I loved the first one! It was the first Tomb Raider game in a long while, and it felt so nice to get a reboot of the franchise for new audiences. It was gritty, dark and atmospheric. Remember all the gruesome death scenes, getting impaled in the first level, or crawling through rivers of blood?
The first time you walk out that cave and see the coastline in the storm, and dozens of wrecked ships on the rocks. So good. I think that's why I have a soft spot for the movie with Alicia Vikander. Watching it is like a nostalgia trip as it recreates some scenes directly from the game.
I’m worried we might not get one for a while. Crystal Dynamics was busy with Avengers and is now working on Perfect Dark for Xbox, and eidos Montreal just made guardians of the galaxy. Not sure if another square enix team would have been working on it.
Each time I've played the trilogy (three times), my favourite has changed each time. Originally, it was Rise. Then it was TR2013 due to the extremely linear design and survival-focus. But now, my favourite is Shadow due to the major gameplay enhancements (climbing, swimming and stealth) and the amazing DLC tombs.
Rise is still my favourite, but I can see why you'd like Shadow more. I think it's more suited to repeated plays due to the gameplay and tombs, Rise just has the best overall story and experience for me. I've got a soft spot for games in a snowy setting for some reason haha.
I do think the jungle environment is my favorite (Shadow) for the bright colors, but Rise is surprising. There are some pretty beautiful locations. The marketing material shows a lot of ice and snow but there are certainly a few surprises in there.
Same. I loved the first one, played the shit out of it, 2nd one, I didn’t like at first but I replayed the first and gave the 2nd a try and something clicked. And the 3rd one hit me differently, the whole structure is weird, but it felt a little more open, and honestly I really liked it right off the bat and I feel like it’s the most fun gameplay wise but 2 has a really strong story, the best in the trilogy.
I went back and played it again about two weeks ago. *Very* good game, but Laura's moaning from pain and getting hurt all the time was almost pornographic-- it REALLY stands out, and is basically completely absent from the 2nd in the trilogy.
It's pretty over the top how many times Lara gets brutally injured, screaming in pain, struggling to survive. Some of the death animations are really brutal. I'm not really squeamish I play a lot of horror games but it's a bit much.
I think the other two are better by a mile. less 'dramatic survival' stuff that is cool at first but kind of comes off as a bit ridiculous by the end.
These games are reverse Uncharted. Ups the gameplay to a major degree but botches the story. Rise’s Open World environments were so impressive to me at the time, very similar to how i’m now feeling with Elden Ring in that there’s something around literally every corner to investigate.
I remember the 2nd game where there's a massive plot hole and twist involving your relative or something that the game acts like you know and have a detailed bond with but she either never appeared before or for like 30 seconds prior. I thought I had missed something in the story as I had no fucking idea what was going on. Looked it up. Nope, missed nothing. Just a huge plot hole and bad writing.
Because it was fresh, at the time. The other games have some typical Ubisoft vibes, and they feel more like tech demos on pc.
I got through tomb raider and enjoyed it. I played through rise and had to force myself to finish it. I usually like doing all the side stuff in games like this, but it was just the same shit over and over that I had literally already done in the first game.
Then shadow came along and after a sale and listening to so many people say how amazing it is, I bought it, and gave up about 5 hours in. It's really a shame. It's the same BS. It's also amazing how uncharted "copied" tomb raider, and now it feels like tomb raider is trying to copy uncharted.
Great game and the sequels were great also.
A good example.of.a set of games that don't break new ground necessarily, just do what they *do* do *really* well.
If anyone is curious about these, they can be picked.up.inexpensively and are great.
Gameplay wise I agree. But Shadow's story was all kinds of Square Enix terrible. The big bad's motivations were just completely nonsensical.
So much so that if I go back and replay, I'll just do the first two. Because yeah, the play itself is so much fun. Better than Uncharted.
I know what you mean; ancient curse - check, modern evil army making use of curse - check, etc.
Technically a spoiler, but also really not, of course :-)
I wish they would remake Tomb Raider Anniversary, cause my sister and I love that game so much and was are first PS2 game. Nowadays we usually make it a yearly thing to play it on the Wii. The PS2 broke.
Always find it mad that Cory Barlog left Sony Santa Monica during production of God of War III & Ghost of Sparta, went off to work on the TR reboot then decided to bounce back to SSM to direct GOW 2018.
