/v/ - Video Games

>>15478352

>What's even the fucking point?

Feminism, duh. It's not about making good games, it's about making political statements and activism that makes cunts feel good about them.

>>15478352

You should try the first reboot, Legends, Anniversary and Underworld.

>>15478352

Devs just got really lazy. If you're the type of person who can design puzzles, you have to be pretty intelligent. It's hard work too. Valve was kind enough to include developer commentary on their Portal games and they play audio from the devs while you play the stages and a whole lot of work goes into designing these large puzzles, not just from a puzzle standpoint but they also want to make sure these things look nice and they won't make dunderheads feel too stupid. It's a whole science involved.

So in modern day TR games, they just can't be fucked. There's a lot of female devs and male feminists and they just can't do what an all male dev team can do. They're not genetically equipped to be able to.

Puzzles and platforming challenges aren't instant gratification enough for the plebe.

>>15478848

>Devs just got really lazy.

Has nothing to do with it. The industry leader have systematically destroyed and transformed interactive media into a revenue source. The product doesn't matter anymore, as long as the look of it can be sold to the masses, while any form of shortcomings are getting buried under marketing lies.

The reboot brings to mind the kind of person whom I like to call failed movie director, the same type of fuck who decides cutscenes and story are really important and the player has to sit his ass down and sit through minutes or hours of pace breaking, boring as shit drivel about whatever said fuck wants to "direct", but was probably turned down by hollywood for sucking massive dick even by hollywood standards not having any relatives or friends in the industry.

How else would you explain a game that takes nearly 2 hours to actually start and when it does it's complete ass and is barely a fraction in terms of quality to the original whose name it adapts, games made decades ago.

>>15478903

Talos was pretty nice

>>15478903

I liked TTP but none of the puzzles were particularly challenging. There was only ONE puzzle that genuinely made me scratch my head and I remember the name of it to this day (Bichromatic Entanglement) because it took me so long to figure out.

The rest of the game's puzzles though didn't seem to want players to have to think too much and were very straight-forward.

>>15478970

The star puzzles and late area DLC puzzles were genuinely challenging, and the normal puzzles were harder than Portal's.

>>15478970

Do the star puzzles or go for the DLCs, I forget the name.

The DLC is excellent and I liked the story more than the vanilla one.

>>15478954

>The reboot brings to mind the kind of person whom I like to call failed movie director

Not like actual film directors are any better considering all Hollywood seems able to shit out are pozzed reboots of popular franchise and increasingly hollow comic book adaptations.

>who decides cutscenes and story are really important

Well, they are, depending on what game you're trying to make. However, that's no excuse to rip out the gameplay, a developer should be more than capable to weave a narrative into the gameplay proper, but since most developers are leftists one can't expect them to reach the lofty heights of an actual human being.

>not having any relatives or friends in the industry.

You can just say he's not Jewish.

>and is barely a fraction in terms of quality to the original whose name it adapts

It's not even the fact that it doesn't play like the old Tomb Raider games, but that it feels completely and utterly soulless. It's just Uncharted without everything that make the first two Uncharted games charming (if shallow). What's worse, they rebooted the franchise a second time because Lara was "problematic", yet ended up with a whiny, incompetent cunt that has no wish to even go into fucking tombs, on top of massive dissonance between how she acts in cutscenes and how she's a killing machine during normal gameplay.

Also, the death animations are creepy as fuck and it's clear that someone, or many, on the dev team are hardcore guro fans.

TR1 still has really strong atmosphere, the remake was shit.

>>15479045

Any games that have good cutscenes and gameplay? I feel like too often they're mutually exclusive. Only one I can think of off the top of my head is the original R&C games. The characters were so whacky you were pretty much guaranteed a laugh every time.

>>15479179

I think Ace Combat games always had a good grasp of how to approach the cinematic "experience" without compromising gameplay. It also helps that all three PS2 games handle the storytelling differently. In 4 the cutscenes tell the story of your antagonist, in 5 it's a traditional, linear narrative while 0 uses the documentary approach, where the various aces that survive the encounter with the player tell the journalist about you (and the cutscenes change depending on what you did).

Legacy of Kain don't have the best gameplay, but cutscenes are obviously treated by the devs as rewards to the player considering how well paced, voiced and written they are. They probably feature some of the best written and voiced dialogue in gaming.

I guess Half Life 1 and 2 should also be mentioned for never breaking PoV and making the cutscenes interactive. And yes, I'm fully aware it's a slog to sit through them on repeated playthroughs, but the first time you experience them and get to poke around while events unfold it's pretty neat, and almost no other game lets you do this.

I guess Max Payne 1 and 2 also count, if only because the gameplay is pretty good and the comicbook feel of the cutscenes makes them very unique.

