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Alright I’m in. I wasn’t too excited about this game, but now that I’ve platted Dad of War I’ll need something else to fill that murderin’ void.
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exquisite tea posted:One week to go before the Early Access release! Did any of you pre-ordering idiots waste your money to unlock this game a whole 48 hours before anyone else? If so, I'll be seeing you next Wednesday. It's me I'm an idiot also I hope we get the Baba Yaga outfit back, or at least something similar
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exquisite tea posted:Someone upthread was asking about PC system requirements. They've been released! Spoilers, you will need a pretty good one.
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Sep 6, 2018 19:49
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According to the internet those minimum specs are about equal to Rise of the Tomb Raider while recommended settings are bumped a bit higher. Nixxes incorporated some  extras in the last port like VXAO and full screenspace reflections, but as I recall Rise scaled down pretty well. I already know the dense foliage and shadows are gonna put a hurtin’ on my five-year old i5.
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Shouldn't you also take note that recommended is 1080p60 with tons of bells and whistles turned on, too? Preload is up, 25GB. Figured it'd be a lot bigger than that.
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Sep 7, 2018 21:08
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25GB was about the size of Rise with all DLC installed iirc. According to reddit though X-Box users have a 44.2GB download size, so who knows! Maybe there will be an optional download for 4k megatextures once the game goes live. They've shown off of the bonus outfits already, and you get to be an ugly bird of death.
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exquisite tea posted:25GB was about the size of Rise with all DLC installed iirc. According to reddit though X-Box users have a 44.2GB download size, so who knows! Maybe there will be an optional download for 4k megatextures once the game goes live. They've shown off of the bonus outfits already, and you get to be an ugly bird of death. You got a link to more costumes? I found this twitch stream on reddit: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/307061032 Jump to 2h 59m for costumes Baba Yaga is back 
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Ooh very nice! Looks like they've also brought back the TR2013 tank top and jacket from the Croft Manor scenes in Rise. The other pre-order outfit I've seen looks to be a pretty standard explorer getup with a shotgun. Really hoping this game can push the envelope of highly detailed mud and grime physics.
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Sep 8, 2018 09:17
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Rise of the Tomb Raider should have been called Apathy of the Tomb Raider. It's not a bad game, but it's so remarkably safe and boring that it doesn't qualify as a good game either. Maybe if there was multiple locales instead of grey-brown Siberia and ten minutes of Syria. And if Lara had her signature guns and her life-experience from the last game instead of starting over. Also I really think skill-trees and leveling systems in non-RPGs are seldom handled well. The skills themselves either make you 5% better at killing things, or there's a placebo effect and you have a 5% chance of killing things in the one hit. Dying Light was generic as hell but executed the skill-tree well because you feel stronger, faster, and more efficient by the endgame. No upgrade in Rise made a mite of difference.
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Sep 8, 2018 09:44
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Photo mode confirmed for launch! Skip to :50 for some hardcore llama petting and goofy Lara faces. Every new game should have a photo mode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5A7o8b1mZY
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This game looks incredibly pretty. I guess it helps that there is more to see than a frozen wasteland with some trees sprinkled in. Rise had quite good graphics, but there wasn't really much to see there. This looks really great.
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I'm gonna take so many horribly inappropriate pics of this over the next week.
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exquisite tea posted:I'm gonna take so many horribly inappropriate pics of this over the next week. Spider-man twitter is already eating its lunch in that regard
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Sep 10, 2018 20:58
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Looking forward to the experience of exploring the environment, solving cool puzzles, feeling like a jungle predator by wiping out legions of catholic paramilitary types, and skipping every god drat cutscene because WOW has the storytelling been awful in these things.
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Sep 10, 2018 21:28
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Storytelling? Those are shadow/lighting and Hairworks appreciation scenes
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Sep 10, 2018 21:32
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Tomb Raider 2013 is literally about a boys-only cult with a Madonna complex that worships a young Asian girl and tries to kill her unglamorous friend. It actually owns.
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hearing people talk about the bad storytelling of the new tomb raider really drives home to me how different i see the world because i have autism. i don't really understand why people think it's bad.
