That interview where that devs goes "we don't try to make things cool anymore we're more mature" is such a cope to hide how little passion they have left.
That's probably why the new tomb raider games are just a giant mixed bag of other game's mechanics and design decisions, being defined by its lack of originality.🐑
@@outsider8683 Sad but true, and can we just be done with fucking bows in games for a generation or two now XD Shadow's best USP is that the puzzles are actually pretty good this time around, the visuals are rather sexy and that Lara handles (when she isn't spazzing out) near-perfectly when compared to the first 2 Reboot games. She mostly works well with her environment, even if the enemies don't.
Unfortunately alot of the development teams these days are are casual normies, and sadly, gaming went mainstream and we've been getting recycled, lazy, trend chasing garbage ever since. Now you got people who don't even play games crying out for easy modes and more hand holding in these games which is exactly what we get, I can't play Sony games because of the sheer amount of hand holding. As soon as gaming went mainstream and all the old school devs retired and were replaced with these new twitter baby gender studies majors who think a woman wearing shorts is sexist, that's when all the actual passion for western game development died
The whole Reboot Tomb Raider to me is like if... Bruce Wayne never decided to become Batman, and all we are left with is Bruce Wayne bumbling & Stumbling his way through Gotham looking for his parents killer, & getting his ass kicked along the way.
I appreciate those crumbly areas where everything breaks when they are just representative of graphical quality. Like a demo for a video card or new engine. As gameplay they're essentially never fun.
The amount of effort/research/data collection you put into that tangent on inclusivity/diversity AND giving the developers a solution to make a better combat system is to be applauded. 👏🏾
Have you considered breaking off the insane statistical segue into it's own video? I feel like just referencing and dropping a titlecard would be enough, and would simplify the overall video structure. Absolutely insane amount of effort just to prove a passing point, A+ on merit and work ethic.
Hey man, this was excellent. Thanks for all the hardwork. Isn't it depressing that a lot of discussion about games isn't about gameplay? Like that's the USP of the medium, but serious discussions about gameplay beyond the very superficial have been sidelined in favour of interminable talk about graphics, aesthetics and story. AAA 'cinematic' games completely dominate the mainstream discussion of games and digging into gameplay, mechanics and is-the-game-any-fucking-good just seems a tertiary consideration at best.
I feel like I'm vaguely suggesting what the character should do while she waffles on at me about her feelings in the blandest way possible. Constantly asking myself if I'm going mad or are all the most popular games just condescending by the numbers soulless pieces of shit like they seem to be.
@@TheGameStatistic oh god if you really want a series that will drive you to the brink of insanity go binge play all the final fantasy or kingdom hearts games then come back to us when you’re done with them.
2 things 1 is that deadly obsession was available immediately to those who preordered the steel book edition 2 is that I was crazy and stupid enough to not only get that edition, but I also went through deadly obsession for my first playthrouuughhhhh 🙃
It's been a while since I've said anything, but I came back for this one. I can't believe I watched a feature length review on a movie-game. But the most impressive part is that you brought back the namesake statistics of this channel in quite possibly the most insane ranting segue possible.. and it was beautiful. Good job, nigga.
I think you’re the definition of a concealed gem, your work transpires creative effort ….really top tier entertainment (not just “TH-cam content”)…I hope to see your work at the front of this website , because it’s certainly already at the top, in craft, of what can be delivered by this medium …Congratulations for that 🙂
Hidden gems are literally everywhere, think of how many you don't support because you've never heard of them. Your comment is also on every single hidden gem out there in some form because all of us think we've discovered the 1 unique thing on the internet.
Will you be making a video about the ranking of all main Tomb Raider games? I'm curious where my fave game (TR3) will land! LOL! Definitely not in your top five. But anyway, awesome video mate. I didn't expect this to be long. This shows how passionate you are with the franchise! :)
I've found every Tomb Raider game since the first one to be disappointing in different ways but rebooting the series into a boring on-rails cover shooter was the worst decision they could have made short of turning it into a concentration camp bestiality simulator. Could be that the fan remake of 2 turns out to be the perfect mix of control and level design that for 25 years has been so frustratingly close but never quite there?
Image if the producers watch all these reviews and actually make one last game: Tomb Raider: Rise of the Underworld. And it is a good game AND good TOMB RAIDER game.
