Classic/LAU Lara

>Old Lara
>Smart
>Cool
>Cute
>Educated
>Ambidextrous gunman
>Nice voice
>Can do a five meter long backflip from a standing position.
>New Lara
>Cried for most of the first game
>Furls her brow a lot and looks stupid.
>TOHKS LOIK DIS
>Gets beaten up a bunch.
>Uses a bow because JUST LIKE KATNISS XD
>Lame and forgettable.
>Can't do a backflip from a standing position.

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being an asian incel with a rice dick is getting a one

You probably weren't even alive at the time, and if you were I doubt you have any memories of the period. The game was fantastic for the time and in actual fact is still great to play (I played it last month on the PC).

Games sell more for tits now than they ever did back then.

you guys are def remembering classic lara differently than me. i think the main reason i played these games as a kid was for her bit triangle shaped boobies

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brainlet meme-swallower

thats so anatomically incorrect it makes me cringe

Shocking part is old Lara had actual character. What? Can a woman not be smart and beautiful at the same time? You always have to choose? It's almost like women today have problems with that more than men.

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yeah, hope there’s a reroll after death

>create the perfect video game woman
>throw her into the dumpster
what DID they mean by this

>fantastic

I wouldn't even include any of the games in a PS1 list in these days,even back then the series was overrated.

>triangle shaped boobies
Madonna did it better

your confidence in your own tastes is overrated

It was something for everyone.
Once you got passed the tits you see a well rounded self-made women.

Now you have this"realistic" weak girl who gets dropped down in situations just because

>can't compare Nu-Lara to Old Lara
>switches to comparing Old Lara to Strawman-Lara

you and the retard who made that picture weren't born when the first 3 tomb raider were made. It was literally tits and guns. The French even had her in a car advertising that ended by her being banged by a bunch of surfer dudes.

she was fap bait ALWAYS
sex sells.

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um do you have permission to post this woman?

>21
yeah right. looking like 30+ mature woman
and this is good

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She is even in the classic version, dressed too immodestly

21 it was when she changed her lifestyle. She's around 30 in TR1.

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>selling point
more like points waheyy

I'm playing the first Tomb Raider and shit is kinda creepy without background music and bears literally popping around corners to kill you.

Lara was always intended to be a sex object and it was always the main selling point. Every one of my friends at school only bought the games for her tits and ass

dear god

There is supposed to be some ambience, you can fix it.

Sauce?

what?

Fucking nice.

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this.

>hurr peach was the only female in video games
>people this ignorant are the face of female characters

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There is when I make progress but otherwise it's just creepy as fuck.

>weren't born when the first 3 tomb raider were made.
you
source: your ass.
>It was literally tits and guns.
source: your ass.

youtube.com/watch?v=XHJuFhcRICE
Lara was huge and didn't have dude arms

God I hate this fucking "stronk womyn uses a bow because swords/guns are too phallic" bullshit

Obvious lie. With alle the movies and comics in the 90s with scantly clad women, the idea that a teenager would sit through a game exclusively for a bunch of triangles is laughable.
You are just a product of years of meme

makes less sense when the arrow is phallic as fuck.

>Z**mer subhuman talking about events long before he was born as if he was there

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The game's design was pretty good at immersing you despite the limited graphics back then. The level design was literally build around the controls and design. A pretty cool series once you learn all of the controls and platforming. To this date 3d parkour has not matched tomb raider's imo. Find the secrets

okay, op. it's time to be honest.

have you ever jerked off to Lara Croft?

If the answer is yes then your comic is meaningless.

I'm fairly sure Old Lara was mixedrace.

also the idea that the bow is easier for females to use instead of a sword/spear is super retarded. A bow requires a lot of strenght

Anyone remember the creepy butler in the mansion? Literally turned that section of the game into a horror game.

Nice revisionism, Anita.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't. Why would you think so?

Was that the first, second, or third game?

You are definitely a zoomer who didn't grow up in the 90s then.

but muh hunger games

>okay, op. it's time to be honest.
>have you ever jerked off to Lara Croft?
In the 90s I had better sources of eroticism than triangles
>If the answer is yes then your comic is meaningless.
What is this even supposed to mean?

She's swarthy as fuck.

The fact that nulara is best known for taking horse cock like a champ should tell you everything you need to know about her.

i dont think you know what this word means

more like a late genXer, liar faggot
meanwhile you clearly have a zoomer-tier perception of those years

She's darker skinned than the average Turk, retard

>late Gen Xer
Imagine being on Yea Forums in your 40s, that's just embarrassing.

I honestly cant think of a single notable thing nulara has done in her games that wasn't done better or more interestingly in the old games with more limited graphics and everything.

source please, because I've always seen her with a white skin. And an occasional tan.

Only people and retarded women who never played the original games assume she was anything like the version on the right. They decided this because of certain 90s advertisements and and ton of perverted fan art made by incels.

Real Lara Was a badass and a scholar who took after her father. She was essentially an indomitable superhero.

And you'd have to be one insanely paranoid schizo to think her main weapons were guns because they symbolized holding dicks. Why is it that only Lara is "holding dicks" whilst using guns but no other shooting game is?

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I'm pretty sure PS1 Lara was half-latina or some shit like that. Tanned skin, thick lips, brown eyes, etc.
She was even called Laura Croft originally.

She got progressively more bleached and now she's just your standard european chick

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She wasn't even female originally.

>Imagine being on Yea Forums in your 40s, that's just embarrassing.
aahahaha fair opinion (not 40 yet btw)
most of the internet is made of echo chambers and safespaces.I find this place unironically less humiliating (as long as you don't behave as zoomer at almost 40).

>who took after her father
Only in movies/LAU. She was actually disowned in original timeline because she wanted to travel by herself rather than have arranged marriage.

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Wasn't her father already dead in TR1? And what is LAU?

Then you're late Millennial, the oldest Millennials are just now hitting 40 dude.

