Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.6234898]

TR General.

====GAMES====
-Main Series
TOMB RAIDER (1996)
TOMB RAIDER II (1997)
TOMB RAIDER III (1998)
TOMB RAIDER: The Last Revelation (1999)
TOMB RAIDER: Chronicles (2000)

-Handheld
TOMB RAIDER (2000)
TOMB RAIDER: Curse of the Sword (2001)
TOMB RAIDER: The Prophecy (2002)

-Expansions
TOMB RAIDER: Unfinished Business (Free)
TOMB RAIDER II: The Golden Mask (Free)
TOMB RAIDER III: The Lost Artefact (Paid)
TOMB RAIDER IV: The Times Exclusive Level (Free)

====MODS====
http://www.trle.net/sc/search.php
(Next to each download is "r" for reviews, "i" for information including screenshots and what game it's for, and "w" for walkthrough)

http://www.tombraiderxtra.com/downloads.php
(Texture packs by various artists for the original Tomb Raider)

http://www.core-design.com/community_modding.html
(Fan site revolving around more general mods, not necessarily new levels but remixes and changes to the textures, animations, or gameplay in general)

http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/
(Open source Tomb Raider engine that is currently being worked on and can play all 5 of the original Tomb Raider games with an updated lighting engine and new effects/physics, right now the first game is almost entirely playable and completely supports gamepad - to load a level go into the tomb raider folder and locate the DATA folder, and select the level)

http://tombraider-dox.com/
(Remake of the first level of the second game, retitled to "The Dagger of Xian")

====FAN SITES TO CHECK OUT====
http://raidingtheglobe.com/
(Lots of content including lists of all the games, weapons, outfits she wears, video walkthrough's, cheat codes, screenshots, renders, wallpapers, links to the expansion packs, and more)

https://tombraiders.net/index.html
(Comes with overviews of the controls, walkthroughs, secrets, and tips and strategies when playing)

[Anonymous No.6234901]

>>6234898
GAME DOWNLOADS

>TR1 + GOLD (Unfinished Business)
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/mmfKvWFs/file.html

>TR2 + GOLD (The Golden Mask)
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/PkMmlWZY/file.html

>TR3
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/urN08HxH/file.html

>TR3 GOLD (The Lost Artifact)
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/zNGd0JUy/file.html

>TR: The Last Revelation (TR4)
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/q7hw80M0/file.html
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/rda9BmLd/file.html
You need both, since zippyshare had 500 MB limit and the full installer weights 577 MB

>TR: Chronicles (TR5)
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/4rnIn581/file.html

>TR: Angel of Darkness (TR6)
https://www33.zippyshare.com/v/JNHMxK0f/file.html
https://www33.zippyshare.com/v/IuSkbFX9/file.html
https://www33.zippyshare.com/v/YGNYjvii/file.html
https://www33.zippyshare.com/v/GbXCo9ru/file.html

[Anonymous No.6235295]

>>6234898
Anyone know why there's been a lull in the new TRLE's being published? Last one was published almost 2 and a half weeks ago.

[Anonymous No.6235396]

>>6234898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7cTLSO0aTQ

[Anonymous No.6235412]

Going to play Tomb Raider The Last Revelation for the first time since I was 14 because I was too retarded to get far. What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.6235436]

>>6235412
Large inter-connected levels with a decent amount of backtracking.

Rotate your saves like fucking crazy.

[Anonymous No.6235582]

>>6235412
Once you're about 1/3rd the way through, you'll start encountering skeletons. Despite people calling them "immortal" you can kill them with explosives, or shooting them off the sides of long drops.

[Anonymous No.6235585]

do all of the first 5 games play the same? I never played much Tomb Raider but they look fun

[Anonymous No.6235594]

>>6235436
Is there a save bug?

>>6235582
Definitely don't recall getting that far. I think I killed a bunch of scoripions, dogs, and I think dudes in a driving sequence.

[Anonymous No.6235610]

>>6235594
>is there a save bug

No, but you'll definitely want to load a previous save if you realize that you made a wrong turn or forgot to grab something a map or two back and don't feel like back-tracking.

[Anonymous No.6235782]

>>6234901
>Not making it Aragorn posting
Fuck you, anon. You had one fucking job and you've fucked it up anyway.

[Anonymous No.6235784]

>>6235594
Skeletons show up once you reach Alexandria (so after the train level).
There is no save bug, but you will need to be able to easily get back to some previous point and unfuck your mistakes.

Also, since nobody said that yet - shotgun is you best friend, as long as you fire it POINT-BLANK! Keeping enemies at long range is pointless, you are going to spend dozens of shells doing shit damage. Point-blank? Dead in 2-3 shots.

[Anonymous No.6235827]

>>6235582
Also you can incapacitate them with headshots if you have a scope for crossbow, they will just run around.

[Anonymous No.6235867]

>>6235784
>shotguns are only lethal at 0-24 inches
Sounds about right for most video game devs.

