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It's a shame Lara's voice actress hasn't spent much time in the UK. A fair few American words and phrasings are in her dialogue and I guess she didn't correct them. There's a lot of Underworld and legend's DNA in this. The designs of the island complexes often are very reminiscent of Kazakhstan from TRL. The general lighting and "look" is very underworld, albeit with slightly more realistic characters - although whoever designed zip managed to sneak his hairstyle onto Reyes, very cunning. I groaned a bit when the Kiwi (who looks like he's meant to be a Maori/pacific islander, and they even loving named him JONAH) went all "WHEN I WAS YOUNG ANCIENT TRIBAL WISDOM ALSO TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS". The characters aren't terrible, but they aren't reaching very far outside the stereotypes here.
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Mar 5, 2013 23:54
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Oh my god the combat dialogue gets even better. "Kill her already! She's just one girl!" "A girl who's KILLING US ALL  "The actors must have been screaming their lines in that booth.
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Mar 5, 2013 23:56
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SurrealityCheck posted:It's a shame Lara's voice actress hasn't spent much time in the UK. A fair few American words and phrasings are in her dialogue and I guess she didn't correct them. quote:Luddington has lived in the United States for 8 years. This has given her an English/American hybrid accent
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Mar 5, 2013 23:56
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"Please kill me. Please." BLAM BLAM "Go to hell." Lara's a bit of a jerk.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:00
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SurrealityCheck posted:It's a shame Lara's voice actress hasn't spent much time in the UK. A fair few American words and phrasings are in her dialogue and I guess she didn't correct them. Some of the accents are bugging me. The Scottish fella is shouting stuff about being from Glasgow but has a weird not-quite-Scottish accent and the "Northerner" sounds like an Irish bloke trying to do some weird Scouse/Yorkshire mix. Tell you what though. I'm way more invested in the story than I thought I'd be. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. As an aside it was kind of nice that only 1 demented chud shows up in the underground prison. After the previous Decent scene I was expecting a little bit where a load of insane spindly dudes swarm you like in Aliens. But nope. Just one, you got all prepared to fight a horde with 3 arrows for nothing.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:08
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Yes. When not doing Lara she's really pretty rhotic. Also how come half the dudes on this island have sweet rear end swords and I'm stuck hitting dudes with an axe. Giev katana please game
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Mar 6, 2013 00:18
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SurrealityCheck posted:It's a shame Lara's voice actress hasn't spent much time in the UK. A fair few American words and phrasings are in her dialogue and I guess she didn't correct them. That's not really how voice acting works though. When you take a voice acting gig, you're given the script and told to read it, in the great majority of cases you are not given input into the writing of the script, even if you know for a fact that there are inaccurate phrasings based on the language or accent you are being asked to do. Look at Civ 5, for example, where the leaders all speak their native (sometimes dead) languages, but the lines were written in english and translated either by an idiot or by a machine, and the voice actors just had to say what was on the card. The guy who voiced Augustus wrote somewhere that he pointed out the phrasing was incorrect and was told to voice the incorrect Latin anyways. Only the guy who voiced Kamehameha managed to get an input into the translation, by making the opportunity to translate his own lines a condition of his being hired.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:25
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Reveilled posted:That's not really how voice acting works though. When you take a voice acting gig, you're given the script and told to read it, in the great majority of cases you are not given input into the writing of the script, even if you know for a fact that there are inaccurate phrasings based on the language or accent you are being asked to do. There is normally a script, but the few times I've observed VA work being done if the actor was a native speaker they would be allowed to correct small things like word usage that the script writer got wrong. I guess it just depends. In this case, I would imagine she would have been able to effect some change.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:31
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So i gave the game another chance and finished it (after 8 hours there are still some stuff to collect but dunno if im going to get them) By far my favorite part were The ancient lost tombs, those were mostly great and i would love a sequel with a focus on bigger tombs like that. But there are still alot of stuff thats really annoying you kill so many enemies it gets really stupid really fast, the plot was boring and predictable most of the stuff you do as a player does not make sense at all if you compare to the stuff in the cutscenes (I killed about 20 wolves with a bow and she reacts like she hasnt seen that many, the same with her killing. Its not a perfect game but its not a bad game at all, they could improve so much in a potential sequel and make it really really good.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:31
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poptart_fairy posted:Oh my god the combat dialogue gets even better. "What the gently caress, she has a machinegun!  "
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Mar 6, 2013 00:35
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So what's the multiplayer like in this? A total afterthought? Do singleplayer EXP things carry over to it in some form? I've seen absolutely nothing about this game's multiplayer, and it seems a really weird inclusion in general to a game that'd probably have sold fine without it.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:48
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Apparently it's pretty much an afterthought. It's fairly Uncharted-like with some traps, etc. etc.
