I've never seen another piece of media create a Ancient-Egyptianesque-Cyberpunk race like the Atlantian rulers. You'd think people would get on that awesomeness.
Fantastic ! The tomb raider that started it all. 20 years ago tomb raider and Lara croft came into our lives.she is the queen and First Lady of PlayStation.
Say what you want about the graphics, or the supernaturally themed story line, but I genuinely miss games like this from this era. Fantasy meets action-adventure. It was unreal and that was the point! It captivated in a world of its own. It provided an escape. And it was comical but at the same time so gripping.
I thought tomb raider never was the same again after core. The way it controlled, the milimeter precision jumps, the maze like level designs giving such satisfaction when you cracked the puzzles. Everything became more streamlined for the casual player and handholding the standard. The last good tomb raider was the last revelation and even chronicles.
If you can look past Angel of Darkness cliches it was a decent game, too. I wish they would had enough time to develope it properly. But the creators were already burned out with The Last Revelation. I loved the story and darker atmosphere and had the best Lara Model.
Simone Perez *Frantically runs around in circles stuck on a very high up square looking platform, pumping the creature full of every bullet Lara has in her guns*
I absolutely LOVE how Lara is presented in this original game. Not too long ago I didn't care much about the whole TR franchise, but after deciding to see what all the 'hoohaa' was about, I decided to give it a shot, going through the games in release order. Lara is now my favorite character. :O Currently playing Legend. Gosh she's so cool and presented in such a human/realistic way and details (for a super athletic, intelligent archaeologist).
I find her corny in legends. And the whole search for her mother was boring Here she's the best and no emotions to make her seem more human just a strong Woman.
+Emma Frost Lol, the original Lara was badass and I love her, but she's a sociopath. I agree the whole Mother and Father Arc Anniversary/Legend/Underworld had going on was annoying, but someone can be made human without being obnoxious. Take the newest incarnation of Lara for example. She's not annoying, the only thing I have a problem with is she completely lacks the original Lara's verbal cleverness, wit and sarcasm.
@@missxmarvel well, not everyone is going to like all the stories. Legends was cool overall and underworld was great. As a game new Tomb raider is good but it may as well be called Dark Island adventure and Lara may as well be called Cindy or Terry because she is so drastically different in that game in both design and and personality. Whatever reason or excuse they had for changing her is all kind of foolish if they change her this much. She used to be a larger than life super heroine with a very iconic look, now she is more average or bland (still "good looking" if you want to put it that way) but lacking the appeal and strength of underworld and before. this game she clearly looks like a doll because of graphical limitations but at least she had one female enemy. the new one it's her vs a bunch of men which adds nothing to the idea of a woman being strong.
@@dimitripapadopoulos5180 Thank you for the reply. To be honest this is the Lara I always looked up to and want to be like her. and its even mentioned in her original bio that only traveling makes her truly happy and I could relate to that so much,but now what's left of Lara to admire? She hardly used her quick thinking,her wit,her ability to remain calm while ambused ect. With other words she's replaced by a scream factory and a whiney woman who does nothing but moan.
Maybe so but at least she doesn't drop her soda can on the floor😂(yeah I know I just reworded your joke but hey. Can't be hundred percent original every single comment lol)
I still like this more than any other TR-game. I remember how amazing it was the first time I played it, you don't get that feeling with new games, they are so much alike, boring, and they may look prettier but lack that "I can't stop yet, have to play a few minutes more"-feeling☺
The last game to give me that feeling was mass effect 1. That game just sucks you into it's world and the strategic gameplay had me always thinking about it. Unfortunately the 2nd one just went all mainstream and took away strategy for more run and gun cause to appeal to the masses you have to make games for stupid people. OG playstation was back when developers were just being creative and weren't answering to some big business overlords demanding games be like everything else to make money + dlc and microtransactions. Good games are still made but in general greed kills creativity and it's had a major effect on the gaming industry.
Yeah I miss the days where games actually challenged you and made you think instead of giving everything away and literally telling you where to go Lol
9:45 Gotta love how Natla's expensive yacht is powered by a hot-bulb engine (typical sound) which is normally found in old fishing boats. :) Hot-bulb engines sit between old steam engines and modern diesels. They were cheap, rudimentary and can run on crude oil and virtually every poorly combustible fuel such as vegetable oil, kerosene, creosote, heck some even ran on used engine oil(!). For this reason they were obviously popular with poor fishermen. I'd say that whoever was responsible for the sound design of the first Tomb Raider game just went down to the local port and recorded a few fishing boats passing by and then labeled them "boat sound". It's funny to hear an old fishing boat sound with Natla's expensive yacht.
Because I was young and stupid (and the storyline was very vague) I thought for years that Larson was the man killed by wolves. I then thought he was killed again when Lara kicked him. I also thought he got killed a third time in Sanctuary of the Scion. I was a very confused child.
Onmysheet Because..... as I said in the comment you were replying to: I was young and stupid (and the storyline was very vague) The cutscenes went straight from Lara talking to Larson to Lara with this new man who had absolutely no introduction, and my five year old brain didn't go "Oooh, a guide!" it went "Oooh, Larson went with her!" Seeing him pop up at the end of the Peru levels kind of confirmed this to me, despite it really making things more confusing :)
I try to rewind and stopped from 2:36, and no, that's still not Larson... but I don't blame you because you did put "I was young and stupid." When I was kid from 10 or 11 year old, I was confuse how did Larson survive and reappear in another TR game :P lol
9:47 As kid, this scene always questioned me how Natla's men were not able to detect Lara climbing behind the boat; especially right when the guy says that final line "...you coming.," It made me assume the skateboard guy was about to turn around and catch her at that moment. Oh well, gotta love the 90s
When Natla says "Seal it, Larson," how come she turns her head over to him? She's in the computer and yet she looks over to him as if she's in the same room as him.
because she an atleantean god ofcourse.. she sees them regardless. they needed the laptop to see her not the otherway round.. Notice she also reacts to larson even before she was live or larson even opened the laptop. Definitely intentional. In the end she has wings
Man, I played the hell out of this game on the Sega Saturn. I used to watch these cutscenes in complete awe. I also loved tomb raider II a couple of years later (played it on the PC) but I liked the first game's atmosphere better, especially the indoor scenes.