She has been travelling for a decade, of course she has a tan. Also brunettes aren't rare in uk.
It was in LAU timeline which was inspired by movies.

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>whites can't tan
you are genuniely a dumb nigger go back to your own side of the internet retarded faggot.

name five better games you played on your ps1 in 1996

its funny how stupid you are. Laura isn't a latino name.

I don't know what you mean by LAU.

In the original PS1 games (1,2,3,LR) was her father not dead and the whole reason she was doing all of that tomb raiding was to continue his work? Did you play the originals or read some weird darknet fanfic?

tr1 promo stuff was pretty tame. it got way more explicit for tr2

>That level design
>That OST
>That platforming
>THAT LEVEL DESIGN
>That new and shiny 3D tech
>That I am not attracted to tits but think of Lara as a role model
These games defined my childhood

>She was even called Laura Croft originally.
You are misremembering.
Before defining her character they considered a male character, then a latina woman (Laura Cruz), but those never became a thing. In those years the "badass latina" was an overused trope, meanwhile the "english heiress" was only portrayed as a rich snob. Making her a badass english heiress and fearless action woman was actually original.

I dated a girl who'd say stuff like on the right.
very unattractive honestly.

I will be 39 this year

Wrong. The devs directly said she was made confident in her sexuality and femininity because they wanted to make a female hero, not a sex object.

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LAU is legend anniversary underworld trilogy for ps2/ps3. They changed her bio to some extent.
Here's Lara's parents in tomb raider chronicles attending her "funeral". Have YOU played the originals?

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It's because everyone who is adamantly against classic Lara knew absolutely nothing about her. All they know is the sensationalism surrounding her and the small moments where she isn't an awesome asskicker. I've met someone who legit only knew about the scene where Lara was in the sexy dress and the skin tight diving suit. No one remembers the fact she essentially is female Neo who fights Dinosaurs and shoots demons in the face just because she's pissed.
There are people now who only know the new Lara for her moments of weakness which are 10% of the entire experience, usually when taken out of your hands.

legends Lara was perfect fuck anyone who says otherwise

She was not only smart and beautiful, but also capable of Olympic levels of physical performance.

people have jerked off to Isabelle from Animal Crossing, is she a sex symbol(or anything that is supposed to be sexy)? Idiot

She was gonna be named Laura but then they made her British...and thought Lara was more British. Which is stupid.

I never really played anniversary. It was the last TR game I played but I didn't do anything in it outside of running around croft manor. The games I played were the originals on PS1 and then the original PC release of Underword. Played the "nu" ones too but I don't count those as real TR games.

I think you may not be remembering the originals correctly, mate.

>The devs directly said
show some source that aren't E3 advertising bullshit, or 2010++ revisionism to sell the new games.

New Lara, Old Lara, who fucking cares? I would fuck both tbqh

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For me, it's Guardian Lara

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>Laura Cruz
>not a Latino name
baka senpai

>tan
>white people
user white people burn red. Unless you think italians and meds are white. t.I can be as pale as a ginger but can tan bronze I don't consider myself white.

Can't forget every time a game came out in nu-trilogy
>Lara WILL FINALLY BECOME THE TOMB RAIDER
and her character has zero progression aside from getting her ass kicked and then having a mansion at the end of shadow

>5'9
for some reason I always imagined her being tall as fuck

That's tall for a woman.

That can be considered tall for a woman.

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OG lara was kicked out by her parents (both alive) and made a fortune selling photos and articles based on her travels.

That's three inches away from my height and I'm the tallest guy in my family.

kill yourself frog cunt

5'9 is tall. The average tallest nation in the world is like 5'6. THAT BEING SAID Nu lara is like 5'1 or everybody else is a giant.

I meant amazon snu snu tall

Real the manual for the first game.

>Which is stupid.
what? naming her Lara, Lara being considered a British name or making her British?

You said Laura Croft you dumbass mexican nigger

That was literally the reason you dumb zoomer.

Her name. Plenty of brits are name Laura.

shut up you dumbass racist.

I believe he's talking about og Lara

Laura and lara are both british names.
This thread is literally full of woke tards jesus christ.

no it wasn't, stop larping

>Only people and retarded women
Women are some of the biggest fans of original TR, user.

He's right to call you stupid. Those PS1 traffic cones were not tits.

You're just a [youknowwhat]brain raised on SFM horse porn. No TR game has ever been about tits.

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Why won't classic Lara wrap her muscular thighs around my neck and crush my windpipe?

was careful to say "retarded" women. Feminists and the like.

>Unless you think italians and meds are white
Italian here, dear ignorant. We are white as fuck. Stop this meme.

it was always all about the ass and thighs anyway

>Italian here, dear ignorant. We are white as fuck. Stop this meme.

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Damn, I'd really like to play tomb raider game with max payne style combat(no auto aim, slow-mo, somewhat destructible environment).

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I'm 28. Most, if not all of her marketing campaigns were centered around her being THE video game sex icon. People bought her games because they loved Lara Croft. Everyone I knew at the time didn't much care for the gameplay itself due to how the games controlled at the time.

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They served as publicity stunts in subsequent installments, but until the series went to hell they were not a selling point. I wish I hadn't lost my MAD collection in a house fire, I'd actually point you to exactly when the "OH LARA, SO KAWAII UNGH!" trend went mainstream.

Are you retarded? She's British.

478741293
>racist
But I fuck white women!

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>Women are some of the biggest fans of original TR, user.
my sister was never into gaming, but she played the fuck out of classic TR. She was drawing Lara all the time.
Females loved classic Lara

>We are white as fuck
Keep telling yourself that
I thought she was a mexican girl. Looks like this girl at work except she has tits. Her face still looks like a little girl though which is weird. People find this hot?

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Your sister is a lesbian? based

>Work at a thrift store.
>Get an old tomb raider game.
>Open it up.
>Pamphlet or advertisement/flyer for the game has laura fucking topless with her tits barely covered by something.
yeah ok
Wish I took a picture, it was definitely professionally done to sell the game.

