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ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
good for tomb raider,i bought one of those,personally it is much more my sort of game TR,i played GOW's on PS2 and thought they were great just too old for the heavy button bash these days.lol,poor wrists

but GOW is really usa heavy i think,not saying it will sell better than the others but they love their GOW over there


I'm not sure if you remember, but you were the one I asked a bunch of questions on which tomb raider I should play a for years ago.

I've since bought and beat every tomb raider besides Anniversay (idk I guess I got bored of it because it's a remake of the first TR) and Chronicles haha.

how long ago did you play the first one,i'd still play anniversary but i had big gaps between them,i played it on 3 systems,lol,i still think it is one of my favs,i have only started the new one,so can't say,but i quite like it and they spent a few quid on it by the looks of it,

yes i think i was gaming tired by angel of darkness/chronicles i can't quite remember as  they all start to blur into one game for me



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zuvuyeay said:
ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
good for tomb raider,i bought one of those,personally it is much more my sort of game TR,i played GOW's on PS2 and thought they were great just too old for the heavy button bash these days.lol,poor wrists

but GOW is really usa heavy i think,not saying it will sell better than the others but they love their GOW over there


I'm not sure if you remember, but you were the one I asked a bunch of questions on which tomb raider I should play a for years ago.

I've since bought and beat every tomb raider besides Anniversay (idk I guess I got bored of it because it's a remake of the first TR) and Chronicles haha.

how long ago did you play the first one,i'd still play anniversary but i had big gaps between them,i played it on 3 systems,lol,i still think it is one of my favs,i have only started the new one,so can't say,but i quite like it and they spent a few quid on it by the looks of it,

yes i think i was gaming tired by angel of darkness/chronicles i can't quite remember as  they all start to blur into one game for me

like a year ago. I played it right after TR1 so seeing mostly the same thing was a bit tiresome I think I almost beat it anyways, I reformatted my computer I think and deleted my save. But I intend to beat it and chronicles since I wanna play more TR again.

This one is obviously more expensive, because most of them had 1 year dev time, except for TR1, Angel of Darkness, and Legend of which I'm not sure what their dev time was.




ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
good for tomb raider,i bought one of those,personally it is much more my sort of game TR,i played GOW's on PS2 and thought they were great just too old for the heavy button bash these days.lol,poor wrists

but GOW is really usa heavy i think,not saying it will sell better than the others but they love their GOW over there


I'm not sure if you remember, but you were the one I asked a bunch of questions on which tomb raider I should play a for years ago.

I've since bought and beat every tomb raider besides Anniversay (idk I guess I got bored of it because it's a remake of the first TR) and Chronicles haha.

how long ago did you play the first one,i'd still play anniversary but i had big gaps between them,i played it on 3 systems,lol,i still think it is one of my favs,i have only started the new one,so can't say,but i quite like it and they spent a few quid on it by the looks of it,

yes i think i was gaming tired by angel of darkness/chronicles i can't quite remember as  they all start to blur into one game for me

like a year ago. I played it right after TR1 so seeing mostly the same thing was a bit tiresome I think I almost beat it anyways, I just was unmotivated to see what happened because I knew. But I intend to beat it and chronicles since I wanna play more TR again.

is chronicles the one where you go up a high building with lots of corridors,i seem to remember a level like that but not sure what game it is now

if you squeezed all those in a couple of years,you must get TR tired,the new one must have been good for you then if it is more action orientated,honestly i am only t the mountain temple so don't know how it pans out but was glad it was just me being able to roam around without waves of enemies which i guess will come like uncharted but who knows

yes maybe you should have left anniversary until after legend or something,legend,anniversary and underworld are pretty good tomb raiders really,not that everyone agrees i'm sure but they have nice puzzles



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kowenicki said:
platformmaster918 said:
Piernik said:
Wow what a shocking suprise, another unnecessary Sony exclusive bombed! :LOL

yeah...bombed.  You know it's going to sell a few million right?  I mean this is 3 days in 1 small region


3 days in the second biggest sony market outside of Japan you mean?

exactly.  Still 3 days.  Still not that big of a market.  Now if the whole of Europe were small then we can talk, but not just 1 country in it.




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zuvuyeay said:
ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
ishiki said:
zuvuyeay said:
good for tomb raider,i bought one of those,personally it is much more my sort of game TR,i played GOW's on PS2 and thought they were great just too old for the heavy button bash these days.lol,poor wrists

but GOW is really usa heavy i think,not saying it will sell better than the others but they love their GOW over there


I'm not sure if you remember, but you were the one I asked a bunch of questions on which tomb raider I should play a for years ago.

