NOTE: This article will touch on some of the details found within the stories of several games, and thus, will contain some spoilers. Among the games discussed will be some of the best that 2013 has offered so far, and they include the following: Ni no Kuni, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light, and The Last Of Us. If you haven’t finished these games yet, you may want to do so before reading further. So go. Finish them. They’re all great games. Finished? Good. Then you may proceed. Remember, you’ve been warned, but in case you missed this-
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Now that that’s out of the way….. Let’s proceed.
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Tomb Raider I, II, III Remastered is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Lara Croft is back in a classic remaster of the original PlayStation 1 hit title. Is the remaster any good though?
We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
I do agree that Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness was the worse one 😂 I remember playing some of it and I took it back. That game was just awful in every way. I bought it used at gamestop and glad they had that 7 day return policy for used games 😂
Simple. He's been hating on the Tomb Raider reboots for years. I can't imagine seeing them at the top of a best TR game list let alone being on the list in general sitting well with him because of it.
Zeek
“Hating”
No no, just pointing out how TR mutated into a generic action adventure game losing the appeal of what it once was when it was more about puzzles and platforming over going Rambo, slaughtering waves of enemies
But hey, continue being a dick and speaking about me like I’m not going to see the comment.
Foxtrot, I'm curious if you have played the most recent games. Sure the 2013 reboot was hugely focused on combat, but each follow up became less and less about combat to the point where outside of a few large scale story missions I don't even remember combat being a part of shadow of the tomb raider. Shadow was so puzzle focused it actually was a bit much for me and I love the TR puzzles.
I still feel like Rise was the best of the series and I was a huge fan of the originals. To me it struck the perfect balance of exploration, platforming, puzzles, and combat. Not saying your opinion is wrong I'm just curious what you think they should have done different. Games do need to evolve somewhat to stay relevant. Would you prefer small linear jumping platform levels like the original?
I think Shadow wasn't even develop by crystal dynamics. I thought it was the worse in the new trilogy
That's right. Shadow was developed by Eidos Montreal who who went and made Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy next. (Great game)
Meanwhile after Rise of the Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics made Marvels Avengers. (bad game)
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
Top three contenders will be Bioshock Infinite, The Last of Us and GTA V
Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us are amazing
Don't forget The Walking Dead Season 2
I know I am going to get a LOT of disagrees for this, but GOTY tends to have more to do with things beyond the scope of good or unique gameplay.
Take The Walking Dead, which won a bunch of GOTY awards last year. The game its self was a point and click, but the story was "so amazing" that it kept winning awards / praise. This really isn't that surprising, since I've seen a number of people act like these elements outweigh gameplay. One of my favorites was a comment on N4G a while back, where someone defended Kojima as a game developer by praising him for making one of the best stories of all time.
It's a shame (as someone who really just cares about gameplay), but I suppose it really just comes down to what people like, over what is and isn't logical.
I really enjoyed how the environments of Metro: Last Light had little sad stories of their own. A flickering helmet light revealing the remains of what was a soldier's last stand, mutant bodies spread around him with knives and bolts sticking out of their bodies. The skeletons of a child being shielded by the parent in a rotting train car. These small set pieces really added to the world of Last Light, and were a reminder of the many dangers it holds.
On top of that were the Journal entries, which expanded on the thoughts of Artyom. Not just on how he viewed the main mission, but on many aspects of life in the Metro.