Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness - What Happened?
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My favorite bug of this game is when you die by falling and Lara's scream glitches out and repeats infinitely even on the game over menu. It's lovely.
That happened to me and I haven’t played since
Feel sorry for Core.
After creating the character, Eidos take it away from them after burying them and throwing them to the wolves
Which isn't what happend. But ok.
They deserved to have it taken away from them. Angel of Darkness is one of the worst games ever made.
Just wanted to share that, on the first pc where I played AoD, the game had a bug where Pierre the cafe owner had his face inside out and it was the most horrifying thing in the entire game.
🤢😳
His eyes were bulging, pixels around his face? If so, yeah I remember that.
@@jamesmarzo1980 Exactly! Oh my, I never thought I'd find someone else with the exact same nightmare-inducing bug haha. Everyone I talked to so far didn't experience it. When I bought a digital copy, it didn't have that bug anymore.
@@codsamanta I can't find any screenshots but I want to see it :D Do you have any?
@@StooRoxxAss I don't unfortunately...we're talking over 15 years ago. I didn't even know programs like Fraps existed back then and Print Screen didn't manage to capture in-game images.
After finishing Angel Of Darkness: I feel stronger now
That is HILARIOUS... And nostalgic
😆😆😆
Fuckin lol
I get it push doors eh 😏😏😏😂😂👌
That’s because you’ve officially become a part of the hive.
I wish they'd remake AOD. Not reboot it in the new style - just finish it as it was supposed to be and remove the bugs.
Funny thing is with the tech of today they could easily make those very ambitious concepts a reality
As long as they don't keep that "I feel stronger now" because that should be a meme
Spyro and Crash Bandicoot got a remaster, so why not the entire Tomb Raider series? Keep the semi-cartoon style from the PS1 FMV scenes like AOD did, include all the bonus missions (TR1: Unfinished Business, etc.), have Croft Manor the tutorial hub to enter all six games. Still waiting.
Agreed. There's a great game buried in this 2003 mess
Agree
Postal III is so bad the company who makes Postal, RWS, openly tells you not to buy it and it's development was ripe with a ton of mishaps, I'd love to see you cover this
Gef they literally said they dont care about pirating 3 and continued updates of 1 and 2
@@bobtehguy2989 The game was so bad that they added more content. To the previous title. Fucking hilarious.
Not only that, but RWS even updated the second game with a secret area that basically tells you not to get Postal III
There's a video by a dude called "Tehsnakerer" about that game that you might enjoy. It's more of a review though.
Oh my god... that and Fallout 76 takes the cake in development shitstorms 😂😂😂😂😂
EIDOS always seems to come into the story eventually in these videos, and it’s always with this threatening aura
The 'Imperial March' is their theme song, LOL
Last year I was doing this IT course and the teacher who was running it also worked on the tomb raider games. I also asked her the question what happened? And its pretty much what Matt summed up in the video. But she gave a little bit more info on the heads of Core Design apparently in her own words for another reason why Tomb Raider did not make any money. The heads spent the money on fast cars, hookers and blow. And they did not spent that much money on the tech between the PS1 to the PS2 game another reason why the massive bugs in the game. I do agree with her since the 90's in the UK all nightclubs and the drug culture was way high.
You sure Spagenburg wasn't in charge?
@@TheEmperorHyperion What he the core design member who was a convicted pedohpile ?
I remember buying this as a kid on PS2 it's a shame how this turned out because the dark setting was amazing.
Even if the gameplay itself had many issues, the story, soundtrack, atmosphere, and Lara herself were all great. The "Legend" Trilogy was honestly good.
I liked the original trilogy but I prefer legends lara over the lara in the newest reboot she doesn’t even look like lara
This is like the 8th time in this series where its revealed that the studio decided to split the development team into two and every single time its been a disaster LOL
The "yeah that makes sense" got such a hard laugh from me.
Alright, personal story time. My mum was the one who got me into video games when I was only a toddler, and the games that we played together the most were the Tomb Raider games. Even though I was really little I just enjoyed being able to run and jump all around Lara's manor and watching my mum playing and exploring through the games.