I've since bought and beat every tomb raider besides Anniversay (idk I guess I got bored of it because it's a remake of the first TR) and Chronicles haha.

how long ago did you play the first one,i'd still play anniversary but i had big gaps between them,i played it on 3 systems,lol,i still think it is one of my favs,i have only started the new one,so can't say,but i quite like it and they spent a few quid on it by the looks of it,

yes i think i was gaming tired by angel of darkness/chronicles i can't quite remember as  they all start to blur into one game for me

like a year ago. I played it right after TR1 so seeing mostly the same thing was a bit tiresome I think I almost beat it anyways, I just was unmotivated to see what happened because I knew. But I intend to beat it and chronicles since I wanna play more TR again.

is chronicles the one where you go up a high building with lots of corridors,i seem to remember a level like that but not sure what game it is now

if you squeezed all those in a couple of years,you must get TR tired,the new one must have been good for you then if it is more action orientated,honestly i am only t the mountain temple so don't know how it pans out but was glad it was just me being able to roam around without waves of enemies which i guess will come like uncharted but who knows

yes maybe you should have left anniversary until after legend or something,legend,anniversary and underworld are pretty good tomb raiders really,not that everyone agrees i'm sure but they have nice puzzles

I think so, I've watched gameplay and theirs like this dude nagging her in the building. I haven't played that. I've like pretty much all of them but TR2, and Angel of Darkness.

Yeah, it's definetly more action oriented. But for me the surprising thing was that I enjoyed the combat system more than most other action games and whenever I though there was going to be much shooting it tamed it down with puzzles or places to roam. There are places with waves of enemy's but there's also much bigger places where you can roam around later. I thought this game was was more of a 50/50 ratio in combat to exploration/puzzles etc, compared to uncharteds 80/20, or most other TR's 20/80 aside from TR2. I made up those numbers so they may be wrong, haha.

And after game you can roam around the island looking for collectibles with no combat.

You don't use survival instinct right? They make things a bit too obvious anyways.



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This was pretty expected wasn't it? Though I am surprised by Tomb Raider holding the top spot. Will be interesting to see how Gears sells, though I'm betting it will probably be more than GOW, considering the UK leans more towards the 360.



Id say its more Uncharted 2 > Tomb Raider > Uncharted >> Uncharted 3

Tomb Raider really is that good, guys.



                            

Carl2291 said:
Id say its more Uncharted 2 > Tomb Raider > Uncharted >> Uncharted 3

Tomb Raider really is that good, guys.

yeah well for me Uncharted 3>Uncharted 2>Uncharted

not gonna get TR until BF but it looks great




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Barozi said:
Skrunch-a-tron said:
So... from what I can tell, this game came out on the 15th in the UK. so... It's only had three days. I realize I'll probably get blasted by people saying things like "NUH IT DONT WERK DAT WEIGH. ONLY FRST DAYS COUONT" and stuff like that, but to me it makes sense to have such low sales if it's only been on the market for three days in Europe. It came out Tuesday in America, and it's had a week. Plus, we haven't even seen the American sales, let alone the sales for the rest of the world. So I don't get why everyone's so concerned...? maybe by throwing some math and judgement together we can predict what the worldwide sales will be...? ugh, whatever. I'm really enjoying this game either way.

I see that excuse a lot.

In 90% of the cases a game comes out on a Tuesday in the US and on a Friday in Europe.
Therefore GoW isn't special in that case. The first few days are the most important ones (for non-casual games) so the majority of sales have already been made. We know it did 27k-30k, even with 4 more days it would've done 40k at the end of the week. (2nd week drop is usually over 50%).
At least you didn't make the mistake to say that these numbers only include 1 day of sales.... I see that a lot as well. Though I think they're stopping the week on a Saturday, so it's actually 2 days.

I can understand the hyseria though. Whether it be a small market for that game or not, it hasn't beaten the second week of a multiplat game, let alone its best selling version.  And Tomb Raider is not a huge seller either.


Having said all that. Tomb Raider is actually the exception and came out on a Tuesday in the UK (and the rest of Europe). That also explains the big second week drop (-72%).

I agree but we're just gonna have to sit back and wait for the U.S.and rest of the European sales to make a comment on its sales. Although so far just considering the UK, Netherlands and Japan sales its pretty dissapointing. 



CGI-Quality said:
kowenicki said:
Carl2291 said:
Id say its more Uncharted 2 > Tomb Raider > Uncharted >> Uncharted 3

Tomb Raider really is that good, guys.


well we agree on two parts of that.  for me its:

Uncharted>Tomb raider>Uncharted 2>>>>>Uncharted 3

Lol, in this case, for me it's:

Uncharted>Tomb Raider>Uncharted 3>>>Uncharted 2

I wasn't as big on Uncharted 2, unlike a nice majority of folks in '09. It was a great game, no mistake, I just enjoyed the more personal stories of Drake's Fortune and Deception (not to mention, Drake's Deception is absolutely gorgeous)!


I understand all this stuff is your opinion and I respect it and Tomb Raider is a good game  but this is something that would be mocked at by the general public. This is how I would put it.

Uncharted 3>>Uncharted 2>>>>>>>>>>>>Uncharted>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tomb Raider

Uncharted 3 is probably the most gorgeus game to hit a console only next to God of War Ascension. I personally think its the best game ever created. Uncharted 2 is simply phenomanal...Uncharted is a great innovative game that brought us to spectacular sequels although for the exception of the story its no where near its sequels.  Tomb Raider is good but...that's all I can say.