The Official Tomb Raider Grieving Thread - Including the sad, pathetic 2010s trilogy.

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Is Shadow playable or is it like Rise where Lara constantly stumbles from one set piece to another, surviving on luck alone before you shoot yet another target to start the next set piece?

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Is Shadow playable or is it like Rise where Lara constantly stumbles from one set piece to another, surviving on luck alone before you shoot yet another target to start the next set piece?

The main game is the same as all the other soy raiders, while any good gameplay is tucked away in optional "Challenge Tombs."

Shadow also has the worst opening segment of the trilogy. Its Uncharted 4 levels of "WHO GIVES A SHIT?"

 

[9263900263]

So it's another game that resents you trying to play it? Oh well maybe I can find another adventure series worth a damn.

 

[ZMOT]

So it's another game that resents you trying to play it? Oh well maybe I can find another adventure series worth a damn.

it's apparently worse than rise, if you didn't like that one I doubt shadow will do anything for you.
can't even offer an alternative from the top of my hat that fills the same niche, maybe legend trilogy if you haven't played it yet.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

can't even offer an alternative from the top of my hat that fills the same niche, maybe legend trilogy if you haven't played it yet.

Over the winter I grabbed the 2000s reboot trilogy off Steam for less than $3. I've always heard good things about them, especially after the second reboot series came out, and I figured I'd give them a shot.

What threw me off was that I didn't realize how much Uncharted borrowed from that era of Tomb Raider. I heard the jokes, I heard "Dude Raider" and all that, but playing the Tomb Raider games that directly preceded Uncharted recontextualized those comments. It was shocking.

Beyond that, I'm having a good time. Still on Tomb Raider Legends, but I like how it modernized the gameplay of the original while still being recognizably Tomb Raider, where the 2013 game went for a gritty Uncharted approach. Lara's an really fun character too, she's more like an 80s action hero, throwing out one-liners as she jumps away from explosions, and her sidekicks provide fun commentary. It's just a good, fun adventure story, where now they're trying to be serious, and it just falls flat. They really need to go back to this kind of Lara, someone who's not afraid of throwing herself into danger but is also cocky and smart enough to know she can survive.

 

[Internet's Boyfriend]

Against my better judgement, I started playing Shadow last night and I already wanna die.

The first hour was really weird? She's so sure that Dominguez is in charge of Trinity and not just a local cell but there's been nothing to suggest that, honestly they haven't really given any reason to hate Dominguez except for saying he's Trinity. And while you're climbing the building to escape the flood there's this scene where you watch a boy fall to his death while crying for his mother and it's just... really strange? Like they want us to feel a certain way but they're not being subtle about it. Then after she starts the apocalypse by removing the dagger(WAY TO GO CHAMP) she starts ranting to Jonah and it wasn't really making any sense. Like the way she's acting makes it feel like we're supposed to be a few hours into the story with some sort of emotional investment and an understanding of why Dominguez + Dagger = bad, but they just kind of dropped the box thing on us when Dominguez asks her about it and oh no this box is actually really, really important to the story

Then shit gets real annoying after the plane crashes in Peru. First of all there's a bunch of capybaras wandering around so when you're sitting at the first base camp all you hear is them oinking. Then you gotta get your shit down from the tree and it starts the most tedious sequence of events:
>Gotta find a knife, check the wreckage for scrap
>Find a suitable piece of metal for makeshift knife but OH NO! The wreckage falls into the water
>Dive and get the metal but there's a fucking eel? Deal with the eel
>Go to cut the rope holding up the cargo but the knife's too blunt even though you just stabbed the eel with it? Gotta find salvage to sharpen it
>Find the salvage, go back to base camp to craft the knife, let's cut that rope
>There's a SECOND rope holding it up?????? Fucking kill me
>Finally get to your stuff, you get your bow but Lara remarks "Should've packed all my gear together" so you have nothing else(what the FUCK)

And I don't get the point with the mixes for perception, endurance etc and it's super annoying that it's on the same button as healing. Like if I wanna heal it's because I'm dying, having to press two buttons seems counterintuitive ESPECIALLY when I'm instinctively only going to press one because that's how it was in the previous games.

