Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Includes Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes Warning From Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics has added a content warning to Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered flagging what it described as racial and ethnic stereotypes.

[isarai]

Honestly I think this is the best way to handle these situations, you don't learn from history by erasing it.

[potatoseal]

No. The best way to handle them is to ignore the faux outrage by the vocal minority on X. That's if it even comes up.

[isarai]

They just wanna get their game out, and not worry about changing stuff or defending stuff, spending 1min to write a sentence that pops up seems like an extremely efficient win/win.

[Tacoboto]

You sound very triggered, potato

[fr0sty]

Ignoring problems doesn't fix them. I think they handled it well by addressing that there's content there some may take issue with.

[senorfartcushion]

You sound too angry to be an outsider to this kind of online conflict

[FunAndGun]

So like ignoring your faux outrage about including a couple sentences of text that hurts your feelings?

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

Agreed. Much like with books, movies, etc., sure, some people may groan at an added foreword or “content warning”, but the important thing is that the original works are left intact.

[potatoseal]

How weak society is. Do we really need a content warning for stereotypes in a game? Tell me where I can go to vomit.

Maybe Rockstar should add this warning before you boot up GTA: San Andreas and GTAV. I'm sure there are a lot of stereotypes in GTAVI too. Maybe a warning is in order /s

[Christopher]

"Ugh. Why can't Crystal Dynamics just lean into racially insensitive stereotypes like I want them to? Why are they changing their stance based on learning about those people and places? Can't we all just be tribalistic ignorant people?"

[coolbeans]

-"Why can't Crystal Dynamics just lean into racially insensitive stereotypes like I want them to?"

You're not supposed to make the questions sound so based, Christopher. ;)

[Barlos]

Terrible take there

[OtterX]

I don't see the big deal of putting a warning as long as it's not censored out. I'd never support these things being completely removed or censored though. They are a product of their time, whether you like it or not, we do not censor art. We learn from it and move forward.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

To be fair, GTA is a satirical series.

[Rockstar]

This right here!

[bloop]

Yes, and Tomb Raider is based entirely on reality and should be completely taken seriously. I'm glad someone finally dealt with that pesky T-Rex at the great wall of china.

[badz149]

not satirical enough when the first mission in GTA SA had the main character stealing a bike

[shinoff2183]

We have warnings on everything from smokes, movies, coffee. Your making a non issue into a issue for political points.

[Dandizzle]

All those warnings just teach people to look for shit to be offended so they can get attention online from some pointless outrage.

At this point young adults just compete online for who can get more offended by things, this is why we get more and more warnings. Like who benefits form that warning really?

[xHeavYx]

@JL2930 It sure affects your typing capabilities.

[senorfartcushion]

Usually due to loneliness.

It's Valentine's Day too, so it's probably harder for them.

[JL2930]

You have to remember, this is internet land.

I've never met someone in person that is so soft they need trigger warnings, I don't know about LA or SF, but they would get ate alive where I'm from acting like that.

[xHeavYx]

"I never met anyone with this issue, therefore it doesn't exists"

[senorfartcushion]

You'd be ate alive where I'm from for being a bitch in the opposite way.

[SyntheticForm]

No, we don't. This is absolutely ridiculous, as is anyone who finds it necessary or helpful.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I guess that'll help for the one GTA fan out their, lol

[just_looken]

Society is very weak just look at movies up to 2005 then todays films.

Grand theft auto 6 will not be close to the social impact of 5 or have any of the humor/tone they removed so much out of 5 all ready like the trans stuff or the beach statue ending cut etc that 6 will be a very corporate safe game.

As everyone freaked out over a girl in gta 6 i sat back and replayed saints row 1/2 on my one x a game that had full online coop with a player character creator. Rockstar is about to release a game 17 years later that still does not have saints row 2 features and will defiantly not have a main character beating up npc's with a dildo bat.

Content pre 2015 still remains way better than what we have now sadly sony will kill the anime scene funimation already destroyed the high school dxd creator by forcing censorship/script changes thank them for that awful ending scene of him hugging pres.

[senorfartcushion]

Mate you're on a videogame website moaning about something only virgins have a problem with.

This is just bad overcompensation.

[GotGame818]

If a game is rated M, why should such a warning be necessary? Rated R movies don't have warnings. I've seen all kinds of inappropriate things in movies, and the only warning I got was the rating.

[senorfartcushion]

Because 90% of people are thick regardless of age?

[anast]

The reason this is happening is directly because human beings are too stupid to treat everyone with freedom. The only side that is sensitive is the side that is too historically ignorant to realize what is means to be born in a group of power and what means to be born in a group in which power has been denied.

[Dandizzle]

Who the hell is getting offended by god dam Tomb Raider? Obviously some young adults who just feed off constant outrage. Not people who actually played those games, who are the audience this game is targeting.