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Just google "where the boys are" and quit being retarded.
All of you.

>THE video game sex icon.
only decade when this thing was not considered a huge praise is now

post the fake lara croft from spyro
RATED E and she had giant tits
FLASH FORWARD to now and she's flat

That was everything in the 90s. That's not what the games were, that's just how they were sold.

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thats what the ads were like in the 90s like soft core porn.
I used to collect them. You'd get regularly in mags entire page centrefolds of game characters or women advertising games.

Like I said, she was the number 1 video game sex icon. Most of her fame came from that itself, and that's how the games sold well.

I miss women being allowed to be sexy.
I blame the fucking muslims.

Lara Croft was that though.

>marketing
Well shit I guess everyone played blood money for all those hot babes right? Retard.
also the gameplay was fine for its time, you can only think otherwise if you didn't play when it came out.

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>Lara Croft
>personality
She was a mute protagonist who only grunted due backflips and jumps. Those games were kind of boring. Like she jumped and shot critters with like a single another human in the whole game. So yeah, she was basically boobs and that tiny shorts of hers.

>tanned usa celebrity with granparents from south italy
nice try
I said italian

That is pure revisionism. It was supposed to be a male character but they were afraid of being sued for being too similar to Indiana Jones, so they made it a female character. Big tits and short tights shorts were CLEARLY designed to make her a sex object.

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What i think is interesting is i have mags from around 2000-2010 and abit after they stopped doing that as much but..... theres literal porn ads in the back of them.
So I don't know how these mags became more prudish but still had porn ads in the back.

You're the one larping if you're denying the fact that she was mostly famous for her sex appeal, which in result made the games sell well.

There's no sex nor sexiness in the original games. Those were just 90s ads. You think seeing 90s ads give you empyrical insight into the games but they don't. They were meant to make boy associate the games with something that was not in the games.

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I'd play a game in this style. Look at that delicious shading

For its time Blood Money's eye candy wasn't too bad to be honest.

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>lara croft isnt sexy.

>south italy
>not italy

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>There's no sex nor sexiness in the original games.

Nigga you just pretending to be retarded now. These may just be 6 triangles, but she was known for how big those 6 triangles were. Not to mention her thin waist. Stop pretending to be special because you cared more about the gameplay itself.

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Funny that you think that given that Nu-Lara has more porn than classic Lara.

>wasnt in the games
you are so fucking retarded just stop you moron.

Nope. She is a cannibal.

As a kid, i never saw Lara Croft as a sex icon. Maybe its because i was innocent and hadn't reached puberty yet. I still don't think of her as a sex icon. But pop culture thinks otherwise.

Same thing?

>Wish I took a picture, it was definitely professionally done to sell the game.
And this is a bad thing because....?
I clearly remember Schwarzenegger & Co being a lot less shy with their sexy marketing

>jerking off to Lara Croft
I was more into Hana Tsu-Vachel and Rain from Fear Effect desu.

You're being trolled.

In the mainstream normalfag audience that didn't play the games, sure. But who the fuck cares what those cunts think?
The actual games have nothing to do with the marketing shit.

>new thing has more porn than classic thing
No shit Sherlock.

She has more personality in a single fmv than nuLara in all the cinematic games.
youtube.com/watch?v=vNelRsAldPg

We were discussing the reason the games sold well. A huge portion of that was because of her tits, and how she became famous for them. That's what normies like.

It's a woman. Women have tits. I don't what would have expected to be on the chest of one but those triangles were not a draw for anyone. They were amazing (for the times) games about solving puzzles and raiding tombs that scored very highly. Some of the highest scoring games on PS1. Those cone tits did not earn the scores nor popularity.

There wee ACTAUL sexy games on PS1 and they all tanked. If you really believe that tits are what drew the fandom for the TR games, you're an assclown. Simple as.

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I remember buying a gaming magazine that had a giant pin-up poster of Lara (and half-nude with her covering her tits on the other side) because they spread it over 6 months with another part of the poster being released each.

>normies
>>>reddit

Post a sex scene from any of the PS1 games. I'll wait.

British is a nationality, not an ethnicity you dumbfuck.
Just look at the current (british) mayor of London

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There was even huge fucking rumor going around at the time that there was a way to make her nude in-game. Good times.

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Chun-Li still gets loads of porn and she was created back in 1991. My point being is that for classic Lara to be considered as sex symbol, or a driving force to sell the games she has received less pornographic content than her new appearence.

Fuck off normalfaggot. I bet you started posting past 2010.

>lands with legs spread

Nice.

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just give up, stupid zoomer.
She had a personality and people loved her.
Your revisionism won't change facts. It's not some ambiguous mistery. People were there and clearly remeber how thing were.

>the idea that a teenager would sit through a game exclusively for a bunch of triangles is laughable.
people can watch porn for free yet still pay for visual stimulation

>Lara was always intended to be a sex object and it was always the main selling point.
Nah, she was a stand-in for Toby Gard's sister.

you already outed yourself, nobody cares about your dumb opinions anymore.
perish faggot.

fuck off, Anita.

>She was a mute

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nah British is an ethnicity but Anglos repurposed the word so they call themselves British

Fear Effect

Grade A retard right here. Again, part of the reason her games sold so well was because she was a sex ICON, just as Pamela Anderson was. Being an ICON grants you a way higher advantage than some obscure Japanese fighting games with breasts in it.

I miss magazines

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this

Does someone had that +18 ad for the original NWN game?

>that quote
Holy shit i didn't know IGN was based

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>Yall mind if I... Rewite history? Can't have people pointing out how wrong the feminsts are!

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That's not a TR game.

ign was actually good at one point almost all game mags were before the pozzening

Just because feminists think make women sexual objects is bad doesn't mean making women sexual objects is bad or that is never happened in media, you complete fucking mongoloid.

don't care

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t. Redditron

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Honestly, I just want Lara in Smash

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The fuck are you retards talking about? This isn't trolling, it's just zoomer retardation.