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the reviews seem to be pretty decent so far. polygon is mixed with it but over all liked what it tries to do even if plante is grossed out by gore and doesnt seem to know what he wants sometimes. waypoint hated it but thats not really surprising. https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/d3jgeq/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-review-tries-but-fails-to-tackle-its-own-colonialism i'll have to pick it up sometime because it does look interest and i liked the others. Mycroft Holmes posted:hearing people talk about the bad storytelling of the new tomb raider really drives home to me how different i see the world because i have autism. i don't really understand why people think it's bad. depends on the people. i thought the story telling was fine if hamfisted. i thought one hade better story the rise but thats just me.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:hearing people talk about the bad storytelling of the new tomb raider really drives home to me how different i see the world because i have autism. i don't really understand why people think it's bad. The storytelling isn’t bad. It’s melodramatic and in places hamfisted but it was a surprising and good departure from the earlier games, and it take Lara through a pretty classic hero’s journey, so if you’re looking for groundbreaking prose you don’t get that here. But in the details of the character’s growth and her difficult relationships with other people, there’s a lot to like and care about. The story of the second game was a lot more forgettable to me than the first and I’m curious how the third will play out since it seems like the setup of the story consists of Lara forgetting the lesson she learned at the end of the second game (sometimes it is best for secrets to remain secrets and mysteries to be left alone).
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They made the right call having her do a forced/fake smile. If they'd given her a genuine one or various goofy poses a la Link in BOTW it'd come across as creepy at best, inappropriate at others (that bound-up mummy - a sacrifice victim maybe?) As it is having the semi-pained look puts it on just the right side of campy. Mycroft Holmes posted:hearing people talk about the bad storytelling of the new tomb raider really drives home to me how different i see the world because i have autism. i don't really understand why people think it's bad. I don't have autism (because I do have dyscalculia so I had to see a bunch of learning specialists and through testing growing up, ergo it would've been spotted if I had) and I majored in English while pursuing a minor in Film Studies; and I don't agree that it's "bad" storytelling per se. (Especially by gaming standards.) I'd put it right on the level of a pulp adventure story or a popcorn movie because these are epic adventures with big action setpieces that don't have uber-original stories or plots, and they don't have deep characterization, nor do they have much artistic/cultural merit, and there's not really a statement about life or politics or the human condition being made. This does not make the TR reboot series stories "bad" but it does make them...well, simple, pulpy, and epic. If someone thinks that's "bad" that's their opinion, but not every story can be both epic and literary. (Or should.) Most games you play have "bad" stories in that they're so simple and lacking of drama and character development that there's not much there at all. (Or they just suck, like, say, Daikatana's plot and characters.) As the saying goes, no one plays Super Mario/Street Fighter/etc. for the plot. If your story is just "hero fights villain, hero wins, the end", then there's not much going on. Add some layers to the plot and the characters - like the one about Lara's stepmother in the last, for instance - and you might have something that's an improvement on what you normally get. Not that any game in the TR series has been a "great" story, mind you, but it's certainly not been "bad." Maybe "could have been better"?
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I don't think the reboot stories are offensively bad or anything, just very formulaic action movies without a whole lot of character development. This was fine in the very well-paced TR2013 but Rise kind of suffered from being the second, much bigger game in a trilogy and the plot spun its wheels a whole bunch. I don't really play these games for the story, though but to play as a crazed thrill-killing treasure hunter in exotic environments. And for that, they deliver! The early reviews are in and it appears to be sitting around 80 in Metacritic across all platforms. For better or for worse there appear to be no surprises here, so if you liked the TR formula up to this point it seems that you'll likely enjoy Shadow. I've tried not to spoil myself too much on reviews but Easy Allies gave it an 8.5 and the ACG guy gave it a buy, and I tend to find myself agreeing with their reviews most of the time. Can't wait until tomorrow night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lllplqiop-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc5-jHdEhG0
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Yeah, that sounds about right. I played the previous 2 games pretty close to when they first came out, so I'm happy if its just more of the same. If I had just played through the first 2 games this year then I could definitely see myself holding off on Shadow for awhile.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the reviews seem to be pretty decent so far. polygon is mixed with it but over all liked what it tries to do even if plante is grossed out by gore and doesnt seem to know what he wants sometimes. These people should just stop writing about video games. Imagine going “what does it meeeeeeaaaaaan???” about a goddamn Tomb Raider.
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bloodysabbath posted:These people should just stop writing about video games. Imagine going “what does it meeeeeeaaaaaan???” about a goddamn Tomb Raider. like i think she makes ok points but some of the stuff she is getting angry at is pretty loving dumb especially poo poo like "the villages being still and not moving and at the benefit of laura. thats every RPG ever. she was never gonna be happy about the game, and she knows it.
