Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF?

**Mousey** · Dec 23, 2009, 11:01 PM

I seriously don't get how this game made it out of testing, Are EA Just getting increasingly retarded or are developers just getting increasingly lazy? If you were to submit a buggy piece of crap like this to your boss for release a few years ago you'd be shot where you stood and fed to the other developers as a reminder of what happens to sloppy coders.

I'm currently stuck on a mission involving grappling onto a ring that seems to swing on the wall, Run across, jump off onto a platform then go pull something.

The Simple

ng task of even grabbing the

ng ring is

ng impossible thanks to the stupid

ng physics engine and the ridiculously

ng difficult task of even climbing out of the

ng water. When i did eventually grab said

ng ring and attempt to swing across the physics engine

ed up and lara ended up inside the wall, Then catapulted across the other side of the room, Slammed into the other wall and was insta killed.

How steam can sell this with a straight face is also completely beyond me.
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Senor_Mota · Dec 23, 2009, 11:08 PM

Wow. Ventilation is key

How much does it cost...and what, you didn't know that nearly all of the Tomb Raider games are kinda crappy and buggy like that?

**Mousey** · Dec 23, 2009, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senor_Mota

Wow. Ventilation is key

How much does it cost...and what, you didn't know that nearly all of the Tomb Raider games are kinda crappy and buggy like that?

This one is easily the worst TR game i've ever played by a long stretch. Before that new developer more or less stole the rights and "Re-Made" TR1 they weren't too bad, But now they're full of bugs and glitches. The modelling and textures got better, whilst the core gameplay and working mechanics just rotted steadily beneath.

Thank christ this game was only a fiver in a sale otherwise i'd actually be demanding my money back from steam

IvanV · Dec 24, 2009, 12:11 AM

Only five pounds? Maybe you strayed in the damaged goods section?

Joking, I'm sorry you had this obviously extremely frustrating experience.

**Mousey** · Dec 24, 2009, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IvanV

Only five pounds? Maybe you strayed in the damaged goods section?

Joking, I'm sorry you had this obviously extremely frustrating experience.

You think that's the only one? Lol.
On the FIRST LEVEL I encountered a glitch that stopped me going any further when a trigger didn't... trigger and a door wouldn't open, Blocking me from going any further

Optix · Dec 24, 2009, 03:30 AM

It's not just this edition of TR - it's every edition past the 3rd. Each one has been buggier than the next. Poor control, terrible perspective, jumping is nearly impossible...give me the original PSX version any day.

ET3D · Dec 24, 2009, 06:20 AM

The reason I wasn't tempted by the previous sale of this game is that I tried the demo, and couldn't get very far. Thought I did buy Tomb Raider: Anniversary and played some of it and found it okay.

mmd_danish · Dec 24, 2009, 07:25 AM

i loved the game but camera bug and no boss fight just ruined this game for me....and yes i guess CD and eidos seemed to launched alpha version...

Judas · Dec 24, 2009, 03:19 PM

Mousey, that is EA... EA has always released royally bugged up games, i'm not sure how you've avoided experiencing this with every single game.

EA & Ubisoft, the worst buggiest developers EVER

**Mousey** · Dec 24, 2009, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

Mousey, that is EA... EA has always released royally bugged up games, i'm not sure how you've avoided experiencing this with every single game.

EA & Ubisoft, the worst buggiest developers EVER

The battlefield games were pretty good after the first few patches that levelled out the unbalance of certain classes, And the football/soccer if you wanna call it games were pretty good and bug free.

Tomb Raider's easily the worst though.

comp_ali · Dec 24, 2009, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

The battlefield games were pretty good after the first few patches that levelled out the unbalance of certain classes, And the football/soccer if you wanna call it games were pretty good and bug free.

Tomb Raider's easily the worst though.

EA Fifa on the PC sucks . I agree that EA developed games are usually mediocre especially the PC version.

**Mousey** · Dec 24, 2009, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by comp_ali

EA Fifa on the PC sucks . I agree that EA developed games are usually mediocre especially the PC version.

Problem with ea is that they see consoles as the primary maret, so the ol' faithful pc gamers get screwed with invasive DRM and just general crap ports

Judas · Dec 24, 2009, 05:15 PM

Mousey, you've been nothing but impossibly lucky then..

coming into this thread, it was like someone experiencing their first EA game.

