Slimebeast said:
In what way? I know you well as a poster in general, especially when it comes to world-view, politics and stuff (u'r a great guy), but I'm not sure what your view is on gameplay versus presentation, and your view on hand-holding and dumbing down of current gen games. So, how would you describe the new TR in that context? |
Why, thank you. You are a great poster too.
As for TR I think there's a fine line between dumbing down and genuinely having to make a game simpler due to people increasingly having less time to play them and 3D assets becoming more expensive. As you surely know, there was way more stuff in old strategy and RPG games than on modern ones. So... yeah.
I think the new TR is more of the later than the former. It isn't like former TR games, much like Fallout 3 isn't Fallout 2, but it delivers what it offers, an interesting action game with a few puzzle and open-world elements to spice things up, and a few hidden depths. That's way more than 95% of the games being released nowadays so props to Eidos for that.
It could be better here and there, yes, but so Assassin's Creed and Drake's Fortune could - it's the same kind of minor flaws of design and gameplay that properly fixed could deliver a generation's finest game next time around.