On the high difficulty i enjoyed some of the puzzles and platforming for what they were.. however infuriating was the constant walking talking cutscenes and walking simulator segments... As well as the checkpoints.. they are so frequent as to be laughable.. usually in any platforming section you will literally be placed literally at the point of your last jump or at most the jump before it when you die making it almost feel like there isnt any actual consequence for dying.. reminds me of doom eternal where if u fall down it just re spawns you right where you fell from but eternally and with no final consequence like having to start a sequence all over
I've just finished watching this series and i have to say i agreed with almost everything you said except with something regarding the reboot ( not counting shadow wich sucks). I haven't played every tomb raider but i have played anniversary and underworld, and the reboot trilogy. I feel that the reboot did something right: they had a choice to make, either keep faithful to the formula and please fans or do something more broad and attract new fans. I think the choice they made was the right one. I became a fan with the reboot and it made me also appreciate the older iterations. However i do think they should remake the original trilogy with new looks to allow for new people to get to know the original tomb raider. I do have to say that for me the reboot has two major issues: first there's a clear lack of puzzles and tomb raiding i really missed that and second the change in character. I don't mind the redrawing, she's still hot, just more believable. What I mind is the change of personality. Lara used to be this independent strong quick-witted treasure hunting menace, and now she's just a brainiac baby, i think they could have kept the old personality and just added the intelligence part. In conclusion, in my opinion the reboot allowed for new fans to get to know Lara, but they should had never forgot the old tomb raiders. I hope that in the future they might develop a remake trilogy, keeping the openess and the puzzles, just improving the looks ( and maybe the controls)
I love how the newbies insult us classic TR fans as perverts because of the oversexualization of Lara, not knowing that a good number of classic Lara fans are gays.
fr tho. My first TR games were from the Legend trilogy, and boy was it legendary. Fun exploration, acrobatic move set, and cool outfits. Plus I can totally see Legend Lara being a gay icon, and possibly bisexual herself.
This has gotta be the shittiest game in the series, it felt rushed. The characters are boring, the level designs are mostly cut and paste, the enemies are mostly humans or non at all, the skills tree is just a stupid mess. The third hub world is the biggest pain in ass because of the side quests, the size and the fact that you cannot change your outfit.
Same here. Got too tedious. Then I bought the old ones on GoG for like 2 bucks, re-played them (the TRmain-mods are pure gold btw), and rediscovered my love for them. But at least the new ones aren't SEXIST anymore, right?
A lot of what's described in gameplay changes is just shit that Uncharted 4 did and that kinda reminds me that nu-Tomb Raider is just Uncharted but worse.
I was with you on the criticisms until you decided to go after the note about the diverse development team. Like WTF dude? I’m an asexual woman with a borderline obsessive interest in archeology and history who has identified with Lara since I was 8. As amazing as the original psx games were and are, you CANNOT deny that there are some DEEPLY problematic stereotypes perpetrated in the game design and dialogue.
The game suffers from collect a thon itis. The combat isn't as good as rise either. The native people speaking perfect english was always extremely off putting.
@@CyborgSodaCollects unfortunately no so it doesn't solve it completely haha. lara speaks english to them they speak spanish back. i'm unsure about the paititi people though.
@@TheMasterfulcreator Ok lol wishful thinking. I feel as though the next chapter in the franchise should focus solely on just raw tombs. The trinity story was fine in rise,but in shadow trinity is almost irrelevant. They just are their to give Lara something to shoot.
Phenomenal review. I liked 2013 TR when it came out, it was Rise that made me seriously question the series’ direction. Shadow was outright dogshit for me and I couldn’t even finish it it was that bad. I recently went back to 2013 and I find that incredibly boring. The classics have their issues, but all Core Design TRs are still incredible. I’ve recently gone back to them for the first time in nearly twenty years and I’m shocked by how well they’ve largely held up. However, the recent trilogy suffers from all of the contemporary leftist condescension, identity politics and modern day feminism. And for all of the soporific creative issues with this last trilogy, it looks like it’s only going to get worse. Anyway, amazing work.
"But if the game is too difficult then no one will buy it!" I've read that argument more times than I should have, because now it makes me wonder what an extremely casual and mainstream gamer considers to be too difficult. You've already covered the difference between "fun challenge" and "annoying challenge" in a different video. I'm referring more to a notion that people are somehow turned away from any gaming experience that punishes mistakes or poor decisions to any degree..
