survival + storyline thing much better.  lack of sandbox and scripted plot has its pros and cons, the pro is you aren't whorfing it across the island looking for a radio tower or cassowary's before you can move to the next mission, the con is that you're options in enlisting local help, wildlife, multiple different stealth options are limited. 


tl;dr - rail based semi-exploration of uncharted,  farcry 3 ish island theme, some tense moments and QTE's like resident evil makes for a nice game.  Lara's juggs are a nicely rendered (probably) C-cup!

[rk47]

No shower scene, but we can expect Gary's Mod to fix that. 

[Pagz]

Conan O'Brien plays Tomb Raider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCe8-1dbXZc

I'm actually really interested in this.

"The uploader has not made this video available to your country"

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Eventually found it, is this a worth getting eventually, or can I just watch the all death scenes video to get the general gist of what will be happening to me 90% of the time?

[Yegolev]

I'm only reading this because someone said "reboot Thief", which will suck but I'll keep an eye on it anyway.

If this is like Batman, I'll like it.

[koro]

I thought we were going to be getting THI4F -- I mean, Thief 4. Is that a reboot now or something?

[Fabricated]

I think it's a reboot, so I'm sure Garret is gonna get ruined pretty hard.

[Sky]

Next gen consoles, so don't hold your breath.

[Phred]

So apparently Nvidia owners are getting a taste of AMD owner's usual grief and not appreciating it in the slightest.

[Venkman]

No problems here so far. Game is fun so far though kinda rails-y (though I'm only a couple hours in and I understand the opening sequence is like that). Only issue I had was that campfire UI. Not the nausea Xuri is feeling, just that it's not very intuitive. I feel like they didn't get a chance to explain as much of the UI as they would have liked. Some are very straightforward while other areas are guesswork.

That first sequence escaping the place there's a rock and something you need to kick. Took me six QTE events tries before I finally saw the line of text explaining "hit F to kick". It was so obvious I almost don't think it appeared the first five times.

Only story issue I've had so far is the contrast between kickass/bow-arrow/eating-deer-guts Lara and the "come save me Mario I'm just a helpless princess" dialog with one of her crew.

[Xuri]

I liked the bit where she is very upset after killing her first bad-guy and then five seconds later goes "Ah, good to get that out of my system" and starts headshotting (depending on your aim) and stealth-killing people in huge numbers without comment. 

[Venkman]

Heh yea she got over that right quick.

With a few of ya saying how short the game was, I'm taking it real slow. Question though: I haven't at all been hard up for food. Does this come into play at all?

[Xuri]

I'm pretty sure it's just a "tutorial gimmick" for using the bow/"salvaging". At least, the topic of food hasn't come up again after that for me.

[Nightblade]

There are just way too many things in this picture that fucking piss me off.

[Rendakor]

Is that real? I saw arrow to the knee and just assumed it was a bad Skyrim joke.

[Trippy]

It's real.