Never finished
Rise Of The Tomb Raider, so I went back to play it before Shadow drops next week. Turns out I played a lot less of it than I thought I did- had like four hours played and finished at over 21 hours. Was pretty fun throughout and there were never any points where I didn't enjoy the game, but I think I like Tomb Raider 2013 more than this.
The Baba Yaga expansion was fine and slotted itself right into the main game nicely, but Cold Darkness felt like an afterthought. Kind of a boring map and I ultimately found that there was no reason to really engage most of the zombies since you can just sneak or run right past them. The Croft Manor episode must have been made with VR in mind and was just a walking tour of the manor.
But then there's Lara's Nightmare, which takes the same level design and fills it up with the zombies from Cold Darkness, then puts in these floating skulls and a master key you need in randomized locations, adding some replay value. This was a lot more fun, but for the most part I was also able to ignore most of the enemies and just run through everything.
Really the only thing I didn't like -more a pet peeve than anything- is how all the Remnant villagers spoke with American accents. That was just weird.
Started
Spider-Man last night. I skipped over all the previous 3D Spideys post the one from Neversoft on PS1, so it has been a while. I don't see what's mediocre about the game at all. It plays great, has good swinging mechanics and lets you just run up walls/buildings, combat is like a better version of Arkham, and they even let you tailor the game to your liking with options to disable button mashing segments and QTEs. You can even turn off the puzzle mini-games if you don't care. I like the one that's a Pipe Dream rip-off though.
