Non Specific Action take a look at why gamers have become accustomed to male dominance in the games industry.
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.
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“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
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I read this article and don't really see the point. I mean, I understand the idea and I really don't care if the game is led by a female or not if its a good game, so maybe the article isn't aimed toward me but again, I don't see the point.
Tomb Raider - At the end of the article he points out how it should be praised and made an example of. It has, it's an extremely popular game title that has made it through several generations of consoles now, which shows it is praised and accepted by gamers.
The fact is more men play games than women currently and therefor it makes sense the games are sold with that in mind. If its a good game it'll make the cut, ie Tomb Raider, or ME3, or the new Lollipop Chainsaw game or w/e, or any of the recently amazing RPG titles such as Oblivion or Fallout where you could create a male or female lead character.
When more women are buying games and voicing their opinions to see more games with female lead characters I think we'll see that, but no, I'm not gonna email DICE and request that a female fill the lead role in the next Battlefield. Will I play Tomb Raider when its out? Yes, yes I will.
Stephen: "Hey Joe, I have an idea for an article. What if we talk about how there aren't enough girls in games?"
Joe: "You mean like the 50 articles that have already been done about this in the past 2 weeks ever since that one lady decided to make a project called Tropes vs Videogames?"
Stephen: "Oh really? That many huh? Well, I mean I haven't spoken about it yet. So maybe people want to hear my take on the situation."
Joe: "You're a guy bro, and this issue is being beaten repeatedly like the proverbial dead horse."
Stephen: "But I wanna get it in on this too. There aren't enough women in gaaaaaaames."
Joe: "You haven't played many games lately have you? Do you really think people need to hear, again, about how someone thinks there aren't enough women in games despite evidence to the contrary?"
Stephen: "IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, THEY MUST BE TOLD!"
Joe: "But, they have been. Over and over and over and over. And there are plenty of games with strong female leads."
Stephen: "But their sales are awful. We can't let games with female characters sell badly, it's sexist."
Joe: "Did you ever consider the fact that the games might suck or be released at a bad time of the year against heavy competition?"
Stephen: "SEXIST! SEXIST! SEXIST!"
Joe: *sigh* "Whatever, if you want to bore our readers with yet another article about this, far be it from me to dissuade you."
Stephen: *jumping up and down in a giddy fashion* "YAAAAAY!"
The preceeding was a gross exaggeration of what has been happening lately. Blind bloggers and pseudo-journalists ignoring facts to either gain favor with their significant female other, or protray themselves as being "sensitive" and then going home and playing Dead or Alive while drool trickles from their mouths. I should get people to make a list of all the strong female leads in gaming as proof that they exist and aren't as few as people think. But if I did that then someone would inevitably say "and look how many male leads there are" or "and look at what those women are wearing" and it wouldn't matter how many women there were anymore. It's an unwinnable situation until all developers stop making male lead characters until the amount of female leads catches up. And those female leads all have to be as average as possible or else their appearance will be criticized. They also can't be vulnerable in any way, or in need of any help, or they will be criticized for being weak.
*sigh*
the fact that girls called kids who gamed nerd ,and now that that they play zombies in COD and angry birds they are now gamers??? lol