Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition better graphics than PC ?

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Have to say, probably the best 3D game I have played. Tried it on my 27" monitior, eh ok!

Swapped to my 47" 3D LG, wow... Games really takes off playing in front of the TV, takes me back to the olden days of consoles :)
 
Omaeka said:
www.vg247.com

Analyst: games costing $100 million need 5-10 million sales to succeed

Square-Enix posted a grim financial revision yesterday, which caused president Yoichi Wada to stand down. The company t…
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Already looked at that and several variations on the theme when searching before posting and I can't see anything there that says $100m was spent on advertising for TR. In fact the only mention of $100m is some analyst talking in general terms about "games with development budgets approaching $100 million" and a sensationalist headline title from VG247 saying tomb raider cost $100m which is suspect is just derived from the generic quote (also note how 5-10m sales required becomes the top end number of 10m!); even if true that implies the marketing spend was much less.

Additionally, the article was written in March and many sales may have happened since then judging by posts on this forum (in fact in August Square announced it had sold over 4m, compared with the 3.4 million announced in March).... unfortunately I can't find more up to date numbers but I suspect it will have some more since then.

Square may very well have made a loss on TR but I doubt the advertising spend was $100m.
 
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It doesn't say Tomb Raider made a loss, it certainly doesn't even remotely indicate $100mil on advertising.... you're talking about advertising at that price on the level of the disaster that was John Carter.. .it's insane to even misread any of that as $100 on advertising.

It doesn't even say Tomb Raider cost $100mil, it's a general "if a game costs $100mil they need to be beating 5mil in sales".

It ONLY links to an article which says due to SEVERAL titles not hitting sales targets the head honcho has stepped down. 3.4mil sales is great, it's more now. More importantly the situation is not about profit with these kinds of companies, it's about how much profit, and the profit from projects like Tomb Raider needing to make up for losses on other projects.

Their sales target could have been 5mil, and that could have been a $200mil profit target, at 3.4mil it could still have made $130mil profits, it's just not what they wanted because two other games made a $50mil loss each.


On a personal level I have no problems with IP's making varied types of games, the story is the IP, not the type of game it is. I don't expect that Lara lives in a world where every treasure and situation she would be in would be in identical locations. It makes sense to be in different situations in her life and this will lend itself to varying styles of games.

THe only issue really is when people expect more of the same and then buy a game they didn't really want, I can understand that is frustrating.

Then again plenty of games stick with the same genre/style of a game, and completely screw up sequels so it doesn't really matter does it. A good game is more important than if a game is the same style as previous games. DA2 is god awful but the same style, the current COD games are woeful compared to the 1/2/4, but they are the same type of game.
 
"Crystal Dynamics isn't ready to commit to promising a 60fps for either platform."

Lol. the new consoles are such a disappointment in terms of tech and performance. It is a pretty poor show that they can't even run a last gen game with some upgraded graphics at 1080p and 60fps.

Ive seen and played some demos on a PS4 and Xbox One and nothing graphically has wowed me so far. But then i guess it wouldn't seen as ive been gaming at 1080p on a PC for years
 
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French Patch Fix for English
Go in to Steam/steamapps/common/Tomb Raider directory and just remove all files that have the word French in them. There should be 4 files total. This fixes the French text and Lara's voice.

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You then must enter game and change the Language.
 
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shankly1985 said:
French Patch Fix for English
Go in to Steam/steamapps/common/Tomb Raider directory and just remove all files that have the word French in them. There should be 4 files total. This fixes the French text and Lara's voice.

Edit
You then must enter game and change the Language.
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soon as i restarted steam, it starts downloading it again.
 
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