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only 5 days left until the tomb raider remasters. or 4 if you're european
Are people that interested? Or are you marketing trying to advertise your game?
>Are people that interested?
i checked the psn store yesterday on my PS5 and it's in the top 10 list of most pre-ordered games
Interesting.
Any news for the Switch version?
Hahaha id fricking not even entertain the idea the switch can play it at 30, let alone 60 fps
Get a real console if you wanna play real games homie
>it's in the top 10 list of most pre-ordered games
>PS5
that's not as impressive as you think it is
like half of that top 10 list is just multiple versions of the same game - final fantasy and some other game, if i remember - so in reality it's more like the top 5
TR is ahead of dragon's dogma 2
Ok burger flipper
how the frick does this manage to look soulful and soulless at the same time?
soul and soulless are buzzwords with no proper definitions
the only time they really make sense is when you're memeing
talk like a normal person
Everything about it is fine but your Ganker rotted brain is looking for any way to say it isn't because... well it just can't right? In reality the TR remasters are looking to be some of the most faithful remasters to date.
You cannot convince me that gamers aren't sheep that buys whatever gets marketed towards them. I've seen some of the screenshots, it looks faithful to the original game. Which is the point, I can't see say, my little brother, actually having a good time with Tomb Raider controls. Yet because it's a big name people are buying it.
Tomb Raider deserves the buy even if I wouldn't cause eh, no point in buying the remakes I got the OGs but I cannot believe that this many zoomers are actually buying a game that they should have zero interest in.
>SOVL
Greater than sum of it's parts and attention to detail. See Super Metroid and Zeno Clash. In Super Metroid there's little things like saving the animals, how the levels are connected, and how bosses go mute. Zeno Clash has a simple combat and level design that might look like shit but manages to pull through because the encounters and art direction pull a lot.
>Soulless
Less than sums of it's parts and removing it's identity. Funny enough, it's how I feel about Zeno Clash 2, due to it's open world/new combat system that removes the fun hit and run aspect from 1.
It's obviously the older fans buying it
>all that blathering about soul vs soulless
Soul = attention to detail and care
Soulless = laziness and rushed work by people who don't care
The TR remakes so far seem to be made by people who care.
There homosexual, it's that easy, saved everyone from reading your gay essay about Ganker buzzwords.
not that anon but i 100% get what he's saying and i'm sort of inclined to agree with him somewhat because his argument doesn't provide a whole lot of wiggle room
i think he's generally on the right track when he says that
>SOVL - Greater than sum of it's parts
and
>Soulless - Less than sums of it's parts
but it's not absolutely right, i can think of games where the final result is greater than the sum of its parts and it's still not very soulful - games like TLOU - but that doesn't mean you should go around insulting him, buddy
we're all friends here and the only way to keep these threads from turning into a jungle like the rest of Ganker is to have civil discussions in a respectful manner and to learn from one another
For me it's a vibe you feel when the game transcends the technology that's being used to run it but also a comfy place
that's also one way to explain it, but when you have emotions playing a big role like that, it can be a little difficult sometimes to come up with an unbiased explanation because emotions can cloud your judgement
the explanation of mechanics usually relies on cold, hard facts which means you have to leave emotions at the door when you enter the room - i don't like that one bit, but that's just the way it is
Yeah for me it's never a mechanical thing, more so the feelings it evokes. One man's Soul might be another man's Soulless, like when we first got Morrowind. One of my friends still considers it one of the most soulful games ever and the other considered it soulless then and soulless now because Bethesda's game failed to stir anything in him.
>One man's Soul might be another man's Soulless
haha, you got that right
what i find funny is when the majority of people consider a game soulless on release, but as time goes on they change their mind and start calling it soulful, mainly because the newer games are shit
>ps5s top games are just ps1 games
The absolute state. Why would anyone buy that nogaems machine?
If he's a marketer, he's one of the better ones, because those TR thread turn out to be fun in the end.
yeah you caught me, i'm a marketer
the only place we're advertising the game is on Ganker because we know where the REAL gamers are
oldgay TR fans have been asking for remasters forever, so it makes sense they're hyped for it
besides crysal dynamics don't really advertise this game at all, they're probably seething at it because they unironically hate OG lara
I don't really understand. Emulation isn't enough? Why pay for the same game for just improved graphics?
Quality of life and because I hate Crystal Dynamics
Why do they hate OG Lara?
Might buy physical copy if good price.
>physical
hope youre sitting down anon
Why care about physical edition for the remake? Oriignal PC big boxes or bust.
I would buy physical day one. Digital? I'm waiting for a 50%+ sale.
it's barely $30, what are you waiting for a 50% sale for?
Because it's digital only. I'm not paying full price no matter what it releases at. 5$ launch? Better drop to $2.50 Black person. It lets me show disdain for digital shit.
well you better get ready to pay double the price of the digital version because they will most likely do a limited physical run
No then I just buy the digital version on sale. Limited Run can frick off.
>tfw too old and lazy to play hard games like this anymore
no you're not, anon
we believe in you! you can beat it!
geriatric ass homie, don't you have some dentures to clean?
>hard
are you simple minded or something?
i played these games as a kid and had to constantly look at the walkthrough. back then game devs were still convinced that players want puzzles and mario bing bing wahoo like platformin. they genuinely thought its fun to run around for 10 minutes in front of some obstacle trying to figure out how to overcome it. thank god halo did away with that.
mentally challenged redditor
>bocchi the reddit
go back homosexual
It's not hard, you'll be fine actually it's pretty methodical. Try it, you may just find another good game series to play through.
Bro it's not that hard it just has unique and detailed death animations, it's like saying RE4, Dead Space, Conker, Crash etc. are "hard". They're challenging sure but they aren't absolute bullshit. unless you're trying to 100% them
These games aren't hard at all. Time consuming more than anything but definitely not hard.
are you smoothbrained? the only difficulty these games have is when the game expects you to use the action button on something with zero precedence of responding to the same button (dragging a corpse in TR4)
Looked like utter garbage
also the reason they remaster it is because Embracer owns the IP and wants to refurbish old games to stick them in an archive, not for players to actually play them.