A few years pass and after we've gotten our PS2, we hear about the new Tomb Raider game coming out and we preorder it, it was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing, but all I knew was that it was supposed to get us the game faster, as opposed to waiting until a birthday or christmas to get it. Then the delays started and the date got pushed back again, and again and again, and we ended up getting it the next year, and when we played it...God, joy just drained from both our faces, it was the first time I had ever been disappointed in a game, first time I'd ever played a game that even as a kid I could recognise was terrible. I still haven't beaten it to this day, the memories are just too drilled into me to try it again.
Similar story; me and my cousin were both youngsters and she was the one who introduced me to tomb raider. She had every game at the time, all the Ps1 titles and all the ps2 titles...except for angel of darkness. Noticing this, I bought the game for one of her birthdays, thinking I was doing a nice thing. Couple days later and I ask her how the game is; she says she hasn't really touched it. I get mad, want to know why she isnt playing this game, since Lara Croft is like her fucking idol. After ab an hour of arguing, she finally said "just play it yourself" and so I did...and immediately returned the game and gave my cousin the 20 bucks instead. We dodged a fucking bullet.
Eidos really is to blame. Working in animation, animators and programers often get exploited rarely get breaks and get non of the praise. You have my respect CORE design
I feel like the transition between PS1 and PS2 was chaotic, especially when they have a different team do a sequel.
Crash Bandicoot and Spyro suffered A LOT from this (Spyro got the worse end of the stick)
Hey man, the Legend Trilogy was solid
@@Bleeperblopper497
True, but the first two PS2 games for Spyro, Enter the Dragonfly and A Hero's Tale, were both lacking. The former was terrible, and the latter was mediocre.
Since it took a third attempt for any solid Spyro games to be made on the PS2 (and GC and Xbox), the point still stands.
*sigh* I miss Anniversary to Underworld Lara
She was so sassy and honestly kind of an asshole in a good way, I also miss when the platforming was more puzzle based and way longer and shooting sections were minimalized.
I miss when the series was fun
Legend and Anniversary are my favorite Tomb Raider games. The 2013 reboot was also amazing, but I never liked the sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider too much. They also keep on delaying the dual pistols and backpack that Lara carries that it's starting to get annoying. Origin stories shouldn't span a trilogy. I'm just waiting for Natla to come back in the next one.
Rise of the Tomb Raider was basically the same game again, but I thought it was good, not as good as the reboot, but solid. Kinda falls in line with the first 5 or so TR games being the same, so it fits, haha.
Is Shadow any good? I don't know if I'm gonna buy it.
Don't know, not played it as it just came out, a lot of what I've read is that's it's more of the same for the most part.
Eidos screwed Core and themselves with their yearly release expectation
There is no doubt in mind that, all in all, publishers are the WORST things to happen to video games
not the worst, also gamers, early access and consoles
I was a huge tomb raider fan in the 90s and even I got burnt out with the yearly releases. By the time TR5 came out I was so over it.
I actually finished Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness recently.Felt unfinished the controls were bad but i enjoyed it
Still bizarre to me that Angel of Darkness allegedly sold more than Anniversary.
It makes sense if you think about it. With AOD people were going off of what the ps1 games were. 90% of people were very dissatisfied with AOD to the point where they were more hesitant to buy Anniversary. Personally, I played all the games when I were young and wasn’t so critical of AOD or any game at that. Looking back on it, it was fun to me. Just sitting alone in my room playing games all into the night. Nostalgia blinds me to what the game really is and it’s a mess.
Angel of Darkness released after a 3 year break from the series. Gamers were hungry and the hype was real. Anniversary was hastily thrown together. Core was supposed to do a 10th anniversary edition of the game and Crystal started developing Anniversary simply because they wanted to preserve their ownership of the franchise. Anniversary received basically no advertisement and marketing whatsoever and was forgotten immediately after released. It's a shame really, personally I feel it's the best TR game they ever made and after all these years it's clear it was just an afterthought in the grand scheme.
