CraveOnline: "Rise of the Tomb Raider reviews are out, and the game has received a very positive critical response. With Microsoft having secured the rights to make the game a "timed exclusive," which basically means that it will release on the Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC before it presumably graces the PS4 and PS3 in the future, it was set to be one of the company's heaviest hitters of the entire year. It was to be another feather in the cap of what has been a strong year for the Xbox One, with the likes of Halo 5: Guardians having convinced many consumers to pick up the new console. But that arguably and won't the be case."
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.
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.
Starting today, Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Rise of the Tomb Raider are free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until January 6 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim them, they’re yours to keep.
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.
Those who want to get this game will get it. No Tomb Raider fan is going to skip it because of another game.
I hope this game releases on PS3. The original 2013 Tomb Raider reboot sold the best on that platform. It would be absurd for Square Enix to take the effort to develop a last-gen version of ROTR for 360 and not port it to the PS3
Why is it dumb? You mean people can't play different types of games at the same time? They're two completely different games, I can't see why they both won't get play time, especially with the reported issues with Fallout 4 and the super positive reception of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
I hate the automatic assumption that Tomb Raiders sales will fall because of Fallout. I really hate fallout's fanbase and the 'all other games are beneath it' attitude.
I never understood this argument. If people want to play the game they will. Two totally different genres. Me personally I'm not a hardcore RPG guy so I'm selling my free copy of fallout. I'm a shooter/ action adventure type of guy which is why I've bought and already beaten Tomb Raider.