Loving my cameo! But for real Embracer needs to give the franchise away to someone that respects the source material. I see the crystal defenders trying to shift all the blame onto Square Enix every chance they get and spin the narrative that we've always known. I don't even think they deserve to have Legacy of Kain considering they stole that too from Silicon Knights. I read that the OG Blood Omen devs were shocked to see what they did with Soul Reaver as that was meant to be a different IP entirely and notice how it's Soul Reaver that got the remaster not Blood Omen? Even with LoK they diss whatever isn't theirs meanwhile BO is relegated to a port only.
Yes exactly, all Square Enix did was sit on their thumbs. It was Crystal who ruined everything, not them. And well said about the Soul Reaver stuff too!
@@ayawinters3020 I have a hunch though that if SR remaster does well BO and even Defiance will be remastered too because I'm guessing the next TR collection was because the first one did well
why are there so many egotistical fanfiction writers who can't let go of their self insert pet in charge of popular franchises now? dave filoni is another
I liked this post because it immediatly rang a bell to me, but deep down I dare to hope they're not dumb enough to think this way.... And to me, the fact that the Remasters are made with the help of a great deal of actual fans (techies obviously, but maybe also people that are more artists than tech pros, who knows) is what make them REALLY appealing and really good :)
I'm not entirely convinced they're up to snuff for that job. The remasters are VERY hit or miss on a lot of stuff. I can see the effort, for sure, I think that's commendable, but I would organize a community takeover. Buy off the IP into being public. And make a team of FANS that take care of it IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME THEY NEED TO GET IT RIGHT.
Maybe if Crystal Dynamics spent more time making good games that people actually want to play, they would have less time to police the fanbase and lecture everyone
Saber Interactive does amazing work with remasters. And Aspyr does notable work too. And yeah, Crystal Dynamics doesn't touch these. The only thing they did was publish the warning ahead of the first Tomb Raider trilogy. Bleah.
Just to note: "Aspyr is just one of many teams that fall under Saber Interactive's umbrella" For those who are unfamiliar with all these connections with devs and such.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! It's important Saber and all the talented people who worked on the first set of remasters and who are working on the new remasters get the recognition they deserve. ❤
If you are representing the real Core Design, then thank you for the games. They are responsible for some of my most treasured memories in the late 90's.
It's so ironic, that the woke activist cry, they want strong, female characters, and then they have one, have the incredible Lara Croft, and they just want to destroy her 🤦♂️
It's because they don't actually want one. They want to create their own Laura Croft and that one that already exists isn't the one they want to create. New people always want to throw out the old stuff and come up with new stuff. The reason why all these companies are doing remakes is because these new people cannot match the legacy of the existing content so they do remakes that way they don't have a bar to live up to.
@@ethangroat8333 Socialism is about prioritizing people over profit. Don’t conflate it with “wokeism”-that’s exactly what those who prioritize profit over people want. Manufactured guilt-by-association. Edit: the “grift” is capitalism.
Aspyr was owned by Saber interactive, Saber has now been sold off to Beacon Interactive. Saber is a parent company for multiple studios. Looking at the credits it might be Saber St Petersburg or Stuntworks working on it. They may have been quiet about that to avoid boycott/Bad PR of Russian developed titles due to the current conflict. Embracer also ceased all operations in Russia in connection with the sale of Saber to Beacon.
A Russian person here, who has also lived in St Petersburg for 10 years. Confirming that this is a very "open secret" that the real technical people behind Saber are actually very very Russian. And it's them who do a lot of coding and even of porting some AAA titles to different consoles. Which also highlights the "corporate DEI" hypocrisy: one can champion whatever trendy abomination there is, but one just CAN'T have too many last names of a "wrong" ethnicity in the credits!
@@OlgaReznikova I saw the Russian names in the mobygames credits and immediately knew it was this western political/racist crap towards Russians. Absolutely pathetic, to be honest. Either cut ties completely or credit them properly.
@@kunka592 I don't think it's racism. When your country invades its neighbor with the intent of full annexation followed by genocide (though you've accomplished neither thus far), you're going to get some flak from people. The joke is that while citizens might want to boycoot Russia in protest... the multi-national corporations don't really care. Business is business, and if coding talent exists in St. Petersburg, they'll have it. You all could eat babies and they'd still offer you contracts.. but with as little fanfare and press as possible. Usual stuff. Companies don't generally care about civil rights, wars, or land grabs. They care about money and getting cheap labor. Edit addition: incidentally, I like Saber Interactive. Not every Russian is evil. But your country is doing some real skeevy stuff and I don't blame consumers for being peeved. Peeved to such a degree that companies have to hide their business deals because it would cost sales and revenue otherwise.
At this point I hope that Crystal Dynamics goes out of business for constantly insulting anything made by Core Design. At least Saber , Aspyr and Embracer actually does care about the real Tomb Raider and its lore.
Sounds like the Tomb Raider curse. Core Design was so sick of doing Tomb Raider games after the third, they killed her off in the fourth then begrudgingly brought her back at the end of Chronicles. Crystal Dynamics seems to have the same sort of hatred for it.
@@Karloss00 Not the same thing, Core Design eventually hated working on TR because Eidos kept pushing for a yearly release Crystal Dynamics just hates the original character and want to retcon her to fit their wokeness
@@Karloss00 Well that,s what we first thought at the end of TR the last revelation. But at the end scene of TR Lara Croft chronicles one of the researchers says "We've found her!". So sadly she caught trapped inna huge pile of rubble with no means of escape but Lara herself didn,t do die as her character is very much alive and well
@@Lyoko42oInserting political bs into the series, virtue signalling while lecturing the fans, androgonising Lara Croft and ruining her entire backstory
Just remind the hypocrite, assuming wokies that she was written by a woman, Vicky Arnold, and designed by a man, Toby Gard, who turned his back on the $$$ when they started marketing her on sex appeal instead of the rule of cool.
Let Saber make their own original TR games using the old school remaster engine and let CD make their woke trash version and let’s compare the sales numbers. My money is on OG Lara.
Crystal Dynamics doesn't want people to know that Saber Interactive is developing the Tomb Raider Remasters because they're desperate to try to stay in control of the Tomb Raider IP and not to mention their hatred for classic Lara Croft and their obsession with DEI
Like say for example if Monolith Soft did a remake of Xenogears of course Square-Enix would be clutching their pearls in anger because they're desperate to hold onto the Xenogears IP even though it's just been sitting on the shelf for decades
Of course Crystal Dynamics is hiding the developer logo and trying to steal the credit but this cope from Crystal dynamics and seething at Embracer's success is hilarious! 🤣
💯.. I don't even remember seeing the tag "Crystal dynamics" when the first day the remasters came out on Steam, they sneaked in later when it got successful.
