Why is this game getting a bad wrap?

[KFZ Scrubs]

Now, I haven't really been paying attention to this as much, but a lot of people seem to be getting mad at the game. I saw some people on N4G getting mad that the game god a moderately good review score

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I never ever listen to people opinions on games (reviews). The best way is to play it and see what you think.

For me looking at all YouTube videos it looks amazing just hoping for it it to feel smooth and great graphics

[KuShNsTieN]

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

[Xmoda]

idk its just the game isn't that great kind of pulling an uncharted and steering away from past lara games

[JuSt BLaZe]

Originally Posted by KuShNsTieN

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

This!

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[VizualDze]

This game is very much a mix of Uncharted and Far Cry 3, if anyone thinks that's a bad thing, then I don't know what to tell you. Two of my favourite games of this generation combining to make what two hours in, to me, looks like it could be the best Tomb Raider of all time. I'm blown away by it. Can't wait for release to play more!

[WhiteWolfDamo]

Originally Posted by KuShNsTieN

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

damn straight.

[cutterk73]

Originally Posted by Xmoda

the game isn't that great

so youve played it already and this is your review?

[Oddish]

I've played it and I think it's awesome so far (aside from the fact that I'm currently stuck on a puzzle). Of course it reminds me of my favourite games ever, Uncharted, but why would that be a bad thing?

[Rep]

Originally Posted by cutterk73

so youve played it already and this is your review?

Most likely just his opinion on the multiplayer since that's the only disappointing aspect of the game. The Single Player is amazing, and is definitely a great reboot to the series.

Originally Posted by Oddish

Of course it reminds me of my favourite games ever, Uncharted, but why would that be a bad thing?

Exactly.

[rapture23]

This game is getting a bad wrap because people fear change. Simple as that. It has nothing to do with the game itself.

Originally Posted by Xmoda

idk its just the game isn't that great kind of pulling an uncharted and steering away from past lara games

This Tomb Raider is telling the story of how lara croft became the "lara croft" we all know. So it's not really pulling away from past tomb raiders because she hasn't developed into that person yet.

With that said this game really does feel like the older tomb raiders, to me at least. If you meant that they keep making her seem like she's weak and gradually builds herself up then you have nothing to worry about. She isn't a wimp in this game. She has some doubts at the start but then she goes and kicks ass like she always does.

They haven't ruined "lara croft". I think this game is a step in the right direction. It does have a mix of Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, and old school Tomb Raider. That isn't a bad thing. Those are all action adventure games. It's the natural evolution of the genre. Uncharted was inspired by Tomb Raider and now Tomb Raider is expanding on what Uncharted did. The way the story is presented is very much like Uncharted. To me Uncharted has always been like Tomb Raider so it's not a big deal that now Tomb Raider is like Uncharted.

[Xmoda]

Originally Posted by rapture23

This game is getting a bad wrap because people fear change. Simple as that. It has nothing to do with the game itself.



This Tomb Raider is telling the story of how lara croft became the "lara croft" we all know. So it's not really pulling away from past tomb raiders because she hasn't developed into that person yet.

With that said this game really does feel like the older tomb raiders, to me at least. If you meant that they keep making her seem like she's weak and gradually builds herself up then you have nothing to worry about. She isn't a wimp in this game. She has some doubts at the start but then she goes and kicks ass like she always does.

They haven't ruined "lara croft". I think this game is a step in the right direction. It does have a mix of Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, and old school Tomb Raider. That isn't a bad thing. Those are all action adventure games. It's the natural evolution of the genre. Uncharted was inspired by Tomb Raider and now Tomb Raider is expanding on what Uncharted did. The way the story is presented is very much like Uncharted. To me Uncharted has always been like Tomb Raider so it's not a big deal that now Tomb Raider is like Uncharted.

i dont know i feel the narrative is tough to fall for one minute shes almost crying for killing a deer then shes a trained killing machine it jumps around a lot

[ebin]

It's getting a bad wrap because the packaging machine was broken so they had to wrap the games by hand.

