#CRYSTAL DYNAMICS

[laracroftdaily]

Trinity was a secret society that manipulated the world for monetary gain. Then they killed your father because he got in the way of that, when you were just a child. When I was 12, my father was murdered in Paris by a secret society who call themselves the Light.

TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT 1.03

[malice-kingdom]

Natasha and Tony is always a fun duo !

[vgadvisor]

[retrogamelovers]

One of my favorite retro gaming advertisements

[scarstarved]

LEGACY OF KAIN: SOUL REAVER 1 & 2 REMASTERED 2024 | devs. Aspyr, Crystal Dynamics

[acecroft]

TOMB RAIDER I-II-III Remastered Release date February 14th, 2024

[a-bluedream-posts]

Lara Croft by NoEskape

[posterano]

Raziel is the most knowledgeable about this place, Termogentforest (Black Forest) or Nosgoth Seasons

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Gex: Enter the Gecko

"They could have taken anything. His home. His pride. Even his freedom. But they took away television. Now it's personal." (IGN64.com The Magazine #1, 1998)

[arcadebroke]

Perfect Dark

[laracroftdaily]

TOMB RAIDER IV-VI REMASTERED by Crystal Dynamics & Aspyr

[Coming to all platforms on February 14th, 2025]

[malice-kingdom]

I know the Marvel’s Avengers game came out years ago and is widely unpopular but I really enjoyed it. I just thought the game was fun and the story was really great.

So here have a bunch of sketches about it

[retrogamelovers]

Will we ever get another Legacy of Kain game, remaster, anything?

[positivelyamazonian]

I never realized how much Crystal Dynamics stole content and ideas from Core! Is that even legal? It breaks my heart to learn how many things were stolen from AoD and put into the reboots!

Crystal's behaviour regarding the saga and the franchise have been, if not illegal, at least quite unprofessional from the beginning, spreading fake news and slanders concerning the previous developers of Tomb Raider and not taking professionally their new roles as developers of the franchise.

What anyone would expect from professionals would be, imho, to take what had been already produced and go on with the legacy trying to be quite loyal to the source and spirit of the games, completing what had been left unfinished (that is, TRAOD trilogy and the TR1 remake, at least) and then, go on with their own vision if they might - they were entitled, after all, to their own ideas concerning the franchise -. Instead, TRAOD was left unfinished, its remains and fandom dragged through the mud, some original ideas exploited to their credit and what was left simply canned. All to proceed with a first, then a second reboot that have barely stood to the quality and spirit of the original franchise.

As such, nowadays Tomb Raider is barely recognizable and there's nothing left of the character named Lara Croft, except her very name. It's a shame Crystal didn't live up the expectations of a studio inheriting a legend and an icon, instead, they thought they could be better and acted cockily and disrespectfully, and failed to provide a decent follow-up to the franchise.

Of course there's plenty of people that won't agree with this, but at this point I care little about it. The LAU trilogy or even the survivor reboot could've been nice games if they stood up alone as independent games, but as Tomb Raiders, they are simply not living up the original franchise and character. That strikes simply by the fact they've changed her biography or motivations so many times to the point it's a mess impossible to unify, as they claim to be doing.

For me, Tomb Raider died short after 2003 and it was Crystal Dynamics, and not Core Design, who killed it. Same with Lara Croft.

Well, not just Crystal. Eidos too have their fair share of guilt.

[scribe-of-ariel]

source: PlayStation blog

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Lara Croft #3 by lizschnabel