I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider on PS4 yesterday. Really enjoyed it and would put it on par with the 2013 reboot. I'm not too bothered about the murdering Lara or limited plot development, I just like to climb around and explore areas and this - for me - got that right.

I'd love to see an Uncharted and Tomb Raider collaboration from a development perspective (not the characters together). Naughty Dog would be able to improve the story and writing and Crystal Dynamics would improve the traversal and combat - which I think is far better in RotTR than U4.

Chalice's mate.

@JonB

I've just started playing Resi 1 again on the excellent remake after too many years. I'm bad and I'm scared. Do you have any general tips? How many Z's should I be avoiding vs killing? What can I do about the ones that freak me out off screen?

I really want to beat this game but I'm finding it hard - have restarted twice already.

Actually, should also mention you can get the shotgun quite early on, especially with Jill. You always feel safer when you've got the shotgun.

I was way better at games when I was 15, still didn't have the stones for this shit though

I'm worse than Barry at the mansion but thanks for the survival guide. I hate doing things twice in a resident evil so with little time this will help that all important first section.

Cibele (PC)

Very interesting, intimate game.  I shan't say more than that.  Under an hour too.

regmcfly wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

Unlikely wrote:

Was that what we did because by fuck that was shit.

Here you were out your nut by the end and cheering it on and we drove many wrong ways

Those were the days.

We could both get divorced and buy 360s

Still got my 360 so I'm halfway there.

Infamous is such a garbo franchise

TheDJR wrote:

Infamous is such a garbo franchise

Yeah it's so average that it becomes a [1] through lack of ambition

Infamous 2 is a great game

TheDJR wrote:

Yeah it's so average that it becomes a [1] through lack of ambition

Exactly.  Just because a game functions fairly correctly doesn't mean it shouldn't be discredited through its complete lack of ambition and creativity.  I hate them all.  And prototype.

Mafia III

Great game and certainly making my top five of the year. There's a lot to like. Really solid combat and driving (turn the simulation setting on), a great soundtrack and atmosphere and a solid cast. It's a very generous game and while a lot of it takes the same form there's enough variety in the way you can go about things to keep it interesting. I had maybe a couple of crashes, a couple of weird lighting situations and a couple of side quests borked (although happily the side quests I wanted to do worked fine). A high light was during on mission where your set upon by three cars full of goons which kept on killing me until I worked out a plan of hiding down a side street, planting c4 on my own car and then taking the bulk of them out in an ambush they weren't expecting.

On the downside it's possible to fall into water that there's no way out of. There's no warp to shore either. It's easy to lose your own car. The health system doesn't quite work as it's easy to lose the health you've just regenned during the animation. The remote play controls on Vita are shit (seriously the rear touch pad for accelerating and braking??). Oh and there's nothing that follows that quite tops the assault on the abandoned theme park early doors.

Still the best game starring a black protagonist since fiddy lost his skull.

8 grotty playboys out of 10 tasteful works of art with tits.

Tomb Raider - Defiitive Edition enjoyed it as I have the Uncharteds. Story was a bit guff, but the gameplay and environments were great fun and the combat seemed less out of place than the Uncharteds for some reason, possibly because the bad guys were generally pretty evil bastards. Enjoyed the little tomb puzzles, more of that would be fun. 

Nice touch at the end with...

8 cliched sidekicks out of 10