@@Wiseatall I hope on the next Tomb Raider 4-6 Games. "Sabre Interactive" gets credited if not I hope Sabre Interactive sues Crystal Dynamics. Or talk to higher ups *Embracer Group* and kick Crystal Dynamics to the bucket and we only get games for Tomb Raider made by Sabre who love this franchise not Crystal Dynamics who only loves money and woke politics!
Thank you for taking the time to mention who the real developers are. Many channels even very popular gaming ones with just blindly credit Aspyr anytime they re-release older games for current consoles/generation without acknowledging all they do is publish it while smaller studios (chiefly Saber Interactive) or teams do the actual work. SI also handled the KOTOR and Republic Commando remakes that dropped earlier this year and end of last.
They do not reveale who is developers for one simple reason, it's a russian division of Saber Interactive with is under sactions, and works under offshores in Cyprus but are located in St.Petersburg
This makes sense. I don't think its nefarious evil trickery everyone makes it out to be. Just a rolls eyes trickery to avoid people throwing a fit about Russians.
Thank you, Melonie! I've known that Crystal Dynamics had nothing to do with these remasters, but I had no idea that Saber Interactive were the actual developers of the remasters.. I always thought it was Aspyr.
Yep sadly contracts written in the past dont allow you a "The new management despises the IP, is deliberately driving away fans and destroying our bottom line by inserting their own fetishes into the work" as an excuse to break a contract. Back then no one thought anyone in business would be dumb enough to prioritise anything over the bottom line.
@Senkoau - That literally doesn't need to be a clause in the contract... you're hurting our bottom line and the contract is terminated is more than sufficient.
@@goawayleavemealone2880exactly. There are always emergency breaks written in. They won't have a contract for future work on Lara anyway, just for future work. Which they can have to work on textures or something but not design
@@goawayleavemealone2880 The thing is unless they've actually failed a clause e.g. produce X games in Y time they can sue you for breach of contract. You're entirely justified but your still leaving yourself open for legal issues if you do that.
I've been a life-long LoK fan. I'm so excited about the Soul Reaver remasters! Not only because my two favorite games of the series are getting upgraded graphics and controls, but it gives me hope that a new game in the LoK series may be in the forecast. The story needs conclusion!
Don't forget the "we hate these games and they offend us and you're bad people for liking them" disclaimer. And CD should come up with their own stuff instead of ripping apart someone else's creations since all they have is hate for it.
I don't think she did forget it, she mentioned it, loudly... kinda made it the lynchpin of her whole point...and still managed to misrepresent the disclaimer and give it more weight than it truly needed...
Yeah... The LAU trilogy was good and fun to play, then came the idiot with the reboot idea where Lara can't even frikkin swim in the first game... WTF.. LARA could swim in the original games in the 90s, why is she such a weakling here? Even water kills her XD She is like Claude and Tommy Vercetti.. "EH MAH GERD> WATER! I GUESS I DIE!" Seriously. Sometimes I think the Twin tail Teenage Lara from TR 4/Chronicles could kick reboot lara's ass in a fight... And Teenage lara doesn't even have any weapons XD.
Yeah they probably should have worked on AOD more and not wasted their staff time on Chronicles... I mean I like Chronicleas as it's my first TR game i ever played, but AOD could have used more hands on deck. And a less idiotic publisher..... And More than 1 frikkin tomb in the whole game.
Crystal Dynamics only contribution to these remasters was the trigger warning at the beginning of the game. Goes to show their worth. Absolutely useless game studio. Gone full woke.
Cool, thanks Melonie. Been on the fence on the remasters. Was trying to make up my mind on whether to dig through storage to find my old discs and PS1, or do the remasters. With this info I'll do the remasters. Have a great weekend!
This is shocking, but after watching someone on RUclips make a video with legit evidence about how scummy Crystal Dynamics was towards Core Design when they were handed the Tomb Raider IP, I feel that the hate towards Crystal Dynamics is rightfully deserved. They have yet to answer for their past petty behavior.
I kinda want to argue with Crystal Dynamics calling them sexist and how they are oppressing a beautiful woman known as Lara Croft and as a feminist I am offended 😂😂😅
Yeah the irony of them claiming to be feminists while destroying a beautiful, intelligent, wildly capable, and interesting woman character beloved by both men and women 😂
I just know I'm super stoked for the Soul Reaver remasters. I noticed Raina Audron as an environment artist on the Tomb Raider credits. I didn't know she worked for Saber, I just know she has a RUclips channel dedicated to Legacy of Kain.
I really appreciate your passion and integrity Melonie! I'm an OG Tomb Raider fan going way back to the beginning. I'm head over heels delighted with the Remastered TR I-III release and can't wait for IV-VI. I would not have even known that Saber Interactive was getting shade from Crystal Dynamics had it not been for your reporting. I'm no fan of woke agendas and the censoring that goes along with it. I'm voting with my dolla, dollas to support the authentic Lara Croft IP!
6:15 I know Daur Avidzba (game designer), he is a popular content creator in russian segment of youtube. He made the history of Tomb Raider series 'История серии Tomb Raider' before Saber call him in.
We can tell it is not the same people because: 1. The games are faithful translations of the originals, FUN games 2. They didn't inject redesigned ugly characters.
6:20 He is ridiculously talented, he also completely remade the original red dress for Ada in RE4R so that it would fit her new model. I love his work!
I'm really scared that the Soul Reaver would be changed with unecessary changes and ultimately become something else, that would be a huge loss for us old fans of this series, I hope that don't happen
Last video you Said "As good as Baldurs Gate 3 is, I'm not going to play a degenerate game." You just gained +1 follower and likes on every video you post from now on.
She’s just a moron. And so are you lmfao. You’re so stupid about your “cause” that youre screwing your cause because youre screaming at everything claiming woke😂😂its such a joke and makes you look retarded
I get where your coming from but it's about as degenerate as you want it to be the game let's you choose to be a degenerate or a valiant hero it's really up to the player and that's actually a good thing with RPG game's imo because it's roleplaying your supposed to make decisions and decide what kind of character you want to play as.
It has a gay character or two and you can trans your character. That's why they call it degenerate. The old saying, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater applies here I think. But I understand where people are coming from when they are so sick of the agenda pushing that they won't even give something a chance that might be good in spite of it. 🤷🏻♂️
This honestly makes me want Laura Croft along with Raziel in smash Bros even more now. With the classic edition because if they don’t like old school Laura the way she’s supposed to be it be funny to see her and raziel in smash Bros with the original look, etc. it would be kind of a smack in the face to Crystal dynamic lol. But both of those characters are actually in my top 10 characters to be in smash Bros right now. Raziel is my fourth most wanted. Laura craft is 7 on my list. And yes, both of these characters can get into smash Bros, They are on a Nintendo platform now.
