[Talbain]

Dunno if this is old, but Skullgirls is doing a fundraiser thing.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-skullgirls-growing/x/2514722?c=home

Also this:

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[boojiboy7]

I love that he is embarrassing the other guy by just saying what the game is doing, to the point where they tell him to knock it off.

and then she gets impaled and Conan loses his shit.

this seems like as much of a review as this game deserves.

[Loki Laufeyson]

they should get that guy to do an american version of game center cx
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[Isfet]

wow

honestly, for a moment, i had considered checking out the new Tomb Raider based on the suggestion of a friend, but...that looks incredibly, incredibly unappealing.

[Felix]

I have to say I really like the Conan O'Brien game reviews, he actually reacts to them like a sensible human being who hasn't been exposed to this crap for the past 20-odd years

seriously, though, as someone who has occasionally throughout his life consumed pornography in which the female character(s) could be said to not be totally enjoying themselves, that Tomb Raider violent torture porn is incredibly disturbing. most pornography is designed to be less visceral than the reality; this is the opposite.

[A New Duck]

Beyond the troublesome leering and torturey aspects of it, at least that first area looks like Heavy Rain the point and click adventure with Final Fantasy VII's snowboarding minigame.
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[parker]

Is the whole game quick time events and uncharted climbing like that?
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[BotageL]

No, the other half is Uncharted-style cover shooting.
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[parker]

How long do they keep guns from you?
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[Takashi]

Didn't the previews mostly showed bow and arrow? I wonder how they rationalize her being able to use one of those.
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[Gironika]

hey people, it's still a, you know, game.


I (fondly) remember the press being up in arms before the GTAIV release, discussing if the xtreme violence of the game would mean the end of humanity™ et al, and … well, it seems we're still alive and kicking. I guess that the same will apply even after it hit the shelves ... maybe I'm too lazy to be bothered by this?
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[Takashi]

A thing that conan vid really did show there, and the one that I feel is objectionable.
I remember the first time I died in the blades of the original Prince of Persia - the PC version shows a reasonably realistic facsimile (for the era) of your character sliced in half. But here's the thing - I died because I acted recklessly. I had control over my character and I got him killed, but I never felt like the game wanted me to see that image.
Tomb Raider forces you into a river and kills your character over and over again with a spike thru the head because you lack the ability to see the future.

On another note, her ponytail collision seems incredibly bugged, what makes me wonder about the final quality of the assets.
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[Felix]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

The PC version has been hyping the hair tech that isn't on consoles, so there's that :/

[Ronnoc]

It's really great hair tech tho

[Takashi]

I hope that means all the islanders in the PC version are members of a hair metal band.
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[tiburon]

conan is too real for video games man

fuck that neckbeard shouting shit at him the whole time though

these are the people making your video games

[thestage]

tomb raider is basically a distillation of the last five or so years of video games. a terrible coda to an awful era we can hopefully just forget about

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

nu lara is pretty hot tho :B

[Talbain]

[The Troops]

murder defenseless animals because they spill delicious xp

[CubaLibre]

So excited to pirate this.
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[Ymer]

So this new Tombe Raider is basically just Uncharted then? Does it have anything unique going for it except for a bow? Wasn't it supposed to have survival ascpects or something? Because I was really hoping for something Snake Eater like there.

[kitroebuck]

Yeah, I mean, I'm never going to play the game because it's too violent (take note), but it seems that a large part of the combat is stealth based. I mean, now you're murdering people that not only never did anything to you, but aren't even expecting that they may be murdered. They just took a job with a dodgy contractor. Maybe if you actually threatened them they might have given up, but no, you slaughter them without them ever really realizing they were in danger.

I dunno, maybe my objection stems from playing abstractly violent games as a child and being able to maintain some distance from the objectionable act that is no longer possible.

[SuperWes]

[thestage]

eurogamer's review basically says that all the puzzles are optional, which should not have surprised me in the slightest but still managed to.

I think it's at least more open than Uncharted, but the combat and all the set pieces and the out of place hyper murder, yeah, that's Uncharted. oh and it starts out with like a two hour porn-'n-torture QTE string

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[misadventurous]

jesus h. christ lara croft having the worst day of her life

all falling off shit and onto needles, climbing ladders and suddenly they snap like toothpicks

i couldn't watch that impaled-through-the-neck more than a few times either. can't blame Conan for his reaction at all

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[Schwere Viper]

I saw a documentary on the team that made Tomb Raider up to I believe the fourth game, and a full five-ten minutes is spent interviewing the guy who apparently sat in a cubicle and thought up ways to kill Lara.

Wonder if it's the same guy.
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[Bennett]

[MattCD42]

[halken]

Can anything be left to the player's imagination?

[allensmithee]

[boojiboy7]

yeah, i can't believe people are defending the new tomb raider, but, oh well, gamers.

[allensmithee]

it has me very slightly interested to see how horribly it all plays out but that is not something i will pay money for or creatively condone
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[Talbain]

I don't really think I can play this game. Seeing that sort of stuff makes me physically nauseous. Probably has something to do with my phobia of needles.
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[tacotaskforce]

Seeing as how I'm the closest thing SB has to a Tomb Raider Defense Force I feel like I should play this game to have a more educated view on what and where things go wrong, but I have neither the financial desire nor ability to purchase a copy. It feels like there's something different about this aside from the asset railroads and the combat corridors, but I still can't put my finger on it.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

It's unfortunate this is called Tomb Raider because when I think of Tomb Raider I think of overcoming challenging spaces in interesting places, not Uncharted-style murder-simming. Because a new Uncharted-type game might be neat if you're into that type of game but man, Tomb Raider used to mean exploring a place and figuring out how to get from point A to B without getting eaten by wild animals or impaled on spikes.

And I guess this new one is ostensibly about that as well but everything they've shown of it so far indicates it's really not. Which is kind of depressing but oh well there are still those four original games that were about that so I can always just reinstall those instead.

Tomb Raider Anniversary was pretty good. Haven't played Legend beyond the demo, I might check it out at some point. I guess there's Underworld as well, in the same vein, but I never heard much about how well that did.
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