From Bounding Into Comics:
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From The Blaze:
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I never played the game, but: Isn't absurdist sexy depictions of Lara the whole point of the game.
Quote from: Cathode Ray on April 22, 2024, 04:27:23 PMFrom Bounding Into Comics:
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From The Blaze:
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I never played the game, but: Isn't absurdist sexy depictions of Lara the whole point of the game.
NOT ANY MORE!
Greetings!
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Video games have been so compromised by Woke developers and artists it is sad and depressing to see.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Quote from: Cathode Ray on April 22, 2024, 04:27:23 PMFrom Bounding Into Comics:
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From The Blaze:
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I never played the game, but: Isn't absurdist sexy depictions of Lara the whole point of the game.
No, the point of Tomb Raider when it first came on the scene was that it had a good control scheme that allowed Lara to jump around and do awesome climbing and acrobatics at a time when competing games used "bulldozer" controls that could barely walk through doors.
Having Lara be sexy was just icing on the cake.
Edit: And as for how sexy she was, watch the actual original game. Given the low polygon count, she's at best a rough approximation of a human being. The sex appeal is more suggested than actually depicted.
https://youtu.be/Roi2UelYGsU?si=-KMl-sbBkZjOS9qy
That said, Core/Eidos quickly played up the sex appeal in the promotional art, which did not use the in-game graphics, and subsequent games that had much higher polygon counts definitely played up the sex appeal of her in-game model.
Quote from: Cathode Ray on April 22, 2024, 04:27:23 PMI never played the game, but: Isn't absurdist sexy depictions of Lara the whole point of the game.
They did away with that years ago.
I have a memory from playing the first Tomb Raider I will never forget.
There was this girl at the time I knew and was interested in. We hung out at one of the old game stores in the town I live. Well I bought an hour of computer time from the store owner and asked for the Tomb Raider disc. Because the game really interested me. And I wanted to see what it was about. So I pop in the disc, start the game, and am sitting there in my jacket. Because the day was cold.
I felt a yank and pain in the middle of my scalp, The girl has pulled out a fist-full of my hair. She said she did it because she didn't like the game. WTF? This is just one of many things she did that seemed insane and didn't make sense.
Well later I found out that she was a hardcore heroin addict and booted her out of my life.
And people wonder why I don't date?
For what it's worth. The company put the posters back into Tomb Raider 3. But apparently it was found that they cut out a lot of other stuff.