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No reason a girl can't have both big, triangular boobies and a fun personality.
If anything, the personality makes the boobs better

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isn't the joke that bioware back then literally traced nude models photos all the time

ADVERTISEMENTS painted Lara as a sex icon. That was just what people did in the 90s.

The games were NOT sexy games. Lara was a world class gymnast and that was an important part of how was able to be so nimble in her cat-like burglary of historical sites. Of course she would be slim. The games were all gameplay and story though.

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>sexual object
I don't think you know the meaning of these words, like many sjw
I bet you use ithem as a synonym for "attractive" or "sexy"

You have to go back.

>boxum athletic gymnast
>not sexy
you trannies need to leave

That guy you responded to isn't me. Advertisements don't change the fact that the mainstream media itself branded Lara Croft as the video game sex icon.

>The games were NOT sexy games.

So she wore short, short, tight shorts and had a long ponytail swinging about her ass. But sure, the games were NOT sexy games.

this guy gets it.

Dilate.

>She was a mute protagonist
Wanna know how I know you didn't even play the games?

that was not the main focus of the games you absolute retard

>character is attractive
>game is sexy
oh fuck are 90% of videogames sexy games?

Yes, we know, but again, the main reason the games sold well at the time was due to her becoming famous for her looks.

>media itself branded Lara Croft as the video game sex icon.
Being a sex icon has been a praise (for males and female) for a century, until 2010s neo-puritanism
you say it as it was a unfortunate course of events

Guess she should have been wearing a parka when exploring those desert/jungle tombs located on the equator. Makes sense.

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>that was not the main focus of the games

Where did I say it was you fucking moron?

no it was because the games were fun.

I never did. You're confusing me for someone else. I'm making the argument that the games sold well due to Lara Croft's design.

Yeah, that was really problematic.

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they actually werent that fun and painful to play. It really was the image that sold it.

>So she wore short, short, tight shorts and had a long ponytail swinging about her ass.
wearing those things... for climbing?
The horror, the horror!
Just admit that you have some kind of brobem with top tier female body

I thought she had a clown nose on the right

>itt. leftist historical revisionism

There were plenty of better looking characters and models. The TR games were revolutionary for their time and you needed to use your head to beat them. The scored very highly and that had nothing to do with Lara as a character. Incel.

How are you not understanding the conversation at hand. The REASON she got popular was because of her looks which were the basis of all the advertisement. The GAMEPLAY is irrelevant in this discussion because she could be a fully clothed barbarian, that doesn't stop her games from selling on the basis of Lara herself being advertised with her sexuality and looks at the forefront. Even my parents recognize Tomb Raider because of Lara's sexuality, not because she raids tombs and they don't play video games.

You seem to think people are talking about the games when it comes to Lara being sexual, the games may tell a different tale but the drive to getting people in the door and how she was presented to the general public is big, busty, slim waist, tight-fitting clothes, and she shows off her body constantly. Even to this day that's how she's viewed as, even the developers of the new Tomb Raider games base her characterization and looks on the fact that they want to get away from that specific outlook of Lara.

Is the women in that pic supposed to be exploring tombs? Was Indiana Jones in shorts and a wife beater when he was in the Amazon or in Egypt?

return to reddit

Plebbit confirmed. Everyone go home now.

I guess reading comprehension is tough for you.

>The REASON she got popular was because of her looks
it wasn't, and you should go back.

Finally, someone else who isn't a zoomer and remembers the history.

no. Did any of you fucks even play tombraider? it had that shitty ps1 era third person control scheme when they were still learning how to make good controls.
As the other user said it was popular because a hot chick indiana jones was the main character.

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>I never did. You're confusing me for someone else.
sorry
>I'm making the argument that the games sold well due to Lara Croft's design.
iconic design is iconic design, still can't see what kind of point you are trying to make
Game good and design good = good sales, iconic status

Reminder that this is why Lara main weapon is a bow and arrow now.

>After all, most of them are vaguely phallic (any object longer than it is wide = phallic), they penetrate human flesh, and killing people is a sign of virility. In the case of guns, they even "ejaculate" bullets, while swords tend to have a suggestive shape, guard positions where the hilt is held crotch height, and thrusting attacks. Even better if they are combined (bayonets on guns are the simplest applications of this, as well as any syringe-like weapon) or carried inside a man's pants.

Reminder women suck at everything and are just useless so there is no reason for them to be main characters in a game unless they are attractive titty monsters

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nobody cares about you selfies faggot, go back.

>The games scored high 90s because the reviewers saw tiiiits! What don't you get about that?!

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you're not fooling anyone redditfag

Who wrote this? Sigmund Freud?

>good game = good sales

No. You can make a good game but it's not guaranteed to sell well.

>well known video game sex icon = guaranteed successful marketing = more sales

user, kids in the 90's weren't jerking to gaming until doujins became optimal and hentai became spread on the internet
People back then were fapping to Lisa Lipps, Kobe Tai, Jenna Jameson, Kaitlynn Ashley, Rocki Roads, Letha Weapons, The UT pro player and mapper herself that was Asia Carrerra, Julia Ann, Nina Hartley, Sylvia Saint, a Certain Blonde canadian big boobed goddess, and Italian Porn.

>Can a woman not be smart and beautiful at the same time?
t. Hasn't read or watched anything written by a woman in the last 20yrs.

You literally didn’t play the classic games at the time.

die in a fire
> even the developers of the new Tomb Raider games base her characterization and looks on the fact that they want to get away from that specific outlook of Lara.
this is a problem created by sjw retards with no root in real history

>wojack posting
We get it man, you're a zoomer.

That's what I like to call a "lie."

>born into wealth
>made her own way
sure

Its baffling how they refuse to say "Because I read about girls using bows from a children's book that's popular now" when its obvious as fuck to anyone who consumes media. The disingenuity of these vultures is astounding.

