/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10794707]

>called tomb raider 2
>at no point is lara in a tomb

[Anonymous No.10794718]

>>10794707
Technically wherever she kills a human and their corpse isn't recovered, that place becomes a tomb.

[Anonymous No.10794745]

>>10794707
>be you
>learn to play baseball
>get good at playing baseball
>become a professional baseball player
>be known by everyone as a baseball player
>go onto baseball fields and play baseball
>play baseball every day for years
>go to the store to buy some food with your baseball career earned money
>OP sees you pricing oranges
>says you're not a baseball player because you're not on a baseball field

[Anonymous No.10794889]

Can we talk about how problematic the idea that some rich British lady is entitled to raid the tombs and heritages of other cultures is?

[Anonymous No.10794896]

>>10794707
When in the Tomb Raider series be it 1, 2, or 3, that she got into China or Japan? In 1 She goes to places that say Bronze age Crete, and Egypt. While we're at it, why didn't they have her go to Iran, India, or Mesoamerica?

[Anonymous No.10794923]

>>10794707

[Anonymous No.10794938]

>>10794896
Joke post.

[Anonymous No.10796028]

>>10794707
>>at no point is lara in a tomb
Wreck of Maria Doria seemed like an impromptu submerged tomb, so it's all good in my book.

[Anonymous No.10796054]

all of them but the oil rig are literal tombs

[Anonymous No.10796069]

>>10794745
>be you

[Anonymous No.10796319]

>>10794745
OP would be correct because at that moment (You) would just be a customer

[Anonymous No.10796334]

>>10794707
Wreck of Maria Doria and Temple of Xian were tombs.

[Chud Anon No.10796337]

>game is called icewind dale
>you never actually get to meet him

[Anonymous No.10796345]

>>10796069
heh

[Anonymous No.10796351]

>called crash bandicoot
>runs perfectly

[Anonymous No.10796454]

>>10794707
THIS.
Played a bit of the first Tomb Raider recently and loved the atmosphere and immersion of the all the underground dungeon-like maps. Checked the sequels and it's some dumb city mazes and shit as if you're 007...

[Anonymous No.10796569]

>>10794718
Tombs are places where dead peolple live.
They even made the joke in legend; I don't get why people have been recently compaining about semantics.

[Anonymous No.10796576]

>>10796454
>007
I'm genuinly curious, where did you get this from?

[Anonymous No.10796758]

>>10796319
>heh, see, if you're a customer right now...it means you stop being a basketball player for a brief moment, only to resume being one once you stop being a consumer!

[Anonymous No.10797151]

>>10794707
i've been playing the remaster of the first one. are the next two games not as good?

[Anonymous No.10797218]

>>10797151
It really depends on your own preferences for the different elements that make up Tomb Raider.
TR1 is probably the most "balanced" in how it delivers exploration, combat, platforming, and puzzles.
TR2 is generally more combat-focused in comparison.
TR3 is known for its increased difficulty and platforming challenges.
TR4 leans more towards exploration and puzzles.
TR5 is basically a standalone expansion to 4.

Personally I like 1 the best, but I could see a longtime fan showing more appreciation for 3 due to the challenge it offers.

[Anonymous No.10797227]

>>10796569
Nigga, how can DEAD people LIVE in a tomb... THEY DEAD!

[Anonymous No.10797268]

>>10797218
>I could see a longtime fan showing more appreciation for 3 due to the challenge it offers.
Accurate. I started with 1 in 1996 and 3 is my favorite because it's the hardest.

[Anonymous No.10797321]

>>10797227
That's what they want you to think.
Until you lower your guard and the skeleton comes out.

[Anonymous No.10797330]

>>10794707
this part always triggered even back in the day. it just isnt right...

[Anonymous No.10798536]

Are there even any tombs in any TR games other than TR1, TR4, and Anni?

[Anonymous No.10798552]

>>10797330
not sure why you think so..

