CraveOnline: "We’ve reached a point now where exclusivity deals are so transparently anti-consumer that Xbox boss Phil Spencer isn’t even trying to hide it any more. While there are still some in the gaming community who fervently and foolishly keep waving their flags of support for their favorite hardware manufacturer, his latest comment regarding Xbox’s recent purchasing of Rise of the Tomb Raider as a “timed exclusive” should have even Microsoft’s most ardent of supporters putting their Xbox banners back in their closet."
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.
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.
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.
Stole... but will soon be found. there are so many games coming out that i cant wait a few months for SE to release this on the ps4. i never got the original until it came free to psplus.
Microsoft could have developed their own action/adventure game, but building a network of programmers and graphic artists would be too much like work.
Good points made in this article. At the end of the day, MS is behind Sony in hardware sales and Uncharted 4 is looming as one of the biggest "Next-Gen" titles. As a business move, I would say this isn't a bad one for MS, but over the long term, I don't believe a timed exclusive of Tomb Raider will stem the tide in MS favour.
Now for Square-Enix, I don't know if this was a great move for them. The longer they take to release this game on the PS4, the closer Uncharted 4 is to release. I loved the first Tomb Raider, but Uncharted was in and is in another class IMHO. I, for one would wait for the inevitable "Game of the Year" or "Definitieve Edition" of Tomb Raider, particularly after the timed exclusivity. I don't see the loss of this game as a huge impediment to my gaming on the PS4 over the long term.
It will be interesting to see how this all develops. Maybe Square-Enix is right, but I really don't think it was a wise move on their part.
A band-aid solution to Xbox's answer to Uncharted.
A band aid that will be peeled off and most likely later be used by Sony, anyway.
I agree with others, MS should take the time to form a team to create their own, exclusive, answer to Uncharted.
I really hate the internet....and I'm really starting to hate this hobby we call gaming....maybe I'm getting to old but the way ppl act and carry on I'm starting o think that this hobby is better suited for children or it seems like a bunch of immature ppl who act no better than a child over games...get real...someone stole your game by making a business move...smh
As a gamer u should realize that it's not like you can't play the game...if the game is what ur really here for and gaming is what u do to enjoy your time why wouldn't u just buy the console you want to play the game on...instead of blindly following a company or hating the other company that you have no ties to....seriously
It sounds like this....mommy we bought ice cream from this shop and they brought ice cream from that shop and they got sprinkles on there ice cream which isn't fair...we should have got sprinkles as well...but atleast in this scenario the kid doesn't have a choice they have to get ice cream where there parents tell them to get ice cream from