Ok so I have had two jonahs show up crossing that bridge I wish the enemies would just sit there this game has sound issues and the dialog is off with the lips of the characters I love lara croft I just wished this was more better in the combat the setting like all the stupid helpful tips I wish you could turn it off along with laras constant I can't do that or I can't hold anymore or I need to do this it all was crap and I freaking hate the forced outfit crap this game was horrible the areas were beautiful but thats all the game has to offer
That diversity disclaimer appeared on Assassin's Creed back in 2007. It'll eventually transpire that some highly influential marketing shitbrain has mistakenly categorised The Woke as a lucrative demographic and compounded the error by modelling the demographic on middle class white signifiers of Wokeism, provoking the mass entertainment industry to oversteer from years of callous racism and sexism into this trajectory of cynically insincere slurpy diversity horseshit. Yes it's very wearying but preferable to the inevitable backswing in the other direction
That interview where that devs goes "we don't try to make things cool anymore we're more mature" is such a cope to hide how little passion they have left.
They‘re afraid the games would be too hard (which is a moronic concern, especially for this franchise)
That's probably why the new tomb raider games are just a giant mixed bag of other game's mechanics and design decisions, being defined by its lack of originality.🐑
@@outsider8683 Sad but true, and can we just be done with fucking bows in games for a generation or two now XD
Shadow's best USP is that the puzzles are actually pretty good this time around, the visuals are rather sexy and that Lara handles (when she isn't spazzing out) near-perfectly when compared to the first 2 Reboot games. She mostly works well with her environment, even if the enemies don't.
"we don't try to make things cool anymore we're more mature"
*adds lude DLC outfits and loot boxes*
Unfortunately alot of the development teams these days are are casual normies, and sadly, gaming went mainstream and we've been getting recycled, lazy, trend chasing garbage ever since. Now you got people who don't even play games crying out for easy modes and more hand holding in these games which is exactly what we get, I can't play Sony games because of the sheer amount of hand holding. As soon as gaming went mainstream and all the old school devs retired and were replaced with these new twitter baby gender studies majors who think a woman wearing shorts is sexist, that's when all the actual passion for western game development died
The whole Reboot Tomb Raider to me is like if... Bruce Wayne never decided to become Batman, and all we are left with is Bruce Wayne bumbling & Stumbling his way through Gotham looking for his parents killer, & getting his ass kicked along the way.
That actually sounds way cooler than this.
You know how many times I was like "wait, where the fuck is his SOTTR review" over the last two years? So glad that you were committed to this series.
All this when a heap of blocks on a grid with some endangered animals and switches imbued with some soul beats it by far
I appreciate those crumbly areas where everything breaks when they are just representative of graphical quality. Like a demo for a video card or new engine. As gameplay they're essentially never fun.
I was so bored playing this game. It makes me want to play the 2013 tomb raider again
The amount of effort/research/data collection you put into that tangent on inclusivity/diversity AND giving the developers a solution to make a better combat system is to be applauded. 👏🏾
So much effort went into making this video - it’s so very appreciated! Great work as always 👍
Hell, it's about time.
Kept you waiting, huh?
Have you considered breaking off the insane statistical segue into it's own video? I feel like just referencing and dropping a titlecard would be enough, and would simplify the overall video structure.
Absolutely insane amount of effort just to prove a passing point, A+ on merit and work ethic.
Hey man, this was excellent. Thanks for all the hardwork. Isn't it depressing that a lot of discussion about games isn't about gameplay? Like that's the USP of the medium, but serious discussions about gameplay beyond the very superficial have been sidelined in favour of interminable talk about graphics, aesthetics and story. AAA 'cinematic' games completely dominate the mainstream discussion of games and digging into gameplay, mechanics and is-the-game-any-fucking-good just seems a tertiary consideration at best.
I feel like I'm vaguely suggesting what the character should do while she waffles on at me about her feelings in the blandest way possible. Constantly asking myself if I'm going mad or are all the most popular games just condescending by the numbers soulless pieces of shit like they seem to be.
Just yesterday I saw someone trying to justify devil May Cry 2 and none of their arguments had anything to do with gameplay.
