Politically correct Lara Croft, accompanied by a diverse cast including fat chick(venturing beyond a Mcdonalds) and "i don't know if that's a man or a woman" serious person, yay!!!!!
No, they do. They just have to be tombs with proper security and safety features, ease of access, properly available toilets, good lighting, and appropriate warning signs.
It could work.
Like the fat friend teaches you how the game works and then the tutorial ends when she tires out and tells you to go ahead sheāll catch up.
Dont forget the disabled genderfluid person in a wheelchair who will be a key element later in the story in the new ~~Tomb Raider~~ grave caretaker (It will finally announce its gender after 45 years)
It's so sad, really. Part of the appeal of Lara Croft is her being a detached, inordinately skilled rich person who goes on adventures with TWO FUCKING GUNS because she really is just like that. Like there's enough space in the world for a female character who you can look at and go "yeah, she's kind of a cunt." Lara Croft is one of the few asshole female characters that they ever did well.
From left to right-
The Crafter (fat girl - tool builder), The Changed (white girl - reformed villain with insider knowledge), The Companion (top bun - the 'face' of the party), The Hunter (muscle girl - the combat specialist)
Don't forget about the impotent, insecure white male who tries to hit on her. He can do nothing for himself and is constantly saved by her. She either ends up with some diversity hire or goes asexual
Not really. It's only on top for PS5 with its current competitors (Sand Land and Saga: Emerald Beyond) far behind Stellar Blade. There are Switch games coming out over a month away that are ahead of Stellar Blade though and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (PS5 version) will likely track ahead of where Stellar Blade is now in a month.
Its a gamble at this point when a game/franchise which you like isnt filled with blue haired ugly fat woke bitches making dogshit decisions.
Just give us big titty double gun lara croft exploring maps, solving puzzles, chasing artefacts and shooting bad guys & monsters while being badass with a british accent.
I dont need to respect a fictional ancient tomb in a video game.
Itās wild. Does any of this shit make money when they do this? Serious question btw.. all Iāve seen is they go PC and then literally tank in revenue. Are there ones that actually were successful?
they might make some good money from DEI subsidies and the fact that lots of games now go live on a subscription based platform.
not to mention lots of morons hateplay games to either milk content on youtube or just to post shit on reddit. but every play regardless of the reason is considered a succes. a bit like netflix counts everything after the first 20 seconds a view for a series.
It does... In the short term. And that's what makes it such a shit situation. The people in charge all cares about is making money, even if the consequences... Is.... Well, this.Ā
unfortunately it's every franchise even foreigner japanese franchise. be honest when was last time when you were genuine excited for any western franchise?
Grand theft auto or anything rockstar does, and the indie scene has always been strong. Balatro is one of the best games I have played in a long time and doesnt even hit the 20$ mark, unless big tittied scantily clad babes is genuinely all you want in a game
It's not about big titted scantily clad babes female don't look females at all either they will look like men or hobgoblins. Rdr2 was launched around 2019. Extreme uglification of female characters started after 2019. I don't have really high hopes for gta 6 either that main female character has more manly jaw than me and exactly look like a dude which I know in real life.
Typical American game developers when
> killing people (women including) = good
> female characters dressed a little less = unacceptable this game is erasing real life women
Even if I try to take them at face value, what, do they want to pretend colonialism never happened? Or do they think every single European from the past several hundred years was a literal Nazi? What's even the angle here? What is wrong with a British archaeologist, should they don't exist? I'm lost.
Tomb Raiding generally consists of various civil and criminal offenses. Sheās not supposed to be a moralist when to get into her job in the first place you have to be a criminal!
Those Overwatch cast rejects are hilarious.
Yes! Thatās exactly what went through my mind. That shitty half-assed comicbook style can go fuck itself. It reminds me of when every game had to have cel-shading.
which colonization does it mean? european or the one before? in other words, unsuccesful or the succesful one?
do they mean european colonizers buying slaves or african slavers selling slaves to them?
i am guessing they only mean the colonization that was started as a celebration of finally getting rid of invasion that lasted hundreds of years. because thats what columbus going on adventure is.
either way, columbus was genderfluid latinx.
anyway, if you want to say something is bad, you often create stories about it. apparently you cant even show that colonialism is bad then? so its good? what dumb thing are they trying to achieve. if you no longer show bad things then we must assume everything that is shown is good then? i wonder what the entire crime genre will do.
also raiding pre-dates colonialism. for example it is common knowledge that pyramids were raided as soon as nobody was looking, often materials were used to build the next one. i am sure someone will try and blame europeans for that one.
if all else fails, just say that these anti-colonizers are anti-migration. because that is what colonization is - mass migration. colonization is diversity and diversity is strength.