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I realized I don't get early access as I preordered the base model, whoops. oh well lmao a huge loving turbo killstorm is gonna uppercut my state right in its rear end in a top hat so I get to have a real adventure  
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Agent Escalus posted:They made the right call having her do a forced/fake smile. If they'd given her a genuine one or various goofy poses a la Link in BOTW it'd come across as creepy at best, inappropriate at others (that bound-up mummy - a sacrifice victim maybe?) As it is having the semi-pained look puts it on just the right side of campy. A real good way to put it yo. The story and voicework etc. are all good enough, long as things aren't outright bad and obnoxious it's a video game idk. Shoutouts to Shadow of the Collosus and Last Guardian that for how little story they really told in cutscenes and all were the only game stories that hit me. I think Brothers was on track for it too cause I'm a little bro but I never got back around to playing very far in.
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bloodysabbath posted:These people should just stop writing about video games. Imagine going “what does it meeeeeeaaaaaan???” about a goddamn Tomb Raider. I love and play a lot of games and also I want games to be under constant critical scrutiny and I want to hear from people with different perspectives to talk about them and point out things I’d never notice. Over time I want games to get better and that means technical and cultural improvements. I don’t need everyone else to like the things I like and I don’t need to like everything about the things I like. This kind of criticism can only enrich the game. It doesn’t hurt anyone by existing and it pushes the creators (if they care) to do better.
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Playing on Xbox in North America. The game is unlocked for me RIGHT NOW
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Wow jealous! I checked reddit and apparently XB1 owners have gotten the preorder access a couple hours early. I'll have to wait a couple more hours until I can play Benchmark of the Tomb Raider on PC!
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doingitwrong posted:I love and play a lot of games and also I want games to be under constant critical scrutiny and I want to hear from people with different perspectives to talk about them and point out things I’d never notice. Over time I want games to get better and that means technical and cultural improvements. I don’t need everyone else to like the things I like and I don’t need to like everything about the things I like.
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OMG you guys I have to work today instead of raiding tombs and now I'm literally dead lol
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This is a pretty decent version of the new Tomb Raider games. Graphics are the best they’ve been, and there’s pretty much more of all the stuff the games have become known for. Controls are a little floaty, but not cripplingly so. So, majority of the reviews are pretty spot on. The last two games have had the same problems with regard to narrative, so if that hasn’t bothered you before then you’ll probably like this one just fine!
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doingitwrong posted:I love and play a lot of games and also I want games to be under constant critical scrutiny and I want to hear from people with different perspectives to talk about them and point out things I’d never notice. Over time I want games to get better and that means technical and cultural improvements. I don’t need everyone else to like the things I like and I don’t need to like everything about the things I like. Lol at the idea that there's a lot of this kind of crit in games though, 99% of stuff that I see from TR reboot detractors is like "wow just garbage stories man" uh okay why do you think that? "They're clearly trash and you're dumb if you like them." Okay thanks for your insight. Like it would be cool if games were more like CD in how people engaged and discussed the content but games probably has a lot less failed film majors with nothing better to do in it.
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I hope y'all who are lucky enough to be home today playing early are queuing up your highly inappropriate photomode murder pics because that's the first thing I'm gonna be doing after the obligatory first hour of benchmark testing.
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Welp. Put me on the pre-order bandwagon. This will probably be the last new AAA game I play on the 2600K/GTX970....new stuff is finally getting good enough to warrant a system-wide upgrade.
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exquisite tea posted:I hope y'all who are lucky enough to be home today playing early are queuing up your highly inappropriate photomode murder pics because that's the first thing I'm gonna be doing after the obligatory first hour of benchmark testing. Game is taking loving forever to unpack but I'll be sure to post some pics once I get rolling. e: Just getting started. 
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exquisite tea posted:OMG you guys I have to work today instead of raiding tombs and now I'm literally dead lol I guess they brought back the kinda weirdly lingering death scenes after excising them from Rise?
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DrNutt posted:Lol at the idea that there's a lot of this kind of crit in games though, 99% of stuff that I see from TR reboot detractors is like "wow just garbage stories man" uh okay why do you think that? "They're clearly trash and you're dumb if you like them." Okay thanks for your insight. We're literally having a conversation about an instance of a review that isn't that 99%.
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