Complete history of Tomb Raider | 1996 to now
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- A brief and subjective narrative covering every Tomb Raider since 1996 to 2023, including developer stories that led to the rise, fall and then Rise of the Tomb Raider.
00:00 Intro
01:17 Tomb Raider
04:25 Tomb Raider II
09:05 Tomb Raider III
12:13 Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
15:38 Tomb Raider Chronicles
18:32 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
23:18 Tomb Raider: Legend
27:53 Tomb Raider: Anniversary
32:02 Tomb Raider: Underworld
34:36 Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
36:22 Tomb Raider (2013 Reboot)
43:15 Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
43:55 Rise of the Tomb Raider
47:52 Shadow of the Tomb Raider
52:09 Tomb Raider: Reloaded
An excellent article on how to play Core's version of Tomb Raider Anniversary:
www.thegamer.com/tomb-raider-... - Ігри
My god, what an epic video. Finally someone who can talk through the Tomb Raider games and give this amazing series the attention it deserves. While the modern reboots were hella fun i will always have a special place in my heart for Tomb Raider 2. Love the long format uploads btw, keep it up :)
Thanks so much, this format definitely takes more work but I really enjoy the research so I intend to make more, that’s for sure 👍🏼
Thanks for the support, really glad you enjoyed it!
How does this video only have 3000 views?!
What an incredibly in-depth video.
Marvelous work!
Thanks so much!! I've been wondering that myself 😂 alas, that is the UA-cam algorythm for you ... onwards and updwards, I guess...
Just spent an hour working and watching this, such a great walk through memory lane. You hit some really great points too as a lot of the older games I haven't played, but it was amazing to see how different they were!
Ah awesome man, that’s my favourite way of watching long form videos! Hopefully gave you some insight into the games you missed 😊
Excellent video. You deserve a lot more subscribers and I hope you find a lot more success on UA-cam. You deserve it.
Honestly, thank you so much - these kind comments are what spur me on! Have a great day 😊
The Cradle of Life was released in 2003, not 2001. That's why Angel of Darkness was rushed out, to ride the TR hype and release around the same time that year
Damn it, not sure how I fudged that - how annoying! Thanks for pointing it out though. I’ll see if I can add a correction overlay using subs or something 🤷♂️
What an in-depth recounting the history of Tomb Raider.
Mate, this is the second video you have produced that I have watched, and I am highly impressed. I think you could be the next Total Biscuit.
Wow, high praise, thank you so much! TotalBiscuit was a real champ - to achieve his level of success would be living the dream - so I plan to keep trying!
@The Casual Gamer mate, you have all the ingredients. I subbed to Roanoke Gaming, when he had less than 20K subs, and he's pushing 700K.
I subbed to YongYea when he had about 100K, and he is closing on 800K.
You have the content to back up your climb. All we are looking for is the spark that sets your rise off. Keep at it.
Amazing video!!! Can’t wait for the next game 🤞🤞👏🫶🏻
The OG Trilogy and the reboot trilogy is by far the best TR games I love them so much!!! I hope this new studio makes a great game soon....but in the meantime we have the remastered collection of 1-3 coming next week!!!!!;🎉❤😁
AMAZING VIDEO!!!! 💪🏿🔥🔥🔥👏🏿
Thanks so much! I really did enjoy them too. Funnily enough, just last night I was playing a bit of Fortnight with a friend who was my fellow diehard Tomb Raider partner in the playground when we were like 10. He’s just played through a couple of them and feels much the same way as you - in fact, listening to him talk, I can see your emojis flying out of his mouth 🤣
The studios who developed this remaster were Aspyr and Saber, both of whom specialise in ports and remasters. They sit under the Embracer group, a Swedish super-publisher not known for consistency. I’m not entirely sure if we’re going to see anything original out of these developers any time soon, but you never know, they certainly have passionate developers on their staff if nothing else!!
Reallly awesome video
Great video :D btw the New announced TR game looks Interesting and good with TR1-3 :D
This is utterly fantastic. Thank you for such an in-depth incredible thought-provoking and reminiscent review of one of if not the world's greatest video game ... and every teen boy's fantasy woman.
I recently purchased multiple editions of this timeless game on the Steam platform for less than 1 USD each!
Thanks so much, so glad you're enjoying it! I did try to put my heart into it, I have so many feelings myself about so many of the games it can be hard to squeeze it all into an hour haha, but feedback like that makes all the time and effort worth it 🙏
Yoo lets go what a great video
Thanks so much, appreciate that! 🙏
Fantastic video, thank you! My favourite was shadow.
Thanks so much, short and sweet comment 😄 much appreciated 👏🙌
I really appreciated your comprehensive yet concise thoughts on this series. I can't say I'm a big fan of these types of games as I'm not big into puzzles, but I have a lot of love for the 2013 reboot and the wacky/interesting plots that come with each iteration of the franchise. I'm curious to see what the next game will be like.
Thanks so much, that’s really kind! When I played the first game at about ten years old (actually, I played the second one first, then the third one, then the first one … damn pocket money/Christmas present constraints 😄) I don’t think there was a single level I completed honestly. I’d be telling other kids how to do the level skip in the playground 🤣 but that’s the wonder of the game, it appealed to all ages and all audiences because there was just nothing like it at the time. Then going back and playing it in the following years, I really learnt to appreciate how well-designed the puzzles were. But indeed, if you aren’t into puzzles, the story and combat alone are unlikely to be enough to keep you involved. I look forward to the next game as well, fascinated to see where they go.
I'll die in peace knowing that Denim and Cocktail Lara exist.
Very interesting and well done video. Great watch!
