Top 10 Times Tomb Raider Mocked Us
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- Опубликовано: 13 фев 2023
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It's Tomb Raider Tuesday - AND Lara Croft's birthday! Join me today as I rank the top 10 times the classic Tomb Raider games mocked us, by making fun of us, by being mean to us, or by being downright unfair to us.
A special big thanks to:
Krzysztof Cabaj for his captions for my video
Suzanne The Raider for inadvertently inspiring me to do this ranking, in her playthrough of this level:
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Imagine TR3 being your first TR game, as it was in my case... on the positive side, though, it made me such a tough player that TR1 and TR2 seemed easier by comparison, and playing them was pretty relaxing. TR3 is the sadistic drill instructor who breaks you down, but then rebuilds you as a highly-efficient soldier ;)
your doom avatar reminds me that the original doom games were full of these trolls by the devs as well!
Same! Describing Tomb Raider III as a sadistic drill instructor is just perfect! 🤣 Very accurate... that game really whipped me into gaming shape.
True, I haven't gotten far in TR3 before playing other entries (and actually finished it as one of the latest) but it set my expectation for all the other TRs, with TR3 being "the norm". I guess my perspective might be a little skewed :D
Sadistic drill instructor is spot on.
AHAHAH I completely agree :D TR3 was my first game and although I love it, it makes TR2 and TR look really easy :D
Happy Birthday Classic Lara Croft.
Ha ha, loved that! Had me giggling in the cafeteria at work. And lara climbing the ladder as the countdown and timing it perfectly with no.1? *chefs kiss genius 😝
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 😃
i love how you turned the tables with the last entry and pranked us by putting all of tr 3 in the last entry. I had a good laugh!
Haha, awesome that you noticed 😉 Thank you!
Another good one in TR2 is putting the gold dragon secret in Temple of Xian after that slide in the begining, but only visible that you missed it later on.
Haha, yup! Temple of Xian is generally a very mean level, the more you think about it.
@@AxMania Temple of Xian just HATES you. So let's chalk it up to the game devs wanted us to suffer as much as they were.
Same could be said for the Gold in The Great Wall. Don't even know its there when you get to the Zip line and automatically assume that the pit is just there to kill you if you let go too soon, but then if you watch closely you catch a flash of it down below as you glide down just before it's out of sight and unreachable! So you reload, wondering how to get down there with no obvious signs, then you notice the gap below the Zip line starting point. So you make your way down, through the darkness, into the pit of the valley and SURPRISE T-REX!
But it's ok, you beat it, it can't hurt you, now you're alone down there and run to the alcove to grab your reward! You've got it! Now time to head back up and SURPRISE! ANOTHER T-REX!! 🤣
Cos Tomb Raider already had a T-Rex in Peru, how can we top it? TWO T-REX'S! IN CHINA! INSIDE THE GREAT WALL! 😂😂😂
I will fully admit, I was one of the victims of that bear in TR1 and I replayed the great wall level more times than I'd like because I was 8 years old at the time and the game terrified me, yet I wanted to play it so badly.
Also Winston spent his retirement days in the fridge, no regrets.
We were all its victim once: but then OH DO THE TABLES TURNED FAST.
Ha ha.
Haha, me too. I remember how I panicked when I realized there was a bear down there!!! I love how Core Design thought this was an acceptable way to treat rookie players.
Hahaha, aww... poor Winston 😂
@@AxMania Always saw the og Tomb Raiders as a bit of a horror games :D
@@Synthia17 Definitely! It's not really fair how they tricked us into playing incredibly scary games! 😅
This was hilarious 😂 And that dramatic ending 🤣 Must have been a lot of fun for the devs to troll us like that. I bet that was the only thing to keep them going after coding for 18 hours straight daily. 🤣
Your videos are keep getting better, I truly wish you never run out of ideas for new TR videos! And don't worry, we all had a crush on Lara. 😆 (And let's just admit we still do.)
Happy birthday, Lara! 🥳
Hahaha, exactly! 😂 They took out all of their frustrations on us poor gamers!!!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it!
Hahaha, that's right! That's what they say about your first crush in life after all... it will never truly pass *sigh* 😔 😆
@@AxMania Have you thought about making a top list of TR soundtracks? 😉
Gotta love TR3 😂 that cathedral zipline at the end is brutal 😅 great video as always 🙌
Tomb Raider III is a game that's all out of fucks to give, and I would rarely have it any other way.
Hahaha, it is! Like, what the hell Core Design!? Thank you so much Geek Raider, and thank you for watching!
@@ReluctantWarrior
HAHA.
Number 1 is quite logical but i wait for you to explain why. Number 2 is imo the obvious number 1 answer. One of the best pranks that is a bit general while playing classic Tomb Raider is the "all this for that" recipe, how you go all the way through tigers, gunmen, spiders, ingenious traps, oil platform, crazy bitch throwing green balls of fire, shipwreck, pyramid etc. to open a god forsaken door that was literally right in front of you when you started the level. That's genius mockery level. As always, glorious video. Love your voice!
Haha, yeah, I guess I just wanted to let all the bullshit speak for itself 😉 And you are right, the Temple of Xian trapdoor really *IS* the biggest single mockery in the series, for sure. I love it, haha! Thank you so much for watching, and thank you for that! I think my voice is cringe 😆
@mrGoodMourning
No explanation necessary for me.
