Ah ha! Tomb Raider Remastered

TR4 was my fave back in the day. The Egyptian setting is perfect for Tomb Raider and I felt it was more focused than the previous couple of games. Shame it wasn't included with the other remasters.

Thank you! Was hoping we'd see a physical release.

Just picked this up in the Steam sale - decided I fancied it for nostalgic reasons. TR2 was my fave back in the day.

Struggling a bit with the control scheme. The modern controls feel natural now, as we’re all accustomed to twin-stick controlling. I am finding it really hard to move around with the tank controls. But it doesn’t play like TR with the modern controls. You don’t backstep, backflip or side flip unless you have your guns out - and there doesn’t seem to be an option to have this as a toggle (like the original TR) rather than a button you have to hold down. How have people managed with this?

To be fair, I’ve had to put it down for a bit because I was starting to feel fatigued. It definitely didn’t help restarting the game, but I forgot how many levels there were. I’d argue it’s about 5 or 6 too many.

So much nostalgia for TR2. Tomb Raider's greatness starts and ends with the first game for me. I never cared for all the non-tomb levels and nonsense bells & whistles introduced in TR2 and beyond, or the gun battles with automatic rifle-wielding goons introduced in the later games.

None of it captured the lonely desolation of the first game, and seemed to move the series towards a generic action adventure game, rather than a platform puzzler. I enjoyed playing through Anniversary, but somehow even that game didn't quite capture the tone of the original.

Haven't minded the enemies in the second game- the ones at the end of the first are much worse and made that less fun for me. Haven't even done the add on yet as it was more of that. Went straight on to 2 instead. The ones in 2 can be dealt with quite easily, especially the melee ones. The others is usually a case of out ranging them. I find looking for a decent spot to kill them part of the puzzle aspect to the game. Got loads of ammo and health anyway

I like the locations in the second game as well. The Venice levels are especially good. Something about the atmosphere in them really reminds me of the Thief games. They don't make any sense in terms of layout, with random switches opening random doors, leading to more switches and doors. But it's fun working through it

Playing TR2 on and off. Amazed at myself for completely blanking out what happens between Venice and Nepal. For good reason I guess, the oil rig and even the shipwreck were not good levels. Combat is manageable but I do not like how they'll do bullshit like spawn 3 gun enemies behind you when you just came out of that hallway. You see it most in Venice, you can see in a room through a window completely empty and then you enter it and an enemy spawns in the corner blasting.

I am similar. Liked the actual tombs and desolation with the odd endangered beast. The gun toting enemies put me off 2 and the more modern locations (I seem to recall that the Great Wall of China first level was decent though). Only briefly touched upon 3 but it felt like more of the worst of 2. I seem to recall IV being a return to form tombwise, but forget what it was like for enemies. A bit of a moot point as it isn't included here.

Still tenpted by the physical come September, and possibly the Deluxe Edition. I am guessing it will be running whatever patch we are on now with lead times.

I think part of it is the free camera - iirc you couldn't freely rotate it in the originals.

While I agree that there's too many "underwater" levels in the underwater section, I think the level design is pretty great in TR2. I found the levels pretty intuitive to navigate through and with a decent amount of personality. I really liked it - but yes, too many enemies.

Half of TR3's levels take the fucking piss with convoluted shit. They'll present you with 3 ways you can go right from the start with absolutely no indication of which one is the correct one, and you'll be able to spend 20 minutes following the wrong path until you need an item to progress or to have pressed a random button on the other side of the level. Then they'll hide that item in an easily missable spot on one of the other routes to boot.

And that's if you're lucky enough to be in the situation where they made it obvious the door was a door and the point you could use the item was a point you could use the item.

IDK how anyone beat that fucking game without a guide, honestly. TR2 I had basically no memory of past the first level or two and breezed through for the most part. Even temple of Xian.

Playing Tomb Raider 3, those London levels were a bit shite huh? Massive sprawling levels that winds up in dead ends unless you have the key item to progress. Good luck finding them. But hey, at least I got some cool weapons out of it. Harpoon gun, MP5, grenade launcher, rocket launcher. So then I decided to do Nevada... Good stuff, that's wonderful. I forget how brutal some of these PS1 games were. Definitely does feel like it's obtuse enough in order to sell official strategy guides

... Angel of Darkness, man. lol

Yeah, The Last Revelation was great.