About classic Tomb Raider games

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JackHandy said:

SanAndreasX said:

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.  

FF13 got great reviews. It sucks ass. God Hand got poor reviews, it's a great game and so did Armored Core series until reviewers sucked Froms Softs cock on everything then all a sudden AC6 is a masterpiece even tho it's not even the best in the series. Strider 2 now considered a great game was lambasted back then. I played TR back then and thought the controls were fucking ass.