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Tomb Raider And The Rest of Gamescom

Endlessbacklog's Gagan breaks down the best and worst news to come out of Gamescom. So naturally yes he talks about Tomb Raider.

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henriquecopes3532d ago

Seriously you need to have news of this game all the time? Aff

come_bom3532d ago

The last of Us PS4 was much much worse. Every single day there were about 50 articles about the game on N4G.

gameon19853532d ago

This title is exactly write, because that was exactly how games com was tomb raider, and then everything else.

zeuanimals3532d ago

Rise of the Tomb Raider was already announced at E3, all they did now was make it "exclusive" to the Xbox One which was a PR disaster with vague and constantly changing comments about how "exclusive" it is. So there's that, and then there's Silent Hill which was a pleasant surprise and actually made people happy.

gameon19853532d ago

And you know the difference? one was exclusive for Xbox and one was exclusive for PS. It's no secret the way the net and media work is every thing Microsoft does is a out rage, but if it's Sony it's the best thing since slice bread. Case and point look at how you people reacted to the Witcher 3 extra content in the collector edition. yet Silent hill was excepted with praise. Silent hill only made people (Sony fan boys ) happy because the xbox one isn't getting it. and even with that game they are not being clear to whether or not it's truly exclusive. So it's really no different from what Microsoft is doing with Tomb Raider.

BiggerBoss3532d ago

@gameon. Silent Hills was never even confirmed as exclusive, and it's probably multi platform. Take your fanboy goggles off seeing a conspiracy where there isn't one.

OT: it's kinda sad that every other game is being overshadowed just because RotTR is timed exclusive. There were lots of great games that aren't getting coverage because of it

come_bom3532d ago

I have to agree with gameon1985. For fanboys and gaming journalist everything Microsoft does is bad, and everything Sony does is great. Sony can do the exact same thing Microsoft does, but it's always good.

zeuanimals3532d ago (Edited 3532d ago )

NVM, replying to myself to reply to someone else is pointless.

Spotie3531d ago

That's so wrong.

Of course, somebody who can't see Microsoft as doing anything wrong would say this.

Silent Hill and Tomb Raider are not similar situations. And lol at the accusations of media bias against Microsoft, after the Xbox crowd has spent the past few years at least denying the evident bias against Sony. It's even crazier because Microsoft has deserved it far more than Sony ever did.

You guys are a joke.

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MysticStrummer3532d ago

TR got a lot of coverage for something that has nothing to do with the game itself. Other games got coverage for being interesting games.

iamnsuperman3532d ago (Edited 3532d ago )

The coverage wasn't exactly positive though. No one was mentioning how good the game looked nor did they mention anything good about it

The reaction was of confusion (due to what Microsoft said at their conference) and pure anger for a response that didn't answer anything and was fairly insulting to those who made the reboot a success.

Tomb Raider stole the light for all the wrong reasons. The entire situation back fired spectacularly. The old saying that any press is good press isn't true and both Microsoft and SE saw this. A game getting coverage except for, well, the game isn't good at all. The rest of the games at gamescom were discussed for what they were. The game that was presented

zeuanimals3532d ago

Where in my comment do I say anything about it being okay for Sony to do it? The reason why it's made me happy is because it's Silent Hill it's got big names like Kojima and Del Toro are attached to it, and I'm a fan of all three.

Something a lot of people don't know is that Project Siren, a subsidary of Sony Japan Studio, is made up of a few ex-Konami devs. Keiichiro Toyama, the lead director at Project Siren was the creator of the original Silent Hill. So if it's exclusive to PS4, then it's likely going to have a lot of influence by Toyama since he doesn't seem to busy with anything else. Hell, Project Siren and Kojima Productions are both located in Tokyo so collaborations between them should be really easy. And if Toyama is really influencing the game in anyway, then I will be even more happy.

Nobody at Microsoft are the creators of Tomb Raider and as far as I know, nobody was an ex-employee of Eidos, Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics, or even Core Design, the original TR devs. I've also literally never cared about Tomb Raider, I tried to care last year with Tomb Raider 2013 but that game did nothing for me and I seriously doubt ROTTR is gonna do anything for me either.