[EvertonFC]

I haven't played them in a long long time and I'm scratching my head on what was potentially offensive in the games.
Did we get the colour wrong on the t rex or tiger or something Haha, or the gun wasn't authentic enough for it's period 😂🤣

[senorfartcushion]

Corporation wants to protect its sales early. It's a hypothetical. No one has been offended by th game, it's a pre-written statement in the event someone is offended.

[senorfartcushion]

You're the only on who sounds offended.

I'm offended too, but only because you don't seem to know what a hypothetical statement is.

[Bathyj]

I'll probably be more offended by the tile based movement system.

[just_looken]

Just lock that butler in the freezer

[purple101]

I have no idea what any of you are talking about, because I never could beat the tiger in the cave as I was 10 years old and never went back to play it ☺️

[Christopher]

Real gamer moment.

[purple101]

Haha
I managed to complete sonic the hedgehog on megadrive a few years prior
Though😏

[senorfartcushion]

I shot, screamed and ran. Then climbed the nearest waterfall to escape 😂

[SDuck]

A family friend offered me his PS1 and a box full of games when I was a kid. It's so funny looking back and reminding all the games I tried, failed miserably and never went back to finish. Funnily enough, I'm going back and retrying BG3 after giving up last time

[banger88]

That's funny, I don't remember the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy having a content warning. Unga Bunga!

[FPS_D3TH]

This AND NO NUDE SKIN?

I ain’t buyin this

[LoveSpuds]

I really don't understand why a sentence displayed on a loading screen for a few seconds can make people lose their marbles so much?

If you are not sensitive to the content then the warning isn't aimed at you, move on with your day.

[senorfartcushion]

I think it's due to loneliness, honestly. Or at least a lack of sex. That's always what the answer seems to be linked to:

Powerlessness = a lack of feedback in th downstairs area? Must be to some people.

[senorfartcushion]

Literally wrote that post after sex ,🤣🤣🤣

I'm not wrong about this stuff - it's blatantly obvious. Talk of deflection, projection, will not work. That's just bad maths. No matter what, you're being accused of not getting any. Id rather be accused of being easily offended because society already associates people like you with being angry and sexless.

[Profchaos]

I can't remember anything offensive from these games but it was the 90s we didn't care about anyone's feelings back then

[EvertonFC]

Agreed can't remember anything offensive but disagree bring the 80s and 90s back, people cared for each other way more then I reckon compared to today.

[jznrpg]

I’m Asian and Asian stereotypes don’t bother me as I have thick enough skin to not care what others think and some of them are funny . Of course not all Asians have buckteeth, little pee pee’s, love rice and are good at Math. Though I am good at math and I love rice and eat it almost everyday.

[EvertonFC]

So all "little devil inside" Devs had to do was put a content warning at the start of the game instead of delaying it 3 years and changing things.

[Barlos]

No need. It's like now they add trigger warnings to everything.

Yes I get triggered by trigger warnings 😂

[mike32UK]

These stereotypes are deeply harmful, inexcusable, and do not align with our values at Crystal Dynamics" if they actually believed any of this they would would pay to have the character models changed. They obviously don't believe this because it's a load of bollocks, and just don't want to risk backlash from the looney lefties.

[MaximusPrime_]

I played tomb raider on PS1 and wasn't offended then.

I'm not offended now.

Thanks to minority of people (mostly young people) who are offended, these pointless warnings started popping up all over the places.

Parents should be the one training their kids not social media.

[Tzuno]

for 400 years...

[DarXyde]

1. The original vision and scope of the game remains intact. Instead of changing anything, you get a warning. Sounds fine to me, I don't mind. Wouldn't upset me if it wasn't there, but that's just me.

2. This is just a guess, but maybe it's not meant for many of us? We can complain about how soft people are today, but the reality is what society considers entertainment has changed a lot and it's probably meant more for a younger generation than the dusty folks who played this back in the 90s (I'm one of them). I despise a lot of modern music and wouldn't call it music, but that's just a sign that I'm a relic of the old world who doesn't get the newer stuff.

That's just how it goes. I don't understand why people have to be so polarized about everything.

[Software_Lover]

First the Rush Hour movies now this? Is society really that brainwashed and weak?

[Toecutter00]

I thought she just fought off wildlife like bears and tigers...maybe they should instead address undertones of colonialism in having an English person raiding the tombs of foreign countries for their treasures.

[ReelBigMike]

This message literally hurts no one. If you don't like or see the point of the message at the beginning then guess what? It's not for you, so just skip it and move on. It's always the same people who call others 'snowflakes' and 'libs' that get omega triggered by something that shouldn't have any tangible effect on them.

[anast]

Makes sense. I like movies and books from the early 1900s and they are dated in this area.

[babadivad]

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