LosOjos Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 (edited) Just got my pre-order in on Steam, who else is excited about this game? Edited March 1, 2013 by LosOjos
X-13 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Just got my pre-order in on Steam, who else is excited about this game? I'm considering it. I'm looking at getting the super-awesome version [~£50]. But, I'm not sure if my laptop can run it... I think it can. It'd be good if they released a demo.
EduTech Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Yes, I cannot wait for this game to be released! :-) I remember when I used to play the old Tomb Raiders and spend 24 hours to see if I could complete it! Looking forward to this next release, I wish they would also make another film!! James.
LosOjos Posted March 1, 2013 Author Posted March 1, 2013 I'm considering it. I'm looking at getting the super-awesome version [~£50]. But, I'm not sure if my laptop can run it... I think it can. It'd be good if they released a demo. Yeah it annoys me how few PC games they release demo's for these days, I can't understand why. It's a perfect way to test if your system will be capable of running the game, and it whets your appetite while you wait for release.
LosOjos Posted March 1, 2013 Author Posted March 1, 2013 Yes, I cannot wait for this game to be released! :-) I remember when I used to play the old Tomb Raiders and spend 24 hours to see if I could complete it! Looking forward to this next release, I wish they would also make another film!! James. I remember being fooled by an April edition of C&VG when I was about 13 - it said that if you stand on Lara's bed in TR2, plug a pad in to port 2 on the Playstation and tap out the tune to a particular song on the square button, she stripped. I tried for hours! Gutted when they revealed the following month it was an April fool's joke, more so when they pointed out the song was released weeks after the game! This new one looks great, seems to have a much grittier, more realistic story too. I must say I'm enjoying this trend in games and movies lately of making gritty origins stories , they almost always seem to be more adult versions of the things I loved as a kid
X-13 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Yeah it annoys me how few PC games they release demo's for these days, I can't understand why. It's a perfect way to test if your system will be capable of running the game, and it whets your appetite while you wait for release. There's no demo at all. Not even for consoles. Apparently, they "don't want to spoil the story"
LosOjos Posted March 1, 2013 Author Posted March 1, 2013 There's no demo at all. Not even for consoles. Apparently, they "don't want to spoil the story" Lame excuse, they could easily put in a playable demo with no cut scenes if they didn't want to reveal the story. Even with other games these days though, PC demos seem rare... unless I'm just looking in the wrong place (Steam mainly)
tmcd35 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Don't know, Don't know. Playing through Tomb Raider Anniversary at the moment. Really like how close it is to what I remember from the PS1, but the puzzle's and nature of the game is annoying me after playing the excellent two Batman games. I'll think about once I've played through the Assassins Creed series, number four is announced (officially) on Monday
X-13 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 number four is announced (officially) on Monday ASSASSIN PIRATES!
korifugi Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 ASSASSIN PIRATES! That's too close to Ninja Pirates - we can't have that. The whole of the internet would implode - just like if someone did a half caveman, half spaceman.
X-13 Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 just like if someone did a half caveman, half spaceman. http://www.adhousebooks.com/books/images/cvrs/BOOKS/AD.CAVEMEN.CVR72.jpg
LosOjos Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 I'm hoping Steam will release this today, can't wait to play it... just hope it's not another disappointment! I'm hearing folk criticise it's similarities to Hitman (and I certainly expect there will be given that one of the Steam pre-order unlocks is a couple of weapons from Hitman), but I'm thinking that may not be a bad thing. Hitman style kills in a Tomb Raider world could be awesome. If it's just Hitman with Lara Croft though I'll be disappointed.
X-13 Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 I still haven't ordered this... I may wait until its released and "aquire" a copy to try it out.
chazzy2501 Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 If the new Aliens game tells us anything, its that we should not support the games industry using pre-orders. it allows them to rip customers off. They entise you with extra freebies that should have been included anyway! Vote with your wallet!
X-13 Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 If the new Aliens game tells us anything, its that we should not support the games industry using pre-orders. it allows them to rip customers off. Pre-[anything] allows companies to rip people off. The season pass for Saints Row: The Third, for example, was supposed to have 4 pieces of DLC. It got 3, then the 4th was scrapped and is being added into SR4.
LosOjos Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 If the new Aliens game tells us anything, its that we should not support the games industry using pre-orders. it allows them to rip customers off. They entise you with extra freebies that should have been included anyway! Vote with your wallet! Steam offer 10% discount on pre-orders, so I save money by pre-ordering. It is very rare I pre-order and I'd never do so just for the "extras," but 10% is a decent discount on a new game
aerospacemango Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 Am i the only person to be not excited about this? I always found the original, and #2, to be slow-moving, fairly boring 3rd person puzzlers. For the original PS, why have Tomb Raider when you could have Syphon Filter?