[Anonymous No.10799956]

>>10794707
The Maria Doria is a modern tomb.

[Anonymous No.10800324]

bumping for my larabros

[Anonymous No.10800356]

>>10796337
The fact that the word dale is so close to gale and it's already a cold/ice game means you kinda overlook the weird dale word and just kinda assume it's gale. That's my ESL-ass brain does, anyway

[Anonymous No.10800362]

>>10797330
boobs? yeah they're weird

[Anonymous No.10800605]

>>10794707
>What is the entire section on Maria Doria
>What is Catacombs of the
Talion
>What is Temple of Xian
Just say you never played the game and are memeing due to being terminally bored

[Anonymous No.10800675]

>finishing up Sanctuary of the Scion
>know in my heart it's the last fun level of the game
Atlantis calls, I guess...

[Anonymous No.10801221]

>>10800605
how is the temple of xian a tomb, again?

[Anonymous No.10801360]

>>10800675
You're right. The game peaks right at the end of that level.

[Anonymous No.10801416]

In typical brit humor, the devs Made a joke about fucking roasties. Lara is a roastie who's had abortions. "Hur hur I raid her tomb"

[Anonymous No.10801689]

>>10797227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_nhywjNHM

[Anonymous No.10801691]

>>10794707
Wreck of the Maria Dora is one gigantic tomb. Tombs don't have to be ancient.

>Tomb - an enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock.
>Maria Doria is literally embedded underground in the ocean-floor rock
>is the tomb of Gianna Bartoli

We can now put this stupid meme to bed.

[Anonymous No.10801696]

>>10798536
Yes, there's a Tomb in TR2 - The Wreck of the Maria Doria, and there's a tomb in TR3 - The Meteorite Cavern, which we literally see wooden grave posts from in the intro cutscenes. Try playing the games for once, r-tard.

[Anonymous No.10802134]

bumpin' for my buddies

[Anonymous No.10802751]

>>10794896
The very first level in TR2 is in China

[Anonymous No.10802835]

>>10794707
Are there any games that are classic Tomb Raider clones? Flip around, shoot two guns, lock on combat? Star Wars Bounty Hunter is the only game I can think of.

[Anonymous No.10803358]

[Anonymous No.10803436]

>>10802835
Is that robocop? <:O--|--< <--(me gasping!)

[Anonymous No.10803447]

>>10802835
>SWBH
hey, there's a game. that game was a lot more decent than it deserved to be and had some really great dialogue. it had the modernized TR controls figured out like a year before angel of darkness and aod still fucked it up royally. i cant think of any other games that were like it

[Anonymous No.10803526]

>>10802835
This is one of this games that is pretty good but felt like a lot better when I was a teenager. The gameplay is a bit flat and doesn't have tomb raider tier maps and puzzles

[Anonymous No.10803585]

>>10797151
2 just does what it wants. It’s fun because it doesn’t feel the need to fuck around: if they want to put two T-Rex’s in a level, they’ll do it, logic be damned. If it thinks a level should be just a bunch of floating islands, then that’s the whole level fuck you.

3 is just unfair. Use a guide - you’ll still struggle.

4 is the best because it actually blends a neat story in with the gameplay such that everything thematically makes sense. It’s all in Egypt but goes through the Egyptian time periods chronologically such that those interested in history will appreciate the detail. Look up the fun house section if you’re not convinced.

5 has great gameplay but a weak story.

All that said, go play Anniversary because it’s better than anything Core ever made. I’ll fucking fight anyone who disagrees.

[Anonymous No.10803587]

>>10802835
The Indians Jones series came closest. Oddly enough, THPS4 felt the closest in terms of gameplay.

[Anonymous No.10803636]

>>10803526
I never got to play it as a kid. I remember having it but I was 8 when it came out and it had too many buttons for my stupid kid brain to pick up on. I played through it recently as an adult and I gotta say, I liked it. Plenty of problems with it, sure. Mostly with enemy spawns, being unable to switch weapons at a reasonable pace, and "where the fuck am I" level design, but the core gameplay was solid and the story is good. A few of the characters and lines really resonate too. Especially Smootie.

