Tomb Raider I-VI Remastered from Aspyr

[JarlFrank]

I played the original Tomb Raider just a year before the Remaster came out. Steam version, no patches, it runs through DOS Box, very authentic. Didn't notice any difference in enemy health between the versions.

The early game enemies have low hitpoints and go down quickly, except for the bears. Bats take one or two shots and drop, wolves don't take much either, they only become dangerous when they catch you in the open and overwhelm you by numerical superiority.
Mummies, Centaurs and Atlanteans are the only enemies that have high enough HP pools to justify using anything other than the starting pistols.

 

[Ezekiel]

Please tell me Aldwych is one of the more disliked levels in the Tomb Raider series. Liked it at first. Have the Old Penny, Masonic Mallet and Ornate Star. Have turned some of the lights back on from the maintenance room. So tired of running through the same areas while looking for keyholes or whatever. Hours and hours, but of course the end results will show shorter because of the save system.

 

[Black Plague]

Please tell me Aldwych is one of the more disliked levels in the Tomb Raider series.

No.

Have the Old Penny

What will it buy in London Underground™? I thought it was obvious.

 

[Ezekiel]

Please tell me Aldwych is one of the more disliked levels in the Tomb Raider series.

No.

Have the Old Penny

What will it buy in London Underground™? I thought it was obvious.

Right, a ticket. For the turnstile in the other room over the water. But I've pressed action button on all the ticket machines in the lobby at the top of the escalators.

 

[Black Plague]

It's the one with the "1" texture.

 

[Ezekiel]

Okay, I lied. I checked some of the ticket machines, but not that one. I wasn't thorough with them. On the side of the booth where you buy the ticket, it says "2." I don't think the remaster team painted this right. "1D" for one penny? Am I paying in pound sterling or Deutschmarks?

Edit: Done. Probably took six hours. Didn't use the Ornate Star.

 

[Ezekiel]

TR3 is the jankiest and most obtuse TR game, so don't worry about situations like that, they simply happen in this game. It was made by a junior team with less experience.

I bet the A team wouldn't have put the floor too close to the vent exit for her to somersault or back normally out of it in Lud's Gate. Or they would have put in a new animation. Have tried so many button combinations. Ugh, will try to go someplace else.

Got a fifty foot 8K HDMI fiber optic cable. Things are a little easier to see on the OLED.

 

[Black Plague]

I bet the A team wouldn't have put the floor too close to the vent exit for her to somersault or back normally out of it in Lud's Gate. Or they would have put in a new animation.

Uh oh, City of the Dead from TR4. Same situation but you can't climb in before opening a hatch below because there's no animation.

Do not drop down by the sarcophagi.

 

[Ezekiel]

This underwater section with the harpoon gun that can't shoot for shit, opening one door after another with the levers, is absurd. Trying to find if I passed a diving mask somewhere. NO ONE did it correctly and lived the first SEVERAL times.

 

[Ezekiel]

Okay, wasn't as bad as I thought. Found the air pocket only after I was almost done. Meaning that I kept driving the craft all the way back through the long tunnel for air while wasting medi packs.

 

[Tel Velothi]

Got a fifty foot 8K HDMI fiber optic cable. Things are a little easier to see on the OLED.

 

[Ezekiel]

Wow... People just buy this collection and never beat it. It filters everybody.

 

[Losus4]

This really is a fantastic remaster. Hard to believe a 90s game can look so good today, and the gameplay is still great. It's nice to be able to play a game and make linear rewarding progress, without having to worry about mods, patches, fixes, load orders, or any of the other shit you have to go through with modern games. Even if I just make a few jumps or kill a few innocent wild animals in their natural habitat, I can save and quit knowing I made a bit more progress.

I''m not getting the Aldwych/TR3 hate, to me TR3 is peak Raider, and Aldwych is the absolute apex of the Core games. It doesn't get better than the Aldywych/Luds gate segments imo.

 

[Ezekiel]

This really is a fantastic remaster. Hard to believe a 90s game can look so good today, and the gameplay is still great. It's nice to be able to play a game and make linear rewarding progress, without having to worry about mods, patches, fixes, load orders, or any of the other shit you have to go through with modern games. Even if I just make a few jumps or kill a few innocent wild animals in their natural habitat, I can save and quit knowing I made a bit more progress.

I''m not getting the Aldwych/TR3 hate, to me TR3 is peak Raider, and Aldwych is the absolute apex of the Core games. It doesn't get better than the Aldywych/Luds gate segments imo.

In retrospect, liked London. I complain when I'm stuck (and all the other time). When someone on the last page said something about water and several levels, I expected the water to be way longer. JarlFrank told me how to beat the boss at the end. I was stumped. Annoying thing is that I tried interacting in that way with prior things in TR and TR3, to no avail.

 

[Baron Dupek]

They confirmed that AoD gets cut content restored

Some of the additional content restored in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered includes items from Rennes' Pawnshop and the Willowtree Herbalist, providing players with new ways to equip Lara for her adventure. Restored voice lines, story notes, and inventory items add even more depth to the narrative. Kurtis Trent now has access to his iconic Chirugai blade and a psychic shield for boss battles.

sorry, wrong link







and there was a lot of stuff cut - mostly last minute
you could access some of it (like content with complete voice acting) via bugs or cheats, something like this

 

[Infinitron]

https://af.gog.com/en/game/tomb_raider_iv_vi_remastered?as=1649904300

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm most interested in what they've done with Angel of Darkness. I doubt they've created more content or added cut content back in.

 

[JarlFrank]

I doubt they've created more content or added cut content back in.

They did add some cut content, like the cut tutorial and a backstreet somewhere, all recovered from original files.

 

[Rincewind]

Rick Dangerous was way better.

 

[Necrensha]

Been playing TR4
So far so good, but with the classic control scheme I could not step out of the car even after pressing every key in my keyboard, had to switch to modern controls for that.

 

[Lacrymas]

Been playing TR4
So far so good, but with the classic control scheme I could not step out of the car even after pressing every key in my keyboard, had to switch to modern controls for that.

It's a combination of keys iirc. Jump + right or left.

 

[Ash]

Casual gamer did not read the manual!

 

[Losus4]

I'll be picking up the 456 remaster as soon as I finish the previous ones, the quality is excelent, some of the best remasters I've ever seen.

 

[Lacrymas]

Definitely not the best remasters, quite the opposite actually.

 

[Morgoth]

I still haven't finished the 123 remaster. I did finish TR1, which i enjoyed very much, but TR2 was then such a sharp decline...

Is TR4 anywhere close to TR1?