Shadow of the Tomb Raider - the final chapter from Eidos Montreal

[TheHeroOfTime]

Game's having a rough overall reception. Critics tend to praise the focus on exploration and riddles but blame the lack of polish in general that the game has. Story is nothing to take care about. Secondary missions are generic and bland ones. And, then there is things like this:

That's the lack of polish they're reffering to. And the memes started to appear of course



Still, I'll try to give it a shot. So you'll have my retadred impresions soon I guess.

 

[A horse of course]

I've noticed multiple reviews complain about Lara being a "colonizer" and "white saviour". I'm wondering if that's the hot take they've been circle-jerking over in the new gamejournopros or something.

 

[Ezeekiel]

"Lara"

 

[Reinhardt]

I've noticed multiple reviews complain about Lara being a "colonizer" and "white saviour".

Cool. Now we can talk in this thread about PoE2 too. Obsidian had same problem.

 

[Machocruz]

Other races who even have the ability to save anyone lack the altruism of the white race. I once heard an older black professor talk about white altruism "How do these negroes think they'd fair under the Chinese? Or the Mexican. Or Arab. Heh, we seen the answer to that last one."

 

[unfairlight]

Not only the last one, the one right before it too just recently. Chinese are colonizing Africa.

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

All these problem with white colonizer can be fixed with a simple tweak. Give Lara a tan, make her hangout on the beach for a day and voila you have your brown saviour for us brown people. Done.

Reminds me of that time when Chris was too white for Resident Evil 5's africa and Capcom's genius solution was to add a black lady.

 

[Vorark]

Game's having a rough overall reception. Critics tend to praise the focus on exploration and riddles but blame the lack of polish in general that the game has. Story is nothing to take care about. Secondary missions are generic and bland ones. And, then there is things like this:

Lara just needs to increase her adaptability stat.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Laura craft

 

[Dexter]

 

[Black Plague]

"Lara face turns black often"

Now this propaganda has gone way too far.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Not sure if anyone's posted about the game's modular difficulty settings but this looks interesting.

 

[fantadomat]

I have no intention of playing it anyway. It is just another soulless AAA cashgrab.

 

[fantadomat]

Hahahahaha i just watched the last 15 minutes of this video:


I haven't laughed that much in a log time. This is the worst scripted bullshit i have seen in years. I laughed out loud around 53:40.

 

[Alienman]

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

 

[Melcar]

The fuck is wrong with her face?!

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

The fuck is wrong with her face?!

And my favourite

 

[A horse of course]

The fuck is wrong with her face?!

From what I've read, people are pinning this on the MOVA engine controversy. Basically, Squeenix and a bunch of other companies were using a motion and face capture technology (in this case, for Rise of the Tomb Raider) called MOVA. Back in 2017, the original creator of MOVA sued his former business partner, claiming he stole the tech, washed the patents through a bunch of offshore companies and sold it on. I believe the creator obtained an injunction against the use of the "stolen" tech, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider switched to some other solution. I'm not sure about it though, it's mostly speculation.

 

[A horse of course]

I'm about 15hrs in with 46% completion now (yeah I know, I said I'd wait for a sale) and the reviews weren't kidding about the reduced amount of combat. At certain points I've literally gone 4+hrs at a time never drawing a weapon (except the rope arrow etc.), and when combat does pop up (e.g. running into a wolf den) it's over in less than 20 seconds. Today I went pretty much an entire play session without fighting anything until a cutscene triggered a bunch of enemies...and it segued into a chase sequence in which you couldn't fight back. I'd characterize the gameplay as 60% platforming, 25% puzzles, and then 15% combat/stealth as the sinew between each "level", but the fan reviews I've read all say the action ramps up a lot towards the end. Still, it feels a bit unbalanced - they talked about "three pillars" of gameplay, but combat feels more like a little decorative arch slapped on top of the other two. That's not to say it's substantially a different game to RoTTR, but it does dramatically emphasize certain aspects of the experience over others.

 

[Ezekiel]

I'm about 15hrs in with 46% completion now (yeah I know, I said I'd wait for a sale) and the reviews weren't kidding about the reduced amount of combat. At certain points I've literally gone 4+hrs at a time never drawing a weapon (except the rope arrow etc.), and when combat does pop up (e.g. running into a wolf den) it's over in less than 20 seconds. Today I went pretty much an entire play session without fighting anything until a cutscene triggered a bunch of enemies...and it segued into a chase sequence in which you couldn't fight back. I'd characterize the gameplay as 60% platforming, 25% puzzles, and then 15% combat/stealth as the sinew between each "level", but the fan reviews I've read all say the action ramps up a lot towards the end. Still, it feels a bit unbalanced - they talked about "three pillars" of gameplay, but combat feels more like a little decorative arch slapped on top of the other two. That's not to say it's substantially a different game to RoTTR, but it does dramatically emphasize certain aspects of the experience over others.

The problem with the previous two, for me at least, wasn't too much combat, it was that the combat was no good. She should be far more mobile while shooting. Let me fire from the hip and use gymnastics.

 

[Melcar]

In the true TR games you could do Goddamn backflips and shit while murdering people/animals with machine guns.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

This game photo mode is hilarious

I've playing just a bit, until the first campifre in the jungle. In the first hour of the game I've experienced only one shooting scene. I really like how the game is more demanding in the hard mode in terms of plataforming and avoiding traps. Let's see if this holds up during the entire game.

 

[A horse of course]

I'm about 15hrs in with 46% completion now (yeah I know, I said I'd wait for a sale) and the reviews weren't kidding about the reduced amount of combat. At certain points I've literally gone 4+hrs at a time never drawing a weapon (except the rope arrow etc.), and when combat does pop up (e.g. running into a wolf den) it's over in less than 20 seconds. Today I went pretty much an entire play session without fighting anything until a cutscene triggered a bunch of enemies...and it segued into a chase sequence in which you couldn't fight back. I'd characterize the gameplay as 60% platforming, 25% puzzles, and then 15% combat/stealth as the sinew between each "level", but the fan reviews I've read all say the action ramps up a lot towards the end. Still, it feels a bit unbalanced - they talked about "three pillars" of gameplay, but combat feels more like a little decorative arch slapped on top of the other two. That's not to say it's substantially a different game to RoTTR, but it does dramatically emphasize certain aspects of the experience over others.

The problem with the previous two, for me at least, wasn't too much combat, it was that the combat was no good. She should be far more mobile while shooting. Let me fire from the hip and use gymnastics.

You won't like the combat in Shadow then. It's mostly based around stealth.

 

[Vorark]

Just another day in the life of Lara Croft, psycopath extraordinaire.

 

[Agame]

Just another day in the life of Lara Croft, psycopath extraordinaire.

What is up with that expression? She looks vaguely happy, like she is doing the "think happy thoughts, everything is fine"?