"See you on the other side, eh stranger?"

[Anonymous No.10803875]

>>10802835
This is one of those weird ones cause it's practically shovelware but is a solid 6, maybe even 7/10. Like actually kind of good. Jango got did dirty in the movies but his characterization in BH was better than anything Boba Fett ever got.

[Anonymous No.10803886]

>>10797330
i don’t really know what you mean from that red outline, i can only assume you see her ‘uniboob’ as two separate boobs because the shadow from her hand makes it look like she has a small left tit (our left) and her right tit is too far separated. but it’s just one big uniboob rack.

[Anonymous No.10803947]

>>10801221
Those monks from the intro sure as sugar didn't get out

[Anonymous No.10803948]

>>10803585
not sure but I might have masturbated to this render when i was a teenager

[Anonymous No.10803953]

>>10796069
I giggled

[Anonymous No.10803961]

>>10803947
oh shit, i just remembered all the skeletons throughout the level

[Anonymous No.10803970]

>>10796454
After you finish the first game play The Last Revelation, it's way closer to the original than 2 or 3 were.

The first chapter in Chronicles (Lara in Rome) has a similar vibe, and the chapter where you play as loli Lara on a haunted island filled with creatures from Irish folklore with zero weapons is also pretty interesting, but the Russia/Submarine and Von Croy Building levels are dogshit and you should just skip them. They tried to add new features (escape a sinking submarine, stealth your way through a high tech corporate building), but the engine just wasn't capable of doing it right.

[Anonymous No.10803978]

>>10803948
Who didn't?
Ah, right... those zoomer trannies didn't... I guess they need a 4K photo of a cow corpse to masturbate properly

[Anonymous No.10805034]

>>10794896
China is both the beginning area and final area for Tomb Raider II.
She doesn't go to Japan until Legend and then TR 2013 (technically an island outside of Japan).
>While we're at it, why didn't they have her go to Iran, India, or Mesoamerica?
India is the first region in Tomb Raider III.
First time she goes to Mexico is in Underworld, followed by Shadow.
She never goes to Iran as far as I remember.

[Anonymous No.10805341]

does the remastered Lara model have the little hip window she had in the original that makes it seem like she is wearing a one piece instead of a tank top?

[Anonymous No.10805835]

>>10805341
Her classic outfit was always a leotard, but there's only a visible gap in her ingame model in TR4.

[Anonymous No.10805860]

>>10801691
It's only a tomb if it was built for that purpose

[Anonymous No.10805862]

>>10801696
Terrible bait

[Anonymous No.10805870]

>>10805860
who says the title is a literal tomb and not a metaphorical tomb? plenty of bad guys quip, "this cave will be your tomb" when threatening dirty harry in robocop or whatever at the time, so tomb used in metaphorical speak has always been a thing during the creation of tomb raider

[Anonymous No.10805893]

>>10805870
Absolutely retarded, loads of people died in the ocean, is she raiding a tomb when she goes to the beach?

[Anonymous No.10806560]

are you hanging in there, buddies?

[Anonymous No.10806675]

>>10806560
yes
Manifesting a physical release of TR Remastered

[Anonymous No.10806695]

>>10805893
Of course not, oceans and beaches are wide open spaces that could facilitate tombs.
The sunken cruise ship is an enclosed location that was made a tomb when the monks bombed it to the seabed.

[Anonymous No.10807227]

Why do Americans always pronounce it "Laura Croft"?

It's so bizarre. Is it a speach impediment, or can they not read, or ???

[Anonymous No.10807285]

>>10807227
Americans don't have the open a sound.

[Anonymous No.10807317]

>>10794707
Fuck off autist, it's just good branding..

[Anonymous No.10807336]

>>10794707
Well, she hates tombs.