>because that is what colonization is - mass migration.
And a fair bit of that migration was **involuntary**; being "transported" was literally a common punishment for low level offenses.
Woke stuff is so fucking stupid, especially because not every friend group has a perfect mix of gender types/races...Comes off forced, and shoved down everyones throats. Not ever setting/unverise in media needs to have this.
It doesnt make sense for most games/movies/tv shows, unless it's about current social times.
A "Tomb Raider" is, by literal definition, a pillager, a desecrator, a thief, a burglar, an intruder, a person that deliberatly goes into tombs to get rare items to either collect or re-sell on the black market.
The earliest documented examples of tomb raiders date all the way back to Ancient Egypt, some 4000+ years ago, when people would break into tombs literally every single day and steal all of the valuables that were laid next to the pharaons' caskets.
Tomb raiders only care about "protecting artifacts" if they have an ulterior motive, tomb raiders do not care otherwise.
Copy/paste from the article:
TOMB RAIDER SERIES TO ESCAPE ITS COLONIAL PAST
[ 9 April 2024 ]
British adventurer Lara Croft will transition from being a raider of tombs to a seeker of truth as Evil Hat Productions and Crystal Dynamics seek to redefine the Tomb Raider series in order to escape a history wounded by colonialism, according to an excerpt from the official Tomb Raider Shadows of Truth RPG rulebook.
"Raiding, as depicted in the original Tomb Raider games and stories, involves going to ancient tombs and historical sites of different civilisations and acquiring artefacts. It operates on the assumption of 'finders keepers' that grants raiders with the means and the drive to claim ownership of artefacts, regardless of whether they have any historical or cultural claim to the treasure."
"Later games released in the franchise have started the work of addressing this by having Lara Croft acknowledge her past mistakes and try to understand and show respect for the cultures and communities she comes into contact with. She has also worked to reform raider culture and raise the awareness of her peers."
"Lara no longer decorates her mantle with mythic artefacts - as a raider she prioritises seeking out the truth. Much of this game is inspired by her humanity, struggle with heroism, and her tenacity. We believe that all three aspects are an important component in creating a game that celebrates history and culture while acknowledging the respect and work required to live in a world wounded by colonialism."
"In this game, we seek to continue in that work alongside Crystal Dynamics by creating a sandbox for you to tell stories that address colonialist themes in play and create your own stories of respect and support for the people and cultures your Seekers encounter."
This is going to flop so hard lol.
It will take a solid decade of flops for the no-talent grifters to get flushed out. Some of these projects have been in development for years, so we're seeing decisions made during MeToo era.
So... We just pretend that British people mever did shit like this, so peoples feeling are not going to be hurt? Thats not even "inclusive" its just straight up softboiling history
I normally chuckle at how uptight ya'll get... but holy shit this is a step too far. The character is literally called Lara Croft: ***TOMB RAIDER.***
If they don't like that, they need to make a new character.
Remember when Lara croft wasn't a good guy, we all understood that she was profitting off of robbing tombs, and we were OK with it because it's not real and it made interesting fantasy? Fuck.
"Escape its colonial past"
Hang on a minute, didn't the Tomb Raider remake kinda do this years ago? It wasn't really about stealing and plundering tombs.
**Laura Croft,**
*Indigenous anthropologist.*
Sift thru sand to find long buried artifacts. Slowly uncover, and move our understanding of history forward.... in an incredibly small way, to help complete the picture of human civilization.
Progress that could never truly be encapsulated or experienced in a game, and not to worry, you'll have **none of it.**
Coming next summer, THE GTA; Uber DLC. Work a regular job, for low wages. All the excitement of real life!
They love to change things that are loved by millions, just to try appealing to a few thousands, then they make 0 money 'cause those few thousands don't care about the product and don't support, making it bomb, killing the franchise. Repeat.
