At 8/6/09 09:46 AM, Bahamut wrote:
I made a Top 15 Games I Played When I was 18 list the other night. :) Very long, though but worth having a look to see which games made the cut.
That made for some interesting reading. Sadly my last year hasn't been so interesting, mainly pretty new games with one or two classics thrown in. And I have to praise your writing skills, it sure makes a difference after spending most of my day reading legal bullshit written by arrogant lawyers.
Same here. I first played it when I was only 7, lol. However, I didn't actually get into the franchise until 2 years later. Back then, my parents were reluctant to allow me and my sister to play the games because of the 15 rating. However, we kept asking and were eventually allowed to play them. Sure, we were too young at the time, but better that than Grand Theft Auto.
My parents used to go nuts over what me and my brothers would watch on TV but I don't think they ever realised that some video games have age ratings. My mum gave my little brother a copy of the original GTA for his 9th birthday and nobody ever cared that I was playing games like Doom when I was 8. Frankly I think the 15 rating for the early Tomb Raider games was excessive anyway, I don't remember there being any content that would warrant a 15 rating.
Haha, you've certainly put me and my friend to shame and we're big fans of Tomb Raider, most especially the first three games and Anniversary. My friend has yet to play Legend and doesn't intend to until he plays through The Last Revelation, Chronicles and *gulp* Angel of Darkness.
Maybe he should skip Angel of Darkness, it might destroy his will to play Legend. I remember being rather apprehensive about getting Legend for this reason until I found a copy dirt cheap on eBay.
Neither of us haven't gone as far as to getting the handheld games or even the expansions. Well, except for The Lost Artefact that I got since I was desperate to perform the quad bike glitch myself. I wanted to make a video so there I was. However, after this Tomb Raider discussion, I'd love to get my hands on Unfinished Business very soon. :)
I can't say anything about the handhelds, other than they look shit, but I'd strongly recommend all the expansions. If you already own PC copies of TR1 and TR2 you can download the expansion levels for both games from Tombraiders.net, which by the way is an awesome site where I've been getting all my Tomb Raider walkthroughs from since the very beginning.
As for the secrets, I've yet to find every secret on my own in Tomb Raider 3 but I did end up cheating to get all secrets just to see what the extra level is like. I've managed to find all the secrets in the first two games but what really annoyed me was that if you get all the secrets, you don't get any bonuses. OK, in the first game you at least got extra pickups but in the sequel, it was just picking up the secret items which don't give you anything. :( I feel for going through all that trouble to find every secret, you should be rewarded with at least something at the end, which is why I appreciated Tomb Raider 3's All Hallows level.
Yeah this is a sore point for me too. The secrets in the first two games should definitely have given you a reward. I busted my arse going out of the way to find all those bastard things expecting some really cool bonus. You can imagine my disappointment when bugger all happened. Although I wasn't expecting a whole new level to be the reward in TR3 and All Hallows is a great level, one of my overall favorites from all the games.
That's why whenever I play Tomb Raider 3, I ALWAYS play Nevada first so I can get the inventory loss out of the way much sooner. Also, if I played the other two first, that only means more trouble for anyone. My friend actually played Nevada last and he had such a hard time completing TR3 as a result. :(
Exactly. The Nevada levels are hard enough as it is. I feel sorry for your friend.
The setting in Egypt wasn't bad but I felt it was lacking a lot. And yeah, I did see parts of the levels in the second half of the game and there were a few too many pyramids. It should have been just the one like in the first game.
I've been fascinated with Egypt since I was really young and the idea of setting the whole game there sounded like a great idea when I first heard about it, but after just finishing TR3 I was disappointed with the lack of colourful and varied environments. TR3 had jungle, desert, tropical island, dingy indoors and Antarctica, whereas TLR was like sand, sand, sandy city streets, sand, sandy tomb, sand etc. It felt uninspired to say the least.
Heh, maybe all this talk about Tomb Raider will get you to play the original again sometime soon. :) But yeah, they made a few mess ups in the remake, most especially the bonuses. Why go through all the trouble to beat the levels as quickly as possible when all you get is infinite ammo? :( As for the secrets, unlocking new costumes, artwork and character bio isn't bad and all, but really, the Unfinished Business levels as a bonus for obtaining all secrets would be truly rewarding.
It's been a damn long time since I've played any of the old games and it's really about time I got them out and gave them another playthrough. Problem is I've got so many other things going on in my life right now I only get a few hours a day to play games, all of which is consumed by playing 360. I mainly only play my other consoles and PC games when my 360 is away being repaired. Damn unlocking achievements is addictive. Which leads me nicely to my next point; I went to all the trouble of beating the time trials on Anniversary for the achievements. Also it gave me a good reason to play through the game again. And a challenge. I'm a sucker for anything challenging, which is probably why I love the Tomb Raider games in the first place.
I will make more of an effort to stop being such an achievement whore and get my old games out again.
I would consider the 360 version, except I don't even have the console so that's out of the question for the time being. PC is the best bet for me right now, but again I'd like to play the DLC if I could.
I can see how not having the required console might get in the way. Although if you're thinking of getting a new console I'd strongly suggest a 360 over a PS3. I'm not a fanboy, in fact I hate Microsofl and Sony equally, but I originally got both and the PS3 ended up being a hyper-expensive paperweight. I had the thing for 6 months before I finally sold it and got maybe around 20 hours of gaming use out of it, whereas in the average 6 months my 360 probably gets over 500 hours. If you don't want to get caught up in all the "console war" bullshit you could just get the PC version. The extra content will most likely be released on PC sooner or later, everything always is.