What a treat for Lara’s birthday! 😍 Thank you for uploading! Btw, I would totally watch your top 10 reasons for why you have a crush on Lara 😍 and Winston too 😂😂😂 loved this count down! Love that you used that stupid ladder in between each 😂 laughed so much at “the game literally punished you for being stupid” I have felt that so many times when playing 😅 That gold door in the Barkhang Monastery always makes me laugh with how anti climatic it is 🙈 I did that exact thing in playable tutorial level. It’s such a shock out of nowhere 😅 and that slope to nowhere in All Hallows’. It felt like a middle fingers from the devs! Love that the entirety of Tomb Raider 3 was number one! That montage had me laughing so hard!!! 😂😂😂 but it’s so true! TR3 is cruel! Thank you so much for this, it really cheered me up 🥰❤️❤️❤️
Hahaha, thank you so much! 😂 Well, that's my Valentine's Day videos for the next two years sorted then! 😉😂 Seriously, the classic Tomb Raider games are masters at making us feel stupid and laughing at us... they are so mean sometimes!
Here's the funny thing... I got the idea for making this video from watching YOUR playthrough of Playable Tutorial Level 😂 I laughed out loud when it happened to you (sorry), so out of curiosity I went back and watched my own captured footage of the level again, and lo and behold... I did the exact same thing! 😂 So I thought it could be really fun to make a top 10 out of all these little bullshit moments throughout the games 😅
I'm so happy to hear that Suzanne, thank you so much for always watching 🥰❤️
your videos never disappoint! also the ladder part for the countdown sequences was hilarious
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🥰
First off: Happy birthday Lara!
100% agree on your #1. TR3 was the first Tomb Raider game I ever played (I don't know in which year exactly, only that I was very young) and it was so damn hard and confusing! Ultimately (read: only after insane struggles), I managed to complete the India and Nevada sections - apart from a few parts I loved those - but I had to give up in all the other sections at some point. Thames Warf was incredibly confusing to me (and thus I did not like it), but I do remember finishing it: I laughed my ass off when that awesome 'bell' cutscene at the end played ('Happy retirement!'). I did enjoy the setting/atmosphere of Aldwych however, as well as figuring out where to go and how everything connects in the old train station. Then, I got stuck in Lud's Gate... of course haha. In the South Pacific Islands I only remember the first level (Coastal Village) - I liked it, but it was so scary... If I even made it to the second level (Crash Site) back then, then that would have been the place where I gave up because of all the velociraptors, which scared me to death!
On 3:31 (#8) I immediately had to think back to a similar scenario in the PC version of Harry Potter 1. In that game you have a large black hole sealed off by a metal gate as the entrance to the Forbidden Corridor. When I first played the game as a kid, my imagination ran wild with what would be 'behind' the black void, but when the time finally came to enter the Forbidden Corridor the metal gate just opened and they did not went through the black void but through a small opening on the side instead, and I was so disappointed! Apparently, the black void was all just for show :(
Hahaha, exactly! I think we all had these almost traumatizing experiences with Tomb Raider III 🤣 The bell-cutscene is awesome - It's easily one of my most rewatched cutscenes ever! I'm weirdly glad that you also found Coastal Village to be scary, because that's a level nobody ever really considers as a scary part of Tomb Raider it seems, but it absolutely terrified me as a kid! I couldn't deal with those constant ambushes by the villagers. Yeah, the South Pacific section is actually pretty damn difficult!
That sounds hilarious as well, haha! 😂 Why are game designers often such big teasers? It's funny, a lot of these moments I mentioned, really annoyed me as a kid, but nowadays I appreciate them for how humorous and creative they truly are. I love when there's some silly or unfair moment, where it's clear that the game laughs at you, but also that it wants you to laugh along with it. They really liked messing around with us.
@@AxMania Precisely! Damn difficult ànd scary - a deadly combination for the kid raider I once was haha The villagers indeed, the crocodile in the tunnel near the tree house at the end of the level, and the velociraptors (I was less scared of the T-Rex for some reason) later on made the South Pacific Islands a crazy playing experience for me (maybe it's also due to the large contrast with the beautiful scenery - it's a beautiful environment to be in yes, but also very dangerous/hostile: death truly lurks behind every corner). And apart from all this you also have the troll medipack in one of the village huts, oh Core Design what were you thinking lol
Brilliant as always Ax! Love the nostalgia trips that your videos give! I miss those days.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I'm happy you enjoyed watching!
Great and fun video!! Love the ending with the zipline into nothingness with no commentary. I remember very well when that happened to me the first time; I just sat there in silence in total disbelief :D
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Hahaha, me too 😂 Just... why Core Design? Was a zipline straight to death really necessary?
I'm still laughing at the edit in the end! Thank you AxMania 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha, thank you for watching MrsVeronicat! 😃
Excellent video, always really enjoy your uploads. Tomb Raider was such a formative part of my childhood and cemented my interest in gaming, so it’s great to see the games discussed with passion and humour!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I feel the same way, these classic Tomb Raider games are very important to me. I couldn't imagine my childhood without them.
How about the first time you're not supposed to kill an "enemy"? I refer here to "Bacon Lara". Everything up to this point has trained you to think "see something moving? shoot at it!"
Sure, later in the series you get the Barkhang monks, the monkeys in India (who then proceed to turn on you in the following level for no good reason), the prisoners in Area 51, the flamethrower guys in RX Tech Mines, but back in the first game you've no reason yet to think you should let anything live.
That's a really good point! This would have made a good entry on my list as well. I bet most gamers were perplexed when Lara died by killing an enemy.
