About classic Tomb Raider games

[SvennoJ]

Leynos said:

SvennoJ said:

It's a puzzle platformer, exploration, treasure hunting game... Combat is quarternary. Don't confuse it with modern TR games which have strayed so far from the original formula they're nothing but a tps with some distractions and silly light rpg mechanics.

@Leynos The new games are terrible but get defended cause of boobs / helpless little girl, graphics! Old Lara was bad ass without resorting to graphic nonsense. She didn't even have boobs in the first games, a triangular uni boob lol. Early TR games were not graphical power houses, the level design was the king.

I still prefer the tank controls in the remastered Grim Fandango as well. To me it simply makes more sense and is more immersive to control the character from the character's point of view, instead of by screen orientation. I never got confused which way to press with 'tank' controls, yet when Spider man is hanging upside down facing the camera, he always goes the wrong effing way lol.

They had Lara CGI model in PLayboy and were announcing a new real live model to model as her every year. Yes the appeal was boobs. Kids hearing about the nude rumor and tried manipulating the camera. I have regular gaming magazines from the 90s where she is topless but a sign is held over the nips. Her whole thing was sex appeal and shit gameplay. TR was an impressive demo on PC in 1994 and an impressive PS1 game at the time. The game was total donkey shit tho. Always has been. Series was shit from day 1 and never became good.

That's marketing, not game play. TR1 and TR2 are still excellent games, then finally TR Anniversary again. The series had a lot of misses :(



Playing the game for the boobs is what it turned into.