I’m hyped
they released this a few hours ago
looks like they're really trying to incorporate india's national colour (brown) into the remaster
Why are they forcing sunset when it's not like that for the original ...
Also is outfit changing only for fricking photo mode ?!? What a waste!
>Why are they forcing sunset when it's not like that for the original ...
who knows? only aspyr, i guess
though the sky seems to change in the later india levels, like in the screenshot below that one
>Also is outfit changing only for fricking photo mode ?
Wasn't it confirmed somewhere that you will be able to switch outfits in-game?
Where?
All I can see is you can change them in photo mode yes.
Every single damn remake tried to make something on it's own. These pathetic excuses for developers can't just re-create someone's else work, they absolutely HAVE to bring something new, the just NEED to leave the mark. They can't accept the fact that old developers were just better than them.
"This skybox would definitely be better like this, I'm a pro I know better" is the type of mindset all nu-developers who never made and never will make a single good game in their whole pathetic live have.
You have the option of switching back to the PS1 visuals.
i have actually been wondering whether or not the original graphics option will look identical to the original graphics from the 90s
you just never know these days
I don't need Remastered for that.
hey CRTanon, how are you buddy?
What's the point of using a CRT shader if you're not emulating composite signal bluring? You're still seeing dithering artifacts.
>They can't accept the fact that old developers were just better than them.
Thats also why capeshit is so bad now. They all think they can do it better. And the result is ludicrous.
no vibrancy or saturation allowed chud
>moving foliage
>fricking glowbugs
At least they are not half-assing the new enviroments
glowbugs
damn, good eye anon
Ironic how the older game has much better use of colors despite its limitations kek
when you control every part of the image its like making a painting, when you slap realistic light on top you cant do that anymore.
Exactly
It is such a pain in the ass to do in Unity and Unreal. Not even the textures and the mosels, just tardwrangling the fricking engine to stop putting realistic lights and shadows everywhere and render what I tell it to render
>boomers really are going to pay full fricking price for a 30 year old game that got a new coat of paint of bloom & brown after decades of being abused with nu-lara
lmao
$30 is full price?
It cost me less than 15 bucks so
now now anon, don't you need to be grinding battle passes and wasting money in gachas? you don't have time to be shitposting on Ganker
yes, and there's nothing you can do about it 🙂
>full price
it's 23 fricking dollars on steam if you already owned one of the three games already :^).
Nuraider trannies get the rope
>mud stops moving
dropped
Looks nice, but getting rid of the vertex animated mud is fricking heresy
>Looks nice, but getting rid of the vertex animated mud is fricking heresy
But, by the looks of it, the vertex animation is still there when you play the game with the original assets.
boob jiggle?
i just checked the video at 0.25x speed and i think you're right
We are so fricking back
they seem to have done a decent job with it so far
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/02/09/explore-the-world-through-laras-lens-with-tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered-photo-mode/
more excited for this than any other release this year
Foota
Did someone say futa?
its not gay man chill
What's the diff tween this and that one remake of 1?
Anniversary is a remake, this is a remaster. It's not a new game, just the freshened up TR1.
>Anniversary is a remake, this is a remaster. It's not a new game, just the freshened up TR1.
the developers at Aspyr said that they were 'using the original source codes' to 'remaster' the three games with. So basically, what they are really doing is making a new source code ports, from potentially the source codes for the original PC releases. Given that Aspyr ported the first six Tomb Raider games to the Mac platform back in the late 1990's and early 00's. On the Playstation blogs, the lead programmers at Aspyr said that they had the idea to do a remaster of the first three Tomb raiders and they contacted Crystal Dynamics with their idea. It would make me think that Aspyr held onto the Tomb Raider source codes for the 'Core' developed TR games. Crystal Dynamics are making all of the new textures and Lara model, and 2D sprite 3D model replacements for for the remasters.
>Crystal Dynamics are making all of the new textures and Lara model, and 2D sprite 3D model replacements for for the remasters
They have nothing to do with this, Aspyr's making the new graphical assets. It's an exercise for them to learn game dev.
>They have nothing to do with this, Aspyr's making the new graphical assets. It's an exercise for them to learn game dev.
From the Playstation blog post:
Art goal – visuals as in your memory
Once we finalized the engineering and gameplay intent, it was time to move on to our biggest challenge and changes for the project—the art.
> Our philosophy here was rather straightforward; we want the games to look the way they did in your mind. We knew we were on the right track in our early playtests because some play testers didn’t even know they were playing with the modern art toggled on.
> We’ve worked hand-in-hand with Crystal Dynamics on the following modern art updates
Wouldn't that imply that CD are doing a lot of the models and assets. I am sure that the Lara models were made by people at CD. Not sure about the textures.
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/01/16/tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered-ps4-ps5-features-detailed-new-key-art-revealed/
No, it just means everything they're doing is approved by Crystal Dynamics--they sent the assets to them, shots and so on and CD approved those. Their people are already split between Tomb12 and Perfect Dark, hence the point of letting Aspyr develop these. CD are just supervisors.
>Tomb12
Huh. Despite this being an almost 30 year old franchise, TR still has less entries than Assassin's Creed. And TR was the original "milk it for what it's worth" franchise.
>and that one remake of 1?
you mean anniversary? that was a full-on remake
these are just remasters with updated graphics, quality of life features, etc.
Laranons are eating.
nom nom nom
i don't know what you mean but it is coming out on the switch
I'm looking forward to it
Mostly because I hope they have unfricked the lighting in TR3 on PC. I hate having to fricking adjust my brightness/gamma of the monitor for this one game
I will be sad there's no flight trainer like in the original version
Lara
the one in the middle with the black shirt?
she's my favourite 🙂
Angel of darkness
Who doesn't? She's the best girl
>Angel of darkness
das it mane
2nd fav for me
Chocolate Lara, just because how smug she is
mmm chocolate
I love her so much
i really can't unsee the latina ever since i learned she was meant to be laura cruz.
here's your latina, bro
>i really can't unsee the latina ever since i learned she was meant to be laura cruz.