The joy when I see you've uploaded another video! Love this! I was so pissed the first time the other loots just burned up in Revelation. And the bear in the first game scared the hell out of me! Haha I love that you put TR3 in the first place! I agree, so many wonderful frustrating memories from that game. 😂
(And you're not alone on having a crush on Lara for all these years.)
Aww, thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I can imagine the game developers at Core Design rubbing their hands together, all those times they came up with these cruel situations they put us through 😂
(*sigh* 😔)
Your characterization of TR 3 at the end cracked me up. I’ve been browsing your videos as I’ve relayed these games in the Remastered collection. I’m finishing them without guides and I’m almost done, but when I am I’ll use guides to tackle the challenges. I’d love to see some achievements/trophy tips and guides.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it you watching my videos! I'm actually working on a big trophy video at this very moment 😃
I was waiting for how you deal with the many TR3 moments in a "top ten" video and... an amazing solution :D Maybe you could try to make a top ten from TR3 *only*, that could be funny (or traumatizing).
Great choices right here! I'd add an honrable mention, the lever with the trapdoor from the end of City of Vilcabamba. I think the fact that it's still fairly at the beginning of the first game adds to the meanness :D
Haha, thank you! I had a shortlist of 34 cruel Tomb Raider III moments, and only 13 or so made it into the montage! 😮 So there are plenty to choose from!
Ohhh, yes! Of course! I know exactly what you are referring to. That would've been a perfect fit for this video 😃
@@AxMania Haha okay that's quite a list (but not surprising).
There's so many mean moments in TR it's easy to not remember all :D
Just binged a bunch of your videos, and wow are they incredible. I wish you all the success. 👑
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it!
Been away from the game so so only seen this video now! Great idea and great video, and I love the large screen time that TR2 had 😊Looking forward for more!
Haha, thanks man! I really appreciate it! 😊
Loved this list, just the edit to the absurdly long climb was amazing, great job!
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Hahaha that last bit with the montage of brutality to place ALL of Tomb Raider 3 as number 1 gave me a good laugh! 😂
You know what the funniest part of the Temple of Xian is? Those platforms obviously reset before Lara gets to the end to find Bartoli there. If she'd have just waited for him to turn up, HE would have been the one plummeting into a temple filled with traps, deadly liquids and gigantic black widow spiders.
Hahaha! That would've been AMAZING! Lara should just have hanged out by that bonfire outside the giant door, and waited for the sound of Marco's scream 😂
Yet another great video! Quite a lot of variation in the mockery. One honerable mention could be the inaccessable medipack in TR2.
Seeing that prayer roll takes me back to the first Tomb Raider film where they talk about stolen prayer wheels 😅
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Oh yeah, that one is mean as well, and Temple of Xian is already a mean experience, haha!
Brilliant yet again my friend.
Idea for a video, ranking the pieces of music in the tomb raider series. From the main themes to the danger theme. Also ranking the enemies.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Yeah, I actually plan on doing a video about the music of Tomb Raider, but I've decided to wait until I have captured footage for all Tomb Raider games, as there are music pieces in the newer games I love as well. I've also thought about ranking the enemies, which would be one hell of a ranking, haha!
Oh brilliant. Can’t wait.
Yeah as for the enemies, don’t rank every single bat, wolf and raptor 😂
I 90% agree with this list, because we'll never truly know if the devs trolled on purpose or if it's just people's way of seeing it.
(Some instances only can be just trying new ideas for level design, period.)
But yes, TRIII is the hardest.
Also, to me, the most bullying levels are in TRI in all the last levels when they constantly releases hordes of atlantean warriors on you.
Hordes after hordes of jumping, screeching, exploding warriors that takes even more chunks of your life away when they die-explode.
Those parts were hell when I was a kid, & still are at 36 y.o. whenever I play again.
Oh & they constantly push you off ledges it took you a good amount of skills/time to get to: mix that with the scarce save crystals & it's even more unfair.
I'll add another comment about dear Lara now.
Yeah, I thought about that as well. Some of them are obviously intentional, while others (such as the panther pushing Lara off the edge) are more situational, that don't happen to all players. I thought it was pretty funny nontheless though, because... cats 😃
That's an excellent point. All those mummies unleashed on us were definitely in unfair-territory. In fact, the way the game randomly becomes a horror game in the Atlantis section kind of feels like a cruel prank as well! This was not what we signed up for...
No I think they knew exactly what they were doing when they put the trigger on that square tile: the player would be looking at the task ahead, elaborating a means to advance; and the black panther would knock us off right into the trap. Enemies have no choice than turn away, so it was inevitable.
What I mean of more open to interpretation, is when you mention the small door after using the Seraph.
Know that back then, they didnt have lots of spaces in the WADs (where all the enemies and objects are, even Lara & parts of her, guns & items etc), so they were limited in doors as well. They had already used the big double doors, so probably the small one was just what was left, rather than trolling us.
I actualy liked the fleshy walls in those parts. (Horror lover here.)
Great Video! Loved that the last one was just an entire compilation of Tomb Raider 3😂 By the Way, what is the song called, that accompanies it? 😅
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! It's the trailer theme for the PS5 remake of Demon's Souls 😉 I love that theme!
Lmao, TR3 was my first TR game and I remember it took me ages to even figure out how to get through the first level, Jungle. And when I finally beat it, the remaining three India levels proved much easier. But then I couldn't get by the first levels of Nevada, South Pacific or London. I'd play one, make it a little ways and then die. Then I'd play another, make it a little ways and then die. And it was like that for a while until I finally beat Nevada Desert and was like, "Well, I guess I'm sticking with Nevada..." Good thing too since Lara loses her weapons in High Security Compound.