@@user-ui5kq7xb1w It's basically putting all versions of Lara into one, that would I assume connect reboot universe and classic Lara universe, if that makes sense.
Of all the things that age poorly with most PS1 games, Tomb Raider has always had at least decent voice acting. The character stereotypes are a little weird but they did get competent voice actors on this one.
@@MrNiceguy3210 Keep in mind that the voice actors didn't knew how characters express emotions on the cutscenes. They didn't saw the game. It was way too hard for them back then.
@@blk1048 go to trle.net, there are thousands of tomb raider custom levels for free (some of them with cutscenes), also the tomb editor program for free to create your own tomb raider level.
Ah, good memories. It was really an amazing twist when you found out that Jacklene was the disgraced ruler of Atlantis who escaped her ice prison and is now trying to take back over the world. It's a good story.
I remember this being one of my first PlayStation games, along with crash bandicoot & croc. Got to the first door with lever and didn't know what to do. I was young OK. Still playing it to this day. If only I could become the first ginger tomb raider X-D
I just got Tomb Raider Collector's Edition as my Hanukkah present last year and I couldn't be much more happier. This was one of my personal favorite 90's game. TR3 was my first game, never passed first level when I was a kid. And then the first game, T-rex use to scared me from my 8 years old age, I use to yelled "Jonathan, do it! Do it, do it, I can't take it anymore!!" lol
I don't care what anyone says, the dialogue in this game is miles ahead of Anniversary imo. It's strange and was extremely hard to follow as a kid, but I love how bizarre it all sounds. It's dry as hell, but has a real charm to it. You don't hear dialogue like this anymore since everyone is too busy watering everything down to make it easier for everyone to understand. Anniversary took such a cliche route. If I wanted cliche Hollywood dialogue there are a million other games that did it, and did it much better than Anniversary. This though? This is one of a kind. I adore Anniversary for what it is, but I can't help but be biased against it when this classic is compared lol.
+Underthegun897 Maybe as kids it's was a bit hard. I didn't understand what Natla meant with too late for abortions now! Since I didn't know what abortion was as a 4 year old but I do think the dialogue is less cheesy and no whining compared to the latest edition.
Tomb Raider games are still awesome. I thought playing them today wouldn't be the same, maybe they were good games because I had good memories of them. But after i bought them on GOG, I must say they are still entertaining and with some exceptions, miles ahead the new iterations of the franchise, mainly because the gameplay now is really generic. I really love exploration, puzzles, the constant feeling of being alone in those claustrofobic tombs... The simple graphic is charming, in a way. Some moments stil scares me. Great series, It would be awesome to have new games like this.
+Vladimira92 Yeah and the previous one I was hoping for beautiful atmosphere. And see what modern graphics can do to realistic nature. Like Thailand in Underworld And nice ancient locations like in Tr1 and2. And the tension factor of tr1 not only that but the story telling is the most important part. Lara in the beginning had adventures because she was hired or just for travel. In her original bio it says she only feels happy the fullest when she travels. I wished developers focused on the story telling more instead of making her look human. And the parts where she struggled to walk through the thick snow is so un needed.
+Vladimira92 They tried too hard to give Lara dept in the new games. But when I saw the first scene as Child in my opinion Lara already showed enough feelings as a human being by cutting the rope and save a man from wolves she just met and even checked if he's still alive. It's much better than making her a Whiney girl with weaknesses and fears.
SaberRexZealot totally. Should’ve been kept in the remake. I mean based on the race that is the search for the scion, she didn’t get sleep since Vilcabamba. So, yeah
The moment is a masterpiece. Apparently the animators knew the meaning of working your ass off till you crumble asleep. When I was a Kid I remember I thought that was brillant to shows main character's complete vulnerability on the enemies' boat. I love that the nautical cloth underneath her seems to have absorbed her fatigues, at the end of the scene. Memorable.
I remember being Shocked to find out about Natla. i like Anniversary, but those who never played the original would have easily guessed she was evil from her looks and her voice
cores lara was only tomb raiding because its her hobby and not because she has to follow a legacy like in any crystal dynamics games, wich is LAME AF and this lara has always been so cheesy and cringy, classic lara wanted just some fun man, she gets so much backlash because people are stupid and dislike such simple motivations, plus lara was disowned by her parents and they were alive, she wasn orphaned like in any story that wasnt from core design (movies, comics and the crystal games etc) she wasnt supposed to be realistic either, she is a cartoon character, but a damn cool one, i miss her so much
болтун Yeah I find being disowned more tragic than be an orphan. I don’t understand why ppl can’t accept that some adventurers don’t need a sob story to justify their way of living. Some ppl are born badass.
When I saw this scene where she cuts the rope and let herself fall to try and save her tour guide from the wolves for the first time I was sold. I wanted to be like Lara Croft. And in a way I am Because I have a heart for Adventure.
