Viperine (pictured) lost her arm at a young age after she was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Today, she is part of a vigilante group that liberates those forced into “slavery and inhumane experimentation".
And she is vying for recognition as a Fantastic Femme - a “strong female role model character" designed for a video game as part of a competition run by the Queensland University of Technology.
Penny Sweetser, who lectures on games and interactive entertainment, said the aim was to challenge the norm of featuring sexy, voluptuous female figures in video games.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
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.
'Viperine lost her arm at a young age after she was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Today, she is part of a vigilante group that liberates those forced into “slavery and inhumane experimentation".'
NGL I'd probably play it.
Does it matter if we play a man or woman in a game? everyone is equal
Damn what was that poisonous snake doing in the kitchen. But no for real, girls wont play a game cause a girl character is to sexy?
They're not in demand.... well, I guess they are.
But not by any majority, be they female or male. GAMERS play games with good shit in em, be they characters, stories, gameplay, etc.
FEMALE gamers don't want to play games. They want to play FEMALE games, and so demand that things be adequately feminine... without being too feminine.
Gaming predominantly appeals to males, just like hunting/guns, racing/cars, and politics. Even though the opportunities are there for females to like or take an interest, it's something that just, for some reason, draws men in more.
The only one of those that needed any fundamental changing was in politics, where women weren't allowed to take part. Aside from that, these activities are things that men like more than women; the women that get involved don't try to change everything about them so that they're 50/50 for males and females. They accept the activity for what it is and still enjoy it.
Hell, it'd be like women suddenly wanting action movies to have more romance in them, or other things that particularly interest women: it defeats the purpose of it being what it is. Gaming is largely male-dominated, and while I'm the first to step up for gender, racial, or sexuality equality, I just can't agree with this "movement."
You don't hear gay people claiming there aren't enough homosexuals in games, or that they're always being portrayed stereotypically.
" Female video game role models in demand"
Why? In games you do things, usually through an avatar. You should not look to any fictional avatar in a game as a role model especially if it's unrealistic adventure. They do whatever YOU do in accordance with the fictional rules of the scenario. What they do has little to do with real life. there's not much to learn from them.
What can you learn from Master Chief? Obey the fake space government that kidnapped you as a child, surgically altered you, and brainwashed you? Don't drive vehicles off of cliffs? Blow up any giant ancient space structure built by advanced sentients who disappeared that you happen to find because they might wipe out all life? back off and wait for your energy shields regenerate?
What can Kratos REALLY teach us about anything? Samus? Link? Even Gabriel Knight? Tommy Vercetti? Jade? Who cares?
This is a really really really stupid premise. Male or female doesn't matter that much. Finding role models in games is idiotic. You are not supposed to learn about your own life from them. You are only supposed to play them in a garbage in/garbage out manner.
If someone wants to make an interesting female character great, but in the big picture so what? It has nothing much to do with the human condition or life or learning. This is a misplaced idealism.