Hahaha, that's EXACTLY how I did it as well! 😃 That's obviously not how we were meant to play it, but certainly a nice bonus of giving the player a free choice about level order.
This was so entertaining! Love your content!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🥰
I agree about TR3! But at one time it seemed to me that this was part of his general style ..) Interesting topic! My personal top 3 mocking in tomb raider: 3. TR 4 I couldn't finish it because I didn't have enough stars at the pyramid level and I had no idea where to look. It was a long time ago and I never got past it. although I consider this game a most real TR because of the atmosphere 2. TR5 Cook on a submarine. I climbed the whole level until my friends told me what to do, I would not have guessed, there was no opportunity to read it somewhere, the games were played for years ...) 1. TR4 game senate ... Many years ago it scared me a lot ... ) Being alone in a confined space for a long time and suddenly this game. I didn’t have a translation, I didn’t understand what it was, the sounds were very scary, a ghost in the wall, a strange piano-like instrument, and he himself moved intermittently, as if someone was nearby, but you don’t see who exactly, the figures are somewhere by themselves moved and disappeared. At the end, with an eerie sound, a hatch opened, where you didn’t want to go at all, or stairs opened. It's still terrible to remember :D
Those are some great examples actually, especially the cook! I hadn't even thought about that. The game never explains that you need to walk up to him, and then a cutscene will play to knock him out. That's a great suggestion, I wish I had included it. Hahaha, and yes... Senet... In fact, the entire Tomb of Semerkhet level is kind of trollish and mean, actually.
@@AxMania Don't forget the way you have to _lose_ the game of Senet to gain access to several secrets.
Ooooh love it that I even wrote under the outfit-list that I never had a crush on her lol.
Oh gosh the 1-minute ladder od TR2 was literally gaming-cruelty. I hated every second of it...
Amazing video bro... Enjoyed every sec of it :D
Haha yes! It's so funny, I had JUST recorded those lines when I read that comment from you, the other day 😃 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🥰
The narrative skills of yours along with the humor made this nostalgic journey to classic TR games completely awesome. Finished all your videos. Thank you for your effort, man!
Thank you so much, I really, really appreciate your kind words! Thank YOU for watching!
Yeah, that tiny door that you open with the Seraph is like a slap in your face.
Hahaha, exactly! 😫😂
Brilliant video. Funny, well edited and clearly made with a lot of passion! 😁
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
7:25 laughed out loud at the timing of Lara just going "oh, screw that" and throwing the flare like your dad would be throwing the gamepad... xD
I did more than 5 takes to get the timing completely right, so thank you for noticing! 😂
I love this List, especially number one What people seem to forget is that the original tomb raider series was notoriously difficult especially the PlayStation 1 versions.Tomb Raider 3 for the PlayStation 1 is arguably the most difficult PS1 game, especially due to its save system and low resolution. This was back in gaming's golden age, where you really had to work for it; without the internet to help.
Special mention goes to Lud's Gate, Temple Ruins and Madubu Gorge; those three levels absolutely tested even experienced players. Incidentally all of those three levels ranked very high on your personal list.
Once again great video!
Exactly, you are spot on! Games feel more automatic nowadays, with everything being explained and sort of assisted to the player. There was no hand-holding in the classic Tomb Raider games, haha!
Hahaha, yeah. I like to torture myself it seems. I love those three levels, but they are indeed all kind of brutal and unfair.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Tom Raider III at the top :D can't agree more. I was playing TR IV Alexandria part recently and realised that the mechanical scarab is one big mock - collecting four scarabs to get to it is pain and they've put one "false hole" near the little mech-pyramid, where you'll find nothing but a broken scarab and then there is the secret that you can't get to if you wasted the mech-scarab and of course there is also that completely unnecessary Lara's bronz statue in the same level, which Lara seems determined to destroy as badly as those golden harpies do :D
Oh, yes, that's actually a really good point! 😂 I hadn't even thought about that. The scarab part is really intense if you don't remember the level 100%, as you know it will break after a specific number of uses, which will void that secret.
Great vid! I looove the hilariously funny reveal in the end! 😂😂
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it! ☺️
Those random floor drops just before reaching the target are so unfair lol, if I haven’t saved the game, thanks! 😅 Great video!
Haha yeah, they are really cruel! Thank you so much ☺️
Core Design being a bully for 8 mins straight 😈
Hahaha 😂 Thank you for watching ☺️
@@AxMania my pleasure! Thank YOU for giving us the best TR vids on this platform!
@@TheEmanueleCastelli Thank you so much, that means a lot coming from a huge RUclipsr like you! 😲
9 - Of course I missed an opportunity to jump across when played TR1 UB as a child. The sphinx face is weird... but not as weird as magical instant-killing sand in levels 1 and 2, "unescapable" trap room with disappearing floor that bugs a pair of mummies if you successfully escape it anyway. Not to mention the entrance to cat statue from cat's butt, a lever that extends cat's tongue and a pit near it - to fall inside cat's... gut(?) if a player is careless.
8 - And finally!!! A small wooden door opens XD.
7 - Instead of a bear I initially died because of the very first tiger in TR2. Several times. Then I tried TR1. I was able to jump across the pit, but I was curious. So I cautiously descended into... and died of bear five seconds after.
5 - at 4:55 There is same thing in Catacombs of the Talion shortly after you grab the 1st Tibetan Mask. A pool is now dry, so it's possible to go into it and run to... the next area? - Down to the sneaky spike pit!