The dialogues made me laugh “too late for abortions now” Wtf? And I had memories playing this game finished it like a million times lol loved the anniversary version too that was very well remastered
I tried to rewrite the speeches. Who helps me to correct it? (I'm not English) Larson - What's a man got to do to get that kind of attention from you? Lara - It’s hard to say exactly, but you seem to be doing fine. Larson - Well, great, though truth is it ain’t me that wants you. Lara - No? Larson - No! Miss Jacqueline Natla does, from Natla Technologies. You know, creator of all things bright and beautiful. Ahahah Natla - Silent, Larson Larson - Ma’am Natla - Feast your eyes on this, Lara, how does that make your wallet rumble. Lara - I’m sorry, I only play for sport. Nata - Then you like a big park: Peru, vast mountain ranges to cover [percorrere], sheer walls of ice, rocky crags, savage winds and there’s this little trinket. An age-old artifact of mystical power is buried in the unfound tomb of Qualopec. That’s my interest. You could leave tomorrow. Are you busy tomorrow? - Lara - Well, you have my total attention now. I’m not quite sure if I’ve got yours, though, hello! [ma guarda tu] Larson - I’ll heal and hide you to a barn door yet. Lara - Of course… Larson - Yeah, and that driveling piece of the Scion you want to keep it so bad, I’ll harness it right up, you… Lara - Wait, we’re talking about the artifact head. Larson - Damn straight we’re alright (about).. Lara - Hold on, I’m sorry, this piece you say, where’s the rest? Larson - Miss Natla put Pierre Dupont on that trail. Lara - And where is that? Larson - Ah, (you) ain’t fast enough for him. Lara - So you think all this talking is just holding me up!?! Larson - I don’t know where is this little Jackrabbit frog later running in to. You’ll have to ask Miss Natla. Lara - Thank you. I will. - Lara reading - Relocated now to Francis Folly, new temptations torment me. Rumors about my fellow brother says under a tomb beneath our monastery is the body of Tihocan, one of the three legendary rulers of the lost continent Atlantis, and that with him lies his piece of the Atlantic Scion. The pendants divided and shared between the three rulers which curbs tremendous powers. Powers beyond the creator himself. I told sweated such possibilities, I’m so close to my mortal self. Each night I bit myself read at these fantasies, but it is indeed to test. Lara - Pierre, you’re a little bug. - Lara - Here lies Tihocan, one of the two just rulers of Atlantis who even after the curse of the continent had tried to keep rule here in these barren other lands. He died without child and his knowledge has no heritage. Look over us kindly, Tihocan. - Kold - You just pull the duff end of a wishbone. Cowboy leader - Howdy! Lara - Afternoon! Natla - Left Larson sucking wind, damn eh?! Lara - If that is the phrase… Natla - Well, your little vacation right is over now! Time to give back what you’ve hijacked off me. Kold - Let’s try the lunch box Natla - Well, kill her! _ You’re morons! _ Let’s go _ Kold - What the heck was that? Skateboarder kid - What? Kold - That one. Skateboarder kid - Probably just a fish! Kold - Maybe some fish, kid. Skateboarder kid - Than you have got to learn to chill! I’m going back inside. 'r you coming? - Kold - Steady! Skateboarder kid - Here she goes! Natla - We’re ready yet! - Natla - You can’t do this! Qualopec - We condemn you, Natla of Atlantis, for your crimes, with a flagrant misuse of your powers and for robbing as a harm. Natla - You can’t, I … Qualopec - Breaking the three bond of consent there are people are ruled and secured under. And invading Tihocan and myself with our army, our warriors and key for our pyramid, so that you can use the pyramid. Its powers of creation for your own mindless destruction. Natla - Mindless!? Look at you! Neither of you have one squared of inventive juice in your heads. Wasters. Qualopec - Let’s just do it. Natla - Tihocan!? Tihocan - You use the sacramental place as a source of individual pleasure as some freak factory. Natla - There’re survivalist, a new generation. Tihocan - A slaughter till now. And you, we’re going to lock you in limbo, make your veins, heart, feet and that diseased brain stick solid with frozen blood. Breathe you eternal unrest, Natla! Natla - You want restyle all your damn continent Atlantis. - Natla - Back again. Lara - And you? For grand reopening I assume. Natla - Evolution’s in a rut, natural selection at an all-time low, sipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen and advance us, even create new breeds. Lara - Kind of evolution on steroids then. Natla - A kick in the pants. Those runs Qualopec and Tihocan had no idea. The cataclysm of Atlantis struck a race of floundering the wimps. Plummeted them to the very basics of survival again. It shouldn’t happen like that. Lara - Or like this. Voice-over - Hatching commences in 15 seconds. Natla - Too late for abortions now!? Lara - Not without the heart of the operation! Natla - No!! Voice-over - Ten_ Five, four, three, two, one.
The hardest levels for me were the great pyramid and Atlantis levels. It took me forever to finish tomb raider. My favorite games were Tomb raider and God of war
I disagree with you, I think that writers from crystal dynamics tried too hard to give her depth to the point they failed, and imo made her look silly. I liked much older Lara becuase of the fact she was mysterious and unpredictable, and yet her comments were short and witty- like Clint Eastwood. That was fitting for such a person she was, and after so many changes we got 180 degree different character personality wise. Some people like it some, do not. But I might be too nostalgic here.
7:40 came here for this cut scene because my disc won't play it properly (decided to actually beat this game now I'm in my late 20s and not 7, not the easiest of games)
Has anyone noticed that they left out the cutscene where Natla activates the Scion which comes before the cutscene where the top of the pyrimid is revealed? Also I think it's funny where Lara say "Pierre, you litter bug" when she finds the empty baked beans tin next to the campfire in front of the St. Francis Folly entrance. They recreated the same scene in Tomb Raider Anniversary but with a fizzy drinks can instead only it didn't seem as funny when she calls Pierre a litter bug.
wow i feel old watching this lol brings back SO many memories i was 9 when this game came out and it was SO different and ahead of the curve. I remember how excited i was running around her house and making her swim seeing the boxes all around the mansion made me very excited....still a classic game and to survive in the original tomb raider you had to be good at the game now they've made her jumps and etc automatic taking the thrill out of actually making the jumps like in the ps1 games!!
I played this game on my Sega Saturn a long while ago, when my English listening was very poor and I was able to understand so very feel, but some lines of the dialogues are soooo intact in my mind (the last dialogue between Lara and Natla, the "thank you, I will" in the scene with Larson...). I've just finished playing the Anniversary remake (yeah, a litte too late, but I'm not a hard gamer I play only ocasionally) and although there are improvements to the storytelling, some things are definetely better in the original XD
Classic. I'd still play it today if I haven't lost it O.o lol I remember knowing all the words in the cut scenes, and I will never forget those blue floating diamonds.. What a sign of relief haha
I've no objections to any of the improvements of Lara Croft's looks--all but one: I miss that wonderful snarl on her face when she's angry. To me, that was the best part of her personality.