[BIG L RETURNS]

Originally Posted by KuShNsTieN

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

^^^^LIKE^^^^

I don't want to prestige 3 times in an unwanted multiplayer to get my 1000G on a game that seemingly appears to be a wonderful single player experience and should've STAYED that way.

BIG L RETURNS I think it's sad that you - IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK! -The Rock

[envint251]

I almost had this preordered until I saw the achievement list. It's not only the multiplayer achievements that put me off, it's the emphasis on gunplay in the single player, making me think that this reboot has devolved into yet another third-person shooter, which I'm just not interested in from a Tomb Raider game.

[Vindicator51]

I think people dislike it, because it tries too hard to be something that it's not. That's something like Uncharted. It's not really a survival game either, given the features they put inside the game.

I'm guessing they wanted to cash in on a very large crowd.

[CASCADEYOUTH]

Originally Posted by Vindicator51

I think people dislike it, because it tries too hard to be something that it's not. That's something like Uncharted. It's not really a survival game either, given the features they put inside the game.

I'm guessing they wanted to cash in on a very large crowd.

I hate how people always assume this game is stealing from Uncharted, Tomb Raider came first and as far as I know Uncharted has been stealing ideas from Tomb Raider. Just because Tomb Raider went the more shooter Uncharted feel is just a natural evolution of the game.

[Vindicator51]

Originally Posted by CASCADEYOUTH

I hate how people always assume this game is stealing from Uncharted, Tomb Raider came first and as far as I know Uncharted has been stealing ideas from Tomb Raider. Just because Tomb Raider went the more shooter Uncharted feel is just a natural evolution of the game.

You're thinking about the past, this is what's currently happening. There's no denying that TR came first, but the new one is heavily inspired by Uncharted.

[cjdavies]

People don't like MP especially the achievements, yet they don't have to play the MP

[rapture23]

Originally Posted by Xmoda

i dont know i feel the narrative is tough to fall for one minute shes almost crying for killing a deer then shes a trained killing machine it jumps around a lot

I wouldn't judge the game until you play it. I think the narrative is very believable when it comes to that. She has feelings but she's not a wimp. You can feel remorse for killing an innocent animal and still go kill someone afterwards when they are threatening your life especially if you have training like she does. It's kill or be killed. Just because she can and has to do something doesn't mean she can't feel bad afterwards. The devs are trying to show that she has feelings and is human but she is also able and willing to do what she needs to do to survive. She had to kill the deer to survive. She did what she had to do. Just because she feels bad about it then the story is hard to get into? Her crying and feeling bad is part of her change into the lara croft from past tomb raiders the is learning to let go of that sentimentality and do what needs to be done to survive.

Originally Posted by envint251

I almost had this preordered until I saw the achievement list. It's not only the multiplayer achievements that put me off, it's the emphasis on gunplay in the single player, making me think that this reboot has devolved into yet another third-person shooter, which I'm just not interested in from a Tomb Raider game.

This game is not a third person shooter. You should probably watch more gameplay vids because it is probably only like 20% combat. The rest is platforming, exploration, and puzzle solving. It doesn't have that much combat. They just showed combat in the videos to get people excited and it also doesn't spoil the rest of the game. It's not like they can show you all of the platforming and puzzle bits because then you would know how to do them and it wouldn't be fun.

Originally Posted by Vindicator51

I think people dislike it, because it tries too hard to be something that it's not. That's something like Uncharted. It's not really a survival game either, given the features they put inside the game.

I'm guessing they wanted to cash in on a very large crowd.

Uncharted and Tomb Raider are in the same genre. This game is a natural evolution of the genre. It might have some Uncharted styled gameplay but it just as much old school Tomb Raider as it is Uncharted.

