TRLE builder, Gothic, Harry Potter & Tomb Raider fan.
Current project: Tomb Raider the Sacred Plains
Released levels: Forgotten Remnants, The Perils Ahead.
"no demand", "outdated", "franchise has moved on" - this is what classic fans been hearing for ages and yet look where we are now.
#TombRaider
Remastered is one of the most preordered games on playstation. Big thanks to
@AspyrMedia
for showing the real impact of Classic Lara.
"I raid tombs and steal artifacts for the thrill and adrenaline boost an adventure gives. My parents disowned me because I followed MY dreams not theirs"
vs
"I raid tombs to find out the truth and prove that my father was right"
Which one feels more like celebration of a woman?🤔
I grew to hate Crystal Dynamics like a vile little classic stan I am but I have to give credit where its due. They got her looks just right. She really was the definitive edition of classic Lara Croft.
A famous explorer once said...
"If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen?" 💕
#LaraCroft
#TombRaider
Its official! I am so happy to share that I am the guy behind
#TombRaiderRemastered
Lara model! 😍
Working alongside such an amazing and talented team was an incredible journey! Thank you you all for beliving in me!
#LaraCroft
#TombRaider
I feel like ppl are obsessed with making Classic Lara either X or Y, a good hearted goodie or an absolute sociopath and I think it's somewhere in the middle. She saves the world and her friends, but she's also ruthless for everyone on her way. She's morally grey.
There's still people who think TR4 Lara did everything for sport and that she has no empathy?
I feel like some classic fans really misinterpreted Classic Lara with a heartless murderer.
Yes, she was sassy, yes, she killed to defend herself in the OG games, but she also cared.
Obviously Crystal Dynamics couldn't just leave
#TombRaiderRemastered
without throwing their anti-Core propaganda whenever possible. There are many ways to same the same thing without throwing shit on Core. "Inexcusable" is the way you guys just love to rain on someone's parade.
Crystal Dynamics has condemned the "offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and ethnic prejudices" in
#TombRaider
I-III Remastered and says the stereotypes portrayed are "deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values."
"And I could be your favorite girl
Forever, perfectly together
And tell me, boy, now wouldn't that be sweet?"
A collab with
@daledrau
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To think a mere 6 months was all it took to seal the fate of the franchise. We could have been in a completely different place rn if not for one Eidos' decision.
Can we get level selection option for TR Remastered in the next patch please? I really want to play Qualopec again without purging my original save files. 🙏
#TombRaiderRemastered
Did you know that originally Core only wanted to remaster
#TombRaider
1? In the original design doc they said "the concept is to provide players with a “re-mastered” hand-held version of the classic game". Their first prototype used original TR1 levels in Free Running engine.
Many seem to think that
#TombRaider
was made by men, but it's far from truth. Vicky Arnold was behind shaping Toby's Lara Cruz draft into the actual
#LaraCroft
. She wrote the script for TR1-3, created Lara's backstory and established her James Bondesque personality... [1/4]
If the next game ends up as an actual TR game with classic Lara Croft reincarnated who raids tombs instead of yet another Uncharted wannabe focused on family drama and romance I'll be the first one to kiss CrystalD boots but so far oh boy it doesn't seem to be likely now does it
Okay yall can scream and whine and call me a fake fan now but one thing I have to say is that I still think TR2013 had great environments and for the first (and only) time in the franchise the grey palette actually worked there and even whiny Lara kinda made sense there.
Was it just unawareness or deliberate attempt at discrediting game developers by saying Lara was written by men when infact both classic and reboot Lara were shaped by two important women who gave Lara her lines, personality and adventures? Are we to pretend it never happened?
This is probably my favourite prototype version of
#TombRaider
the Angel of Darkness Lara model. If you excuse the pencil eyebrows the rest is perfect. Her fashion sense with props, sinister glare, pigeon eyes... She's just so perfect omg
We all know that age old story about Toby Gard accidentally enlarging
#LaraCroft
breasts, but did you know that Lara went through a few redesigns before Core managed to find her look for
#TombRaider
1?
Wikipedia list of best selling Playstation 1 titles is such an ineresting read because it really shows what a massive success Tomb Raider was. TR1-4 made it to the first 20 and even Chronicles is mentioned on the list. This never happened again on PS2-5 apparently.
I want to be on the same level of delusional as Resident Evil stannies who think they've been starving more than TR fans when in reality Capcom been shitting out remakes and ports one after another meanwhile TR franchise had one remake in 2007 and radio silence since 2018 lmao
Core Design made multiple
#TombRaider
bestsellers in a row. With each game Lara's model was further perfected. Below are some of the examples of how
#LaraCroft
FMV model evolved over time (1996-1999).
Honestly I don't understand why would anyone want to replace her with anything else. Yeah she has big boobs, so what? She's so much more than that. An absolute, instantly recognizable icon.
If you thought Core Design made the ingame model of
#LaraCroft
first and then used it as a base for the FMV version, then prepare to be surprised, because it seems it was the other way round. The FMV Lara was made first, then used as a base for her ingame model.