I know it's not the popular answer but Rise of the Tomb Raider is by far my favorite TR game since the original. I can play through it over and over. For whatever reason, i just still have not been able to finish Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's good, but it just didn't grab me.
Thanks so much, that’s very kind and I appreciate the comment. And no way, I preferred the 2013 reboot myself, but for replay value I can totally see how the second would trump it because there’s just more content and weaponry, and Lara does have a few more gameplay capabilities for sure. The third one just gets a bit weird, so much silly dialogue and side missions, it sometimes feels like you’ve strayed into a GTA game 😄
Great video but @ 4:00 you mention the music composer for the original 1996 TR as being Graeme Ravell but he is in fact the composer for the 2001 movie adaptation, not the game. The original game's music is by Nathan McCree.
Thank you so much, and I'm honestly speechless... I had to go back and check myself!! I usually pride myself on nailing details and I actually was aware of Nathan working on the original game, I'm trying to remember why I went and added Graeme's name into the script when I did. I must have read something last minute and added it, something which I basically try to never do now as it's risky. Thanks for the correction, and thanks for the positive feedback 🙏
I own every Tomb Raider game ever made. I played Tomb Raider 1 on the Sega Saturn. I'm 44.
Nice, I'm a few years shy of 40 myself but am grateful I got in there in time to play the entire series as well :)
34:50 just me temporary book mark to finish watching this video...
Lara Croft will be 56 years old this year when Tomb Raider I-III remastered edition comes out in just over a week.
Haha nuts innit. Except in reality Lara is like James Bond, she only ages when the writers deem it is cool to do so 🤷
@@CasualGamr Lara Croft will always be 28 years old to this day since setting foot as an adventurer back in 1996.
you removed the link :(
Hey bud - if you don’t mind me asking, which link are you referring to? Many thanks 🙏
@@CasualGamr 28:38 - 28:44
Oh yeah, I never added it when I first published the video and never noticed. I've added the link to the article I used but bear in mind it might no longer work. If you do want to have a go and that article doesn't work, I'd try googling it instead. Good luck!
The reboot Tomb Raider games are some of my favorite games of all time.
I think that’s fair, there’s some strange hate for them, and I don’t understand it, when the 2013 reboot came out I literally thought it was like the best game I’ve ever seen. Up there with The Last of Us and Arkham Asylum, it seemed like video game graphics had just reached a new high, where it was impossible to tell the difference between background terrain and what was intended to be platforming elements. And those set pieces, like the giant ship that is falling and you have to climb up it while fighting. Just awesome.
As much of a failure as AoD was, the story concept was incredible, and if done properly, would have been the best in the series.
Yeah, I totally agree, as I mentioned in the video I really liked the concept and to be honest I wanted it to be the best one yet. My favourite Tomb Raider memories are usually the ones where she finds herself in cities and not tombs. Or at least does a bit of both, you know? I think that’s why they called it. Lara Croft: Angel of Darkness. From what I’ve read, harsh as it might sound, Core just didn’t have the experience to put something that big together so quickly, and Eidos just lent on them too hard. I think Crystal dynamics did an amazing job though, and it did start the series down a very exciting new path.
I can appreciate the effort of this video but somewhere in the middle it turned from being a history of a franchise into a reading of Squeenix's marketing materials they send to game journalists...
You forgot to talk about Lara Croft GO. 😂
Omg I did forget! And I played that game like twice through back in the day haha. Although it was basically a lame version of Hitman Go which came out a year earlier so I'm not so bothered, but good spot!
I’m glad I’m part of the metroid fandom where most of the community doesn’t sexualize the main playable character and it’s actually widely frowned upon
I mean I'm all for being a gent 🙏 and good for you too. I would say that it's true she wasn't sexualised in 1986, the year of the great reveal, or for a bit after that, but more recent Nintendo artwork does sometimes have a bit of a Rule 34 vibe to it 🤷
21:36 Why are you claiming that it was impossible to enjoy when I in fact enjoyed it because back then they got Lara's personality right. At least I enjoyed it much more than the modern Tomb Raider games who are starring whiny hormonally challenged Gen Z "Lara" whose power is not female and her own but has to be stolen from the patriarchy.
So Lara was actually a millennial in the reboot, not Gen Z, but who’s counting 🤷♂️ her whining was an attempt at making the chapter more human - she’s a freakin’ terminator in the originals. It was fun but it hardly makes for a gripping narrative.
Secondly, she was much older on Angel of Darkness, so her character would always have been very different; I loved the reboot myself and I’m sorry you didn’t. But to say she stole her power from the patriarchy?? When, exactly? And what does that even mean? If a fictional video game character makes you feel emasculated - especially one who is known for being an ass kicking feminist - you should probably delete Reddit and stop watching Andrew Tate videos, because ironically you’re coming across like a hormonally challenged Gen Z whiner yourself. No offence.
@@CasualGamr "No offence." Meaning: You feel offended by my commentary. Your passive-aggressive response and your opinion of original Lara makes you and not me appear whiny, emasculated, hormonally challenged and therefore afraid and intimidated in your weak manliness through tough women who do what needs to be done to get what they want. Reboot millennial Lara with her melodramatic personality and storyline probably appeals to you more because of your estrogene levels, and not because her "narrative" would be more attractive. I find even Natla more refreshing than the always conflicted reboot millennial Lara!
Great vid but who is Graham lavelle?, you mean Nathan McCree.
I am so bumbed, I don't know how/why I did that!! I know Nathan worked on the original music, I'm baffled - I'm sure I read something about Graham last minute and stupidly added it to my script. Graham worked on the Tomb Raider movies as it happens. But he was no Nathan McCree.
@CasualGamr We all do it from time to time, Mandela effect - of sorts.