Tomb Raider, the awesome 2013 version looks like it's heading to SteamOS & Linux

Nice! That's way too many Linux depots to be an accident! ;)

After reading through these comments I must be the oddball "old guy". I've been playing TR since the beginning and while the reboots are certainly different I still think they are great games and Linux gaming will be better for having them(assuming TR2016 eventually comes too).

I understand the nostalgia for the oldies but I have my doubts that if they were to do a "perfect replica" (Maps, items, enemies, story.. etc..) of any of the first 3 TR games, with the graphics and engine they are using today if it would be well received. For better or worse the gaming landscape has changed A LOT since then.

What an awesome and unexpected news. Been drooling for Lara Croft since forever ;)

Quoting: KeyrockDon't go into it expecting a Tomb Raider game (despite the game being called Tomb Raider) or you may wind up bitterly disappointed and hating the game like I did. This game has very little in common with the original Tomb Raider games outside of sharing the name and protagonist. If you're looking for proper puzzle platforming and actual tombs to raid, you won't find it here. What you will find is a pretty good cover shooter with spectacular setpieces, a bunch of QTEs (thankfully they're concentrated at the beginning, after that you don't get them as much), and some hold you by the hand exploration.

Despite the fact that I hate this game with a passion, I'll be happy if it comes to Linux since it would be a good step forward for Linux gaming.

I was just about to ask for comparisons with Legend-Underworld series and earlier stuff. A bit sad if it went more mainstream(?) since then but I will probably buying this nonetheless.

Now off for better AMD drivers and I'll jump on to the linux gaming boat again.

Quoting: minjWhat an awesome and unexpected news. Been drooling for Lara Croft since forever ;)

Quoting: KeyrockDon't go into it expecting a Tomb Raider game (despite the game being called Tomb Raider) or you may wind up bitterly disappointed and hating the game like I did. This game has very little in common with the original Tomb Raider games outside of sharing the name and protagonist. If you're looking for proper puzzle platforming and actual tombs to raid, you won't find it here. What you will find is a pretty good cover shooter with spectacular setpieces, a bunch of QTEs (thankfully they're concentrated at the beginning, after that you don't get them as much), and some hold you by the hand exploration.

Despite the fact that I hate this game with a passion, I'll be happy if it comes to Linux since it would be a good step forward for Linux gaming.

I was just about to ask for comparisons with Legend-Underworld series and earlier stuff. A bit sad if it went more mainstream(?) since then but I will probably buying this nonetheless.

It's a well made game, it just went in the complete opposite direction I was hoping it would. The first game in the original series was my favorite because it was the least combat focused game in the series (it actually had very little combat). Over the course of the series each successive game added more and more combat, but even Underworld, the last game before the reboot, was still more focused on puzzle platforming than combat. The 2013 reboot tips the scales heavily toward combat. Raiding tombs is practically nonexistent. They put in a few optional tombs, but they are so short and laughably easy to figure out that they take about 1 minute each to complete. That is not an exaggeration. It's a slap in the face to the series' roots. All "platforming" uses Assassins Creed style guided jumping and climbing where so long as you're pointed within 60 degrees of the optimal jump angle, the game will automagically make you jump in the correct direction and at the exact right time. It looks nice and smooth and makes for cool cinematic moments, but it takes exactly zero effort and skill to make jumps. About the only "challenge" to the "platforming" is the occasional oh no, Lara's hand slipped off, press X quickly to grab the ledge QTE, which is something even the original series started doing in the last few titles before the reboot, much to my chagrin. On the positive side, the production value is tremendous and the combat is by far the best the series has ever had, which is good since you're going to wind up murdering around 500 Russians before it's through.

Anyway, I hopes this leads to other Squeenix titles getting ported to the penguin.

/glances longingly in the direction of Deus Ex and Sleeping Dogs.


Last edited by Keyrock on 30 January 2016 at 10:08 pm UTC

Quite sad then. Thanks for elaborating on it.

If I recall well Tomb Raider 2013 had on the pc box the words "Games for Windows", which made me to discard it completly. If this turns to be true I have recovered my faith in the entire franchise again.

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Last edited by tony1ab on 30 January 2016 at 10:38 pm UTC

Color me skeptical until I see some type of official announcement. Anyway, for those of you who disliked the sparsity of tombs in the 2013 game, it seems Rise of the Tomb Raider tried to get back to that. Since the first game was a reboot of the series, they were trying to tell the story of how Lara Croft became a tomb raider, and they focused a lot of the gameplay on survival (rather than cover shooting as one person mentioned; there really wasn't all that much combat compared to an actual shooter). It is definitely a survival game, somewhat like Far Cry in third person.

Rise of the Tomb Raider begins with a tomb to explore very early on and is supposed to get Lara back to doing what she does best. I would have been very surprised if they ported it to Linux right after its "exclusive" deal with Xbox One concluded, seeing as how it is not even on PS4 yet. It could easily be another year or two before it comes to Linux, if ever.

Quoting: shigutsoAccording to Square-Enix, FF13 is also coming to Linux, right? Wrong... maybe this is the same :(

What are you even talking about? An OpenVR Linux depot does not equate to "Square-Enix announced a game for Linux." This is a way, way different situation.

Oh my god, best news ever. As soon as big AAA titles started coming on Linux I always wanted to have Tomb Raider coming on our platform. So happy :-)

Quoting: wojtek88

Quoting: MGOid- I'm playing Grid Autosport and really appreciate Feral position related to non Nvidia users: "officially we don't support, by you can play anyway". Hope they fix the split-screen thought. And supporting all gamepads, not only the 360 one.

Not a single issue with Dualshock 4 (wired, wireless) while playing Grid Autosport, so that's not support of "only 360 one".

That didn't came out the way I intended. It was a critic to developers that only support the 360 controller, or joypads in a whitelist (I'm looking at you Unity Engine...). So I know Grid work with other gamepads, I play it with a Xbox One controller.