It's great that we're getting remasters of Tomb Raider 4-6 and Soul Reaver. But feels like to me a shallow victory since they're not continuations of their previous titles. In the case of Crystal Dynamics, I will never forgive them what they did to Lara Croft and her legacy turning her into a feminist activists bullhorn. Just as I'll never forgive Embracer for ruining J.R.R. Tolkien's universe with Rings of Power along with canceling Deus Ex 5. Working with Embracer is like making a deal with the devil. They either deliver on their promises or give us the fans the middle figure. Honestly, they don't care about having a strong male characters like Adam Jenson just as Crystal Dynamics doesn't care about having strong female characters like Lara Croft. And soon Joanna Dark to the list. They just want to use them as activists to push their idiotic ideological beliefs down the public's throats and tell us people of culture that we're sexist, racist or bigoted if we don't accept what they're doing to these IPs. Just like in 1984 where the Ministry of Truth are re-writing if not censoring history so it's no longer problematic. J.R.R. Tolkien once said *"Evil can't create, only steal"* What we're witnessing is cultural segregation, cultural vandalism and cultural marxism like we've never seen before invading what were once our safe spaces like video games and D&D. These DEI/ESG activists know that culture is what brings people of many kinds together which is why they invaded it in the first place after Gamergate started. At this point with the failure of Netflix's Tomb Raider aka Korra Croft, it's best that someone creates new heroes and heroines inspired by these beloved characters like Adam Jenson and Lara Croft since the actual characters are lost to the DEI corporate interests. Embracer is connected BlackRock thus the WEF aka The REAL life Legion of Doom which to me are a blight on sex, culture, and society. It would take an act of divine intervention to save these beloved characters from the hands of these DEI activists. Yet maybe it's best to sadly let them go and enjoy and be grateful for what we already have or about to get. To Mel's final point of being fed up with this nonsense to Tomb Raider, I was thinking of that old yet more relatable Twisted Sister song 🎵"We're not taking it anymore"🎵. Maybe we shouldn't give up on Lara and even Adam so easily and continue to fight and defend them despite the odds being against us than for us. In the end, it's about our principles and standing up for them no matter what. I think it's important to create new characters inspired by others. But I believe the moment we give up on these characters, the DEI activists win. As a wise man once said *They started a war. But if you wanna fight, you better believe you've got one* Live long and prosper my friends😎🖖🎮🎭♀️♂️
@@MelonieMacGoBoom You're welcome Mel. I'm sick and tired of this bs as much as you are. I just want for everyone to coexist and have a good time enjoying life.
There should be a Nexus fan mod that removes Crystal Dynamics and their mombo jumbo from the whole game menus and credits and only shows Saber Interactive efforts.
Wow! That’s shady as shit from Crystal Dynamics, I had no idea! Not sure if you know but the physical edition just released today at Gamestop. I picked up the Deluxe Steelbook Edition for PS5 and it looks fantastic. Classic Lara for the win.
@@MelonieMacGoBoom very nice! Glad you got it! Hopefully there’ll be another physical edition for IV V and VI. I just recently seen your channel, love your content. What’s your favorite TR and why is it TR2!? Haha
crystalmethnamics desperately trying to stay relevant by stealing all the credit for the good hard work of a studio ( Aspyr) that actually care about the legacy titles of CORE Entertainment.
Crystal Dynamics is butt hurt that nobody cares about survivor girl. Of course they're gonna try and take credit away from the real fans making the remasters. They must really hate you, too, for constantly reminding everyone about the real Lara. 🤗 *Your hoodie reminded me. Saw a Nightmare before Christmas puzzle at HEB yesterday. Had to get it
thank god crystal soynamics is not involved. (I already knew that Saver was the developer along with some "chosen" ones from the community, that's why the remaster is so good
I think the fact that its done by Saber, russian company, is the reason why I - II - III Remastered got new official Russian dubbing that neither of those three games had, and i bet same will go with LOK and TR IV - V - VI Remastered too! which is awesome
So let me get this straight, we don't want it if it comes from Crystal Dynamics. But it is okay if it comes from Saber Interactive. I think I can remember that.
I will be honest here i was skeptical about Angel of Darkness being remastered because of the reception it got at the time and thinking why remake something that players most likely didn't like, but seeing what Saber did with the first collection i have hope
Thanks for letting me know everytime I see Crystal Dynamics I know who actually made the game. It's a shame that the Western world wants to ruin a lot of the things that we hold so dear.
We have to support Aspyr and Saber Interactive in order they can develop new Tomb Raider episodes using the old engine. Completing the Angel of Darkness trilogy that was planned could be great as an exemple.
I never played shadow of the tomb raider, but played tomb raider and rise of tomb raider and thought they were both great games. I also played the original games back in the day and those are great too
Thank you for continuing to support and speak up for classic Lara ❤ I agree with and appreciate every word you’ve said on this subject, have been binge watching your videos today!
How do we contact Embracer? We need to tell them that the cartoon show has destroyed the brand and we dont want Crystal Dynamics in charge of these games anymore. Bring us Saber/Aspyr combo wombo.
Crystal Dynamic’s sneaky agenda is really disgusting. To take credit for SMASH HIT remasters (that, btw, Crystal never wanted) is just so gross. Respectfully, I hope the Unreal 5 Tomb Raider game flops hard.
If Crystal Dynamics is actually claiming authorship of the re-mastered Tomb Raider series, Sabre Interactive has a legitimate legal case against them for violation of Saber's Intellectual Property Rights. This should be fun to watch.😊
Nope. When the remasters were released, Embracer owned Crystal Dynamics, Limited Run AND Saber, so they really dont care what logos they put on the box. Saber is now a separate company, but they still working closely with Embracer and their IPs.
Not many developer teams gets their logo visible on the cover, and usually are only shown in the fineprint. Heck, in most cases they've never been shown on the boxart, only the publisher[s] are.
So, what I'm getting is that the fact we're being lied to about the developers actually means they're gonna be good. As someone who's never played any TR back in the day, I had fun with the remaster (I'm not gonna be doing tank controls, though).
Idk if this could convince you but target, Walmart, all the big corporations have the physical remasters so you wouldn’t per say be supporting limited you would be supporting target or Walmart 😂💚 I remember though I wasn’t even told about Saber being a developer until Aya told me 😂😭! They need to make sure to add them! 💚
I feel ya. It is very frustrating and makes me angry too, that these people have been hijacking and destroying the things we love. Not just Tomb Raider but EVERYTHING!