Optix · Dec 24, 2009, 07:35 PM

I find that, as someone said, EA looks at consoles as their bread and butter and gives preferencial treatment for flagship franchises like the NHL and Need For Speed series. Bad EA!

*rubs their nose in the mess*

Zian5377 · Dec 25, 2009, 04:08 AM

All EA Cares about is making money, anytime EA does anything productive they lose a LITTLE money then they freak out cut the IP and developer and go make another *Insert Dead Series Here* Game... The only publisher/developer group that impresses me anymore is Zenimax being the sole group for Bethesda and Id.

Makes me real excited anything those two publishers put out. EA could learn something from Zenimax, You Do NOT need to have your hands in EVERYTHING.

Stop It · Dec 31, 2009, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

I seriously don't get how this game made it out of testing, Are EA Just getting increasingly retarded or are developers just getting increasingly lazy? If you were to submit a buggy piece of crap like this to your boss for release a few years ago you'd be shot where you stood and fed to the other developers as a reminder of what happens to sloppy coders.

I'm currently stuck on a mission involving grappling onto a ring that seems to swing on the wall, Run across, jump off onto a platform then go pull something.

The Simple

ng task of even grabbing the

ng ring is

ng impossible thanks to the stupid

ng physics engine and the ridiculously

ng difficult task of even climbing out of the

ng water. When i did eventually grab said

ng ring and attempt to swing across the physics engine

ed up and lara ended up inside the wall, Then catapulted across the other side of the room, Slammed into the other wall and was insta killed.

How steam can sell this with a straight face is also completely beyond me.
[/rant]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

Mousey, that is EA... EA has always released royally bugged up games, i'm not sure how you've avoided experiencing this with every single game.

EA & Ubisoft, the worst buggiest developers EVER

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

Problem with ea is that they see consoles as the primary maret, so the ol' faithful pc gamers get screwed with invasive DRM and just general crap ports

Quote:

Originally Posted by comp_ali

EA Fifa on the PC sucks . I agree that EA developed games are usually mediocre especially the PC version.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Optix

I find that, as someone said, EA looks at consoles as their bread and butter and gives preferencial treatment for flagship franchises like the NHL and Need For Speed series. Bad EA!

*rubs their nose in the mess*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zian5377

All EA Cares about is making money, anytime EA does anything productive they lose a LITTLE money then they freak out cut the IP and developer and go make another *Insert Dead Series Here* Game... The only publisher/developer group that impresses me anymore is Zenimax being the sole group for Bethesda and Id.

Makes me real excited anything those two publishers put out. EA could learn something from Zenimax, You Do NOT need to have your hands in EVERYTHING.

All of you, repeat after me.

Eidos. EIDOS.

Tomb Raider is an EIDOS (Now Square Enix Europe) franchise and Underworld was made by Crystal Dynamics.

There, now that's out of the way, yes, the game is missing a bit of QA but for £5 (Which is what I paid for the 360 edition), it isn't half bad. Not worth full price though.

DNARevolutions · Dec 31, 2009, 08:05 PM

Eidos releases aren't that great. :/ Kane and Lynch is prolly the most fail game I've played this year on the PC. Just Cause sucked ass too.

comp_ali · Dec 31, 2009, 09:28 PM

Yes , I didn't like JC and Kane&Lynch either. However in Batman , Eidos was only a publisher , Rocksteady was the developer and they are developing Batman sequel now just with WD replaced Eidos as a Publisher.

DNARevolutions · Jan 2, 2010, 06:35 PM

Yeah, Batman was probably the best game Eidos ever published... (Not a big fan of Hitman)

Dyre Straits · Jan 3, 2010, 08:01 AM

I actually finished TR:U a few months ago. Although I did find some areas that were troublesome, I didn't find it at all that bothersome to the point of ranting about it.

I did, however, miss the big boss fights like was in TR:L and others. IIRC, though, I only paid $10 USD for it.

