Tomb Raider was over rated

[KenshiroX]

I found Dreamcast controllers uncomfortable too.

[Psy]

I actually liked the N64 controller. I thought it worked well with the platform games, FPS games like Goldeneye and flying games like Star Fox 64. I found nothing wrong with the stick in the middle and the Z button below. I also really like the N64 and feel it was under rated and never got the 3rd party attention it deserved. Much like the Dreamcast I saw much more potential in the system esp with the extra 4MB of RAM and high resolution modes. Games like Star Wars Rouge Squadron, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and Perfect Dark in high resolution modes really proved what the system was capable of. Goldeneye even tho it didn't take advantage of the RAM upgrade or high res mode still looked far and above anything on the PSX with full 3D characters and guns and better textures for the time.

The N64 has a steep learning curve for developers like the Sega Saturn. While the Saturn is hard to program because it requires complex code to tell each component of the Saturn what to do, the N64 is hard to program because it requires highly efficient code to get around bottle necks in the system like the CPU having slow access to the RAM.

the Public as well as some developers looked down on the N64 for using cartridges in a CD-ROM based world. But you know what? I loved the fact Nintendo had the balls to try and push the better format at the time. No load times, no read errors or scratched CD's and still having the ability to save your game in the cart. Resident Evil 2 was the biggest N64 cart made and had all the FMV sequences of the PSX version. Resident Evil 2 also boasted a high res mode with the optional RAM pack. I thought that was great but the fact is Nintendo made much less profit off their cartridge games. They had to keep prices competitive yet it costs them 3 or 4 times more to make a game on a cartridge. Really even if they only cost $10 on average that's still a HUGE amount more than a CD would have cost to make at the time. Bigger games like RE2 I'm sure also cost WAY more to make as the cartridge at the time was quite large.

The Neo-Geo AVS kinda showed capacity problem with carts way before the N64.

I didn't like the N64 at the time. I admit I had a PSX and I was biased. I loved Mario64 and played it when it came out but overall I was always ripping on the N64 and supporting Sony. Its in looking back that I realize how wrong I was. There was many great games for the N64 but it had even more potential. You have to be honest here. I hated Sega when I was young. In grade school all my friends and most of my classmates had the NES and then the SNES. No one had a SMS and few had the Genesis. We all hated Sega but this was just the way it was in GS for us! I laughed at the 32x at the time but once again in looking back and thinking of the potential it had... things are different!!

I didn't have that problem, the Genesis kiosks were everywhere when I growing up so most kids wanted both the SNES and Genesis and running into someone that said "Genesis sucked" could easily be solved by taking them to one of the Genesis kiosks and telling them to give it a chance.

[evildragon]

holy fucking shit!

someone get his ip address!

[Benjamin]

People need to remember that true 3-D gameplay was still pretty new to consoles back then, and many developers were experimenting with a number of control schemes. Core just found it practical to control Lara like a Battlezone tank at the time.

Tomb Raider still has a great atmosphere about it, though the pixelated textures made spotting some things difficult for me. It's more a 3-D Metroid than a 3-D Mario or Sonic and should be considered as such, which the gameplay built around exploration as opposed to actual platforming challenges.

[108 Stars]

Damn, how could I miss the disgusting porn?

[Mr Smith]

Damn, how could I miss the disgusting porn?

Agreed. Can somebody post it again?

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

Yeah, what gives?

[TmEE]

personal satisfaction to some people ?

[dragonboy]

You guys don't want to see it.

It has pictures of poop comming out of big hairy butts.

I can't believe you'd want to see that crap.

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

Hahahah

[j_factor]

People need to remember that true 3-D gameplay was still pretty new to consoles back then, and many developers were experimenting with a number of control schemes. Core just found it practical to control Lara like a Battlezone tank at the time.

I really don't think the control scheme is a problem at all. What is a bit problematic control-wise is that the "tiles" are too big. But the basic controls are practically the same as RE4, which few complained about.

Tomb Raider still has a great atmosphere about it, though the pixelated textures made spotting some things difficult for me. It's more a 3-D Metroid than a 3-D Mario or Sonic and should be considered as such, which the gameplay built around exploration as opposed to actual platforming challenges.

I always thought of Tomb Raider as the successor to games like Flashback. And I found it to be much better than Fade to Black.

[108 Stars]

You guys don't want to see it.

It has pictures of poop comming out of big hairy butts.

I can't believe you'd want to see that crap.

What? I only made these pics of me for private use!

[dragonboy]

Now I know more about 108Stars than I ever wanted to know.

[Mr Smith]

Lies! You can never know too much about 108 Stars. Each post is an insight to his great wisdom and you should consider yourself honoured/both.

[dragonboy]

Maybe I don't want his wisdom?