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only thing thats annoyed me so far is that the bow disappears of her back when you select the pistol, totally breaks the immersion yo

yeah just googled it, shame


"Crystal Dynamics stated that they made that design descision, cause they realized they will run into glitches and bugs when u would have all the equipment shown at once,...especially in crouch positions and cutscenes...so they just let them dissapear when not in use."

the difficulty is gone apart from the odd moment where it may leave you scratching for head for a few minutes.  especially now there is an "instinct" button, which basically highlights important objects/locations etc for you.

though i think they've made up for that with the gameplay and visuals, great fun so far

Tomb Raider is everything that is wrong with video games inside one game

Reboot
objectification of women
retarded marketing ("actress" who played lara croft goes on conan o'brien)
The "gritty, dramatic, emo-isation" of entertainment.  Thanks, Chris Nolan http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013- … ideo-games
Excessive violence and gore for pure shock value

etc.

Last edited by Spearhead (2013-03-18 15:42:43)

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feminist discourse in video-games: tedious and pointless.

if video-games had anywhere near the intended impact and effect as, say, a film or book... okay, maybe. but people play games for fun, for disengaged mental nothingness. people don't play games to be all hyper-critical and engaged with the content/themes and all thoughtful and contemplative. if a video-game objectifies a woman, nobody fucking notices. that's because a game is there to be fun (or competitive), bottom-line. the figures and models involved are irrelevant to the actual mechanics underneath. most games aren't narrative enough to really be analysed this way, for 'feminist' or 'anti-feminist' undertones, or whatever. the story is a thinly veiled bit of dressing to simply give the game momentum and a pretense for its designed path-ways.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-03-18 17:33:53)

but the princess from mario did give teenage boys boners back in the day...

Brasso wrote:

Lara Croft 2013 is designed to give teenage boys boners? jesus you seem removed from reality

Oh, so because its a reboot, that means we just forget what the name is all about?  Christs sake, man.  Either they are continuing a trashy POS series of a game, or they're just cashing out on the name recognition.  Which one is better?

It'd be like me, naming my kid Adolf Hitler 2.0.  No, really guys, its a reboot.  Nothing like the original.

Lol

go back to /srs/ spearhead, you sound absurd here

Last edited by DUnlimited (2013-03-19 01:30:27)

WTF?

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

i do think some of you younger generation gamers are forgetting just what a poster-icon lara croft was for the original generation of console gamers (and their press/marketing). the lara croft sex appeal was definitely used at almost every single opportunity in order to add a bit of 'sex appeal' and 'cool' to what was viewed as quite a geeky and male-centric pursuit, back then. i doubt the new game is quite so suffused with the same spirit, but definitely 10 or so years ago, the tomb raider games were basically an excuse for a bunch of people to sell a lot of playstation magazines with full-page foldout posters of a computer animation with ludicrous tits.

oh i completely remember that, i just didn't play those ones. was probably playing brood war at the time those were out.

Brasso wrote:

i wasn't looking to play 2013 because i reminisce about her tiny waist and her huge tits.

Spearhead wrote:

Since when is a tiny waist preferable to a bigger waist?  sounds homo to me

idk you tell me

... i think you get the idea. it is definitely a franchise they rebooted on the pretense that lara croft has a certain... 'cachet'.