That's a bit mean. I'm sure when Scorpio comes out there will be a patch for the game that does all of those things for Scoprio. You just have to wait a year.

Any respectable developer and publisher will be offering this kind of option set. I expect this to be the norm on all 1st party games, and anything from Rockstar, Rocksteady, Activision, UBiSoft, and many more.

I still feel that we will be seeing at least one more product in the home line of PS4 devices, and at least a couple of portable and mobile PS4 devices over the next few years. So, devs will basicaly be doing what AMD and Nvidia have been doing for years, giving people the optimal settings for there hardware configuration. 

The only difference on console, is it will all be done in the background, and it will be more optimized, because even though it may end up being a family of half a dozen or more products, at the end of the day it is all the same tech and structure. 

Making a game more or less difficult doesn't make it any less of a game. I mean, to some, being too easy makes a game boring and repetitive. While I'd agree that the game was fairly lenient, I had a blast seeing just all the ways lara could die. It was actually really funny, and me and my gf were dying because the game is so over the top with punishing lara.

Not every game needs to be hard. But every game needs something enjoyable about the game. I loved he hunting and collecting and the gruesome s&m bullshit lmao.

ROTTR has been free from the shackles of the XBOne for a while now, just like most other "Microsoft exclusives".

As for the extra graphics modes, is a good Idea that in the future could run the risk of becoming too complicated for console fans. It's pretty much the N64 expansion pack all over again.

I played it on hardest and the only thing that changes is that you actually have to use some of those skills and reflexes when you meet enemies, but the game has a type of generic combat that doesn't require any intelligence or thought, it's mostly just based on reflex. Most importantly though, when increasing the difficulty the rest of the experience still stays unchanged.

It's not a ridiculous notion to talk about "interactive" if you, like I do, claim that such a phenomenon exists and the difference between gameplay-centered games and these "interactive experiences" is so crucial and dramatic that it affects gaming from the very ground up.

It's necessary to have a terminology when discussing this topic (although I seem to be the only person trying to discuss it here on VGC lol), although the specific term "interactive movie" sometimes leaves a bad flavour and can upset people, and perhaps should be replaced if we could find a better term.

Cool, at least there's something good even for me to enjoy. I love when people die in crazy ways too lol

I absolutely loooove hunting and collecting and leveling up too, and I know many gamers do, that's why talk about being cynical and using tricks because the developers know this, and used this. The problem was that the whole "RPG" system was so superfluous and didn't affect the outcome of the game in almost anything. What bothers me is that they trick the player to invest and believe in this cool system when in reality it's just a facade, an illusion to make you feel rewarded, but the sad truth was that barely any of that system had any impact on the game.

Can you turn the enemies off and increase the difficulty of exploration? Guess not.
The thing that I disliked most about TR 2013 was the ridiculous kill count at the end. It felt like I had to shoot more enemies than all Tombraider games before it combined. Exploration, path finding, environmental puzzles and the occasional animal interruption is what TR used to be about. Not waves of enemies around every corner. It was a pretty game though, just kinda boring to play cause of all the shooting. Uncharted has that covered already :/ (last few chapters of U4 were awful to me undoing most of what came before it)

Rise of the tomb raider sold fine, ppl who think otherwise are just hating on it , because they had to wait to play it on their preferred system. ( which wasn't xbox )

One of my favorite games! I bought it for Xbox One. I'll probably buy it again for PS4!!

What numbers did it do?

I'm still thinking I'll wait until it gets heavily discounted, as I dont feel like supporting the practice of delayed games for franchies that were released on the console before.