The only reason Tomb Raider made headlines is because it's controversial. People will remember it over actual new announcements, like a new Silent Hill with freaking Kojima working on it, even though Tomb Raider was announced with little care from the media just two months ago.

DigitalRaptor3532d ago (Edited 3532d ago )

Precisely right.

When a game makes headlines that overshadow everything else shown at Gamescom, for nothing other than its exclusivity status and Xbox fans consider that a "win", you can tell that their conference had none of the substance of a winning conference.

Most of their new content was indie games (ironic and sad when PS4 is branded for the same thing) and the only new AAA game they announced was Tomb Raider.

The way in which Silent Hills was announced ensured it went under the radar, but it still had more substance than a simple exclusivity announcement for ROTTR.

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20 Awesome Canceled Games You'll Never Get To Play

You can understand some games getting canceled, but these awesome looking games still baffle us to this very day.

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-Foxtrot41d ago

"Tommy saving the planet from an army of aliens after they abducted him and his entire bar, with the game ending on the promise that Tommy would be back, but that promise was never fulfilled"

The thing is with the original Prey 2 that Tommy wasn't even the main character, they replaced him with some generic looking space bounty hunter. It was a refreshing change to see an awesome Native American character with ancestral like powers fight aliens yet they ditched him. It was only after an outcry they showed much later in a new preview that Tommy was in the game as an NPC.

I'd have prefered a real sequel with Tommy as the main character, literally picking right up from the originals ending.

As for Eight Days...Sony really needs to pick this up

If Amy Hennig was still at ND, I'd have loved to see her tackle it after what she did with Uncharted.

isarai41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

I thought that was awesome too, and honestly i wish people werent so damn critical about cultural variety in games. I feel like people try to ruin devs lives if even one detail is off about their culture in a game and so everyone is too scared to try anymore

isarai41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

One of the lead engine programmers for Prey 2 at Human Head was my programming instructor when i was taking game design. This game was in limbo at the time and we asked once and only once about this game, the misery in his eyes when he told us "this is the 1st and only time ill ask you to never ask me about that game" was something ill never forget😅 he used a couple assets through the curriculum for teaching purposes but nothing very tangible. Just a function here, a 3d prop there. Such a shame. Years later i saw him at a magic tournament, we caught up and he still thinks about that game and how it's "practically done" probably sitting on a drive somewhere

shinoff218341d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Practically done? Jeez that fking blows because that looked much more interesting then what bethsada made. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the one bethsada made.

Lmno looked interesting.
I'd knock titanfall and fez off the list. Add something else. Scarface 2 man only if would've been awesome. Prey 2 should be higher to. Either way not a bad list. Out of 20 there's only 2 I'd hate on.

isarai41d ago

That gen got a lot of games canned right before the finish line. Cipher Complex, Battlefront 3, legacy of kain dead sun just to name a few

XiNatsuDragnel41d ago

Games that need to come out: Battlefront 3, 8 days, and timesplitter 4.

Skuletor39d ago

One that's not on the list is Killing Day, I remember seeing the trailer in 2005 and being impressed at the time. Being Ubisoft you know it would have been a AAAA game too, lol
2 Days to Vegas and The Getaway 3 are two other games that seemed promising but never came out.

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Canceled Video Game Sequels That Never Happened

Anticipation can turn into disappointment so often in the video game world. Canceled video game sequels can feel devastating, especially those that promise to expand upon the thrilling stories of their predecessor. Wealth of Geeks runs down some of the most disappointing cancelations that kept anticipated sequels in the dark.

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shinoff218364d ago (Edited 64d ago )

The orginal prey 2 better be on this list.

And it is. Man if could've got this instead. Wonder why no one's step up to do this kinda game yet. I think there's one in development for pc, it's cyberpunk Era but it takes place in some huge apartment complex I think. Anyway I'm saying this not knocking the prey that came out cause I did enjoy that to but really wanted prey 2 (canceled)

Skuletor63d ago

I wonder if they never happened because they were cancelled 🤔 (stupid headline)

Rockstar63d ago

Was just thinking the same thing...

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper272d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear271d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995271d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq271d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y271d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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