"Square Enix and Microsoft seem to have courted a lot of controversy over their deal regarding the next Tomb Raider game which will be a timed exclusive appearing first on the Xbox console"
Gaz from Gameondaily wonders what exactly is the big deal behind the exclusivity deal?
Mark from WellPlayed writes about five game launches that were impacted by unfortunate scheduling.
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.
The first in the trilogy was my favorite. I thought they were going into the right direction with that one until the second one came out and seemed like a graphical downgrade but the gameplay was okay. As for the Third, Graphics were really nice but it was kinda boring me to death with its non-stop platforming and exploring with not enough action! Well, for me anyway...
Graphics on the 3rd one were abysmal. It’s more colorful and has more variety, but everything else was a noticeable downgrade.
The more open world with NPC quests was also handled very poorly, to the point I missed Angel of Darkness.
I know it is your opinion, but she did progress as a character in each game, she even got more muscular and seasoned.
That is the thing, people first complained that there was not enough platforming and actual tomb raiding in the first and second games. Shadow remedied that and kept the combat elements.
3-4 encounters? huh? did we play the same game? there was plenty of combat and, the skill tree did matter, like being able to hang enemies from trees, set explosives traps on bodies, being able to counter, and that are just a few of the combat skills. The skill tree also had things like being able to hold your breath underwater longer, crafting upgrades, zipline upgrade, and climbing upgrades that all changed how you can approach situations.
Not knocking your opinion, but we definitely had different experiences. I had 98% completion on the shadow.
Sorry but i'm with him about the low number of encounters, the game throws loads of weapons and skills you're way with a comparatively low amount of places to actually use them, so they felt under utilised.
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.
I thought Shadow of the Tomb Raider had better gameplay than Rise, but it annoyed me the most of the trilogy when I stopped to think about the story.
It's like they deliberately decided to make her unlikeable and did nothing to make the character you're playing as likeable or have even one sign of humility.
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.
Honest question, what did you find bad about it? the opening 2 hrs of Shadow were fantastic imo.
The opening was very similar to the first 2, what did you find really bad?
Not looking for an argument, just an honest question.
3rd one just didn't feel like a tomb raider game. Possibly because the development was passed to another development team. Big mistake! Microsoft killed tomb raider making the first game a timed exclusive. Never recovered after that.
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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.
You got to be kidding!
The first one was great at the time... but this latest trilogy of Tomb Raider games are also great.
yeah i remember liking the first one when it came out, so i tried the second one sometime after release and i just could not get into it, i couldn't finish it. So i might try the 3rd now that i got it for free but ehh. But i do remember enjoying the first one, i wonder if i'd feel the same way if i played it today? Better not taint those memories lol
I was the same for some reason. Never finished the second one. I got like half way through maybe.
Great games I've played them all on ps4 but it'll be good to finally try shadow on my rtx card.
Claim games by going to the website and login using ur credentials. I did the same as i couldnt use epic launcher. Also try reinstalling Epic Launcher I did it and it worked.
I always go through the website. It was all just down for a while yesterday it seems.
"Rise of the Tomb Raider Timed Exclusivity- What’s the Big Deal?"
If you have to ask, then you already know it's a big deal. One year console exclusive is a big deal.
On the scale of how big a deal is it, its somewhere between hamster and medium cat sized. I.e. not a big deal.
their reasons are not very good ones,
1. in a perfect world we would not deflect back to how street fighter v is full exclusive. in a perfect world we would have access to as many games as possible and not create division among gamers. so to suggest it's no big deal because the ps4 is getting street fighter v shows how the industry creates such a selfish attitude.
2. uncharted 4 is coming out next year. xbox one owners can say they have quantum break as well. not sure what the point of #2 is.
3. the definitive version will likely be be on the pc, not the ps4.
The difference between the Tomb Raider and Street Fighter timed/exclusivity is that Street Fighter was not announced as a multiplatform game then money hatted to deliberately keep it off of a rival console, Sony are helping with the development and have secured console exclusivity as a result since Capcom approached them about it and there are more fans of SF on PS platforms than Xbox, so there won't be as many vocal fans.
Tomb Raider was never announced as timed exclusive or full exclusive nor was there any remote evidence of this. It's likely MS paid money for SE just to keep it off of PS4 for a while, the game was getting made anyway.
Not to mention Phil Spencer himself said he would never fund a game that would appear on a rival platform, yet Tomb Raider is going to PS4 so does this mean MS are in fact not funding it and just paid money for timed exclusivity?
As usual those fans being hypocritical about boycotting them, then suddenly doing a 180 and now buying the game are in the minority, there were plenty of PC gamers unhappy at the initial announcement as well since Tomb Raider has always had a large fan base on PC.
This is why the Tomb Raider announcement got a huge uproar, the fact that is was ambiguous and SE, CD, and MS were very clever with their words didn't help either with the backlash.
There are some fair points in the article though, especially with the Uncharted 4 stuff, in perfect world there would be no 3rd party timed/exclusive games and we could all enjoy them equally, but such is the way of the business world :/