Post by: ThePerm on March 31, 2006, 11:24:43 AM
http://cube.ign.com/articles/699/699529p1.html
Post by: Ian Sane on March 31, 2006, 11:32:39 AM
It would be an odd April Fool's because it's not really goofy or funny or anything like that. It's just a multiplatform game that people aren't that interested in getting ported. Usually an April Fool's joke involves something major that gets people talking so you can say "ha! Fooled you!"
Tomb Raider has appeared on the Gameboy Color so technically it's been on Nintendo systems before. Not that portable presence means anything for consoles.
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on March 31, 2006, 11:38:06 AM
Post by: IceCold on March 31, 2006, 01:22:37 PM
Post by: TMW on March 31, 2006, 03:57:05 PM
Also, they misspelled somersault. It reeks of April Fools to me, as well.
And...well, if its anything like Angel of Darkness, they're probably gonna blame poor sales on the Gamecube version, somehow.
Post by: Djunknown on March 31, 2006, 04:42:44 PM
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"Lara likes Reggie? No, seriously, our new management team believes that the Nintendo platforms have been neglected and that the platforms provide a great opportunity for Tomb Raider to gain exposure to a new audience."
Bolding is obviously mine. Its safe to say that the old team gave the big N the cold shoulder; Lego Star Wars did eventually grace the 'Cube. I'm approaching this very cautiously though.
Has Crystal Dynamics ever made a horrible game before? Can't think of any at the top of my head. Couple with the fact Toby Gard's on board, maybe it'll have the Prince of Persia effect (Remember Jordan Mechner had a plump role in the creation of that title.). At least it couldn't be any worse than Angel of Darknes...
Post by: Svevan on March 31, 2006, 06:50:56 PM
Edit: IGN misspelled somersault purposefuly, changing it to SUMMERsault, the time of the year when this port will be released.
Post by: Nosferat2 on April 02, 2006, 03:06:54 AM
Post by: capamerica on April 02, 2006, 09:14:53 AM
By making it a GameCube title they wouldn't have to worry about making the game use the Rev controller. Its kind of like how Nintendo is thinking that Zelda:TP could help sell Revolutions as well.
I think they know the Revolution is going to be a Hit and they want to jump on the bandwagon. Also a DS port is smart as well since the DS is kicking the PSP's ass.
I am a bit surprised that they are making a GBA port, but hey if you get it on every system your going to make more money. And hell they did make a Tomb Raider game for the N-Gage.
Post by: BlkPaladin on April 07, 2006, 12:45:28 AM
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Post by: ruby_onix on April 07, 2006, 11:07:29 PM
But then after Tomb Raider was finished, Eidos told him that they expected a yearly cash-in of Tomb Raider proportions, so he was ordered to use the existing PSX game engine and slap together a sequel for the PSX, or if he really wanted to, he could make a new series for the N64, as long as he could build it from scratch in under 12 months.
He didn't want to slap together a Tomb Raider sequel, and making the N64 game in just one year seemed impossible, and after seeing how Eidos was endlessly whoring out Tomb Raider, he decided to quit. The yearly PSX games which beat the series into the ground were made without him.
Angel of Darkness was supposed to be Tomb Raider's big "revival" game, but it sucked and flopped, supposedly because Eidos insisted that the game had to ship at the same time that the second movie was hitting the theaters, even though the developers said it wasn't ready, but it shipped and it sucked and the devs got blamed.
Now Eidos supposedly has new management, a new developer, and they even got the original creator back, and apparently he has a lot of creative freedom. Here's hoping the game turns out great, and that the GameCube port doesn't suffer.
Post by: 18 Days on April 08, 2006, 02:45:34 AM
While I'm not going to complain about this games surprise port to Gamecube, it still belongs on Xbox with it's fat sweaty nerds.
Post by: Renny on April 08, 2006, 06:11:54 AM
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on April 08, 2006, 01:51:01 PM
Post by: ruby_onix on April 08, 2006, 04:02:50 PM
Post by: capamerica on April 08, 2006, 06:16:12 PM
What type of person am I?
I'm amazed at your skills of tell what a person is liked based on a single icon. Maybe you should.. oh I don't know talk to the person before assuming what type of person they are. Also maybe you should go out and watch episode 26 of Ah My Goddess as well.
I've never even support the Tomb Raider series. I've thought the series up until now has been awful and down right degrading. I've only purchased 1 Tomb Raider game and that was Tomb Raider II and I picked it up cause I was curious on what the big deal was. And I was very disappointed with it.
The Demo for the New Tomb Raider game just showed up on XboxLive yesterday and I figured I would give it a try and see how it was and if it was still just as bad as the others.
Well I'm happy to say its actually pretty damn good, at least from what I've play in the Demo the game is much different from the other Tomb Raider games. Infact its like Price of Persia meets Indiana Jones. They have even toned down Lara and she isn't as skanky as she was in all the other Tomb Raider games. Infact while I was playing it one of my friends pointed out that they have downsized her breasts and they are not as huge as they were before.
After playing the demo I've got to say I'm kind of interested in the game now, which is a first for a Tomb Raider game for me. I might just have to rented it when it comes out and try it out and see if it stays just as good as the demo.
Post by: vudu on April 10, 2006, 09:41:03 AM
Post by: ThePerm on April 11, 2006, 12:39:56 PM
Post by: joshnickerson on April 11, 2006, 02:31:18 PM
Oh yeah. If the game doesn't suck, I might just check it out.
