Ah ha! Tomb Raider Remastered

I watched some footage yesterday and I think it looks really good. Yes it looks very dated still, but they have made significant improvements to the graphics in places. The lighting in particular has been vastly improved, it really adds to the atmosphere.

I will try the modern control scheme but I am really dubious that it will work very well when the whole game is designed around the tank controls.

I can't picture the "modern" controls at all, as you say it's all part of the gameplay. I'll probably just stick to the tank controls and enjoy it for what it was and what my muscle memory will remember lol

I fully expect my resolve to break and I’ll buy this after a few reviews.

The fact you can save anywhere and skip levels if a challenge gets too much is probably all I need. There’s walkthrough videos now that we didn’t have in 1996; so would be rude not to.

/Lara plummets to her death with a piercing scream for the fiftieth time.

I can't get over how obviously AI upscaled the textures look. Would it have cost so much to have some artists touch them up a bit?

Heard mixed things about the modern controls, apparently they've not included a proper backstep option so you have to draw your guns to do a backstep to line up the pixel perfect jumps. And also the grid movement can't determine your jump moment either, meaning the jumps are a lot harder (in the originals, if you walked to an edge, backstepped, then started running forward, you could hit jump and at any time and it would delay your jump until you hit the edge of the current grid square. Modern controls can't do that, so it becomes a lot harder to time those jumps).

I'll probably get this though just because it'll actually work on Steam Deck.

The only thing that makes me hesitant about this is that it's Aspyr on porting duties and they've been dropping the ball a lot of late.

I'll be grabbing this later courtesy of the nectar points I earn everytime someone at the office orders stationery.

Agree about the controls and brightness, it’s too dark on the remastered graphics. I also saw in the opening level of TR3 where there’s some quicksand/mud that is instant death to walk into. In the remaster, it’s a slightly different but static pattern; on original it ripples and moves and looks dodgy. Hmmm

baihu1983 Is that Crystal Dynamics' "get out of jail" card?

This is why we can't have the No One Lives Forever remake, because of the white man doing an Indian accent.

A bit of a clickbaity article from Wes:

www.ign.com/articles/tomb-raider-1-3-remastered-includes-racial-and-ethnic-stereotypes-warning-from-crystal-dynamics

The comments section is, predictably, a 'Greatest Hits' of culture war buzzwords.

I really don't see an issue tbh. They left in the content, they explained that admittedly there is a shit load of what some people might call "problematic content", some will disagree. No one was hurt and nothing was censored. Gamers with a capital G are fucking embarrassing.

Been a very long time but I can't remember anything that bad? Maybe in 3? Trying to cast my mind back 20 years lol

A positive review (8/10) from Push Square:

www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/tomb-raider-1-3-remastered-starring-lara-croft