Lara's design was both terrifying 90's horror but also clean as fuck. Why do does early 3D have such charm?

The palettes they used back then were bolder and warmer. Lighting had fewer sources meaning high contrast and larger shadows which made images jump out. Also due to the relative lack of detail, you had to use your imagination and fill in the gaps a bit. All of this makes rendered images from the '90s still pleasing to look at despite modern advances.

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TRII was so fucking good, I can't even beat any of the 2nd levels from III they dropped the ball so hard

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Lara looked like a disney cartoon in her first concept artwork

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I like all the Laras.

I do find it ironic as hell that a character initially designed with fanservice in mind attracted a ton of women to play her games.

Most of the gameplay is on your own through areas dripping with atmosphere in abandoned old ruins with the occasional monster here and there. The problem with later games is that you had either a help team or Lara just wouldn't shut the fuck up. Also modern Lara is whinny while old Lara was playful but disciplined.

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Reminder that this was the actual inspiration for Lara Croft according to Toby Gard.

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>Why do does early 3D have such charm?
Character designs had to be really clean because the designers were working with low poly models and low res textures. A lot of games these days suffer from a problem where there's so much geometry and such a wide color palette for both objects and lights that the final visual is a patterned blur that doesn't look like anything.

looks much better than nu lara

she looks like lara, if lara was a dwarf

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>i find it ironic

I didn't know one girl who actually played video games when these games that came out that didn't want to be Lara Croft, Chun-li or Jill Valentine. They knew they were "babes" and guess what? They were fucking cool with that.

I had the luxury of dating a woman back then who looked like her a bit (especially the figure) and cosplayed as Lara. Too bad she was fucking psycho but as we know, if something is too good to be true it probably is.

She was a wish fulfillment character for girls much in the same way Giga Chad is for the rest of you.

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90s CGI is peak soul

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>aod
>tiny boobs
Pick one.

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this looks like the room of a serial killer

gaem?

Those were the days. Back then when vidya was a truly inclusive, fun hobby.
She was one of the original bad bitches that men and women loved and idolized.

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i agree, she has higher polygons but still looks like Lara. the problem after this is she looks like an entirely different looking person

Good man. As in good you got away cleanly without any scars.

Wrong.

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Definitely best version. Style of the old, modeling quality of new.
I dunno why everyone moved toward realistic design. Even if you sculpt everything in hi res with muscle definition you can achieve a nice style. But they don't. Hell most of the time now they just laser scan shit and clean it up.

it's Divinity Dragon Commander

whats this proving? her feature placement and proportions are different in the left two and dont look like lara. subtle differences mean a lot when it comes to faces

Your left example has no expression blend applied. It's her blank slate.

Thanks user!!!

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I wnat to protect that smile

i also liked how lara was basically just a big-titted sociopath who loves treasure.

2 different people. she lost her design. nintendo know how to up the polycount on old models while keeping their original charm

Legend was close.

>nintendo
Stopped reading here.

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This looks like a room you'd find in Splinter Cell 1

>use aod lara in Shadow and Rise
>massive bongos sticking out when aiming the bow.
I miss this era.

Cgi last revelation lara, legend lara and rise lara are the best versions of Lara.

what do you think

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I think that crystal dynamics modellers are professionals and did a good job.

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it's the CGI idealized model. the ingame model looked nothing like it but thats how the devs intended her to look. I think the last time we saw a CGI lara was in the 2013 reboot

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90s cg was good because it had a lot of care put into it to make it look good

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Eidos hire this man!!!
seriously though i think you made it better

How can other vidya girls even compete?

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>terrifying
the emperor of faggots has spoken