Lara Croft and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

SyphonBlue

Everybody should own a 360 controller.

Antimatter

nah

Day of the Bear

SyphonBlue wrote: »

Everybody should own a 360 controller.

Caulk Bite 6

does the 360 controller for pc work properly? that's what I got.

SyphonBlue

Do you have a wired 360 controller? If so, yes. If no, you'll need a dongle.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Oh hey wow the QTE in the wolf cave is impossibly fast.

Okami

I've never played a Tomb Raider game (mostly due to my parents never getting them for me and me never having my own money), but I really want to play this one. While some of what I've seen makes me a bit uncomfortable, it still draws me to the game. I want to see her story and I have hopes that it'll be good and satisfying when I reach the end. I need a new 360 before I get too far behind in games.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

I cannot hit this key this quickly. I don't consider myself a disabled person but maybe I'm wrong?

Push F to kick. Pretty fucking sure I'm pushing the F key...

PaperLuigi44

I flubbed a lot of the early QTEs at least once, they have a pretty small window.

Caulk Bite 6

wired.

so, cool.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Well I've flubbed like ten or eleven times now because it's there and gone in about an eighth of a second. So I don't understand what's wrong.

SyphonBlue

A 360 controller works with pretty much any game released in the past 4 years straight out of the box

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Okay so I'm supposed to press and hold it, and then press it again I guess. That's weird. So that and the 'interact' thing I've got. But...what the fuck is button 0. The 0 key? How the...ugh.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Now I remember why I generally refuse to play games with a lot of QTEs. It's this kind of shit. I've been trying to get past this stupid wolf for like an hour. I've watched it bite into my throat like 25 times now.

I have a pistol. What's the matter? Shoot the fucking thing.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

If it wasn't for the fact that this game was completely fucking rad otherwise, I would be really frustrated right now.

SyphonBlue

I dunno what to tell you, I did that QTE the first time and didn't think it was very hard at all =/

DirtyDirtyVagrant

On the PC?

SyphonBlue

Yeah, but I was using a 360 controller.

Beef Avenger

SyphonBlue wrote: »

A 360 controller works with pretty much any game released in the past 4 years straight out of the box

this is pretty much my favourite development in pc gaming

SyphonBlue

What button are you hitting? Apparently you have to press melee, and then use

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showpost.php?p=1871226&postcount=89

JC of DI

This game is pretty good so far but seems kinda poorly optimized? Shame 'cause it looks gorgeous up until it hitches for like a full second.

If it's pausing to load it's doing it frequently and for way longer than I'd expect on my SSD.

Moriveth

I rented this game, it's real fun so far.

I feel like this game is a bit excessive re violence towards lara, though

I mean you fall like twenty feet onto hard ground AND you get rebar through the stomach! That's a little much! I get that it's supposed to illustrate how fucked up the situation Lara is in is, but I thought the beginning of that did it fine.

Also a helluva late title card.

UnbreakableVow

After RDR no other games can claim a late title card

Moriveth

Well yeah, that's a gold standard for late title cards. But Tomb Raider is pretty good.

UnbreakableVow

Oh, I just thought you were stating "it's really late"

Yes

My favorite card is probably still Far Cry 3 though

The title card marked the end of the game's plot being any good

Aistan

I'm about midway through the shanty town at the moment, and yeah this game is awesome.

Nothing in particular about that segment, just the constant ramping up it does over the entire time i've been playing.

Moriveth

Also this game has Far Cry 3's problem of "I AM SO SCARED AND TERRIFIED OF KILLING PEOPLE oh okay blam blam blam headshot headshot headshot"

Granted it's difficult to make inexperience/reluctance fun, so I give it a pass

Plus I think Lara has probably at least shot some guns and a bow and stuff.

Kadith

So this isn't as creepy as that producer's interview made it out to be?

Should I get this or Farcry 3 first?

Aegeri

Kadith wrote: »

So this isn't as creepy as that producer's interview made it out to be?

Should I get this or Farcry 3 first?

Absolutely not. They tried to sabotage their own game with their stupid marketing last year, but it is absolutely just a great game with an uncharted influence.

I would get Tomb Raider but Far Cry 3 is also a very good game. I don't think you can go wrong with either choice! One is more of a linear Uncharted like action game while the other is more of a sandbox punch sharks in the mouth game. Both are awesome.

Moriveth

I think the creepy raper guy was appropriately creepy. And he gets his comeuppance not long afterward .

Aegeri

And no sexual assault happens if you fail the QTE.

I concede, I did fail the first time deliberately just to check and it in no way managed to meet my fearful expectations from the hubaloo from last year. Really hope someone in marketing from Square learned a valuable lesson.

Kadith

Aegeri wrote: »

Kadith wrote: »

So this isn't as creepy as that producer's interview made it out to be?

Should I get this or Farcry 3 first?

Absolutely not. They tried to sabotage their own game with their stupid marketing last year, but it is absolutely just a great game with an uncharted influence.

I would get Tomb Raider but Far Cry 3 is also a very good game. I don't think you can go wrong with either choice! One is more of a linear Uncharted like action game while the other is more of a sandbox punch sharks in the mouth game. Both are awesome.

That is the idea I got from perusing this thread quickly.

It has also tempted me into this, but people are people are comparing it well to Farcry 3 it seems so that just conflicts me more.

Maybe someone should just buy one or both of those games for me and save me the trouble.

TIA~

Veldrin

Just started playing this last night. Goodness this is a fun game.

And yeah, from what I've played so far, the previous controversy about this game seems to have really been blown way out of proportion.

Moriveth wrote: »

Also this game has Far Cry 3's problem of "I AM SO SCARED AND TERRIFIED OF KILLING PEOPLE oh okay blam blam blam headshot headshot headshot"

Granted it's difficult to make inexperience/reluctance fun, so I give it a pass

Plus I think Lara has probably at least shot some guns and a bow and stuff.

See, I didn't really get that impression about her being utterly terrified of killing, as

pretty much shortly after it happens for the first time she tells Roth over the radio about it and he's all "Whoa that must have been hard" and she's like "It was more scary how easy it was".

And yeah, her little voice flashbacks seem to imply that Roth has trained her up a bit in survival skills.

UnbrokenEva

Beef Avenger wrote: »

SyphonBlue wrote: »

A 360 controller works with pretty much any game released in the past 4 years straight out of the box

this is pretty much my favourite development in pc gaming

The first time I tried it was with Arkham City

the fact that the game fluidly switched between mouse/keyboard and gamepad interface & prompts blew my mind

Maximum

I'm only about an hour in but these qte's are kicking my ass. Need to focus here, I do not need to see my Lara getting brutalized over and over.

Moriveth

I think I've failed every QTE the first time through.

Maximum

The fact that I know which button to press and i still fail makes it even more demoralizing.

Caulk Bite 6

I've only played a little bit, but I think that thanks to this controller, I've yet to fail a QTE.

UnbrokenEva

alright so I decided to take a chance on this

I'm a couple hours in and so far it's not been so bad in terms of graphic violence, and my wife's not had any concerned reactions either. Maybe I just haven't failed the right/wrong QTEs yet, but I'm having fun and not being particularly unsettled.

Moriveth

I haven't seen anything I deem particularly excessive yet but I think some of the deaths are apparently a bit overly gruesome.