Topic: Tomb Raider trilogy remaster

Hey everyone, let's talk tomb raider! Any longtime fans out there? Anyone thinking of trying out the series for the first time on switch? What's your favorite game?

My initial experience with the series first started on the original Playstation but more as an observer. A friend of mine back in the day had the first couple games and I'd watch him play. I was more into N64 in those days. Plus even in 1996 i kinda thought those graphics looked like ass on PS1 if you know what i mean. I was more curious than anything else. I knew Tomb raider was popular but i didn't quite get it.

It wasn't until years later when Tomb raider legend on GameCube came out that i really got into the series. That was My first Tomb raider game that i actually finished all the way through.

These days i own every main game. It took a long while before i really got into them. My favorites are probably the latest three. I respect the older games for starting it all but as for the controls and graphics i just couldn't stomach it enough to really enjoy them. They felt like such a chore sometimes.

So anyway enough rambling from me. Tell me what you think of these remasters and would you like more of them? Possibly TR 4-Angel of Darkness aka TR (6) or even a collection of the three newest ones on switch. If that's even possible. Let's hear it.

I did already make a thread for this about a week and a half ago
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/tomb_raid...
Though it didn't gather any interest...

That aside, my experience with the series is sorta similar, at least at the start. I grew up watching my older brother and sister play the first three on PS1 and the music from those still takes me back to those days at our old house and other memories of my childhood. We would play various games on PS1, N64 and PC.

I also remember watching them play Angel of Darkness on PC and how that game was kinda buggy, even the final cutscene didn't play and we had to get my dad to find the video in the game's files in order to watch it. Was still a cool game though. I later learned that it was rather unfinished, with a lot of bugs and a lot of content and mechanics that were cut or not properly fleshed out. I don't know what exactly they would do with it, even though I'd personally probably still be fine if they only fixed the bugs, but then again I never actually played it myself.

For my own experience playing them, I would mess around in Lara's Home in the first three, as well as use various cheat codes and such. The first one I think I actually properly played was Legend and loved it, I played Anniversary too and liked it but it wasn't as good as Legend. Underworld was alright, but I felt it was jankier than the other two and I didn't like how they randomly changed Lara's face for it. It also has console-exclusive dlc that never made it to PC (that I did play on 360) which is an odd inversion of the expansions of the old games, which I've never played as they were PC exclusive.

Guardian of Light was cool and I really liked the Legacy of Kain character pack too, even though I've only played the first Soul Reaver on PS1 it was super cool hearing Raziel and Kain as it completely changed the tone of the story.

I've also played all of the current reboot series, I don't like how Lara looks in the first one... she looks way better in the official artwork for it, but in game she looks nothing like it. The newer games have certain gameplay elements that are similar to LAU (Legend/Anniversary/Underworld) that give them a similar-ish feel at times.

But they're also very different... I do think they got better with each one, Rise was ok and I really liked Shadow, she looks great in Shadow too and I like it when she's enthusiastically talking about ancient stuff. I only played each of the new ones once though, so I can't quite remember what else I liked or disliked about them.

I'm glad the I-III Remaster also includes the expansions, as well as letting you use the old graphics and controls. I do hope we get at least 4&5 as I've not played those, though I have played The Times Exclusive level, which was a short level made to promote The Last Revelation (TR4), it's short but fun, so I hope they can add that too.

I'm very intrigued and may pick the collection up at some point if only to see how they modernized the controls.

I played the original games on my PC back in the day, and I would just caution people: These original games are OLD and definitely don't hold up well compared to other stuff from the same time period. For example Mario 64 released right around the same time as Tomb Raider I and... boy oh boy... NOT the same in pacing, ease of control, etc.

Definitely don't judge based on the three reboots. Don't even judge based on Legends. Those games rock. The original games... are an acquired taste, in my opinion.

These are the times the collection goes live, Switch is later on in the day.

My only experience with Tomb Raider is playing a little bit of the original game on Steam, but I never really got into it. The remaster looks great though, I'll likely pick it up at some point.