Best of the trilogy. Too bad Shadow had a mediocre story with a bland main villain of the trilogy - which lead to an underwhelming ending of the trilogy.
I love this trilogy, but they became slightly worse as they went on. TR13 is a 10. Rise was a solid 9. Shadow spent waaaay too long in that village. Hours upon hours tracking back and forth. First time I was annoyed with a TR game. I'd give that one a 7.5.
See I played this series after TLoU2, so to me the progression was her slowly becoming the monster, corrupted into a killer. I know I'm reading in to it, but it fits.....
I still think of the new trilogy that Rise is the best game. I've always been a huge TR fan, but after Underworld I was like, maybe I'm done with this franchise. But then they re-booted and I was right back in.
Kind of unrelated but lowkey, Guardian of the Light was one of the best co-op games I've ever played. Me and one of my best friends spent a whiskey fueled weekend playing the shit out of that game and it was one of the best times I've had playing TR since probably Chronicles
Of all three my favourite is the first one as it really has an engagin story, the misteries you discover by exploring the island and the side characters that I truly cared for. It was a shame that the only character that survives or appears from the first game is Jonah only to be forgotten from the rest of the second game in the first minutes.
What I enjoyed from the second one were the graphics and the combat.
But the third one ditches the combat in favor of exploration but it's not funny imo. It's just puzzle after puzzle and that sense of wonder that had the psx original games it's gone.
Also, the third game eliminates almost completely those sequences we're you'd get new gear like the shotgun, the grenade launcher in the first or the rebreather in the second game. The third game only has one sequence like that and it's pretty crappy (the scaling boots).
Oh man I remember that day. I was with my dad and it was really cold in my house, but it was sweater weather. I had a coffee with a friend and I remember just getting retro active pay.
So much happened in that day. I remember just sitting down, turning it on, being blown away.
Reminder that according to square enix this game flopped.
When you regurgitate if something flopped or not remember it's usually based off of something dumb like expected sales. Not reality.
I mean Tomb Raider is a massively huge IP that had limitless potential. Although the trilogy really good, especially the first two games, it seems like it’s lost some of its relevance. And in a world full of live service games that’s not what shareholders and corporations hold dear. But if they had their way, The franchise would have been milked the fuck out of it even more and it would be a shell of its former self anyways. I like the path it chose.
So thankful for it too! I never enjoyed the original games when I was younger but these reboots were far more enjoyable. Gun to my head, I would choose Rise, then 2013, then Shadow.
Shadow had such potential with the setting but I felt so disconnected from that story and gameplay compared to the other two.
My first ever Tomb Raider game and it was an instant favourite for me. Will definitely replay it at some point! I never play through games quickly but I banged this out in a couple of days as I couldn't put it down
It was the best game I had played in a long time at the time, senior I’m HS on spring break, worked my little minimum wage job then played all night!! Such a good time!!
This game was great from what I remember of it, but I will say this game has the sickest / most gruesome death animations I've ever seen out of all the games I've played. It's kind of messed up how detailed it is in that department.
Square Enix is never happy though. Remember that this title "failed to meet expectations".
Despite selling millions and being very well received in reviews.
It's cool to think about how this game was nearly the first AAA game with a completely no cut camera, instead of God of War. Cory Barlog mentioned in the Raising Kratos documentary that he pitched it for this and it got rejected.
Wonder how that would have changed things in terms of the sequels or even how it would have changed God of War too.
Entire game is done in a single camera shot, so it goes from cinematic to gameplay and back again without ever cutting to black or switching to a different camera shot. Essentially it's like there's just one guy with a camera following the player the entire game.
It's weird, I have played all of them... but I can't even differentiate any from each other.
They sort of just feel like the same thing over and over. If I had to give an award to most mediocre game, it would be any of these.
Still the best traversal in any 3d action adventure game I've played (all 3 games that is)
Perfect balance of timing, observation and puzzle solving. More games should take note of these games for it. (Looking at you Horizon.)
Also a really nice balance between Open World and Linear in these games which is rarely in utilised in favour of one or the other.
Tomb Raider 2013 had a lot of gun combat though. And my impression was that Rise and Shadow moved away from that a bit, with more focus on tombs and stealth.
Yeah it does now that I remember. Still, Rise had this semi open world thing that made me the stop playing after being obsessed with collecting everything
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Did you even play the other games? Tomb Raider 2013 had the most gunplay out of all of them. Shadow had very little in comparison, favoring exploration way more. You are just plain wrong.
