03-12-19, 19:59 | #1 |
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Your Ideal Tomb Raider 12 Wishlist?
I think it would be good to have an all-encompassing wishlist for TR12, tbh.
You can look at contributing to this thread from the angle of if you were an exec at SE, how would you move the series forward, given free reign? If that includes continuing on with the reboot, what changes would you like to see, from Lara's hair to level design to game structure to storyline. For myself, as I laid out in my Rise and Fall of Tomb Raider documentary, I'd commission Nixxes to remake TR1-3 (faithfully, unlike TRA,) with quality of life improvements and 360 degree analogue controls which would still incorporate precision, weight and momentum. It would be called the Tomb Raider: Classic Trilogy with the original branding, and The Last Revelation trilogy would follow 2 years later. This would reintroduce the original timeline to a new generation and simultaneously cement a solid foundation for a Tomb Raider 7. If that wasn't to happen and the reboot was to continue, I would like to see: Lara to be hard nosed and given a personality of some description. No forced walking - a clear line between gameplay and cinematics, not constantly wrestling control away from me for for cinematic reasons, which incidentally just rip me out of the immersion. The hub system to be reduced into a series of tightly formed levels one after the other which serve as their own mini worlds in themselves. This would trim all the fat off the hubs. Introduce complex, multilayered level design in each environment with their own artefacts, mechanisms, traps and levers. Consistent jump and grab mechanics that are reliable. If it looks grabbable, it should be grabbable, even if it leads nowhere. Shadow was guilty of heaps of cheap deaths for this reason. A health and air bar to return. Overhauled animations to make Lara move like a human, not looking like a crackhead squirrel on acid with bones made of jelly that defy gravity, as animated by someone as talentless as someone out of high school. Fix Lara's mullet. A storyline with actual depth, intrigue, unpredictability with authentic, charming, memorable characters to create an actually engaging piece of entertainment. Something with as much scope as the early Broken Sword games. Get rid of Camilla and hire someone with a strong, confident mature voice that can actually do a solid English accent. Adopt a colourful art style with rich, moody, atmospheric lighting while still based in reality. Now, this thread isn't really to discuss my ideas, but more to post your own wishlist whether it be for a huge direction change, or just a few things you'd like changed. Last edited by _Seth; 03-12-19 at 20:06. |
03-12-19, 20:17 | #2 | |
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I still want to better develop my opinions on the narrative tone and on Lara as a character (which in a very basic TL/DR is "just do a large-scale version of what what the comics did, be it the Dan Jurgens/Andy Park classic run or the post-RotTR run"), but I will quote myself from a thread I did more or less a year ago. I did it before I played SotTR, but my opinion remains the same.
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03-12-19, 20:24 | #3 | |
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Here's my wishlist
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03-12-19, 20:52 | #4 |
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I agree with you people and there's little else I could say.
I'd like a remake of the classics like Seth described. For the actual TR12, I do think it should have:
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03-12-19, 20:59 | #5 |
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Keep everything the way it is gameplay wise but put some more work into the story. Oh and please finally add the manor to the game. That‘s all I could wish for.
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04-12-19, 14:39 | #6 |
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Grabbing ledges is boring.
Gimme effortless landing-based superhuman acrobatic platforming and context-free wallrunning. Then we'll talk. |
04-12-19, 15:52 | #7 |
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My wishlist at this point is very very short: take Dishonored 2 as an example.
Add a good/decent even mediocre story (just as an excuse for Lara to go somewhere) and I'll be really happy. I don't need drama, cliché filled story and sidekicks to like a game and its protagonist. Last edited by Aikon; 04-12-19 at 15:56. |
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One more thing though: Bring back the original Lara's theme mixed with the new. I really want the next game to be a remake or remakes. |
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04-12-19, 22:44 | #10 | |
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Kinda like how Metroid has separate themes for the franchise and Samus herself. |
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