natla= lukass


lara= crystal dynamics

Oh man. The TRA trailers got me way too excited for that game. Not in a bad way. I especially love the St. Francis Folly one.

Too bad Anniversary did not have a proper marketing campaign.

This.
They revealed Natla in TRU rather than keeping her as surprise. CD always reveal what they are not supposed to reveal , When they are supposed to reveal something they don't do it even if it is an important factor of the game that all fans want to see (Tombs, Puzzles, Action, Exploration etc.) but they prefer showing the non relevant things about the game which sadly helps them little in their marketing campaigns. It is one of the reasons their games (while good) didn't sell more than Core's games, They sold rather solid and nicely but not as good as some of the other TR games.

They decided to promote this game by showing Lara's character developpement. As they spent huge amount of time talking about how this adventure changes the vulnerable young girl we recieve at the beginning they are playing with the emotional site.that's why what we've seen so far was cinematics-heavy. Everything what we've seen so far was just one big tutorial level.
Den -how to move Lara and understanding your environement and how the physics work
Cliffs - basic traversing
Coastal forest - how base camps works, hunting
Night forest with Whitman - collecting items to upgrade skills
Burning village - sneaking, most likely gun gameplay

So it's still like a tutorial, which will probably end with Lara getting the pistol. Then the real gameplay will begin. If you consider how changed Lara is in the Mountain Descend part (and thats only two hours after the beginning) they are huge gaps we have no idea about whats gonna happen, especialy after that part. I'm pretty sure the action -packed gameplay will change into more explorational. And they will show and promote this aspect closer to the release so everyone will have it fresh on their minds once the game is released. That's logical. They cant reveal the best things at the beginning.

They dont want to show her first tomb, possibly because it will be a very important part of the game, even more important than the first kill.they arectombs in the game, we know it for sure. I'm more concerned by the amount of puzzle because so far we've seen one...

^Very well said, agreed with all of it.

Pretty much any mix of those is how I view the game's content so far (based on what we've seen). While what Bomb Fighter is correct in saying that all we've seen is essentially the game's tutorial, Crystal certainly hasn't plugged their hype that way. By choosing not to balance the footage out, they infer that what we see is all we're getting. And to be honest, if the footage we've seen so far was indicative of the game as a whole, I probably wouldn't get it. A linear game with an intrusive story isn't my idea of fun.

I can't stand the silence. :/

UGH... me either it is getting so boring & annoying lately there's nothing to discuss about either :/ they need to be more concerned about the fans i hate it when they get so silent... something bad usually happens.

Not to mention there's nothing to look forward. They're not showing anything any time soon. :/ It's frustrating. I'm leaving till December, I think.

Although, I care a little, tiny bit.

Ahahahaha :vlol:

LOL! :vlol: at least we still have the never dying Humor in this forum :vlol:

This has been posted 30-01-12, 03:54

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LAWL^ Gorl i still remember that post :vlol: It is very true though...probably half of the world forgot about TR as of today :ton: Once Again.

Yeah, I feel like here we go again!

And lol @ how we believed we get new info in February. Naive.

Yes i'm feeling this way too, hopefully there will be no delays again :mis: but what next? really i'm so bored and annoyed by the Trolling (:p) CD have been giving us fans ever since the game was announced in 2010. It is almost noticeable that they are not planning to show us anything until Xmas and that is if we are lucky. Perhaps we will get yet another Blurry picture like the one we got in March 2012 to ''find out who it is'' :rolleyes:. And lol yes I remember how excited and innocent (:/) we where to think that we where getting new info on February at the end we got nothing. Their marketing campaigns are nothing to look foward to though since they tend to announce things the other way around in their trailers.

IKR? Sometimes I find it hard to believe we made it out alive after all those months without anything. :p

I seriously miss those days, when we have only blurry scans, we didn't know a bit about the story, we had no idea there's Sam, Whitman and the others. I liked it better. It was just Lara, Roth, primitive tribe of scavengers and mysterious island.

Do you still remember this? Oh God! God! I remember us keep saying how beautiful she is! There still was the magic about the game...I want it back!

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Uh, they've changed her A LOT!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/7...ace28650_z.jpg

I was the same back then. My vision for the game was so different then, but everything changed when the Crossroads trailer was released. Oh, well.

She does look a bit different, but I think it's more down to the angles of those night hub screenshots and her facial expressions than anything else that make her look different. :p

^ My excitement became lower with Crossroads.

Anyway, I think she looked younger before.

My excitement died a bit after August passed away, it's so boring now they only care about competitions, cosplays, Repeat. :/ There was more magic back then and even more magic before they declined the supernatural creatures.

:(

Talking about the lost of excitement@ JsotoTRSaga i remember a post about it.

Sorry i don't understand what you mean by this :o, loss of excitement is everywhere in this forum i suppose.

Just ****ing release the game already! D':

Am talking about a thread moths ago that was asking if we will ever loss the excitement. Your comment just remind me of it.

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Haven't you heard? It got cancelled. lul

I'm not far from believing that. It does feel like that at the moment, doesn't it? :p

Yep. :p

It's funny how they all of a sudden have no partners. Looks like Geocaching gave up :vlol:

But what really pisses me off is, that the beautiful artwork with the fallen pagoda has been taken down! They really can please me...every day something new! :/

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/7...794e8ec6_c.jpg

Them and me both :p

You can still see it on the Crystal Habit.

http://uman.square-enix-europe.com/c...artwork_en.jpg

I'm amazed they've still haven't released it officially. Tbh, I don't think they are anymore. :/

^ Thank you and God!

*saves*

And do you know there is still one screenshot (yeah, screenshot) from the first GI article that they've never gave us in HQ, yet? :p

You're welcome. :D

Yeah, it was that one of Lara falling, holding the torch and you could see her face, right? :p

Can't exactly tell if she's falling, but it's this one...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8296/7...101cab29_z.jpg

Yeah, that's the one. She looks like she's falling or jumping. Whatever. :p

I was wondering what happened to that picture/render above as well good thing i wasn't the only one.

I also fail to see the point of making the fringe strand thicker. It looks so dumb now :/ I liked her better before. What on bloody Earth made them think she'll look better with the strand being thicker :/

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8454/7...ea32cb10ce.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8439/7...4b2ae9dde0.jpg

vs.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8316/7...3d2270eb66.jpg

:rolleyes:

They've changed her eyes color too. :/

Edit: And her face shape too.