4 - it's a shame, but I died here in exactly the same way in my most recent walkthrough.
3 - not exactly. In the era before the "internet is everywhere" a novice player could easily get stuck at the first movable block because there is no in-game tutorial how to move it. So the most scary part remained locked for some time.
However I've seen a walkthrough for the first time when my father played. His crooked hands guaranteed that Lara died on every possible trap, and that was an awful experience even as a viewer.
2 - I tried every tile around the Dagger. They all are automatically-opening trapdoors. You can activate multiple and still have to fall down.
1 - simply can't withstand its level design like "Do not go here because it's a shortcut with no return and you finish the level but miss some precious things!"
And thank you for including 0:48 in the video!
9 - Haha, it seems like all ten entries on this list could've come from Unfinished Business! 😅 I think the instant-killing sand is supposed to be sand that's scorching hot from the sun, but then it doesn't make sense why all the sand isn't that hot of course (and why is it so hot during the night!?).
7 - Hahaha! That's how it goes 😥
5 - Core Design did this several times, the bastards! I think the Playable Tutorial One is one of the funniest though, because of the music.
3 - That's a good point, but, still... considering it's the opening level, it's too difficult! 😅
You're welcome, haha! So cheeky of Core Design to put spikes in lava 🤣
Happy belated birthday, Lara! We share so many both great and cruel moments together, they are almost uncountable. :)
Oh, I agree with many of those moments. Interestingly enough I don't mind the long ladder in Diving Area, I rather feel mocked by how obvious the first secret is. :D
10 - I really like this level too! I enjoy the beautiful atmosphere there and the monster scares me as hell. But....what was the thought behind giving us bats as enemies in the last level (technically second to last actually)?! You probably have tons of ammo and stuff in your inventory, and you need it to fight....bats?
9 - The whole TR1 Gold is a big troll in my opinion. Remember the last secret in the second level and the death room there. The sand and sky which kill you for no reason at the end of the first level. The fourth level in general, especially the anticlimactic finish. Terrible.
8 - HAHA I replayed TR2 last year and this caught me off-guard again. I expected something really epic and then...this happens.
6 - Oh, The Last Revelation had some cruel secrets. The other one in Guardian of Semerkhet with the fire holes is also tough. If you do the last hole at the end, they will punish you with Death Beetles.
5 - I actually never heard of that. Where is it available? It kinda looks like a TRLE Custom Level. :D And the falling spikeball just reminds me of "Run Lara Run", a CL I can recommend as No Loads challenge, cool but tough one!
4 - I never saw this actually, somehow my mind always assumed that there's a pit. The first time I saw the intention was in the Raidercast playthrough of Alberto. This just reminds me that I really can't wait for him playing TR3, it will be a lot of fun (well, for us).
1 - You got me here, I couldn't believe there wasn't a single TR3 bully moment yet, and I really appreciate this number 1! Couldn't agree more, it's just one big troll (but a fantastic one!), starting from the slope in Jungle and ending in the helicopter in Antarctica. Even the engine is less reliable here (e.g. grabbing a slightly aslope ledge) and leads to many troll deaths. The infamous "snowflake" in speedruns is also another good example here.
Great video again, mate! I already look forward to the next ones. Oh, btw I didn't forget your blockbuster from December, but I just replayed TR3 now and I want to replay TR5 (last remaining) first before I watch a top with *all* levels included.
Oh, and Reiley is apparently 26 years old. Have fun!
Ahhh, good point about the first Diving Area secret, haha! Actually, several of those Tomb Raider II secrets are a bit "Huh, was that it?"-like.
10 - Hahaha, that's a great point.
9 - Oh, yes! You are right. Someone else pointed out the death room in the comments, and that should probably have been featured instead of the panther-entry.
6 - Oh God, yes... the death beetles! That's another good one.
5 - I also didn't learn about this level until last year. It's exclusive to the Tomb Raider Level Editor. I actually don't know what it's purpose is, but it's a fun little level that's surprisingly good!
4 - Hahaha! Agreed! I can't wait for that! Alberto will have a tough time, I already feel bad for him 🤣
1- Hahaha! "Snowflake"? I don't think I know this one, can you explain? 😃
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I look very much forward to hear what you think, and think it's a great idea to have all the levels in fresh memory before watching. I'm very curious what you'll think of my placing of certain levels.
Hahaha! He is. I cannot believe it. He could pass for 16!!!
@@AxMania
Thank you for your reply!
I wanted to rank them on my own, but especially TR4 is a really tough one to cover since most levels are too small and depend on their connected levels. And I hope you finally found peace with The Deck and the Antarctica section, but I doubt it. ^^
Another troll just coming into my mind are the wasps in Tinnos, especially in the PS version with their infinite spawns. The devs really wanted to let the players suffer there.
The snowflake thing may depend on how much knowledge you have about Tomb Raider 3 speedruns. In general, you can skip the last section after killing Willard and go directly to the final cutscene. Therefore, you need to cornerbug and "hang" in a certain corner of the chamber (don't ask), then load a save you do at the beginning of Antarctica and swim to a certain tile at the left wall of the level (again, don't ask). You reload the other save and then the credits roll. I think the reason why this works are the same weather effects Antarctica and Chamber use (snow effect), although in theory it could also work with London & India and their rainy effects (I think so at least). Sounds easy, but the issue is that this doesn't always work (just don't ask why). For years already, people investigate what actually matters here, but sometimes it just fails to work. And this can lead to a massive time loss right at the end of a run due to pure coincidence. The engine of TR3 even trolls you there!