~~RE III - Frankie~~ · Jan 13, 2010, 09:51 AM

I'm downloading it right now! It's slowing my connection, soooo slow and jagged..

ilordvader · Jan 29, 2010, 02:31 AM

Im having trouble Install my game again
after I updated to Win 7

Says error & i gave up

TR 2 was the best TR i ever played
I guess story does matter

wish they can remake it with
the graphics today

Chaos-sama · Feb 5, 2010, 03:39 PM

I'm not really a tomb raider fan but i tried this game cause i heard it was a improvement on the previous games this game changed nothing still boring, still annoying but now...with bugs

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I don't suffer from my insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. -Zarek

Dec 23, 2009, 11:01 PM	#1
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,188 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? I seriously don't get how this game made it out of testing, Are EA Just getting increasingly retarded or are developers just getting increasingly lazy? If you were to submit a buggy piece of crap like this to your boss for release a few years ago you'd be shot where you stood and fed to the other developers as a reminder of what happens to sloppy coders. I'm currently stuck on a mission involving grappling onto a ring that seems to swing on the wall, Run across, jump off onto a platform then go pull something. The Simple ng task of even grabbing the ng ring is ng impossible thanks to the stupid ng physics engine and the ridiculously ng difficult task of even climbing out of the ng water. When i did eventually grab said ng ring and attempt to swing across the physics engine ed up and lara ended up inside the wall, Then catapulted across the other side of the room, Slammed into the other wall and was insta killed. How steam can sell this with a straight face is also completely beyond me. [/rant] __________________

Dec 23, 2009, 11:08 PM	#2
Senor_Mota 悪魔の方法 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ee-duh-ow Posts: 2,384 Rep Power: 99 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Wow. Ventilation is key How much does it cost...and what, you didn't know that nearly all of the Tomb Raider games are kinda crappy and buggy like that?

Dec 24, 2009, 12:11 AM	#4
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,912 Rep Power: 333 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Only five pounds? Maybe you strayed in the damaged goods section? Joking, I'm sorry you had this obviously extremely frustrating experience. __________________ If anyone has Portal 2 and hasn't played the co-op and wants to do me a favour, let me know (PM me or whatever).

Dec 24, 2009, 06:20 AM	#7
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 3,057 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? The reason I wasn't tempted by the previous sale of this game is that I tried the demo, and couldn't get very far. Thought I did buy Tomb Raider: Anniversary and played some of it and found it okay.

Dec 24, 2009, 07:25 AM	#8
mmd_danish HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: India Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? i loved the game but camera bug and no boss fight just ruined this game for me....and yes i guess CD and eidos seemed to launched alpha version...

Dec 25, 2009, 04:08 AM	#15
Zian5377 HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Portland,Oregon U.S. Posts: 105 Rep Power: 25 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? All EA Cares about is making money, anytime EA does anything productive they lose a LITTLE money then they freak out cut the IP and developer and go make another Insert Dead Series Here Game... The only publisher/developer group that impresses me anymore is Zenimax being the sole group for Bethesda and Id. Makes me real excited anything those two publishers put out. EA could learn something from Zenimax, You Do NOT need to have your hands in EVERYTHING. __________________ _____________ "Good, Bad, I'm the one with the gun.." -Ash Gotta Love Wireless Internet!!

Dec 31, 2009, 08:05 PM	#17
DNARevolutions HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Eidos releases aren't that great. :/ Kane and Lynch is prolly the most fail game I've played this year on the PC. Just Cause sucked ass too.

Dec 31, 2009, 09:28 PM	#18
comp_ali Sniper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Egypt Posts: 10,469 Rep Power: 339 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Yes , I didn't like JC and Kane&Lynch either. However in Batman , Eidos was only a publisher , Rocksteady was the developer and they are developing Batman sequel now just with WD replaced Eidos as a Publisher.

Jan 2, 2010, 06:35 PM	#19
DNARevolutions HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Yeah, Batman was probably the best game Eidos ever published... (Not a big fan of Hitman)

Jan 13, 2010, 09:51 AM	#21
~~RE III - Frankie~~ Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,754 Rep Power: 0	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? I'm downloading it right now! It's slowing my connection, soooo slow and jagged..

Jan 29, 2010, 02:31 AM	#22
ilordvader HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New York Posts: 31 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Tomb Raider Underworld, WTF? Im having trouble Install my game again after I updated to Win 7 Says error & i gave up TR 2 was the best TR i ever played I guess story does matter wish they can remake it with the graphics today