1:04 I love how she turns her head to Larson even though she's on webcam
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its kinda like a cartoon lol
now you know where the inspiration came from for every single webcam conversation in big bang theory
@@TheMylittletony Oh wow didn't notice until now, I'm certainly very proud haha :3
Natla’s special that way. 😂
Ah the good old times when cutscene was a reward, not a punishment for every 5 steps you take.
That's what I was thinking. Every cutscene I enjoy it so much after so much effort in each level.
Too be honest, FMVs are gone...!
+Fernie Fernandez
Not quite. Some games still use them.
Which one?
+Fernie Fernandez
Command & Conquer 4 as for one and I believe Alan Wake used them too.
In '96 this was absolutely mind blowing to my teenage brain. The first true 3D game I'd ever played.
Remember when we all dreamed of the day that realtime graphics would look as good as these cut scenes 🤣
And we got them with Tekken Tag Tournament for PS2. The best graphics to year 2006. If PS2 had HDR the visuals would be pure CGI fest.
I have to disagree. PS2 graphics were choppy. Not as clean as the pre-recorded CGI of say… Final Fantasy 9
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PS3 was the first console to look as good as PS1’s prerecorded movies/FMVs
I remember thinking that ps1 Metal Gear Solid was like playing a movie... NOW look at these new MGS games in comparison omg 😳
@@panthakurai5267Yeah back in 1998 MGS1 was as "cimematic" as you could get I still play it even now tbh
I've never seen another piece of media create a Ancient-Egyptianesque-Cyberpunk race like the Atlantian rulers. You'd think people would get on that awesomeness.
+Zak Ras Yeah I love the aesthetic Qualopec and Tihocan had going on.
Zak Ras, they could, but they'd fuck it up.
Indiana Jones games also had mutants created in Atlantis... but it was never THIS weirdly depicted, as a place.
They kind of did that with the last Indiana Jones movie and a bit in Uncharted 3. Not nearly as interestingly though.
Fantastic ! The tomb raider that started it all. 20 years ago tomb raider and Lara croft came into our lives.she is the queen and First Lady of PlayStation.
+Ravinder2220 Queen of Playstation is more than enough.
And on Sega Saturn as well, where I played it. Although I admit no one would want to be remembered as queen for that...
Say what you want about the graphics, or the supernaturally themed story line, but I genuinely miss games like this from this era. Fantasy meets action-adventure. It was unreal and that was the point! It captivated in a world of its own. It provided an escape. And it was comical but at the same time so gripping.
Imo Tomb Raider was much better with supernaturally themed storylines.
I remember how hard to follow the story was, but it gets rewarding once you put the pieces all together to find it out by yourself.
Basically Silent Hill
I thought tomb raider never was the same again after core. The way it controlled, the milimeter precision jumps, the maze like level designs giving such satisfaction when you cracked the puzzles. Everything became more streamlined for the casual player and handholding the standard. The last good tomb raider was the last revelation and even chronicles.
If you can look past Angel of Darkness cliches it was a decent game, too. I wish they would had enough time to develope it properly. But the creators were already burned out with The Last Revelation. I loved the story and darker atmosphere and had the best Lara Model.
First Tomb Raider is still my #1 game.
The tank controls were outdated when AOD came out.
Natla: *Too late for abortions now* LMAO
+SL Chi *Lara:* _[pulls out pistol]_ Not without the heart of the operation.
AlTheGameFreak And now... A Giant mutant approached !!
Simone Perez *Frantically runs around in circles stuck on a very high up square looking platform, pumping the creature full of every bullet Lara has in her guns*
Lara: "As a feminist, I'm all for late abortions". 💀😅
7:45 is the best cutscene!
Larson: "Howdy."
Lara: 'Afternoon.' looooool
And Natla was hilarious too.
d j wasnt larson
yea we killed larson in the previous level >:)
That was the Cowboy not Larson
@d j *Natla:* Left Larson sucking wind, then, eh?
@@Arcader-cs9bs If that is the phrase 😏
I absolutely LOVE how Lara is presented in this original game. Not too long ago I didn't care much about the whole TR franchise, but after deciding to see what all the 'hoohaa' was about, I decided to give it a shot, going through the games in release order. Lara is now my favorite character. :O Currently playing Legend. Gosh she's so cool and presented in such a human/realistic way and details (for a super athletic, intelligent archaeologist).
I find her corny in legends. And the whole search for her mother was boring Here she's the best and no emotions to make her seem more human just a strong Woman.
+Emma Frost Lol, the original Lara was badass and I love her, but she's a sociopath. I agree the whole Mother and Father Arc Anniversary/Legend/Underworld had going on was annoying, but someone can be made human without being obnoxious. Take the newest incarnation of Lara for example. She's not annoying, the only thing I have a problem with is she completely lacks the original Lara's verbal cleverness, wit and sarcasm.
Joey Matheny I don't see lara as a sociopath because she tried to save her travel guide from the wolves. Just badass with sass ontop.
@@missxmarvel well, not everyone is going to like all the stories. Legends was cool overall and underworld was great. As a game new Tomb raider is good but it may as well be called Dark Island adventure and Lara may as well be called Cindy or Terry because she is so drastically different in that game in both design and and personality. Whatever reason or excuse they had for changing her is all kind of foolish if they change her this much. She used to be a larger than life super heroine with a very iconic look, now she is more average or bland (still "good looking" if you want to put it that way) but lacking the appeal and strength of underworld and before. this game she clearly looks like a doll because of graphical limitations but at least she had one female enemy. the new one it's her vs a bunch of men which adds nothing to the idea of a woman being strong.