[Anonymous No.6237058]

>>6235867
It's not even about the range of the gun itself, but the spread it has. Range is pretty damn good, all things considered. However, spread makes shotgun virtually a non-lethal weapon at max range.

[Anonymous No.6237163]

>>6235867
The shotgun is fine at medium ranges. You can knock skeletons out of the air during their jumps pretty easily at decent ranges, or knock them off edges too.

[Anonymous No.6237286]

>>6237163
Skeletons are terrible example, because as long as you are using shotgun, you are simply affecting their vulnerability to it. So you can hit with a single pelet when they are mid-jump and it will still register "full" hit to destroy them.
"Ninjas" are the best testers of range and damage for shotgun, especially the red ones

[Anonymous No.6237945]

>>6234898
Apparently the new Back To Basics competition for 2020 will be ready by June 15th.

Which I'm kinda excited for since the theme is Tibet this year, which hopefully means some yeti's and snow mobile.

[Anonymous No.6238009]

tfw the only one i played was the underwater stuff one

[Anonymous No.6238046]

>>6238009
>the underwater stuff one

Tomb Raider 2?

[Anonymous No.6238336]

All I remember of Tomb Raider 4 is mandatory damage like spinning blade puzzles and locusts. I hate it when devs do gay shit like that.

[Anonymous No.6238719]

>>6238336
>I don't remember anything, because I never played the game
ftfy

[Anonymous No.6238748]

>>6234898
I remember I played Tomb Raider 1 as a kid so often that when I played Tomb Raider 2, the concept of saving anywhere was so alien to me I didn't know where to go in order to save, and I consistently tried to find save crystals scattered around the level like in 1.

[Anonymous No.6239810]

>>6238336
Don't forget the annoying spirits/elementals/whatever.

[k No.6240384]

>>6235585
1 has a good mix between exploring and platforming.
2 has you shooting meat shields all the time, but it's pretty solid.
3 is exploration-heavy. You'll get lost but don't drop the game just for that.
TLR had major design flaws. You'll hate most of it but you'll finish it anyway.
Only thing I advise you is not playing them on a row so you can enjoy each of them the most, instead of powering through them; get used to the mechanics, learn from traps and risky jumps, explore every corner and go in blind.

[Anonymous No.6240825]

>>6235585
Not quite. Each new game adds a few new maneuvers that Lara can do, so while the basics of moving and jumping stay basically the same throughout, she's capable of more each game.

[Anonymous No.6241734]

>>6235412
>Cambodia
Neat tutorial intro to the game, and the series as well. If you're replaying it, it becomes quite the slog.

>Kings Valley
Fun and the REAL introduction to Tomb Raider 5. Has a nice spoopy opening with an unnerving atmosphere.

>Karnak
Drops the ball early compared to Kings Valley, seeing as it loses a lot of its dark atmosphere and becomes a little more light, with some back-tracking and interconnected levels that just seem to hit you all of a sudden, mixed with 1 or 2 instances of lacking proper direction, but other-wise still solid. The rail-road finale is neat.

>Alexandria
This is the part where you'll either get lost or hit a dead end. There's the part with the hook item, and then the very easily missed tunnel that leads directly to Temple of Isis. Overall, the environments are a lot more interestingly designed than Karnak, and there's less cultists jumping around making for fodder.

>Cairo
This is where shit starts getting bonkers, and the plot starts kicking in to high gear with lots of bosses, lots of action, and lots lots of death.

>Pyramids of Giza
Probably the best section in the entire game because it returns to the gloomy and dark atmosphere of the second section, Kings Valley. You may even get surprised and startled.

If you're a fan of Egyptian mythology and settings, it's a 10/10. If you're just a fan of the games, its more like an 8.5/10.

The last really great Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.6241736]

>>6235412
>Cambodia
Neat tutorial intro to the game, and the series as well. If you're replaying it, it becomes quite the slog.

>Kings Valley
Fun and the REAL introduction to Tomb Raider 4. Has a nice spoopy opening with an unnerving atmosphere.

>Karnak
Drops the ball early compared to Kings Valley, seeing as it loses a lot of its dark atmosphere and becomes a little more light, with some back-tracking and interconnected levels that just seem to hit you all of a sudden, mixed with 1 or 2 instances of lacking proper direction, but other-wise still solid. The rail-road finale is neat.

>Alexandria
This is the part where you'll either get lost or hit a dead end. There's the part with the hook item, and then the very easily missed tunnel that leads directly to Temple of Isis. Overall, the environments are a lot more interestingly designed than Karnak, and there's less cultists jumping around making for fodder.

>Cairo
This is where shit starts getting bonkers, and the plot starts kicking in to high gear with lots of bosses, lots of action, and lots lots of death.

>Pyramids of Giza
Probably the best section in the entire game because it returns to the gloomy and dark atmosphere of the second section, Kings Valley. You may even get surprised and startled.

If you're a fan of Egyptian mythology and settings, it's a 10/10. If you're just a fan of the games, its more like an 8.5/10.

