Uncharted 4: Tomb Raider

[chronovore]

If you're on Facebook, there are still some freebies available from their promotion on their official page:

There's an avatar outfit and a theme; I went "full himuro" for the avatar duds, because it's only for female avatars. So this is me, now:


I think I'm nearing the end; my Lara's Diaries counter is at 8/10, so hopefully things are going to wrap up soon. Good game.

[Positive Touch]

where's it at? i looked at some of their recent posts and didnt see it.

ps I LOVE THIS GAME. it aint groundbreaking, but its solid as fuck to me and i love the variety and visual design. i finished it and started a new game right away.

[demi]

Really? You can do everything when you beat the game. I guess if you want to do the setpieces again.

[Positive Touch]

i do!

THE GRAPHIX

[demi]

do you appreciate a powerful white woman in videogames today

[pilonv1]

I tried playing some more of this last night but had trouble getting back into it after playing Bioshock. Just growing tired of having control taken away from me every 30 seconds

[Stoney Mason]

Honestly I don't think story told through voxaphones is any better than how Tomb Raider handles their storytelling. In a way I think its actually lazier.

[demi]

The diaries in Tomb Raider don't tell any story. They're basically re-caps.

Voxaphones actually have - really important details - that are hidden away.

[Stoney Mason]

Voxaphones actually have - really important details - that are hidden away.

Yeah I know. I think that's dumb and lazy. But to each his own.

For what its worth I meant story told via cutscenes instead of just sticking it all in audio recordings. I think the diary stuff is dumb in Tomb Raider also along with Lara's internal campfire monologues.

[Joe Molotov]

Tomb Raider did have a little hidden piece of story if you found all the GPS caches, but it's more like sequel-bait than anything to do with this game.

[Stoney Mason]

Tomb Raider did have a little hidden piece of story if you found all the GPS caches, but it's more like sequel-bait than anything to do with this game.

Yeah I think I heard that. I can't remember if I heard it from a podcast or this thread.

[chronovore]

where's it at? i looked at some of their recent posts and didnt see it.

ps I LOVE THIS GAME. it aint groundbreaking, but its solid as fuck to me and i love the variety and visual design. i finished it and started a new game right away.

https://www.facebook.com/TombRaider

Scroll ALL THE WAY BACK to April 2. I know it's roughly a decade in Internet Time, but they're there.

[Joe Molotov]

where's it at? i looked at some of their recent posts and didnt see it.

ps I LOVE THIS GAME. it aint groundbreaking, but its solid as fuck to me and i love the variety and visual design. i finished it and started a new game right away.

https://www.facebook.com/TombRaider

Scroll ALL THE WAY BACK to April 2. I know it's roughly a decade in Internet Time, but they're there.

Hell yeah, I'm unleashing my inner goddess! 

[chronovore]

Yeah, it's nice that they're giving these away, as opposed to Star Wars TFU promotional avatar clothes which are all $5, or more if you want, like, a separate helmet and outfit for yer Stormtrooper.

I guess I'm kinda impressed they didn't go for paid DLC multiplayer skins, and kept it all internal to its prestige economy.

[chronovore]

I've finished the main game; a satisfying ending, though it felt a bit quick as a wrap-up. Great game, wonderful reboot of a beloved, iconic character. My final percentage at completion was 97%, so I have now cleaned up the loose ends to 100% completion. Theoretically I need to go kneecap a few more dudes, and pull a few more off from ledges, and I'll be quit of it.

I'm not going for the "had every conversation with every Survivor" Secret Achievement which I didn't know about until 2/3rds through the campaign. I hate those things. I think I hated it more in the original Assassins Creed, where I actually tried for it, and STILL have no idea where I missed one.

Multiplayer, I've got a couple more things I want to get from it, but I'm not going to go for utter completion. If I'm going to get into multiplayer, I'm going to go back to Max Payne 3, which is similar, but better, more fully populated, and polished.

[Uninstall]

i cant be the only one who finds the title hilarious

since uncharted ripped off tomb raider first, you see

ripoffception

[chronovore]

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[chronovore]

[chronovore]

Ffffuuuu... tried to go back and mop up the "stabbed in the knee" and "pulled off a ledge" 'Cheevos, and there just aren't enough victims placed around the island any longer.    Maybe I'll go back and re-play the entire game next year, and just get them then. But probably I'm done wit this for nau.

[bork]

Finally finished Tomb Raider after putting it on hiatus in March.  One of the best games of the year, easily.

Got 73% completion.  Doubt I am going to go back to it and the multi sucked, so I'm pretty much done with it.

[chronovore]

If you want to boost a couple of Multi Cheevos, let me know.

[Uninstall]

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oh i see, everyone here is more clever than i thought theyd be

ill have to step my game up

[chronovore]

Naw, you're doing fine. We are fond of responding with :that's_the_joke.gif in many and sundry variations.

The one where I definitely felt the "Wait, what? But THAT WAS FIRST!" feeling was when LucasArts came out with their Indiana Jones game, and the games press described it as basically intellectually shoplifting from Tomb Raider.  I was irate; clearly Lara Croft is just Indiana Jones with breasts! Raiding Tombs? Who do they think was there first?!

And then I saw the gameplay:


So, yeah, basically Tomb Raider.