@@dimitripapadopoulos5180 Thank you for the reply. To be honest this is the Lara I always looked up to and want to be like her. and its even mentioned in her original bio that only traveling makes her truly happy and I could relate to that so much,but now what's left of Lara to admire? She hardly used her quick thinking,her wit,her ability to remain calm while ambused ect. With other words she's replaced by a scream factory and a whiney woman who does nothing but moan.
10:02 i always thought it was kinda cute(?) that lara just fell asleep in natlas ship lol
I think so too ♡ She was so tired :'(
@@funandlala this hard working woman deserves some rest, it shows she is just human after all and i like that
@@belosneshkaaaa same here ♡ I love her ♡
Same. ☺️ I always thought that part was cute.
I think that was the moment I realised I had a crush on her as a 10 yr old lol.
5:54 "Pierre, you litter bug"
Proceeds to shoot 3000 endangered species.
Maybe so but at least she doesn't drop her soda can on the floor😂(yeah I know I just reworded your joke but hey. Can't be hundred percent original every single comment lol)
The way Natla says the line "wasters" is kind of funny to me. 😁
yeah it was kind of a childish insult she should have said something like "fools you dont know what potential we are wasting" or something like that
@@7dogguy I prefer just 'wasters' personally, it's childish like her character, and she knows she's screwed so she doesn't bother to reason with them.
I still like this more than any other TR-game. I remember how amazing it was the first time I played it, you don't get that feeling with new games, they are so much alike, boring, and they may look prettier but lack that "I can't stop yet, have to play a few minutes more"-feeling☺
facts anniversary pales in comparison
I played this Tomb Raider for the first time in 2015 and was blown away by how much fun I had with an almost 20 year old game.
+SnitchSeeker
It's cool to hear that people today can still appreciate psychotically complex level design and fairly unique stories
The last game to give me that feeling was mass effect 1. That game just sucks you into it's world and the strategic gameplay had me always thinking about it. Unfortunately the 2nd one just went all mainstream and took away strategy for more run and gun cause to appeal to the masses you have to make games for stupid people. OG playstation was back when developers were just being creative and weren't answering to some big business overlords demanding games be like everything else to make money + dlc and microtransactions. Good games are still made but in general greed kills creativity and it's had a major effect on the gaming industry.
Yeah I miss the days where games actually challenged you and made you think instead of giving everything away and literally telling you where to go Lol
Dang I feel like crying, Lara you were always the role model I needed.
Mine too. ❤️
9:45 Gotta love how Natla's expensive yacht is powered by a hot-bulb engine (typical sound) which is normally found in old fishing boats. :) Hot-bulb engines sit between old steam engines and modern diesels. They were cheap, rudimentary and can run on crude oil and virtually every poorly combustible fuel such as vegetable oil, kerosene, creosote, heck some even ran on used engine oil(!). For this reason they were obviously popular with poor fishermen.
I'd say that whoever was responsible for the sound design of the first Tomb Raider game just went down to the local port and recorded a few fishing boats passing by and then labeled them "boat sound". It's funny to hear an old fishing boat sound with Natla's expensive yacht.
This is really interesting, thanks for the info!
Wow, like tractors! Here in Italy a common tractor back in the day was the "TestaCalda" (Hot-headed) Landini, which had a hot-bulb engine!
Sounds like a clamming boat lol
Because I was young and stupid (and the storyline was very vague) I thought for years that Larson was the man killed by wolves. I then thought he was killed again when Lara kicked him. I also thought he got killed a third time in Sanctuary of the Scion. I was a very confused child.
Why would you think the guy killed by the wolves was Larrson? I just called him Peter Andre lol
Onmysheet Because..... as I said in the comment you were replying to: I was young and stupid (and the storyline was very vague) The cutscenes went straight from Lara talking to Larson to Lara with this new man who had absolutely no introduction, and my five year old brain didn't go "Oooh, a guide!" it went "Oooh, Larson went with her!" Seeing him pop up at the end of the Peru levels kind of confirmed this to me, despite it really making things more confusing :)
From the beginning of TR1 opening, that wasn't Larson :P
At least from remake TRA, you get to see him die.
NarlieGemini01 Eh? It was Larson! :)
I try to rewind and stopped from 2:36, and no, that's still not Larson... but I don't blame you because you did put "I was young and stupid." When I was kid from 10 or 11 year old, I was confuse how did Larson survive and reappear in another TR game :P lol
Twenty years of Tomb Raider (today, 10/25/2016). I love this franchise!
9:47 As kid, this scene always questioned me how Natla's men were not able to detect Lara climbing behind the boat; especially right when the guy says that final line "...you coming.," It made me assume the skateboard guy was about to turn around and catch her at that moment. Oh well, gotta love the 90s
I love how the "secret" track plays at 6:30 :D Such a pity they left that out in Anniversary.
Not exactly.
When Natla says "Seal it, Larson," how come she turns her head over to him? She's in the computer and yet she looks over to him as if she's in the same room as him.
She knows he's behind the laptop, probably not the first time it's happened.
I saw that when it came out in 96! XD
the computer has a camera and she can also hear where he is standing
I mean we could also comment on how she makes money fall from the ceiling on cue but it's a game. It adds to the cheesy quality.
because she an atleantean god ofcourse.. she sees them regardless. they needed the laptop to see her not the otherway round.. Notice she also reacts to larson even before she was live or larson even opened the laptop. Definitely intentional. In the end she has wings
I really like Lara's voice here :)
Man, I played the hell out of this game on the Sega Saturn. I used to watch these cutscenes in complete awe. I also loved tomb raider II a couple of years later (played it on the PC) but I liked the first game's atmosphere better, especially the indoor scenes.
I've always wanted to see how Lara gets bigfoot.
YES! They should have done that in Tomb Raider Chronicles when showing Lara's past adventures.
Maybe we will get to see that now that they're "unifying the timelines"
@@deejmeht2338 what’s this?
