Quote: "Earlier this week in my column about reverse sexism in the gaming industry, I defended Hitman: Absolution for its portrayal of sexualised female assassins disguised as nuns, and instructed gamers, specifically the feminists among us, to pick their fights.
This then leads me to an article from yesterday in which Crystal Dynamics executive producer Ron Rosenberg revealed details of an attempted rape scene in their upcoming reboot of the Tomb Raider series, which portrays a ‘more human’ Lara Croft. While I did share some of my thoughts in that article, I have to admit that I expected a far larger backlash than what actually happened.
Basically… nothing happened. At least, in the circles of the internet that I’ve been to ever since. "
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'Studio head Darrell Gallagher said in a prepared statement: "We were not clear in a recent E3 press interview and things have been misunderstood. Sexual assault of any kind is categorically not a theme that we cover in this game."'
I doubt that they were misunderstood in the interview. What they said was probably worked like a jig-saw puzzle until the pieces spelled, "Sensationalist Title Here!"
Is he talking about the flood of unqualified writers that have been ruining gaming with their ill informed and narrow-minded agenda driven hit pieces?
The problem isn't Tomb Raider, it is people thinking they are more important than the game who have blogs or in some cases jobs writing about Tomb Raider.
The game industry would be so much better without "journalists". I would rather read a QA on the game's official site or just see a dev discussion on Youtube without some unwashed pimple head injecting their so called insight into the mix. The "journalists" are affecting games and not in a good way.
I think that the journalists looked for a couple things in the interview that could be blown out of proportion, and then using degraded integrity they wrote something absolutely ridiculous about Tomb Raider.
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You clearly haven't been here then. Quit this nonsense.
I as a player do connect differently with male and female characters especially when Im gaming. does that make me sexist? no, its just how I interact with the genders.
"Are you trying to say that the only reason we would feel bad for her is because she’s female?"
no, I'm saying my reactiong is different between a male and female. I always want my hero to do well, but while my male shepard I always chose the goody goody, my female always did what it took no matter what, something similar can be said of Lara. I might be more sensitive to the situation when a woman is the character at risk over Drake being captured. Drake will get beat up, slapped around, Lara I know it could be worse.
fail article, get off n4g.
I hope that at least some of these supposedly intelligent journalists aren't so stupid that they are unable to perceive context. I'm fairly certain this is just the next big traffic-bait story.
They're portraying a more realistic, more human Lara Croft. If she's the only- or one of- woman on an island full of unsavory male individuals, isn't rape a distinct possibility?
In fact, isn't it MORE unbelievable that rape WOULDN'T at least be attempted in a situation like that?
These guys aren't noble gentlemen; they're trying to kill someone. A woman in a real-life situation such as this can- and should, unfortunately- expect that such people would try to rape her.
I now remember a book, a partial autobiography I read in elementary school. It was about a girl and her mother and brother escaping WWII in China. At one point, she and her mother start dressing as males- even going as far as to pee standing up- because other refugees had taken to raping females. The little girl- the author- barely escapes being discovered a few times. Not by hardened criminals, not by cold-blooded killers; but by fellow victims.
That was real life. Should not a game attempting a realistic approach at least explore that potential issue?