The "Gex" games rocked, albeit I'll admit they don't hold up well today, considering the super dated 90's humor and references, and the worst camera ever in a platformer. But back in the day, if you didn't have an N64, and Crash Bandicoot was not your thing, Gex owned.

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Not many PS1 games hold up today thats for sure.

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Like think about the playability of FF6 compared to FF7, no comparison imo, for gameplay at least.

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"The 90's were a truly horrible time"

says you, the 90s were definitely better than today and the 80s. maybe not as classic as the 60s or 70s, but definitely an era of lots of amazing things. definitely things like friends, fresh prince, family matters, and seinfield, or tupac, snoop dogg, nirvana, and soundgarden are better than... crap what sitcoms do we even have today? and man dont get me started on music.. t pain, lil wayne, fall out boy, and my chemical romance. ew.

lol anyways.. that game came out just months before the 90s were over anyways.

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yeah.. the snes games and some genesis games look good and always will because they started to hit their true strides with 2d games. i would think that games from now would look passable in years to come because we're finally hitting our stride in 3d.. but at the same time.. id imagine we'd have a harder time enjoying sprite based games from the 16 bit era if we hadnt moved on to a majority of games being made in polygons. if all our games looked like king of fighters XII and blazblue versions of halo, gta, and madden... then we'd probably be like "ew" looking back to snes games.

what a weird world that'd be huh?

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I played the first three Tomb Raiders, then broke myself from them for a long time. Cut to about two months ago, where I had a blast playing Uncharted. Got me steamed up and ready for more in that genre.

So I tried playing some of the more recent Tomb Raiders. Holy crap. The twitchy time puzzles ("hit button A which opens a portal with a second buttonB; hit button B which opens a gateway to button C, hit button C to open the big door you need to pass through; All of those doors will slowly close, requiring you to have twitchy reflexes to perfectly hit each button in time and make it to the door", that sort of thing), etc.

When I played Uncharted, I was like "Holy crap, this is just like Tomb Raider... BUT FUN!"

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I had no idea there was an octopus, but knowing that, I may have to buy this game. Lara Croft + Tentacles = win. hahahahaha

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There really needs to be a La Blue Girl video game.

Actually, no, that's a horrible idea.

::shudder::

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I have to tell you, I think reviewers are vastly over exaggerating some things about the game all over across the board.

The controls are way less "twicthy" than the previous games. I can only think of 2 or 3 places where I had an issue with them and even then it only took me 2 or 3 tries to get to the place correctly and it was more user error than controls.

The PS3 version has more bugs than the 360 version. They are very minor and don't effect gameplay. (Small lighting pop in couple places.) I can only think of one spot in the 360 version where the framerate is a little slowish.

The checkpoints? That's not an issue at all. That's totally user error and the player's fault in my opinion. No problems there, they're way more helpful than they are harmful.

Other than that, I don't really know what is so "wrong" with the game. It's a very very good game in my opinion and worth every penny.

Uncharted is a combat oriented game, Tomb Raider is an adventure/puzzle oriented game. If you want combat, then have fun with Uncharted.

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as an example, mgs1 in all its pixel glory is arguably a classic. but even the most hardcore mgs fanboy inside hated some elements of the controls, tbh. when u fast forward to MGS4 the controls just feel right. you feel the evolution in combat and stealth gaming come full circle.

with TR, i remmeber loving TR on PS1, with its obvious defects. now fast forwarding to current gen gaming, i would expect controls to feel precise. again, im not solely going by kotaku's reviews, but also by friends who have bought/traded in the game.

as for uncharted i bring it up because the theme is similar, so obviously everthing else about both games are very different in execution. the comparisons between uncharted and TR may be unfair, but its almost unavoidable.

sorry for the conveluted rant :)

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graphics dont mean a damn thing for starters...

as an example, mgs1 in all its pixel glory is arguably a classic. but even the most hardcore mgs fanboy inside hated some elements of the controls, tbh. when u fast forward to MGS4 the controls just feel right. you feel the evolution in combat and stealth gaming come full circle.

with TR, i remmeber loving TR on PS1, with its obvious defects. now fast forwarding to current gen gaming, i would expect controls to feel precise. again, im not solely going by kotaku's reviews, but also by friends who have bought/traded in the game.

as for uncharted i bring it up because the theme is similar, so obviously everthing else about both games are very different in execution. the comparisons between uncharted and TR may be unfair, but its almost unavoidable.

to be honest your last comment sums up my taste. after years of TR, and playing Uncharted, i realized that i like a more combat oriented game with a sprinkle of puzzles. where uncharted lacks in puzzles, it more than makes up for it with some interesting platforming sequences. what TR was in its infancy was acceptable, but in a day in age where a gamer has to be more picky than ever? not so much.

apologies for the rant:)

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People said Legend was too short. I was personally would have preferred one more level in Legend.

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