The last really great Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.6242657]

>>6235412
>What am I in for?
Real tomb raiding experience. you will need to do research with some tasks, you will need to learn to backtrack and explore every corner. amazing game, raw, pure and mysterious

[Anonymous No.6242775]

>>6242657
>you will need to learn to backtrack
Why would he need to do that? It's been in the series forever.

>explore every corner
lawl, no, they throw ammo and shit at you

>raw, pure and mysterious
There's nothing "raw" and "pure" about annoying vehicle sections with shit direction, lmao

[Anonymous No.6242790]

>>6242657
>you will need to learn to backtrack
Why would he need to do that? It's been in the series forever.

>you will need to do research
If you mean watching walk-throughs online to make sure he isn't needlessly backtracking or to find switch #341, then yea. Other-wise, I'm laughing out loud at your melodrama.

>explore every corner
lawl, no, they throw ammo and shit at you

>raw, pure and mysterious
There's nothing "raw" and "pure" about annoying vehicle sections with shit direction, lmao

[Anonymous No.6242837]

>>6242790
Backtrack as previous games were mostly linear. You couldn't go back from Colloseum to St Francis Foley in TR1 or from Opera house to Venice in TR2

Research because some tasks are based on egyptiam mythology and knowing it will greatly help you. Especially game of Senet, some puzzles related to hieroglyphic riddles as well.

Explore every corner because sometimes objects required or rooms you have to visit are really hidden. I remember hints in underneath the Sphinx level hidden so you have to use binoculars with light to see it. Otherwise you need to try combinations of these 3 buttons on your own.

Raw and pure as the game doesn't lead you by the hand. It just throws you into a tomb and leaves on your own.

[Anonymous No.6243581]

>>6242837
>>6242837
>Backtrack as previous games were mostly linear

Lmao, that's blatantly wrong though. They had the same exact setup as Last Revelation, in fact Tomb Raider 3 was less linear than LR, since LR is also linear, they just split the puzzles up across different levels. Do you know what linear means?

>You couldn't go back from Colloseum to St Francis Foley in TR1 or from Opera house to Venice in TR2
And you can't go back to Kings Valley from Karnak. Levels are now hubs instead of being singular levels, but that doesn't mean it isn't linear. You solve a puzzle to open your route. That puzzle is identical every single time you play, thus your path is same, barring the minor differences in what secrets you choose to find, or in some parts which parts of the puzzle you decide to solve first.

>Research because some tasks are based on egyptiam mythology and knowing it will greatly help you. Especially game of Senet, some puzzles related to hieroglyphic riddles as well.
Absolute retardery. The game tells you the rules of senet, it's the whole reason you turn off the fire protecting the scroll that tells you them.

>I remember hints in underneath the Sphinx level hidden so you have to use binoculars with light to see it. Otherwise you need to try combinations of these 3 buttons on your own.
That's built in as part of the games mechanics. Either way, you could easily brute force a 3 combo puzzle, there's only 6 possible combinations of them.

>It just throws you into a tomb and leaves on your own.
So identical to the previous 3 games then? I fail to see how the previous games lead you by the hand, especially when everyone bitches the most about Tomb Raider 3 and calls it by far the most difficult, like at Aldwych where people say the game just completely abandons you and you're expected to know what to do and where to go.

[Anonymous No.6244048]

>>6241736
Just finished City of the Dead. Motorcycle is by far my least favorite vehicle in any Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.6244907]

>>6238336
>locusts

I believe those were part of a trap.

[Anonymous No.6246079]

>>6234898
1 => 2 => 3 =>4 > Chronicles.

[Anonymous No.6246301]

Maybe unrelated to the thread, but what's the best place to get PSX game roms?

[Anonymous No.6248593]

[Anonymous No.6248598]

>>6246079
Yes anon, we all know their chronological order of publication, no need to remind it

[Anonymous No.6249432]

>>6248598
Not sure if you're ironically shitposting, or you genuinely didn't understand it.

>1 is equal to or better than 2, which is equal to or better than 3 which is equal to or better than 4 which is better than 5

Although realistically, if we're trying to recreate the classic Tomb Raider fanbase, it should go

1 <=> 2 <=> 3 <=> 4 >>>> 5

[Anonymous No.6249440]

>>6246301
https://coolrom.com.au/roms/psx/40065/Tomb_Raider_(v1.6).php
https://coolrom.com.au/roms/psx/40075/Tomb_Raider_II_-_Starring_Lara_Croft_(v1.3).php
https://coolrom.com.au/roms/psx/40149/Tomb_Raider_III_-_Adventures_of_Lara_Croft_(v1.2).php
https://coolrom.com.au/roms/psx/39854/Tomb_Raider_-_The_Last_Revelation.php

[Anonymous No.6250415]

>>6249432
>t. a tasteless idiot

[Anonymous No.6251601]

>>6234898
Post your best Laras. I like Thicc Lara.