@@user-ui5kq7xb1w It's basically putting all versions of Lara into one, that would I assume connect reboot universe and classic Lara universe, if that makes sense.
The most epic "NO" in the TR-History!!!!
12:57
Of all the things that age poorly with most PS1 games, Tomb Raider has always had at least decent voice acting. The character stereotypes are a little weird but they did get competent voice actors on this one.
@@MrNiceguy3210 Keep in mind that the voice actors didn't knew how characters express emotions on the cutscenes. They didn't saw the game. It was way too hard for them back then.
Thank you for uploading this. Haven’t seen them for the best part of 25 years!
I want to make a retro game with cutscene graphics like this just for the feel of it.
Jason Lopez any idea on how to do it? Looking to make an animation with the cutscene style graphics also
@@blk1048 go to trle.net, there are thousands of tomb raider custom levels for free (some of them with cutscenes), also the tomb editor program for free to create your own tomb raider level.
Probably a game with some of the best cutscenes ever featured in video games
6:35 What a beautiful soundtrack ♡
Neal Acree still works in the gaming industry! So good.
Ah, good memories. It was really an amazing twist when you found out that Jacklene was the disgraced ruler of Atlantis who escaped her ice prison and is now trying to take back over the world. It's a good story.
As a kid I was baffled they didn't use it for the original movie.
I remember this being one of my first PlayStation games, along with crash bandicoot & croc. Got to the first door with lever and didn't know what to do. I was young OK. Still playing it to this day. If only I could become the first ginger tomb raider X-D
Same all i did was the tutorial level when i was a kid XP
I just beat this and croc this year lmao croc 2 sucks though I might try it again but god what I played was a chore so far.
@@7dogguy Croc 2 was great, never played Croc 1 though.
Watching after playing TR Anniversary
me too
12:56
That was so fucking abrupt it’s hysterical
I just got Tomb Raider Collector's Edition as my Hanukkah present last year and I couldn't be much more happier. This was one of my personal favorite 90's game. TR3 was my first game, never passed first level when I was a kid. And then the first game, T-rex use to scared me from my 8 years old age, I use to yelled "Jonathan, do it! Do it, do it, I can't take it anymore!!" lol
I don't care what anyone says, the dialogue in this game is miles ahead of Anniversary imo. It's strange and was extremely hard to follow as a kid, but I love how bizarre it all sounds. It's dry as hell, but has a real charm to it. You don't hear dialogue like this anymore since everyone is too busy watering everything down to make it easier for everyone to understand. Anniversary took such a cliche route. If I wanted cliche Hollywood dialogue there are a million other games that did it, and did it much better than Anniversary. This though? This is one of a kind. I adore Anniversary for what it is, but I can't help but be biased against it when this classic is compared lol.
I like the voice acting in the original too. Especially from Natla
Why do you say it's miles ahead? And what's so bizarre, dry and hard to follow about it? It's pretty straight forward
+2OOPoVstrechnoy yeah... uhm. I don't understand your point... I played both...
I love you, marry me?
+Underthegun897 Maybe as kids it's was a bit hard. I didn't understand what Natla meant with too late for abortions now! Since I didn't know what abortion was as a 4 year old but I do think the dialogue is less cheesy and no whining compared to the latest edition.
4:35 Wachowskis totally stole that.
Eh it came full circle when Chronicles ripped off the Matrix
8:30 You couldn't pause during a cutscene... Now you can, thanks to TH-cam 😁
Tomb Raider games are still awesome. I thought playing them today wouldn't be the same, maybe they were good games because I had good memories of them. But after i bought them on GOG, I must say they are still entertaining and with some exceptions, miles ahead the new iterations of the franchise, mainly because the gameplay now is really generic. I really love exploration, puzzles, the constant feeling of being alone in those claustrofobic tombs... The simple graphic is charming, in a way. Some moments stil scares me. Great series, It would be awesome to have new games like this.
The latest disappointed still. Too much drama and no decent story telling.
Emma Frost
Are you talking about "Rise of the Tomb Raider"?
+Vladimira92 Yeah and the previous one I was hoping for beautiful atmosphere. And see what modern graphics can do to realistic nature. Like Thailand in Underworld And nice ancient locations like in Tr1 and2. And the tension factor of tr1 not only that but the story telling is the most important part. Lara in the beginning had adventures because she was hired or just for travel. In her original bio it says she only feels happy the fullest when she travels. I wished developers focused on the story telling more instead of making her look human. And the parts where she struggled to walk through the thick snow is so un needed.
+Emma Frost yeah, I totally agree, she would be a much more interesting character, imho.
+Vladimira92 They tried too hard to give Lara dept in the new games. But when I saw the first scene as Child in my opinion Lara already showed enough feelings as a human being by cutting the rope and save a man from wolves she just met and even checked if he's still alive. It's much better than making her a Whiney girl with weaknesses and fears.
10:00 that’s the most adorable, wholesome thing in a video game
SaberRexZealot totally. Should’ve been kept in the remake. I mean based on the race that is the search for the scion, she didn’t get sleep since Vilcabamba. So, yeah
As a kid I worried that Natla would spot her resting. Yeah it’s a nice moment.
The moment is a masterpiece. Apparently the animators knew the meaning of working your ass off till you crumble asleep. When I was a Kid I remember I thought that was brillant to shows main character's complete vulnerability on the enemies' boat. I love that the nautical cloth underneath her seems to have absorbed her fatigues, at the end of the scene. Memorable.
11:18 "Wasters" lmaooo
1996 please ! It's A masterpiece
man i feel antique myself now..
Bloody hell, we've come a LONG way in the last 18 years.
yep, and not for the better
***** Ohhh nvm you're just a troll
Indeed.
this game is harder to complete than any of the new tomb raiders they put out today
4:13 What a hunk, lol...
I agree but Natla's voice in this is far better than the one in Anniversary and Underworld.
Those loading screens when she's stood in front of the tomb doors is so iconic
Am I the only one that actually really likes the voice acting in this game?
