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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 13:25:39 GMT
I know this game has some scary locations and mild horror themes, but what I would love from the next game is some truly horrific locations. My wand wanders back to the blood covered beating womb like walls of Atlantis and I think seeing something like that on today's consoles would be amazing. I don't need Tomb Raider to be ultra realistic. The first game is the only one to really do something with those themes and I think it's a shame it's been abandoned.
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Post by Lori Croft on Feb 26, 2013 14:23:07 GMT
You never know, they may have things like that in the new game, they have to see how well this one is received first!
From what I've seen though this game is still pretty horrific!
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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 15:01:31 GMT
Maybe. I'm not holding my breath though, this one looks like it's more gruesome than horrific.
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Post by Lori Croft on Feb 26, 2013 15:21:55 GMT
We shall see!  |
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Post by quiver on Feb 26, 2013 16:57:34 GMT
^ You're such a tease |
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Post by Lori Croft on Feb 26, 2013 17:04:00 GMT
It's what I do best lol!  |
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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 17:30:34 GMT
Me and Laurie have very different definitions of horror though |
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Post by cynicalhippie on Feb 26, 2013 17:40:32 GMT
Some parts of the new TR look quite scary and I'm really glad of that. TR may not be a horror series but fear has always been a big part of it for me. The first encounter with a brute mutant in the RX-Tech Mines still makes me jump. I hope it's something that the series starts to bring back.
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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 18:03:13 GMT
And having enemies just appear without an introduction. Anniversary killed every single encounter. Nobody will ever forget the first time they played The Lost Valley and having that T-rex appear out of nowhere. Even now when I play it I get a chill.
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Post by Aglaophotis on Feb 26, 2013 18:40:23 GMT
Yes. I always saw Tomb Raider as an adventure-horror game, come on, the Yeti's in TR2, the mutants in TR3, Atlantis, Cairo, Black Isle. They were horror games, even if subtly!
I'd love to see them take a very dark and horrific approach with the next one, bring back some frightening supernatural creatures. I get that the reboot is supposed to be 'realistic', but in reality, Lara would most likely die quite early on in the adventure.
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Post by cynicalhippie on Feb 26, 2013 18:48:20 GMT
I think background noise and music can really make or break a creepy atmosphere. When I think back on the levels that creeped me out the most in earlier games, it's usually the background ambiance I remember the most, those ghostly whispers in Antarctica, the gasps in Cairo, the groans on the Black Isle and the screams from the Sanitarium. Some of the background audio I've heard from the new one reminded me of some of the old background tracks and that gets me excited to think that old familiar feeling of 'I don't want go in there' might be back.  |
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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 20:05:50 GMT
Whilst we are on the subject of background noise, one of the better moments of Anni was in Egypt, Temple of Khamoon. those background whispers and voices. That was very well done.
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Post by Aglaophotis on Feb 26, 2013 21:08:01 GMT
I think background noise and music can really make or break a creepy atmosphere. When I think back on the levels that creeped me out the most in earlier games, it's usually the background ambiance I remember the most, those ghostly whispers in Antarctica, the gasps in Cairo, the groans on the Black Isle and the screams from the Sanitarium. Some of the background audio I've heard from the new one reminded me of some of the old background tracks and that gets me excited to think that old familiar feeling of 'I don't want go in there' might be back. Absolutely, it's the dread that's the scariest part, not the reveal. I hope the new game is filled with these kind of moments. I particularly love going down into the pit at the end of the Great Wall in TR2, just the open darkness with that haunting monotone music echoing with skeletons littered across the floor still gives me the creeps! Whilst we are on the subject of background noise, one of the better moments of Anni was in Egypt, Temple of Khamoon. those background whispers and voices. That was very well done. I thought Anniversary was particularly effective in the Egypt areas. I wish they could've gotten the same feeling within Atlantis though. It felt way too 'clean' and not organic like the original. |
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Post by codeveronica on Feb 26, 2013 21:58:19 GMT
I agree. The only part of Atlantis that stayed true was the first room with the wombs on the walls. But even that was still watered down. The whole of Atlantis was supposed to be like a womb, the walls were alive, blood pulsating through them.
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Post by codeveronica on Mar 9, 2013 20:45:50 GMT
Have to say, The Catacombs and the areas before it pretty much nailed exactly what I was looking for. |
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Post by cynicalhippie on Mar 10, 2013 0:02:10 GMT
Was that in the Geothermal Caverns? That place had me really nervous. I desperately did not want to run in to Oni. I was a little disappointed by how not scary they turned out to be but the build up to them was immense and had me really nervous. Haven't been that nervous since TLR I'd say.
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Post by Aglaophotis on Mar 10, 2013 20:37:13 GMT
Yeah, I was really hoping for that concept art we saw years back. Even just looking at concepts of those creatures was terrifying.
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Post by KspyrusTR on Mar 12, 2013 16:38:48 GMT
the Oni StormGuard reminded me of Pyramid Head from silent hill somehow...
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