In this editorial, Gaming Precision managing editor Esteban Cuevas defends Lara Croft as a representation of women in video games.
Tomb Raider I, II, III Remastered is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Lara Croft is back in a classic remaster of the original PlayStation 1 hit title. Is the remaster any good though?
We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
I do agree that Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness was the worse one 😂 I remember playing some of it and I took it back. That game was just awful in every way. I bought it used at gamestop and glad they had that 7 day return policy for used games 😂
Simple. He's been hating on the Tomb Raider reboots for years. I can't imagine seeing them at the top of a best TR game list let alone being on the list in general sitting well with him because of it.
Zeek
“Hating”
No no, just pointing out how TR mutated into a generic action adventure game losing the appeal of what it once was when it was more about puzzles and platforming over going Rambo, slaughtering waves of enemies
But hey, continue being a dick and speaking about me like I’m not going to see the comment.
Foxtrot, I'm curious if you have played the most recent games. Sure the 2013 reboot was hugely focused on combat, but each follow up became less and less about combat to the point where outside of a few large scale story missions I don't even remember combat being a part of shadow of the tomb raider. Shadow was so puzzle focused it actually was a bit much for me and I love the TR puzzles.
I still feel like Rise was the best of the series and I was a huge fan of the originals. To me it struck the perfect balance of exploration, platforming, puzzles, and combat. Not saying your opinion is wrong I'm just curious what you think they should have done different. Games do need to evolve somewhat to stay relevant. Would you prefer small linear jumping platform levels like the original?
I think Shadow wasn't even develop by crystal dynamics. I thought it was the worse in the new trilogy
That's right. Shadow was developed by Eidos Montreal who who went and made Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy next. (Great game)
Meanwhile after Rise of the Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics made Marvels Avengers. (bad game)
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
i don't think women approve her body odor after swimming in mud and living for weeks without showering so i disagree
Women want triangle boobs and fish faces?
They better bring back her shorts in the sequel to the reboot.
The author made a mistake on one of his foundation arguments. That mistake is throwing his conclusions off. He said,
"Many women are portrayed in video games – and most other media – as being petite and beautiful. This is because this is typically the fantasy goal for women, as perceived by pop culture society."
That is incorrect. That is the goal a for women as defined by women. Nobody tells women that they should be petite and beautiful, women figure that out all on their own. Women spend FAR more money and time on being "petite and beautiful" then men spend on being strong and aggressive.
As far as Laura Croft goes, she is a unicorn, like Wonder Woman. Women actually do want to be beautiful. They don't really want to go around beating the crap out of men.
Oh yeah, the Laura from the latest Tomb Raider game is quite attractive. She just doesn't have giant breast and tiny shorts. But most real-life women don't have dimensions like that unless they're really hot.
I think she's definitely a strong woman figure, and no where near as sexualized as others (bayonetta, dead or alive...)
Although lets be honest, both men and women are very sexualized in their own manner in video games...I mean each dude we usually see is either good looking and proper body or ugly with proper body or ugly with ugly body + very powerful....so really sexy is everywhere in one shape or form, just depends what people are into lol.
Either way I'd prob put Faith from Mirror's edge as a good representation. She's definitely undersexualized (with exception of her gorgeous face and kick ass tattoo).
She's by far the most immersive female character I've ever played.
I usually cannot play games where the female is the main character because I cannot immerse myself (which i'm sure is very tough on girl gamers in the vice versa situation).
Faith and a few others I can't remember have made me play it too the end:)
To this day I always have my Mirror's edge run through days:)