[Fifa08Meister]

This game is immense SP and MP

[Xmoda]

Originally Posted by rapture23

I wouldn't judge the game until you play it. I think the narrative is very believable when it comes to that. She has feelings but she's not a wimp. You can feel remorse for killing an innocent animal and still go kill someone afterwards when they are threatening your life especially if you have training like she does. It's kill or be killed. Just because she can and has to do something doesn't mean she can't feel bad afterwards. The devs are trying to show that she has feelings and is human but she is also able and willing to do what she needs to do to survive. She had to kill the deer to survive. She did what she had to do. Just because she feels bad about it then the story is hard to get into? Her crying and feeling bad is part of her change into the lara croft from past tomb raiders the is learning to let go of that sentimentality and do what needs to be done to survive.

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after some more playtime this game is pretty good its just not for me i guess Also doesn't she not have training in this game? it shows how she became lara croft from previous titles

[rapture23]

Originally Posted by Xmoda

after some more playtime this game is pretty good its just not for me i guess Also doesn't she not have training in this game? it shows how she became lara croft from previous titles

She does have training. She talks about her training in this game during a conversation with roth and also she says to herself something about that she never expected all the training in climbing and shooting guns to actually pay off. It is kind of a off the cuff thing in both cases and is easily missed if you aren't paying attention. It's not like they made the fact that she has training a major plot point even though it would be nice if they made that fact a little more clear. Not even considering this game if you know lara's past you would know that her dad trained her when she was a teen and started taking her on expeditions with him. Her whole character development in this game is more about her becoming strong and independent not necessarily learning how climb, shoot guns, and the various things she does in this game. She already knows how to do those things but because she had always been with her dad she was never put in a position where she is all alone like this and needed to be the one to save people. So in short she has been on expeditions before and knows how to shoot, climb, and bandage herself up like she does in this game. This game is about her becoming that brave hero that we know and this game shows the first time a expedition has gone really wrong for her and apparently is the start of her going off on her own like she does in the other games without anyone's help.

[CASCADEYOUTH]

Originally Posted by Vindicator51

You're thinking about the past, this is what's currently happening. There's no denying that TR came first, but the new one is heavily inspired by Uncharted.

If this game is inspired by Uncharted then it's a really really really dark version of Uncharted. Like after playing this game I wouldn't even consider comparing it to Uncharted because Uncharted is a lot more witty where as this game is just really dark and violent and it reminds me more of the darker aspect of Far Cry than Uncharted

[DjBatfink]

Originally Posted by KFZ Scrubs

Now, I haven't really been paying attention to this as much, but a lot of people seem to be getting mad at the game. I saw some people on N4G getting mad that the game god a moderately good review score

Originally Posted by KuShNsTieN

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

That's what it seems to be, the multiplayer side of it....
The single player side looks great.
I don't think it's so much having the multiplayer game mode put into the game, it seem's to be more the achievements tied to the multiplayer side, like having to prestige 3 times to unlock stuff for an achievement.
And if the multiplayer is going to be as bad as alot of people are saying, then it will end up being dead online, making some online achievements hard to get, plus not fun to play if it turns out disappointing...
Ok, you don't have to play the online side of course or even go for the online achievements, but having a multiplayer game mode that's very good or very bad can make alot of difference to the game and how people will like it overall

Plus, even though i haven't yet played the game and i'm only going by what others are saying about the online side, and i don't like the idea of multiplayer being added to TR, i am hoping that it will be fun to play a least...

