Sony\'s blocking Tomb Raider: AOD

Finally, we\'ve heard that the latest installment in the decreasingly-popular Tomb Raider series is hitting a major roadblock in the form of Sony. Apparently they were none too impressed with the game when developers Core showed it off, since it\'s not an improvement -- aside from graphics, of course -- over the last several dreadful rehashes. Apparently Sony\'s blocking the game until some substantive tweaks appear.

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This was in a rumor section, so take it as you will.  I just hope it\'s true.

What a load of bullsh!t. Like SONY would block a game just because its crap.

SONY makes money. Money is money to them. Lara will still sell like no tomorrow.

There are alot more crappier games than this that SONY would block... 18 Wheeler cough, Army Men cough...

i think they are trying to cover up a possible sloppy delay in release time. all this quality control from sony is pure bullshit.

Sony and quality control? I don\'t know about you, but since when has Sony cared about quality? Stupid things like a hell level in that Parappa the Rapper spinoff, and some 2d games (PSX was supposed to be all before the anal people at Sony America got the beat down from Sony Japan to allow 2d games) yes, but quality games...don\'t think so. :rolleyes:

[Living-In-Clip]

Best laugh all week. Sony caring about quality? If that\'s the case - why didn\'t they stop this series from hitting the PSone earlier?

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tomb raider.. who cares.

yeah, just because you guys never heard of it before, means this must be bullshit, right? :rolleyes:

Obviously, this Tomb Raider is an important game, so what Sony may be doing is damage control - avoiding yet another hyped up game to become a disappointment. Hard to believe? Yeah, the money is important, but with that goes a happy consumer and you\'ll only get that when the consumer is happy with their product. Some guys here obviously have no idea how a company secures good sales over a long period of time. Grow up.

[GmanJoe]

Tomb Raider is a marquee name. There\'s a movie, a comic book series, action figures....it\'s a franchise.

If a popular game like that is released with bad gameplay, it\'s gonna get a lot of press. Too much press. And Sony doesn\'t want it.

Yes, Sony allowed a lot of crappy games on the PSX. But they were forgettable games no one really anticipated. But imagine if GT4 was to be released and it was less than spectacular. That would hit the fan and everyone would be asking Sony about their quality control.

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Give me a break, Seven. If Sony ever gave a flyin\' f**k about quality control they would of started caring along time ago. They have let the Tomb Raider series continue on the PSone and now the PS2 despite the medicore gameplay and graphic issues. They\'ve let the market be flooded with $10 dollar crap games and Army Men games. Did they ever stop ? No.

AM I saying that it is impossible? No. Anything is possible, but I find it damn ironic that they wait this long to start worrying about quality control.

[GmanJoe]

It\'s never too late.

Anyway, the last Boob Raider I played was TR2. That was actually good. But the next year, they had TR3. A bit too soon, I thought. Normally, a good sequel takes at least a year or so. The script, coding....and all that other stuff I don\'t know much about.

Originally posted by seven
yeah, just because you guys never heard of it before, means this must be bullshit, right? :rolleyes:

Obviously, this Tomb Raider is an important game, so what Sony may be doing is damage control - avoiding yet another hyped up game to become a disappointment. Hard to believe? Yeah, the money is important, but with that goes a happy consumer and you\'ll only get that when the consumer is happy with their product. Some guys here obviously have no idea how a company secures good sales over a long period of time. Grow up.

Gotta agree to that.

W O R D :fro:

Sony in fact has a quality control.
But they don`t control the gameplay quality, they just look if the game runs properly and if there are major bugs.

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If Sony cared about quality they wouldn\'t make PSone\'s and PS2\'s so cheaply (*points to the countless threads about dead Psone\'s and dead PS2\'s*..) Yeah, quality control,it\'s a great thing.
:rolleyes:

actually, TR1and TR2 were very, VERY good

it was downhill from there

whoa its must not be coming out to good if sony did that hopefully they will fix if before it comes out.