Image related is one of the oldest gaming magazine articles on Tomb Raider that I can find. It was published in the November 1995 issue of GameFan Magazine. There may have been some articles about Tomb Raider in perhaps UK gaming magazines before this one. But GameFan apparently had the exclusive reveal for the game. They were shown a build of the Saturn game. You can see the editor call her "Lara Cruz". Apparently Core Design changed the name, in later builds, because they thought Cruz sounded too much like Cruise (like Tom Cruise).
>Apparently Core Design changed the name, in later builds, because they thought Cruz sounded too much like Cruise (like Tom Cruise).
eidos changed the name to sound more british
they used a phone book to find an appropriate name
>eidos changed the name to sound more british
>they used a phone book to find an appropriate name
Oh, it was Eidos. But i do remember reading in some gaming magazine back in the day that someone at Eidos thought the name sounded too much like 'Cruise'. If I could find an article saying that, I will post it. Maybe it was GameFan making a correction on the name in later coverage. This EGM article from May 1996, called her Laura with a 'u'. But they also make the mistake of calling the game 'Tomb Raiders' with an 's'. Honestly, the early previews always came off as a bit bewildered. This one calls the game a 'mysterious title'.
The first game is called Tomb Raiders in Japan, which I always found weird.
>cover art
The japs had it right.
They're all quite nice actually. Also fun fact, the Japanese version of 3 has a second disc that lets you play the game with infinite saves.
I prefer the cover with the skin tight tank top that barely contains Lara's massive breasts though.
what's msrp
shoulda called it ASS raiders with that cd art
i love your posts, anon
the pictures you post are always absolute time capsules, just dynamite stuff
i also like that japanese tomb raider cover art more than the one we got in the west (for TR1, anyway)
i hate when there's nothing going on in cover art because it doesn't tell you anything about the game
another early preview from July 1996. Thew game released in October/ November 1996. No mention of Lara's last name. But I like that they say there was going to be a walkman so you can select from music tracks, as well as a portable gaming system in Lara's inventory.
https://archive.org/details/GamefanVolume4Issue07/page/n59/mode/2up
neat
thanks as always anon
>neat
>thanks as always anon
August 1996 Preview of the PS version. The Editor calls her Lara Cruz here too. This is page 1 of a two page spread. On the second page, there is mention that Lara will carry a 'play it loud' imitation styled Game Boy in her back-pack. A feature they clearly took out, because it was probably too ambitious.
https://archive.org/details/GamefanVolume4Issue08/page/n27/mode/2up?view=theater
The first time GameFan Magazine calls her Lara Croft is actually in the game review for the PS1 version. Right here they call her "The Newly Named Lara Croft". It seems like the name change didn't happen until pretty close to release. Also, GameFan really hyped the Saturn version early on, but when they review the game, they gave the PS1 version a higher score overall, mostly due to the PS1 version just running smoother, at a higher resolution and with a better colour depth.
good find
leave it to execs to try to micromanage every aspect all the way until the product is 1 nanosecond away from launch
I can't find a pic, but aren't the walkman and gaming system just there to select audio and control settings?
the icons in the menu yeah it's a walkman and a ps1 controller. idk if those were mistaken for something more by previewers, or reduced to those by devs due to limited time/design changes
I have no doubt journos were also moronic back then.
Original gets me so hard even to this day fml
that's what happens when a female character is well-designed
i want to stick my rock hard dick into all these polygons since I was 6
why are you conveniently leaving out the new models
LARA CHADS RISE UP
I got VI for free back in the day from a kid who couldn't pass or trade the game to anyone else because they couldn't deal with the jankyness or whatever. I picked up and played until the end. It's my favorite to this day. If I could do things like modding I would fix everything on this game, peace
>If I could do things like modding I would fix everything on this game, peace
some people have already beaten you to the punch
https://core-design.com/community_aodrestorationmodpack.html
nice man, saved, I'll take a look later, but I like the VI graphics. The gameplay fixes looks cool
I took the plunge, hopefully won't be let down.
>pre-order Black person
kys
from the point of view of design, i find it interesting how this picture is so divisive
half the posts say it's terrible and the other half say it's great
I don't know how it is called but I'd say it's terrible because the tiger joints are separated
>must washout all colors
>must use piss filter
>must make visibility low even with bright sun shining
my eyes might not be working properly but i feel that only the piss filter is a valid criticism
this is fine but in some places, like the peru webm i saw, they completely changed the skybox and by extension the atmosphere - it looked HORRID
the ice palace one is worse. a literal ice level and it has warm colors. fricking morons.
The whole thing is made by amateurs, these people have never made a game before. Why are people expecting this to be any good when they literally hired the cheapest software house around whose only customers are shekel hoarders?
I'm not really interested if the gameplay is still the same slow ass 15fps garbage it was 30 years ago.
bump
never played them as a kid but I think I will when this comes out.
how many times do i have to teach you this lesson old man
sold
she fricks him
i'm not your buddy, marketer
everyone that posts in these threads is my buddy 🙂
what will the nude mods be like I wonder.
Will they remain true to the somewhat low poly or go to the extreme.
lara is too respectable for that
Why aren't you playing custom TR levels to pass the time?
https://trcustoms.org/
it's so sad to me how the community is always forced to carry on the legacy of classic games while the publisher can only ever destroy the series while chasing maximum profits
>actively getting new media
>actively in development
Yeah gee wish we were silent hill fans right? suck it up homosexual, we got it good
https://trcustoms.org/levels/3553
kino
is this the exact same as legend but with a pixelated graphical overlay?
No, it's the first four levels of Legend in the Chronicles engine.
oh, that sounds nice
imagine her drowning in there all alone
you WILL be buying my games, right?
Am I about to get filtered by these 3 games or is it fine? These games pissed me off and scared me as a child, so I haven’t played much as an adult besides Anniversary.
nah, i don't think you'll get filtered
the 1st and 2nd games are pretty self-explanatory, but sometimes you have to explore every corner of the map and leave no stone unturned to figure out what to do but you always end up doing that anyway after the first few levels so it's fine
i think everyone can agree that the 3rd game is by far the hardest because navigating the levels can sometimes be incredibly confusing since you don't really have a good indication of what you're supposed to do or where you're supposed to go, and there are multiple points throughout the game that just make you wonder "how on earth was i supposed to know that?"
it's all worth it in the end though because the sense of satisfaction you get from conquering the levels is wonderful
these games were tough even back then but you'll be fine - you can even ask us in these threads for help
I went through some TR reviews and everyone called TR3 bullshit. I’m scared of how mad I’ll get, bros.