[Anonymous No.10808026]

>>10803585
5's gameplay is a buggy half-assed mess when it tries to do anything new.
>All that said, go play Anniversary because it’s better than anything Core ever made.
Oh, it's just a bait post

[Anonymous No.10808075]

At what point did this series start to fall off /vr/? I recall 1-3 at least being very liked but was it the fourth game that started the decline or another game?

[Anonymous No.10808313]

>>10808026
He's right though

[Anonymous No.10808315]

Sabatubuddies, can I skip sabatu 1 and go straight for 2 or does it progress in terms of difficulty and will be too hard? I never played TR1 as a kid so I don't really care to see the reimagined levels compared to TR2

[Anonymous No.10808767]

>>10805860
>It's only a tomb if it was built for that purpose
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.10808770]

>>10808313
No, he really isn't, and if you think so, you just don't like Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.10809636]

[Anonymous No.10809913]

idk wtf to do can someone help

[Anonymous No.10809973]

>>10809913
You can jump out of the boat while driving

[Anonymous No.10810135]

>>10805835
Theres a pixel of skin between the leotard and shorts on her sides in the original.

[Anonymous No.10810317]

>>10800356
>>10800356
>>10796337

Sorry, can you explain to me what is weird with the name Icewind dale? Like, a windy, cold valley is weird? Is it some dd lore that I don't know about or is it just me not being a native english speaker?

[Anonymous No.10810498]

>>10808770
>liking this Tomb Raider game means you don't like Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.10811203]

>called tomb raider 3
>lara doesn't have breast cancer

[Anonymous No.10811212]

>>10794707
NOO LARA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? DONT DRINK MY MILKSHAKE!! YOU ARE SPILLING IT, STOOPP~

[Anonymous No.10811275]

>>10810317
To the average American the word "Dale" is a first name, (like Dale Earnhardt or Dale Gribble,) and the association with valleys isn't common.

[Anonymous No.10812308]

>>10811275
>the average American is completely illiterate

Alrighty then

[Anonymous No.10813289]

you've gotta keep this general alive for me, buddies

[Anonymous No.10813331]

>>10808315
as long as you dont mind save scumming and boulder traps, should be fine

[Anonymous No.10813490]

>>10808075
angel of darkness

[Anonymous No.10814214]

do not bathe in glowing green liquid

[Anonymous No.10815460]

[Anonymous No.10815462]

[Anonymous No.10815464]

[Anonymous No.10815471]

>>10803970
> After you finish the first game play The Last Revelation, it's way closer to the original than 2 or 3 were.
I took this advice, after playing 2 and being disappointed with the human enemies (the usual complaint). An Anon told me to skip 3 and go straight to 4 if I wanted something closer to 1. And while I do understand this point of view, they do take it easy on the combat, now we're replaced with levels where is very little deadly platforming. It's more of an exploration game sort of, where you have to figure out where to go and what to do in levels that are slightly more open. But the platforming is very underwhelming for the most part.
I'm still halfway through the game, I was filtered a few months ago when I arrived at the city of dead. It was literally "alright I'm done with this game" sort of moment. But yesterday I decided to give it another chance. I don't usually do this but I just used a guide. They want us to get a bike, and run it up spiral stairs and do a jump into a hole in the wall. I have no fucking clue what they were thinking with this level. And the level is so dark that I have to crank up the brightness in my CRT to the max with the windows closed.

I am very ambivalent about TR4, some good levels, there's this one terrible level in conjunction with the other vehicle level, but for the most part they are very uninspired. And for all the combat woes in TR2, I still loved the levels and the platforming.

[Anonymous No.10815478]

>>10815464
Didn't even know this was a thing.

[Anonymous No.10815658]

Where the fuck are my bimbo Lara mods for remastered?

[Anonymous No.10815702]

>>10815471
Core tried to return to their roots for TR4 but were still burnt out in the end. I'm surprised that they managed to cram in so many levels considering how much they hated the series at this point.