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Legend is better
@@rickyyacine4818 legend is iconic that was her new breakthrough and changed look
I don't understand how so many people can play the games where she literally says her own name as Lar-rah... Lar said like "tar", but we still get people saying *Lair-ruh* like whAT lol. The "a" sound isn't said like hair or like lore in any of the games or by any of the people who made her man.
both Matt and AVGN make a video about Angel of Darkness, and both manage to mispronounce the same name in different ways. Matt with ''lair-uh'' and AVGN with ''Laura'' (the more common mispronunciation)
@@youn00ber I thought AVGN said it pretty good because it sounded more like Lara than "Laura" because 'Laura" is said like "lore" and he didn't quite say it that way lol. But it's really odd since she says her own name in the games, Natla says it in the first cutscene haha.
American and Canadian phonology makes certain sounds harder to say from English, so it's adapted to an form easier to speak in their native accent. It would be like having an American named "Tommy" be pronounced "Tommay" in the UK.
The English people in this comments section are mad.
Same way americans pronounce tara as tear-ra
I absolutely LOVED this game. This and Shadow the Hedgehog. No, I am not being ironic. AOD sucked me into a whole world; however, I can see how people could easily feel otherwise especially with the expectations
Angel of Darkness was also the reason for the cancellation of multiple games of Eidos during this time. One of the saddest cases was the Game Fear Effect 3 Inferno, which was about 90 percent completed. The Devs claimed that it would have been the best one of the series and the Stuff that is out there is pretty impressive for 2003.
God Hand.
As much as I love the game, and I'm not 100% sure it was the final nail in the coffin for Clover Studios, any excuse to talk about how that ship went down is a good one imo.
I kinda think that the final nail in the coffin for Clover was Okami. A great game that gets ported everywhere nowadays, but its initial sales were such a disaster for such an expensive production that it destroyed Clover. But in all accounts God Had also played a pivotal role in the closure of that studio and I'd love to hear about it!
God Hand wasn't necessarily what killed Clover, it was that very few of their projects ended up selling well enough to be called successful. They only had one game popular enough to spawn a franchise, and that was Viewtiful Joe. This was also compounded by a shift in Capcom's focus at the time from producing new, fresh, innovative IPs, to trying in vain to capture the western market and retooling all of their already-successful franchises to fit this new direction, along with the next console generation getting ready to begin, so they closed a lot of their smaller studios to keep their costs as low as possible. Clover just happened to be a victim of shitty circumstances, considering most if not all of their games were critical darlings at the time.
@@GiordanDiodato don't know what you could've found average about it. I personally loved God Hand. There was nothing quite like it at the time and to be quite honest, its popularity on the internet spawned a bevy of wannabee "lol so random" games that you see on steam, which is the only bad thing I can really say about it.
@@snowtep6252 Even nowadays I can't think of any games with combat like God Hand. It's just so good.
Giordan Diodato how can something that is so out there and unique be “average” ? I mean maybe it isn’t your thing but it’s anything but average, because that would imply it’s average like other games out there, which it isn’t.
To be precise on what was lost on Kertis, Kertis was intended to be a psion mercenary and former member of what could be comparable to a society of hunters who hunted down anyone who practiced the dark arts. And Kertis would have had different abilities compared to Lara.
To be exact, while Lara had the far more athletic abilities and access to more powerful weapons, Kertis would have been able to use his powers to double jump, gain supernatural physical strength, use Farsee to stay in a safe spot, (For a lack of a better way to explain it) send his soul out to scout an area ahead of him, use telekinesis to fight and manipulate the world, and use his unique disk-blade weapon.
Unfortunately, Kertis was sidelined due to the cut content mentioned in the video. This led to Kertis losing ALL of his unique traits. The only thing that set him apart from Lara was his LACK of abilities and the fact that he had a unique pistol whose power is not possible to judge due to it being his only means of attack. And we only get to play as him twice, once after he locks Lara up in an elevator to contain her due to her accidentally releasing a monster in the facility so he could deal with it himself while keeping her on a leash, and then for a few more moments in a boss fight where he dies in an anticlimatic way.
