luj1
You're all shills
As you said, the rest of the team stayed for TR2 - and it shows.
It is a very good game with lot of nice additions, that JarlFrank already mentioned - and on par with the first one IMHO.
Agreed
Don't see a big disparity
As you said, the rest of the team stayed for TR2 - and it shows.
It is a very good game with lot of nice additions, that JarlFrank already mentioned - and on par with the first one IMHO.
It is a good game with some great levels, but the tonal shift from TR1 and higher focus on combat are very noticeable.As you said, the rest of the team stayed for TR2 - and it shows.
It is a very good game with lot of nice additions, that JarlFrank already mentioned - and on par with the first one IMHO.
I would blame that more on the publisher pushing for a sequel with more action than on conscious decisions by the dev team though.
deafIt is a good game with some great levels, but the tonal shift from TR1 and higher focus on combat are very noticeable.As you said, the rest of the team stayed for TR2 - and it shows.
It is a very good game with lot of nice additions, that JarlFrank already mentioned - and on par with the first one IMHO.
I would blame that more on the publisher pushing for a sequel with more action than on conscious decisions by the dev team though.
Never noticed a big tonal shift from TR1 in TR2
You have to play the first game to really understand Tomb Raider. It's unique, no other game in the series comes close (TR4 comes closest). Exploration in long forgotten ruins, completely alone... no other game captures the sense of isolation quite as well.
RE 2 comes close or maybe Silent Hill 1
deafIt is a good game with some great levels, but the tonal shift from TR1 and higher focus on combat are very noticeable.As you said, the rest of the team stayed for TR2 - and it shows.
It is a very good game with lot of nice additions, that JarlFrank already mentioned - and on par with the first one IMHO.
I would blame that more on the publisher pushing for a sequel with more action than on conscious decisions by the dev team though.
Never noticed a big tonal shift from TR1 in TR2
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Same brain rot that happened to many other developers, I'd guess.And yeah I too question Toby Gard's significance regarding the games overall design and vision, given his involvement with Anniversary in addition to that recent game he put out, which seemed like poop.
Hmm, credit where credit is due it seems. See below. I guess come Anniversary he had lost his way and was riding the same realism/story/graphics/sellout/decline train every dev was on.
More like they are just a bunch of hacks with overinflated egos.Same brain rot that happened to many other developers, I'd guess.And yeah I too question Toby Gard's significance regarding the games overall design and vision, given his involvement with Anniversary in addition to that recent game he put out, which seemed like poop.
Hmm, credit where credit is due it seems. See below. I guess come Anniversary he had lost his way and was riding the same realism/story/graphics/sellout/decline train every dev was on.
A lot of people who made great games from the 80s to early 00s suddenly became casual decline enablers from the mid-00s onward due to how awed they were by the technology.
"Wow, these modern graphics look like a movie! So realistic! This is exactly how we envisioned our games back in the day!! Wow!"
The most radical example is Underworld Ascendant. Ex-Looking Glass people who had worked on Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief, get together again after years of taking a break from the industry.
And they waste all their time playing around with Unity's modern design tools, awed at all the physics systems and high poly models that are possible.
The end result is an unfinished game that barely qualifies as a tech demo.
"Wow, technology has progressed so much, we're amazed, wow imagine what we would have done if this existed back in our day!" and then they just forget to design an actual game.
You know what's not automated?It is laughable how automated most of this game is.
Loading screens.
The game has no loading screens, instead you slowly squeeze your way through a narrow gap. And it's not a cutscene, you must actively hold down W to walk forward.
There's nothing I hate more than these loading screen masking sequences, because on a modern state of the art PC the loading screens would be over in 5 seconds. This way it always takes a minute.