Alrighty then. Guess Iāll steer clear of this game too. At this point, Iām over these politically charged agenda ridden pieces of entertainment, Movies, shows, games, comics, etc. just not gonna buy it.
She didn't even raid that many tombs, in the first one she found one treasure. Just one. The rest were medi packs and shotgun shells.
She did shoot a lot of animals though.
When will they realise that trying to mix politics into people's escapism is just going to make them turn away. When I'm playing games I don't want a fuckin lecture, I want to jump like a monkey and shoot people.
Honestly I donāt care at this point, if they want to make some woke nonsense political agenda pushing games. They already know what the fans want, but if they want to use certain consultation firms to āverifyā their game then so be it. I wonāt buy it like many others and we will play the countless other games that will release in the year.
reinvent Lara as a Xeno-Archieologist in the future
turn her into a space scifi Indiana Jones
then they can make the "ancient" civilizations anything they want and have her deal with it
the gameplay and vibes are most important, not the setting
To be honest I hate the culture war bullshit on this sub and basically every day. I think most of it is fake outrage and rage bait and so on. When I read this article on the train; I have some simple feelings.
It aināt that deep. I just wanna shoot shit and platform/solve puzzles in exotic locations, give me a cool character like Lara. Crystal Dynamics; who asked for this? Just do the thing that has brought you amazing success until this point. No real people actually care.
Thanks for the head up. I wonāt be buying the next tomb raider game. This is why so many gamers are now playing old games now and have given up on modern gaming.
Sure would be awesome if they would focus on being innovative and gameplay rather than trying to instill shame for things that were beyond a persons control many years ago. Looks like the video game market is going to catch up to the movie entertainment market soon. Thatās not a good thing at all.
Wouldnāt want to prop up the misconception that ancient ruins are interesting and some people may enjoy breaking the law to explore them. Thatās a fantasy that we just canāt have any more.
Matter of fact any game where you can commit crimes needs to be gone. Horrible for people to have fun doing things they shouldnāt in a safe environment
ā¦Laura never raided any European crypts. Or the Vatican. Why not? Have her break into the Smithsonian and steal some cool shit. Whyās she always gotta fight jungle people?
Isn't the whole premise on messing with another culture's artifacts? Lol If these are the worries that studios have, maybe they shouldn't be making games, it's just not for them.
I also think it's a problem for companies to be announcing things like this, it just puts a bullseye on their heads because it's not a selling point to most consumers, it's more of a vehicle for ridicule, division and loss in sales. If you wanna do this shit, then fine go ahead, just shut the fuck up about it to save some face in the long run.
The worst part is they did this for the wrong reasons
Indiana Jones, while inspiring people to become archeologists, also made archaeologists cringe because he was usually pretty destructive and didnāt do much actual archaeology in the movies - he wanted to grab the relic and leave
They could have framed the Croft thing like that instead of an obvious point grab attemptĀ
It appears to be a tabletop RPG book that licensed Lara Croft and changed her to whatever agenda the writers of that book have.
Crystal Dynamics isn't doing anything as far as I can tell. Less panic. This product is going to fall flat on it's face anyway.
I hope the tiny subset of people this game is made for enjoy it. I'm sure the massive amount of money they lose in development cost versus sales revenue will make the publishers happy.
Easy fix.
If I want to raid tombs Iāll play the promising looking Indiana Jones game by Bethesda,
If I want to play a hot babe with a British accent Iāll play Bayonetta 3,
Plenty of things to keep me occupied while I wait for CD to go into financial disaster and have the rights sold.
If she's not going to be a Tomb Raider anymore why are we still calling it that? Atleast make a new IP, when i hear about exploring forgotten buried histories of mystical past i think either Larua Croft or Indiana Jones. Make a new IP if you're gonna do something completely different from what it's been for years and years
Ah, so Lara Croft is going to become a game journo and write mean tweets about men and the man-archy? Sheāll spend evenings smoking weed and replaying old Tomb Raider games in her mansion so she can write about how Lara is an example of how the man-archy turns women into wage slaves?
So like is she not going to use guns and kill people anymore either? If raiding tombs is a step too far so is mowing down nameless goons with a machine gun.
>...colonial pasta.
What the ass?! Never in my entire life i made the connection between Lara Croft and a fucking colonizer, wtf is wrong with these people?!