Shame. If they let AoD finish and were not hazarded by the problem at Eidos, I'm sure AoD would have been great. But.... oh well.
Wait...
There were _five_ PS1 entries?
Jesus I really don't know this series. Always assumed there was only three.
IV is set in a very dull brown world. The environments are basically all the same, and Lara's James Bond-style puns were really cringy. On top of that, they changed her wonderful and brooding voice actress for the Nivea woman who sounds about 12.
Above all, TR4 was the forth release on an already stretched engine. It was, at the time, already dated in feeling and really most people didn't complete PS1 games, ESPECIALLY Tomb Raider. They were satisfied with the Tomb Raiders they already owned.
All in all, TR4 offered nothing new and took away some of the best thematic elements of the opening trilogy (voice actress, script writing, environmental diversity, classical sounding music to reflect the character, logical puzzles as opposed to gimmick puzzles, newness and freshness, Lara's Home).
Hahaha I thought there were two! Damn son.
@TechnicalTortuga That's pretty much Ubisoft for you... They did it to Rayman and Assassin's Creed as well. I still miss old Lara though
@CountFenrir 4 has a big stretch that feels similar to 3 for me (AHHHHHHHHH WHAT DO I DO?!!!), but it's still very good. 5 is good in the bulk of the game, but nothing special. The last area, and the buggy nature sucks though. I hate 3 personally, but 1 and 2 are my favorite games ever.
Five yearly releases is way too much for one single franchise, even Crash (with 4 Naughty Dog games) and Spyro (with 3 Insomniac games) didn't go that far and their games were also much easier to make.
as a TR fan this just made me sad xD
I really loved the atmosphere and music in AOD, and I hope one day they can remaster it-or at least rework it somehow into the new timeline.
I've been hoping the same thing but I doubt that edios and square will do it who knows. I would love a 2nd angel of darkness or a remaster was a great game
Literally just finished watching AVGN's latest tomb raider video. Good thing my dumpster pc back in the day ran this game like ass so I never completed it
Edit : After watching the video, I feel like it was more the game's fault for not performing well and not my pc
It STILL runs like ass on gaming PCs :P
Yes it is poorly optimized
@@VintageDefectors69 runs amazing on my pc and its not even a gaming pc, never experienced any glitches
@@VintageDefectors69 Apparently the fully-patched PC version runs signifficantly better
Runs well on my end at least.
I honestly loved this game, as a child especially, with the lack of jungle and cave, and I loved all the story and dialog no matter how cheesy it was. It felt to me like such an exciting game. Especially the Louvre and Le Serpent Rouge always stuck with me. The bugs and glitches were so game-breaking however that even with patches I couldn't fix it on PC. I never even got to Kurt which means I never got to finish the game. :(
So, lemme get this straight- they got rid of the 'tombs' and instead have Lara explore Paris's back-alleys. PARIS. Yep, definitely no tombs near there!!! Nope, not like there's nearly 200 MILES of fascinating CATACOMBS beneath those streets!
Ah, I remember working on this game,...despite what happened during the production,...i still look back that time somewhat fondly
Can you give more detail on what was your experience?
@@gonzaloibarsingman7379 Two years later *crickets*
I have just discovered this series today and I am working my through the backlog. These are some interesting tales!
BTW: Derby here in the UK is pronounced "Darby"
Actually!!
I love and cherrish Angel of Darkness!!!!
I think it's amazing on it's own terms!!!
Can I just mention the controls of this game specifically. Because that’s the part that killed the game for me. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was as a 10 year old trying to climb up to those rooftops in Paris. Or climbing up anything for that matter. Who else went to do a simple jump up and suddenly Lara decided to do a backflip off the roof and die? Not to mention lack of auto saves so you can do it all again...YAY!
