VintijDroidGutzz
Super Freak
I think it's fair to say that we agree on some things.I'll agree somewhat there, these new games are darker, but Lara was always a commando and the games were always violent even if the old tech made them somewhat hilarious. Lara is still every bit Lara... cept for those pointy triangles in her shirt lol.
As far as the old games go, they were fun at the time but got old fast. It wasnt exploration so much as it was a clunky platformer puzzle game with killing in between. Tomb Raider was linear and never attempted to be very much about open world exploration even when games like Ocarina of Time were showing everyone how to do it right. Move the block, find the button to the next room, rinse and repeat a couple hundred times is not what I'd call exploration. I enjoyed them for a while but then they just became work. Legend is the last one I played and I could barely get through it. I play games for fun, not to work- I get enough of that in the real world lol
I havent played a lot of Uncharted, the controls felt similar to The Last of Us which I enjoyed. IMO Tomb Raider's controls are much more fluid and responsive. For instance I never had Lara perform a sneak attack and instead stand up to take a bottle off the counter and die while putting every baddy on alert even on restart(thanks Joel).The reboot is still mostly linear but it improves upon the originals making each area much larger and full of things to do- its sort of a series of mini open worlds. Overall the game is much more fluid, moving you along through the plot and giving you incentives to continue. All dark and gritty artistic direction aside and with due respect to the original it is just the better game. I'm happy not to go back
The old games had moments of 'violence', sure.. but in a comic book-y kind of way, not in an 'in your face' blood sweat & tears, painfully grueling kind of way. I concede that yes, OG Lara was armed to the teeth, & that qualifies a certain 'Rambo'-ism correlation to her, but we're talking different ball games here.
The 2013 game isn't really continuing the tradition of what the fans love about the classic games. For starters, they've ****ed with the back story, & given her a make over that really didn't need making over. What I think is funny though is how they really plug the 'realism' thing for the new ones, yet she's managing to endure **** that not even Arnold Schwarzenegger could on a good day. Come on.
Current gen demands that the envelope be pushed - fine, of course, but the direction is far more shock & trauma than anything else. THAT.. gets old pretty fast.As far as your overall assessment of the old games go though, you're obviously not into them.. & that's fine, & oversimplifying / dismissing their content & playability. They're as fun NOW, as they ever were, as far as I'm concerned.
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