Dark hallways, silence or strange ambient sounds, dangerous enemies that can jump on you on any corner, deadly traps, highly detailed death animations... Yup, pretty much a horror game on my book.
Really impressive the amount of unique animations for a game that old. Tomb Raider don't get half of the respect it deserves. It was always a very ambitious and ahead of it's time franchise.
Unfortunately (and hatefully by themselves) Crystal Dynamics do not wish to give it respect as shown with the remaster - leaving a pathetic and nasty message stating how "problematic" the original release was, when it wasn't and still isn't at all. TR was a pioneering game made in my hometown so I will always have respect for it, especially the original.
I loved the Tomb Raider series growing up. It had a lot of tense moments, and at times I was more terrified of what was next more so than a resident evil game. But finally figuring out that annoying puzzle that’s held you back for an hour was so satisfying.
@@masamune2984 Mandela effect is best known as "having a shit memory and being delusional about it". Because yeah, finding something to be different than how you recalled it totally means reality in its entirety changed around your person.
I still remember how scared i was of the t rex first time it appeared. The first TR was a great mix of adventure, scary moments and explorations with those moments of music well reverbered... so nice memories
This is why I found it funny when modern fans complained about the supernatural stuff in the reboot. I was just like you clearly never played the original games.
@@poorsoul8492 yeah they did I heard from podcast and people I know personally who thought the huge samurai stuff was silly or unneeded. I tried to tell them that this was common place for TR, but it didn’t change their minds.
I'm a modern fan and i don't complain about the supernatural elements in the new tomb raider. the supernatural is part of the tomb raider, and although they didn’t have t-rex or centaurs for you to fight, keeping the elements of the supernatural is important.
Honorable mention : jumping off the ledge in The Great Pyramid and into the lava pit below. Such a big drop that Lara screams *3 times* before becoming a toasted marshmallow
I know when I played it back then in the 90s on the ps1 with a friend. We would get stuck on a puzzle for days (or longer). Because there was no internet to look it up how to solve them.
These were great picks! I remember loving the Midas' touch so much that I kept killing her several times 😄 After seeing you list it as number 2, I thought nothing could surpass it. Then I saw the final pick and of course - that part.
When I was younger, #4 used to scare the daylights out of me. It was even more surprising that I missed a step and fell down, just for him to grab and slam me a few times right as I was about to hit the lava. I don't know if it was a glitch, but it happened. Had the Saturn version.
Obviously the iconic T-Rex moment at #1. It's sad what Tomb Raider has become. You can no longer have great moments like that for the sake of realism and whatnot. The best you can hope for is Lara wearing ugly tribal outfits for the majority of the game and having to save Jonah 100x before she uncovers some boring rational explanation behind whatever it is she's hunting for (and it *HAS TO BE* in some way connected with her father or mother, of course). The classic games are iconic because it was a perfect mixture of camp, fascinating myths & Lara being a badass that overcomes incredible odds to get what she wants without yelling and crying 24/7.
Max Thank you! 😊 Glad to hear other people are not fans of the tired Croft family drama. Like, is it really so hard to believe Lara could have other incentives beside her father to explore the world and look for ancient artifacts? 😭
DayvinDazone You’re definitely not the only one who feels this way. It seems like ever since Legend that it’s been all about her parents. Even Anniversary somehow made it so that Natla knew Lara’s dad. I miss the Lara who would go into tombs and dangerous locations ALONE and for no other reason than to explore and obtain a new toy for her trophy room, while maybe incidentally saving the world. I could seriously go on and on with my gripes.
Think the one if you fell off the platform fighting that Atlantis mutant thing was also pretty memorable, mainly cause she screamed for ages while falling, that and Drowning was another, terrified me as a kid.
Play anniversary. Its much easier to get through because of better controls. Its still tough on puzzles but non the less i never beat this version as a kid but now at 30 I beat anniversary 3 times.
My favorite tomb raider death is in TR3 in Lara's house right after you lock her Butler in the freezer to die a slow, agonizing death to either hypothermia or starvation, you jump off the balcony snapping Lara's neck in the fall so you don't get tempted by sympathy to let him out.
Ah those amazingly realistic graphics, so immersive (I had a tiny set up in a gap at the top of my stairs with a huge colour CRT, a PS1, and a 2.1 ghetto blaster, with headphones for quiet play, in front of a big old-lady chair with a padded head rest, and I was sooooo comfy and immersed there that I could lose hours)
Surprised that this is the only video on the channel and it looks like a bunch of people got recommended it recently. To be fair PS1 style horror is "in" right now so it could be a ton of indie devs looking for inspiration :)
Why am I feeling nostalgic despite this game coming out in 1996, 4 years before I was even born? Oh yeah! I still grew up with the PS2, WII and DS, and their blockier graphics compared to today's standarts, so there isn't really much difference with the older PS1 games!
Her neck breaks and spike deaths were wild too. There was something crazy real to see your character die...by your own dumb hands. You could swan dive at her house in the training facility and itd feel like a 1% suicide.
As a paleontology fan, since this animal has three fingers and a head that does not resembles a tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, I think the dinosaur that killed her was some sort of Megalosauridae that had evolved to get a bit more bigger in it's environment.
I think it was just the person designing the damn thing who made a mistake. She also has a pump action shotgun with no magazine tube in both TR1 and 2, though fixed in 3.
I would add the one when she falls of the platform when fighting the two armed boss. She had time to take a breath and scream a second time as she fell.
I remember falling from the giant red monster final boss, and landing on some rocks. As I climbed up the platform, some more rocks fell down and killed me. I thought that was neat.
Pour la main de Midas, le rendu "or" était bien plus réussi sur PlayStation ! Les développeurs ont eu une imagination sadique pour certaines mises en scène fatales !!... RIP Core Design.
So many great moments in that game, and the music score is one of the best I have experienced to this day. Made those terrible graphics and janky controls on my PS1 irrelevant .
The graphics aren't "terrible." They're considerably detailed and pretty standard for the PS1, not to mention cozy. The controls aren't "janky." They're tight and responsive.
Ahhaha the t rex...i was scared af. Always hidden somewhere and paired with the exciting sound it was such a great combat feeling! And this frikking sand hand...
Everyone was terrified by the T-Rex as a kid but I thought it was great because I loved dinosaurs. Number 4 however terrified me. It's still creepy and gross to this day.
Oh my God i didn't know that this game was so creepy. I mean this titan-like bodies O.O I don't really regret that i haven't play it in my childhood now xd
Esse jogo foi o primeiro da minha vida quando abri minha locadora de games 😂❤ que maravilhoso ver a alegria das crianças jogando Playstation e Nintendo, super Mario, bomberman futebol, resident evil , Dino crises e tantos outros , meu Deus que nostalgia , que saudades 😢, melhor 12 anos da minha vida trabalhando no que eu amava ❤ , mais tudo acaba um dia 😢 nada é para sempre, hoje curto as coleções que guardei com carinho e tomb raider meus preferidos, 1, 2, 3 , the Last revelation e chronicles ☺️❤️ resident evil , Dino crises e alguns mais, bons tempos que não voltam mais, só ficou as boas lembranças e uma enorme saudades 😢🥰❤️
We were a kinda poor family, I got my first computer (family computer) when I was like 13, and then I came across this game, I played it and played it and couldn't figure out why it suddenly took me out to the menu again and again. It turns out it was a demo. But it was a beautiful game I recall. Then I played my first game in a computer and that was Hitman, oh boy, that was awesome. I hope I could play this game too now.