Post by: rossi46 on July 01, 2006, 01:53:05 AM
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Originally posted by: 18 Days
Tomb Raider is horrible sexist trash, not unlike the avatar of capamerica. I am am not surprised to see his type in this thread.
While I'm not going to complain about this games surprise port to Gamecube, it still belongs on Xbox with it's fat sweaty nerds.
Lara Croft has done more to raise the profile of the free-thinking independant women's movement than any other single entity since the suffragettes. To call the TR series sexist is, fankly, absurd. Maybe you would prefer women to 'know their place' , stay in the kitchen with the kids and leave all that nasty adventuring to the menfolks.
The game itself is good, I have it on PC and PSP, and I look forward to buying it for my 'cube.
Post by: Kairon on July 01, 2006, 10:48:16 AM
If you think that Tomb Raider is a step forward for today's feminism, then I guess you could call all of Japan's anime "tank-girl" genre as a step forward for feminism. And believe me, they ain't.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: rossi46 on July 01, 2006, 11:07:02 AM
As for the Tank-Girl thing: TG's far too random and arty-farty to be taken seriously, IMO
cheers
Paul
Post by: Kairon on July 01, 2006, 01:15:04 PM
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: rossi46 on July 01, 2006, 01:21:08 PM
Paul
Post by: Kairon on July 01, 2006, 02:17:05 PM
But I do think I see what you're saying. The world may not be ready for the whole deal, (for example, is Hillary electable?) and everything's a work in progress. Baby steps, after all.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: Athrun Zala on July 01, 2006, 08:28:40 PM
Post by: Kairon on July 01, 2006, 09:04:38 PM
Eh, I like to pick on the Philippines because my mom's poisoned me against my country of birth.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 02, 2006, 12:25:43 AM
I was born there too.
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Not sure how progressive at all Tomb Raider is considering the big boobs and short shorts are the marketing weapons. Then there's the tarnished franchise on the side.
Post by: Kairon on July 02, 2006, 12:54:45 AM
Incidentally, my Mom's a Filipino, it's just that she was a social studies teacher there, so she can tell me all about all sorts of problems that I never got to experience for myself. The end result of this is that I consider myself lucky: I grew up in Canada!
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: couchmonkey on July 05, 2006, 08:08:42 AM
And if Lara had never existed, would Johanna Dark or Jade (Beyond Good and Evil) exist? Ignoring Johanna's latest adventure, those two portray believable, if still rather ideally-proprotioned, figures and they wear pretty modest clothing.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 05, 2006, 08:21:53 AM
I demand a no-suit version of Samus.
Post by: rossi46 on July 05, 2006, 09:17:54 AM
Post by: Kairon on July 05, 2006, 10:09:15 AM
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Originally posted by: rossi46
Are not most of the heroes in games handsome, rugged and perfectly formed?
Yeah, that Mario, he sure is a dreamer huh? Big puffy mustache, rotund pregnant man-belly, and oh-so-short!
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: rossi46 on July 05, 2006, 10:40:23 AM
Post by: ShyGuy on July 05, 2006, 12:11:38 PM
Post by: Athrun Zala on July 05, 2006, 03:33:23 PM
Quotethe point was that Chile's society is extremely chauvinist, so the fact that a woman (and divorced 2 times, currently single) gets elected by the majority of the population is saying something....
Originally posted by: Kairon
The Philippines has had a woman's president before... that doesn't mean that they're at all progressive...
Eh, I like to pick on the Philippines because my mom's poisoned me against my country of birth.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: KDR_11k on July 05, 2006, 09:47:53 PM
Post by: Kairon on July 05, 2006, 10:12:54 PM
*thinks hard*
Lou Albano?
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: JonLeung on July 06, 2006, 10:03:15 AM
It was slated to come out in 2000, or somewhere late (or in the latter half) of the N64's "lifespan". It looked like a third-person adventure game much like Tomb Raider and also featured an adventurous female character, not unlike Lara Croft, who wielded two guns. I think she wore green, including a green baseball cap. Or some kind of hat.
The name "Riqa" popped into my head just now as I was writing this. If it wasn't called that, it was something similarly exotic at least. I wonder if that game was any good, and if it actually was released or exists in some form? (EDIT: According to Wikipedia's list of cancelled video games, "Riqa" became the current-gen game "Rogue Ops". That game did star a woman who had guns...I haven't played Rogue Ops, but it looks different from how I recall the N64 Riqa did...ah well, never mind then!)
As for Tomb Raider on a Nintendo console, can't the Game Boy Player play GBC games as well, including the GBC game Tomb Raider: Curse Of The Sword? Okay, it's not a true console game, but still...
I played (Lara Croft -) Tomb Raider: Legend on the PC. First Tomb Raider game I seriously got into. I thought she was overrated and not that good-looking (at least the face) but after the series got a reboot with Legend, and Lara herself redesigned, and seeing that it played much like the recent Prince Of Persia games, I gave it a shot and I love it. Now that I have a new computer, I may try it with "Next Generation content" enabled and get the remaining artifact things.
Not really sure what the point of releasing it on the GameCube is. I mean, the GameCube does need more games, but I've already played this one. They really should've tried to make it simultaneous with all the other console (and PC) releases. If it means more support for Nintendo from Eidos or Crystal Dynamics or whoever, I guess that's good.
