Tomb Raider hands-on: “a lack of meaningful interaction”

[Mr Khan]

Soleron said:

Mr Khan said:
I foresee a game that's going to really divide gamers. It'll draw as much rancor as FFXIII or RE5, but like those games, perhaps breed a new generation of fans who will fight viciously with the old.

I'm concerned that people growing up in this era of games will only think of a single-player game as a sequence of cinematic setpieces with cutscenes. Where every part of the game tells you what to do and you never feel like you can affect the outcome through skill or ingenuity. It's not that that kind of game is bad, it's that that's all the industry knows how to make now: we couldn't get a Super Mario 64 or Metroid Prime out of them if they tried.

The next generation to go into the game industry will think only of how to get their 'story' on everyone's screens, instead of just wanting to make people smile.

That's something Rol said in an earlier thread about this game, but it was more to the effect of "the game industry all wants to make the same type of game."

Not entirely true, although major Western games that aren't FPSes or Sports or Racing all seem to be falling into either the Uncharted archetype, the GTA archetype, or the Elder Scrolls archetype.