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Mar 6, 2013 00:51
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I was watching the Giantbomb quicklook and Lara's friend on the radio goes "Remember when we climbed Snowdon?" and I had to do a double take, because I totally climbed it too! He reminds her that she said "The key was knowing all you have to do is keep moving" and it's pretty accurate. It just keeps going on and on for ages but drat is it rewarding when you get to the top. Also lots of cheerful little goats at the base of it 
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Mar 6, 2013 00:59
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Finished it. Ending was... kind of what you expect. The final bow looks like wings when you climb! Lots to like in the game, lots that could have been done better. Still very much worth the money, I enjoyed it. Although the troels-folmann-less soundtrack is really pretty forgettable and has nothing on Legend. SurrealityCheck fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 01:31
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Interestingly, both writers were female.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:36
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Why am I so stupid and can't get past the quick time event where the dude is going to choke me? When do I click my dang mouse?
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Mar 6, 2013 01:39
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SurrealityCheck posted:Interestingly, both writers were female. Fascinating. Do you think writing this game influenced their decision to become male?
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Mar 6, 2013 01:44
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VibrioCholera posted:Why am I so stupid and can't get past the quick time event where the dude is going to choke me? When do I click my dang mouse? When the circle closes on the button prompt (or for a brief period after before the circle shrinks entirely). Does anyone who's completed the game know if you're free to continue exploring the island afterward?
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Mar 6, 2013 01:46
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:When the circle closes on the button prompt (or for a brief period after before the circle shrinks entirely). Yes, despite there being a 'point of no return' loading your save after completing the story allows you to start back at the first camp with every other camp opened up.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:47
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Just reached the beach after rescusing Lara's friends. I love it so far, though I feel they could just call this 'Having a Bad Day: The Game'.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:48
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Irish Joe posted:Fascinating. Do you think writing this game influenced their decision to become male? Yes.
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Mar 6, 2013 01:49
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:When the circle closes on the button prompt (or for a brief period after before the circle shrinks entirely). Although for this particular one, you need to press F instead. 6 hours in, really enjoying the game. I do feel as if the 'survival' angle was ridiculously oversold and would love to see a mod bringing some of that into greater prominence. I really liked Underworld after having had a complete break from Tomb Raider following TR2, and this really feels like it's morphing into classic Tomb Raider territory, despite the new spin on things. Great stuff!
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Mar 6, 2013 02:01
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I do remember the really early leaked concept art that looked like they were almost going in a silent hill direction. I wonder what that would have been like.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:03
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Anyone getting lots of crashes and artefacting with Nvidia cards? Every time Lara goes through a relatively narrow passage, usually some kind of transition area, i get very obvious blips of artefacting that are gone a brief moment later. And occasionally, just after an auto save point, I get a crash. Also, using TressFX without an AMD card literally halves your framerate. With everything on high except DOF and SSAO and with TressFX on, I got about 30-50fps on average with my 660ti. Without TressFX I easily got 70-80 fps, and with maxed DOF and SSAO as well I got 60-70fps. No VSync and triple buffering. e: Just kidding, I can get up to 100 fps with everything maxed but TressFX. Prince John posted:Although for this particular one, you need to press F instead. Yea, I feel like a lot of the "survival" elements are missing. Also, killing animals for scrap is a weird mechanic that seems to suggest some sort of hunger management thing was cut out. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 02:14
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SurrealityCheck posted:I do remember the really early leaked concept art that looked like they were almost going in a silent hill direction. I wonder what that would have been like. I haven't seen the concept art, but I have been reminded of Silent Hill while playing the game. Just a small similarity, mind you, the game is nothing like Silent Hill. Edit: I hope they make some awesome single-player DLC or extensions for this game.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:20
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Lara Crofts new voice actress sounds like she is eating a sandwich while getting raped pretty much constantly.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:21
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Weissritter posted:Just reached the beach after rescusing Lara's friends. I like Conan's description during his Clueless Gamer episode with this game. He commented on how everything on the island falls apart so easily, said it should be renamed lawsuit island. Its way funnier if you watch the episode I promise.