Almost there, ready for another review, and ready to get MY knickers in a twist.
Your best review ever! Thank you for this timeless video that I constantly replay.
Good to know 6 months of looking at childrens programming and shadow wasn't for nothin!
Sad to see this review series done and over with but I do look forward to what you have in store next.
See that Resident Evil Playlist. Next in line.
@@TheGameStatistic you should do silent hill as a series someday
@@locodesert2 Ill see if RE doesnt consume my life like shadow did first🤣
@@TheGameStatistic oh god if you really want a series that will drive you to the brink of insanity go binge play all the final fantasy or kingdom hearts games then come back to us when you’re done with them.
@@TheGameStatistic
I do love your RE series though.
DAMN. You litterally had a whole section for "i'm not sexist BUT...". Great vid. Finally, insert minority group here can be represented!!!
YOO WE IS BACK IN THIS BIIIIIIITCH
cant the croft family put a leash on lara going around moving furnature around such a bad child
Holy shit a review that is longer than most movies.
And more entertaining than most movies
Holy shit a review that is longer than the game.
Another episode I'm going to watch five times if I'm bored! :D
2 things
1 is that deadly obsession was available immediately to those who preordered the steel book edition
2 is that I was crazy and stupid enough to not only get that edition, but I also went through deadly obsession for my first playthrouuughhhhh 🙃
You're a mad man
Can't believe this day is coming!!!! :,)
I was just thinking about this! Was binging your previous reviews while playing 2 a few days back.
I love that the song at the sounds like if tomb raider was a sonic 2 level
Which one?
The Game Statistic it’s a bit too long for me to find where the song is, but it sounds like the tomb raider theme mixed with sonic 2 mystic cave zone.
No it doesn't, get your ears fixed lmao
Now that it is done, my life is complete. I can die a happy man.
It's been a while since I've said anything, but I came back for this one.
I can't believe I watched a feature length review on a movie-game. But the most impressive part is that you brought back the namesake statistics of this channel in quite possibly the most insane ranting segue possible.. and it was beautiful.
Good job, nigga.
did not disappoint :')
Finally here. I've been looking forward to this. Wish I would've caught it when it released, would've been a great treat in my birthday month.
Stat's Magnum Opus.
ITS HERE ITS HERE ITS FINALLY HERE 🥵🥵
I was expecting a video, I behold a monster... where is my popcorn?
"They called me n*" and showing TR3 lmao
I think you’re the definition of a concealed gem, your work transpires creative effort ….really top tier entertainment (not just “TH-cam content”)…I hope to see your work at the front of this website , because it’s certainly already at the top, in craft, of what can be delivered by this medium …Congratulations for that 🙂
Hidden gems are literally everywhere, think of how many you don't support because you've never heard of them.
Your comment is also on every single hidden gem out there in some form because all of us think we've discovered the 1 unique thing on the internet.
YALLL ITS COMING OMFG
The prophecy is true...
glad that you made this review, it was a good watch, and one I was anticipating ever since I saw you reviewing the series
This was DEFINITELY worth the wait 💕💕💕💕
So glad to finally see this reaches it's conclusion (for now).
Looking forward to this!
This isn’t a review this is a dissection/analysis
My mom is in prison for a horrific murder, so no, I don't think I will call
Is ur mom Lara?
@@ieltsteacherdio Man I kinda wish, that'd be exciting. But nah, this murder was much less cool than anything Lara would do.
OH MY GOD GET HYPED
Three fucking hours?! You really went for it, bruh.🐈⬛
This is so detailed. Well done, I applaud you
I always come back..5 years and counting
Will you be making a video about the ranking of all main Tomb Raider games? I'm curious where my fave game (TR3) will land! LOL! Definitely not in your top five. But anyway, awesome video mate. I didn't expect this to be long. This shows how passionate you are with the franchise! :)
I’ve been waiting for this one
This would've been the best game in the series if it had that tr theme cover.
Get your album!
It's finally here!!!
These games suck so much. I’ve said it before, but you describe the problems so well.
I think it's funny we've had just as long of a break between games as Underworld to 2013.
Im back for more
I am a huge normie, I like this game and it's a guilty pleasure. Great video!
Hey you do you. Difference between liking something and claiming it's good.
@@TheGameStatistic I really like the combat but, the waiting times to the combat is a drag rather play doom eternal when waiting lol.
