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Square Enix President Celebrates Tomb Raider’s 20th Anniversary: “Tomb Raider Will Evolve More”

Tomb Raider celebrates its 20th anniversary this year (on October 25th), and Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda appeared in a video message to wish the series happy birthday.

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ShadowKnight2888d ago (Edited 2888d ago )

Well deserved! Enjoyed playing the rise of the TR in 4K

starchild2887d ago

Yeah, it was a really great experience for me. I played it at 1440p and it is a beautiful and truly fun game, imo.

miyamoto2887d ago (Edited 2887d ago )

meh, Tomb Raider should have remained true to itself instead of trying hard to be a mix of Uncharted and TLOU.
Lara should have stayed true to her original herself with none of that identity crisis stuff.

The real Lara would take any hard times and difficulty into an opportunity.

-Foxtrot2888d ago

The franchise didn't really evolve though did it? More like just turned into a different game by copying another....Uncharted. The game could have been called "The Island" and you would have never have known it was Tomb Raider.

I'd kill for a remake of the first one...not like the Anniversary game but more in line with the original just updated graphics.

Least then the fear, suspense and survival element would be there...which is part of Tomb Raider not found in the new ones. I mean you don't get hazards and close moments like these

http://i.makeagif.com/media...

http://i.makeagif.com/media...

https://archaeologyoftombra...

BlackTar1872887d ago

O man it looked so much better back then lol. OG tomb raider was awesome. New tomb raider is awesome but they aren't the same game. Jumping the boats in #2 the sliding to jump off an edge to barely grab a ledge that has viable wolf's waiting for you. Great games

Imalwaysright2887d ago (Edited 2887d ago )

So you want tank controls to be back in 2016? TR annyversary is a great TR remake with satisfying platforming (no tank controls) a level design that rivals Ico and fully encapsulates that atmosphere of loneliness of the 1st TR which imo has yet to be matched by any other game. Toby Gard, Tomb Raider creator, was part of the team that developed Annyversary so if he can't deliver what you consider to be a true TR game no one will.

Also, I still don't understand how you say that TR is just an Uncharted copy when Uncharted was heavily inspired by TR. I don't think you know how important the 1st TR and its sequels were to the action adventure genre to say something like that.

ninsigma2887d ago

Come one dude. Those gigs look nothing like uncharted. They are so different. The reboot though plays just like the uncharted series.

Imalwaysright2887d ago (Edited 2887d ago )

TR Legend, PS2 game.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Does it look like it plays like in those gifs to you?

No more tank controls and you can already see the platforming and climbing that we saw on the TR2013 as well as the level design to "accommodate" this type of platforming and if you watch the whole video you will also see QTEs. You could say that TR took the cover system from Uncharted but then I look at sandbox games like GTA or RPGs like Mass Effect... I look at how pretty much every third person game with shooting mechanics has a cover system and over the shoulder view so why should TR be any different? I call that the Chris Esaki effect.

What I see from Uncharted in TR 2013 are over the top setpieces and the cinematic flair.

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Imalwaysright2887d ago (Edited 2887d ago )

@ bruce755

Did you watch the video I posted? TR 2013 has TR legend vertical platforming and climbing. What do you mean by rudimentary? It's the same exact thing. Movement? You mean moving with left analog stick and controling the camera with the right analog stick? Present in TR legend as well. No more tank controls in TR since TR legend.

TR was inspired by Indiana Jones as well. I believe it was the 1st 3D action adventure inspired by Indiana Jones so when I play Uncharted I see things from TR in Uncharted but like I stated above I also see things from Uncharted when I play TR reboots.

Edit:

Do it well? No, TR legend platforming is extremely satisfying and fun. Did you play the game to know how the platforming in that game feels?

-Foxtrot2887d ago

Here we go...the guy who thinks the new games play EXACTLY the same as the originals

Yeah sure ok man

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MasterCornholio2887d ago

Never finished any of the old TR games but I agree that it doesn't look like Uncharted.

Hold_It2887d ago (Edited 2887d ago )

Actually it just improved upon the Tomb Raider Legend formula. Maybe if you actually went back and played those games, you'd see that those were out long before Uncharted was ever thought of and had very similar mechanics that the Reboot and Rise have.. Tomb Raider games aren't super linear with a big cinematic approach, so Tomb Raider is NOTHING like Uncharted.

freshslicepizza2887d ago

the exploring and platforming were good back then but the controls were awful. nothing wrong with making it more action oriented in the sense of uncharted and far cry because you dont have to cater to the original gamer from back then. that's why they call it a fresh reboot. problem is some people are so wrapped up in nostalgia they cannot accept change. look what happened to devil may cry, it was actually a fun game to play.

mochachino2887d ago

No mainstream audience is going to accept those tank controls.

Best thing for Square to do is remake the old ones with new graphics and keep the current series going.

-Foxtrot2887d ago

Woah I didn't say tank controls. They can still update the controls just make it TR

Imalwaysright2887d ago

"Here we go...the guy who thinks the new games play EXACTLY the same as the originals

Yeah sure ok man"

Is that what you got from my comments?

No, TR doesn't play exactly like the original like GTA V doesn't play like GTA3, like Doom doesn't play like the original, like FIFA doesn't play like the original like GT doesn't play like the original... It's called evolution and despite these games not playing exactly like the originals, they still have all the elements and concepts that were present in the games that started these franchises.

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Inzo2887d ago

Lets hope it evolves into Tomb Raider.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty3d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken3d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty3d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken3d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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