It's full of bullshit, don't be afraid to look a guide up.
don't worry about it, bro
those people are losers and the people in here are highly-intelligent winners, it'll be no problem for you
if you get lost just post in one of these TR threads and we'll help you out
I have to wonder how strongly those TR3 reviews were slanted due to TR fatigue. They were doing one every year if I remember correctly. I know I completely dipped out by Last Revelation. Couldn't take it anymore but I'm happy I eventually did come back around to trying the rest. You'll be fine though. TR3 has some really cool shit in my opinion.
I haven't given Chronicles a fair shake just taken a glance at the first level. Although something tells me I'd might be better off just playing custom TR levels considering that game is a mish mash of levels that didn't make the cut in previous games I think.
>They were doing one every year if I remember correctly.
>considering that game is a mish mash of levels that didn't make the cut in previous games I think.
correct and correct
My playthrough of two had me getting stuck maybe three times? After about twenty minutes I just looked up what to do. Although one of those times I kept getting fricked over by a bouncing floor plate in the final level of TR2. TR3 had me stuck far more often but with four exceptions I eventually figured out what to do on my own. I'm just gonna tell you now in TR3 there's some blocks that need to be pulled/pushed that I could BARELY tell were different from the other walls until I smashed Lara's nose into them to be able to tell there is in fact a difference. I'm sure some players out there could spot them immediately. I wasn't one of them. Also there's a thing involving a subway ticket at one point. That fricked me up hard.
They're all worth it though. Glad I bothered to go through them.
>in TR3 there's some blocks that need to be pulled/pushed that I could BARELY tell were different from the other walls
which bits are you thinking of?
It was in the jungle levels. At one point there were one, two or perhaps three different occasions where being able to tell that wall was moveable over the wall next to it was a real hard thing to spot. There's a marking and difference, it just required me to REALLY stare at it before I noticed. Again I'm sure other players didn't have this issue one bit I'm just sharing my experience with it. Like lots of people have said TR3 has some amazing levels. And then sometimes it's just what the god damn hell TR3?
I wish I had took a screen of them actually unfortunately I didn't during my playthrough so here's a completely different screeshot instead.
oh yes, i remember that area in the screenshot and i actually can't even remember what i did to progress lol
Sexiest outfit ever, it made me download the series from a link on /vr/
you're black
This feels more like a reskinned level pack for Legends instead of an actual TR1 Remake.
i have to say, i didn't remember the animations in the original trilogy being so good.
Some of these are a bit iffy. She's likely a sociopath at least and it's not clear how much she's actually attracted to men.
At best you could argue she's asexual, but only because she never had a romantic interest until Sam in the 2013 reboot.
She has hots for Kurtis.
And in both the comics and in the movie she had so many boyfriends.
possibly, but that would be offset by her Physical Ability going into the negative numbers (amazing ability) and her Facial Features / Beauty also going into the negative numbers (queen goddess)
>white
Unless if she's a dusky Welsh lady i don't think Lara is white.
She's probably bi, uses sex as a means and doesn't really get attached to anyone nor let anyone lock her down.
>Unless if she's a dusky Welsh lady i don't think Lara is white.
a lot of british people have mediterannean facial features
>She's probably bi, uses sex as a means and doesn't really get attached to anyone nor let anyone lock her down.
i don't think there was a single instance in the original games where lara displayed any sort of sexual impulse, so it's impossible to say
>typical ability
This is some bullshit, there needs to be a tier of super human/fit. "Typical ability" implies me, and I can't beat up tigers like Lara
>and I can't beat up tigers like Lara
lara doesn't beat up tigers, she shoots them, you silly billy
i just hope they keep the mist in the south pacific levels in 3 because that added a lot to the ambience
Will this run on a GTX 760 with the new graphics?
t.third world
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel i3 3240 or AMD FX 4100
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDA GT730 or AMD R7 240
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 5 GB available space
5GB? Jesus, I bet it's 4GB are from the HD assets since the originals were 500MB at most.
The original 3 have a combined 2GB install size, and that's without any expansions.
>DirectX12
It's just like Death Stranding and Elden Ring all over again ;-; I hope there will be a workaround or that the one I used for ER works here too.
>It's just like Death Stranding and Elden Ring all over again
what happened?
It was a DX12 game that didn't support my card, after lots of hunting around I found a fix that made it run, capped at 30 FPS it wasn't half bad.
>DirectX: Version 12
Interesting. GOG says DX11.
that is interesting
are you the anon that was having trouble getting legend to run on his laptop last night?
No, Legend runs fine for me other than the Next Gen Graphics bugs (that's for everyone, though)
I can run every TR game, even Shadow with everything off/low at 1080p30 (though I played at 720p with some effects on)
GOG
Minimum system requirements:
System:
Windows 7+
Processor:
Intel i3
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDA RTX 970
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
2 GB available space
how the hell can it be so different?
>NVIDA RTX 970
Kek
you VIL enjoy ze modern lighting
>you VIL enjoy ze modern lighting
The modern art direction looks like ass to me kek, it's the main reason I'm not getting this unless someone mods it to have similar colors.
you know you can just switch to classic graphics in the options
I already have the classic graphics on my PC
wait a second, that isn't what classic tomb raider looks like...
Correct.
every time i see him, i just can't stop looking at his hair
like what the frick is going on there
it must be that late 90s/early 2000s long fringe style that they had to model using only 30 polygons
Chances this will be censored?
hopefully it won't be
what would they censor? Her chest seems intact
some of the cutscenes use words that are considered unsavoury by today's standards - moron, abortion, etc.
The "moronic" line is the one I'm wondering about. I'm half expecting a janky cut so Willard just says "that researcher" but surely not right?
hopefully they missed hearing that word like i did on my first playthrough
It's already confirmed that they shrunk her chest.
I already pre-order.
Just waiting.
Did they fix the shitty controls?
>literally playing as a colonizer killing natives and stealing artifacts and taking them to britain
Ummm no thanks
WOW, JUST LIKE NAM............................