[Anonymous No.10815736]

>>10797330
I get what you mean anon, now I can never unsee it

[Anonymous No.10815867]

>>10815702
It's hard to tell but it seems the remaster was a success. Maybe someone now will attempt to make another game like the first Tomb Raider. I doubt the type of game has much of an audience, but if they use the Tomb Raider name it might just work. The games are good, but there is a sort of an initial chunkiness to the controls that needs some adapting. I wouldn't change them, but there is definitely an adjustment period that makes it look like they're outdated, and one thing modern audience absolutely do not tolerate is alternative control schemes, they have all to be the same.

[Anonymous No.10815906]

>>10803358
footfags deserve to get shot

[Anonymous No.10815924]

>>10815867
Its not rocket science but the industry outside certain mid sized\indies is so corrupt and dead its not happening.

Sure make a small budget, inspired by TR Classic game, the core fanbase is still strong, gameplay should be still system based not shit contextual like legends and up.

Double down a bit on Lara badassery and some fan service doll her up, tons of costumes, a model closer to TR4, sexy but not coomer.

>>10815702
This kind of stuff is so weird, its making them all their money but they hate it, sure its
the repetition, but there is also an element of the team not giving a serious shit.

[Anonymous No.10815989]

>>10815924
> Double down a bit on Lara badassery and some fan service doll her up, tons of costumes, a model closer to TR4, sexy but not coomer.

I only played 1,2 and 4. In-game there was never really any coomer material, I think it was just the marketing surrounding her that made her some BUSTY SEXY BABE coomer icon. The closest I can recall is the ending of TR2 with the robes and doing that innuendo line "don't you think you're seen enough?" But that shit is so fucking tame.
I do prefer the in-game version of Lara, she's not prude but she's a proper Lady. She's not an annoying STRANG INDEPEDENT WOMAN type either. The marketing that turns her into some sort of bikini model does seem completely off-character when you contrast her with the actual games.

Maybe I'm just misremembering things, but I think Lara has got a really bad rep. The bitch ain't no slut.

[Anonymous No.10816008]

>>10815867
Seeing how many player-made levels are out there, there's already a bunch of experienced level designers. Just need people who's willing to make something worth selling.

[Anonymous No.10816012]

>>10816008
Tomb raider levels are as prolific as Thief or Doom community, its quite incredible.

>>10815989
I agree, I said "fan service" in the same elegant way, The simple Lara from TR 1 story cutscenes is that is needed. However as a sex symbol its undeniable she has allure.

[Anonymous No.10818227]

BUMP
>>10815989
Trying to tarnish classic Lara's rep was just a marketing ploy by CD

[Anonymous No.10818282]

Another dark level. When will these end. I can't see shit captain.

[Anonymous No.10818319]

2 angelina jolie movies
it was a different time

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KstSgU-c0
they spent 1997-1998 popmart tour playing tomb raider on psx

[Anonymous No.10819974]

>consistently churns out ugly broken levels
what's his fucking problem?

[Helpless Investor No.10820064]

>>10794707
You're right. Should've called it Womb Raider after what I've always wanted to do to Lara.

[Anonymous No.10820675]

How do you respond without sounding mad?

[Anonymous No.10821118]

>>10820675
They're both too standoffish to bother associating with each other. Maybe there will be a dramatic tag team scene where they kill off a hoard of bad guys and then fuck off again.

[Anonymous No.10822456]

>>10820064
I always wanted Lara to raid my foreskin with her tongue.

[Anonymous No.10823893]

>>10796028
I hated how there was no boss battle in any of those levels.

[Anonymous No.10826070]

Every ancient structure is a tomb.

[Anonymous No.10826212]

>>10823893
I didn't even notice this. Offshore Rig, Maria Doria, and Nevada are the only areas without a main boss.

[Anonymous No.10827768]

>>10794707

>called super sprint
>at no point is anyone sprinting