Comments on: Grave-robbing is at its finest in Tomb Raider https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Za1 https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28986 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:26:43 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28986 I too grew up playing old school games such as king’s quest, space quest back in the 90’s and moved onto the ps1. Rpgs were my favorite genre and games such as planescape: torment, Baldur’s gate, fallout (I could go on) were all games that took a huge chunk of time for completion. Comparing tomb raider to the more recent games such as the single player campaigns of the cod franchise, it can be viewed as long yup. But perhaps I was expecting mass effect like proportions in terms of gameplay hours. It took about 3-4 days for completion of tomb raider between classes at college and sessions of dota2. So I’m pretty sure I’m not a hermit and did not finish it in a single night. but yeah I did feel a teeny bit robbed of $49.99 but then I remembered the breathtakingly beautiful graphics and story. Cheers.

]]> By: Cisco https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28981 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:36:30 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28981 I guess maybe my scale for game length is a little different from yours. Back in the day I was raised on AAA titles like the original Resident Evil 1 & 2 and Metal Gear Solid. Great single player games … that you could beat within 4 hours. Metal Gear Solid lasted longer if you watched all the cutscenes and made all the codec converstations–then you had about a 9hr game. To me a short game isanything you can beat under 5 hrs (Force Unleashed II,ugh!). Tomb Raider Legend could be finished in 3.

Also, let’s not forget that “time is relative.” An RPG typically takes about 40hrs to beat. Pretty lengthy! That’s almost two days. If I shut myself indoors and become a hermit for two to three days just to play Mass Effect is the game still short? Probably not.

It took me two days to beat Tomb Raider in about 18hrs and I got 100% completion. Then I played through the game a second time on Hard Mode and finished it in about 9hours. In that playthrough I flew through everything except cutscenes and got about 67% completion. 9 hours isn’t horrible. But I’d feel bad if I dropped $60 on it!

This is why I rent most of my games now unless its something I’m absolutely going to love. But yeah, I’m used to short games taking me 3-4 hours to beat. You should never be able to finish a video game in a single night. I was actually surprised when Tomb Raider kept extending the story.

]]> By: Za1 https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28978 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:13:04 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28978 I like this review and agree with most of what’s said. The game is probably the best I have played in a long time. However I completely disagree with your point that it isn’t short. I got an 82% overall completion rate within 14 hours. Was pretty upset about that.

]]> By: Brogus https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28953 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:34:16 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28953 it doesn’t matter which one was first, every games are copying each other at some point.

This game prove just that what was said for the first uncharted when it came out was true, “it’s how tomb raider should have evolved a few years back”

I don’t care which one is better, i like both.

]]> By: Kurtis https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28888 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:36:53 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28888 I’ll step in and follow up on that one since I’m the technical side of gamersdigest and the other host. Sadly we used to archive the show when we just did audio but once we switched to Video it became to expensive. We are still searching for ways to archive it efficiently but in the mean time you can always check out our past shows on youtube.com/gamersdigestpodcast.

]]> By: Tim https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28877 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:48:27 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28877 My pleasure! (and to clarify when I said “I don’t have a lot of time for gaming” – I meant that literally, I do LOVE gaming, I just don’t have much time). I love the podcast media, do you guys archive your shows? And where can I find them?

]]> By: Cisco https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28874 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:12:29 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28874 Thanks Tim! I could have gone on and on with my review giving it praise as the definitive “evolution” of the traditional Tomb Raider style of gaming.

The way the game has been streamlined makes it much more fun to play and THANK GOODNESS that the camera issue has been fixed.

I am a co-host on a live streaming video game podcast that airs every Monday around 7PM EST. We will be discussing Tomb Raider on tonight’s show. If you can please check it out!

Again, thanks for the kind words! This has made my morning. :)

]]> By: Tim https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28870 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:54:52 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28870 Great review and right on. Today for the first time I had noticed a post release review or too of people desperately trying to find something other than the multiplayer aspect to knock the game on- I suppose they need to feel deep and contemplative (unfortunately for them it was more like they couldn’t come up with an original criticism. I keep hearing “Uncharted” being flung out like some ace of spades card in a gambling movie; yet the complaints seem to add up to nothing more than she is on a hostile island and has to fight to survive. Really? Ok well no more space movies then because there’s already Star Wars and Star Trek. Pretty clumsy criticizing on their parts.
My bottom line: I’m a dad with five kids, a full time job (and thankfully a gamer chick for a wife) so as you can imagine I don’t have a lot of time for gaming, much less mediocre gaming which I’d like to think by now I can spot. This Tomb Raider is giving me the best gaming for the buck that I’ve had in a long time. I’ve rarely (if ever) experienced character immersion like that- and that’s quite the accomplishment to take a 38 year old dude and make him all but forget that while playing this game. Everywhere this game could be going wrong, it simply refuses too; it stays consistent and clear. No more yelling at the tv for endless and needless deaths because I didn’t have the timeing or dexterity of a god, no bad camera angles; I’m not through the whole game yet and I already can’t wait to play it again. Thanks for a great and truly thoughtful review. (From my iPod so please forgive any misspelling or grammar)

]]> By: cisco https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28785 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:12:01 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28785 last time I checked Tomb Raider was around for two gaming consoles before anyone ever knew what Uncharted was. As a fan of both franchises I could lean either way as far as which is better. But get the facts straight…Tomb Raider came first. I want to do an article on this debate now that the game is finally out.

Tomb Raider channels the gameplay style that Resident Evil 4 introduced with the level of exploration you had with the revamped combat system. The staged battle sequences are top notch and play intensely like Gears. Combat in Uncharted is a chore quite frankly and kind of bland as it is a game better suited for putting the lead in amazing set pieces and action sequences.

]]> By: Brogus https://cliqueclack.com/p/tomb-raider-review/#comment-28777 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:58:23 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=7732#comment-28777 it’s not a mix of resident evil and Gears of war… it’s just uncharted with a girl, nevertheless it’s a very good game

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