I'LL TAKE 300 COPIES PLEASE
-BILL
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Live Free or Die Hard
man, it sucks seeing what happened to james and how he's treated all of his friends that made him big
>Ganker TRbros on feb 14th
They removed the Play Anywhere badge from Xbox
play anywhere you say?
are you laying in bed and is that a switch?
that looks so enormously comfy that i am now contemplating on buying one
Yes, and also yes.
Can't wait anymore Gankerros, I wanna play it now!
just a few more days, buddy, then we win
No troll, what is the appeal of these games? I'm interested but are these remasters just a case of trying to rope in old fans and coomers?
If you like exploring well designed levels that have a lonely, haunted atmosphere and platforming challenges that are built with the sort of exact precision a 2D game usually has then this might be the game for you, I'd recommend playing with the tank controls though.
No matter which game you're from you will never get an appreciation threads totaling over 3000 pages like Kurtis did
we're going back in time to the nineties
old fans WILL rediscover the magic of tomb raider
tomb raider WILL stand up again
lara WILL take her rightful place once more
and all of us WILL make it
I didn't know old Lara was such a butt prostitute.
she's always had a cute little butt
Lara has everything
>spider willard's face in the trailer
what about it?
he genuinely looks like a fricked up creature from the thing
imagine if willard could run around the meteorite cavern at high speed like a real spider
i would instantly pass out from the shock
I played these games with my friends when we were like 12 years old. We were obsessed with them, had pictures of Lara on our walls cut out of gaming magazines. We tried beating them without guides because we didn't even have internet back then.
I haven't seen these little frickers for decades but I hope they will pick the remaster and think back to out comfy adventuring days together. I miss you bros.
don't worry buddy, we're all gonna make it
I've never played Tom Raider, but I have the remaster pre-ordered. I thought it would be a good way to get into the franchise.
i think it will be a good way to get into the franchise
IMO, the playing the originals is always the best way and in this case, you get the option of using infinite saves and modern controls if you can't handle the original ways
The only PC versions of Tomb Raider games do not play nicely with modern gamepads, especially TR1 which is DOSBox, so this port is welcome for that alone.
this alone is the reason i emulate.
do you get the warped resolution with the emulation like the anon in the last thread?
What do you mean? The widescreen + PGXP hacks look fine.
i'm pretty sure it's this anon
with that problem
What? Why are you making up problems I don't have
oh sorry, you used that exact same emote
and the squished resolution they are referring to:
Yeah it's a known problem in the first 2 games, well it isn't a problem more so how they were made.
The face of those that suffer
The aspect ratio is fricked on PSX because the internal image is squished, you need to apply further corrections
>the warped resolution
The what?
Because you can't emulate it?
640x480 resolution is pretty ass bro, the old PC versions natively go to 1080p
Plus you can get better textures and modded levels
480p? Who do you think am I? 256p is the true patrician resolution for Tomb Raider.
25 fps e.e
And? It's more cinematic like that.
>The only PC versions of Tomb Raider games do not play nicely with modern gamepads, especially TR1 which is DOSBox, so this port is welcome for that alone.
DOS had this issue of only supporting gamepads with four action buttons, and it could get very problematic. Tomb Raider 1 for DOS was never great with a gamepad, but it was an incredibly keyboard friendly game. Tomb Raider 2 and onward all supported Direct Input through Windows 9x, these could support all buttons on an old Gravis Gamepad Pro, which made it comparable (though also worse) than using a PS1 pad.
I still think that LAU Lara is the best character-wise. Although CORE games are still better than LAU.
>I still think that LAU Lara is the best character-wise.
why do you say that?
Dunno, of all the Laras I kinda like her the most. She's much nicer than the OG Lara, but million times more badass than the nuLara, so she hits the nice balance.
I just don't like her games all that much - they are too simplistic compared to CORE games.
Thank you for reading my blog.
>She's much nicer than the OG Lara, but million times more badass than the nuLara, so she hits the nice balance.
yeah, that's true
i will always enjoy reading your blogs, buddy, and don't ever think otherwise
She's cute
Peak graphics to use for video games.
it really is frustrating how developers keep chasing the moving finish line that is superior graphics, and it's not just for graphics either but for anything in life in general
sometimes people should work with what they already have because often times when they do that, the end result is better than anything else but the tricky part is finding out what needs improving and what needs preserving
Literally me. Keeley Hawes' voice is pure sex and it's nice not seeing her always act as a psychopath.
this
i love when she talks in a sophisticated upper-class manner, it's like the perfect garnish sprinkled on top of her great character
ESL here, what does it meant? He won't have enjoyment of seeing her again or he won't enjoy their next meeting?
second one. like 'if i see you again i'll hurt you' kinda thing
actually it could also mean you won't see me again cause you'll be dead. idk the context i haven't played that game
we're going to bring beautiful characters back bros, mark my words
lara is just the beginning
I have. mixed feelings about LAUra. In Legends she was too maternal and "friendly", but the scene at the end is pure kino. In Anniversary it feels more iffy, especially the terrible scene where she kills Larson.
Making Anniversary a Legend prequel was a mistake. In a perfect world they would've let Core develop the TR1 remake as a seperate entity, with Crystal Dynamics having more time to polish Underworld.
hot
I'm gonna use the original graphics and fap like my awakening in 1996 - awkwardly but without shame.
join the club
i hope anons keep posting in these threads when the remasters come out and that it won't just be me trying to keep the threads alive
i will probably be too busy playing the game to shitpost
If they run, sure. If they don't I'll be trying to whip something up using Linux and be asking for help here.
if this game doesn't help me recapture my lost childhood enthusiasm then you better believe I will be back to take it out on your ass.
believe me buddy i hope it doesn't come to that
i'd like one of our anons to do a day 1 stream, just like the good old days (i can't do it because of timezone differences)
if the game doesn't recapture our enthusiasm for the series, i'll be the first to make a thread to apologise for getting everybody's hopes up
The average age of posters in these threads is 37
I'm 23 years old
gtfo
I am going to be 37 on Wendesday.
Yes, somehow I share birthday with Lara Croft.
Is there an achievement for that?
