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"Now, the thing I haven’t mentioned in all of this is that, yes, these grisly death scenes are especially weird because Lara Croft is a woman.
She’s every bit as powerful, resourceful and agile as her male counterparts, but where Nathan Drake and Master Chief and Agent 47 and Solid Snake and Kratos and Link and Gordon Freeman simply get knocked off, Lara Croft needs to be beaten up, bloodied, impaled and garroted for all to see.
And when these animations are made by a majority-male development crew, for a majority-male audience, under the shadow of all sorts of nasty tropes that see women suffer on screen, it’s understandable why so many people feel uneasy about these scenes." Polygon says.
It's not because it is a she, Tomb Raider has always had special death animations, and it's a lot like Death Space, which mind you Isaac had FAR more gruesome fates them Lara. It's a design on the game to show the result of your failing. If anything it's equal opportunity, she is treated no different then most male characters, it's just most devs don't do custom death scenes.
It's funny that on N4G people universally think this author is an idiotic, soy boy half man cuck who complains that MEN of all things created a game depicting women dying (as if women depicting this would be just fine and dandy) and demonizes the male audience, as if men should never view such things.
Then you read the comments on the actual site, and they're all the same idiotic, soy boy half men cucks who completely agree and think women being realistically killed is so out of place in a fantasy setting where a woman shoots and brutalizes men with a pic ax among other weapons. As long as it's a woman killing men and not the other way around we're ok. Because equality, or something.
Male feminists spouting third wave feminist garbage make me sick.
Polygon is less of a gaming site and more of a estrogen factory.
Don’t like it, don’t play it, don’t force your sad world views on us normal folk.
@Gaming They put their articles up here so that they can get those annoyed clicks.
@NapalmSanctuary I put the article up here, I don't support polygon in any way.
For those wanting to see the article without giving the site clicks use an archive link
https://archive.fo/VPm01
Dead Space was in the thriller genre, as is the Resident Evil series. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Having said that, I don't mind the death animations other than that sometimes I feel they take a bit long.
Death animations will never be outdated. It’s far better than seeing a character do the same thing every time it’s game over no matter the situation
It goes to show how creative the devs can get to show the player’s failure
I still can't help but laugh at the Conan O'Brian segment where he was playing the first game and he kept dying on the river section and his reactions to being impaled over and over again in different ways.
We're living in parody. Its like we all died and went to spaceballs's unfunny prequel.
Nah man, your thinking of the sequel that was a shameless ripoff of the original with an uncompelling lead and Dark Helmet & President Skroob wannabes for main villains.
My father always used to say "things were different back in my day" and I always thought he was just being a grumpy old man. In my thirties now, I'm beginning to turn into that grumpy old man too, and can't help but roll my eyes at something I see online, practically every day at this stage. There's so much stupidity in the world right now. Everyone seems to be offended by everything, and I tend to like the world less and less as time goes by.
I’m 100% agree with you sir. I’m nearing 30 myself and I’m starting to feel the same way.
How does a death animation, have anything to do with Lara Croft's gender...? Oh wait, it doesn't. Stop making something out of nothing. Please tell me these Polygon "Jounalists" don't actually get paid to write this garbage...
Polygon with another article that helps further cement modern gaming journalism as a joke. How is having a variety of death animations for a character dated? Also, why is Lara’s gender suddenly an issue, male characters have brutal death animations also, just look at Doom (2016),the Gears of War series, God of War...
Funny you should bring up Doom. Here’s some super sweet gameplay highlights from the “gamers” over at Polygon. https://youtu.be/d3pQ0oO_cD...
The Tomb Raider series is one of the most well known in gaming. Host to exceptional highs and depressing lows, it has seen its titular protagonist take on all manner of ancient traps and untold evils to learn the truths of the world, and amass additions to her fortunes along with it. With well over a dozen entries though, some have obviously been better than others, and today we've got every game ranked.
17. Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
16. Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
15. Tomb Raider: The Prophecy
14. Tomb Raider: Chronicles
13. Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword
12. Tomb Raider (2000)
11. Tomb Raider III
10. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
9. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
8. Tomb Raider: Underworld
7. Tomb Raider
6. Tomb Raider: Anniversary
5. Tomb Raider: Legend
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider
3. Shadow of the Tomb Raider
2. Tomb Raider II
1. Tomb Raider (2013)
A retrospective of Lara Croft's character development and evolution as a woman and as a gaming icon, from 1996 to the newest Tomb Raider series
Lara was quippy and fun, she is currently dry and whiny.Chloe Frazer is actually a better Lara than Lara atm.
*cough* mario *cough
I don't like it when they reboot games to start off right from the beginning again. Just continue with the series or come out with something new.
If fans still want it and it can make money who are you to say not to do it? It's not up to you thank god.
When there's nothing left to create off of.
I think I game should only be created if they have an interesting concept to convey.
Sometimes I reboot helps if they have a new Twist on an old concept
When they stop being good or start being stale.