Next Tomb Raider to be published by Amazon

aigomorla

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FML... NO...

Amazon has destroyed plenty of games with its poor management and extremely immature development team.

Even when paired with a experienced korean MMO company they still botched Lost Ark with its many bot ridden problems, and some game breaking glitches, as well as the grind killing progressing.

And lets not even get into New World which is still a broken mess of feces.

It seems like Amazon has a plague infested thumb where anything it touches is bound to fail, and the new tomb raider series has been pretty good for them to lay there hands on.
 
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FML... NO...

Amazon has destroyed plenty of games with its poor management and extremely immature development team.

Even when paired with a experienced korean MMO company they still botched Lost Ark with its many bot ridden problems, and some game breaking glitches, as well as the grind killing progressing.

And lets not even get into New World which is still a broken mess of feces.

It seems like Amazon has a plague infested thumb where anything it touches is bound to fail, and the new tomb raider series has been pretty good for them to lay there hands on.
I tried to like New World, but couldn't get on their servers most of the time. I will watch this thread, to see how this goes.
 
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Amazon has destroyed plenty of games with its poor management and extremely immature development team.
Maybe that's their plan. Let loose a few of their managers in the Crystal Dynamics office and have them learn how things are done by real professionals.
 

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Maybe that's their plan. Let loose a few of their managers in the Crystal Dynamics office and have them learn how things are done by real professionals.

and smilegate wasn't a matured MMO development team for lost ark?
I remember the CEO saying working with amazon was extremely stressful and almost unproductive, because of how poor they coordinated on a korean blog.

Then then head of amazon games got fired if you remember correctly, and the division still has yet to recover.

remember this?

So no i hold no expectations for amazon, and also refuse to buy anything Amazon games, until they produce a single game which is on the same league of things from like indy producer of Rimworld, Stardew Valley, Don't Starve, and even Fall Guys.
 

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There was a leak a while ago where it looked like the game was going full-woke SJW. Lara was going to be in a lesbian relationship, and a trainer in a school of upcoming girl Tomb Raiders.

They never denied it and instead issued take-down notices. I hope for their sake they don't try such a stunt. They need to look very closely at the failure that was BF5.
 
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So long as they have the good sense to treat this plot point like their entire audience is a group of sex starved guys... cause it is.
Maybe some girls too. I had to fix a girl's laptop once and she was this really cute, really nice, innocent sort of girl. Not someone you would believe would be into anything naughty. Well, in her documents folder, hidden way, way deep into the directory tree, was a text file that among some other stuff that I forgot (she was Sri Lankan), included a URL of a lesbian sex video.
 

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There was a leak a while ago where it looked like the game was going full-woke SJW. Lara was going to be in a lesbian relationship, and a trainer in a school of upcoming girl Tomb Raiders.

They never denied it and instead issued take-down notices. I hope for their sake they don't try such a stunt. They need to look very closely at the failure that was BF5.
I hope they do, and I hope you cry yourself to sleep over it.
 

BFG10K

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I hope they do, and I hope you cry yourself to sleep over it.
Nah, I just won't buy it and it'll fail critically and commercially just like BF5.

But thanks heaps for your deep, genuine, and anonymous concern about the situation - really appreciate it!
 

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There was a leak a while ago where it looked like the game was going full-woke SJW. Lara was going to be in a lesbian relationship, and a trainer in a school of upcoming girl Tomb Raiders.

That doesn't sound woke at all. It sounds freaking hilarious! Teen male fanfic writers everywhere must have been furious that their virtually identical scripts weren't accepted!
 

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Nah, I just won't buy it and it'll fail critically and commercially just like BF5.

But thanks heaps for your deep, genuine, and anonymous concern about the situation - really appreciate it!
It's just a stupid thing to complain about, it's not like there's a dearth of action games like this with straight male protagonists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know anything about BF5 or why it failed, I don't have any interest in online multiplayer games.
 
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You took the liberty of digging through her files...because...? Did you feel entitled to them since you were fixing her computer? Creepy.
I was actually hoping to find some indication in her data if she liked me. Like maybe photos of me (we were colleagues). No such dice! She did have a lot of Nepali stuff. Makes sense now since she married her fellow Nepali colleague who worked downstairs, rather than me who actually sat a few feet away from her :rolleyes:
 
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It's just a stupid thing to complain about, it's not like there's a dearth of action games like this with straight male protagonists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You appear to be suffering from extreme confusion. At no point did I advocate Lara Croft to become a 'roided d00d with a tree-trunk neck.

Give me Jill Valentine over Chris "boulder-punch" Redfield any day.
 
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You appear to be suffering from extreme confusion. At no point did I advocate Lara Croft to become a 'roided d00d with a tree-trunk neck.

Give me Jill Valentine over Chris "boulder-punch" Redfield any day.
Yes, I'm confused about what exactly the "problem" is with the Tomb Raider leaked info that will lead to a sub-par game beyond having "a lesbian relationship" or "other girl tomb raiders", neither of which would appear to directly impact gameplay.

I'm not really that confused, I just found your butt-hurt amusing. WAAAH-WAAAH, Lara's gay and there's too many girls in this game, WAAAAAH-WAAAAAH.
 

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I was actually hoping to find some indication in her data if she liked me. Like maybe photos of me (we were colleagues). No such dice! She did have a lot of Nepali stuff. Makes sense now since she married her fellow Nepali colleague who worked downstairs, rather than me who actually sat a few feet away from her :rolleyes:
Being in IT for 35 years I have seen my share of things on users systems. Some which I wish I could forget I ever saw.
 
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Being in IT for 35 years I have seen my share of things on users systems. Some which I wish I could forget I ever saw.
On two different occasions, I was given laptops to do some maintenance by two different colleagues, one a very strict boss in his late 40s and other a much older lady in her 50s. Both had porn folders in their D drives, named to make no attempt to hide them (I think one of them named the folder "hot stuff"). Both had the same nationality. I guess in some countries, porn is not taboo.
 

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On two different occasions, I was given laptops to do some maintenance by two different colleagues, one a very strict boss in his late 40s and other a much older lady in her 50s. Both had porn folders in their D drives, named to make no attempt to hide them (I think one of them named the folder "hot stuff"). Both had the same nationality. I guess in some countries, porn is not taboo.
It shouldn't be taboo as long as it's not under aged stuff. My biggest issue then was all the Trojans and viruses it brought in. I used to manage the network and IT heldesk for Arista records where the policy was pron was allowed for "creative" reasons. But the personal stuff on these systems was a bit too much. On one occasion this really pretty hot but so innocent looking British woman had so many pics of herself in the xxxest ways that I could look her in the eye when I dealt with her issues.
 
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Yes, I'm confused about what exactly the "problem" is with the Tomb Raider leaked info that will lead to a sub-par game beyond having "a lesbian relationship" or "other girl tomb raiders", neither of which would appear to directly impact gameplay.
So...much...concern.

I'm not really that confused, I just found your butt-hurt amusing. WAAAH-WAAAH, Lara's gay and there's too many girls in this game, WAAAAAH-WAAAAAH.
The only one who's butt-hurt is you. "He posted he wouldn't buy something, now I need to restore justice on the forums, waaah-waaah!"

An anonymous person on the forums not buying something is triggering a personal affront with your personality. That's your problem, not mine.
 
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I am not certain how this will go, but I will say, I am kinda liking New World now. I got it kinda late, on sale for $20, but it's pretty fun, and it doesn't seem to kill GPUs anymore. Or at least none of mine. I think it has a fair amount of content, and I do applaud that the price is quite reasonable, with no subscriptions, or premium user / DLC sales.