Shadow of the Tomb Raider [XO, PS4, PC]

That's just my opinion of course. Here's the thing: Even though I didn't think the reboot was brilliant, I do remember a ton of scenes, story beats, set pieces and so on and so forth. It was also an extremely well paced game if you ask me. I remember next to nothing from RotTR on the other hand. It was really pretty I guess.

 

Tress FX has come a long way between TR and RotTR. That's something

 

TR was awesome, RotTR was forgettable imho, bordering on tedious.
Hope they can correct their trajectory

 

They need interesting characters and story. Lara is just a bore and so are all her forgettable friend. They should also ditch the Ubisoft collect-a-thon stuff.

 

I totally disliked the bad acting, the fake drama, and the uninteresting characters.
Every character in the game was made to highlight how special Lara is, either it was a friend or foe. When Lara was the one to show off her intelligence her revelations were silly and automatic.
Silly "hard" situations were placed to make us feel more related to Lara. But with such pacing and over the top drama it had the opposite effect.
The main villain in ROTR was unconvincing and was made to act in inexplicable ways just to show off how "evil" he is. Like that eye gouging part. It made no sense. And while he was at it he was saying "go easy" to his victim. Totally reduntant dialoques.
Also the game had serious pacing issues. Cinematic scenes were thrown at every opportunity.

Such a shame considering how nice were the graphics and the gameplay was decent. It really had some amazing work and production values.

Lets see if they fix it this time

 

Oh also that "sixth sense" ability should be abandoned. It is made to be essential for gameplay and it encourages you to abuse it. The game begs you to let it take you by the hand.

 

I was talking about the second game but except for the villain everything else can also largely or partially apply to the previous game.

 

I hope there is going to be less shooting and more exploration, secrets and tombs. Keeping the modern gameplay of 2013, obviously, except with more exploration and sense of discovering like the first on PS1.

There wasn't much people in the first. I think there was even more dinos than humans !

 

Interesting plot detail I like it , in fact I don't mind a The Ring vs Tomb Raider cross over especially with the prospect of Lara coming out. You really put some thought into it didn't you?

 

For the new game I hope they improve the lighting and get some proper PBR in, Rise is a nice looking game but often time the lighting falls flat and the specularity is all kind of wrong.Also less shooting, less markers and more exploring, tomb raiding.

 

About 10 cups of coffee.

 

Bad quality leak
Wonder if thast real time. Says gameplay footage but that looks like a CG cut scene.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...e-climatic-finale-of-lara-crofts-origin-story

 

Lol at "gameplay footage". Not so much due to visual quality, but the fact we're now calling barely interactive cut-scenes gameplay.

 

Yeah gameplay footage Ubisoft style.

 

Higher quality released in the same link. Just a CG trailer

 

For the lazy

I think there is some 4K variants out there, but I don't think anyone will care until we see more.