But hey the cutscenes look great, if this was a movie I'd probably be enjoying myself.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

omfg Squeenix's brilliant idea for 25th Anniversary of the franchise are the motherfucking Fornite skins,
#NoLaraLeftBehind-style

Spoiler: autistic screeching about Lara's boobies

Anniversary and Reboot Laras look fine, but whoever did this to Core Design Lara should be fucking thrown to Mars

Not only the textures are lower quality but of-fucking-course they had to nerf her tits.
Here's why I'm pissed about this. This "classic" shit is based on how Lara looked on the cover art and FMVs. Compare this to the shit above:

Her proportions were deliberately exaggerated and oversized breasts were part of the look! It's not just the tits, her head, hips and lips were also too big. Why is this so hard to understand??
And look, how they "fixed" her: they censored her tits and gave her a "realistic" body but didn't improve her facial features so now she looks like a whitewashed WOC.
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And the idiots on twitter are reeeing because "we finally getting something classic TR."\

We already got a shitty mobile game, this is ALL we will be getting from now on because SE has no balls to put classic Lara into games but they sure love to capitalize on her image.

But nooo, All Laras Are Valid, here's some shitty fanart and cosplay tweets, buy our merchandise!!! What's that, you want classic games remastered? You want Underworld DLCs? Well, here's another fucking re-release of the reboot trilogy #NoLaraLeftBehind #UnifyTimelines

Sorry, my writing's retarded. In other news, Reboot Lara is getting a Netflix anime... Can hardly wait...

 

[Marissa Moira]

Fortnite Nu-Lara looks cute, she's got a pouty face.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

So, I just watched Critical Drinker's review of Tomb Raider reboot and it reminded me of Relic Hunter, the Canadian knock off version of Tomb Raider made in the 90s. It was a really corny show and I wouldn't exactly recommend watching it on its own merits, but it had more fun and charm than the entirety of the reboot trilogy of games.

 

[Dark Edea]

Was Tomb Raider Anniversary any good? I've been not playing it for the better part of a decade but I continue to want to.

 

[Some JERK]

I tried playing one of the reboot games but gave up after 10 minutes of "shaky cam" bullshit gave me a headache.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Was Tomb Raider Anniversary any good? I've been not playing it for the better part of a decade but I continue to want to.

Yes it's good, it's fairly faithful remake of the original and the controls are not garbage.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

SE officially told Lara to stay in the kitchen #ripTR

They literally have no competition now since Uncharted is over, not to mention the hype for remakes, but noooo... They'd rather greenlit another diverse woking simulator from dontnod

 

[Auntie Fester]

Tomb Raider has exactly the same problem that modern James Bond has: It takes itself far too seriously and tries to "deconstruct" the character, which completely misses the point of the escapism those used to provide.

The first Tomb Raider games definitely had stakes, but they were also pretty campy and laid-back, you didn't feel like it was trying too hard to be some grand narrative or deep character study. Lara Croft and James Bond work off the characters in their environment, rather the the characters and environment working off Lara Croft or James Bond. As is, it's like drawing all the attention in Alice in Wonderland toward Alice and not the weird scenarios she finds herself in.

Not saying Croft, Bond or Alice don't need personalities of course.

 

[Snekposter]

Not saying Croft, Bond or Alice don't need personalities of course.

"Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?"
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to DIE!"

 

[KingofNothing]

...a Tomb Raider cookbook?

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

SE officially told Lara to stay in the kitchen #ripTR
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They literally have no competition now since Uncharted is over, not to mention the hype for remakes, but noooo... They'd rather greenlit another diverse woking simulator from dontnod

Western Square Enix is pure cancer.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

...a Tomb Raider cookbook?

Do you remember when Lara went to Mexico in Shadow of the Tomb Raider? While she was there, she picked up a great burrito recipe which she will ask her Mexican friend to cook for her because she doesn't want to appropriate his culture.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

FUCKING JUDAS is now pandering to reboot cucks

Get your fat realistic Lara and accessibility bullshit outta here, I no longer support this project. FUCK

 

[ZMOT]

FUCKING JUDAS is now pandering to reboot cucks
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Get your fat realistic Lara and accessibility bullshit outta here, I no longer support this project. FUCK

so with all the realism, authentic wound system with QTE for every landing >1m and if you fail you break your ankle and it's game over when you're stuck in bumfuck nowhere? and of course hunger system where you abilities degrade if you don't keep a arbitrary bar up.

if you go full reaslistic either go all the way or neck yourself.