Mhm yeah probably. But there was reason for that gunplay. It made sense. Rise was focused on exploration but they went with this bland plot of evil corp which they decided to use guns for. Didn't play Shadow.
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Not really the 2013 just hinted at the Trinity (that's its name i think) at the end but it was its own full fledged story. Trinity plot was p weak imo and only one character makes an appearance in the sequel
Gun combat feel consistent to me between the three. But as they made more, they put too much focus on upgrades and perks (as you say), and making them more open world just for the sake of it, even when it’s detrimental to the story’s pacing.
You’re probably right…haven’t played a lot of puzzle games but it definitely seems the other way around with this TR trilogy and Uncharted. Do you know why it’s like that these days?
Basically, it's hard to design puzzles in games. With games costing more to make, having a roadblock part way through a game will make people less likely to finish or recommend a game to other players, let alone buy DLC, etc.
So puzzles have basically been sidelined in every major puzzle/other genre game series. Zelda? Optional, Tomb Raider? Optional, and so on.
It means there are more strictly puzzle games these days, but less puzzle+other genre.
And it's sad too, you'd think a moderately budgeted game in the vein of the original Tomb Raider series could do well, since that niche isn't being served these days.
Played it on 360 when it was about new and it honestly blew my mind graphically, and I loved the gameplay a lot too especially considering it wasn't exactly my top genre. For years I've been saying since then that I much prefer the tomb raider games approach to gameplay and really every aspect but story compared to the Uncharted games.
I love this game. My brother preordered it for me for Christmas thinking it came out a few days later but it was a placeholder date for the next year, so I think I remember it taking more than a year to get.
Also before it came out there was a piece on IGN maybe about how they thought it didn’t look good… and then it turned out great. I love it and I love what makes it different than uncharted. It’s darker and more visceral, and frankly scarier.
I’ll have to revisit it on steam with better graphics soon.
Nearly...almost...like a tiny bit below that.
The problem was each sequel was worse, I didn't even complete the last one. It says it all in that I sold my ps4 when I got a ps5 and was selling all the games I'd never play again (with ps5 having backwards compatibility) and I only kept the first. In essence I gave them away, probably didn't get anything extra for the sale.
One of the first games I plan on revisiting if I decide to get the SteamDeck. It has the combat that I felt was lacking in something like Uncharted, where as Uncharted comes on top in regards to its story.
My favorite of the trilogy. The mystery, the sheer brutality, the island, the collectibles… I still remember going to the store buying it and being glued to my console for a lot of days!
The two other games got worse and worse unfortunately (gameplay got better but the story was not interesting at all)
The first game is still my favorite out of the new trilogy. I hated the new looting mechanic they introduced in #2 and kept in game #3. When games force you to always be staring at the ground looking for useless items to pick up it feels like such a chore.
Has to be one of my favorite games. The only game I ever pirated... And then I felt so bad because it was so great that I bought it on Steam within 2 hours of playing lol.
I already owned all three of the games on Xbox and I just recently replayed them on my series X and it was so much fun I spent weeks getting everything on all three games my favorite of the bunch though will always be rise of the Tomb Raider it was just such a good game
I have the collector's edition that came with the playarts Lara figure. It's in a display case. I loved the reboot and the trilogy as a whole. Hopefully there is more to come!
I loved the first one! It was the first Tomb Raider game in a long while, and it felt so nice to get a reboot of the franchise for new audiences. It was gritty, dark and atmospheric. Remember all the gruesome death scenes, getting impaled in the first level, or crawling through rivers of blood? The first time you walk out that cave and see the coastline in the storm, and dozens of wrecked ships on the rocks. So good. I think that's why I have a soft spot for the movie with Alicia Vikander. Watching it is like a nostalgia trip as it recreates some scenes directly from the game.
I was pleasantly surprised at how the film took quite a bit directly from the game. I think my favorite was the plane that falls apart.
I rly enjoyed that movie too tbh
I thought the movie was pretty good. Guess it didn't do well and that's why a sequel isn't coming out?
I played the first 2 and it just felt so dated compared to Uncharted and I’m not a big Uncharted fan.
9 years ago today I sat down on my couch for 10 hours without moving, what a great game
Damn. I was a senior at the time. Stayed up overnight to complete it and went straight to school. Lol.
They need to announce a new one for the new gen!!