I'm just curious now, but are you on Twitch? There's a pretty big community for both speedruns and challenge runs with incredible technical knowledge about the games.
here's the World Record with a (working) snowflake. He even mentioned it and well, you can also see it on the thumbnail :D : ruclips.net/video/Y12Bda3K-28/видео.html
I'm not a big fan of speedrunning in general, but classic Tomb Raiders, and for me particularly TR3, are just something else. Nowadays I'm learning the TR3 speedrun on my own and I hope that I can do some runs as well (not on world record level tho haha).
Had me giggling in 2024, subscribed! Happy to find some top tier TR content while i impatiently prep for TR Remastered
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🥰 We don't have to wait much longer now, but this is still going to feel like the longest 5 weeks ever, I'm sure 😫
LOL that was brilliant! 😂 Thanks, man!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 😃
The montage of Lara's unnecessary deaths was... sublime!
Hahaha, thank you!
Which level and in what game is number 5? I can't seem to remember that level
It's a custom level distributed with Tomb Raider Level Editor (which came bundled with Tomb Raider Chronicles) to teach people the basics of the editor.
Very funny as always!! Love your videos!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Demon's Souls music at the end. Nice touch!
You know, I honestly expected Nevada to be on the top spot. because, beating the first section removes every single med pack, weapon and ammo from your inventory. And I was unaware and still am if you could get your stuff even back. The sad part? I used to own the german guide book, I still do. You are not warned there that Nevada will remove all your hard collected stuff from your inventory. And so many cheap deaths you could get. The first both? Get hit once, die. The final boss? Get hit once, die. I think I notice a pattern here.
I never, ever, made it through Antarctica on that file. Needless to say, I had to replay it with Nevada being the first stage I'd select after the jungle. I even skipped as many secrets as possible because the entire game was just so hard! Never saw the secret level and, for that matter, I never even watched a playthrough of that one.
I think I'll watch a playthrough of the secret level now.
Haha, yeah, Nevada is a great one! It sort of *is* the top spot, since the whole of Tomb Raider III is 😉 I feel your pain, I remember going through all this crap myself as a kid. The secret level is nothing to write home about, unfortunately 😔
Happy birthday Lara! 🌟 And happy Valentine's! 💜
Thank you a lot for brilliant and hilarious video! 😁
It was always hard to tell which part of game was my favorite... But now I presume it's Tomb Raider III! 🤘
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🥰 Hahaha! Tomb Raider III is a bully alright... but it's a lovable bully 😅
In Temple of Xian, There’s a cliff-edge sequence that makes you realize there’s a secret in the distance. One is forced to make particularly difficult jumps and consume a large medikit to reach this place. All this to get as a reward... another large medikit and I’m not even sure it counts as a secret. Fortunately, in the remastered version of the game, they still offer us a trophy as a reward to help us digest the pill.🤣
Oh yeah, that's one of my personal highlights in that level now, that we can finally get that stupid Medi Pack 😃
This was so great and funny🤣! You are amazing! Also, your right about number 1
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it! 🥰
A great video as always! Heavily heavily agree about the no.1 choice 😁 that game is just a giant troll, and loved the Demon's Souls track accompanying that one 👌
Thank you so much! Haha yeah, the Demon's Souls theme seemed very appropriate for that #1 😉
Tomb Raider 3 is such a painful game...
During the pandemic, I went like "I WILL finish this game in the legit way". I had some good times in the first level but, as the game is totally broken, I've discovered a way to cheese the first level by accident. And as the other levels went harder, I cheesed the game A LOT by doing shortcuts and stuff.
Some levels are nice, especially in Nevada or Pacific. But London is horrible, and the Antarctica... I gave up, as every level was, at minimum in blind playthrough, at least 5 hours of running in circles figuring out where to go next.
Seeing this game as an entire mockery is really, REALLY FAIR ! :D
Haha, you are so right. I can't believe I started with Tomb Raider III 😅 In a way, it's a amazing I stuck around and became a fan!
@@AxMania That's the kind of situation when you tried so hard that you began to love a game that hates you :D
The greatest mockery in TR 3 were the save cyrstals in the PS1 version 😂😂
Great video I remember every little thing on this list , Core Design were sometimes really mean 😆
Haha, ahhh yes... of course! In a game as tough as Tomb Raider III, not being able to save whenever you want to is just mean! 😂 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! They truly were! 😆
TR2 was my first TR game and the Great Wall traps were hell for me :')
Same, it was the first Tomb Raider level I ever played 😅
You brought the wooden door... but the whole shebang of TR2 is that you need a key, to open a key, to open wooden door that you witness in the very first level. That's some next-tier excuse plot, combined with trolling, given all your effort is ultimately to naught and the game might as well just consist of Great Wall, Temple of Xian and then maybe Home, Sweet Home, where angry Italians barge into Croft Manor to get the artifact they were trying to get so hard (rather than avenging their boss)
And if one starts to really overthink it, the reason Great Wall is so unforgiving is that's the end game area. You just happen to start the game there.
Hahaha, that's so true. I love it 😂 Tomb Raider II might have my favorite plot for this very reason. There's just something so charming about it.
Also from TR1 gold - the pointless room with a death trap slide and mummies right before the big cat statue
Oh, yeah! That's another great example 😆
Crush on Lara video ❌
Crush on Winston video ✅
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with the remaster i hope we get a angel of darkness one too. Becauce i liked the setting (and kurtis lol). thanks for your video
Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it!
