 A reader is very excited to learn about the upcoming Tomb Raider remasters and explains why they're so different than the modern games. I thought it was a pretty good Nintendo Direct on Thursday. Lots of games, some actual surprises, and a good pace that never dragged – much better than the usual bore fest that was the PlayStation State of Play. But there was one thing that stood out to me above everything in the Direct and that was the announcement of Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered. As far as I know, this came out of the blue and I'm (not) ashamed to say I may have whooped in excitement when I saw it. Tomb Raider was my way into video games. I doubt it was the first one I played but whatever was first I've long since forgotten and it's Tomb Raider I remember as the beginning of my love affair with games, and it's Lara Croft who is my personification of the hobby – not Mario or Sonic. I'm not some kind of crazy person with a shrine to Lara in my basement but I do have very fond memories of the original games and have been various shades of disappointed with all the modern ones. They're quite good games but they're not great and they're almost nothing like Tomb Raider. More like if you explained what the games were like to someone else and they tried to recreate them without ever having played them themselves. For me, there are two key problems with modern Tomb Raider games: the gameplay has changed to something almost unrecognisable and so has Lara. I'll tackle the second point first as it's a little more straightforward but in the original games Lara was a super confident and snarky adventurer. She was purposefully supposed to be a James Bond style character, larger than life and able to do anything she wanted. In the modern games they've tried to give her a bit more depth, but it's hard to say what she's really turned into now. She's a lot less sure of herself but she's also a killing machine that seems to){kind=link}
A reader is very excited to learn about the upcoming Tomb Raider remasters and explains why they’re so different than the modern games.
I thought it was a pretty good Nintendo Direct on Thursday. Lots of games, some actual surprises, and a good pace that never dragged – much better than the usual bore fest that was the PlayStation State of Play. But there was one thing that stood out to me above everything in the Direct and that was the announcement of Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered.
As far as I know, this came out of the blue and I’m (not) ashamed to say I may have whooped in excitement when I saw it. Tomb Raider was my way into video games. I doubt it was the first one I played but whatever was first I’ve long since forgotten and it’s Tomb Raider I remember as the beginning of my love affair with games, and it’s Lara Croft who is my personification of the hobby – not Mario or Sonic.
I’m not some kind of crazy person with a shrine to Lara in my basement but I do have very fond memories of the original games and have been various shades of disappointed with all the modern ones. They’re quite good games but they’re not great and they’re almost nothing like Tomb Raider. More like if you explained what the games were like to someone else and they tried to recreate them without ever having played them themselves.
For me, there are two key problems with modern Tomb Raider games: the gameplay has changed to something almost unrecognisable and so has Lara. I’ll tackle the second point first as it’s a little more straightforward but in the original games Lara was a super confident and snarky adventurer. She was purposefully supposed to be a James Bond style character, larger than life and able to do anything she wanted.