Iv been saying this for years and This is proof. CD always hated tomb raider games by core design. Why are cd taking credit over the years for what company's like core design achieved. I am and will always be a classic tomb raider fan. Core design should have more credit than cd
You’re right Melonie, It’s not Crystal Dynamics who’s developing the games. It’s Asypr. Although I’m glad that I found out that they added a map in the remaster of Soul Reaver 1 since Soul Reaver 2 has a map, The remaster of Soul Reaver 1 & 2 will be having a Day and Night cycle which was cut from the original games, You can toggle the graphics to the original just like Tomb Raider Remaster Trilogy Volume 1 1-3 at anytime, And they added something called a Lost Levels. But I don’t know if we’ll be able to encounter the priestess who was cut from the original, And the smokestack from Turel’s Territory and the cut reaver enhancements in Soul Reaver 1 but with a different boss instead of Turel cause Azimuth summoned him after she stole a time streaming device. And for Soul Reaver 2 I don’t know if we’ll be able to see the cut Water and Earth Reaver Enhancements which are temporary, But I don’t think the Spirit Reaver will be in the remaster cause he’ll only wield it in Defiance. And for Volume 2 of the Tomb Raider Remastered Trilogy, I hope Tomb Raider 6: Angel of Darkness will finally be fixed after 21 years of technical and camera issues, And the song that I like Angel of Darkness will be in the Remastered Trilogy 4-6.
Hard to believe it's Crystal Dynamics to hide Saber Interactive under the rug at every occasion - given how the industry works, CD is more likely only sending useless feedback and approving random crap. My bets all point towards Aspyr, they have been greasy about these collections and badly mismanaged them at every step.
I'm not surprised. We get lied to all the time. I think that we are in the Dark Ages of video games right now. I still play those first and second generation video games like Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Zaxxon, and others. For one I grew up with those and second it's pure game play and no woke DEI crap.
Crystal dynamics never knew what to do with Tomb Raider. Fisrt, they turn the game into Prince of Persia in the LAU timeline. Then, they made the survivor timeline into a knock off of Uncharted. Now they're making that unification thingy that will turn Tomb Raider in another kind of game that is not Tomb Raider.
I remember like many years ago that CD said that they will not make or copy anything from original TR by Core Design. CD hated they classic TR it's the same treatment of Halo when 343 Industries did not want to hire anyone from Bungie
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Loving my cameo! But for real Embracer needs to give the franchise away to someone that respects the source material.
I see the crystal defenders trying to shift all the blame onto Square Enix every chance they get and spin the narrative that we've always known.
I don't even think they deserve to have Legacy of Kain considering they stole that too from Silicon Knights.
I read that the OG Blood Omen devs were shocked to see what they did with Soul Reaver as that was meant to be a different IP entirely and notice how it's Soul Reaver that got the remaster not Blood Omen?
Even with LoK they diss whatever isn't theirs meanwhile BO is relegated to a port only.
Yes exactly, all Square Enix did was sit on their thumbs. It was Crystal who ruined everything, not them.
And well said about the Soul Reaver stuff too!
@@ayawinters3020 I have a hunch though that if SR remaster does well BO and even Defiance will be remastered too because I'm guessing the next TR collection was because the first one did well
@@MelonieMacGoBoom Damn you're sexy with your common sense. YES I'M A SIMP
These losers can't handle Blood Omen. It's too dark and scawwy for their widdle babby sensibilities.
@@bruceygamingHopefully Blood omen legacy of Kain will also get the remastered treatment 🤞😁
Crystal Dynamics can't accept the idea that Classic Lara is more popular than their version of Lara.
Exactly that
why are there so many egotistical fanfiction writers who can't let go of their self insert pet in charge of popular franchises now? dave filoni is another
@@doltBmBLack of self-esteem and massive egos. A gross combination.
They're from California after all lol
I liked this post because it immediatly rang a bell to me, but deep down I dare to hope they're not dumb enough to think this way....
And to me, the fact that the Remasters are made with the help of a great deal of actual fans (techies obviously, but maybe also people that are more artists than tech pros, who knows) is what make them REALLY appealing and really good :)
At this point tomb raider and the legacy of Kain series need to be solely developed by Saber.
Ah legacy of kain..
true but likely late though, aspyr already managed to "touch" the remastered with their octopus hands...
I'm not entirely convinced they're up to snuff for that job. The remasters are VERY hit or miss on a lot of stuff. I can see the effort, for sure, I think that's commendable, but I would organize a community takeover. Buy off the IP into being public. And make a team of FANS that take care of it IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME THEY NEED TO GET IT RIGHT.
Well it’s all political. Crystal Dynamics is upset that they got shown up by a passion project from Embracer.
It is politicsl, but not that)
Maybe if Crystal Dynamics spent more time making good games that people actually want to play, they would have less time to police the fanbase and lecture everyone
@@BonelezzK Yes, it is. CD makes woke garbage.
Because i dont tolerate facist from russian, and i dont care were they from.
Saber Interactive does amazing work with remasters. And Aspyr does notable work too.
And yeah, Crystal Dynamics doesn't touch these. The only thing they did was publish the warning ahead of the first Tomb Raider trilogy. Bleah.
Just to note: "Aspyr is just one of many teams that fall under Saber Interactive's umbrella" For those who are unfamiliar with all these connections with devs and such.
@@Ancientreapers literally came here to say that and all it took was a Google search to find out
Everything can be seen in the end credits. It was never really hidden.
@@Ancientreapers thanks!
@@SaithMasu12 yeah not general description usually counts them out otherwise.
You’re doing a great job putting a spotlight on this! Keep it up!
This situation with Saber Interactive looks familiar - Do y'all remember what happened with Silicon Knights?
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! It's important Saber and all the talented people who worked on the first set of remasters and who are working on the new remasters get the recognition they deserve. ❤
Thank you for all you do in the community as well 💕
Aspyr is a subsidiary of Saber Interactive so technically yes, they are getting some recognition
@@isamsg89 Aspyr is technically part of Embracer now, since Saber left Embracer.
If you are representing the real Core Design, then thank you for the games. They are responsible for some of my most treasured memories in the late 90's.
@@PickleLipsMiguel Thanks for that info! I learned something today :)
It's so ironic, that the woke activist cry, they want strong, female characters, and then they have one, have the incredible Lara Croft, and they just want to destroy her 🤦♂️
They wanted to trans Samus, too.
That is because its really not about equality and diversity. Its always been about control and the destruction of cultures. Thats the real end game.
They've never meant what they said. Wokeism is a grift. Socialism is a grift. Collectivism is a grift.
