Those of us with the DualShock 4 close to our hearts rejoiced this morning when Square Enix finally announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider is really making its way to the PS4, but what was Square Enix's motive by announcing the PS4 release window for Rise of the Tomb Raider before it even got its exclusive release on Xbox?
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Zero Dawn sold really well so I’m not sure this belongs. The second game released next to a big game again and it hurt it some I forget what it was though, oh yeah Elden Ring .
But a good game is a good game to me I don’t care when they release personally but they do have to think about it when you want to get more people to buy it.
The Survivor Trilogy was a drastic reimagining of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, and it provokes changes for the character that are truly fantastic.
Deserves less IMO, i think the 1st in the new trilogy was a perfect 1st step for the new direction. The next 2 games were half steps at best. Not only that, every character in the series including Lara is just annoying and doesn't make sense in terms of motive, like yes they have a motive, but none of it seems proportional to the lengths they are willing to go through for it. The most annoying thing is every one of the games say "become the Tomb Raider" yet 3 games later and we're still not there? No thanks. Then there's the mess of the 3rd game, massive skill tree that serves almost no purpose as there's literally only like 3-4 short encounters in the whole game, and they took till the 3rd game to finally manage some decent puzzles even remotely close to previous games in the series. Nah, the trilogy infuriated me to no end as a long time fan of the series, i hope we get better going forward cause that crap sucked.
Yeah...no
It was awful, for THREE GAMES it was "become the Tomb Raider" where she went back to square one after each game. Not to mention after a huge reaction of killing someone for the first time she then becomes Rambo straight after and goes on a slaughter spree without a single other reaction. Her development was all over the place.
She was whiney, weak and in later game a little arrogant and selfish
Oh and the voice actress compared to the previous ones was not as good
Lara Croft deserved better and while they are decent games as they are, we deserved actual Tomb Raider games, we could have had better survival games if they just stuck with the original Lara Crofts origin about her plane going down. Surviving 2 weeks in the Himalayas...I'd have liked to seen that, who knows what mystical threat she could have faced in the mountains or underground some secret concealed cave.
2013 I thought was a fine entry, but Rise and especially Shadow were painfully mediocre follow ups imo, I really didn't like how selfish and angry her character was in those two.
First one was decent, played through it twice.
Second one was okay, played through it once.
Third one was really bad, tried twice a year apart, still can't get through the first two hours, it is just really bad.
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They're all solid games, but nothing quite matched the epicness of the first one for me. I think the 3rd one started off strong but once you got to that Peruvian area it took a massive nose dive for me.
Great games I've played them all on ps4 but it'll be good to finally try shadow on my rtx card.
Why not?....everyone knew it was coming to ps4 given the "Holiday 2015" tag and lack of saying it was console exclusive. NOW we know how long, a year which frankly in gaming is a long time= and I'm guessing that was exactly the point, end speculation, increase initial X1 game sales.
by giving away the ps4 release now with it being so far off they are basically capturing the crowd that would've waited till it came to ps4. guessing their marketing and finance department found that crowd more valuable than the other millions of ps4 owners that are gonna walk past this game when it does finally drop.
stupid move from the outside but only they know whats going on,
I guess this is a good decision by Square and Microsoft to announce the Tomb Raider PS4 release date so soon. If it's a great game, a lot of people will not want to wait a full year to play the game.
As for this...
"With so much to play already from September on, some gamers may decide a year is actually not that long in the scheme of things, and will just decide to play Fallout 4, Battlefront, and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate instead this holiday season..."
... is invalid. Every year, holiday season, is packed with games. This year holiday season is packed with games. Next year holiday season it will be packed with games. If it's a great game, a lot of people will like to play it as soon as possible, no matter if they release other games at the same time period.
This is just gonna hurt the Xbox One version sales for those who want this on PS4 and/or PC. Not to mention that they are releasing the same day as Fallout 4
I think a lot of people act as if everybody knew TR is a timed exclusive but actually Ms only said its timed on twitter or just when they where pushed to answer the question. Even quite a few of the supposedly informed gamers were confused (particularly with Phil saying its like DR3 or Ryse)
Most informed gamers knew it but for the vast majority of the public (not following gaming news regularly) Ms marketed this game as an exclusive.
But from now on nobody can doubt it will come to PS4 especially retailers. So I find the announcement puzzling