I'm 39 so I guess you might be right
The water looks like shit
water budget went all to madubu gorge please understand
Understood sir
what are you using to make these webms?
they're very neat
i just converted the videos posted on the TR twitter to webms
I really wish Capcom would give them the re trilogy to have bogged Leon in re2
I remember when I played TR2 for the first time as a kid and that bit where you drive the speedboat in Venice blew me away, the idea that in the video game you could pilot a vehicle and get off and on at any time was unbelievable to me. Had a similar reaction in TR3 in the mission where you are at the crash site of a cargo plane and you get on a mobile turret and kill dinosaurs attacking you.
>ywn put a ring on Lara's finger
Why live?
even if you did marry lara, what would even change?
she'd still go adventuring for 350 days of the year
Yeah but i'd be on the support vehicle to rub her aching muscles at the end of the day and massage her sore feet from all the climbing.
kek
you'd probably be the one needing a massage for aching muscles and sore feet from chasing her around all day long
only 3 days left to beat la-mulana before lara day. shieeet
Thoughts on NuLara as Classic Lara? She looks good
frick off
Would be great. Nu Lara is beautiful.
Trying to make her a lesbian is going to be so cringe
Like old hags fearing wiener went from being funny to being sad.
If you want lesbian shit why not make fear effect?
Seems like she will have a braid
Can someone make some AI slop of what Lara would look like is she was Asian? I’m curious
what's going on with her crotch area
Stable /d/iffusion
s(he)'s from thailand
Hot.
i like how she has a flashlight in her holster instead of a handgun
Suddenly, Stellar Blade is cancelled
can't believe crystal dynamics are kowtowing to incels and chuds. I thought the gaming community moved past these objectifying stereotypes ages ago
yes we should go back to the game where you get to kill the insecure teenager in numerous gory ways that is so much more progressive
hi eric wile, how are you
Naoya should have lived, he was my idol
>Lara got Ethics Committee'd
Soulless, as expected.
>only 5 days left until the tomb raider remasters
And still no word on any physical editions. I hate the brave new gaming world more than words can express.
Lol at the beam alignment up top amateurs could do better texture work
>Breaks quicksand
>Shitty texture alignment
>Shits all over original's color scheme
Aspyr: Nothing personnel Core
>that face
boomers will really buy this pixarslop looking shit because "le old clunky tank control platformer was le good" and then complain every new release is either garbage or a remaster
>pixarslop
My brother in christ I hate Pixar too but this looks far inferior to anything they've ever done, PS1Slop would be more fitting but then the original PS1 games have a more pleasing aesthetic. Nostalgiagays need to get over it though, just play the originals.
>just play the originals.
i don't have lost artifact, frick you
I got it off Internet Archive a few years ago. I'm a moron and the only way I could play it was dumping it onto a CD but it worked.
So what you're saying is you're not smart enough to pirate it, fair enough
is this picture from a recent video?
It's a screenshot from one of the fans who got the game early on Switch
gib sauce pls
https://twitter.com/AvatarIzzy/status/1756213148070130047
All the TR streamers and reviewers who have the game are still under embargo so they're not really allowed to say or show anything significant yet
that reviewer looks like a propa bri'ish rose
Larson approves
i'm surprised his arse isn't a metre long in this picture
That's how you know the designer wasn't paying attention, shame.
Samegay
do you guys think you could take lara on in a fight
She'd break my legs before i'd even undone my zip.
How's the fan port of TR1?
>Really want to support this
>But was just finishing off a replay of the trilogy when they were announced and won't touch them for a while
Also no physical copies is a shame. Still not sure what to do.
when did you beat them? this month?
you could just wait a few months (or weeks even) before buying it maybe, if you really want to support it
i strongly believe they will do a very limited run of physical copies like they have done with their past several games
Finished 3 in late November. I loved it but it felt like a very long game so I was going to take a break and play other things for a few months at least.
>just finishing off a replay
>3 months ago
but yeah, 3 is the longest of the original trilogy and the toughest by far
I just checked. I beat 3 on October 15th 23, the Nintendo Direct was announced 14th Sept. I think I'd just finished India at the time. I don't replay games very often, the last time I replayed them was about 2015-6, so it's not high on my list. As much as I love classic TR the games are quite samey too. The best part of the replay was all the stuff I forgot about them so I don't want to go through them again while it's all fresh in my mind.
What do we think of this Gankerros
The original has a better understanding of lighting and shading kek
Really? The original barely has any lighting to speak of afaik.
The methodical exploration and platforming is why I love these games, though the instant traps and other shit in 3 kind of ruined that, though I don't even mind the Aldwych puzzle because it sort of makes sense.
i love it
I wouldn't mind a mod that makes her look like on the tr1 cover art body and face. But the way they remade her is still pretty good. They avoided that ugly nu lara croft design. Thank god
What about AoD Lara or like the Prophecy Boxart in
those already exist
Damn I really need to look into mods then, thanks anon
the community modding is great
they've made multiple games worth of levels and all sorts of skins for lara
LarsonCHUDS, status?
getting some funny ideas
At your service sir
COMIN OVER!
COMIN!
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LIVING
eurobros report in
Please! I need to KNOW.
Can
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we don't know yet
sorry buddy
I'll wait for a mod that adds physics to Lara's breasts and ass.
Or - hear me out - the actual mythical nude lara option.
>There will probably be a nude mod day 1
Holy shit preordering
breasts that do bounce usually sag though, which isn't the case for OG Lara.
The nude mod, however.
>breasts that do bounce usually sag though
even if she wears tight tops that lift up the breasts for her whole life?
And a futa mod
you can already find that on r34
Even this remastered one? Boy they work fast these days.
Frick off, moron.
No
He's right, you know.
Probably the best place to ask, anyone ever play this? Screenshots look like a top down classic game, anyone know if it's good?
I finished it, it was fun. Last few levels have that TR feel.
Cool, might give it a try. Tried the first GBC game a while ago and couldn't get into it, but might give it another try.
Pretty good
POV: you ask lara out on a date
>"What's the best way to play the classic games (1-5) on modern PCs?"