It's because they don't actually want one. They want to create their own Laura Croft and that one that already exists isn't the one they want to create. New people always want to throw out the old stuff and come up with new stuff. The reason why all these companies are doing remakes is because these new people cannot match the legacy of the existing content so they do remakes that way they don't have a bar to live up to.
@@ethangroat8333 Socialism is about prioritizing people over profit. Don’t conflate it with “wokeism”-that’s exactly what those who prioritize profit over people want. Manufactured guilt-by-association.
Edit: the “grift” is capitalism.
Aspyr was owned by Saber interactive, Saber has now been sold off to Beacon Interactive. Saber is a parent company for multiple studios. Looking at the credits it might be Saber St Petersburg or Stuntworks working on it. They may have been quiet about that to avoid boycott/Bad PR of Russian developed titles due to the current conflict.
Embracer also ceased all operations in Russia in connection with the sale of Saber to Beacon.
Unfortunately, I think it's one of reasons why Crystal Dynamics hide them :(
A Russian person here, who has also lived in St Petersburg for 10 years. Confirming that this is a very "open secret" that the real technical people behind Saber are actually very very Russian. And it's them who do a lot of coding and even of porting some AAA titles to different consoles. Which also highlights the "corporate DEI" hypocrisy: one can champion whatever trendy abomination there is, but one just CAN'T have too many last names of a "wrong" ethnicity in the credits!
The best part about Russians - we don't care about "divercity, representation", and all that sht.
@@OlgaReznikova I saw the Russian names in the mobygames credits and immediately knew it was this western political/racist crap towards Russians. Absolutely pathetic, to be honest. Either cut ties completely or credit them properly.
@@kunka592 I don't think it's racism.
When your country invades its neighbor with the intent of full annexation followed by genocide (though you've accomplished neither thus far), you're going to get some flak from people. The joke is that while citizens might want to boycoot Russia in protest... the multi-national corporations don't really care. Business is business, and if coding talent exists in St. Petersburg, they'll have it. You all could eat babies and they'd still offer you contracts.. but with as little fanfare and press as possible.
Usual stuff. Companies don't generally care about civil rights, wars, or land grabs. They care about money and getting cheap labor.
Edit addition: incidentally, I like Saber Interactive. Not every Russian is evil. But your country is doing some real skeevy stuff and I don't blame consumers for being peeved. Peeved to such a degree that companies have to hide their business deals because it would cost sales and revenue otherwise.
At this point I hope that Crystal Dynamics goes out of business for constantly insulting anything made by Core Design. At least Saber , Aspyr and Embracer actually does care about the real Tomb Raider and its lore.
They'll eventaully go bust same as Ubiwokesoft
Sounds like the Tomb Raider curse. Core Design was so sick of doing Tomb Raider games after the third, they killed her off in the fourth then begrudgingly brought her back at the end of Chronicles. Crystal Dynamics seems to have the same sort of hatred for it.
@@Karloss00 Not the same thing,
Core Design eventually hated working on TR because Eidos kept pushing for a yearly release
Crystal Dynamics just hates the original character and want to retcon her to fit their wokeness
@@Karloss00 Well that,s what we first thought at the end of TR the last revelation. But at the end scene of TR Lara Croft chronicles one of the researchers says "We've found her!". So sadly she caught trapped inna huge pile of rubble with no means of escape but Lara herself didn,t do die as her character is very much alive and well
@@bedfordshiremodeller4491 Yeah like I said they brought her back at the end of Chronicles.
I was there, 3000 years ago.
Be GONE Crystal Dynamics Be GONE
What's the real issue with Crystal Dynamics iteration or Lara. I never understood the hate.
@@Lyoko42o bro watch the video
@@Lyoko42oInserting political bs into the series, virtue signalling while lecturing the fans, androgonising Lara Croft and ruining her entire backstory
@@makiss29 it literally doesn't mention
@@ahsanvirk130 Lara in TR2013 had a D cup at best she was not androgynous
They hate Lara and her fans so much! It's insulting! It's pathetic! Shame on Crystal Dynamics! 😡
Just remind the hypocrite, assuming wokies that she was written by a woman, Vicky Arnold, and designed by a man, Toby Gard, who turned his back on the $$$ when they started marketing her on sex appeal instead of the rule of cool.
Let Saber make their own original TR games using the old school remaster engine and let CD make their woke trash version and let’s compare the sales numbers. My money is on OG Lara.
Og Lara winds hands down. You put og lara in an unreal 4 engine and original direction would be perfect!
What's so "woke" about the Survivor Trilogy?
@@Lyoko42o not so much the survivor trilogy, but what sounds like what’s to come.
Yes. Upgrade the Gameboy games and such.
Crystal Dynamics doesn't want people to know that Saber Interactive is developing the Tomb Raider Remasters because they're desperate to try to stay in control of the Tomb Raider IP and not to mention their hatred for classic Lara Croft and their obsession with DEI
Like say for example if Monolith Soft did a remake of Xenogears of course Square-Enix would be clutching their pearls in anger because they're desperate to hold onto the Xenogears IP even though it's just been sitting on the shelf for decades
DEI?? What's that..?
@@snowball03-boopc'mon now
@@snowball03-boop Division Exclusion Indoctrination
@vault1549 the true term for it my friend
Of course Crystal Dynamics is hiding the developer logo and trying to steal the credit but this cope from Crystal dynamics and seething at Embracer's success is hilarious! 🤣
💯.. I don't even remember seeing the tag "Crystal dynamics" when the first day the remasters came out on Steam, they sneaked in later when it got successful.
@@Wiseatall I hope on the next Tomb Raider 4-6 Games. "Sabre Interactive" gets credited if not I hope Sabre Interactive sues Crystal Dynamics.
Or talk to higher ups *Embracer Group* and kick Crystal Dynamics to the bucket and we only get games for Tomb Raider made by Sabre who love this franchise not Crystal Dynamics who only loves money and woke politics!
So being woke and all inclusive is also stealing and lying. Interesting!
EXCELLENT MELONIE MAC GO BOOM WORK. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
If we remove tomb raider name from last 3 tomb raider, nobody will say the game looks like tomb raider...
It would be interesting to see Embracer allowing Saber to make a new game with classic Lara set after Angel of Darkness.
If the remasters were handled by CD, Lara's chest would have been flatter than Netflix's version of the character, that's for sure.
Lol wow
Thank you for taking the time to mention who the real developers are. Many channels even very popular gaming ones with just blindly credit Aspyr anytime they re-release older games for current consoles/generation without acknowledging all they do is publish it while smaller studios (chiefly Saber Interactive) or teams do the actual work. SI also handled the KOTOR and Republic Commando remakes that dropped earlier this year and end of last.
