and the easiest way out is: "we wanted to review x but its publisher blacklisted us because we said their previous shit was shit. they are hiding something guys, and it's never a good sign".
In theory, sure. But like I said, you have a bunch of competing magazines. Those will have giant Lara Croft pictures on the cover and will attract buyers while you have...who knows what, definitely not the hottest, most expected thing around. Not to mention your review will be a month late, because you didn't get a pre-release version. It's not really financially viable over a longer period of time, unless you have a strong fanbase which buys your magazine exactly for that. But with all the other magazines around, it's more likely they would switch to a still decent, but slightly less "honest" (in regards to big publishers who did/do that kind of practice) one. Unfortunately, in the end, money pays the bills, not ideals. Nowadays, it's absolutely feasible to rag on awful games and shitty publisher practices. But that's because the audience has since, obviously, grown a lot and the noise is much, much higher, as "advertisement" for a game (which it technically always was) isn't just limited to magazines.
Nostalgia Critic reviewed movies, AVGN reviewed the gamesHmm, that actually reminds me of that picture with 90s, 00s and 10s journalists where it goes from fellow fans to serious and cynic to degenerate and disconnected.
Retards cannot into tank controls + fixed cam angles.
Always preferred his movie reviews over him ranting like a 13-year-old about old games.[...]AVGN reviewed the gamesHmm, that actually reminds me of that picture with 90s, 00s and 10s journalists where it goes from fellow fans to serious and cynic to degenerate and disconnected.
Don't worry, he is. Most of TR 2 is done it will release early this year.
They're called resident evil clones because those other games were specifically copying resident evil. Alone in the dark did it earlier but resident evil did it better, and was more popular particularly in japan where you had a bunch of those RE-like games, and caused a subsequent boom of that style of game. Not uncommon for something to technically do something earlier but not be responsible for a trend, whereas something coming later initiates a bunch of imitators (like halloween and friday the 13th starting the slasher movie boom even though other earlier movies could be called slashers, or like a lot of fps games in the 90s being called Doom-clones and not Wolf3D-clones). Alone in the dark gets plenty of recognition anyway, it always gets mentioned in articles about the earliest survival horror games and the developers cite it as an influence.
There's definitely enough shared parts that you could call RE a clone of AitD, but there are enough differences in RE's favor that its superior. RE focuses more on ranged combat, and you have a better chance of actually hitting something with a gun in RE. Melee in AitD is more viable, but easy to cheese and get cheesed. RE also has a bunch of limitations where AitD doesn't, like inventory and health. AitD is more overtly goofy than RE, and has a more cartoonish artstyle, even before the franchise went off the rails. They also have very different sources of inspiration; AitD is a take off Lovecraft and haunted house films, while RE owes its inspirations to zombie films and Italian horror. Sometimes in the latter's case to the point of outright stealing shots from those films. So despite the same general setting, they have very different atmospheres.
Not even close:
No remake is horrible since you can still play the original version, by your logic.
If this Webm should prove that Tomb Raider II is less linear than Tomb Raider 2013, it chooses a very bad example, though.
People like you are why everything is shit today.
Classic normie levels of "care". Enough to know and talk about "the thing" but not enough to give a singular solitary fuck about it.
Isn't it rather showing the difference in how much scope there is to fuck up in a "dramatic" scripted escape sequence? The reboot sequence feels almost like a QTE and is borderline impossible to fail. The bottom line being the gameplay is worse.