Since I kept my ps2 along with the games and memory saves I actually retried this game about a year ago at 24 years old, thinking that maybe it was because I was kind of young. But no...still couldn’t get in to it haha
Man, it's a super coincidence that AVGN also just released a TOMB Raider video that was mostly dedicated to the Angel of Darkness.
Probably because Shadow of The TR just came out.
Hopefully some people while searching for his video will also find yours. "What happened?" series are pretty cool and it's always interesting to find out why something failed or disappeared.
@@MattMcMuscles Do you think MvCI is "What Happened? " material?
@@Rayuzx if he does I hope woolie is featured in the video
Shadows of the Damned, not a bad game, but damn that development story is not easy to listen to.
I hope they remaster and polish and make trilogy out of angel of darkness. We as fans deserve it
I actually liked some of the story beats of Angel; the Nephilim, Kurtis and the Lux Veritatis, the bio weapon research that had a sort of Resident Evil vibe, the Sanitorium levels that scared the shit out of me as a kid...
@@Daniel_C_Griffin who are inspired of what is happening in real life, tbh they were trying to expose the nwo and the fact that nephilims would return as in the days of noah. I would like to see too the game remake and finaly be finished
@@GiordanDiodato yeah neither do you brats
I just played Angel of Darkness, as my first Tomb Raider game. Horribe how Eidos treated Core, would love to see the game done properly by a team who is given time to make it perfect
Still hope TRUE is real.
I appreciate this video so much, even if it makes me a little sad.
Angel of Darkness is one of my favourite Tomb Raider games, regardless of it's various problems.
It's story line was so intriguing to me; I have played it many times and only got a real bad bug once (I bet on the fighters in the church and the cutscene never ended lol)
I would actually kill to know what the rest of the story is. Just knowing that my favourite Lara arc ever (TR4, TRC, TRAoD) is forever gone and incomplete makes me feel so hollow inside
What I always liked about the PC version was it was basically a tech demo for DX9 in many ways. Even today I don't know what half the graphics options are or do xD
same :O
Same
I got a bug rolling out of a crawlspace into the floor where she fell through and just continued falling through darkness xP
I was pretty intrigued by the story as well and, unfortunately, we'll probably never see where it was leading..
the score alone is my fav in the series!!
That pronunciation of Derby was strange to hear. It's supposed to be pronounced Darby. Useless corrections are fun.
Speak Quickly but this isn't the same as when the word is used as a common noun in reference to a roller derby for instance. Here it's the name of a place and it's pronounced a specific way.
Yep you’re right man. I’m from Derby and have always found it a little funny how some people have pronounced it in other places.
I remember picking this game solely on the cool cover art and having heard of Lara Croft as an iconic character (i was a N64 teen, so didn't played the one before)
At first i was really into it, loved the story. It was intriguing, and the atmosphere was great. Also it was back then one of the few games having a french audio track, so that was super cool.
Sadly the game is what turned me off from the game. I hated that there was no autosave/checkpoints, had to save every 2 secs, as one fall would be an insta kill. At some point i didn't knew what to do anymore (that was pre-youtube era) , even my guide (yeah i had bough it) didn't helped me, so i just decided to let it go, never finishing the game.
Years later i bough the DVD version of the game, you know you control with a remote. I want to play it just for the story at some point lol
Loving these. Refreshing and well researched.
The best series I've seen from TBF family, really needs more views
Oh man i can remember one embarassing Moment when i played it back in the Days.
Lara died by a turret falling on her back spreading her legs while the turret still shoots in her crotch......
Best Tomb Raider story and music themes. This game needs a REMAKE
Eons ago, my dad built custom PCs for people and the motherboards including OEM versions of this game on PC. He gave a copy of the disc to me, I still have it. I have distinct, weird, oddball memories of this being my first and only Tomb Raider game. I didn't hate Tomb Raider as a result of this, but boy did this game make no sense about what I was supposed to do from one given moment to the next once it got rolling.
So that's wah happun...