>>15478903

What I liked about The Talos Principle was how you could cheat. I beat many of the puzzles the wrong way (not the "wrong" way as intended, but actually balancing myself on some weird path that took several attempts to jump to and moving just right)

I also liked the "wrong" solutions that were intended. And the easter eggs. But other than that the game is a long fedora post.

Here's a great play through of the tower climb by Markus Persson.

>>15478667

Come to think of it the only third-person shooter that is not complete shit that I know of is warframe, and mostly because it's a slasher at this point.

>>15478352

It is what happens when devs know they cannot make good games like Tomb Raider so compensate by making "narrative" focused crap and saying it is because times are different. Also gotta love the irony that nu-Lara Croft is more of a failure as an "empowered" woman then the old one ever was.

>>15478752

I'm playing Underworld right now and it's tits

although I have to admit that I was playing Anniversary earlier and I got stuck a few times

>>15478352

>Worst of all can't even fap to R34 of old Lara because the shitty reboot Lara has the same name

>letting the reboot getting in the way of your faps

what a fucking pleb.

>>15480514

I think he means the various porn sites will be front loaded with new lara material

>>15478352

>No "Annoying" platforming

did we play the same games? i recall the platforming being horrendous in the ps1 game i played

>>15480845

>ps1

Found the problem

>>15478352

I pick back up on my TR II playthrough in your honor anon.

And also probably uninstall Shadow in an hour or less once it's cracked

The only thing I don't like about the new raider games is the fact that they removed a lot of the player agency. Hold up to jump, hold left to watch lara do amazing feats of wall climbing and so and so. The old games didn't play themselves and I loved that about them. Aside from that, I prefer fapping to the new one. She looks like a person and seeing her get fucked by a horse is kinda hot. Doesn't she also have a vid of her eating out Clementine?

>>15481078

>uninstall Shadow in an hour

To this day I couldn't stomach finishing Rise of the Tomb Raider. One thing that it turned my PC into an oven, but it was also just a plain 3D platformer that also happened to be an arcade shooter…

>>15481816

>her get fucked by a horse is kinda hot

I know you're serious, but thanks for the chuckle.

I just want this to be clear

LARA WAS FUCKING HOT.

I MEAN SMOKIN.

DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF HER HOOTERS?

WEW

>>15482707

I think I understand muscle fetishists a bit more now.

>>15482753

Yeah, a lot of people equate the terms muscle girl or even fit girl with women who have huge muscles they can only get through massive amounts of steroids. The truth is that most of the time you hear a guy say he likes women with muscles, he's talking about women like the second pic in that post or like Real XXIII's brown girls.

>>15482037

Playing it made me feel like I had gone into an alternate reality. I was playing an imitation of Uncharted, which is a dumbed downed for the casual tardgamer Tomb Raider, except I was playing a game called Tomb Raider.

Just let it be known that Angelina is an ugly horse faced cunt and anyone who thought of her as sexy is disgusting let alone thinking that she was the ideal character for this series.

>>15484046

At least the Angelina Jolie movies got what the franchise was supposed to be about: Fun, slightly ridiculous Indy Jones dungeons.

The recent games AND the new movie forgot all the fun stuff.

>>15484046

The series existed LONG before she was ever cast in the film.

>>15478352

>Decide to look into the reboot

It's funny how many people don't know that the recent titles are actually the second Tomb Raider reboot.

>>15484854

>the recent titles are actually the second Tomb Raider reboot.

isn't this the third time she's BECOMING THE LEGENDARY TOMB RAIDER EPIC ORIGIN STORY?

>>15484993

>Loli Croft

Never enough of this in existence.

>>15482707

>3rd

What was her name again? Was she a mocap actress or a voice actress?

>>15478352

The first series ending with Chronicles was a good start and end, and because the team was tired of Lara and were getting burnt out, just a shame that the team died and went their way to make shit like Rogue Warrior. Now Legends, Anniversary and Underworld was a good revive, but fucking god, fucking Leafs and Rhianna Pratchett butchered her, she fucking whines and cries in all three games, little to no character development, a fucking whiny teenager.

Here's how to play the PC versions of 1, 2, and 3. This is my personal readme file and method.

Tomb Raider 1

Install GOG release. (v1.0)

Run "TR_Multi-Patcher_v1.1" (not needed if using GOG v2.0)

Run "Tomb Raider Automated Fix 1.1.exe" to remove depedency on DOSBox

Tomb Raider 2

Install CD release.

Run "trupdate.exe".

Run the game once, then exit. (This seems to keep the sound intact after using Peixoto)

Install "Remastered_TR2_FMVs".

Run Peixoto's "Help.exe" to run the game in widescreen. Create a shortcut for ease of use.

Tomb Raider 2 Gold

Install CD release.

Run "tr2goldsetup.exe".

Run the game once, then exit. (This seems to keep the sound intact after using Peixoto)

Run Peixoto's "Help.exe" to run the game in widescreen. Create a shortcut for ease of use.

