Tomb Raider I-III Remastered heads to Steam from Aspyr

Quoting: Liam DaweOh 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.

Quoting: whizse- 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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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: whizse- 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.

Yes, well, archaeologist. Maybe she had a rivalry with the dinosaur guys. "Goddamn paleontologists think they can outdrink us?!"

Quoting: pbIn the meanwhile, which one is better, OpenLara of CroftEngine?

Neither. Tomb1Main

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

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

Quoting: tpauLooks 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

Agreed, 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.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYes, 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!

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PenglingI 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 :).

That may normally be the case, but I bet now that you've said that, this game will fall within the remaining 10%!

Joking aside, I hope this doesn't lead to the publishers removing the originals from sale (this happens far too often).

Quoting: whizseShooting 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.

Quoting: LoftyEven 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.

Quotethey 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.

QuoteFebruary 14th 1968 is the original Lara Croft's birthdate.

Wow, she'll be raiding the social security office soon!