Seeing the word “exclusively” used in conjunction with a platform you don’t currently own can be frustrating. The business side sometimes gets in the way of players eagerly awaiting their next chance to play certain games. Today at Gamescom, gamers discovered a deal with Microsoft for exclusive rights to Tomb Raider: Rise of the Tomb Raider, blocking them out of experiencing the game on other consoles. It’s a common tactic among console manufacturers, but before you grab your pitchforks and rally the troops, pay close attention to the wordage used when describing this exclusivity deal.
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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.
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.
It is a guarantee timed exclusive, just rewatch the event every lifetime real exclusive for the xbox 1 said "ONLY ON XBOX 1" on the screen after their trailers and the Tomb Raider trailer it said " EXCLUSIVELY ON XBOX 1 HOLIDAY 2015" case solve its timed it will release for ps4 later.
Also shows how dirty Ms is with their PR talk and not clarifying anything, just giving a vague statement to fool the short minded gamer, where Sony was actually very clear whether a game was going to first appear on playstation "Hellblade....etc" or if the game was going to be a lifetime exclusive like "Rime....etc"
More than likely the game will come to PS4 after a year's time. No need for everyone to get upset.
I mean No Man's Sky is just as ambiguous in it's "exclusivity" and yet we don't get half of the supposed outrage on here we get when a game comes to Xbox One.
Edit @ RiPPn:
Sony never made it clear that No Man's Sky was a timed exclusive. Sony themselves has never made it clear which content is exclusive and which is not...perhaps the DEVELOPER has but never Sony. This is why Sony is passing off Destiney as their own.
Erode any trust with MS? LMAO, How? Because the game will come out years later on another system? This will diminish the fact that the game will still be played and enjoyed on Xbox first? Gawd, you sony fanboys are way over the top with your dramatics.
"I don't trust MS because they kind of said a game will be exclusive to their system! Now after a Year it's going to another system! ARRRGH! I'm so mad...."
If anyone is still playing this game after a year then MS should be commended on securing it for their system.
I am sure the details of the agreement have stipulations. Almost guaranteed it will come to PC for sure. Mostly because Microsoft would want it to.
Does it mean we're going to see lots of green color in the next game? You know, it's Xbox after all. I like green.
Rise of TR will come to PS4 just like Resident Evil 4 came to PS2 lol