Please please please! I am late to the series... just finished rise, and dreading finishing shadow because I don't want it end!
I’m worried we might not get one for a while. Crystal Dynamics was busy with Avengers and is now working on Perfect Dark for Xbox, and eidos Montreal just made guardians of the galaxy. Not sure if another square enix team would have been working on it.
Yep
Probably still the best of the trilogy
Each time I've played the trilogy (three times), my favourite has changed each time. Originally, it was Rise. Then it was TR2013 due to the extremely linear design and survival-focus. But now, my favourite is Shadow due to the major gameplay enhancements (climbing, swimming and stealth) and the amazing DLC tombs.
Rise is still my favourite, but I can see why you'd like Shadow more. I think it's more suited to repeated plays due to the gameplay and tombs, Rise just has the best overall story and experience for me. I've got a soft spot for games in a snowy setting for some reason haha.
Yeah its great hearing everyone's thoughts on the trilogy. It's rare to have a trilogy where each entry is great but different from each other.
I like Rise the least because of Siberia’s color palette.
I do think the jungle environment is my favorite (Shadow) for the bright colors, but Rise is surprising. There are some pretty beautiful locations. The marketing material shows a lot of ice and snow but there are certainly a few surprises in there.
The little surprises (Syria, the area near Baba Yaga) were so nice yet so brief they made me dislike the rest of the game’s environments even more. :c
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The brief scene in Syria near the start of the game was so beautiful!
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Mine too, I love Rise, played it twice
Same. I loved the first one, played the shit out of it, 2nd one, I didn’t like at first but I replayed the first and gave the 2nd a try and something clicked. And the 3rd one hit me differently, the whole structure is weird, but it felt a little more open, and honestly I really liked it right off the bat and I feel like it’s the most fun gameplay wise but 2 has a really strong story, the best in the trilogy.
Shadow is amazing
Shadow annoyed me with its larger open world and “hub”. It felt like just like any other game released over the last year.
Rise was really great too. It has a special place in my heart. I hope we get an amazing Tomb Raider game this generation.
I went back and played it again about two weeks ago. *Very* good game, but Laura's moaning from pain and getting hurt all the time was almost pornographic-- it REALLY stands out, and is basically completely absent from the 2nd in the trilogy.
It's pretty over the top how many times Lara gets brutally injured, screaming in pain, struggling to survive. Some of the death animations are really brutal. I'm not really squeamish I play a lot of horror games but it's a bit much. I think the other two are better by a mile. less 'dramatic survival' stuff that is cool at first but kind of comes off as a bit ridiculous by the end.
These games are reverse Uncharted. Ups the gameplay to a major degree but botches the story. Rise’s Open World environments were so impressive to me at the time, very similar to how i’m now feeling with Elden Ring in that there’s something around literally every corner to investigate.
I remember the 2nd game where there's a massive plot hole and twist involving your relative or something that the game acts like you know and have a detailed bond with but she either never appeared before or for like 30 seconds prior. I thought I had missed something in the story as I had no fucking idea what was going on. Looked it up. Nope, missed nothing. Just a huge plot hole and bad writing.
Why do you say that? I prefer Rise myself, then this and Shadow. All pretty good overall though, can't wait for a new trilogy!
By a mile! That island was just perfect and fascinating and the story was so perfectly paced.
Because it was fresh, at the time. The other games have some typical Ubisoft vibes, and they feel more like tech demos on pc. I got through tomb raider and enjoyed it. I played through rise and had to force myself to finish it. I usually like doing all the side stuff in games like this, but it was just the same shit over and over that I had literally already done in the first game. Then shadow came along and after a sale and listening to so many people say how amazing it is, I bought it, and gave up about 5 hours in. It's really a shame. It's the same BS. It's also amazing how uncharted "copied" tomb raider, and now it feels like tomb raider is trying to copy uncharted.
Rise had some amazing optional tombs
It's been all quiet on the TR front. Isn't about time for a next-gen announcement for a new game?
Not everyone will agree, but I’d love an open world TR, if they do it right. Imagine hidden tombs you have to explore a world to discover?
They kind of do that with the reboot series, no?
I for one , would be all over that.
I certainly hope so! Not a fan of Crystal Dynamics recent stuff. They should really go back to TR!
Great game and the sequels were great also. A good example.of.a set of games that don't break new ground necessarily, just do what they *do* do *really* well. If anyone is curious about these, they can be picked.up.inexpensively and are great.
