About classic Tomb Raider games

[JackHandy]

SanAndreasX said:

JackHandy said:

It's the same with Resident Evil 1-3. They were masterpieces that garnered critical acclaim, everyone gushed over, and no one complained about... until suddenly, ten or twenty years later, they're the worst games of all time because omg, I'm not able to control them etc.

I think games should be judged against their own times, not current times.

I actually didn't, and still don't, have any problems with classic Resident Evil. Resident Evil also didn't have platform jumping or any of the other issues that I didn't like about Tomb Raider. Resident Evil was my favorite series on PlayStation other than Final Fantasy, and I still love the games now. And I also judged Tomb Raider against the time it came out. Came away thoroughly unimpressed, especially against Super Mario 64 (which actually came out a month before the first TR) or Ocarina of Time. 

And even on the boobs issue, if I were wanting to ogle masses of pixels designed to simulate a female body in Playboy, Claire Redfield, Tifa, or the Tekken 3 ladies would have been my choice over Lara Croft, lol. 

My argument is this: if the controls were objectively as bad as everyone now claims, the reviews would have been brutal, and they wouldn't have sold. Neither happened. Reviews were stellar, and sales were great. So we can only conclude that it's revisionary critique, rather than an inherent fault of said games.