tomb raider games s&d

the best bits of this are where you're actually climbing on and exploring random jungle shit, not running down corridors blasting fuckheads

i hate the QTEs, so pointless

come on it's like a cutscene you can fail

lol

I wonder how much the PS STore charges for Tomb Raider II. Must be around $6, right? I love the Venice section. So much fun.

"Her soul is trapped inside a decaying body! THAT'S the reason for the storms!"

makes sense to me

Why did they come to the island in the first place? I can't remember.

The game begins with Lara setting out on her first expedition about the ship Endurance, with the intention of finding the lost kingdom of Yamatai. By her suggestion and against Whitman's advice, the expedition ventures into the Dragon's Triangle, east of Japan. The ship is struck by a violent storm and split in two, leaving the survivors stranded on an isolated island.

Which it turns out, is Yamatai. But why did they want to go there? It's a big crew! Were they gonna go raid some tombs?

the glory hunter academic wanted to discover it (iirc) for what i took to be a crappy history-channel style tv show

Ah it's coming back now - yes

I have been pondering exactly how his grisly death will play out for some time

started playing this because ps+ free / long weekend... the game itself is fun to explore but the "press square to not get choked, raped and killed" QTEs are very lame. the voice acting is terrible, the story is stupid as fuck and the EMPOWERMENT angle feels thrown in for critics and not well thought out. Girlfriend finds this appalling and asks how come Lara is basically sounding like she's having sex when she's climbing a building. On the positive, it's like a much easier and less sprawling Just Cause, so that's okay. I may finish this?

Rise of the Tomb Raider is very cool. the pickaxe climbing mechanics are perfectly suited to this game about scaling snow covered mountains and exploring icy caves.

the game looks really really nice and is full of beautiful wintry vistas. the lighting is very cool, the blue-white snow having colored light reflected on it, red, yellow.

there is combat yes but are a lot of actual tombs in this game, which is super nice. pulling up the map shows you all kinds of things to discover and explore: the screen itself is refreshingly free of HUD elements. there are no destination markers floating on your screen, no mini maps taking up valuable real estate. the game already looks cinematic, this just takes it to the next level.

i was scaling the side of a mountain while hearing someone talk about the legendary Russian witch Baba Yaga. i have no idea if she is in this game but it is always cool when games dip into this irl folklore.

aw shit... that was pretty awesome

https://i.imgur.com/j3DOxXTl.jpg

this game really looks amazing

https://i.imgur.com/cCsW7hnl.jpg

i've been playing shadow of the tomb raider. bought it a couple of years ago, made some progress then forgot about it until recently. it feels like a guilty pleasure to play it while everyone else is playing elden ring. it's so easy and repetitive, it's like comfort food that makes me feel like i'm good at video games even though i don't have the time to get good at something like elden ring. i don't like the combat sequences but even those are usually pretty easy. it looks pretty incredible. equivalent to the uncharted games in terms of visuals and (lack of) challenge i guess.

it's funny how on rails the various exploration areas are. oh you can climb this one specific wall but none of the other walls that are the same height and made of the same material, ok.

they build the whole plot around lara's guilt for all the destruction she has caused in the pursuit of raiding tombs, then she'll go into an ancient church and just bash the shit out of the walls with a crowbar to find hidden clues

Yeah, I have a couple of those games that I picked up cheap, and I can totally see (even having not played them yet) how they have influenced the current generation of AAA games.

it's funny how on rails the various exploration areas are. oh you can climb this one specific wall but none of the other walls that are the same height and made of the same material, ok.

This frustrates me so much, especially when it’s not always obvious which wall one can climb. I was stuck for ten minutes in some temple area in Uncharted 2 because I couldn’t figure out which combination of ledges I need to leap across to get to a window I needed to climb in—like, Drake can survive falling several stories or leaping over giant pits, but for some reason, he can’t simply hop onto the waist-high pile of rubble right below the window and climb up. I understand why, from the designer’ POV, but still...