Releasing in February 14th, 2024 - Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is heading to Steam thanks to Aspyr Media. The remasters were announced today for various consoles, with it also appearing for pre-order now on Steam. Time to replay a bit of history!
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From the Steam page:
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored
Play the Original Three Tomb Raider Adventures: For the first time ever, play the complete experience with all expansions and secret levels on modern platforms in this definitive collection.
Included Game Titles
- Tomb Raider I + The Unfinished Business Expansion
- Tomb Raider II + The Gold Mask Expansion
- Tomb Raider III + The Lost Artifact Expansion
Key Features
Solve Ancient Mysteries: Uncover treasures of the ancient world by solving puzzles and unraveling mysteries lost to the ravages of time.
Globe-trotting Adventure: Follow Lara Croft around the world and face off against deadly foes and dangerous myths.
Lovingly Restored: Experience the classics boasting upgraded graphics, with the option to switch to the original polygon look at any time.
While they won't have a Native Linux version, no doubt they will run well in Proton. With full controller support, they could be great games for the Steam Deck too. Nice to see more classic games getting updated properly for modern platforms without completely remaking them.
You can pre-order on Steam. Together they will be £24.99 at release with a 10% discount if you pre-order.
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slaapliedje Sep 14, 2023
And here I was about to start playing them with the old 3dfx patches on my Win98 machine!
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Even though i have some of the older Tomb raider games on PC, there's still something charming about playing the originals on PS1 just as i remember them, i guess i just like the retro aesthetic. I might pick these up on a bigger sale eventually, after all you can pretty much remaster a lot of retro games yourself now with Ai texture packs and 4k resolution.
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Looks a bit brighter but not visually pleasing. A remake would have been my choice here. I think people already demonstrated that as a sparetime project
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I just heard about this, but didn't expect to see it posted on GOL today due to no word yet about Proton support or Steam Deck Verified/Playable status!
It's a bit uncanny, too, because I recently felt like revisiting the original Tomb Raider! (I could take or leave 2 and 3, personally - they put in too much combat that didn't play well for controls intended primarily for exploration. But it's still good that they're there!)
Great news, this one, and I'm hopeful that it will be handled faithfully; Care for the franchise has already been demonstrated with the choice of release-date - February 14th 1968 is the original Lara Croft's birthdate.
It's a bit uncanny, too, because I recently felt like revisiting the original Tomb Raider! (I could take or leave 2 and 3, personally - they put in too much combat that didn't play well for controls intended primarily for exploration. But it's still good that they're there!)
Great news, this one, and I'm hopeful that it will be handled faithfully; Care for the franchise has already been demonstrated with the choice of release-date - February 14th 1968 is the original Lara Croft's birthdate.
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slaapliedje Sep 14, 2023
Looks a bit brighter but not visually pleasing. A remake would have been my choice here. I think people already demonstrated that as a sparetime projectThey already did a remake of Tomb Raider, but they made certain puzzles and such easier, and skipped a bunch of them (at least that's what my brother said, I never did beat the original 3, but I have beaten all of them (except the latest trilogy) from Anniversary onward.
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I just heard about this, but didn't expect to see it posted on GOL today due to no word yet about Proton support or Steam Deck Verified/Playable status!Well, I see no reason not to cover news about such things, especially remastered of absolute classics like this. We know by know there's a 90% chance anything will just run with Proton :). I would rather cover something I'm interested in myself, and potentially a whole bunch of others, than not cover it just because it doesn't have Native :)
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I would rather cover something I'm interested in myself, and potentially a whole bunch of others, than not cover it just because it doesn't have Native :)Oh, I never meant (or, indeed, said) native - you know my views on Proton from other threads, it's absolutely essential for what I do.
I had a game release just yesterday that was spot-on with Proton from the first minute of release (and the ensuing non-stop 9.5 hour first play-session...
), which was and is an absolute joy. But I'm waiting on it actually getting an official Steam Deck status before I submit anything to you guys, in that case - it's not quite as big of a title (at least these days) as the likes of Tomb Raider.
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Oh, I never meant (or, indeed, said) native - you know my views on Proton from other threads, it's absolutely essential for what I do.Oh I know what you meant, just making sure my own stance is clear :)
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I loved the mix of puzzle/platformer/shooter in the first games. Always did have a problem with all the killing though:
- Lara, birds are our friends - please don't shoot... *blam blam blam*
- Look Lara, what a majestic canis lupus, they hardly ever attack people. If you just sneak around.... *blam blam blam*
- Wow, Lara! You found a dinosaur! Those were thought to be extinct.,,, *blam blam blam* - Nevermind, extinct it is.
Shooting digital people, no problemo. Shooting digital animals, big problemo!
