Strength Upgrade/Grab Bar

[Miss60]

What do you guys think: Should the next TR game contain the aspect of strength upgrading or should it go back to the way it was before with maximum strength through the entire game???? And should they get rid of the bar decreasing whenever Lara grabs onto something or keep it????

[ 30. December 2003, 10:30: Message edited by: Marianne ]

[TR-Player]

Max strength through the game! It wouldn't be very realistic if you'd have to increase strength. It takes weeks IRL to increase your strength. In the game it would just increase by picking up something or by some exp. points which is kinda weird IMO. And the decreasing bar should also disappear because if Lara is a world class athlete she can hold on from a bar lot longer than the player will...

[TopCat.TopBeing]

i gotta admit i think the strenght upgrades is one of the stupidest new features in AOD. its just stupid, they should have worked on the secrets instead. oh well.
i like the 'grab bar' thingy though http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Miss60]

I like the idea of the grab bar, but it shouldn't decrease as fast as it does, someone like Lara should be able to hold on longer than that. And I sadly have to agree, the strength upgrade is one of the most ridiculous TR features of all time :rolleyes: http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yuck.gif

[creativetwo]

I vote for maximum strength all the way through and getting rid of the grab bar!
Having to get strength upgrades was just plain dumb and a waste of time.
Tina

[Nicky]

I think they should go, too. And please, let Lara sprint from the beginning :rolleyes: I really can't see why she had to get the gas mask in order to be able to sprint at last :rolleyes:

[Dark Lara]

Keep the grab bar http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/jumper.gif , but don't make it decrease so quickly :rolleyes: . I kinda like the strength upgrade, but I admit that it seems kinda stupid http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif .

[BrittScythe4375]

*Throws the bar out the back door*

I really didn't like the grab bar, or the upgrades. :( It was kind of strange to be able to acquire an upgrade, and then suddenly be able to jump so much farther than before. :\ I overshot a few ledges before I finally decided that I didn't like the upgrades.

As for the grab bar: I know the designers were planning for a more realistic Lara and gameplay, but I thought the grab bar was annoying--I found this when I fell from the second roof you had to shimmy over about 20 times, before realising that I needed a "strength upgrade". http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yuck.gif

[ 02. January 2004, 20:08: Message edited by: BrittScythe4375 ]

[gcp1]

I wasn't keen on the upgrades i think that all of the TR enviroment should have been accessible to every player without the upgrades.Only the very accomplished could leap then spin around to grab ledges in previous games,you know the moves.The grip bar just made Lara more "human" and i didnt mind that.Maybe she could have done some pull ups like solid snake to increase her upper body for a short time.

[ELEN]

Originally posted by Nicky:
I really can't see why she had to get the gas mask in order to be able to sprint at last :rolleyes: Agreed :D

[voncroy81]

strength upgrade? hasnt lara already learnt that stuff from previous adventures?

[justin]

I like the bar decrease for grabbing edges, but the strength increase was... well corny.

As for the mask, yet another thing i never had to use, then again i don't recall when she learned to sprint, never had to use sprint until the last 3 levels http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[passthedeck]

yes the way they have Laura now sucks, bring back the raider the way she used to be, these upgrades suck and so does the bar, runs out to fast, and give her guns back the ones that never run out of bullets. When i solved the game, and she never made it out of the tomb,I thought they would make the next game, a way to find her in the tomb, not just her backpack that was so dumb. am still waiting for that game to come out lol, what do you think?