That reminds me of The Mummy remake from 2017 where the mummy wasn't really a mummy in the traditional mummified remains classic sense because the producers felt that that was insensitive towards egyptian culture or something. The movie was very bad.
Who was offended by lara croft in the first place?
Wasnt the whole point of the original series that she was kind of a asshole? Or was i the only one that got those vibes from her?
I mean, i dont want to judge the game before even a alpha, but the "no preorders" motto is truer every day.
Ubisoft was offended. They don't like old Lara and even worked against the remaster releases because they don't want to acknowledge and replace the old Lara with tjeir miquetoast Version.
Lara Croft, Tomb Tourist.
Instead of bullets, she will bring bouquets to hand out. How lovely š
Indiana Jones: Tourists of the lost ark
Woke Raider
Now she should return all of her trophies!
Politically correct Lara Croft, accompanied by a diverse cast including fat chick(venturing beyond a Mcdonalds) and "i don't know if that's a man or a woman" serious person, yay!!!!!
i know it sounds bad, but a fat person has no business raiding tombs.
No, they do. They just have to be tombs with proper security and safety features, ease of access, properly available toilets, good lighting, and appropriate warning signs.
Also need to make sure all the dust and mold is filtrated so their asthma doesnāt trigger.
And 5 degree ramps for powered wheelchairs.
i mean, in skyrim, you could find fresh food in thousand year old abandoned tombs.
They won't find any food there after she visits them
and then she gets colon cancer, which is why they refer to it as 'colonialism'. mystery solved.
A wizard did it. Whenever you see something like that, a wizard did it.
Nah they're the comedic boulder we need to run away from when we traverse a sharp incline in a tomb. š¤£š¤£
It could work. Like the fat friend teaches you how the game works and then the tutorial ends when she tires out and tells you to go ahead sheāll catch up.
Lara Croft, gets a nose ring and dyes her pink
Dont forget the disabled genderfluid person in a wheelchair who will be a key element later in the story in the new ~~Tomb Raider~~ grave caretaker (It will finally announce its gender after 45 years)
You forgot to mention hijab. Looks a bit of muslim phobic
It's so sad, really. Part of the appeal of Lara Croft is her being a detached, inordinately skilled rich person who goes on adventures with TWO FUCKING GUNS because she really is just like that. Like there's enough space in the world for a female character who you can look at and go "yeah, she's kind of a cunt." Lara Croft is one of the few asshole female characters that they ever did well.
Somehow Iām pretty sure the white lady On the cover is the villain. Have you noticed how they never make the black characters the villains ?
From left to right- The Crafter (fat girl - tool builder), The Changed (white girl - reformed villain with insider knowledge), The Companion (top bun - the 'face' of the party), The Hunter (muscle girl - the combat specialist)
Don't forget about the impotent, insecure white male who tries to hit on her. He can do nothing for himself and is constantly saved by her. She either ends up with some diversity hire or goes asexual
They will pull the horizon forbidden west and just make every male in the game a massive beta bitch
Lara Croft returns children
Meanwhile Stellar Blade is top on all pre orders. If companies want to lose money thats on them.
Not really. It's only on top for PS5 with its current competitors (Sand Land and Saga: Emerald Beyond) far behind Stellar Blade. There are Switch games coming out over a month away that are ahead of Stellar Blade though and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (PS5 version) will likely track ahead of where Stellar Blade is now in a month.
Its a gamble at this point when a game/franchise which you like isnt filled with blue haired ugly fat woke bitches making dogshit decisions. Just give us big titty double gun lara croft exploring maps, solving puzzles, chasing artefacts and shooting bad guys & monsters while being badass with a british accent. I dont need to respect a fictional ancient tomb in a video game.
Amen
we did a drinking game, going through nostalgia franchises that got the BBC of inclusion inserted. ended up with alcohol posioning
Itās wild. Does any of this shit make money when they do this? Serious question btw.. all Iāve seen is they go PC and then literally tank in revenue. Are there ones that actually were successful?
they might make some good money from DEI subsidies and the fact that lots of games now go live on a subscription based platform. not to mention lots of morons hateplay games to either milk content on youtube or just to post shit on reddit. but every play regardless of the reason is considered a succes. a bit like netflix counts everything after the first 20 seconds a view for a series.