- Lara, birds are our friends - please don't shoot... *blam blam blam*
- Look Lara, what a majestic canis lupus, they hardly ever attack people. If you just sneak around.... *blam blam blam*
- Wow, Lara! You found a dinosaur! Those were thought to be extinct.,,, *blam blam blam* - Nevermind, extinct it is.
Shooting digital people, no problemo. Shooting digital animals, big problemo!
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Oh I know what you meant, just making sure my own stance is clear :)Ah, good good!
Do pardon me, I like to be clear about mine, too, haha! Nothing worse than being accidentally misunderstood.Anyway, the remasters look great (I'm not a big fan of remakes - I prefer the approach taken here*). I'll hold off on pre-ordering (if I do, it'll probably be through Fanatical if they've got a good offer on), but I'm very likely to get it close to launch.
*There's a good animation-specific study of that, albeit about a different game, here.
- Wow, Lara! You found a dinosaur! Those were thought to be extinct.,,, *blam blam blam* - Nevermind, extinct it is.It's silly, but this always bugged me when I was a youngster, for precisely that reason - one of the greatest early on-screen exploits of Lara Croft, the great archaeologist, was her taking out a live dinosaur that had somehow survived.
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Yes, well, archaeologist. Maybe she had a rivalry with the dinosaur guys. "Goddamn paleontologists think they can outdrink us?!"- Wow, Lara! You found a dinosaur! Those were thought to be extinct.,,, *blam blam blam* - Nevermind, extinct it is.It's silly, but this always bugged me when I was a youngster, for precisely that reason - one of the greatest early on-screen exploits of Lara Croft, the great archaeologist, was her taking out a live dinosaur that had somehow survived.
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In the meanwhile, which one is better, OpenLara of CroftEngine?
In all seriousness, OpenLara's scope includes supporting tons of devices, so outside of TR1 its progress seems rather slow.
CroftEngine looks like pure eye-candy.
So either of those three will work for TR1. I don't see other ports outside of these for the rest, though:
TR2Main
tomb3
TOMB4
TOMB5
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Tomb Raider The Dagger Of Xian was a super promising TR2 fan remake but unfortunately never got beyond a demo of the first level. Its a pity as they really nailed the feel/style/atmosphere of the original.
* http://tombraider-dox.com/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pPOEAXFO4
* http://tombraider-dox.com/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pPOEAXFO4
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Looks a bit brighter but not visually pleasing. A remake would have been my choice here. I think people already demonstrated that as a sparetime projectAgreed, this looks rather unimpressive to me, or even bad. I don't approve of the new lighting completely changing the feel in every shown area in this trailer. Why does everything have to be so bright? At least it's somewhat reasonably priced, I guess.
"Remastering" games from the late 90's so they look like games from the early 00's. Eh.
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Yes, well, archaeologist. Maybe she had a rivalry with the dinosaur guys. "Goddamn paleontologists think they can outdrink us?!"Hahaha!
Still, I'd think she wouldn't be actively aiming to muscle them out of a great discovery!
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That may normally be the case, but I bet now that you've said that, this game will fall within the remaining 10%!I just heard about this, but didn't expect to see it posted on GOL today due to no word yet about Proton support or Steam Deck Verified/Playable status!We know by know there's a 90% chance anything will just run with Proton :).
Joking aside, I hope this doesn't lead to the publishers removing the originals from sale (this happens far too often).
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Shooting digital people, no problemo. Shooting digital animals, big problemo!That's why, for a dozen games, Greenpeace were trying to stop her shenanigans. But she slayed them, too. She's a monster.
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Even though i have some of the older Tomb raider games on PC, there's still something charming about playing the originals on PS1 just as i remember them, i guess i just like the retro aesthetic. I might pick these up on a bigger sale eventually, after all you can pretty much remaster a lot of retro games yourself now with Ai texture packs and 4k resolution.i think its not just nostalgia, i often prefer retro graphics even for games i never played, i have a few theories for that:
first blurry textures like on n64 make more sense when we are looking at fiction, i mean if something is low poly it might as well have an blurry texture, even if it dont we can hide the flaws of an texture in the fact that we cant see the full details.
another thing to consider is the abstract aspect of it, such as when you see 3 simbols that form an triangle , despite it not being there:
when we dont have many details our brain fill in the extra details.
not to mention i grew playing nes games among others even older i never saw an problem in playing with abstract forms.
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they won't have a Native Linux version
No macOS version listed, either. Which seems odd, given Aspyr's history. Maybe there's still a chance they will do cross-platform in the end, like they did for Fahrenheit, Total War: Rome, and KOTOR2.
February 14th 1968 is the original Lara Croft's birthdate.
Wow, she'll be raiding the social security office soon!
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