oh yeah, btw, this is purely a Tomb Raider fan account now (cw eye contact) https://awoo.space/media/OrNBb7nV93dXSXAFj8Q
The old movies do have their strong parts, like, for instance, Angelina Jolie who plays Original Lara really well. I mean there's also the plot, but as an okay action movie they're both a good time. The first one is way better though https://awoo.space/media/6wQdvdDtBhRruBkvf9Q
but let's get back to the games, which all had some high-polygon-count renders to go with them. No pointy bits here! (technically, everything from 2 on was non-pointy, but hey, that classic triangle boob look is still a meme)
Obligatory level editor appreciation post! I really need to play with this more. The Tomb Raider Level Editor came on the game disc (I think 4 and 5, but I'm not sure?) and it's the exact tool the designers used to build the game's levels. It was (and still is) also available online. It comes with a great tutorial written by one of the designers which includes interesting bits about the design of the levels in the actual games.
Not much to be said about this one. It's bad. The game is bad. They tried to make a new, advanced Tomb Raider but they ran out of time and it shows everywhere. Still an interesting entry in the series and the title that led to the first reboot
I think I'll continue this tomorrow by talking about this gem! For now, good night, Masto!
@noiob those glorious wiggly textures ;w;
@Nine I wonder why this is running in Playstation simulation mode
@noiob Probably to make sure it looks right in game, because I imagine it's possible for things to look even weirder so they'd want it to display as accurately as possible to what it would appear like on real hardware? maybe?
@Nine but, uh, there's a PC version? Which isn't supposed to look that way? It's been a while since I used it but I'm pretty sure it didn't look that way on my computer
@noiob Ah yes, the game that killed Core Design. 
@Jo They kinda have themselves to blame. All the veteran devs worked on TR5 and the new folks on AoD and when TR5 was done they found out that actually, it's pretty hard to make a whole new video game and nothing was done for AoD
i have a soft spot for this one. it IS bad but... i don't know. it's one of those things where I know everything about it is bad but it's my sort of trash so I'm happy
@noiob Definitely 5 at least. I have a copy that should still work, which is more than van be said for the actual game disc. 
@Jo oh no! I have a copy of TR5 that came on a bonus DVD for the first movie. I'm not sure if the level editor is on there, too, but it does come with a shitty DVD game 😆
The level editor will open the actual game's files, I think, which is super cool if you wanna see how they work. There's also a ton of fan-created levels online, including those that were made with a fan-patched version of the TRLE, allowing for more complex modelling and mechanics