It's great. Has a lot of charm.
I remember being Shocked to find out about Natla. i like Anniversary, but those who never played the original would have easily guessed she was evil from her looks and her voice
Back then: Badass Lara is simply badass
Current games: Whimpy Lara bc of too much unnecessary soap opera background story
Yeah. That one line 'I only play for sport' described her completely. She was cold blooded in the originals.
Im hoping in the next new series Lara will be more like her old self
The Sexy Skywalker I doubt it.
cores lara was only tomb raiding because its her hobby and not because she has to follow a legacy like in any crystal dynamics games, wich is LAME AF and this lara has always been so cheesy and cringy, classic lara wanted just some fun man, she gets so much backlash because people are stupid and dislike such simple motivations, plus lara was disowned by her parents and they were alive, she wasn orphaned like in any story that wasnt from core design (movies, comics and the crystal games etc) she wasnt supposed to be realistic either, she is a cartoon character, but a damn cool one, i miss her so much
болтун Yeah I find being disowned more tragic than be an orphan. I don’t understand why ppl can’t accept that some adventurers don’t need a sob story to justify their way of living. Some ppl are born badass.
I remember when I recorded these FMV-s to VHS with one of my friend. :)
When I saw this scene where she cuts the rope and let herself fall to try and save her tour guide from the wolves for the first time I was sold.
I wanted to be like Lara Croft. And in a way I am
Because I have a heart for Adventure.
1:00 wireless internet and video conference in 1996? Fine products of Natla Technologies I suppose.
I think it's set in the future, or at least that's what I figured.
The richest of the rich actually had that back in the 90's
Also theres something so natural and calming about Shelley Blondes voice. She is amazing
Going back, I appreciate her input even more than ever. Definitely, feels like a younger more refined take.
4:20 love the cutscene
The dialogues made me laugh “too late for abortions now” Wtf? And I had memories playing this game finished it like a million times lol loved the anniversary version too that was very well remastered
She meant that you couldn't stop the mutant from being born
I tried to rewrite the speeches. Who helps me to correct it? (I'm not English)
Larson - What's a man got to do to get that kind of attention from you?
Lara - It’s hard to say exactly, but you seem to be doing fine.
Larson - Well, great, though truth is it ain’t me that wants you.
Lara - No?
Larson - No! Miss Jacqueline Natla does, from Natla Technologies. You know, creator of all things bright and beautiful. Ahahah
Natla - Silent, Larson
Larson - Ma’am
Natla - Feast your eyes on this, Lara, how does that make your wallet rumble.
Lara - I’m sorry, I only play for sport.
Nata - Then you like a big park: Peru, vast mountain ranges to cover [percorrere], sheer walls of ice, rocky crags, savage winds and there’s this little trinket. An age-old artifact of mystical power is buried in the unfound tomb of Qualopec. That’s my interest. You could leave tomorrow. Are you busy tomorrow?
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Lara - Well, you have my total attention now. I’m not quite sure if I’ve got yours, though, hello! [ma guarda tu]
Larson - I’ll heal and hide you to a barn door yet.
Lara - Of course…
Larson - Yeah, and that driveling piece of the Scion you want to keep it so bad, I’ll harness it right up, you…
Lara - Wait, we’re talking about the artifact head.
Larson - Damn straight we’re alright (about)..
Lara - Hold on, I’m sorry, this piece you say, where’s the rest?
Larson - Miss Natla put Pierre Dupont on that trail.
Lara - And where is that?
Larson - Ah, (you) ain’t fast enough for him.
Lara - So you think all this talking is just holding me up!?!
Larson - I don’t know where is this little Jackrabbit frog later running in to. You’ll have to ask Miss Natla.
Lara - Thank you. I will.
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Lara reading - Relocated now to Francis Folly, new temptations torment me. Rumors about my fellow brother says under a tomb beneath our monastery is the body of Tihocan, one of the three legendary rulers of the lost continent Atlantis, and that with him lies his piece of the Atlantic Scion. The pendants divided and shared between the three rulers which curbs tremendous powers. Powers beyond the creator himself. I told sweated such possibilities, I’m so close to my mortal self. Each night I bit myself read at these fantasies, but it is indeed to test.
Lara - Pierre, you’re a little bug.
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Lara - Here lies Tihocan, one of the two just rulers of Atlantis who even after the curse of the continent had tried to keep rule here in these barren other lands. He died without child and his knowledge has no heritage. Look over us kindly, Tihocan.
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Kold - You just pull the duff end of a wishbone.
Cowboy leader - Howdy!
Lara - Afternoon!
Natla - Left Larson sucking wind, damn eh?!
Lara - If that is the phrase…
Natla - Well, your little vacation right is over now! Time to give back what you’ve hijacked off me.
Kold - Let’s try the lunch box
Natla - Well, kill her! _ You’re morons! _ Let’s go
_
Kold - What the heck was that?
Skateboarder kid - What?
Kold - That one.
Skateboarder kid - Probably just a fish!
Kold - Maybe some fish, kid.
Skateboarder kid - Than you have got to learn to chill! I’m going back inside. 'r you coming?
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Kold - Steady!
Skateboarder kid - Here she goes!
Natla - We’re ready yet!
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Natla - You can’t do this!
Qualopec - We condemn you, Natla of Atlantis, for your crimes, with a flagrant misuse of your powers and for robbing as a harm.
Natla - You can’t, I …
Qualopec - Breaking the three bond of consent there are people are ruled and secured under. And invading Tihocan and myself with our army, our warriors and key for our pyramid, so that you can use the pyramid. Its powers of creation for your own mindless destruction.
Natla - Mindless!? Look at you! Neither of you have one squared of inventive juice in your heads. Wasters.
Qualopec - Let’s just do it.
Natla - Tihocan!?
Tihocan - You use the sacramental place as a source of individual pleasure as some freak factory.
Natla - There’re survivalist, a new generation.