#TombRaider
You want me to be grateful I'll give you grateful I am grateful that Aspyr despite having small budget still managed to bring some actual talented artists to at least make the character models look good unlike some other company that we won't mention here now where is my ofp tag
In our fight to cover every single body part of female character models we forgot to fight about something just as important: our right to gaze at slutty MALE characters in the games. If men can have their male gaze then we want gay/female gaze too. Show them male tiddies now! 🍆
I feel sad for Vicky Arnold because even though we're living in the times when women are being recognized in the gaming industry she is still being refused the acknowledgment of how much she shaped Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. Girl power and yet everyone's stuck with "Toby did it"
You know what I changed my mind I'm so glad CrystalD said they don't represent these values because after seeing Jonah switch race in every game and Lara saving the world in a white girl fashion from a tribesman antagonist called Pedro I would have thought otherwise!
Crystal Dynamics has condemned the "offensive depictions of people and cultures rooted in racial and ethnic prejudices" in
#TombRaider
I-III Remastered and says the stereotypes portrayed are "deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values."
Yep I'm 100% sure now that the reason why
#TombRaiderRemastered
looks so different in TR3 compared to TR1 and 2 is because
@AspyrMedia
either hired or bought Giovanni Luca's work.
I just want Konrad's girl released in a TR4-6 Remaster and after that they can just as well do a full stop and throw the franchise to the bin idc about anything else but this tbh
I feel like Crystal Dynamics forgot about one tiny detail about Lara's characteristics when designing the new, respectful version of Unified Lara Croft.
The fact that the guys at Aspyr have to work alongside Crystal's whims and yet still manage to serve with every update just shows they have actual passion and talent
OMG WHATT in the recent patch the made it so the UK version actually shows the correct logo we had for the UK boxart !! Omgg this is such a small detail but means so much to me, the devs of this game are truly the best, listening to fan feedback and everything
Just found out the remasters censored Pierre's jacket in both graphic modes even tho the disclaimer said otherwise and it made me wonder. Why an M rated game can have an absolute blood bath with men and animals killed but a single tit is where the line is drawn.
Just reminding yall that we would have had a Tomb Raider 1 remake-remaster mix in 2006 based on the og game and assets if only someone didn't tell SCi, lemme quote "that it made more sense to keep it all in one studio". I won't be pointing fingers at who that naughty boy was! ☝️
Its official! I am so happy to share that I am the guy behind
#TombRaiderRemastered
Lara model! 😍
Working alongside such an amazing and talented team was an incredible journey! Thank you you all for beliving in me!
#LaraCroft
#TombRaider
How come every time
@PlayStation
posts any promo material about the new
#TombRaiderRemastered
it is an absolute hit with gorgeous textures and great, fixed topology but when official
@tombraider
posts something it looks like a fanmade retex? 🤔
Just a few
#WIP
screenshot comparisons between original
#TombRaider
1 locations and my recreations in
#TRLE
. Just to show that fans can also make their own
#TombRaiderRemastered
if they want to! 🤭
I have so many
#WIP
#TRLE
projects that are in such a similar style but never finished... Thinking if I shouldn't just merge them and release as a standalone level... Forgotten Remnants 2 maybe? With Mrshina's Lara and Joey's animations... Would anyone want that?🤔
Apparently TR Remastered devteam is not getting any bug reports logged on the Aspyr site so I am posting some of my finds here as well. Most of them are just graphical issues that are not present in the old-graphics mode.
#TombRaiderRemastered
"raider culture" okay but "to raid" by definition is to "surprise attack" and "steal" so how can Lara "acknowledge her past mistakes" and then just keep raiding tombs? Is she raiding them but respectfully now? 🤔🤔🤔 Is she asking for permission to bulldoze ruins RotTR style?
The Caves comparison video is now up!
#TombRaider
I-III Remastered Starring
#LaraCroft
Via
@tombraider
’s TikTok account (don’t forget to follow them! 😄)
Ppl might be opinionated about
#TombRaiderRemastered
but one thing for sure is that modders are the backbone of this community and their work is now part of
@AspyrMedia
remaster. It's crazy to think that some are trying to undermine this. We should praise modders, not hate them.
What it feels like to finally see original, classic
#TombRaider
and
#LaraCroft
hitting top 10 on charts after years and years of soft reboots, hard reboots etc:
@tombraider
The reason to play LAU is Legend, obviously! The only game from CrystalD that really nailed the art direction, the music, the general atmosphere and vibe. Lara Croft was at her best again doing what she loved the most and you could honestly FEEL it! A girl doing her dream job!
This community is off meds on both sides istg ppl going with personal insults and trashing each other's real life looks just bcuz of a made up girl whose only purpose is to milk your wallet dry. Lara Croft wouldn't be friends with none of yus no matter if classic or reboot lmaooo
Yall need to learn what the actual TR4 Lara model looks like. She actually has shoulders and decent texturing unlike the XNALara mess like in the quoted picture that's being used everywhere. 😭😭
Btw why are we even back to finding Lara's face again when we've been having the perfect Lara look since 2006 with stamp of approval from Toby Gard himself? Just slap some teal top and dual guns on her and we're back in business. Honestly the best model we ever had.
In the end I know I can sleep peacefully tonight because I know there's at least ONE developer who actually knows how to handle this franchise and knows their community... Can't wait for 14th February, how about you guys? 💅
Ooooh that might explain why TR3 looks just so much more polished, especially India and South Pacific... I think
#TombRaider
modding and
#TRLE
folks recognize this name!