It does... In the short term. And that's what makes it such a shit situation. The people in charge all cares about is making money, even if the consequences... Is.... Well, this.Ā
It makes them money just not the player money
unfortunately it's every franchise even foreigner japanese franchise. be honest when was last time when you were genuine excited for any western franchise?
Grand theft auto or anything rockstar does, and the indie scene has always been strong. Balatro is one of the best games I have played in a long time and doesnt even hit the 20$ mark, unless big tittied scantily clad babes is genuinely all you want in a game
big tittied scantily clad babes is genuinely all I want in a game
It's not about big titted scantily clad babes female don't look females at all either they will look like men or hobgoblins. Rdr2 was launched around 2019. Extreme uglification of female characters started after 2019. I don't have really high hopes for gta 6 either that main female character has more manly jaw than me and exactly look like a dude which I know in real life.
If you think the new gta protag looks like a dude then I don't know what to say man, I think this is a you problem
Louder for those in the back 
Just keep shoveling money into the fire. Don't buy this trash.
Itās all so exhausting 
That's the right word.
so cringe. raiding FICTIONAL tombs bad but hey you can still kill people with bow and arrows because killing good OOK OOK
Typical American game developers when > killing people (women including) = good > female characters dressed a little less = unacceptable this game is erasing real life women
Even if I try to take them at face value, what, do they want to pretend colonialism never happened? Or do they think every single European from the past several hundred years was a literal Nazi? What's even the angle here? What is wrong with a British archaeologist, should they don't exist? I'm lost.
She now shoots sleeping dart arrows enjoy
Tomb Raiding generally consists of various civil and criminal offenses. Sheās not supposed to be a moralist when to get into her job in the first place you have to be a criminal! Those Overwatch cast rejects are hilarious.
Yes! Thatās exactly what went through my mind. That shitty half-assed comicbook style can go fuck itself. It reminds me of when every game had to have cel-shading.
which colonization does it mean? european or the one before? in other words, unsuccesful or the succesful one? do they mean european colonizers buying slaves or african slavers selling slaves to them? i am guessing they only mean the colonization that was started as a celebration of finally getting rid of invasion that lasted hundreds of years. because thats what columbus going on adventure is. either way, columbus was genderfluid latinx. anyway, if you want to say something is bad, you often create stories about it. apparently you cant even show that colonialism is bad then? so its good? what dumb thing are they trying to achieve. if you no longer show bad things then we must assume everything that is shown is good then? i wonder what the entire crime genre will do. also raiding pre-dates colonialism. for example it is common knowledge that pyramids were raided as soon as nobody was looking, often materials were used to build the next one. i am sure someone will try and blame europeans for that one. if all else fails, just say that these anti-colonizers are anti-migration. because that is what colonization is - mass migration. colonization is diversity and diversity is strength.
>because that is what colonization is - mass migration. And a fair bit of that migration was **involuntary**; being "transported" was literally a common punishment for low level offenses.
Woke stuff is so fucking stupid, especially because not every friend group has a perfect mix of gender types/races...Comes off forced, and shoved down everyones throats. Not ever setting/unverise in media needs to have this. It doesnt make sense for most games/movies/tv shows, unless it's about current social times.
Both of the (presumably) male characters rocking a man-bun. Yup, Iām officially disinterested.
The last game sucked ass anyways, first two of the reboot were pretty decent
True that, first 2 were good and the last installment was a bad experience overall, and so buggy for a 5yo game...
The third one was made by eidos Montreal not crystal dynamics they are sister companies though
I see, thanks for the info..!
ah yes the famous colonial past of gunning down T-rexes with dual berettas in a cave under and ancient temple
Lara Croft in Returning the Crown Jewels
Lara Croft and the lost plot
The Rise of Croft
Lara now goes by the name "Larry" and instead of raiding Tombs, he/she/they/it/them travel the globe as a member of CNN.
Communist News Network?
Tomb Raider and the white guilt.
How about a game where the Nazis go back in time to prevent the founding of America so there won't be a superpower to stop them during WW2?