@@AxMania anytime
@@radiantblog Oh, that's great to hear, and thank you so much! I get many comments about how obnoxious my voice and accent is, so this is a very welcome change! 😅🥰
I remember breaking my ps1 controller playing TR:3.
I threw it at my old tv back in 2001.
Tv broke it.
I was seven and mowed lawns until i got enough money to buy a new controller. Great memories!😂
TR:3 was Hellish, and i loved every single minute of it.
Awww, haha! Yeah, Tomb Raider III was essentially a bully! 😂 We all have horror stories from playing that game, I think.
I absolutely love that TR3 is basically the number 1 because it is such a horrendously difficult game. Very apt and very funny. Still on Egypt in TR1 on the remasters as I type this. I have all that horror still to come....
Hahaha, yes! It's a bit of a bully, that game. Egypt is tough as well, especially in New Game+ certain sections were a nightmare.
Great video and super funny, thank you!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! ☺️
Remember that time in last revelation when we finally got to the end of the level before the queens pyramids and there was this cool trap door at the end! It was really exciting, who knows what I could find down there. A medi pack, more shotgun amo, the possible path to a secret? It was all dark, but I decided to go down anyway.....
Falling. GIANT PIT. DEATH.
I will never forget.
Hahaha, oh nooo! I know exactly what you are referring to, and that should DEFINITELY have been on the list as well! 😩 That one is so mean, but also kind of hilarious.
@@AxMania Yes. When you don't have a recent save however it can be a bit annoying. Especially when Last Revelation is a game where I have low health and medi packs. Not to mention shot gun ammo
I find the inaccessible items in Atlantis, Temple of Xian and Coastal insulting. Some how, in TR3 hacks and randomisers, Winston is able to survive in the water forever, but still get hilariously jostled backwards. Plus that underground ladder in TR4, the area where you encounter the Minotaur, is especially insulting, because once you spawn the Minotaur and go down that lower level with the tall ladder, you cannot get back out, because the shockwaves from the Minotaur’s mighty hammer knocks you off the ladder. So it’s a good idea to save before you spawn this demigod creature and have multiple save files. Because you won’t progress at all if you make that mistake.
Haha, yes. All of these are great suggestions. Oh god, that annoying ladder "bump" during the Minotaur puzzle. I hate it so much. And it's made even more infuriating by the looping music.
@@AxMania Yeah, the music can get a bit annoying after a while. And also, if anyone makes that mistake, never stick to just one save slot. Only use multiple ones and keep one save from a little while back intact. Otherwise, you’ll have to start the game all over again. I know former Tomb Raider RUclipsr made that mistake.
@@AxMania Also, this croc/lion/hippo hybrid monster in TR4 is called the ‘Ammit’, otherwise known as the ‘Devourer’. It’s allied with Anubis, the god of the underworld, and its purpose is to devour those who have a heavy heart on the scales. If the heart is lighter than the feather, then the departed can pass through the underworld, unharmed. However, if the heart is heavier than the feather, it shows that said departed soul has committed many wrongdoings and will be devoured by the Ammit.
Yeah, I'm not afraid to admit that I never finished TR3. I had it on PS1, and save crystals made it such a brutal experience for a 12 year old. I got up to Antarctica, but never found the will to finish.
Yeah, but very impressive you made it all the way to Antarctica! That means you got past Lud's Gate, which tends to be the showstopper for people 😮
I ve watched a few of your videos but i have no doubt u are one of the best TR channels ,sigue así.
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it!
I wonder just how many times people yelled Oh god DaMN IT back in the day from this lol
Hahaha... A LOT of times, is the answer...
Man am I glad both me and my partner are subscribed :)
I'm really glad you both are 🥰 Thank you so much!
04:38 what is this level ? I don't remember playing it...
I'd also like to know. Wonder if it's not a TRLE level?
It's Playable Tutorial Level (exciting title for a level, I know), a Tomb Raider Level Editor-exclusive.
The biggest mockery is the gun cabinet in TR2 (as a tutorial).
Closed door that you can't open because there is no key. So you can't get the pistols, or the shotgun, or just the satisfaction to get inside.
But joke's on you, there is no gun cabinet to begin with, because as a room it only exists in the final level. In the tutorial there is only a small, empty space.
So all the time spent looking for a key, and later to mod a way to get into the room, was all for nothing.
Ah, yes. Very good point. I didn't even think of that.
What about the section in the temple of xian where the entire wall is levers with spikes coming down from the ceiling?
HATED IT
Hahaha, yes, good one as well! 😅
I remember playing TR3 as my first title of the series and not finishing a single level, when I was 12... I completed the game in 2022 for the first time and I think the most annoying thing about it is the loading time on the PS1, since you have to reload a lot...
I have never completed Tomb Raider III on PlayStation, but I plan to do so one day, so I can fully experience the horror 😅 Yeah, loading times are generally the worst part of going back to PS1 games ☹️
@@AxManiawhat platform can you play it on these days? I had it for ps1 then ps3 but can't get em for ps4
There's a secret in St Francis Folly I found to be cruel. Just off the starting chamber, with the sloped jumps challenge. There's an obvious collapsible floor where the pick-ups are, which made me believe it would be a handy shortcut to get back to the entrance chamber of the level, but nope, it just kills you!
Noticed an odd quirk with St Francis Folly is that the secrets require an unusual amount of skill and precision compared to the other levels, or the other games as a whole for that matter.