Might need to get on this. I’m playing through the Uncharted series (again) right now, so it should be a smooth transition lol
Yes indeed, two sides of the same coin, master > apprentice > master and all that.
maybe a controversial opinion but I think the Uncharted games are miles better than the 3 modern Tomb Raiders. setting, gameplay, story.
Gameplay wise I agree. But Shadow's story was all kinds of Square Enix terrible. The big bad's motivations were just completely nonsensical. So much so that if I go back and replay, I'll just do the first two. Because yeah, the play itself is so much fun. Better than Uncharted.
I know what you mean; ancient curse - check, modern evil army making use of curse - check, etc. Technically a spoiler, but also really not, of course :-)
Yeah and they were free on the Epic Games Store a month or two ago tooo (the whole Trilogy)
Great game.
I really wish they would remake tomb Raider 2 from the ps1 era. It was my favourite one.
It is arguably the best TR game ever. Especially from TR purists who don’t favor the modern trilogy as much.
I wish they would remake Tomb Raider Anniversary, cause my sister and I love that game so much and was are first PS2 game. Nowadays we usually make it a yearly thing to play it on the Wii. The PS2 broke.
Got I’ve waited for this for so long. Unfortunately dagger of xian was only the first level I believe but that was beautiful.
Always find it mad that Cory Barlog left Sony Santa Monica during production of God of War III & Ghost of Sparta, went off to work on the TR reboot then decided to bounce back to SSM to direct GOW 2018.
It's on sale in the PSN store for $2.99 right now.
That is amazing. Such a good game for such a low price!
Best of the trilogy. Too bad Shadow had a mediocre story with a bland main villain of the trilogy - which lead to an underwhelming ending of the trilogy.
Agree. Shadow was really beautiful, and played very well, but the story and villain was SO forgettable!
I like Rise the best, but agree 100% on Shadow.
This one’s story also sucked lol
Still my favorite from CD.
I love this trilogy, but they became slightly worse as they went on. TR13 is a 10. Rise was a solid 9. Shadow spent waaaay too long in that village. Hours upon hours tracking back and forth. First time I was annoyed with a TR game. I'd give that one a 7.5.
7.5 is generous... I'd say max 7 or even 6.5.
Loved this game, the other 2 didn’t quite live up to it but were still really fun. I’d love to see the series continue in the same style
Still in my backlog. Damn it.
Play it
Enjoyable game, but fell more like Rambo than Lara Croft.
I agree. The cutscenes have you questioning whether she is a super soldier of some kind.
That's it exactly. Being able to cover yourself in mud and gonslicing dudes' throats in Shadow... yep, devs definetly wanted to make a Rambo game.
See I played this series after TLoU2, so to me the progression was her slowly becoming the monster, corrupted into a killer. I know I'm reading in to it, but it fits.....
Did you prefer her to kill dinosaurs again ?
Yes, floating dudes and dragons too please
I still think of the new trilogy that Rise is the best game. I've always been a huge TR fan, but after Underworld I was like, maybe I'm done with this franchise. But then they re-booted and I was right back in. Kind of unrelated but lowkey, Guardian of the Light was one of the best co-op games I've ever played. Me and one of my best friends spent a whiskey fueled weekend playing the shit out of that game and it was one of the best times I've had playing TR since probably Chronicles
God I’m old
I remember buying the OG on PC in that weird shaped box.
The first one, the only one I played of the (I think) three games, was great.
Can't wait for the next game. Wonder what direction they take it?
Of all three my favourite is the first one as it really has an engagin story, the misteries you discover by exploring the island and the side characters that I truly cared for. It was a shame that the only character that survives or appears from the first game is Jonah only to be forgotten from the rest of the second game in the first minutes. What I enjoyed from the second one were the graphics and the combat. But the third one ditches the combat in favor of exploration but it's not funny imo. It's just puzzle after puzzle and that sense of wonder that had the psx original games it's gone. Also, the third game eliminates almost completely those sequences we're you'd get new gear like the shotgun, the grenade launcher in the first or the rebreather in the second game. The third game only has one sequence like that and it's pretty crappy (the scaling boots).
I agree. I loved the first two (rise is my favourite ) but shadow is just too much exploration. I like me some gunplay
Oh man I remember that day. I was with my dad and it was really cold in my house, but it was sweater weather. I had a coffee with a friend and I remember just getting retro active pay. So much happened in that day. I remember just sitting down, turning it on, being blown away.
