Weekend slowdown: real-life "Tomb Raider" gameplay

Posted Mar 3, 2007 at 9:11PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 Tags:
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Since it's a reasonably slow news day, allow us to try something different. Please take the time to observe the slightly-dated humorous video above by YouTube user Kater17. Yeah, it's in the spirit of the upcoming Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Anyway, funny(?) as it is, it does highlight several things that developers have to often think about, and gamers have to wrestle with when it comes to videogames.

  • That casual gamers, a crowd that ranges from Zuma playing moms to ex-hardcore-now-a-parent gamer, are often easily annoyed with an unwieldy "cinematic" camera or an annoying control system. On the other hand, there's a separate crowd that digs all this cinematic stuff.
  • Sometimes it's not the "cute" that draws folks to cutesy games, it's the immediate fun factor. If you're enjoying yourself within the first 5 minutes of playing a game, you're probably going to prefer that game over others. Of course, making things a bit too simple and light on story will piss some other folks off.
  • Unless you're really really interested, or something decent is happening on screen, people often skip the long intro cinematics. Yeah, yeah, some folks like the cinematics, it's just that... *editor presses X to skip cinematics discussion*
Anyhow, all of this is just probably us looking too deeply into a funny vid posted by someone on YouTube.

Well, now that you've seen Kater17's problem with videogames, what about you folks? What gameplay "conventions" annoy you to no end? Reiterated battle systems? Weapon sets containing some useless weapons? Unfair advantages in multiplayer? The persistent existence of crates you have to smash? Glowy coins/rings/gems you always have to collect? Load times? Comment away folks.

 
 
 

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by O.o - 2007-03-03 17:12
» ...

wow this chick isnt half bad

by Dookie - 2007-03-03 17:16
» !!!

you didnt say first post!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

by Kater17 - 2007-03-03 17:31
» men..*sigh*

you stupid SOBs need to get a life, a gf, or a pump for that sorry-looking deflated thing in the corner of your room you call your "lovelife."

by that guy - 2007-03-03 17:36
» men?

oh come on, you know you love us...



well.... me, anyway.

by . - 2007-03-03 17:47
» .

WHAT THE HOOF??!!!?!

by Sr_Moska - 2007-03-03 17:57
» boring video

but the chick is pretty hot ;)

by HelloDanDan - 2007-03-03 18:01
» Muhaha

the expression on her face looks funny~!

dats righgt ladies...stay with the simple games that make u happy XD

by Ecko - 2007-03-03 18:05
» LOL

lol seriously... don't even bother with the lil kiddies around here... I found the video quite funny. Cool female gamer indeed. Oh and I've never finished a tomb raider game either.. xD

by viagra - 2007-03-03 18:44
» viagra

that chick should be the next Croft. I only beat the 360 one, but I heard the ps2 version had horrid controls...

by nick72990 - 2007-03-03 18:47
» most def

Stole the words out of my mouth lol

by LordOfTheStrings - 2007-03-03 18:48
» They still haven't posted my news...

I submitted them this:



http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/9914/smgowmanual2rg0.jpg



Look at the picture; it's confirmation that God of War is coming to the PSP.

by Aj - 2007-03-03 19:07
» HOT

she look hot !!

by yer - 2007-03-03 19:07
» Lol

$5 says this " Kater17 (Unregistered)" is a guy

by mick - 2007-03-03 19:08
» woman.. sigh

you dont dress up like lara croft and expect a man not to look. take responsibility for your actions you stupid slapper !

by Arek - 2007-03-03 19:23
» re

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/sunglass-bandits-rob-georgia-bank/20070228140909990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

by Matt - 2007-03-03 19:43
» Ha

If you've ever played Tomb Raider games...You know how true that video is. I thought it was funny...



And not because the girl is fine.

by low life - 2007-03-03 20:01
» OMG

Is it just me, or is she cute when she is mad? :-P



J/k!!!! She does have a really good point. There are many games (RPG's) that have long and arcane menus and battles. I want something I can just pick up and play, especialy on my favorite portable, my PSP.

by asdfasf - 2007-03-03 20:42
» dasff

mmm. ;) yummy:P i love lara croft, she's my new hearo now, i want to meet her i have vonage,

by Progenote - 2007-03-03 21:15
» Come here little Lara

WTF, wanna play Tomb Raider w/ her, lol

by ROFLCOPTER - 2007-03-03 22:59
» Was that a PSP at the end

I couldn't really tell, did she play Pokemon on her PSP??? HOMEBREW USER ASWELL!?!?

by caveman - 2007-03-04 00:16
» stupid

old GBA you dumb troll!

by . - 2007-03-04 01:24
» .

she's a bit posh?!

by Wooo Big fan. - 2007-03-04 02:17
» o_o

Kate... Marry me...

by karivika - 2007-03-04 02:24
» nice

Finaly, a good looking gamer girl appears

Looks pretty good, and for that you need a jump ;)

by Annonymous Coward - 2007-03-04 03:04
» Funny vid

Yea the girl is cute but how some of you talk about her is as though you have never seen a women before in your life. As for the video, I think it was really funny and does make a good point.

by About Blank - 2007-03-04 03:14
» WOW

Hit the nail right on the head, very funny video

by Annonymous Coward - 2007-03-04 03:20
» Check out more of her on this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmxgKkL80lk&NR



Not gaming related but very funny.

by tsaikimon - 2007-03-04 04:56
» oh please

all you guys pretending you're too cool to think she's hot piss off. She's smokin and in just the right way - you know - hot but still take home to mom material. As far as girlfriends go, I need that ver. Sigh, but from my experience it's either HOT and in need of ALL your attention all the time - hence hates video games.....or not so hot and so has to be cool. I guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch. Anyways happy hunting.

by CsL - 2007-03-04 07:49
» Is it possible, to download those YouTube-Videos?

Pls tell me how..

by D-DANG! - 2007-03-04 08:19
» HOT

HOT

by Jin - 2007-03-04 08:57
» ...

I see your $5... and raise you 20.

by Nark - 2007-03-04 09:52
» Here's what I use

There's a freeware program call VDownloader that works really well. I don't have a link for you, but Google it and you should find it easily.

by Feark - 2007-03-04 10:38
» Not funny at all

but it was good anyway, hmm.

by king - 2007-03-04 10:53
» yea

she so hottttttttttttt

by THE KING - 2007-03-04 10:56
» yea

I'M KING SO I CAN MAKE U MY QUEEN U ARE SO SEXY WHEN U ARE MAD

AND U LOOK GOOD PLAYING AS TOMB RAIDER NICE FANNEY.

by Vecha - 2007-03-04 11:44
» I love tomb raider...

as the article says however...guess "casual" gamers can't appreciate it.

by Dodo - 2007-03-04 13:00
» ..

I'd do her all night upside down from the back and every angle humanely possible!

by . - 2007-03-04 20:46
» .

WHAT THE HOOF??!!??

by sora - 2007-03-05 06:34
» .

my thoughts exactly

by . - 2007-03-06 07:16
» HAHAHA

thats hilarious, i hope those girls escape, they deserve the money if its just going to be handed to them

by . - 2007-03-06 07:19
» ya

because everyone needs your advice, ***** off

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