4:03 lol that grenade bounced back
The Strahov isn't far.
The Strahov isn't far.
The Strahov isn't far.
The Strahov isn't far.
The Strahov isn't far.
The Strahov isn't far.
For those who don't know, this is an infamous bug in the game, just google that quote.
It's actually "Have you changed your mind about the Strahov code?"
it's actually both! both of these bugs exist
Luddick
Love your content Matt, and your deep research for these videos.
Most entertaining series currently! Great job!
Hehe, I got an ad for Shadow of the Tomb Raider during this video. Good job, algorithms!
I love this series so much, great job Matt.
How about talking about Lucasarts? I know this series is more focused on the fallout of a single game, but I feel like there is good material there to explore. I know it was the Disney buyout that finally laid that company to rest, but it was no secret that studio was in decline well before that. Heck, their last major, in-house triple-A release was Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, which was a disappointing sequel to an already meh game. And didn't you and Woolie test for them? There must be some stories that you can now share, because I doubt a dead company cares about broken NDAs anymore.
Gone Too Soon someday?
To Be Fair, Respawn made a great Star Wars game with Jedi Fallen Order...
I mean, he can now, since he's covered Midway, so sit tight😅, it can happen
10:23 - wow, attention to details, I like it when EIDOS turns away the logo gets flipped :D
AOD was the first tomb raider I ever played, so I’ve always had love and a soft spot for it. The nostalgia is soooo fucking intense when I think ab that game. I was like 7, no idea what I was doing, and trying to climb the dumpster in the first level of the game lol. I miss it so much, and it would be great if they could remaster it.
If you’re getting it now, do yourself a favor and download the restoration mod. It fixes the controls, adds some voice lines, and a lot of other fixes that make it feel the way it should have. Like dual pistols and wearable sunglasses lol. Seriously give it a check if you’re a fan of AoD and are getting this game.
Speaking of Tomb Raider Chronicles, Andy Sandham who was a developer at Core Design spoke about that game in an interview that I saw a quote of in that AVGN video about Tomb Raider games. Andy called the game "a load of old shit". That it was the most depressing one for them. "Three years of hammering it and we were burnt out. That shows in the product." I guess The Last Revelation was meant to be their last gane but Eidos wanted another one. Then another one
This was the first Tomb Raider game I owned. Had played demos and the beginning of Tomb Raider 2 but not much else. This game got me into the Tomb Raider series so I’ve got a soft spot for it. It was also one of the games I got with my PS2 so this was a good game from my perspective back in the day. Now I can look back and see its flaws but I did enjoy it enough at the time to complete it several times.
Angel Of Darkness is one of my favourite TR games
Ahh a good day for the tomb raider series ^^ first AVGN with rmthe bad tomb raider games and now you matt! Good job :)
That intro blew me the fuck away. I'm in the blastzone, my dude. That alone made me sub in the first 10 seconds of coming across your channel.
4:01 Nice throw
lmao i remember the tone being so different especially😂 why do i have fond memories of this?? great video btw id be down for a rouge warrior one for sure
The amount of fresh new content. I kiss my fingers at it. Just watched the scary movie vids now this...
Wow with this and Avgn video I know way more about Angle of Darkness then I really need to lol.
Before Core became rebellion, after the Critical aclaim of legend, they Started to develop a remake of tomb Raider 1 called anniversary but Eidos shutted the project and handled to Crystal. Then Core tried to publish as a indiana Jones game
Tomb Raider was genuinely ruined when CD took over. They ruined her character from a self sufficient heroine who did what she does for herself and made her into a generic Daddy's girl, turning Lord Henshingly Croft, Aristocrat into "Richard" an explorer, where his original iteration DESPISED the fact his daughter would stoop so low and even DISOWNED LARA for the act.
Imagine if Eidos gave Core more time, we may still see them making the games to this day.
I remember really liking Jaws Unleashed as a kid, but seeing a clip of it in your intro really makes me want a video covering that weird thing.