Tihocan - A slaughter till now. And you, we’re going to lock you in limbo, make your veins, heart, feet and that diseased brain stick solid with frozen blood. Breathe you eternal unrest, Natla!
Natla - You want restyle all your damn continent Atlantis.
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Natla - Back again.
Lara - And you? For grand reopening I assume.
Natla - Evolution’s in a rut, natural selection at an all-time low, sipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen and advance us, even create new breeds.
Lara - Kind of evolution on steroids then.
Natla - A kick in the pants. Those runs Qualopec and Tihocan had no idea. The cataclysm of Atlantis struck a race of floundering the wimps. Plummeted them to the very basics of survival again. It shouldn’t happen like that.
Lara - Or like this.
Voice-over - Hatching commences in 15 seconds.
Natla - Too late for abortions now!?
Lara - Not without the heart of the operation!
Natla - No!!
Voice-over - Ten_ Five, four, three, two, one.
I thought she broke the "three bond of consent."
It was 'Lunch Box' not 'Munchbox'
Such an awesome revenge line "You won't rest either, or damned continent Atantis.
When I was little I thought the wolves were robotic wolves because of the graphics 😅
It makes sense! xD
Damn, that explosion completely deleted the entire island.
This is.. just.. nostalgia pura.
This is from the era of the best games.
The hardest levels for me were the great pyramid and Atlantis levels. It took me forever to finish tomb raider. My favorite games were Tomb raider and God of war
This game is what set off my gaming days...
6:36 my favourite story in the game
Those were the days.
I wonder that women who did the counting in pyramid "hatching comences in 15 seconds"...did she survived? :)
I disagree with you, I think that writers from crystal dynamics tried too hard to give her depth to the point they failed, and imo made her look silly. I liked much older Lara becuase of the fact she was mysterious and unpredictable, and yet her comments were short and witty- like Clint Eastwood. That was fitting for such a person she was, and after so many changes we got 180 degree different character personality wise. Some people like it some, do not. But I might be too nostalgic here.
9:01 12 years later, this move on the motorbike was finally incorporated into gameplay in Tomb Raider: Underworld (Jan Mayen Island).
7:40 came here for this cut scene because my disc won't play it properly (decided to actually beat this game now I'm in my late 20s and not 7, not the easiest of games)
Bike sounds are so well made for being a 1996 game, awe
In the process of playing this game and after all these years...I STILL LOVE IT!!! I by far in the most difficult of locations "Egypt"
This brings so many good memories of the good old times 😭✨❤️
The start of a legendary series.
Thank you for these! :)
Everyone of these lines is iconic. Anyone who knows me knows I recite these phrases daily
"Pierre ... you litterbug." Dunno why, but when I heard her say litterbug, it used to just melt me.
Has anyone noticed that they left out the cutscene where Natla activates the Scion which comes before the cutscene where the top of the pyrimid is revealed? Also I think it's funny where Lara say "Pierre, you litter bug" when she finds the empty baked beans tin next to the campfire in front of the St. Francis Folly entrance. They recreated the same scene in Tomb Raider Anniversary but with a fizzy drinks can instead only it didn't seem as funny when she calls Pierre a litter bug.
The plot is thusly described as this: The Scion is missing, are you a bad enough dudette to find it?
The voice actress for Lara seems to be the only one putting effort into her voice acting than the rest of the characters in this game.
Megatron 2000 I dunno, Natla is pretty strong wouldn’t you say? That “You won’t rest either-“ is my fave line read in the game. Plus her “NO”
Well it was hard back then to voice a characters in games. Imagine putting a voice lines without actually seeing the cutscenes or characters emotions.
This scripts more entertaining than the anniversary one. And this Natla had a better voice actor.
I love how she's in her gear and got her guns in the Hotel at the start.
10:01 Lara Croft napping? back when Lara showed signs of being a normal human being just like you and me.
wow i feel old watching this lol brings back SO many memories i was 9 when this game came out and it was SO different and ahead of the curve. I remember how excited i was running around her house and making her swim seeing the boxes all around the mansion made me very excited....still a classic game and to survive in the original tomb raider you had to be good at the game now they've made her jumps and etc automatic taking the thrill out of actually making the jumps like in the ps1 games!!
I love how Lara kept 3:40 kept stopping him from finishing his sentence lol
Would rather face the T-Rex on a regular basis, than these freaky jumping mummies...now where's my mummy, haha
Those Mummies Made Me Shit My Pants As A Kid.
I played this game on my Sega Saturn a long while ago, when my English listening was very poor and I was able to understand so very feel, but some lines of the dialogues are soooo intact in my mind (the last dialogue between Lara and Natla, the "thank you, I will" in the scene with Larson...). I've just finished playing the Anniversary remake (yeah, a litte too late, but I'm not a hard gamer I play only ocasionally) and although there are improvements to the storytelling, some things are definetely better in the original XD
14:10 love that soundtrack... So peaceful
Reminds me to Jesus... ( personal opinion)...
9:45 Why is this scene hilarious to me? XD
The original Natla's voice is so striking. A angry and arrogant stance.
also, always wanted to know who's the voice actress
My favorite scene starts @7:29
I had absolutely no idea what the storyline to this game was for many years. Talk about vague!
3:23 I LOVE HER EYEBROW RAISE SO MUCH LMAOAO
The music at 6:40 is featured in TR3!
Classic. I'd still play it today if I haven't lost it
O.o lol I remember knowing all the words in the cut scenes, and I will never forget those blue floating diamonds.. What a sign of relief haha
Back in the day, this was mindblowing like a playable movie. Tomb Raider's cinematics walked so MGS's could run a few years later
Years ago, when I didn't pay attention to the story. How times do change in life.
I love the dialogue in this game, it's so much better than the Anniversary version
I've no objections to any of the improvements of Lara Croft's looks--all but one: I miss that wonderful snarl on her face when she's angry. To me, that was the best part of her personality.
Ah, the nostalgia.