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Cosplayers, eh? How long until this thread devolves into anime and furries?

Ugh, I doubt I'm going to finish Tomb Raider. I'm on the beach looking for Alex, however far into the game that is. At this point, my hatred for this game has grown so strong it's pretty much overtaking any desire I have left to finish it. I just want this crap off my hard drive and out of my life.

The question about creation. Do our creators want to destroy us? Were we an accident? A mistake? A random experiment gone wrong? Why did they make us in the first place? For what purpose? To play god? Simply to experiment? As some sort of desperate bid to survive?

Prometheus is frustrating as ****. There are things to like about the movie. The cinematography is flat out amazing (it should be it's a Ridley Scott film), there are some really cool sequences, and there central message/theme is pretty profound. However, the plot has so many holes in it that it's more hole than plot. I mean, the writing is absolutely atrocious. So many things in the movie make absolutely no sense at all. There are characters that are completely useless both from a plot and an entertainment standpoint. It's such a mess. It 's a movie that makes you think, for the right reasons (profound message) and for the wrong reasons (what the **** is going on? None of this makes any sense).

To tie into video games, Roberta Williams was quite the looker back in the day:

The most beautiful woman in the world, some 15 years running now, is Charlize Theron; Slightly lesser these days with the short hair, but still #1. Your opinion may differ, in that case you're just wrong.

I also scooped up Risen 2 Gold, but I have to finish my hate-play of Tomb Raider first. By that time it will almost be time for Shadowrun Returns and Call of Prypiat Misery 2.0, so I may not play I for some months.

I'm still going to get that purple angel companion for ardent coins... Some 9 or 10 months from now. There's nothing else worth trading those coins for anyway. The new purple healer companion does seem cool, but no chance I'm spending Zen for a small chance of getting one. Screw that. I'm happy with my Acolyte of Kelemvor. In theory, some day, far off into the distant future, they will introduce those mythical manuals that will let me upgrade her to a purple companion. In theory.

Still no La Mulana or Of Orcs and Men on special, yet I've seen some games 2 or 3 times on special already.

If they make a sequel it will be far more action oriented and called Cradle 2: The Grave. /hides

Well, metal nipples ARE pretty doggone cool. Also, I looks like it's not a murder simulator, which is a definite plus.

Puke or garbage or something. I'm assuming it's supposed to be held by a goon, except the goon ain't there.

I don't understand most of what's happening, but I like what I see.

What the... ?

Eh, given that she actually states that she's rather surprised at how easy all the killing has been, I think it's safe to say that she's just sociopathic and will have no issues That's what she says now. Then she wakes up in the middle of the night in cold sweat with a strangled cat next to her and broken furniture strewn about her room. No wonder she's still single in the games. She either scares potential suitors away with her disregard for human life or murders them in her sleep.

As long as they're doing prequels and giving Lara backstory, the next game should be about her trying to overcome the PTSD from all the horrors she had to endure and commit in this game.

Fair. I still think they could have achieved that goal without having Lara go on a killing spree that would make John Rambo cringe. She could have become a confident survivor by murdering 5 or 10 or 15 or even 20 people. She didn't have to murder a town's population worth of people.

To each their own. I didn't think Tomb Raider was a bad game (outside of their overuse of QTEs), it's just not what I consider a Tomb Raider game. I actually enjoyed the brutally difficult jumps having to hit precise angles and have split second timing of previous games. I enjoyed that challenge and didn't mind dying a bunch of times while figuring things out. I liked the aspect of "Hmm, can I make that jump? Is it too far? Can I make that angle? How the heck am I going to get over there?" To me, that was what Tomb Raider was all about.

GabeN Y U No Put Of Orcs and Men and La Mulana 75% off?

You may be right about locations showing up. I'm not sure, I try to stay away from the map. Also, I never use "survival instincts" or whatever the cheat/hint function is called, because, holy ****, stuff is so ridiculously easy to figure out as it is. At the very least, they could have include some devilishly difficult platforming for the optional tombs, oh and make them a bit longer than 3 jumps worth of platforming. I mean, throw me at least SOME challenge in platforming and puzzle solving. The only "challenge" in the game is when you have to murder 15 or 20 people at the same time, instead of just 7 or 8.

Agreed. I'm of the mind that every Tomb Raider game has too much combat, this one just takes it to an extreme. The lore of the artifacts is cool, it would be nice if they weren't so ridiculously easy to find. Oh and just in case you can't find them on your own (don't worry you'll most likely run smack dab into them by accident anyway), they're pointed out to you on your map. Heaven forbid you actually have to search for these artifacts. What I liked about Tomb Raider games in the past was clever puzzles and challenging platforming. This game is completely devoid of both of those things. The platforming is ridiculously easy and puzzles, what there's maybe 3 or 4 of them in the entire game, are so simple that it;s an insult. The game has a good story and great acting. It's also a solid murder simulator. I didn't want to play a murder simulator. I wanted to, you know, raid some tombs. I know, I must be completely out of my mind to expect to be raiding tombs in a game called Tomb Raider. Silly me. Edit @melkathi - LOL, my bad.

Yeah, it's not an enviable position. I almost wish the game was complete garbage so that I could just wipe it off my hard drive now and be done with it, but it does have redeeming qualities and the story, acting, and production values are good enough that I'm invested enough to want to see it through to the end. But there is just so much ****ing combat, and when I do get a reprieve from combat and actually get to do some platforming it's so childishly easy that it's practically a slap in the face. The worst is stumbling into an optional tomb. This should be a moment of happiness for me, but it's actually quite the opposite. First, how ****ing sad is it that TOMBS are optional in TOMB ****ing RAIDER, not to mention very few and far between. Second these tombs always consist of one puzzle so easy it's pathetic and about 3 jumps worth of platforming. Basically it takes about a minute to complete these optional tombs. What I wouldn't give for Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith to zap me with the memory eraser thingy and wipe this whole experience from my mind. Yes, I did just use a M.I.B. reference.

I'm borderline hate-playing Tomb Raider at this point. My god, Lara must have killed 300 people by now, it's just an almost endless stream of violence. The combat is decent enough and I'll give the game points for having fairly good enemy AI, but there are already a million other murder simulators out there on the market, some of them much better than this. And make no mistake, that's what Tomb Raider is, a murder simulator. By trying to appeal to a broader audience, the game has lost its niche. As a Tomb Raider game it's garbage. I'd borderline recommend Angel of Darkness over this for someone looking for a Tomb Raider experience. As a murder simulator, it's solid, but there are many better choices on the market. And QTEs... I was never a fan of them before, but I was more tolerant of them than the majority. At this point, I find QTEs almost as disgusting as snuff porn. I'm looking forward to finishing the game so I can wipe it off my hard drive and never touch it again. As far as I'm concerned, Lara Croft is finished, the series is dead.

I won't. Then people on Steam would see me purchasing a Bioware game. What would that do to my reputation? Nothing?

LSL's length came from getting stuck on obtuse puzzles. Its girth came from spending endless hours just clicking on (or, originally, typing) stuff to get funny responses. And, yes, I responded just so I could get those crappy puns in. You're welcome.