I tried playing the very first tomb raider today and I hate those fucking controls… nothing else to say. They suck!!
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ok, so it’s not just that i’m bad at the game. the game is built around not the best controling. good to know
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I wanted to like Skatebird because I’m enamored of games that do small characters in “giant” normal household environments but I also bounced off. Admittedly I am also not much of a skating game aficionado
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At first, you will hate. Then, you will love.
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i really ended up liking the first Tomb Raider even tho the controls definitely never get “easy”
the second game, on the other hand… i couldn’t take after several stages. and i heard the third one is even more absurdly hard. i can’t believe these games sold as well as they did - they’re like more demanding than Souls games.
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TR1:TR2::smb:smb2j almost exactly
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this is the most i’ve ever wanted to play them
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watching Veronica play tomb raider I had no idea that Lara Croft was just a tiny tiny mouse. she’s just shrunk down in a gigantic house. so tiny
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Nobody told me Lara was tiny. Her home may have more ostentatious textures than a Thief level but they don’t prepare you for all the huge doors and crates that are like three Laras tall.
The entire time she’s explaining the controls to you by saying stuff like “hold the action button to prevent me from hurting myself” except the action button doesn’t do shit. They don’t actually tell you what any of the buttons was. I didn’t even make it to the first level because I couldn’t figure out how to grab ledges. It’s actually the “secondary” button Lara. Which you used to shoot guns. And grab ledges apparently. I only found this out after looking up a bunch of Tomb Raider super fan articles. Then I watched another girl gamer on YouTube who ended up having the exact same problem and I felt so much better I was actually able to complete the first level. It’s hard not to feel stupid when the game is telling you to press the wrong shit!!
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Taking the cinematic platformer and extrapolating it into 3d with the amorphous “tile” as the unit of movement and measurement was such a beautiful idea
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The “modern” controls are awesome because if you want lara to do the single tile backstep you have to press the look button, hold down, then while holding it press the look button again and she does it. they put in a separate, only slightly less fucked up control scheme and called it a day
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the thing i will say about Tomb Raider is, for better or for worse, the game really is the control scheme. it’s not something that you could easily modernize or whatever like you can with other earlier 3d games. it’s very much made the way it is around the controls. and it’s hard to imagine a game like that existing at all outside of that control scheme.
why they chose to make you flail around and do combat on top of that, i will never really know. it’s not too bad in the first game at all but def gets worse in the second game.
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Just like the fencing in Prince of Persia…
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yeah prince of persia is already pretty fucked and then you add another dimension and it’s fully fucked that’s why tomb raider is a good game.
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has anyone played the 2d tomb raider on game boy color
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I haven’t but I loved Guardian of Light especially in coop
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Every time I start up the game daphny goes “lara baby…” like Oz and it makes it worth it every time. Even though they’re also like “I can’t believe you’re still playing this” and I spend half the level going “I can’t believe guys pounded off to this in 1996.”
Anyway I’m on level 2 now. Progress! I figured out the platforming okay!! Every time they ask me to shoot an animal I go why is this necessary and then do a fucked up series of back flips and side flips that make me wish they would just take control away from me for these parts. however the auto-aim…to paraphrase someone else it really is for the girls who can’t aim a gun and don’t really care to learn and i love that
Also I still can’t get over the fact that lara hiked up the andes mountains in that stupid outfit wearing a glorified cape over it. It’s insane. Could it have killed them to give her a jacket or maybe some pants for this one level? It must be cold as fuck in this stone cave!!
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She gets a cool bomber jacket in Tomb Raider 2 but they kept her in short shorts lol
And in Tomb Raider 3 she has appropriate clothing for the Antarctica level.
The rest of the outfits are tanks and shorts or skin tight catsuits or a sultry black dinner dress.
Tomb Raider 1 is legit a really fun game if you can learn the controls. There’s real magic there and when you discover it you’ll want more of it but all you’ll find instead are increasingly ridiculous and bad games trying to recapture it.
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god tomb raider II is dog shit, the demo level is GREAT but venice fucking sucks, it’s just getting in and out of a boat hitting switches in boring looking rooms and getting into gunfights, once they took lara out of the tombs the games just nose dived
the first one is still fun but yeah its hard to get used to and the camera isnt always helpful
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every time anyone ever mentioned Tomb Raider II to me they were like yeah I stopped playing because I couldn’t figure out how to get off the snowmobile or the boat or whatever. and when I was looking up the controls for this one I saw like eight steam forum threads of people going HOW DO I TURBO HOW DO I GET OFF THE FUCKING SNOWMOBILE
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