Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider

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Fun review. Interesting how Really good the game ended up being. everyone expected the Same sexy laura, but They really did a good job of reinventing the character.

keep up the awesome work, yahtzee!
 

Yeager942

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Meh, I'll probably pick it up when it's 10 bucks on a steam sale. I don't really think it's worth 60 whole bucks right now.
 

Kennetic

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Great review once again Yahtzee! I think all games should strive to be reviewed by you, it's like a rite of passage for good games to be ravaged by you. It's like a roast almost. Anyways, loved the game, loved the review, nice day to all!

Edit: Forgot to mention, hey feminism, notice how no chicks in tomb raider died? NOT ONE. Of all the deaths, good guys and bad guys, THEY WERE ALL MALE.
 

CrazyCapnMorgan

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"Brain matter house painter".

Now, if Jeffery Dahmer had used this title, he might have fit a niche somewhere in today's society. Oddly enough, Lara Croft fits that particular title just right.
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
It's still fun to play but instead of Tomb Raider, they should have called it Raiders of the Lost Arc.
Anyways, I demand a new game genre called "You can do this", where one central mechanic is just not enough for the developers and they demand to squeeze more of them into the game.
 

Basement Cat

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I'm glad he mentioned Lara's inability to cover her tits wear a coat to stay warm. That kind of thing is a "Once Seen Cannot Be Unseen" game fault.

It's interesting that he criticizes the character arc without damning it. I wonder if he found it a little difficult to condemn this one.
 

jehk

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Pretty good review. I kinda disagree with Lara being entirely reactionary. She decided to find her friends because she felt responsible for their situation.
 

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"I Spit On Your Tomb"

I can no longer breath. Thanks Yahtzee, I am now dead.
 

Tireseas_v1legacy

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DVS BSTrD said:
It's still fun to play but instead of Tomb Raider, they should have called it Raiders of the Lost Arc.
I was going to post some horrible video of NPC executions in this game, but Jesus Christ, they really do a number on her...

Also, what is "netball?"
 

Nomad of the Stars

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Machine Man 1992 said:
Captain Walker (i.e. me) didn't decide to use white phosphorus. The developers forced us to use it.
Captain Walker was not meant to be you, he wasn't a blank slate protagonist like off of Skyrim or Dragon Age. His character did decide to use the white phosphorus in the same way that any fictional character in any medium choses to do the things that they do.
 

Something Amyss

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Machine Man 1992 said:
Captain Walker (i.e. me) didn't decide to use white phosphorus. The developers forced us to use it.
Yyyyyyyeah. I was kind of thinking the same thing.
 

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The Gentleman said:
Also, what is "netball?"
Think of baskteball, but you aren't allowed to move while holding the ball. The rules vary from that, but that is the gist of it.
 

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Machine Man 1992 said:
Captain Walker (i.e. me) didn't decide to use white phosphorus. The developers forced us to use it.
That is true, except in using that example, Yahtzee was talking about character in-game choice, not player choice. In the setting of Spec Ops, Walker, as the army Captain investigating Dubai that he is, chose to use the white phosphorus while his squad objected to it, saying they had other options. You as a player don't technically have other options, but, in the scale of Spec Ops, the character of Captain Walker did.
 

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i like the game. this talk about the title is starting to piss me off its tomb raider end of story
 

IronMit

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Machine Man 1992 said:
Captain Walker (i.e. me) didn't decide to use white phosphorus. The developers forced us to use it.
You are not making captain walkers decisions..it's not a role playing game, or a decision based game.

I can understand it gets confusing because you are given the illusion of choice and your brain decides it's a typical choice based game like mass effect or something...but it's not.

That would be like saying; 'the Tomb Raider developers made me kill all those islanders'. It's not a valid critique