Tomb Raider I / Unfinished Business - TR1X https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases
Tomb Raider II / The Golden Mask - TR2Main https://github.com/Arsunt/TR2Main/releases
Tomb Raider III / The Lost Artifact - The Tomb3 Project https://github.com/Trxyebeep/tomb3/releases
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation / The Times: Exclusive Tomb Raider Level - The Tomb4 Project https://github.com/Trxyebeep/TOMB4/releases
Tomb Raider: Chronicles - The Tomb5 Project https://github.com/Trxyebeep/TOMB5/releases
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Restoration Project - https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/traodrp/
All of these (for 1-5) are decompiled projects and for TR1/TR2 fully native PC ports.
why install all this third-party questionable junk when you can just run the multipatch? and the gog/steam versions simply run straight out of the box? why are modtrannies like this? do their programming socks cut off the bloodflow to the brain?
>the gog/steam versions simply run straight out of the box?
kek, snoys actually believe this
>"Why would I play a better, native port (from source code) of a game that offers plenty of fan introduced bug fixes, graphics options, performance, mods, gameplay adjustments, etc when I can play the old ass DOS port that takes the same effort to run and install?"
>All of these (for 1-5) are decompiled projects
>for TR1/TR2 fully native PC ports
What's the difference?
>What's the difference?
Fully decompiled means they have all of the source code that matches and is complete functionality wise with the original. Native PC port means that code was reimplemented to fully take into account modern features, hardware, etc.
TOMB3-5 have finished the decompilation step, but not the porting step. Currently they use a method of injection of the code straight into the original executable. It still gives you a plethora of changes and additions, but is still limited in the way of a really fancy mod instead of what you could do if it was completely native.
Thanks for the explanation.
reminder that tomb raider is a woke franchise and has been from day one
it's just a feminist indiana jones i.e. indy with breasts and all the humour and personality removed
don't let the nostalgiagays trick you
it was always like this. they have the virus.
cringe falseflag
get back in the kitchen, b***h
You are an sjw troonys trying (and falling horribly) to stop the BASED game with sexy women from succeeding.
I will not buy the nu raider slop, try harder Crystal Dynamic devs.
please don't reply to bait, anons
well they should have made a good Indiana jones game on PlayStation and this wouldn't have happened so frick you and frick them im buying this shit
>Game appealed to men and women (seriously, I knew women who barely touched vidya who loved Tomb Raider)
>Game never touches on gender roles, main villain of 1 is a woman, major villain of 3 is too
>Lara is flawed (read: a psychopath by the third game) and never made into a perfect example of a female
Don't try to rewrite history. You weren't there.
It had the same appeal to women as The Sims does today and that's saying something
Lara was a symbol of the girl power wave though.
women can't raid tombs you fricking idiot
when was the last time you were in a tomb and a woman showed up
look at her wiry limp arms and weak frame
she should have serious back problems, the fact that she can jump 60ft gaps and pull herself up with those arms is just superhero propaganda
you are an sjw wokeboy
Not wrong. Also the game responsible for trannies who think being a male playing as a female character is normal and acceptable.
Frankly it's embarrassing it's allowed to maintain a thread on Ganker, let alone the general this totally isn't disguised as.
As a coomer, these games appeal to my dick.
I'm happy for the other gamer women who could stand the janky control though.
90's wokeness >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2024's wokeness
how much are they paying you to shill this bullshit?
Anyone have that Crystal Dynamics interview where they say "ohh, we respect Lara... we're not going to put her in like a bikini or anything" when they were the ones to actually fricking do that in Legends and the worst the original 6 games did was the bathtub scene with her shooting you with a shotgun.
I have that picture but Crystal dynamics in LAU era and nul-ara era are different companies basically. Maybe programmers/3d artists were the same but the leads who made the decisions about what these games should be about were changed completely, hell, they didn't even contact with Gard at all in nu reboot.
You may argue that Toby Gard himself was against Lara's portrayal with emphasis on sexiness, but he made her hot in the first place, he just didn't want that people would perceive her only like that. He succeeded and also his view can get less radical in that matter after a decade.
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why is the tr fanbase so cute and autistic and wholesome
because we're awesome, just like you anon 🙂
you have no idea how much i love you guys, we are actually going to make it!
a toast! to tomb raider and to my Gankerros!
For us, Larachads, and our queen Lara!
Crazy how Lara kills dinosaurs, gods, and Old Ones with just pistols.
Has she ever hunted witches?
only in the nu-games
I was thinking a witch would make for a cool nemesis in a classic TR game, it would open up all sorts of level design frickery and interesting combat scenarios
that would be a neat idea, but she would have to be so well-executed because that's such a niche enemy in the type of game that tomb raider is
How can other vidya girls even compete?
by having a tail
Samus could give Lara a good fight.
>Nincredibly Ninvolving
whoever came up with that slogan should be shot
It's from a UK magazine so don't blame that one on us Burgers.
what are you still doing up, buddy? isn't it early morning for you?
they simply can't
>tfw you will never play the remasters with lara and your Gankerros together on the 14th
Is this official promo art for the remasters?
If only
4.3M views, I wonder if this is going to be a sleeper hit
Sony and Microsoft are doing more advertising than the official Tomb Raider social media. Hell, I didn't even know there was an official TR channel or twitter until a week ago.
I'm interested in grabbing it, but holy frick what is with this ad campaign they got going on? It's so fricking weird. Is this there attempt at appealing to a new generation or something?
out of touch marketing suits who have never played a videogame in their life let alone know the context or background of this release no doubt
I know right. The TR tiktok has this "hello fellow kids" vibe.
It's either
>Really buggy and has issues so they want it to fly under the radar quietly
>They hate Classic Lara and don't want to give her any sort of marketing because it'll clash with whatever plan they have for TR12
They fired the social media people months ago during the layoffs. It's probably now down to an unpaid intern to market the game.
goodnight buddies
see you in tomorrow's thread
>Have the source code for multiple classic Tomb Raiders and decompiled 1:1 matching code for 4/5.
>Have the original level editing tools and fan creation tools superior to what Core Design had at the time
>Have A.I. voice acting at our helm for audio recreation
What's stopping us from continuing in the footsteps after Chronicles with our own work?
nothing. in fact people have been doing that since the level editor came out
Have you played any fan levels? Most of the good ones are better than Core's.
