Tomb Raider

[purbeast0]

everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but i just think you lost a lot of credibility from people when you said things like the control in the first tomb raider on psx has better controls than the latest installment. it's a pretty universal opinion that the controls in the first one are really bad.

 

[smackababy]

I actually didn't like this TR. I can't say I liked the others too much either. I was really interested in the first "female Indiana Jones? Shut up and take my money!" was likely my initial response, however the games just weren't as good as the idea. The controls were bad, but I can't really think of any PSX game that involved something other than navigating menus that left me with the impression of "man, these controls are good". The original control was like 8 buttons and a d-pad. Not exactly something great.

The new game also wasn't great. I didn't mind the controls or the gameplay so much, I just really disliked the story and the characters. Also, the magic was stupid. And, I played this once it became free on PS+ and couldn't even pinpoint the "implied rape" scene or the rape triggers everyone was crying about.

 

[mikeymikec]

everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but i just think you lost a lot of credibility from people when you said things like the control in the first tomb raider on psx has better controls than the latest installment. it's a pretty universal opinion that the controls in the first one are really bad.

TBH, when picking which TR thread to post in, I didn't check which sub-forum this one was in I saw three threads that seemed the best choices to post in - one was the one about TR2013 being the yardstick for PC versions (in the OP's opinion), another one concluded with the "sorry lack of boob physics in TR2013"), then there was this one which seemed at least more appropriate

I've been talking about the PC versions, not that it matters (at least I would be surprised if it did) for the main point of my post.

 

[Fulle]

I was a big fan of the new Tomb Raider game. I have the PS3 and PS4 versions, and really enjoyed the game...

BUT, there's one little pesky thing I don't like about it. And that is that it's called "Tomb Raider".

I don't honestly don't think the old games and the new one have ANYTHING to do with each other. The main character, Lara, is extremely different, and so is the gameplay.

I get it. Tomb Raider was on the decline for years, since the series only appealed to a niche market, but the "Tomb Raider" and "Lara Croft" names were still highly valuable from a marketing perspective. Using these marketable names in a more mainstream adventure game, made sense...

Yet, I hope Square Enix noticed that this strategy actually worked against them. Early on, there were a lot of old fans who didn't research the game, like Mike, and then got a much different game than expected. Some of these people were unhappy, and went to the forums, giving a very good uncharted-style game, bad feedback, based on the fact that it wasn't a Tomb Raider style game. It ended up taking longer for positive word of mouth to spread on Tomb Raider 2013, as a result, from my observations.

I think that the quality of the title is what pushed it through to it's current success, and not the Tomb Raider name.

Anyways, though, with lots of reviews being out for a long time on the game... I think that mikeymikec's criticisms are foolish at this point. It just shows how little attention people put into what they buy during the Steam Summer Sale.