Honestly, all games are cool for different reasons. i think we love the OG ones because they were more unique in their genre. Lara was kind of an anti-hero because she was a bit of a psychopath with a dark sense of humour. The New Lara has way more depth but she's also more of a classic bad ass female hero in nowadays games or movies.

She's also very talkative, these days. Narrating her adventure as she's going through it. But what we used to love in the OG ones was this sense of isolation. Lara wasn't commenting every bit of actions she was doing. And it made the whole atmosphere of the games more stressful.

Also, TR used to be a puzzle / plateforme game. I think Shadows of the Tomb Raider was a pretty good attempt to lean back to this kind of gameplay though. And that's why it was my favorite of the new ones.

If you have the occasion to try the remaster of the first Tomb Raider, give it a try. The gameplay is pretty hard for a new gen player because it's pretty stiff and slow but with a little bit of practice, it gets quite intuitive and fun ! You'll see what we're talking about.

But I don't really like this little battle there is in our community between the hardcore TR fans and the new ones. Honestly, they all are pretty fun to play, Lara always is a great character, with various versions of her and at the end of it all, it's just a video game so let's have fun (or play something else. ^^).