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Eruonen posted:I haven't seen the concept art, but I have been reminded of Silent Hill while playing the game. Just a small similarity, mind you, the game is nothing like Silent Hill.  This stuff.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:29
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There was some really wierd pre-concepts for this game early in development; a bunch of different permutations were basically Shadow of the Colossus/Ico. With Lara riding about on horseback, fighting giant monsters with the aid of a small child.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:35
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ViggyNash posted:Anyone getting lots of crashes and artefacting with Nvidia cards? Every time Lara goes through a relatively narrow passage, usually some kind of transition area, i get very obvious blips of artefacting that are gone a brief moment later. And occasionally, just after an auto save point, I get a crash. Yeah, I really hope they put some kind of performance patch in and that it's just Tress being weird. It's really odd that a hair effect of all things somehow makes a computer perform worse than Skyrim with ENB on.  That said, it's a really, ridiculously beautiful game even without the TressFX on. Can't wait to be done with errands so I can get to playing beyond the intro sections tonight. Lara still has it after all these years!
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Axel Serenity posted:Yeah, I really hope they put some kind of performance patch in and that it's just Tress being weird. It's really odd that a hair effect of all things somehow makes a computer perform worse than Skyrim with ENB on.
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Mar 6, 2013 02:38
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Is there a "best" place to buy this from now that I've missed the Steam pre-order bonuses? Or should I just buy a key from GMG and use their 20% off code?
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Mar 6, 2013 02:41
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Axel Serenity posted:Can't wait to be done with errands so I can get to playing beyond the intro sections tonight. Lara still has it after all these years! I think it's more like Lara finally has it again, after all these years.
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loudog999 posted:I like Conan's description during his Clueless Gamer episode with this game. He commented on how everything on the island falls apart so easily, said it should be renamed lawsuit island. Its way funnier if you watch the episode I promise. Yeah, the stuff falling apart is certainly not helping with her Bad Day(TM).
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ViggyNash posted:Anyone getting lots of crashes and artefacting with Nvidia cards? Every time Lara goes through a relatively narrow passage, usually some kind of transition area, i get very obvious blips of artefacting that are gone a brief moment later. And occasionally, just after an auto save point, I get a crash. NVidia posted:We are aware of major performance and stability issues with GeForce GPUs running Tomb Raider with maximum settings. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/533528/pc-games/tomb-raider-crash-issue/ I tried every fix in this thread and I can no longer play more than 2 minutes regardless of what I do without crashing to desktop. Had that Far Cry 3 type video glitch before the crashes started. Really, really frustrated. Using GTX 670.
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SurrealityCheck posted:spoilerly monsters I'm assuming these are late game enemies? Mind putting a spoiler on that? net cafe scandal fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 03:07
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No they aren't. They are concept art for early ideas they had for this game.
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:I'm assuming these are late game enemies? Mind putting a spoiler on that? SurrealityCheck posted:I do remember the really early leaked concept art that looked like they were almost going in a silent hill direction. I wonder what that would have been like.
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Whoa. Wife Turds posted:I'm assuming they are not in the game at all? Mind reading at least the whole page before complaining? Oops. My fault.
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