18:35. "Yes we are still on frame 1."
You're god damned right you are. I wouldn't have this shit any other way! Great review!
Senior cheeeeken approves of this statistical content 🐓
3 hours!!!!!! I know how my work day is going to be today.... Thanks😊
I've found every Tomb Raider game since the first one to be disappointing in different ways but rebooting the series into a boring on-rails cover shooter was the worst decision they could have made short of turning it into a concentration camp bestiality simulator.
Could be that the fan remake of 2 turns out to be the perfect mix of control and level design that for 25 years has been so frustratingly close but never quite there?
High quality content here
It's finally time and I'm gonna still be at work for like 4 hours. Well, I'm not sleeping tonight.
Cheers from the Drinker! 🍻
Image if the producers watch all these reviews and actually make one last game: Tomb Raider: Rise of the Underworld. And it is a good game AND good TOMB RAIDER game.
I just finished this. So i was bored to tears.
On the high difficulty i enjoyed some of the puzzles and platforming for what they were.. however infuriating was the constant walking talking cutscenes and walking simulator segments... As well as the checkpoints.. they are so frequent as to be laughable.. usually in any platforming section you will literally be placed literally at the point of your last jump or at most the jump before it when you die making it almost feel like there isnt any actual consequence for dying.. reminds me of doom eternal where if u fall down it just re spawns you right where you fell from but eternally and with no final consequence like having to start a sequence all over
I've just finished watching this series and i have to say i agreed with almost everything you said except with something regarding the reboot ( not counting shadow wich sucks). I haven't played every tomb raider but i have played anniversary and underworld, and the reboot trilogy. I feel that the reboot did something right: they had a choice to make, either keep faithful to the formula and please fans or do something more broad and attract new fans. I think the choice they made was the right one. I became a fan with the reboot and it made me also appreciate the older iterations. However i do think they should remake the original trilogy with new looks to allow for new people to get to know the original tomb raider. I do have to say that for me the reboot has two major issues: first there's a clear lack of puzzles and tomb raiding i really missed that and second the change in character. I don't mind the redrawing, she's still hot, just more believable. What I mind is the change of personality. Lara used to be this independent strong quick-witted treasure hunting menace, and now she's just a brainiac baby, i think they could have kept the old personality and just added the intelligence part.
In conclusion, in my opinion the reboot allowed for new fans to get to know Lara, but they should had never forgot the old tomb raiders.
I hope that in the future they might develop a remake trilogy, keeping the openess and the puzzles, just improving the looks ( and maybe the controls)
I love how the newbies insult us classic TR fans as perverts because of the oversexualization of Lara, not knowing that a good number of classic Lara fans are gays.
fr tho. My first TR games were from the Legend trilogy, and boy was it legendary. Fun exploration, acrobatic move set, and cool outfits. Plus I can totally see Legend Lara being a gay icon, and possibly bisexual herself.
Finally.
Absolute masterpiece.
This has gotta be the shittiest game in the series, it felt rushed. The characters are boring, the level designs are mostly cut and paste, the enemies are mostly humans or non at all, the skills tree is just a stupid mess. The third hub world is the biggest pain in ass because of the side quests, the size and the fact that you cannot change your outfit.
Awesome !
ah for fuck sake it;s 2am man. fuck it, this is more important than work.
gave up on this reboot halfway through rise.
Same here. Got too tedious.
Then I bought the old ones on GoG for like 2 bucks, re-played them (the TRmain-mods are pure gold btw), and rediscovered my love for them.
But at least the new ones aren't SEXIST anymore, right?
@@dildojizzbaggins6969 what are those mods you mentioned?
30 mins in and we're 1 frame into the game and are now on a tangent about diversity in millennial kids shows. I love it ❤️
thank you for this my guy
Amazing Review \/
You’re awesome
"I hate tumbs" this is the worthy phrase ever. She never says something like that. rsrs WTF.
Wtf I completely missed this! Intro music is nice so far👌🏻
Get your shadow album from the link. completely free
Funny how more effort was put into this video than in the actual game lol
Finally my favorite sexist uploaded.
