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General discussionRelease: <b>Tomb Raider 1+2+3</b>(190 posts)(190 posts)
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Posted May 30, 2012
Reckless, beautiful, and well-equipped with twin pistols--Lara Croft is here!

Tomb Raider 1+2+3, the game that broke new ground in the third-person action genre, is available now on GOG.com for only $9.99.

If you’re one of those people who’ve never used a PC (welcome to GOG.com then!), never been to a movie theater, never owned a TV, and hate comic books, you might have never heard of Tomb Raider or Lara Croft. The Tomb Raider franchise spanned 14 games, 5 expansions, 2 movies, and countless comic books--not to mention incredible amounts of desktop wallpapers, posters and fan-art. Lara Croft is one of a kind--athletic, acrobatic, adventurous, attractive, and aristocratic, not to mention her short shorts and too-tight top. One of the (if not the) strongest and interesting female characters in gaming history is now available for download with EXTRAS for only $9.99, thanks to GOG.com, yours truly.

As a game, the first Tomb Raider was an enormous success, because it really offered “everything for everyone”: exceptional platforming action with jumping, running, and trigger-happy combat, intelligent puzzles and mazes, exploration and storyline for those who like adventures, and finally a wild ride of thrills, surprises, and challenges. Grab the original trilogy of Indiana Jones-style adventures with non-stop action, guns, puzzles, and double-D cup size.

Peru, Greece, Egypt, Atlantis, Venice, China, Tiber, London, Antarctica, and Lara’s home--you can visit all of those places in Tomb Raider 1+2+3 for only $9.99.
Posted May 31, 2012
Great news!!
Posted May 31, 2012
Does this bundle include gold levels of games?
Posted May 31, 2012
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GeedAwesome:
It says they are compatible with Windows not that they are Windows games. All DOS games that I have from here are set up to run fine from Windows with only the occasional tweaking.

Comparing to Steam, if you look at Wolfenstein 3D's page there it makes no mention of using DOSBox and the minimum requirements for the game are "A 100% Windows XP/Vista-compatible computer system" which is bogus if you look at the game's original distribution, but the current way of distributing the game requires it.

However, I agree that a little indicator saying "This product is bundled with DOSBox" would be nice.
Posted May 31, 2012
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Strijkbout: But if its the lowres textures that turn people off then maybe they should try to apply this.
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csmith: Exactly what I was looking for in this thread. Looks like I know what some of my gaming budget is going toward. Thank you!
You're welcome, glad to help.

Edit:

Now exploring the site, it seems that this only works with Glidos, not sure which glidewrapper GOG's TR1 is using.
Post edited May 31, 2012 by Strijkbout
Posted May 31, 2012
Still no info on whether or not this release contains the full PC version including the PC exclusive levels from TR Gold?

Can ANYONE answer this very simple question?
Posted May 31, 2012
Link to the full soundtracks (afaik): (thanks to shrensh for this)

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/soundtrack/index.html
Posted May 31, 2012
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RafaelLopez: Since they started bringing new games, GOG kept also bringing a whole lot of awesome oldies.

I never played a single Tomb Raider game, but this is really a great chance. Thanks GOG!
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hedwards: I'm sure they're good if you can get over the terrible controls, collision detection and god awful camera. Personally I never could and I still assume that the fans have some sort of S&M or other fetish involved.
Happens with all three of them?
Posted May 31, 2012
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RafaelLopez:
Yes, but he's extremely negative, read my posts on the previous page, maybe it will make up your mind.
Posted May 31, 2012
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RafaelLopez: Happens with all three of them?
Once you get used to using the look key, which is an instant reset at almost any time, the original camera is better than many newer games in the genre, let alone the newer Tomb Raider's (Underworld? Now there's a "god awful" camera).
Posted May 31, 2012
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Strijkbout: Yes, but he's extremely negative, read my posts on the previous page, maybe it will make up your mind.
I think you mean realistic. The controls were always crap and really why developers even now insist upon releasing games that are ruined by such poor controls is beyond me.

The whole moveable camera thing isn't something that generally works. Tomb Raider was just as bad as Prince of Persia.
Posted May 31, 2012
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hedwards: I think you mean realistic. The controls were always crap and really why developers even now insist upon releasing games that are ruined by such poor controls is beyond me.

The whole moveable camera thing isn't something that generally works. Tomb Raider was just as bad as Prince of Persia.
Tomb Raider's camera isn't really "moveable" though? It has a mostly consistent position behind Lara's back and stays there about 95% of the time.

The learning curve is large but TR's original controls offer advantages when learned, in terms of being completely consistent and all mistakes being the fault of the player, along with fixed limitations, which is something that newer games in the genre have lost (Mirror's Edge being pretty much the only exception).
Posted May 31, 2012
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hedwards:
The controls and camera are good enough for me and gave me not that much of a problem that it ruined (a very good) experience for me.
Maybe you have higher standards in that respect.
As for Prince of Persia, I assume you mean PoP 3D, I have never played it, so I wouldn't know.
Posted May 31, 2012
I always felt that the controls and camera were perfect. No idea (honestly) why people seem to hate them. It was a very popular control scheme that allows much more minute control.

Play the original Tomb raider next to the remake (Anniversary) The controls in anniversary are very sloppy and modern with no real way to actually TURN Lara while she stayed still. What I liked most about the old 'tank' controls is that you could position yourself perfectly for everything and know exactly where you would land 100% of the time which is just impossible with the newer sloppy controls.
Posted May 31, 2012
Well, not really into control wars here, but I do not have problems with keyboard controls in classic Tomb Raider, nor in the new ones, unlike in others games with difficult controls like for example Spider-Man: The Movie, BloodRayne series, etc. (can't finish them all due to controls).
Posted May 31, 2012
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GeedAwesome: For $10 I thought I would give it a chance and I'm sad that I did. Saying all three games are for Windows was totally misleading. I knew the original TR was on DOS but thought this was a Windows version but I guess not. Not an auspicious beginning to me being a customer here,GOG, if you guys are going to be shady on the descriptions.
There never was a Windows version of the first Tomb Raider. IT was only released in DOS.
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