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Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by x3874 » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 2:28 AM UTC

Love this guys' posts. If only he would spice them up with diagrams, more screenshots, etc., so typically i read these during travel hours.

Edit: Any idea how his (WP-based?) site's TOC works? Having a hard time continuosly reading associated posts if you don't use his links he inserts in the footer, but instead try to search f.e. for 'Lucasarts'.

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by Findecanor » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 2:35 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #2

Well, it made Angelina Jolie a superstar. Few remember her films before Tomb Raider. Who sees "Gia" or "Pushing Tin" any more?

I'd say she was already a superstar. She had got an Oscar for Girl Interrupted. Gone in Sixty Seconds was a huge hit at the time.

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by mcphage » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 2:52 AM UTC

api wrote: post #6

atherton33 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hackers.

It’s 2023 and I’m on an ARM laptop so RISC technology did change everything.

Yeah, but how fast is your modem?

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by mcphage » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 2:54 AM UTC

The first Tomb Raider game really was that good. Just this morning I watched someone on YouTube walking through the levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiToc0SYkds), and it was impressive how memorable they were. Even the ones that I didn't remember before watching, once I saw them on the screen I was like "oh yeah, that place!".

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by jibe » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 2:55 AM UTC

esperent wrote: post #10

raspyberr wrote: post #4

Felt like the ending might've had a bit more oomph if the newest games were any good and not just generic Ubishit.

The newer TR games are actually pretty great. Not perfect but it's unfair to label them as generic. The only other games I know that are similar are the Uncharted series.

Not only have they been pretty good, they weren’t made by Ubisoft. Crystal Dynamics & Eidos Montréal did the last few, published by Square.

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by trustingtrust » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 3:20 AM UTC

mcphage wrote: post #13

api wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s 2023 and I’m on an ARM laptop so RISC technology did change everything.

Yeah, but how fast is your modem?

56kbps

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by siddiqi123 » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 3:28 AM UTC

These were rather direct descendants of 8-bit games like Bounder: fast-paced, colorful, modest in size and ambition […]”

Whoa… I could call “Corporation ” many things… a proto-FPS, a quasi-RPG, a precursory attempt at something like System Shock… But it definitely wasn’t your typical run-of-the-mill platformer or standard action title. It may have failed at what it set out to do, but it definitely was very ambitious!

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by rgoulter » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 3:37 AM UTC

Related to "the 2013 Lara Croft is more feminist than the old Lara Croft", I liked Liana Kerzner's discussion on the topic (with a cute pseudo-dialectic at about 11:00 in). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJMj3B1BFko

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by jimbob45 » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #2

Well, it made Angelina Jolie a superstar. Few remember her films before Tomb Raider. Who sees "Gia" or "Pushing Tin" any more?

The TR movie completed the cycle of movie to movie. Tomb Raider the game was just a gender-swapped Raiders of the Lost Ark. The movie translated that back into movie form.

Re: Tomb Raider

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Post by tedunangst » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 3:52 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #2

Well, it made Angelina Jolie a superstar. Few remember her films before Tomb Raider. Who sees "Gia" or "Pushing Tin" any more?

True she was known, but not the protagonist before Tomb Raider.