BNBGAMING.com:
"...My response after last year’s trailer was one of quiet acceptance with maybe a hint of acquiescence. I didn’t honestly know what to think. This year, I have much more of a clear response: what the hell is this? Is this Saw? Is this Cannibal Holocaust? Because I know Tomb Raider, and this sure as hell doesn’t look like any Tomb Raider game I’ve played. It’s kind of strange to see. And also painful. Yeah, painful is a good word, considering the amount of grotesque torture the developers seem intent on putting Lara Croft through."
Tomb Raider I, II, III Remastered is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Lara Croft is back in a classic remaster of the original PlayStation 1 hit title. Is the remaster any good though?
We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
I do agree that Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness was the worse one 😂 I remember playing some of it and I took it back. That game was just awful in every way. I bought it used at gamestop and glad they had that 7 day return policy for used games 😂
Simple. He's been hating on the Tomb Raider reboots for years. I can't imagine seeing them at the top of a best TR game list let alone being on the list in general sitting well with him because of it.
Zeek
“Hating”
No no, just pointing out how TR mutated into a generic action adventure game losing the appeal of what it once was when it was more about puzzles and platforming over going Rambo, slaughtering waves of enemies
But hey, continue being a dick and speaking about me like I’m not going to see the comment.
Foxtrot, I'm curious if you have played the most recent games. Sure the 2013 reboot was hugely focused on combat, but each follow up became less and less about combat to the point where outside of a few large scale story missions I don't even remember combat being a part of shadow of the tomb raider. Shadow was so puzzle focused it actually was a bit much for me and I love the TR puzzles.
I still feel like Rise was the best of the series and I was a huge fan of the originals. To me it struck the perfect balance of exploration, platforming, puzzles, and combat. Not saying your opinion is wrong I'm just curious what you think they should have done different. Games do need to evolve somewhat to stay relevant. Would you prefer small linear jumping platform levels like the original?
I think Shadow wasn't even develop by crystal dynamics. I thought it was the worse in the new trilogy
That's right. Shadow was developed by Eidos Montreal who who went and made Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy next. (Great game)
Meanwhile after Rise of the Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics made Marvels Avengers. (bad game)
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
Interesting, it's rare that a long-term gamer is over-sensitive to violence. Most of the time it's the other way around. This is what makes Laura as tough as nails.
I wonder if it were a guy, would the author have the same reaction?
I don't care about the violence, but it certainly doesn't look like a Tomb Raider game. It looks very linear, heavily scripted, and light on puzzles, all of which are complaints I have about the Uncharted series. At least with Uncharted they've all been that way so you know what you're getting, and Uncharted does that type of gameplay as good or better than any game of it's kind.
Tomb Raider should be about exploration and puzzles more than combat. It looks cool and all but they should have just made a new IP instead of a reboot that changes more than it keeps the same.
It always made me laugh that Uncharted was called a Tomb Raider clone when they were nothing alike. Now Tomb Raider is most definitely an Uncharted clone.
calling this game misogynistic? really? actually having a realistic character who struggles, suffers, and has to overcome daunting obstacles to reach a higher point...... is misogynistic? i dont fucking think so. that is what we call a legitimate fucking story and not shying away from putting a female character through the same struggles that male characters endure (I mean, did you see the opening scene in uncharted 2?).
what a pathetic article. I voted "WTF" and "no" for this site. I dont care to ever read another asinine opinion piece like this one again.
Jesus, how often do you get to play a true survival game? I don't know how well the other games sold, but this is the first time I've ever become interested in the Tomb Raider series. Some games eventually hit a wall, if it doesn't change or even improve drastically, then it's going to die. I honestly think that they're simply stepping up the survival experience and better yet, you get to know the character a bit more. Being a badass is not everything, but people continue to think that's part of gaming. Let's face it, the medium is evolving with some developers. You want something along the same line? Play Dynasty Warriors, it's been the same throughout.
Seems the author of the article missed the part about this game being a reboot to the franchise. As well as the part about this game being the studios way of showing how Lara's story began, what made her "The Lara Croft we all know." Of course this game doesn't look like a 1:1 clone of the other Tomb Raider games gameplay wise, we are going to be playing as a younger Lara Who has never been through things like this before.