You Mean the cuchshed butthurt utopia that is Nu Crystal Dynamics after the SJW"s from montreal took over?
Because their opinion means SHIT, if you want to know about TR, ask the guys who worked at CORE Design.

>any object longer than it is wide =
phallic
Isn’t that like 50% of all objects or more?

>"Because I read about girls using bows from a children's book that's popular now"
u wot

The new lara sucks because its a feminist inner city womans fantasy of what a woman heroine would be like.
Just a painfully unrealistic ordinary woman

Aren't arrows pretty phallic?
She's literally shooting dicks into people's faces and mouths.
What did they mean by this?

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I've played Tomb Raider 1 to 4 and now I'm pondering if I should play Chronicles or Anniversary next.
I've already played Legend as well, I fucking hated it.
Picture unrelated.

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I think he means hunger games

The Hunger Games.

here your Indy

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i dont think anyone disagrees

anything pointy is phallic feminists fear pointy things.

>Tomb Raider thread on Yea Forums
>Nothing about what made the games good
>All about Lara's sex appeal

Maybe I should stick to /vr/

you're actually delusional

NuLara is 5'6''.

The games were awful and people only booted the game to stare at her pyramidal boobs apparently

thats what the board is for hipster faggot.

No. Why the fuck would I jerk off to Lara when even back then there were far better options?

Yea Forums is run by fucking jizzheads and Anita/Zoe cultists, what did you expect?

Was trying to find this one video of an insane feminist losing her goddamn mind, looking at all these objects and buildings and thinking they're penis symbols but can't find it atm.

This is what feminists do to women.

>The REASON she got popular was because of her looks which were the basis of all the advertisement.
no, stop lying
she was cool, the game was fun, so she received a marketing push that launched her into the stars where she remained because she was cool and the game was fun

He's wearing full length pants and his shirt was ripped.

While the picture has a point, I did get a chub from reading the speech bubble in the second panel.

That's not the argument you dumb retard. We're talking about the sales themselves. If you believe Lara's design had no impact at all then you're a genuine retard.

Anyone who thinks people bought the game originally for any other reason besides tits is a delusional fag. They only *stayed* because of the gameplay

this is retarded, sex was the main reason why the series got popular.
they literally used to market her in a bikini or showing off her huge breast whenever they had a chance.
them pandering to sjws and desexulizing nulara is why the series is dead now.

>she was cool

omg did she chew gum?!

>open door
>fucking horror track plays out of the nothing
>suddenly a giant boulder is rolling in my direction while the walls are trying to crush me and a tiger is chasing me
>get stuck with tank controls and die of heart attack

It's literally just one revisionist reddit cunt shitposting, pay him no mind.
Everyone who was there knows the games were fucking mindblowing at the time.

Naw, I played it cause I love adventure games, the atmosphere and the platforming. There wasn't anything else like it at the time unless you went full cartoon mascot platformer, but it didn't scratch the same itch.
Also, I'm not gay so I wouldn't masturbate to her. Maybe Snake or Gabe Logan, but not Ms.Croft

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wait I don't remember her face being a rabbit's

I think this user doesn't agree with you

tits or gtfo

and you can make a sexy character and it's not guaranteed to sell well.
Unless the game is good.

>with no root in real history
orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-01-06-9801050474-story.html
>Teenage boys in America not only love their own curvy cyberbabes, like Lara Croft of the video game Tomb Raider.
content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,35100,00.html
>Yet talk to him about his creation Lara Croft--buxom heroine of the Tomb Raider series of computer games--and his face lights up with a naughty-boy grin. "Lara's changed fairly significantly," he says of her latest outing, Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. "She's got a bottom now. She's got cheeks. She's smoother. Now she exists just as we first imagined her."
sfgate.com/entertainment/article/WOMEN-WARRIORS-Forget-Lara-Croft-the-new-3240096.php
>When the original Tomb Raider appeared in 1996, the resourceful, sexy Croft was considered a breakthrough, proving a female character could sell in the male-dominated action genre. But times have changed, and developers are discovering that there's more to a successful game than short shorts and a Barbie-doll body.

Here's three quick articles I could find from a range of '96 to 2000 talking about her sexuality being the attracting point.

yes?

those articles don't count.

Why are you still here? Your Reddit pals are waiting for you

Imagine being a fat yokel fuck scared to death of a legume.

>d-do I fit in yet Yea Forums?
Your Reddit is showing.

you would be surprised...

Wow, gaming journalism, very reliable.

Why are you making them wait? Pretty mean bro.

retardroid

>games journalists wrote it back in the day so it’s true
I was introduced to Tomb Raider by a female cousin of all things you retard. It was pretty much one of the main faces of Playstation along with Crash Bandicoot and a few other game series. She was made to be a bombshell, but that doesn’t mean that’s the main reason the game got sales.

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Big 3D hollywood stars would do swimming suits & erotic ads during the 90's.
That's just how it was, people who say the games just sold because of tits are just retards who got brainwashed by the puritan cults that spawn during that time.

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She had big tits but also a big brain.

that was cool in the 50s

>that doesn’t mean that’s the main reason the game got sales
Please take Marketing 101 you dumb wojack brainlet.

Nigga it's true you can't just sell a game with tits but in this case Lara Croft became an icon, which in turn made the games sell well with all the focus on her design.

imbecile.

I took marketing 101 last semester and I think you are full of shit.
I didn't like it though, it felt very manipulative.

Horny journalists being horny, what are you trying to prove again? Do you get angry about Monroe too because tabloids only liked to talk about her tits and ass?

>Lara Croft became an icon, which in turn made the games sell
You inverted the order you fucking moron. She became an icon BECAUSE the games sold well.

>game journalists
retard.
Bet you think that Indy was popular because he wore a ripped shirt

>raiding the globe.com
more like raiding the horse.com

I'm not sure I'd want an open world version of underworld tomb raider but if we could get a really open ended version that would be sweet. I think of the huge open ocean you can swim around in the beginning for no reason or the beginning of the jungle bit where you're on the cliff side and just want more of that to explore.