Yes, I know exactly which one you mean. I agree, all the secrets of St. Francis' Folly are hard. Notoriously so, for that level. I also point that out in my review for the level in my big level ranking video.
Damn...Core are cruel gits haha.
Great video as always man.
They were! 😂 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
@@AxMania You are most welcome :)
I had a good laugh (TRIII is spot on as #1!!), but some other good contenders would be the elusive medipacks that are either unobtainable (Temple Of Xian and Palace Midas -unless you use the corner bug-) or used as bait for a sadistic trap (Atlantis).
I’m not sure if the ‘death room’ of Temple Of The Cat would count as Core Design tried to warn us with the wall designs… 😇
Haha, I'm happy to hear that! Yes, those would be excellent picks as well 😃 True, "The Death Room" is one big mockery, but at least we know what we are getting ourselves into, with those skulls by the entrance 😉
Feel we need the sequel: 10 times TR3 mocked us!
Hahaha! I think we need a top 50 for that!
That ending with the tomb raider 3 edit of Laura getting killed in so many ways was amazing man. Great job lol
Thank you so much man, I really appreciate it!
I think we all need to take a moment to remember just how frustrating Tomb Raider 3 could be.
Good idea. I just did. I remember... 😅
The first time I have played TR 2 in the 90s I thought I have forgotten "to use" the Seraph in Tibetan Foothills and carry from now on the Seraph for the rest of the game. And as I saw that the Seraph was intended just for a small door in the next level I thought: WTF???? I have a grenade launcher! I don't need to travel around the globe for a key!
that troll was my #1, the insane detour for such a flimsy door, lol
Hahaha, exactly! It's ridiculous! Good point about the Grenade Launcher... she doesn't even need an axe.
I don't even remember if I even finished TR3. I still have the game and there is a big crack in it which makes it unplayable. I wonder how that crack got there. Fun video. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
Oh ☹️ Maybe from throwing it into the wall because it mocked you? 😂 Haha, thanks man, I really appreciate it! Cheers!
The coin part at 7:36 BWHAHSHAA
"Huh I wonder if the quicksand medipack in TR3's Coastal Village will be #1"
* gets to #1 *
"Well I was technically right lol"
Hahaha, honestly... that might be the single biggest mockery ever...
Tomb Raider II was my first game in the series and I don't remember Great Wall to be that hard lol. Then, I got lost in the Venice at some random shit xD
Haha, that's funny. Venice is really difficult to navigate actually.
I remember the exploding Lara was advertised as a level skip cheat, not nude Lara. It got me good. I remember my jaw going slack as I stared dumbfounded at the aftermath of Lara’s exploding pieces. 😂
Hahaha, yes! 😂 I love when developers troll the players like that.
#CrushinOnWinston 😆🤣
I know it’s not exactly dangerous or anything, but one that really got me was the switch next to the gate in the first game, towards the end of City of Vilcabamba. Where you see a bear running around in the room behind the gate. I spent a good 5 minutes building up the courage to pull the switch, expecting the gate to open and the bear to come wizzing through, talking the bear in the face! I was so shocked when I pulled the lever and a trap door opened dropping me into water 😁
Hahaha, that's amazing! That would've been perfect for this list, but I unfortunately never had this experience 😂 Your description was absolutely perfect though, and made it really easy to imagine.
@@AxMania 😁 your list was amazing though. I loved the hidden hole in the floor in the 4th game, made me laugh a lot 😂
The epic dramatic TR3 part made me almost spit tea all over my desk, damn yeah, it's all TRUE! 🤣👍
Hahaha! 😂
TR3 was the first one I got into and is still my favorite based on the memories from it. So freaking hilarious it made the #1 spot for this 🤣 TR3 was an absolute menace to get through haha thank you for all your great content!
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Tomb Raider III is awesome in spite of all the bullshit!
Lol the first place with that music :D
But like do you remember the monks??? that if you killed one, even accidentally then all of them would turn against you, but ofcourse nobody knew that first time playing
Hahaha, oh yes, of course! That should have been on the list as well! 😂 Especially since it's almost impossible to not fire at the monks.
All the clips of Lara just randomly being set on fire are so TR III
It is! 😫
I died with number 1, great video lol
Haha, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
I enjoyed this vid, especially with that ending part lol.
Haha, thank you, I really appreciate it!
Soooo uhhhh. Remember the ending of the last revelation. The ENTIRE GAME we go around Egypt to complete the Armor of Horus so he can battle set. Only for set to swoop in at the last minute and take the armor for himself! And then we just seal him inside he is still in there waiting for another foolish archeologist to release him. ALL WE HAVE ACOMPLISHED IN THAT GAME WAS HELPING SET MOVE TO A BIGGER HOUSE WITH A SWIMMING POOL!! That has got to be the BIGGEST troll TR will ever pull on us.
Hahaha, that's actually an excellent point. Lara really done goofed in that game.
I just found about this channel now why😮 I am fan of classic TR❤
Welcome to my channel 😃 I hope you'll enjoy my videos ☺️
My first experience with Tomb Raider 3 after beating 2, back in the 90s was... A Johnny Cage MK9 X-Ray... So God Damm Difficult,
Hahaha, I love that description.
What's the name of the music at the end?
It's the main theme of the Demon's Souls remake for PS5
@@AxMania thank you
When I saw the title I instantly had to think of All Hallows with the jump scare music without an actual jump scare und the zipline into death :D
Ahhh, of course! The random jumpscare! That really should've been on the list as well 😂
Me having the 20th mental breakdown this week:
My life's narrator: 5:01
Hahaha! 😂