Try to think of a list of strong female leads in video games. There are a scant few, but nowhere near as many as there are strong male leads. The only two that come immediately to mind for me are Samus Aran and Lara Croft. There's also female Commander Shepard, though she tends to be overshadowed in media by male Shepard. There are a handful more, though the point stands; Mario, Sonic, Link, Duke Nukem, Master Chief, Nathan Drake and nearly every other strong, recognizable lead in gaming is a man. With the new "Tomb Raider" game, developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix may be trying to embolden Croft and bring her back to the forefront of gaming. From the way the trailers look and the hype the game received before and after this year's E3, they will probably succeed. However, the new Lara Croft actually looks like she'll damage the credibility of women in gaming even further.
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
Nariko (Heavenly Sword), Amaterasu (Okami), Jade (Beyond Good & Evil), Chell (Portal), Madison Page (Heavy Rain), Jodie Holmes (Beyond), Carla Valenti (Fahrenheit), Faith (Mirror's Edge), Zoë/April (Dreamfall: The Longest Journey), Jen (Primal), Lightning (FF XIII), Bayonetta, Aveline (Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation).
This article is right about the lack of strong female characters by comparison to male, but "damaging the credibility"? I doubt it. How many women do you know in the real world that would be able to survive what Lara will have to go through in this new game? How many men for that matter? Bear Grylls (on a good day) would be one. It's obvious.
How many men or women (IRL) would be able to go through what Lara did in the old games and survive? Similar answer.
Most actions that characters do in games is not realistic, let alone the female characters or the female equivalent in reality. Not even close to the majority of "real" men would be powerful enough to do what Marcus Fenix and Kratos does til the end.
I understand the concern but the minority attitude is old and tired. There is nothing to worry about, other than there needs to be more representative female protagonists in games, period, whether or not they are "strong". Men are built to be physically stronger, it's in nature and human DNA. Women can be stronger if they choose. So now developers can make that choice.
The last few sentences are some of the worst BS I've read on this site. This dude can get a LOT, from a few scenes.
What a waste of an article. Just another pseudo writer trying to ride the coattails of another pea-brained shock topic that will be irrelevant in 2 months.
Yeah, because Marcus Fenix and Kratos are such shining examples of how men are in real life...
Yeah, it disempowers women because we were under the impression they were superhuman and we are harshly awoken to find that they are not.