[TheWeasel]

Originally Posted by KuShNsTieN

I only think people dont really like it because of two things

1. Multiplayer
2. Achievements

Thats all thats really wrong with the game from the looks of it.

i would say that there is a 3rd reason people don't/won't like it, which is also a big reason why alot of people hated RE6. i seen a review that said there is a large amount of QTE's in the game, which imo qte's rune a game rather than make it more enjoyable, the more qte's in the game the more it is disliked

[rapture23]

Originally Posted by TheWeasel

i would say that there is a 3rd reason people don't/won't like it, which is also a big reason why alot of people hated RE6. i seen a review that said there is a large amount of QTE's in the game, which imo qte's rune a game rather than make it more enjoyable, the more qte's in the game the more it is disliked

There are not a lot of QTEs apparently that reviewer thinks any QTEs is too much. I understand your point but the QTEs in this game are nothing like the ones in RE6. The ones in Tomb Raider are mostly just 1 button and you don't have to ruin your joystick to beat TR. The QTEs really do add to the excitement of TR because they didn't over do them and they are only in places where you would normally just be watching an animation and not interacting with the game. They aren't intrusive either. To even mention RE6 QTEs in the same sentence of TR QTEs could very well be classified as gross incompetence for comparing the best (TR) use of QTEs with the worst (RE6). That's how different they are. With that said I liked RE6 QTEs all but the fact that just playing through the game twice completely destroyed my right thumb stick.

[Midnight Malice]

Originally Posted by Vindicator51

I think people dislike it, because it tries too hard to be something that it's not. That's something like Uncharted. It's not really a survival game either, given the features they put inside the game.

I'm guessing they wanted to cash in on a very large crowd.

That is a pretty harsh conclusion, it must be because the Uncharted series was the first to be a cinematic adventure that combined combat with puzzle based platforming elements... If you are going to use this type of debate, then you must not be happy with anything past like 1990, because that is really all games are, the natural progression of borrowing elements that work and updating them to the technology of thier day. The next time we see a truely unique game that can honestly say they didn't borrow any elements of thier game from anything else will probably be never. I haven't played it yet, because I don't steal/mod/pirate, so I will reserve my actual comparision until then, but from what I have seen so far, this Tomb Raider is borrowing just as much from Uncharted as Uncharted origonally borrowed from Tomb Raider. Where Uncharted had a simialr setting to Tomb Raider with a different gamestyle, this Tomb Raider has a similar style with a completely different setting/story. Seems fair to me. But if you want to get technical, Tomb Raider borrowed from Indiana Jones, who borrowed from ..... well I will just stop there, cause I could trace that back to 1888, and that is without research.

People are going to dislike it because that is what people do. They HAVE to find something to complain about in every game/movie/book/story that ever exists. The problem is that the majority of people that don't like it have to voice thier opinions on it, while it is the minority of people that like it (this is with anything) that say they like it. That old saying where people that have a good experience with something will tell 2 people while people that have a bad experience will tell 10, it applies to the internet as well.

[Handgun:MILLA]

I loved this game. I've been a fan of the Tomb Raider series since the beginning. After TR3 it went down hill a bit but then Legend and Underworld made up for that.

I don't know if anyone else feels this... but the story is almost a direct copy of the series Lost, played by characters from the Tomb Raider universe... that's not a bad thing in my book by the way.

At first this felt like a very fresh game to me, but as i got more and more through the game, you slowly begin to realise it's got some classic tomb raider elements.

Don't know what the bad press is about (except the multiplayer, as that sux) but the 1 player game it one of the best games i've played in a long long while.

[JuSt BLaZe]

Originally Posted by Handgun:MILLA

I loved this game. I've been a fan of the Tomb Raider series since the beginning. After TR3 it went down hill a bit but then Legend and Underworld made up for that.

At first this felt like a very fresh game to me, but as i got more and more through the game, you slowly begin to realise it's got some classic tomb raider elements.

Don't know what the bad press is about (except the multiplayer, as that sux) but the 1 player game it one of the best games i've played in a long long while.

Totally agree on this one. I'm so in love with this game right now. After playing Dead Space 3 I was like "hmmmm", then Crysis 3 like "ok" but with this one...oh boy this game is a MUST BUY and definitely a GOTY candidate. Graphics are nice, Lara is hot, controls are easy, story is great and yeah MP sucks but the game was worth every single dime!