(D)evolution of Game Series/Franchises

[The Madman]

The new Tomb Raider is a shooter now, that's all there is to it. The other elements are just optional side-stuff at best akin to how you spend a lot of time driving and racing cars in GTA, yet no one calls that a racing sim.

Nobody calls it a shooter, either. But I'm going to have to go with the aforementioned statement that The Last of Us must also be a third person shooter by these metrics.

I wouldn't know, haven't played The Last of Us. Is the main gameplay element also to shoot and kill dozens of people with a variety of weapons? Because if so then yeah, I guess it might be a shooter. But again I haven't played it so I've no idea.

In the original Tomb Raider games (The good ones at least) puzzles, platforming, and exploration were the core gameplay elements. Shooting was an occasional diversion that acted more as an environmental danger (Oh crap, it's an bears den!) than anything else. As I stated before I'm just disappointed that's been done away with and replaced with third person killing as the main gameplay element in the new game. There are dozens if not hundreds of third person shooters out there, but there are no other new games coming out like the original Tomb Raider.