I just occurred to me: Has there been a single successful piece of media for Reboot Lara yet?
The first game very famously didn't make it's earnings back until it rereleased on next gen, at a time where next gen was starved for anything to pass the time until actual next gen titles arrived.
The second game was a timed Xbone exclusive, which killed it out the gate.
And the only reason I am aware that a Reboot Raider movie even exists is that I've stumbled across two articles in all my Internet browsing, which could have been accurately summed up as "Tomb Raider Reboot movie is entering production" and "Tomb Raider Reboot Movie has been out for a week, is a flop".
RoTTR was immensely successful for Squeenix despite having basically no hype or attention. It's got something like 2.4 million owners on Steam now, half as much as the 2013 game and still steadily rising.
I'm one of those weird people that is a big fan of these reboots, but even I have to admit that "the plot is...she's becoming the tomb raider. AGAIN" is stale. If she found a lost city last time, it is safe to say that she is the Tomb Raider by now.
Maybe they just mean that the public finally finds out what's going on? Kitezh had to be covered up by both Trinity and Lara even after the Source was destroyed, but since Lara causes the apocalypse quite early on in the story from the press releases everyone's going to know about who she is and what she does.
I don't understand the comments here saying this looks dull and uninteresting. This is going full on Temple of Doom, and I love it. The other two games did absolutely nothing for me, but this is the first one that grabbed my attention.
The first game sold over 1 million copies in 2 days. Square considered it a failure because it 'only' sold 3.4 million copies in the first month and they expected 10 million. Because Square are fucking retarded and expect all their games to sell 10 million copies despite the vast, vast majority of AAA games hitting between 1 and 3 million sales. The game has sold over 11 million copies now.
Rise of the Tomb Raider suffered lower sales because they released on the same day as Fallout 4, and even when Tomb Raider was the hot shit it couldn't have stood up to a game like that. Regardless of quality, there are some games you just don't put yourself against. It has also sold more than 7 million copies now.
The Tomb Raider games have only been 'failures' in so far as AAA publishers are fucking morons and expect all their games to be instant successes. Never mind the fact, shown repeatedly over the years, that games which build a following over time are the ones to really pull in success. Look at the Souls games, Demon's Souls was a sleeper hit while Bloodborne sold PS4s. Look at GTA, GTAIII was a slow success built off the first two games while GTAV was the fastest selling entertainment product in history, selling 11 million copies in 3 days and making over a billion dollars.
You don't create success over night, you build it over a long period of time. It's too bad AAA publishers will literally cripple themselves to make short term profits look good. Got to release the big game on the last day of the fiscal quarter to boost the numbers, never mind that you're fucking the next quarter's number to do it.
The second one felt like the first except slightly bloated. I remember a little bit extra of everything but nothing super new. Trying to get all the collectibles made me wish I was just playing the first one again.
For the locations they did a desert area for a tiny little bit in the beginning, and then that woodland area was pretty but most of it was just snow and non-snow areas iirc. If the new one is a Mayan theme they should have gotten weird and done some kinda dark world shit (no drug trip sequences pls)
"No drug trip sequences"
I bet that happens, probably as one of many scenes where Lara gets beaten up. Some Mayan trap or similar bs shoots her with a dart that causes hallucinations.
Rise had a pretty good moment in the Baba Yaga DLC
Tomb Raider Legend was a reboot and did save the franchise from sinking after how awful Angel of Darkness turned out. Wasn't the best in retrospect, but the climbing system it introduced became the basis for most adventure games of this style.
Baba Yaga actually surprised me with it's story and cut scenes. I guess that's because I went in expecting something more along the lines of the "Tomb of the Lost Adventurer" (From the first 2nd reboot game), but it definitely was far better.
This trailer may look a tad 'generic' but honestly I'm still pretty hyped. I have a lot of childhood memories tied to Tomb Raider and Lara Croft, and I'm pretty eager to see how they wrap up this
trilogy (since I've heard this will be the final game in this series)?
Does beg the question though, how many times can they reboot a single franchise....
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