Tomb Raider 3

Install CD release.

Run "trupdate.exe".

Run the game once, then exit. (This seems to keep the sound intact after using Peixoto)

Install "Tomb_Raider_3_fmvs_by_Ronnie".

Run Peixoto's "Help.exe" to run the game in widescreen. Create a shortcut for ease of use.

Tomb Raider 3 Gold

Install CD release.

Run "trupdate.exe".

Make a copy of the installation directory.

Run Peixoto's "Help.exe" to run the game in widescreen. Sound will not work. Exit game.

Replace directory with the copied directory.

Run game, select highest available 4:3 resolution.

The game does not seem to work at all with Peixoto, but it's required to get access to higher resolutions.

Links

TR_Multi-Patcher_v1.1.exe

http://bhemuhelp.co.nf/other/tomb.html

TombRaider-AutomatedFix-release

https://github.com/Carlmundo/TombRaider-AutomatedFix/releases/tag/release

TOMB RAIDER II MULTIPATCH (trupdate.exe) (Applies to 2, 3, 4)

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr2/fixes.html

Remastered_TR2_FMVs

http://www.core-desplease use archive.ism/community_remasteredtr2fmvs.html

tr2goldsetup

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/vista/tr2g_demo.html

Tomb_Raider_3_fmvs_by_Ronnie

http://www.core-desplease use archive.ism/community_remasteredtr3fmvs.html

Peixoto

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=53121

>>15485516

I forgot about that stupid wordfilter fucking up the links.

Remastered_TR2_FMVs

http://www.core-desig­n.com/community_remasteredtr2fmvs.html

Tomb_Raider_3_fmvs_by_Ronnie

http://www.core-desig­n.com/community_remasteredtr3fmvs.html

original Tomb Raider was fine for its time for 3-4 first entries

then it got real annoying and clunky real fast as games became better

Legend and Anniversary are newer Tomb Raiders and even those are hard to control

imagine actually trying to make a single fucking jump be fucking geometrically right so you could do this one tricks, its borderline autistic design

>>15478352

Play TR Anniversary, Legend and Underworld if you want something modern but not shit. The Croft manor is particularly comfy in Anniversary and Legend.

>>15478752

Only play Anniversary, Legend starts out fun but shits its bed in the last half and Underworld is just straight out terrible.

>>15484046

I feel the same way about Scarlett Johansen now too. What the fuck is wrong with everybody why do people fine these women attractive?

>>15486779

Which one?

Is this porn?

>>15486927

ScarJo not only already shat out a kid, she's like 40 years old or something. Definitely not top shelf pussy anymore.

>>15487009

She's a womanlet too.

>>15487009

She NEVER looked good though. Go look at pictures of her when she was still young and in her 20's. You can't hide the jewnose and the huge lips.

The fuck is with women and huge lips anyways, Angelina Jolee had those massive puffed up niggerlips too.

>>15486975

No

Indiana Jones comes in and interrupts them shortly after that webm ends

I'm not even joking

>>15487021

>huge lips

They seem to indicate severe mental illness

>>15487084

I see.

Why?

>>15485516

>>15485529

Thank you.

>>15484215

>>15488342

3rd person shooter isn't an inherently terrible genre, it just matters how it's used. to warrant being third person you need part of the game to depend on keeping track on your entire character model, so adding an aspect of movement with say, jumping around on platforms while shooting would translate over better into third person better than first person but Rich is right how it's just a slapped in choice of big developers, it's probably considered either easier to make, or more cinematic to make a third person game include aspects like walkie talkies

>>15489140

SFM has become absolute shit the past couple years. Theres maybe two decent animators left even bothering with it and they release shit once every 6 months.

>>15484215

I jerked off while playing that game so many times.

>>15482753

I don't think it's fair to call liking physically fit women a fetish.

>>15482846

This. I don't want a male bodybuilder with a woman's head, I want a woman in prime physical form. Fit women are still pretty and feminine unless they use unnatural means. But deep down, I know I'll never deserve one until I've attained the male equivalent.

>>15489171

Excuse me, general.

>>15478352

Just play Dagger of Xian. It looks nice.

>>15489236

This is the reason why I love classic Lara so much, despite being an over the top 90s action babe she actually ages as a character.

She learned how dangerous the world of adventuring can be by getting fucked over by Werner von Croy and her other adventures that happened before the first Game, hence why she has later no problems shooting in self defense and why she became more merciless after Chronicles.

Meanwhile Nulara just got bad touched by an evil guy once and automatically turned into the fucking Predator ripping peoples spines out.

>>15478667

I miss Pre-Rec, AIDSMoby was annoying but Rich made it worthwhile.

>>15497108

her ass and breasts get smaller every game. Thank god even normalfags are lukewarm to this final entry

>>15505379

I heard her breasts got larger this time around.

>>15505384

look smaller to me, hopefully someone provides comparisons though to double check.