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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 34% off on Steam
- Thread starter Rodjer
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I got a copy for $40 at launch and i feel robbed lol, this is why is difficult to support some games on day 1, it only takes a few weeks for the price to drop.
This is exactly why I am waiting. I think Tomb Raider games have a history of being heavily discounted very early on.
Even if I bought it at the full $60 price tag at launch I wouldn't have even had time to play it anyway. Bring on the steam holiday sale, and that 50% off off TR.
Savings come to those who wait!
Oof. I played it at launch and got about 7 hours in and would say it's still not worth the discounted price. I might return to it eventually.
EDIT: WOW the season pass is already discounted and NONE of the season pass stuff is even released yet! Holy shit that's a slap in the face to day one adopters.
EDIT: WOW the season pass is already discounted and NONE of the season pass stuff is even released yet! Holy shit that's a slap in the face to day one adopters.
"Following the first Weapon/Outfit drop on September 14th, Season Pass content will release on a monthly basis starting November 2018."
Basically none of the items in the season pass have even been released yet lmao
Basically none of the items in the season pass have even been released yet lmao
Yeah. Awesome.
The fact that bought it last week of september for full price digital....
And isn't this like really scummy? There has not been a single piece of DLC yet...
The fact that bought it last week of september for full price digital....
And isn't this like really scummy? There has not been a single piece of DLC yet...
Sarcasm obviously, game is solid but like the others it gets boring rather quickly.
Yeah i know I didn't bite since i started rise of the tomb raider like a few months ago and other games came up. Guessing sales weren't that strong which i know a lot of folks saw coming.
What?!
The game had issues but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I hope it's not selling too badly...
The game had issues but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I hope it's not selling too badly...
With what we've heard about the sales and now this. It only means one thing, it's underperforming.
Yep, we won't see a new TR anytime soon. The Reboot formula needed a change tho.
Hm, that's not good. I wonder if I should even bother with it.
Man this game is so weird. I like it overall, but they took some of the combat criticism to heart a little too much. So they drastically reduced the amount of time you spend in combat in this game. That would be fine if instead exploration and tombs / puzzle solving saw an increase in quality. Is that the case though? Not at all. There's about as many tombs / puzzles in this game as there was in Rise, and I can't think of a single tomb I liked more in this game compared to 1 or 2. The time cut-off from combat is instead replaced with Exploration, not Tombs. In my opinion, exploration in these games (the new trilogy) is easily the weakest aspect. You're constantly flip-flopping between the map and survival instincts while your brain is on auto-pilot. Even if you set exploration difficulty to high, you can still find maps that reveal the location of artifacts / documents all over the area. Only problem is that instead of using Survival Instincts to get the locations that are already on your map, you're constantly going in and out of the map menu because the survival instincts no longer show points of interest that are already on your map. It's very poor design that just wastes time instead of providing added challenges.
Also, this is incredibly depressing for me. I still love the Tomb Raider franchise, but I just can't believe the downward trend of the reboot games since TR2013. I never thought I'd want TR to just be a more linear, simple action game like the reboot, but CD and Eidos Montreal just could not create more "open ended" adventure games that were satisfying, especially as the writing and stories just got worse each game.
The Legend/Anniversary/Underworld trilogy had its flaws, and Underworld especially felt unfortunately unpolished, but the story was still pretty damn good and had a GREAT ending that tied things up perfectly with the two prior games. There was fun game design and fire in the narrative department in CD's first trio of TR games that is just totally gone from Rise and Shadow. I'm just baffled at who approved a boring, flat sequel that floods the player with literal garbage skills/upgrades/currencies on a constant basis to facilitate combat that barely exists, and is only supplanted by a neat puzzle every 90 minutes.
The Legend/Anniversary/Underworld trilogy had its flaws, and Underworld especially felt unfortunately unpolished, but the story was still pretty damn good and had a GREAT ending that tied things up perfectly with the two prior games. There was fun game design and fire in the narrative department in CD's first trio of TR games that is just totally gone from Rise and Shadow. I'm just baffled at who approved a boring, flat sequel that floods the player with literal garbage skills/upgrades/currencies on a constant basis to facilitate combat that barely exists, and is only supplanted by a neat puzzle every 90 minutes.
Damn. Talk about a game that the world just didn't care about. Wonder what they'll do with the franchise next, and how soon.
