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Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Releases on February 14, 2024 (Switch, PS4/5, XBX/S, PC)
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SSfox
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Yeah anniversary was alright, but nothing beat the feel and mood of the Core design game.
One other thing that annoyed me a bit also in TRA is her personality feels different and strange of how Lara should be.
U n i o n 0015
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JackMcGunns
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JimmyF
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My penis says yes.
Do we need this?
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
CamHostage
Member
It is IMO as well, but the original Tomb Raider should be a thing people can play. (I mean, it's on Steam and GOG and whatever, but this is its own thing.)
I like the remakes of West Side Story and King Kong a lot, I'm sure I would reach for Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly over the originals 9 times out of 10, but originals are originals. Games have their weird thing where we can "remaster" them as totally different (but similar) games and sometimes they get labeled as definitive, but each has its place and purpose.
Would have been amazing if this had included both Core and Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raiders, but that would have been a lot for one package. (A way more compelling package IMO, however, more worth owning, but it is what it is.)
Banjo64
cumsessed
It’s not offensive to my eyes but price will be key. £19.99 I’ll buy day one. £49.99 I laugh.I'm surprised by the positives reactions here, I thought it looked awful and like a mobile game
Even Tomb Raider Anniversary still looks much better than this.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Not sold on ti, not yet… they improved the model and textures but they now make the low poly backgrounds stand out a lot more… this needed a Nightdive touch…
delfrickintree
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I've been expecting this for years now! It's one of my most wanted games (remasters). This might be the first game I buy on release date ever since Battlefield 3 (2013). Woo!!Just the other my friend and I was talking about how great a remaster (with trophy support) would be and when all the corporations collect data and listen to you talking via phone that it would be cool if they have overheard our conversation and made a remastered. And now we have this. With on the fly graphics swap. Great stuff!
Now we need Revelations, Chronicles and Angel of Darkness as well
But yea, we do need the subsequent games as well.
Yea they are slightly cartoony, especially that T-Rex. But I will take it.. like I said I've wanted this bundle for so long.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
It has a toggle to switch to the original graphics just in HD......
there's your Nightdive touch
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Oh please, this is the lowest bar for low standardsIt has a toggle to switch to the original graphics just in HD......
there's your Nightdive touch
.Look at Quake II remastered and am what they did with it, now look at this. Make the game cheaper and keep the HD look more as a paid DLC then hehe
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brian0057
Banned
I agree.
As long as they don't pull a GTA Trilogy DE BS by removing the original games, I'm cool with it.
But Anniversary is the definitve version of the game.
Pilgrimzero
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I applied a fan made HD patch to TR1 once and it looked great and this looks even better!
TR1 is still the best game in the series and I can't wait to play it again in this remaster!
TR1 is still the best game in the series and I can't wait to play it again in this remaster!
March Climber
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Hot take: They should have leaned even further into the cartoony look while redoing the graphics with the A.I. remastering. It would have lost it's original look of muddy forest/rock textures, but it would have looked much cleaner.
CamHostage
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Naw. Anniversary isn't even "the game", it's a different game. A better game IMO, but it's not the game that people loved in 1996.
GTA Trilogy DE is a more faithful port/remaster of the original games than Anniversary. Some content had to be removed/edited for legal/rights/other reasons, the engine was ported to a new superstructure and introduced some bugs, and the graphics had a lot of auto-generated (and manual) content replacement... but still, it's as close to the original games as they could sell in today's market without just putting the PS2 ROMs in an emulator on GOG.
Whereas I'm not sure there's a line of code from TR1 inside TR Anniversary?
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Ulysses 31
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AngelMuffin
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Pilgrimzero
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The original was all wheat and no chaff. Then each sequel kept adding more and more and more. Crawling, swinging, driving, etc.
Less is more and TR1 did it perfectly.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I think Quake II Remaster is great and it has shit tone of options and it replicates the original perfectly.Oh please, this is the lowest bar for low standards
Look at Quake II remastered and am what they did with it, now look at this. Make the game cheaper and keep the HD look more as a paid DLC then hehe
And I mean perfectly
But this as little as some may believe is a little bit more than that imo.
To me a Nightdive style Remaster would be more like this with the new graphics toggle off and a few improvements here and there.
Now we are yet to actually see this running so I'll hold my judgement but I don't get the praise for Nightdive when they just did a simple port and kept it simple (which is a good thing)
And added a bunch of stuff (which yet again is good)
But I think people go on about it as if it's something that it's not.
delfrickintree
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Why did they need to announce this 5 months out?
I might be dead by then!
How much more production do they need to go through in 5 months if it's just graphical upscaling?
I might be dead by then!
How much more production do they need to go through in 5 months if it's just graphical upscaling?
Moses85
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SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
Is it me or she looks kinda asian now?
Fuck that. Remastered music always stinks. They totally fuck up the mix and focus on the wrong parts with no knowledge of the orginal emotional intent to guide them. The orginals where all recorded at pretty high fidelity so there is zero reason too.
SOTC showed us the way and we deserve damnation for turning our backs.Yes, and this gameplay was already modernized(in the same generation):
If just one well known developer had stuck with this design and tried to evolve it instead of completely dropping it, we would have witnessed the evolution of grid platforming already. It would take a developer to do it against all odds though, much like King's Field to Demon's Souls to Dark Souls.
Edit: They just have to make it feel slightly better to control, not automate grapples or anything crazy.
Yeah I simply hate when remasters change the color pallete. Its the worst of sins and a slap in the face of the Original art director.
Negotiator101
Member
It is, am I right in thinking that the original first appeared on the Saturn? or am I remembering wrong?
Yeah, it was designed for the Saturn then ported to PSX.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Should have been 1 and 4, the only good ones. Guess they wanna sell another trilogy. Also, make the crawling and ladder climbing faster/animated differently (maybe also increase the rest of the game speed by ~10%), they were the only bad part in the latter (but inherited from another game).
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kiphalfton
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That's a Nintendo console remaster alright.
ZehDon
Member
Hot take: that trilogy of titles is better than the original trilogy.
I said what I said.
saintjules
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NOPE
Gamezone
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I remember playing trough Tomb Raider 1 back in the 90's without Youtube or any guides to help me. This required a different kind of patience than most kids have today. If you did the same, you know what I'm talking about. But being a broke kid with limited access to new games left me no choice.
Majormaxxx
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I wonder how movement will feel... Tank controls are not fun.
Without additional animations (and transitions) it will probably look as weird as the Resident Evil 1 remake with the modern controls. So they would have to put way more effort into this while maintaining giving the player the precision that is required in these games because there's little to no tolerance in what Lara does automatically; jumping roughly in the right direction is not enough.
I'm curious however and being able to play them on my console, even with the old graphics and controls, would be super cool.
NeoIkaruGAF
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Enjoy the tons of sandwiches you can make during those loading times, I guess.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
They are for this game
. It is built around them, give them a honest chance!