General gaming discussion

I played through it a few months ago. Didn't think it would hold up at all considering the clunky controls and it felt a bit awkward very quickly as Mario 64 was only a few weeks away and predated it in Japan.

It holds up though. The controls are clunky but precise. There's a real sense of exploration and discovery. Despite the combat being clunky I much prefer the original tomb raider to the new games or uncharted. I tried the sequels and they really lose more and more magic of the original as they go on.

After playing 2 right after 1 I can safely say that tomb raider 1 is a much much better game than 2 which felt like they made everything bigger, from the combat to the levels because they could but it didn't lead to a better game.

Got around to watching the Halo Infinite gameplay. I find it kind of annoying that Microsoft try to big up Master Chief as some kind of iconic videogame character and I just see him as another dull space marine, probably by design as well so the player can transplant themselves into the character.

Moaning aside, it kind of looks great. I mean open world Halo sounds like a lot of fun if they manage to nail the combat. The grappling hook looks like a blast to use as well.

Well it did say take over the camps how you like so maybe multiple objectives???

And even if it is take over the camps, Halo combat would kind of excuse it if they are well designed I guess.

It's actually less gears of war and more air of faux pretension that gives the games undeserved gravitas when the storyline is basically the same as Space Invaders. But it's still fun to get caught up in it and laugh at the really awkward writing in the later games.

That kind of went out the window with Halo 4 and it's way more generic.