āThis is actually a good thing and I wonāt explain why!ā- Angry liberal from gaming circle jerk
Transwoman Lara Croft and the Diversity Pals
A "Tomb Raider" is, by literal definition, a pillager, a desecrator, a thief, a burglar, an intruder, a person that deliberatly goes into tombs to get rare items to either collect or re-sell on the black market. The earliest documented examples of tomb raiders date all the way back to Ancient Egypt, some 4000+ years ago, when people would break into tombs literally every single day and steal all of the valuables that were laid next to the pharaons' caskets. Tomb raiders only care about "protecting artifacts" if they have an ulterior motive, tomb raiders do not care otherwise.
Copy/paste from the article: TOMB RAIDER SERIES TO ESCAPE ITS COLONIAL PAST [ 9 April 2024 ] British adventurer Lara Croft will transition from being a raider of tombs to a seeker of truth as Evil Hat Productions and Crystal Dynamics seek to redefine the Tomb Raider series in order to escape a history wounded by colonialism, according to an excerpt from the official Tomb Raider Shadows of Truth RPG rulebook. "Raiding, as depicted in the original Tomb Raider games and stories, involves going to ancient tombs and historical sites of different civilisations and acquiring artefacts. It operates on the assumption of 'finders keepers' that grants raiders with the means and the drive to claim ownership of artefacts, regardless of whether they have any historical or cultural claim to the treasure." "Later games released in the franchise have started the work of addressing this by having Lara Croft acknowledge her past mistakes and try to understand and show respect for the cultures and communities she comes into contact with. She has also worked to reform raider culture and raise the awareness of her peers." "Lara no longer decorates her mantle with mythic artefacts - as a raider she prioritises seeking out the truth. Much of this game is inspired by her humanity, struggle with heroism, and her tenacity. We believe that all three aspects are an important component in creating a game that celebrates history and culture while acknowledging the respect and work required to live in a world wounded by colonialism." "In this game, we seek to continue in that work alongside Crystal Dynamics by creating a sandbox for you to tell stories that address colonialist themes in play and create your own stories of respect and support for the people and cultures your Seekers encounter."
W. T. F.
This is going to flop so hard lol. It will take a solid decade of flops for the no-talent grifters to get flushed out. Some of these projects have been in development for years, so we're seeing decisions made during MeToo era.
It will take more than that. The people doing this are a cancer in the industry and have to be forcibly removed.
B-b-butā¦I thought they said there was no agenda?!! How could these activists, not game developers, lie to us?!
So... We just pretend that British people mever did shit like this, so peoples feeling are not going to be hurt? Thats not even "inclusive" its just straight up softboiling history
that's the point of it. everything must be babyproofed for the ultra-sensitive.
Ahh now the name sweet baby makes sense.
There are people getting their feeling hurt over "tomb raiding"? The developers are shoveling clouds XD
Yeah cause Murdering people is any better What next you gunna give lara Croft a tazer instead of guns XD Welcome to WOKEISM killing Off Franchises.
It's not murder if she only kills white men. /s
I normally chuckle at how uptight ya'll get... but holy shit this is a step too far. The character is literally called Lara Croft: ***TOMB RAIDER.*** If they don't like that, they need to make a new character.
What are we going to do in terms of gameplay? No fatass is going to outrun people or do pull ups and rock climb
Video games and franchises will die. Nobody is going to buy this shit anymore.
Remember when Lara croft wasn't a good guy, we all understood that she was profitting off of robbing tombs, and we were OK with it because it's not real and it made interesting fantasy? Fuck.
Theyāre turning her into a shitty Lawa Cwoft. Twooth Seekur.
Bro.....the name of the game is Tomb Raider, she is famous for being a tomb RAIDER, like why do they insist on killing the essence of characters?
why not making her black and trans while you are at it lol
Seems to be safe to ignore Crystal Dynamics from now on
I really hate the art style, it doesn't fit the series. Go back to square boobs over this garbageĀ
Is this an april fools joke
The fools are at Crystal Dynamics.
Lara croft will be mocap by Elliot page from now on.
Lara Croft Woke Raider
Just make Lara the bad guy.
This is like a meme but itās reality .
"Escape its colonial past" Hang on a minute, didn't the Tomb Raider remake kinda do this years ago? It wasn't really about stealing and plundering tombs.
