#Game tomb raider series#

I will keep all of the usual stuff to a minimum, but in 40 years of gaming, I can honestly say this is the first time I have been excited to receive a text message from a game character. Thankfully I hadn’t asked for a refund, so it was just a reinstall job.

#Game tomb raider series#

A few months later, and a new Xbox Series S sat quietly beneath my TV and an advert for Cyberpunk appeared. I lasted about an hour before realising it was completely unplayable. I was one of the early adopters on my original Xbox One. Funnily enough I was considering writing in regarding my experience of Cyberpunk 2077. It’s probably worth playing at some point just to see for yourself but there are many other things worth your time and money. The city is beautiful but empty and the much hyped ‘life paths’ that were supposed to give the game so much depth and replayability turned out to be absolutely meaningless (they literally don’t have any impact).

The actual story part is cool but even that suffers from weird pacing issues and a lack of variety.Īnd despite being billed as an open world game it’s actually pretty linear and very shallow. The progression is fairly meaningless and/or broken and you spend most of your time doing one fetch quest after another with no real payoff.

The bugs, glitches, and technical issues got all of the attention but even when working as intended the game is pretty underwhelming. I don’t regret playing it, but it was not something I cared much about or something that stuck with me over time like other games do. The easiest answer is that you are not missing much. I’d rather they put the time into GTA 6 than having to completely remake the original games in the GTA 5 engine anyway. A lot of people seem to want it to look like GTA 5, but we’ve already got a game that looks like that. The original GTAs felt more like a sandbox of toys to play with than the streamlined hyper real experience they push for now. The character movement and car physics had a more fun bouncy element to them in the original GTAs so I hope they keep that too and just refine it. I’d much rather that than they just go for the less stylised, realistic look they have now. It keeps the cartoonish colourful look of the originals and updates it. I personally am very pleased with how the GTA trilogy remasters looks. GC: As happy as we are to see 60fps standardised in the new generation it’s not something the average gamer cares about and is useless as a selling point to the mainstream. Graphics have always been the least important thing about games. In conjunction with the rapidly developing VR and streaming, the future seems very bright to me.īesides, I’m currently playing Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night for the first time, 20 odd years after release.

That it is now the standard for console gaming shows that, while progression in graphics may have slowed, technology still moves forward for the better. If it’s awe the author is looking for, what has inspired that in me when firing up the PlayStation 5 is 60fps. It is not ray-tracing that should be looked at as the big innovation to inspire awe. However, I do feel the author slightly missed the biggest and best-selling point of the new generation. The jump from 2D to 3D in the early 90s was such a massive jump it’s hard to see something like that happening again. It’s hard not to broadly agree, particularly given what came previously. When it was announced in January it was said to be very early in production.Īn interesting article at the weekend on diminishing returns in graphics between generational leaps. Do we know when the new game is coming out though? I know there’s no date but is there a year? I would hope that the next game tries to keep this balance but manages to have a better script and a lighter tone for Lara herself. I agree with recent criticism of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider’s story but otherwise I thought it was very good in terms of balancing platforming, combat, and supernatural shenanigans. Even ones like the reboot, that get criticised for being too serious, have a lot of supernatural stuff that makes it feel authentic to me. I think the worst of the sequels are the ones that have forgotten this.

2022.09

Game tomb raider