I would love to see an episode on Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly. This game is notorious among my friends and Spyro fans in general. It has all the merits for a great episode including all sorts of bugs.
Love your content bud, gets me through some shitty times.
Ooh ooh, I got one. Def Jam Icon, especially after FFNY
This was well done and interesting.
I guess it helps that I'm a late adopter. I played on the Atari 2600 in the 80s and then nothing until I bought a PS2 in 2006. Angel of Darkness was the first game I played after a 20 year hiatus from consoles. So the game was mature and the technology so much better than anything I had used previously.
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
I actually really liked that tomb raider Angel of darkness was set in cities, it was the only thing I liked
Every time Matt says "Lara" I cringe. Good video though. AoD is my favorite out of the series despite its flaws. Legend is a close second.
It's here real name stfu😒
Charmiskit I think they mean it is not pronounced “L-aur-ah” frankly, I don’t give a damn. It is just a pronunciation no big deal unless Laura personally says “this is how you say my name”
i cringe so hard every time he says "Sooo Whaaa Happunnn"
Ironically they changed the name from 'Laura Cruz' to 'Lara Croft' because they believed Americans wouldn't be able to pronounce 'Laura'. Matt McMuscles says 'Laura' perfectly, but 'Lara' oddly.
Great idea for a series!
This was my first Tomb Raider game... I couldn't even beat it because the Angel of Darkness was invincible during the boss fight due to a glitch...
Man I just found ur channel today how do you not have millions of subs?
Gets recommended another video about Angel of Darkness when I'm sober.
"I'm not strong enough for this yet."
Crazy how the failure of Tomb Raider was due mostly to pressure of yearly releases. Something that would later plague many other game series. Thinking Assassin's Creed and COD.
advent rising, fable 3, Call of Juarez: The Cartel please matt do a video on any of these 3 big disasters in the gaming industry.
Every Phoenix Games Library, perhaps?
I have been binge watching this channel for days.
Wa Happun to all my time?
I'd actually be interested in an episode about Rogue Warrior. Especially if we get to hear how it ended up with the absolutely amazing end credits music it had.
I FEEL STRONGER NOW
The atory behind Angel of Darkness was a real tragedy. I feel a bit sadder now
Can we make 'Saturnt' a thing?
RollCritFail lowkey really proud of that joke and I want it to catch on haha
Yesn't
i lowkey loved this tombraider O_O and the story and stuff
I love finding out Wuh Happun!!
I loved the first TR. Can't believe it was not offered on the PS Classic/Mini
I still have a copy of TR:AoD, put a few hours into it, and gave up.
It is insane to think that there are still gaming execs that think you can reasonably churn out a sequel on a yearly basis.
I know I'm late to the party, but I have to add: Eidos didn't take Tomb Raider from Core, at least not completely and not initially. Core worked on a pretty little PSP game (that was essentially in playable alpha) called Tomb Raider: Anniversary Edition. They didn't know that CD got the same projekt, and the plug was pulled on the game before it was finished. There are trailers (or something equivalent) online.
A request for a future episode: Alone in the Dark: Illumination and the series as a whole
When we finally got a PC when I was a kid, it came with a few free games. One of them was this one. I legitimately thought I was bad at the game. Now I know it was just jank 😅 but me and my sisters sometimes remisce over it. It's strange how childhood memories work.
Hey chief might wanna change the description since it mentions Too Human
Super fascinating stuff, Matt. ^^
How about the Charlie's Angels game for Gamecube?
I'd love to see an episode on Battleborn.
First game I ever pre-ordered.
Never pre-ordered a game ever again.
For some reason i feel like ur show needs to be called Wha had Happun...love it BTW binch watching u all the time with ur soothing voice...i wonder what u look like sometimes
It seems the root of the problem is the publishers and managers had done everything to piss off developers and sap morale over the years to the point where even promises of big pay days weren't enough to keep them around. Leading to a situation where you had a bunch of inexperienced developers working on the game. Who were being overly ambitions with what they were trying to implement.
Advent Rising. Oh man... the pain is still fresh.