Please come back
Never left. just working on the Palu n' Sora channel
@@TheGameStatistic The who what
Too many hands in the cookie jar
There aren't enough cookies and the jar is organic
I am glad you played this shit for me
A lot of what's described in gameplay changes is just shit that Uncharted 4 did and that kinda reminds me that nu-Tomb Raider is just Uncharted but worse.
21.07 time so cute "don't" voice 😊
51:38 I gaged lmfao.
I was with you on the criticisms until you decided to go after the note about the diverse development team. Like WTF dude? I’m an asexual woman with a borderline obsessive interest in archeology and history who has identified with Lara since I was 8. As amazing as the original psx games were and are, you CANNOT deny that there are some DEEPLY problematic stereotypes perpetrated in the game design and dialogue.
"IMMA ISLAND BOYYYYYY, IMMA ISLAND BOYYYYYYY!!!"
Wow three hours of my not so favourite game
The game suffers from collect a thon itis. The combat isn't as good as rise either. The native people speaking perfect english was always extremely off putting.
you can have them speak native language with a setting in the pause menu.
@@TheMasterfulcreator Oh wow didn't know that. Does Lara speak their language as well?
@@CyborgSodaCollects unfortunately no so it doesn't solve it completely haha. lara speaks english to them they speak spanish back. i'm unsure about the paititi people though.
@@TheMasterfulcreator Ok lol wishful thinking. I feel as though the next chapter in the franchise should focus solely on just raw tombs. The trinity story was fine in rise,but in shadow trinity is almost irrelevant. They just are their to give Lara something to shoot.
@@CyborgSodaCollects yeah i'd be fine with that. we'll know soon though. the next chapter is coming to netflix.
I want classic Lara
Kool.
What’s the name of the N64 game with astrology platforms?
Castlevania Legacy of Darkness
@@TheGameStatistic wow I never saw the reply, thanks!
Jaguire
Great review
now that i think about it. There was no manly men in any kids sitcom in the 90s or 2000s. They were all beta males.
LMAO... you should have put a bike thief joke in there too lol
ur videos are sooo sick
My favourite of the trilogy tbh
👀👀👀👀👀
Phenomenal review. I liked 2013 TR when it came out, it was Rise that made me seriously question the series’ direction. Shadow was outright dogshit for me and I couldn’t even finish it it was that bad.
I recently went back to 2013 and I find that incredibly boring. The classics have their issues, but all Core Design TRs are still incredible. I’ve recently gone back to them for the first time in nearly twenty years and I’m shocked by how well they’ve largely held up.
However, the recent trilogy suffers from all of the contemporary leftist condescension, identity politics and modern day feminism. And for all of the soporific creative issues with this last trilogy, it looks like it’s only going to get worse.
Anyway, amazing work.
"But if the game is too difficult then no one will buy it!"
I've read that argument more times than I should have, because now it makes me wonder what an extremely casual and mainstream gamer considers to be too difficult. You've already covered the difference between "fun challenge" and "annoying challenge" in a different video. I'm referring more to a notion that people are somehow turned away from any gaming experience that punishes mistakes or poor decisions to any degree..
did you...binge all of the reviews back to back? the mad lad
@@TheGameStatistic I don't know. I subscribed though.
@@nameless646 lol, ya'll are wild sometimes. Welcome to the family son!
Elden Ring would like a word.
@westonsohlden4360 ER was specifically marketed to be the most approachable souls like game.
Ok so I have had two jonahs show up crossing that bridge I wish the enemies would just sit there this game has sound issues and the dialog is off with the lips of the characters I love lara croft I just wished this was more better in the combat the setting like all the stupid helpful tips I wish you could turn it off along with laras constant I can't do that or I can't hold anymore or I need to do this it all was crap and I freaking hate the forced outfit crap this game was horrible the areas were beautiful but thats all the game has to offer
That diversity disclaimer appeared on Assassin's Creed back in 2007. It'll eventually transpire that some highly influential marketing shitbrain has mistakenly categorised The Woke as a lucrative demographic and compounded the error by modelling the demographic on middle class white signifiers of Wokeism, provoking the mass entertainment industry to oversteer from years of callous racism and sexism into this trajectory of cynically insincere slurpy diversity horseshit. Yes it's very wearying but preferable to the inevitable backswing in the other direction
46:30 I cant take this review seriously if you’ve got her dressed like that
2:31:54 - hey, at least she's right and doesn't follow the party line even if it's wrong lol