PSN and Steam online co-op delayed for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Why on earth would they not have this just already in the game ready to play.

buy or no buy?
no buy it is!!!

Lazy devs strike again. so tired of this patch it in later generation of gaming.

The Steam version has COOP with AI instead of Single Player?

Are you sure about that? Seems odd that they would make the console versions single player, but the PC version coop with an AI.

In fact, I’m not even sure that the game would work with an AI unless there was also a way of controlling/directing the AI.

The game itself is pretty fantastic.

They should’ve delayed the game rather than put it out without co-op.

Yeah, the launch of this game has been a bit of a lash-up all-round. Sounds like the whole project could’ve done with being delayed by a few months to get it all done. By the time the originally-touted modes are all in place everyone will have finished the single-player game and forgotten about it.

@4 What else is Totec in the game other than AI if you are playing by yourself?

Unless it’s one of those rare split-screen co-ops for PC where one person uses the keyboard and the other the mouse, what else would he be? He’s controlled by the game right?

@7 Totec only appears in about 3 cutscenes when playing on your own, the environment — and Lara’s skill set — adjusting to compensate. There’s no AI partner.

Presumably you can play local co-op on the PC using keyboard/mouse and a controller.

So what have Eidios made CD rush yet another TR game? oh my god seriously what is it with them idiots.

gotta love the hate though, the game is incredibly polished, and it’s more than enough fun even in SP.

@5, i thought it was delayed, a full MONTH after the X360 release and they STILL can’t get their shit together? What a disapointment.

@11true, it’s absolutely obvious they wanted to release it as part of that Summer of Arcade, when the online part was far from finished yet.

I still cant believe Eidios have not learned thier lesson, interfering all the time just let CD make the game in thier own time ffs.

the only time they ‘interferred’ was with Underworld, rushing it in time for christmas. back in the days AoD wasn’t rushed, Core simply messed it up, despite having 3 years to do their stuff.

I say interfere by making CD release a TR game every year instead of giving them more development time to make the game to its best, back in the Core days Eidios forced them to make TR games in one year dev time as well, its just not good for any game if it becomes an annualized sequel something Eidios will never understand.

this is an arcade spin-off though, it’s not even a TR game.

I know that but watch now as we get another Lara Croft game next year followed by another the year after and so on till they run it into the ground.

that won’t happen, by the looks of it they really take their time with the next one. anyway that’s for Livingstone to decide, I very much doubt they don’t learn on their mistakes.

@8 Awesome! Thanks for clearing that up for me! I figured that about the local co-op bit, but, hell I can’t get that to work on my system. Maybe if I take a hammer to it or something….

Yep a 3 year dev cycle which is promising. Whether TR sticks to that though remains to be seen.

What’s that?

I believe it’s the sound of my wallet being zipped up tight!

Why release gimped versions of games?