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>You inverted the order you fucking moron. She became an icon BECAUSE the games sold well.
THIS.

Ford was popular because he was handsome yes.

Yea Forums absolutely shitting on some revisionist larping zoomer.
I love it, good thread.

>release a game with sexy woman in the front which was risque at the time
>game gets more and more attention by the media
>becomes an icon
>sells more as a result
>publish more copies of the game but this time add "featuring Lara Croft" on the cover because she's now an icon
>sells even more as a result

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>I can retroactively change a moment of video games history I didn’t take part in because I took marketing classes at college

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Which side do you feel is the LARPing side, out of curiosity?

>what are you trying to prove again?
That even back then she was being sold on her looks and the general view of her was because of her looks. The gameplay was good, but that's only one aspect of the games, Lara being attractive and being the face of the series is what pushed it far further. The guy I'm discussing with is implying the gameplay alone sold people on the game when that couldn't be further from the truth because even back then people are discussing her sexuality and attractiveness to advertise the game.

He game wouldn’t have gotten any attention from the media if it wasn’t popular. You are fucking retarded. Having big boobs on display was hardly something noteworthy in the 90’s.

No one fucking cares, nerd.

your side

>because even back then people are discussing her sexuality and attractiveness to advertise the game.
You weren’t there.

She got big because of the quality of the games,ad campaing was just a symptom of it's time.
If what you were saying was true then why did the series died once the games began focusing on her design and stopped being fun?

>Her game wouldn’t have gotten any attention from the media if it wasn’t popular
Right, because things couldn't go viral before everyone had easy access to the internet.

coward.

faggot

Yeah because they're still using the same design, with the same character for the past three decades you dunce.

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Having big boobs is not fucking noteworthy enough to make something viral in the 90’s you fucking retard zoomer.

Viral marketing. Lara Croft was becoming old news.

>cares to post about how he doesn't care
here is your (you)

There it is, from the mouth of a woman.

>which was risque at the time

HAHAHAHAHAHA m8, if anything, it's more controversial to have a big tittied woman in your front cover right now. Hell, people get triggered if they put a white male in the cover.

The game sold on multiple marketing fronts. People discrediting either or just fixating on a singular factor are just being faggots on both ends of the spectrum. She was an action hero(Thats cool), she was sexy because of the action-hero aesthetics and confidence+appearance, her games were fun(For the time), the idea of 3d platforming with emphasis on gunplay and arcobatics was interesting, ect.
tl;dr people are faggots on every side here. Game journos back then were at least honest in calling something sexy "sexy" with intent. GamePro was critical on the games like fuck to my memory too, still ran the adds but they were just like "It's okay" at the best.

Wholesome girlpost

Tomb Raider was originally going to have its main character be a man, who was a blatant Indiana Jones ripoff. So they wouldn't get sued, they made the protagonist a woman instead.
youtu.be/UHTsXYiXHGk?t=84

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>Having big boobs is not fucking noteworthy enough to make something viral in the 90’s
Context matters. You had a game with an empowered sexy woman as the main protagonist of the game; and in addition to all the angry moms that felt her design was controversial, it made for great articles and news stories that spread around quickly.

youtube.com/watch?v=SrsScrzPCPA

Literally just look at this news report from 1997.

god i miss TR2 Lara so much

>which was risque at the time
You fucking poser shitbird. You have NO idea what used to be on game covers in the 90s.

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Nigga watch the video.
youtube.com/watch?v=SrsScrzPCPA

How's this for "history revisionism"?

Context nigga.

>and in addition to all the angry moms that felt her design was controversial,
>in the 90s
maybe in some american puritan shithole

>context nigga
Shut up, stupid. Learn how commas work while you're at it.

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>>She was even called Laura Croft originally.
>You are misremembering.
>Before defining her character they considered a male character, then a latina woman (Laura Cruz), but those never became a thing. In those years the "badass latina" was an overused trope, meanwhile the "english heiress" was only portrayed as a rich snob. Making her a badass english heiress and fearless action woman was actually original.
already covered

Oh no, I did not use proper punctuation on a Yea Forums post of all things!

The 90’s, truly puritan times.

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You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

Also it's funny that you post that game considering that it released in the year 2000; Tomb Raider released in 1996.

oh no

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imagine buying a game for polygon tits

>obscure game no soccer mom knows about as opposed to a game going viral because of strong independent sexy woman who don't need no man design
Yep.

It was "controversial" because she made into the radar of media, but she was very tame compared to some shit that was released during her era. Even comic book covers had more risque shit than a women in a tight top and shorts.

Sort of how GTA is considered to be an extremely violent game because it's popularity, but we all know there's plenty more violent games out there.

When it completely changes the meaning of the sentence, it's probably a good idea to learn how use them. Unless you live in fear of people mistaking you for someone who's been educated or something.

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what pisses me off on principal is companies putting a white man on the dover and then putting literally no white men in the game.
Its an outright admittance that a white man on the cover sells more, a bait and switch.

Now you're just being autistic.

Ok so you're just a lifelong brainlet. Gotcha. I'll leave you alone.

>Okay so you're just a lifelong brainlet... gotcha; I'll leave you alone.

FTFY

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At least she’d get a better shape under communism

nothing could improve that thing

Remember

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Also

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I was so mad when she almost got raped in 2013. Lara Croft does not "almost get raped". She would laugh in the face of anyone who tried before sending him into low orbit.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ahh...

I coomed...

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Lara Croft never was a shitty nuLara

Who here played Tomb Raider: Chronicles?

Just stopping by to say 40 fathoms was really intense when i was a lad.

Me.

>father tried to set me up with an arranged marriage
Uh, which fucking Tomb Raider was this, because I've been playing since the first game and I can confidently say you're blowing more smoke up my ass than a burnt out jet engine that killed both of Lara's parents.