They do not reveale who is developers for one simple reason, it's a russian division of Saber Interactive with is under sactions, and works under offshores in Cyprus but are located in St.Petersburg
This makes sense. I don't think its nefarious evil trickery everyone makes it out to be. Just a rolls eyes trickery to avoid people throwing a fit about Russians.
Russian Devs are excellent. Their work with ZX Spectrum blows away anything commercial
Thank you, Melonie! I've known that Crystal Dynamics had nothing to do with these remasters, but I had no idea that Saber Interactive were the actual developers of the remasters..
I always thought it was Aspyr.
STELLAR BLADE DESERVES AT LEAST A GOTY NOMINATION
I agree the story was interesting the characters were awesome and the gameplay was amazing
It in no way will. Concord will get a nomination before Stellar Blade.
Too damn straight and natural for them
I liked Stellar Blade more when it was called Bayonetta and was on the PS3
we need to stop pretending that GOTY matters
I don't know why Embracer doesn't just take Crystal Dynamics off Tombraider. They own it now so could.
Unfortunately, it's not always easy, I think if Embracer will do it, Crystal Dynamics will directly take them to court :(
Yep sadly contracts written in the past dont allow you a "The new management despises the IP, is deliberately driving away fans and destroying our bottom line by inserting their own fetishes into the work" as an excuse to break a contract. Back then no one thought anyone in business would be dumb enough to prioritise anything over the bottom line.
@Senkoau - That literally doesn't need to be a clause in the contract... you're hurting our bottom line and the contract is terminated is more than sufficient.
@@goawayleavemealone2880exactly. There are always emergency breaks written in. They won't have a contract for future work on Lara anyway, just for future work. Which they can have to work on textures or something but not design
@@goawayleavemealone2880 The thing is unless they've actually failed a clause e.g. produce X games in Y time they can sue you for breach of contract. You're entirely justified but your still leaving yourself open for legal issues if you do that.
I've been a life-long LoK fan. I'm so excited about the Soul Reaver remasters! Not only because my two favorite games of the series are getting upgraded graphics and controls, but it gives me hope that a new game in the LoK series may be in the forecast. The story needs conclusion!
Don't forget the "we hate these games and they offend us and you're bad people for liking them" disclaimer. And CD should come up with their own stuff instead of ripping apart someone else's creations since all they have is hate for it.
That's not what it said 😂
@@Lyoko42o It's what was insinuated
@@AntiRiku i think you're reading alil too into it bud
I don't think she did forget it, she mentioned it, loudly... kinda made it the lynchpin of her whole point...and still managed to misrepresent the disclaimer and give it more weight than it truly needed...
I'm glad that the artists of these remasters are actually fans of these games, they will never let them be distorted
Crystal dynamics is only a name, the talented people who made this great classic are long gone. When the talents leaves you get soulless products.
Yeah... The LAU trilogy was good and fun to play, then came the idiot with the reboot idea where Lara can't even frikkin swim in the first game... WTF.. LARA could swim in the original games in the 90s, why is she such a weakling here? Even water kills her XD She is like Claude and Tommy Vercetti.. "EH MAH GERD> WATER! I GUESS I DIE!"
Seriously. Sometimes I think the Twin tail Teenage Lara from TR 4/Chronicles could kick reboot lara's ass in a fight... And Teenage lara doesn't even have any weapons XD.
core design makes 1 single mistake and the entire team gets sacked
crystal dynamics runs the franchise into the ground and yet that's fine
Yeah they probably should have worked on AOD more and not wasted their staff time on Chronicles... I mean I like Chronicleas as it's my first TR game i ever played, but AOD could have used more hands on deck. And a less idiotic publisher..... And More than 1 frikkin tomb in the whole game.
@@DaRush-The_Soviet_Gamer eidos wanted chronicles though so it's not even their fault lol
Thanks for covering this. Be well, and be careful out there.
This is why I watch this channel and other like it, to get past the BS. Thanks for the content and keeping us informed
Crystal Dynamics only contribution to these remasters was the trigger warning at the beginning of the game. Goes to show their worth. Absolutely useless game studio. Gone full woke.
Cool, thanks Melonie. Been on the fence on the remasters. Was trying to make up my mind on whether to dig through storage to find my old discs and PS1, or do the remasters. With this info I'll do the remasters. Have a great weekend!
This is shocking, but after watching someone on RUclips make a video with legit evidence about how scummy Crystal Dynamics was towards Core Design when they were handed the Tomb Raider IP, I feel that the hate towards Crystal Dynamics is rightfully deserved. They have yet to answer for their past petty behavior.
I kinda want to argue with Crystal Dynamics calling them sexist and how they are oppressing a beautiful woman known as Lara Croft and as a feminist I am offended 😂😂😅
Yeah the irony of them claiming to be feminists while destroying a beautiful, intelligent, wildly capable, and interesting woman character beloved by both men and women 😂
Do any of you know what feminism actually is?
@@cj7011 it used to be a cause championing women, now it's man hatred and the destruction of any likable IP.
I'm a feminist and I am proud to be a feminist, better than being sexist!
@@cj7011 modern feminism has just become man hatred. It's not around to push women forward. It's just around to bash men.
So Crystal Dynamics is just the 343 Industries/Halo Studios of Tomb Raider?
I just know I'm super stoked for the Soul Reaver remasters. I noticed Raina Audron as an environment artist on the Tomb Raider credits. I didn't know she worked for Saber, I just know she has a RUclips channel dedicated to Legacy of Kain.
Thanks for shining the light of truth and highlighting the creatives who did the work!
I really appreciate your passion and integrity Melonie! I'm an OG Tomb Raider fan going way back to the beginning. I'm head over heels delighted with the Remastered TR I-III release and can't wait for IV-VI. I would not have even known that Saber Interactive was getting shade from Crystal Dynamics had it not been for your reporting. I'm no fan of woke agendas and the censoring that goes along with it. I'm voting with my dolla, dollas to support the authentic Lara Croft IP!
Your heated expression shows how much you care about tomb raider 👍
6:15 I know Daur Avidzba (game designer), he is a popular content creator in russian segment of youtube. He made the history of Tomb Raider series 'История серии Tomb Raider' before Saber call him in.
We can tell it is not the same people because:
1. The games are faithful translations of the originals, FUN games
2. They didn't inject redesigned ugly characters.
They did for soul reaver
6:20 He is ridiculously talented, he also completely remade the original red dress for Ada in RE4R so that it would fit her new model. I love his work!
Thank you Melonie Mac for speaking the truth to everyone ✨️, I feel your anger as we are too, we are so sick of this disrespect and injustice !