LosOjos Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 Am i the only person to be not excited about this? I always found the original, and #2, to be slow-moving, fairly boring 3rd person puzzlers. For the original PS, why have Tomb Raider when you could have Syphon Filter? Syphon Filter was a completely different game! Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but you can't really compare the two - they're third person, you have guns and that's where the similarity ends! I think the series does feel a bit dated now, but I still enjoy playing TR2 occasionally. I think Uncharted was really the wake up call the TR series needed, it borrowed heavily from the series but improved on the old formula. I'm hoping they've learned from this for this game. I think if I'm totally honest, there is a bit of nostalgia here for me, I have fond memories of working my way through the previous games. Had it not been for that, I'd wait for the reviews before platying it, certainly wouldn't have pre-ordered.
aerospacemango Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 Syphon Filter was a completely different game! Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but you can't really compare the two - they're third person, you have guns and that's where the similarity ends! I think the series does feel a bit dated now, but I still enjoy playing TR2 occasionally. I think Uncharted was really the wake up call the TR series needed, it borrowed heavily from the series but improved on the old formula. I'm hoping they've learned from this for this game. I think if I'm totally honest, there is a bit of nostalgia here for me, I have fond memories of working my way through the previous games. Had it not been for that, I'd wait for the reviews before platying it, certainly wouldn't have pre-ordered. I'd have to disagree with you there! Syphon Filter had a faster pace to it, and the puzzles were just as difficult. I found that TR never engaged me in the way SF did. I know that it's all opinion and horses for courses, but I couldn't get into TR. And as for Lara Croft being some kind of pin-up..... :rollseyes:
LosOjos Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 (edited) Syphon Filter had a faster pace to it, and the puzzles were just as difficult. I found that TR never engaged me in the way SF did. I know that it's all opinion and horses for courses, but I couldn't get into TR. You've hit the nail on the head there - horses for courses! I think part of it for me is that I've always been very in to the story line of games, and Tomb Raider's was much more interesting to me. Like I said though, I did enjoy Syphon Filter too, I've just never really been in to military stories. And as for Lara Croft being some kind of pin-up..... :rollseyes: Haha well I think you might be the first person bloke I've ever spoken to who could say if Lara Croft were a real woman they'd kick her out of bed, I thought she was every teenage geek's dream girl! Edited March 4, 2013 by LosOjos
aerospacemango Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 Haha well I think you might be the first person bloke I've ever spoken to who could say if Lara Croft were a real woman they'd kick her out of bed, I thought she was every teenage geek's dream girl! That must've been it then....I was already in my mid-20's and actually dating girls!!! (That is in no way meant to be disparaging towards anyone, by the way!) I agree that Ms Jolie made a fine example in the films....but still...she's just an avatar!!
LosOjos Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 That must've been it then....I was already in my mid-20's and actually dating girls!!! (That is in no way meant to be disparaging towards anyone, by the way!) I agree that Ms Jolie made a fine example in the films....but still...she's just an avatar!! Ha yeah that'll be the one, without the raging hormones of a 13 year old I can understand why a pair of polygon breasts didn't do it for you!
aerospacemango Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 Ha yeah that'll be the one, without the raging hormones of a 13 year old I can understand why a pair of polygon breasts didn't do it for you! LOL!.... The raging hormones were about when the best on offer was Football Manager, Elite, and various other Spectrum/Vic20/Arcade games were available..... Not much to get excited about, other than the gameplay!!! Although.....there was always the imagination aspect of walking into a bar on Lave, as Dangerous, and watching the other traders scuttle away, and leave the best looking ladies behind.... Wait....I think I may have revealed too much about my pubescent self!!!
LosOjos Posted March 5, 2013 Author Posted March 5, 2013 (edited) Managed to get about 20 minutes on it this morning while the nipper got ready for school (after trying to figure out why the hell it wouldn't start for 10 minutes - apparently my GTX560 doesn't like "exclusive full screen mode") Really liking what I've seen so far. It feels very fluid when switching from cut scene to gameplay (in fact I just stood there a couple of times not realising it was "my turn"!), already had a nice simple puzzle to get started, bit of running and leaping and some reaction time scenes, all felt nicely balanced and flowed well. Haven't played it for anywhere near long enough to form an opinion on it, but the outlook is good. EDIT: it seems there are a lot of issues with Nvidia GPU's at the moment, hopefully Nvidia will get updated drivers out soon, though I haven't had anywhere near as many crashes as others are reporting in the Steam forums. Again, I only played for 20 minutes so I can't say with any authority that it's not as bad as people are making out... Edited March 5, 2013 by LosOjos
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