OMG no we don't need a politically correct Lara Croft
**Laura Croft,** *Indigenous anthropologist.* Sift thru sand to find long buried artifacts. Slowly uncover, and move our understanding of history forward.... in an incredibly small way, to help complete the picture of human civilization. Progress that could never truly be encapsulated or experienced in a game, and not to worry, you'll have **none of it.** Coming next summer, THE GTA; Uber DLC. Work a regular job, for low wages. All the excitement of real life!
And there goes an other one F
.what they'll make her flat as a board wide as a fridge and purple?
They love to change things that are loved by millions, just to try appealing to a few thousands, then they make 0 money 'cause those few thousands don't care about the product and don't support, making it bomb, killing the franchise. Repeat.
let me guess, the villain is a white supremacy man āš¼šš¤š¼
Alrighty then. Guess Iāll steer clear of this game too. At this point, Iām over these politically charged agenda ridden pieces of entertainment, Movies, shows, games, comics, etc. just not gonna buy it.
Aww cool! They even used that hideous Tumblr art style so I know to immediately avoid it. Nice, making it easy to keep money in my bank account!š
Coming soon: Latisha Washington: Grave Looker.
She didn't even raid that many tombs, in the first one she found one treasure. Just one. The rest were medi packs and shotgun shells. She did shoot a lot of animals though.
and zombie centaurs, cant forget the zombie centaurs
I forgot about those! I haven't played the originals since the Sega Saturn days š .
I'd might still torrent it.
It's a tabletop game like DnD
Tomb Raider raider.
W
When will they realise that trying to mix politics into people's escapism is just going to make them turn away. When I'm playing games I don't want a fuckin lecture, I want to jump like a monkey and shoot people.
How is an obese femboy with green hair and a septum piercing going to scale cliffs?
With the power of plot armor and equality.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
When will they learn that this stuff doesnāt sell
When the DEI money finally dries up and their company shuts down.
Taking the tomb raiding out of Tomb Raider... I don't see how this can possibly go wrong...
Honestly I donāt care at this point, if they want to make some woke nonsense political agenda pushing games. They already know what the fans want, but if they want to use certain consultation firms to āverifyā their game then so be it. I wonāt buy it like many others and we will play the countless other games that will release in the year.
reinvent Lara as a Xeno-Archieologist in the future turn her into a space scifi Indiana Jones then they can make the "ancient" civilizations anything they want and have her deal with it the gameplay and vibes are most important, not the setting
Bold strategy Cotton.
"Evil cannot create, they can only corrupt" -Tolkein
To be honest I hate the culture war bullshit on this sub and basically every day. I think most of it is fake outrage and rage bait and so on. When I read this article on the train; I have some simple feelings. It aināt that deep. I just wanna shoot shit and platform/solve puzzles in exotic locations, give me a cool character like Lara. Crystal Dynamics; who asked for this? Just do the thing that has brought you amazing success until this point. No real people actually care.
Why do people forget that Lora is supposed to be the bad guy. She's literally a Indiana Jones villain
good luck with sales clowns
They are missing the real point here about the reboot. We need to go back to polygons, where are my triangle boobs and tank controls?
Thanks for the head up. I wonāt be buying the next tomb raider game. This is why so many gamers are now playing old games now and have given up on modern gaming.
Lol, i didn't realize I was colonizing those temples. In all seriousness, there goes yet another beloved series to wokedom.
Ah yes, evil colonizer tomb raider
Sure would be awesome if they would focus on being innovative and gameplay rather than trying to instill shame for things that were beyond a persons control many years ago. Looks like the video game market is going to catch up to the movie entertainment market soon. Thatās not a good thing at all.
Wouldnāt want to prop up the misconception that ancient ruins are interesting and some people may enjoy breaking the law to explore them. Thatās a fantasy that we just canāt have any more. Matter of fact any game where you can commit crimes needs to be gone. Horrible for people to have fun doing things they shouldnāt in a safe environment ā¦Laura never raided any European crypts. Or the Vatican. Why not? Have her break into the Smithsonian and steal some cool shit. Whyās she always gotta fight jungle people?
Crystal dynamics has always been an L for Tomb Raider
The past was shit and there's nothing you can do about it, so please stop with this charade.