>tfw the only game my dad played on the PS1 was Tomb Raider
>I didn't enjoy it as much cause i didn't like puzzle games that much and that one scene with the tiger or whatever chasing you scared the shit out of me
>Did bully the shit out of the butler though
He also enjoyed playing Abe 1&2 and it kinda saddens me he doesn't play anymore cause there aren't any more iconic puzzle-solving games like that

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og background. From the manual

>arranged marriages bad

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Old lara is the ubermensch, her will to power intimidates the current generation.

there is nothing wrong with creative media featuring big breasted women
sorry bots, nobody is succumbing

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I can't tell if this is ironic, but there's nothing wrong with either design.

this one?

i once humped a sub woofer speaker while playing diablo 1 having the rouge with a full inventory say "now where would i put this"

i don't recommend it because i tore my frenulum

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This is the Doppelganger, she is like Lara Croft with the flaws removed.

youtu.be/QTkuK0-sdY8?list=LLnLDQ8EKqrLWbHge3xFQHtQ

youtu.be/gQi41RoC3pw?list=LLnLDQ8EKqrLWbHge3xFQHtQ

youtu.be/jD_pzrDrsU8?list=LLnLDQ8EKqrLWbHge3xFQHtQ

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tell me what he man is

I want her to choke me and then snap my neck with her thighs.

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based future corpse

They are bad. How would you like to be born a gender that is meant to filter out unsavory genes by instinct and to be forced to marry a quasimodo?

this, but no neck snapping, just suffocate me to death with her thighs.

that image is how tinnitus feels like.

>before
>game called tomb raider
>get to raid tombs

>now
>game is still called tomb raider
>cant raid tombs

Wtf happened

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>There wasn't anything else like it at the time
There was prince of persia(the apple II classics)
Then when Tomb Raider started becoming really shit with angel of darkness there was... prince of persia again(the Ubisoft sands of time trilogy).

You're missing the point. The comparison is between Old Lara and what some people(those who never played the games) think Old Lara was.
New lara has nothing to do with it.

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>left: what normal people see
>right: what progressives see

youtube.com/watch?v=EWdlU-lwgVY

>cant raid tombs
Shadow has almost no combat but has nothing but tombs

bull. Were they anything like the originals?

>Were they anything like the originals?
negative and some are DLC behind a $6 pay wall for 1 tomb

Earjobs feel (and sound) fucking amazing desu

>distinguishing features
>9mm handgun

>What is this even supposed to mean?
It's supposed to mean that if you're sexually attracted to a woman, then you automatically think of her as nothing but a sex object, because feminists have a tremendously warped view of male sexuality.

As god intended

Actually, they're right.
Cope, seeth, dilate, have sex, etc.

She did have nigger lips.
TR4 Lara is optimal, those wide ass titties.

Damn, somebody should do this for Uncharted.

>Big tits and short tights shorts were CLEARLY designed to make her a sex object.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Sexy girls exist irl too, they can't help it if you think they're a sex object.

Can confirm.
Plenty of girls I knew didn't play much video games but they played the old Tomb Raider games because they loved Lara Croft.

She's greek.

2 > 4 > Underworld > AOD > 5 > 3 > 1 > Legend > 2012

Goddamn those tits are MONSTROUSLY PERFECT

>she draws the line with Ogres and Trolls.
based

>She was a mute protagonist who only grunted due backflips and jumps
That's more personality than Emo Nu-Lara who looks like she's about to cry 100% of the time.

An Action protagonist doesn't need more than to be a badass with guns and perform cool stunts.

>quasimodo in this instance is probably rich as fuck
>get married to quasi
>no sex for him because you're 'tired'
>go to 'the spa'
>actually go get fucked by chad
Wow, that was hard.

Lara carries a backpack to carry her stuff while Indy uses his pants.

Sure it's "lie" for roastie

The ads in Magazines often pissed me off so much because they often never gave any fucking indication of what the fuck the game was going to be like because they would tuck three barely legible screen shots somewhere on a two-page splash that talked about how I needed to bring Mint Jelly to play Super Metroid, or something.

I will never understand the point of webms like that.
The original games would just be the dot moving around more in the room before going to the next room.
Games have a path to follow, tomb raider has always been linear, there is one way of progressing to the next level, that is it.
>n-no but this one is muh movie game
Expire.

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Because the older games would increase the challenge by adding hazards and challenges to overcome. That wallclimb segment at the end of the new Tomb Raider has no greather difficulty than the ones you did during the tutorial but now the screen is shaking, there's debris everywhere and the music is super dramatic. It's cheap and manipulative to make you think the stakes are higher now.

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Fair enough.
Now I don't play garbage games so haven't played the ones in your example there, but aren't you stuck there until you pick up the can and throw it away? And the only way to avoid throwing away the can/not getting beat up is managing to run around like a retard and bug out the guard?
Seems like regardless of what you choose, the game is fucking gay and overrated.

i like the boobies xd

Tits or gtfo

I think everyone agrees that the four best are 2, 4, AOD, and Underworld. Just in different orders.
So since it always skips a design, the next one will return to being good? Hopefully?

>so haven't played the ones in your example there
>Badmouths it like crazy
Hate it or not, he makes a perfect point.

You either do what he says, or defy him by trying to force past him, or tossing the can in any other spot to which he'll beat you.

That is literally the reason. I am old enough to remember the marketing campaign. Lara's tits and sexy attire was the selling point.Even in game they did their best to make her sexy even with that low polygon count. Have you seen her climb an edge?

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>Big tits and short tights shorts were CLEARLY designed to make her a sex object.
I seriously want ResetEra/Twitter/Reddit/Whatever-you-are to leave. These people always reduce games and game characters to the most shallow reasons. It gives me a headache.

