Re: Shadow of the Tomb Raider sees steep decline in physical sales compared to predecessor
2018/09/19 13:14:44
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I pre-ordered when it 1st became available to pre-order.
The problem with the series now is, the 2013 TR was THE best of the series. Even better than the original game.
The 2015 Rise was not as good, had a rambly story that was hard to follow, and didnt do TOMBing well, and the rest was already done in the 2013 version. I didnt think it was nearly as good as 2013.
Shadow has really good parkour (just like all 3), and 'tries' to incorperate more of what was in 2013, with the slides of death, underwater deaths, etc, and its better than 2015 so far, but its not as good as either 2013 nor 2015. It has TERRIBLE controls on the pc, along with HORRIBLE camera angles, and not enough time to do some things (yeah, they brought back the need to use 5 keys at once just to do a forward + sideways + jump + another key to either use pick or rope, all in the space of 30 milliseconds), AND they take away control from the user WAY more than 2015, maybe as much as in 2013, which was a very bad idea.
All that said, its still Tomb Raider, its just not a very good one, they should have rebooted it AGAIN instead of trying to jam everything from every tTR game into this one.
Oh, and I DO like the new Croft Manor. That may be the best part of the game so far, to me. :)
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