I'm really scared that the Soul Reaver would be changed with unecessary changes and ultimately become something else, that would be a huge loss for us old fans of this series, I hope that don't happen
You always bring the solid facts 🔥💪❗️
Last video you Said "As good as Baldurs Gate 3 is, I'm not going to play a degenerate game." You just gained +1 follower and likes on every video you post from now on.
She’s just a moron. And so are you lmfao. You’re so stupid about your “cause” that youre screwing your cause because youre screaming at everything claiming woke😂😂its such a joke and makes you look retarded
I get where your coming from but it's about as degenerate as you want it to be the game let's you choose to be a degenerate or a valiant hero it's really up to the player and that's actually a good thing with RPG game's imo because it's roleplaying your supposed to make decisions and decide what kind of character you want to play as.
@@thatguyfawkes2328 Why not introduce p3d0, since there is zoophilia? In fact, as you said, it's up to the player to decide.
@@thatguyfawkes2328 Why not introduce p3d*** , since there is z00? In fact, as you said, it's up to the player to decide.
It has a gay character or two and you can trans your character. That's why they call it degenerate. The old saying, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater applies here I think. But I understand where people are coming from when they are so sick of the agenda pushing that they won't even give something a chance that might be good in spite of it. 🤷🏻♂️
Amy Hennig did so well with soul reaver back in the day. Such a shame 😢
It isn't legacy of Kain without her.
This honestly makes me want Laura Croft along with Raziel in smash Bros even more now. With the classic edition because if they don’t like old school Laura the way she’s supposed to be it be funny to see her and raziel in smash Bros with the original look, etc. it would be kind of a smack in the face to Crystal dynamic lol. But both of those characters are actually in my top 10 characters to be in smash Bros right now. Raziel is my fourth most wanted. Laura craft is 7 on my list. And yes, both of these characters can get into smash Bros, They are on a Nintendo platform now.
Also in the recently released Evercade version, Lara's origins were disrespectfully replaced by the reboot's origins. Most probably by them.
It's great that we're getting remasters of Tomb Raider 4-6 and Soul Reaver. But feels like to me a shallow victory since they're not continuations of their previous titles.
In the case of Crystal Dynamics, I will never forgive them what they did to Lara Croft and her legacy turning her into a feminist activists bullhorn. Just as I'll never forgive Embracer for ruining J.R.R. Tolkien's universe with Rings of Power along with canceling Deus Ex 5.
Working with Embracer is like making a deal with the devil. They either deliver on their promises or give us the fans the middle figure. Honestly, they don't care about having a strong male characters like Adam Jenson just as Crystal Dynamics doesn't care about having strong female characters like Lara Croft. And soon Joanna Dark to the list. They just want to use them as activists to push their idiotic ideological beliefs down the public's throats and tell us people of culture that we're sexist, racist or bigoted if we don't accept what they're doing to these IPs. Just like in 1984 where the Ministry of Truth are re-writing if not censoring history so it's no longer problematic.
J.R.R. Tolkien once said *"Evil can't create, only steal"* What we're witnessing is cultural segregation, cultural vandalism and cultural marxism like we've never seen before invading what were once our safe spaces like video games and D&D. These DEI/ESG activists know that culture is what brings people of many kinds together which is why they invaded it in the first place after Gamergate started.
At this point with the failure of Netflix's Tomb Raider aka Korra Croft, it's best that someone creates new heroes and heroines inspired by these beloved characters like Adam Jenson and Lara Croft since the actual characters are lost to the DEI corporate interests.
Embracer is connected BlackRock thus the WEF aka The REAL life Legion of Doom which to me are a blight on sex, culture, and society.
It would take an act of divine intervention to save these beloved characters from the hands of these DEI activists. Yet maybe it's best to sadly let them go and enjoy and be grateful for what we already have or about to get.
To Mel's final point of being fed up with this nonsense to Tomb Raider, I was thinking of that old yet more relatable Twisted Sister song 🎵"We're not taking it anymore"🎵. Maybe we shouldn't give up on Lara and even Adam so easily and continue to fight and defend them despite the odds being against us than for us. In the end, it's about our principles and standing up for them no matter what.
I think it's important to create new characters inspired by others. But I believe the moment we give up on these characters, the DEI activists win. As a wise man once said *They started a war. But if you wanna fight, you better believe you've got one*
Live long and prosper my friends😎🖖🎮🎭♀️♂️
I see you're very passionate about this topic as well, love it! And thank you 😁
@@MelonieMacGoBoom You're welcome Mel. I'm sick and tired of this bs as much as you are. I just want for everyone to coexist and have a good time enjoying life.
Heck yeah fans will Make Tomb Raider Great Again !
There should be a Nexus fan mod that removes Crystal Dynamics and their mombo jumbo from the whole game menus and credits and only shows Saber Interactive efforts.
Wow! That’s shady as shit from Crystal Dynamics, I had no idea! Not sure if you know but the physical edition just released today at Gamestop. I picked up the Deluxe Steelbook Edition for PS5 and it looks fantastic. Classic Lara for the win.
For some reason I thought it was all from LRG, so relieved to know that's not the case! Just ordered the deluxe on PS5! 😁
@@MelonieMacGoBoom very nice! Glad you got it! Hopefully there’ll be another physical edition for IV V and VI. I just recently seen your channel, love your content. What’s your favorite TR and why is it TR2!? Haha
crystalmethnamics desperately trying to stay relevant by stealing all the credit for the good hard work of a studio ( Aspyr) that actually care about the legacy titles of CORE Entertainment.
I used to like Crystal Dynamics back in the day, but they are farcry from their former glory now.
Crystal Dynamics is butt hurt that nobody cares about survivor girl. Of course they're gonna try and take credit away from the real fans making the remasters. They must really hate you, too, for constantly reminding everyone about the real Lara. 🤗
*Your hoodie reminded me. Saw a Nightmare before Christmas puzzle at HEB yesterday. Had to get it
Embracer Group has to get rid of Crystal Dynamics and let someone else take over Tomb Raider.
Thanks Melonie, based on this I pre-ordered IV-VI just now 💪
The only thing Crystal Dynamics contributed was the warning message about problematic content lol.
Saber aren't listed as devs on the Steam page for the game either, just Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics!
It's insane!
I realy enjoy 😂 when melonie mac she piss off and heat but she telling the true ,thank you melonie mac to be yourself and be honest
Bahaha I couldn't hold back for this one 🤣
thank god crystal soynamics is not involved. (I already knew that Saver was the developer along with some "chosen" ones from the community, that's why the remaster is so good
I think the fact that its done by Saber, russian company, is the reason why I - II - III Remastered got new official Russian dubbing that neither of those three games had, and i bet same will go with LOK and TR IV - V - VI Remastered too! which is awesome
So let me get this straight, we don't want it if it comes from Crystal Dynamics. But it is okay if it comes from Saber Interactive. I think I can remember that.
