Gordian Slash

Chambers of Tulun...

Citadel Gate...

Chambers of Tulun again...

Trenches...

Chambers of Tulun again and again...

Trenches again...

< pant >

Street Bazaar...

Trenches again and again...

< pant pant >

Street Bazaar again...

Trenches again, again and yet AGAIN!...

< pant wheeze pant >

Citadel Gate again...

< BLAM! >

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Mahy

Gordian Slash wrote:

Exactly! I too in the end hated every single inch of Cairo.

Mahy

... et al.

Gordian Slash wrote:


And in real life, you never goes back to locations where you've been before?

Mostly folks keeps complaining about that games are 'linear
corridor-shooters'.
The above didn't bother me a bit, and in fact helped building a chimera
of non-linearity into the game, as in that i(laura) am not always moving
forward, all the time forward, even if i in fact had to follow a 'path'
back and forth.

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McGrandpa

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I hadnt' finished TR4 yet because I'd gotten some half to 2/3 thru, upgraded
my system, and then it wouldn't run. Ok, so I got it to run months later
with a driver fix, and i'd lost my game saves. Gotta start over. I'll do
that eventually. Start over and finish it. I did finish 1, 2 and 3. Never
got far in Chronicles, it kept bombing out, crashing. And now I also have
TLA to finish, AoD to finish and Legend to ...nope, I don't even like timed
runs. That's sports, I'm into adventure When I get through the game
proper, i'll use the cheats and get all those goodies.
I always felt that 1, 2 and 3 were simply great. I also felt 4 was, but
tedious in places. there are alot of great locations and scenery in these
games too. And music. Great scores.
McG.

Jeff Reid

One nice thing about this was Lara health was restored
every time you crossed a boundary line, so it made it
easier to do a no health kits run.

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McGrandpa wrote:

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I do backup my save-files now and then in games as i go along, should i
want to replay a particular segment at a later time. Or just in case
things like you describe should happen. And then there's the 'net where
you could find save-games for TRIV, even back then in the year 2000 if
you played it when new.


That is TRVI(AoD) and_or TRVII(Legend) you complain about? I haven't
played those. What the OP complained about in TRIV was having to do new
things but having to revisit earlier locals ... well, that's the way i
remember the game after reading what he described.


One thing i didn't like about TRIV was the forked path in one level so
that when after having played it, when i read a walkthrough to see what
i had missed, i discovered that there was a whole 2nd path i hadn't been
allowed to visit. And there is a similar thing in TRIII where you have
to follow a river, but have to choose which side. Arrgh, I like to
explore everything! But for cases like these, ¿ain't backed-up
save-games just great? :-)

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I have the Jeff Reid saved games for all of them stashed on a backup cd.
I'd just rather play the game through myself. There are instances where
having those is very handy.


TR6(AoD) is buggy, out of character, and incomplete. TR7 (Legend) is a
completely new kind of game. It's not like Tombraider at all to me. It's
now a console sports/shooter.

That's where the Jeff Reid saved games are handy. I dunno how he does it,
but glad someone did!
McG.

Thunderchief

McGrandpa wrote:

Now ...kinda...but...I thought Leg End was more TR than AOD was. Muchly.

But it wasn't *quite* what we know as TR. The biggest bug bears for me were
the lack of saveness, and the emphasis on boss-ness, and the biggest of
these bears of bugness was the weird freaky wtf is going on camera thing.
That was just BAD. Some of the things that would have been second nature in
TR 1-5...Hang on...I'm gonna have to do that again 'cos the camera turned
left and I was pointing right and now I'm jumping backwards?! Well
now...what the HELL is that about??!?!

The extra shooty-ness and the boss-ness I can kinda deal with, but come on
guys!! We've had our interface going on for years now. Why mess with it?!?!

I ended up setting the interface like Max Payne and that sort of worked but
it wasn't quite right, 'cos as soon as the camera angle changed....bleh.



Duncan

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The old TRs were the best 3D platformers I've played. I liked that
"sports" aspect of them, including the sometimes frustrating timed
runs. As a platformer, TR7 is /extremely/ dumbed down. A major part
of a good platform game is figuring out how to get from where you are
to where you think you need to be, and that's entirely missing in 7,
unless the gymnasium and the pool in the mansion count.

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