Tomb raider (vg) (2013)

[FoxhoundTCF]

Global brand director Karl Stewart revealed the news in a Reddit AMA after several users asked about the possibility of single-player DLC. "There are currently no plans in place for any Single Player expansions. All of our DLC is based around the Multiplayer experience for now."

That looks like they may do single player DLC at some point down the line.

Since the DLC for the game is amazingly cheap (thank you crystal dynamics) i upgraded with the pistol silencer and the headshot reticule. i got my guide ready for the first chance to go back to the older areas and go back thru.

Yeah the pistol silencer and the headshot reticule are great things to use. I got them with my copy of the game (Combat Edition), with that you also get the animal instinct skill and the pistol burst mode

after beating it, I downloaded Tomb Raider Anniversary for $10 on xbox on demand. I didn't even know it existed. I'm loving it. For those who may have missed it like I did, it's the Original Tomb Raider, but with updated graphics. It uses the Legend Engine. All the levels are there and the puzzles are all more or less the same. There are many updates and changes so that it's not an exact repeat of the original, but still close enough that it stays true. Very fun.

Yeah Anniversary is great. I have it on the 360 too, although I have the retail version (comes with a DVD with extras including the soundtracks for both Anniversary and Legend)

In fact I was playing Anniversary last night

 

[division 6]

According to the Art Of book there was to be a Sub Pen level but they decided to use it for the multiplayer.:thumbsdown

 

[Jeyl]

According to the Art Of book there was to be a Sub Pen level but they decided to use it for the multiplayer.:thumbsdown

This is like reverse Mass Effect 3, only worse. A good number of ME3's Single Player missions would use Maps that were solely designed for multiplayer i.e. Non-linear arena setting. All you do is go around fighting enemies, press a button or two and you're done. Couldn't they have just kept the Sub Pen level in the Single Player game AND make a multi-player rendition of it? Some of my favorite multi-player maps stem from slight re-designs of the single players maps, but we don't even get the luxury of that.

 

[Wes R]

It would have been awesome to see what kind of subs would have been in there. Sadly why do i have a feeling all the interesting places like wrecks that shoulda been in single player are going to be MP only. At some point the MP fad is going to die off if we're lucky.

 

[division 6]

Would have been cool to find a I-400.
Of the actual 3 built one was converted into a supply transport IIRC.

I really wish we could have explored more of the wrecks.

 

[Wes R]

They love to tease us ww2 fans with beautiful wrecks but no adventuring in them. I mean there's a freaking battleship on the beach we can't get to lol. Anyone wonder why nobody's ever put warnings around this area in the game the massive about of people vanishing? I mean there are corpses all over the place, that many people you would think would have people avoiding the area.

 

[division 6]

I spent several minutes trying to get to that battleship hoping to find a glitch in the program that would allow it.

It's no different than the Bermuda Triangle, people will go there even though they know weird stuff happens.

There is supposed to be a third place in the world that has strange phenomenon but it's in a desert.

 

[Wes R]

I'm trying to figure out if the ending scenes show a clue of where she goes next but i can't tell. I finally beat it with 100 percent but i need to go back for the achievements at some point. I love that you get very few achievements at first then suddenly they hit you like an avalanche. There's also a journal entry you find in the one area (trying not to do spoilers) that mentions the japanese soldiers weren't the only ones interested in the island but then nothing else comes of it. I have an idea by the stuff mentioned it was why the US marines were there though.

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

Well I just finished my 1st play through with 68% & 21 of 50 achievements. Evidently, almost half of the achievements are in multi-player, which I never do. I'm thinking I'll trade it in & pick it back up when the 'Game of the Year' edition comes out later in the year.

 

[Wes R]

Sadly I doubt you'll get much out of the game of the year edition other than tons of MP stuff. This is why i have only half the stuff for most games as I'm not into MP.

 

[division 6]

Wes, while looking for a screen cap from the end of the game I found a discussion on it.
Sadly the people doing it haven't noticed all the other text that needs to be run thought photo shop to read.

 

[division 6]

I finished at 92 %

 

[FoxhoundTCF]

I finished at 100%, but I did have to use guides for some of the challages (ie birds eggs etc)

 

[division 6]

Last resort looking at the strategy guide.
It's a bit cryptic on some things.

I'm down to looking for 3 more items.

 

[MooMooEgg]

Last resort looking at the strategy guide.
It's a bit cryptic on some things.

I'm down to looking for 3 more items.

It's weird that the survival instinct doesn't always show the quest items you're looking for. I'd pan around the landscape searching for something with the instinct on and not see anything, and then I'd take a few steps and see what I was looking for. Sometimes, I'd be scanning and find the object, but it wasn't highlighted in yellow, even though I was staring right at it (stupid ocean mines, I'm talking about you).

 

[aeonpulse]

It's weird that the survival instinct doesn't always show the quest items you're looking for. I'd pan around the landscape searching for something with the instinct on and not see anything, and then I'd take a few steps and see what I was looking for. Sometimes, I'd be scanning and find the object, but it wasn't highlighted in yellow, even though I was staring right at it (stupid ocean mines, I'm talking about you).

I've had the same issue. I still can't tell if it's a deliberate design, or if it's a bug.

 

[Trooper_trent]

I can't get 100% without starting completely over. Two of the birds nests in the egg poacher challenge just weren't there. Same with one of the shrines you have to light in the same area.

 

[division 6]

I found the last of the nests yesterday but then decided to start a new game.

 

[Wes R]

For some of the stuff i just looked it up online since i was sitting here gaming. My complaint with the game map is that even when you get the unlock where it shows you all the stuff the challenges such as getting totems doesn't show up so i still had to go online/use my guide.

 

[Wes R]

Square now says despite 3.5 million copies sold in 3 days it didn't hit what they wanted yet they failed to give single players more than 4 things of DLC and tried to make their money off multiplayer. Square is getting worse and worse every year. From everything they touch being gold it's turned to crap every time they touch it.