Yup 👍🏻
"troon wildebeest" 🤣
I will be honest here i was skeptical about Angel of Darkness being remastered because of the reception it got at the time and thinking why remake something that players most likely didn't like, but seeing what Saber did with the first collection i have hope
Thanks for letting me know everytime I see Crystal Dynamics I know who actually made the game. It's a shame that the Western world wants to ruin a lot of the things that we hold so dear.
We have to support Aspyr and Saber Interactive in order they can develop new Tomb Raider episodes using the old engine. Completing the Angel of Darkness trilogy that was planned could be great as an exemple.
I never played shadow of the tomb raider, but played tomb raider and rise of tomb raider and thought they were both great games. I also played the original games back in the day and those are great too
See that disclaimer Crystal Dumbnamics put at the start of the 1 to 3 Remaster release. It's not on my version I got from PSN.
Thank you for continuing to support and speak up for classic Lara ❤ I agree with and appreciate every word you’ve said on this subject, have been binge watching your videos today!
“Reject all lies” - Living Sacrifice.
I think it's easily explainable: Saber is a partially Russian company. It's politics all the way down.
How do we contact Embracer? We need to tell them that the cartoon show has destroyed the brand and we dont want Crystal Dynamics in charge of these games anymore. Bring us Saber/Aspyr combo wombo.
Yes, how do we write letters and/or emails/socials? We need to make this heard. Tired of Crystal Dynamics...
Crystal Dynamics desperately want to out-woke Naughty Dog
Crystal Dynamic’s sneaky agenda is really disgusting. To take credit for SMASH HIT remasters (that, btw, Crystal never wanted) is just so gross. Respectfully, I hope the Unreal 5 Tomb Raider game flops hard.
It seems like saber is the one last true game developer in the western sphere
Saber is mostly Russian devs, so that would be a no. They do have offices in US and Euope, but for example the Space Marine was developed by Russians
@@HA-lt4pl we then, I came property dressed
thats because they are russian.
If Crystal Dynamics is actually claiming authorship of the re-mastered Tomb Raider series, Sabre Interactive has a legitimate legal case against them for violation of Saber's Intellectual Property Rights. This should be fun to watch.😊
Nope. When the remasters were released, Embracer owned Crystal Dynamics, Limited Run AND Saber, so they really dont care what logos they put on the box. Saber is now a separate company, but they still working closely with Embracer and their IPs.
0:40 You are NOT the father!
Good job as usual! Actual gaming reporting.
Have you played the legacy of kain series Mel? U would love them. Phenomenal story telling and best voice work in games honestly
Notice how the old games are getting more love from gamers then the new garbage they make
A lot of Slavic names in the credits.
I don't know the girl they fired personally, but I canceled all my orders and haven't bought anything from them since.
Not many developer teams gets their logo visible on the cover, and usually are only shown in the fineprint. Heck, in most cases they've never been shown on the boxart, only the publisher[s] are.
So, what I'm getting is that the fact we're being lied to about the developers actually means they're gonna be good. As someone who's never played any TR back in the day, I had fun with the remaster (I'm not gonna be doing tank controls, though).
Thanks for the heads up, Melonie.
Idk if this could convince you but target, Walmart, all the big corporations have the physical remasters so you wouldn’t per say be supporting limited you would be supporting target or Walmart 😂💚
I remember though I wasn’t even told about Saber being a developer until Aya told me 😂😭! They need to make sure to add them! 💚
Ooh I might consider it then if I buy from Walmart or Target, I will consider it. Or even better, if I buy a copy off ebay or something
GOG has it currently with good discount too.
I feel ya. It is very frustrating and makes me angry too, that these people have been hijacking and destroying the things we love. Not just Tomb Raider but EVERYTHING!
Iv been saying this for years and This is proof.
CD always hated tomb raider games by core design. Why are cd taking credit over the years for what company's like core design achieved. I am and will always be a classic tomb raider fan. Core design should have more credit than cd
You’re right Melonie,
It’s not Crystal Dynamics who’s developing the games.
It’s Asypr.
Although I’m glad that I found out that they added a map in the remaster of Soul Reaver 1 since Soul Reaver 2 has a map,
The remaster of Soul Reaver 1 & 2 will be having a Day and Night cycle which was cut from the original games,
You can toggle the graphics to the original just like Tomb Raider Remaster Trilogy Volume 1 1-3 at anytime,
And they added something called a Lost Levels.
But I don’t know if we’ll be able to encounter the priestess who was cut from the original,
And the smokestack from Turel’s Territory and the cut reaver enhancements in Soul Reaver 1 but with a different boss instead of Turel cause Azimuth summoned him after she stole a time streaming device.
And for Soul Reaver 2 I don’t know if we’ll be able to see the cut Water and Earth Reaver Enhancements which are temporary,
But I don’t think the Spirit Reaver will be in the remaster cause he’ll only wield it in Defiance.
And for Volume 2 of the Tomb Raider Remastered Trilogy,
I hope Tomb Raider 6: Angel of Darkness will finally be fixed after 21 years of technical and camera issues,
And the song that I like Angel of Darkness will be in the Remastered Trilogy 4-6.
Hard to believe it's Crystal Dynamics to hide Saber Interactive under the rug at every occasion - given how the industry works, CD is more likely only sending useless feedback and approving random crap.
My bets all point towards Aspyr, they have been greasy about these collections and badly mismanaged them at every step.
Yeah, when I fired up Tomb Raider remastered and saw the Saber logo, I had no idea what that meant. 🙄
Saber Interactive FTW!!!
I have physical copies of all original TR Core games. As long as my PS2 continues to work, I'll keep to those.
Awesome hoodie Mel! My gf and I are huge Nightmare Before Christmas fans.❤
Saber Interactive, you are worthy.
4:03 “annomimous”? didn’t anyone else catch that
I love a good flub it happens to me all the time 😂.
I'm not surprised. We get lied to all the time. I think that we are in the Dark Ages of video games right now. I still play those first and second generation video games like Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Zaxxon, and others. For one I grew up with those and second it's pure game play and no woke DEI crap.
Crystal dynamics never knew what to do with Tomb Raider. Fisrt, they turn the game into Prince of Persia in the LAU timeline. Then, they made the survivor timeline into a knock off of Uncharted. Now they're making that unification thingy that will turn Tomb Raider in another kind of game that is not Tomb Raider.
Thisss
I remember like many years ago that CD said that they will not make or copy anything from original TR by Core Design. CD hated they classic TR it's the same treatment of Halo when 343 Industries did not want to hire anyone from Bungie