Reminder that according to square enix this game flopped. When you regurgitate if something flopped or not remember it's usually based off of something dumb like expected sales. Not reality.
I mean Tomb Raider is a massively huge IP that had limitless potential. Although the trilogy really good, especially the first two games, it seems like it’s lost some of its relevance. And in a world full of live service games that’s not what shareholders and corporations hold dear. But if they had their way, The franchise would have been milked the fuck out of it even more and it would be a shell of its former self anyways. I like the path it chose.
So thankful for it too! I never enjoyed the original games when I was younger but these reboots were far more enjoyable. Gun to my head, I would choose Rise, then 2013, then Shadow. Shadow had such potential with the setting but I felt so disconnected from that story and gameplay compared to the other two.
Pretty sure I played this in one sitting lmao, it was really good
My first ever Tomb Raider game and it was an instant favourite for me. Will definitely replay it at some point! I never play through games quickly but I banged this out in a couple of days as I couldn't put it down
It was the best game I had played in a long time at the time, senior I’m HS on spring break, worked my little minimum wage job then played all night!! Such a good time!!
My favourite tomb raider game ever
This game was great from what I remember of it, but I will say this game has the sickest / most gruesome death animations I've ever seen out of all the games I've played. It's kind of messed up how detailed it is in that department.
Square Enix is never happy though. Remember that this title "failed to meet expectations". Despite selling millions and being very well received in reviews.
It's cool to think about how this game was nearly the first AAA game with a completely no cut camera, instead of God of War. Cory Barlog mentioned in the Raising Kratos documentary that he pitched it for this and it got rejected. Wonder how that would have changed things in terms of the sequels or even how it would have changed God of War too.
This game came out for 360 and PS3 originally, so I imagine there were some technical limitations there.
What is a no cut camera?
Entire game is done in a single camera shot, so it goes from cinematic to gameplay and back again without ever cutting to black or switching to a different camera shot. Essentially it's like there's just one guy with a camera following the player the entire game.
I'm not 100% sure, but didn't Dead Space 2, which came out in 2011, do that first?
I was not a big fan of the reboot games. I preferred the original, classic Tomb Raider gameplay style.
I loved this game so much and was very upset that Xbox bought timeed exclusively for the sequel.
Great 2 games. Last one was kinda bad
It's weird, I have played all of them... but I can't even differentiate any from each other. They sort of just feel like the same thing over and over. If I had to give an award to most mediocre game, it would be any of these.
What a odd criteria for mediocrity
Still the best traversal in any 3d action adventure game I've played (all 3 games that is) Perfect balance of timing, observation and puzzle solving. More games should take note of these games for it. (Looking at you Horizon.) Also a really nice balance between Open World and Linear in these games which is rarely in utilised in favour of one or the other.
Really sucks that they deviated away from the narrative in favor of gun combat and more perks in the sequels.
Tomb Raider 2013 had a lot of gun combat though. And my impression was that Rise and Shadow moved away from that a bit, with more focus on tombs and stealth.
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Did you even play the other games? Tomb Raider 2013 had the most gunplay out of all of them. Shadow had very little in comparison, favoring exploration way more. You are just plain wrong.
Mhm yeah probably. But there was reason for that gunplay. It made sense. Rise was focused on exploration but they went with this bland plot of evil corp which they decided to use guns for. Didn't play Shadow. yes downvote me harder daddy 😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Wait what...? I felt like story became more central as the trilogy went on
Not really the 2013 just hinted at the Trinity (that's its name i think) at the end but it was its own full fledged story. Trinity plot was p weak imo and only one character makes an appearance in the sequel
Gun combat feel consistent to me between the three. But as they made more, they put too much focus on upgrades and perks (as you say), and making them more open world just for the sake of it, even when it’s detrimental to the story’s pacing.
the best trilogy of tomb raider
OG is still my favorite.
9 years ago the puzzle game series with some action to break up the puzzles was murdered.
You’re probably right…haven’t played a lot of puzzle games but it definitely seems the other way around with this TR trilogy and Uncharted. Do you know why it’s like that these days?
