I've come to the conclusion that with the incredibly bad controls on this game that I won't be playing anymore of it and have sold it...Good Riddance TRA...

Worst game ever? That is a bold statement!!

Did you play legend? Are you playing on the PC? Did you try using a controller? The controls can be difficult to get used to but if you do manage it really is a good game

No way, I absolutely love TR:A! I actually had very little problem with the controls (and I'm playing with keyboard and mouse). The only thing I had problems with once I sorted out the adrenaline dodge (which I can do very easily now) was the wall run and jump move. The camera kept moving at extremely inconvenient times and making Lara just carry on straight. It drove me up the wall, and didn't seem to get better with practice.

Of course the first thing I did after installing was to customise the controls to make them easier for myself, and I changed them through the game whenever I found that certain moves were a bit too awkward.

W orse ever...It doesn't save my game...she doesn't grapple at all...doesn't jump in the direction I aim...the camera is a joke...I don't like saying this about TR but it's true...

If you save the game after any checkpoint the game will resume from that checkpoint.

Mary

If you save the game after any checkpoint the game will resume from that checkpoint.

Mary

I've gone past at least three checkpoints...I saved by the switch that drops the blades in Damocles room...and when I load it goes to the point where she has to go through everything in the back room again...

Edited June 16, 200719 yr by Dark Wizard

That shouldn't happen.

Mary

That shouldn't happen.

Mary

I know...hence my frustration...it wouldn't be such a big thing except that she doesn't do the grapple in the back to go up on the walkways to get the switch in back...

EDIT: I made it through...I guess I needed to rant a little...jumping in random directions still sucks though...

Edited June 16, 200719 yr by Dark Wizard

best thing I've learned, (thanks to BP! love ya sis!!) is to hit jump first, then a direction button, works every time now

So you bought it again?

best thing I've learned, (thanks to BP! love ya sis!!) is to hit jump first, then a direction button, works every time now

That's what I've been doing...except she goes off on a tangent...

So you bought it again?

LOLz...I'd never sell it...but I did want to chuck it like a frisbee....

Edited June 16, 200719 yr by Dark Wizard

Looks like you need to work on your patience too My advice is to go to the Gym in the croft manor and practice doing those jumps with special attention to the camera. It's a bit tricky when you're not used to it. You need to press the keys ( WSAD) according to the position of the camera. If the camera is behind Lara and you want to jump backwards, press S.... if the camera is in front of Lara, you need to press W.... it's hard when you're starting but don't give up!

Good luck

BPanther

I am playing on the PC with just a keyboard and a mouse;

sure it's frustrating and sometime I get SO MAD I just want TO Pull A SHRENSH (killing Lara on purpose out of frustration because nothing else is working) but I keep trying and trying (I died and/or restarted maybe 70 times in Palace Midas in the 2 rooms) and I will not quit until I finish the game; then I want to restart it!!

Edited June 17, 200719 yr by j7wild

Looks like you need to work on your patience too My advice is to go to the Gym in the croft manor and practice doing those jumps with special attention to the camera. It's a bit tricky when you're not used to it. You need to press the keys ( WSAD) according to the position of the camera. If the camera is behind Lara and you want to jump backwards, press S.... if the camera is in front of Lara, you need to press W.... it's hard when you're starting but don't give up!

Good luck

BPanther

LOLz...I just needed to blow off some steam...but she shouldn't be having the problems with the grapple...the one where you jump off the slope slab in back...Oh...I bought it on PS2 because it was on sale for $19.99 at Best Buy....

Edited June 17, 200719 yr by Dark Wizard

No way, I absolutely love TR:A! I actually had very little problem with the controls (and I'm playing with keyboard and mouse). The only thing I had problems with once I sorted out the adrenaline dodge (which I can do very easily now) was the wall run and jump move. The camera kept moving at extremely inconvenient times and making Lara just carry on straight. It drove me up the wall, and didn't seem to get better with practice.

I am the same way except for the wall jump and the AD. The WJ i can do but not the AD.

I agree about the camera. I find it seriously annoying

The controls seem nice and fluid though.. but she doesn''t react as fast as maybe I would like her too.. but I love the game.

I am the same way except for the wall jump and the AD. The WJ i can do but not the AD.

I suck at the AD...but if she gets hit you can mash the X button and she backflips to safety and doesn't take so much health damage....

I suck at the AD...but if she gets hit you can mash the X button and she backflips to safety and doesn't take so much health damage....

I think the AD is pointless unless youre fighting one enemy in a big, open space. I just run and backflip and try to kill whatever im fighting before it gets close enough to me that i have to use the dodge.

sure it's frustrating and sometime I get SO MAD I just want TO Pull A SHRENSH (killing Lara on purpose out of frustration because nothing else is working)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!! So i'm not the only one who does this then!! Whoo Hooooo Makes me feel soooo much better! Once i got bored of jumping off high ledges, breaking her bones, drawning her and so on and i decided to leave her to a rat, lol. It took a lot of time, but in the end she died alright I miss the AOD shouts and moans when she falls from high and breaks And i also don't like the fact that the game is loaded immediately after she dies, in AOD you could enjoy and take screenies of her weird body postures Erm... by the way i'm NOT a psycho, i just get really very mad at her sometimes....

And yes, i agree the controls are hard job and really frustrating, but not impossible. And the game is really good as a whole

Ouch... you were watching her getting killed by a rat??? LOL I think that's worse than what Shrensh does!! At leas she's dead right away.... hahaha

Lol! Getting her eaten by a rat is one thing i havent tried yet.

And is it just me, or does she get eaten faster if youre trying to get away from something than if youre just standing there letting her get killed? Cause i screwed up a jump one time and needed to reload so i just let her stand there getting attacked by a wolf, and it took like 2 minutes for her to die, but if youre trying to kill a wolf, it can take out half your health in one hit....

Hmmm.. you're right! I never thought about that but yes. If you move and shoot, i suppose, the enemies get angry and bite harder, lol. Except the rat of course... because if u run, it can't reach you, lol, and if you shoot it dies too easily

Edited June 19, 200719 yr by Boaz

TRA is the best game in the series in my opinion i played it 24/7 when I got it how can you not like it?

Lol, I'm sorry but AOD holds that title in the Tomb Raider series, next to that would be Chronicles.

I tried to let a rat eat her... I lost patience and just drowned her. LOL

And you know what? I made that same observation. She just won't die when you want her to. I jumped off a cliff like 30 times before she died, I kept telling myself "one more time", but that time took forever to come. It's like waking up 30 minutes before the alarm goes off and trying to get back to sleep.