But do they have SOVL?
Considering they're levels made by fans who poured everything into them, more soVl than the games.
Recommend some
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2456 (Pirate adventure kino)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2324 (Egypt kino with really fresh design)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2620 (Lara in Dracula's castle)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2497 (Lara in Belgium, must play if you like urban levels)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2129 (Croft Manor spooky kino)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/1097 (massive, beautifully designed labyrinth)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/1137
https://trcustoms.org/levels/765 (all the good bits of TR4, none of the bad with some really fun puzzles)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/2784 (this one is special it's a murder mystery, if you just want classic levels check out this guy's Underworld UB1-3 levels)
https://trcustoms.org/levels/1057 (surreal occult kino though UB-3 are better imo)
Sweet. I'll check these out.
I wonder if TR will ever have its own Black Parade.
We just call it Palace Midas.
Who farted
pull the lever now, miss croft
*fart*
Where's the movie anon that was in one of these threads a few days ago? He recommended some really kopfkino shit.
Why do they hate her so much?
David hates fun in general.
>was gonna preorder this for xbox
>rumors of ex-box
>have to wait until I can get a PS5 or pc
who the frick doesn't own a pc in 2024?
If you have Xbox just get the game then? Who cares if it's Ex-Box soon.
>try to replay the first tomb raider
>its primitive as frick
>tank controls make is such a chore because she moves slow and not camera control in a 3D environment that requires a lot of plaforming
>jumping feels so unresponsive and not it's not the lack of coyote time, there's literal delay and you need to hold the jump button and pray Lara jumps
>fail 1 jump
>have to go all the way around to try to jump again
>altf4
If a AAA company released a game in such state today it would be mocked. Good thing they are releasing it with modern controls. These game arent hard because AI is smart or because the level design is intricate. The game is hard because the controls are utter unresponsive shit and very slow.
Yes, this is my millennial ass complaining about this trash. Some things should stay in its tomb.
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>fire is, in fact, hot
Blue fire isn't, only the red fire is hot.
Hello, zoomer here.
The controls are unintuitive but perfectly functional. Once you figure them out, they're fine really and you'll find that the game is designed around their quirks. The game is a slow and methodical platformer, it's not supposed to be bing bing wahoo mario shit but it is more like Indiana Jones carefully exploring some dangerous tomb full of traps.
dont @ me zoomie. go skibidi toilet or whatever you guys do.
frogposters are always morons or shitty bait
im not buying this after what they did with nu-Lara
these ports arent made by them
But that even more of a reason to buy it?
Also this is not made by Crystal Dynamics
They should have done the Tomb Raider Anniversary treatment and remake the entire Trilogy+Chronicles with Tomb Raider Underworld controls and graphics.
That would be the perfect remake
No budget or skill sir please understand
That would be a complete different scale of work. Anniversary's maps are basically completely different from TR1 with ledges out the ass and gimmicks everywhere, because having the new control scheme in the old TR maps would be something. Shit, I assume. maybe it'd just be kinda bad, not entirely shit?
I have a degree and can confirm this. Blue fire is what they use inside of refrigerators.
The price point seems fair, reminds me of the command and conquer remaster which was pretty good. Meanwhile P3 demake is 80 bucks
>zoomer here.
>The controls are unintuitive but perfectly functional
Please stop larping as a zoomer tyvm
Please respond to the correct post please
I mean you, so called zoomer who likes TR controls
Why should I care about tomb raider now after all the woke sjwshit ruined the series?
This. Don't get used by Chudstal Dynamics for a quick pump and dump anon, you and OGLara deserve better than being a shitty one night stand.
According to their story, this was a passion project from Aspyr who approached Crystal Dynamics who begrudgingly allowed the product because they saw easy money. I get the impression the devs doing the remaster care and are doing their best with the resources and that the success of the game may have a positive impact in determining the future direction of the series.
>According to their story, this was a passion project from Aspyr who approached Crystal Dynamics who begrudgingly allowed the product because they saw easy money.
It's an exercise for Aspyr to learn game dev and make the step up, being a port house doesn't cut it these days because of how development is inherently multiplatform and being a Switch port house won't cut it either with the Switch 2 around the corner. They and Crystal Dynamics both saw an easy way to make a good chunk of money without risking anything, let's not pretend this is going to have any effects on the future of the franchise, it's a hit and run, that's all it is.
Interesting, according to wikipedia Crystal Dynamics was acquired by Embracer in 2022, and that in the same month in 2023 that the remaster was announced, a bunch of people at Crystal were laid off. My pipe dream copium is that Embracer mainly wanted crystal to get tomb raider because they know classic lara sells, and they own Aspyr as well so they'll use another studio to do it if they have to.
Also a netflix show is coming.
Embracer wants to milk Lara for sure.
Sadly the show is the epilogue of NuLara. And you, it's netflix, they're going to make Lara lesbian.
Well it's netflix slop so I wasn't ever going to watch it anyway.
>Embracer wants to milk Lara for sure.
Seems embracer and I share an interest.
Its not made by crystal dynamics. And look at her, she has her legs and big massive breasts. This is the shit you should be supporting.
because the nu-lara shit the bed. you still have nostalgia right? w-we're going back to the classics please PLEASE BUY OUR GAME
I love her so much. I'm so happy she's back.
Same here, bro, but we aren't out of the woods just yet
Guys...
You do realise they are changing the Tribesman right?
No one has actually brought this up for some reason. They are clearly gonna turn them into Monsters or something.
they wouldn't get away with erasing indigenous people like that
Maybe they'll turn them into scientists and doctors for the final game
Ok but will it bring back the modding scene? For new levels?
TRLE is far too advanced and tailored, not happening, and that's IF these monkeys release a level editor, which they won't.
I'm guessing that we might get a volume 2 including TR4 and 5 and also the level editor.
iirc 4,5, and LE use a different engine and the remasters are using the same engine the orignal 3 ran on.
I like these threads
Is that the one where she gets mega pregnant to birth an army?
no, that's the canon history starring me.
Does anyone know if the topcow (lol) Tomb Raider comics are worth seeking out? The art looks nice.