I fucking loved playing the original Tomb raider because of the great challenging gameplay, extremely atmospheric levels and locations, great soundtrack, cool bosses and decent, yet simplistic, story. Lara being an attractive and awesome character was just a bonus. Had it hypothetically been someone else I wouldn't really had been bothered because the gameplay would remain the same.

In case this is some bait, I say touché user. You got a (You) out of me.

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>sex object
You mean they wanted to make her sexy. A sex object doesn't mean what you think it means. Maybe you wanted to say that they wanted to make her the object of sexual desires?

>like crazy
You sir, need to calm down.
>do what he says, go past
>force past him, beat up, then go past
>tossing the can, beat up, go past
>these choices are better because you're still playing the game and there is a mechanic
Or just have no guard there and let you go past. Also not 8 minutes later you're lifting boxes and shit, that's when you can learn how to pick things up.

Except it was the age of bad graphics, so that clearly was not the case. Its like saying people played Mario 64 for the graphics.

SOURCE

Low polygon tits are still tits. It's about your own imagination helped with the sexy marketing materials and the sexy flipping and jumping. Listen to your elders boy. We've lived trough this.

>That wallclimb segment at the end of the new Tomb Raider has no greather difficulty than the ones you did during the tutorial
>tfw died several times

Remember a few months ago when that Tomb Raider movie came out and the only thing most ""classic Tomb Raider fans"" cared about was the size of the actresses boobs? Pretending that anyone cared or knew anything about the character other than that is ridiculous, she was always just tits for most people

Not true at all. This is what you do not understand zoomer, the boomers glorify the past because when games graphics were shitty, you were forced to sell your game on something else other then appearances. That was gameplay. That was controls. That was low latency. Games never truly sold on graphics or appearance, but on the things that mattered the most. Sure some games tried that, but most of the time it was just for cutscenes and we were adult enough back then to not expect the entire game to have that kind of quality.

I am calm. Sorry, I think calling things fucking gay/overrated and garbage games when you never played them is a bit crazy. Especially cause the point was about how tomb raider games have lost their GAME element.
I really don't get what point you are even trying to make. Do you want me to explain the concept of half life since you never played it?

>Can a woman not be smart
nope

fucking this. Of course as a teenager I liked Lara's body and all but what made that game famous was that it was a great fucking game.

And to add to my previous post, boomers also glorify the old games because back then, they simply emulated arcade cabinets, which meant games being hard as fuck. Because arcade cabinets were made to take as much money from the player as possible. So when you gain the power to retry for free, the difficult doesn't get easier, it just means you have more time to keep trying. This hell of constant trial and error games is what made boomers used to good games, expecting every game to kick their ass since that's how it used to be. But now, that isn't the case, now, you get docked points from non-gamers for trying to have your game expect actual work and effort in playing it and beating it.

well since this thread is here i may just ask.
should i play any of the ps2 era croft games besides anniversary?

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They for sure traced nude photo of Cech model for Viconia portrait.
This isn't my censorship. This is the best pic I could find of that photo. I wish I could find a full uncensored photo.

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>some retarded zoomer tumor is arguing with me an actual 37 year old boomer
Stop talking about time you've never experience you underage shitstain. Games sold moatly on their covers and maketing materials you saw in game magazines. Demos came later on CDs that came with the magazines. So please stop with the lies.

*mostly

Back when TR first came out there was this official comic for her in some mags that was really adult.
She looked more like the right ironically with her clothes being tattered and torn and ripped off so she was almost naked.

Surprised to meet someone older then me here.
t. 35 year old.

Being a sex icon does not make you a sex object. There is a big distinction between being sexy and being only sexy.

I'm 35 and I loved the game because it was a great game, bought it because it was reputable as a great game. The sex icon thing came after the game sold well because people liked o play it. And yeah after that it became a huge thing that overshadowed the game quality. The first tomb raider was a gameplay revolution, the others that followed wheren't capable of improving anything and where just bought because tits.

Skip Legend for sure.

whoever drew this picture clearly didn't live through the advertising campaigns of the first games.

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t.zoomer pretending to be a boomer
Why do you keep with the lies?

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I can keep doing this all day.

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I would play the hell out of a game that plays it straight in the gameplay department, but has a version of Lara that's overtly pandering and breaking the 4th wall demanding you zoom the camera on her tits.

Classic nintentoddler

Marketing is not the same as actual gameplay you mouth breathing retard. And yes, I was alive at the time too, in my teens in fact.

>lara wasn't a sex icon back then
LOL
>that back view
>those bigs triangles
>that butt hips boobs ratio
>the camera shift on her butt in enclosed space
>that gymnastic top ledge climbing
>those different moans she makes whenever she's doing platformer controls

Why are millennials so triggered at video game sexy girls?

Seriously.

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I'm actually worried and I guess that explains why SJWs end up being pedos or creeps, go to any expedition trip and you will see tons of girls wearing shorts and a top.

And Dino Crisis featured Regina wearing leotards and was a great game too. Games used to have fanservice AND good designs/gameplay, later horror games were full of waifus yet they were really great

t. the retarded zoomer continues to spew his bile
>Why are millennials so triggered at video game sexy girls?
I have no idea. This nu-puritan culture is fucking bizarre.

Classic Laura had big tits and big ass. She was a girl you wanted to fuck. Nu-Laura is okay. I'd still fuck her but I wouldn't get her to sit on my face like Classic Laura. I'd probably just rape her and abuse the shit out of her actually.

Don't forget Danni Ashe ("most downloaded women of the 90's").

Classic Lara was soulful, nu-Lara is okay but she still feels very blank and is basically just female Uncharted.
I actually like both but would welcome a new game in the classic TR style.

>Clock tower
>Haunting Ground
>Fatal Frame saga
>SH3
>Rule of Rose
Fun fact is that these games used to have many female fans, where the hell did they get that women hate cute girls from?

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here

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Danni Ashe is kino.

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>teen in the 90's
>zoomer
Retard.

Nu-Lara is shit and i am not talking exclusively about her looks.

Do you see the end result irony of their crusade?
- