The third series are clearly the better games but the first (first game) series brings back good nostalgia

Some, but when you read what people wrote here most people here didnt play them at all or played them much later after they were released.

No I dont want to play play critical reception because critical reception from 5. and 8. generation were not exactly same, not to mentione that in 2013. action games are generally were very popular and that definitely affect scores. I just pointing that RE4 is very bad example because we talking about one best games ever generally not just easily best critically acclaimed RE game, RE4 has score 96 while second best RE game has score of 91, so its obvious we talking about much bigger difrence in any case compared to Tomb Raider series.

No, there is no objective true about preference of games, but that isnt my point.

I also prefer RE1 Remake and for me its best RE game, but RE1 Remake is more expection than rule, because it keeped all good stuffs from original RE1 and actually make them better with addition of better graphics, presentations...while I played Tomb Raider Anniversary plenty of things was lost from original game like atmosphere, game was dumb down and was much easier..

Who said that change something and who said that all that played them all agree with me? You are one that trying to argue here.

I really love the Legend, Anniversary, Underworld trilogy. I got tired of the originals around TR3 but kept buying out of habit. My favorite is the current one, I though. Possibly my favorite franchise in all of gaming right now, actually.

Yeah, and I stand behind I wrote. I never said they can't know why they're 'better' but that they cant know how much good they were when they released compared to generation/s later, espacily because we talking about 1st generation of 3rd party games that later aged poorly. Also, I never said that all who play them back then think that those are best TR games. You keep arguing with things that I didn't said.

You basically arguing about things I didn't said, its totally different thing if you simply say that you dont agree with me.

It is hard to choose as I love the first one when I saw, but didn't had the means to play all 3 at the time, but played their version on PS3. Same for the second time. On the current version I'm playing closer to the release and liking, so I guess it would be the choice.

Yes you did, and than you keep bringing some staffs discussions like I wrote them. Its not big deal, but like you wrote, we are arguing.

"Your initial implication was that people who haven't played the earlier games can't know why they're 'better'. I'm saying many of us have played those games and still prefer what we're calling the second series."
"Those who did play them don't all agree with what you're saying"

And like I wrote, I never said something like that or that was my point, but that they cant know how much good they were when they released compared to generation/s later, espacily because we talking about 1rst generation of 3rd party games that later aged poorly. Also, I never said that all who play them back then think that those are best TR games and that those people cant prefer other games from series. So you keep arguing about thing I didn't write or that was my point.

Simple, TR 1/2/3 were much better games for its time than laters TR games were for its time. Things like exploration, platforming, atmosphere, puzzles, level design, huge focus of game was on exploration and finding right path...all that was all much better in original games. But offcourse with badly aged controls and movement, camera, graphics...those games aged poorly, but same thing could be said for huge majority of game from 5. generation.