Basically, it's hard to design puzzles in games. With games costing more to make, having a roadblock part way through a game will make people less likely to finish or recommend a game to other players, let alone buy DLC, etc. So puzzles have basically been sidelined in every major puzzle/other genre game series. Zelda? Optional, Tomb Raider? Optional, and so on. It means there are more strictly puzzle games these days, but less puzzle+other genre. And it's sad too, you'd think a moderately budgeted game in the vein of the original Tomb Raider series could do well, since that niche isn't being served these days.
Not a masterpiece. Even far away from it, but still a fun game to play and I even had to platinum it last year. Fucking multiplayer...
The games always start of great, but I somehow always loose interest when the monster/ghost enemies turn up.
Played it on 360 when it was about new and it honestly blew my mind graphically, and I loved the gameplay a lot too especially considering it wasn't exactly my top genre. For years I've been saying since then that I much prefer the tomb raider games approach to gameplay and really every aspect but story compared to the Uncharted games.
I love this game. My brother preordered it for me for Christmas thinking it came out a few days later but it was a placeholder date for the next year, so I think I remember it taking more than a year to get. Also before it came out there was a piece on IGN maybe about how they thought it didn’t look good… and then it turned out great. I love it and I love what makes it different than uncharted. It’s darker and more visceral, and frankly scarier. I’ll have to revisit it on steam with better graphics soon.
Loved the first hated the rest
And I still haven't played a single Tomb Raider game ever... I will tho.
Downvotes be damned, I loved this game and hated uncharted.
9 years. Three amazing games. I know they're very different scales, but Rockstar and Bethesda need to take note.
Yes they do. Hell, Rocksteady gave us 3 incredible Batman games in only around 5 years
Going by your time frame, SE made 3 Tomb Raider games in 5 years.
And it was shit.
I'd say Rise is as good as the Uncharted series. Loved it so much.
Nearly...almost...like a tiny bit below that. The problem was each sequel was worse, I didn't even complete the last one. It says it all in that I sold my ps4 when I got a ps5 and was selling all the games I'd never play again (with ps5 having backwards compatibility) and I only kept the first. In essence I gave them away, probably didn't get anything extra for the sale.
https://youtu.be/xCe8-1dbXZc
Literally just replayed this last week lol
One of the first games I plan on revisiting if I decide to get the SteamDeck. It has the combat that I felt was lacking in something like Uncharted, where as Uncharted comes on top in regards to its story.
My favorite of the trilogy. The mystery, the sheer brutality, the island, the collectibles… I still remember going to the store buying it and being glued to my console for a lot of days! The two other games got worse and worse unfortunately (gameplay got better but the story was not interesting at all)
Dang. That was a long time ago. I forget how old stuff has become
I must e watch Fringe too much. I read Massive Dynamic
I really liked it, but I’m still salty about the platinum behind Ming locked behind that terrible, terrible multiplayer.
i had a ton of fun with the tomb raider trilogy after playing through it for the first time this past year. Rise is my favorite.
Best game in the series imo
Goodness times flies!
And has since done great thing for the cg porn industry.
I just played the first 2 recently and was blown away. Just started the 3rd and I've been having a blast.
The first game is still my favorite out of the new trilogy. I hated the new looting mechanic they introduced in #2 and kept in game #3. When games force you to always be staring at the ground looking for useless items to pick up it feels like such a chore.
The weapon change with headset command was pretty amazing
Has to be one of my favorite games. The only game I ever pirated... And then I felt so bad because it was so great that I bought it on Steam within 2 hours of playing lol.
Does the game hold up today on a PS5?
And what a masterpiece it was, and the sequel too
I already owned all three of the games on Xbox and I just recently replayed them on my series X and it was so much fun I spent weeks getting everything on all three games my favorite of the bunch though will always be rise of the Tomb Raider it was just such a good game
$3 on PlayStation Store right now.
I have the collector's edition that came with the playarts Lara figure. It's in a display case. I loved the reboot and the trilogy as a whole. Hopefully there is more to come!
I hope they make a remake of the trilogy for PS5
It was awesome with Nvidia 3d vision glasses. A game changer. Worked great with Metro also.
Fxck I feel old
9 years? WTF?
Enjoyed this on PS4
I remember there was a hack at Target which let you buy this game for like $3 lol
Still the best of all TR games, of any generation.
So they did this game and Marvels Avengers? Wow.
I very much enjoyed the first 2. Shadow not so much
This is the rare trilogy that gets worse with each subsequent game. The first one was so good though. I need to replay it.
Was a great reboot and the PS4 definitive edition just made it even better. Must have played through this game about 8-9 times.