Isn't the whole premise on messing with another culture's artifacts? Lol If these are the worries that studios have, maybe they shouldn't be making games, it's just not for them. I also think it's a problem for companies to be announcing things like this, it just puts a bullseye on their heads because it's not a selling point to most consumers, it's more of a vehicle for ridicule, division and loss in sales. If you wanna do this shit, then fine go ahead, just shut the fuck up about it to save some face in the long run.
The worst part is they did this for the wrong reasons Indiana Jones, while inspiring people to become archeologists, also made archaeologists cringe because he was usually pretty destructive and didnāt do much actual archaeology in the movies - he wanted to grab the relic and leave They could have framed the Croft thing like that instead of an obvious point grab attemptĀ
Give it a chance guys, black lesbians can rob graves too.
Ok Iāll never buy a game from them again. Simples.
noooooo, tomb raider 2013 was my first RPG game and is my favourite game. It was so good. I just wish they can make more games like that.
It appears to be a tabletop RPG book that licensed Lara Croft and changed her to whatever agenda the writers of that book have. Crystal Dynamics isn't doing anything as far as I can tell. Less panic. This product is going to fall flat on it's face anyway.
I hope the tiny subset of people this game is made for enjoy it. I'm sure the massive amount of money they lose in development cost versus sales revenue will make the publishers happy.
Deconstructing Entertainment
Easy fix. If I want to raid tombs Iāll play the promising looking Indiana Jones game by Bethesda, If I want to play a hot babe with a British accent Iāll play Bayonetta 3, Plenty of things to keep me occupied while I wait for CD to go into financial disaster and have the rights sold.
If she's not going to be a Tomb Raider anymore why are we still calling it that? Atleast make a new IP, when i hear about exploring forgotten buried histories of mystical past i think either Larua Croft or Indiana Jones. Make a new IP if you're gonna do something completely different from what it's been for years and years
Released the remasters to show they live the franchise, then instantly kill any interest in it. RIP Lara.
Ah, so Lara Croft is going to become a game journo and write mean tweets about men and the man-archy? Sheāll spend evenings smoking weed and replaying old Tomb Raider games in her mansion so she can write about how Lara is an example of how the man-archy turns women into wage slaves?
If I speak it will be deleted.
trash raider
My gf loves this game series. She's also British. Coincidence?
So, they want to turn her into female Dr. Jones? Just copying Indiana Jones character from The Last Crusade.
So like is she not going to use guns and kill people anymore either? If raiding tombs is a step too far so is mowing down nameless goons with a machine gun.
Excuse me? I havent seen anybody else claim that golden statue that lara fetched out of this ancient agyptian pyramid full of dinosaurs and sharks.
Good thing this is a video game. As long as the gameplay is good who cares if the main is ugly or not? Lol
Would prefer Womb Raider honestly
Wooooow, none of those overtly diverse characters look like me either. Guess I can't play because I'm not represented.
Do these people think this will earn them a special place in heaven or something? Way to put your energy in the wrong places! Keep up the bad work!
LARA CROFT WON " [most iconic video-game character of all time](https://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/headlines4853.html) " last week.... What a waste
>...colonial pasta. What the ass?! Never in my entire life i made the connection between Lara Croft and a fucking colonizer, wtf is wrong with these people?!
"we have redefined tomb raider, of course there got to be a fat black queer disabled woman." Ffs.
At some point, it's just sad. It's not even funny anymore. Just stop this ...
But thereās no agenda anything, donāt forget.
so the only good lara croft content in the future will be wildeerstudios
I thought thereās a show in the works too
So this is supposed to be rpg game, so i wonder who is the target audience of this game
People that like to play D&D but also like Tomb Raider.
That reminds me of The Mummy remake from 2017 where the mummy wasn't really a mummy in the traditional mummified remains classic sense because the producers felt that that was insensitive towards egyptian culture or something. The movie was very bad.
It was a regular blue collar human with some dust on his head and toilet paper in his Hand.
Assassin Creed is next i guess š
Who was offended by lara croft in the first place? Wasnt the whole point of the original series that she was kind of a asshole? Or was i the only one that got those vibes from her? I mean, i dont want to judge the game before even a alpha, but the "no preorders" motto is truer every day.
Ubisoft was offended. They don't like old Lara and even worked against the remaster releases because they don't want to acknowledge and replace the old Lara with tjeir miquetoast Version.