Forbes: I read an interesting article yesterday by Chris Plante over at Polygon. He was discussing how his wife was very interested in BioShock Infinite, the art, the philosophy and so on, but was limited in her enjoyment of the game because she simply couldn’t stomach the widespread gore and violence that came with it.
Columbia is beautiful, and the philosophical questions Infinite poses are deep and thought provoking. But you have to kill about five hundred people in order to experience the full extent of the quieter portions of the game.
This is something that occurred to me while playing as well. I’m not offended by the violence, after years of consuming such content I’m more than numb to it, but it was just that this beautiful game kept being interrupted by these frenetic, ridiculous combat scenes. Not only did it really muck up the pacing, but it turned our allegedly morally ambiguous hero into a guy that straight up murders the entire police force of a city. A relatively evil city sure, but still.
The truth is, this isn’t the first time I’ve found myself believing that combat has gotten in the way of an otherwise interesting gameplay experience. This happened just a month ago again with the Tomb Raider reboot.
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.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
Pozzle, were are u getting all these shit ball articals dude?
FORBES??? Like anyone who even slightly considers themselves half of a gamer, gives a damn about what Forbes thinks about games.
Every story, whether its from a book, fairy tale, movie or a video game has a conflict that involves war. Wars/battles themselves in reality are ultra violent. Don't sit here and say that we all are tired of something because somebody's wife bought Bioshock Infinite and thought that they were just gonna walk around the game and just look at pretty things!
In the case of Tomb Raider, that was a story of Laura coming of age and being forced to do so during a conflict. If you're on a cruise ship and it breaks down, surrounded by Somalian pirates, you have zero time to be girly and civil if u wish to live or be taken as one of their *Playthings*
If you are tired of ultra-violence, fine! Go play something by Nintendo. As for me, I'm an adult and I deserve an adult glass. I'll play what i please, no matter how gruesome and it wont make me shoot up any school anytime so, because I have COMMON SENSE!!!!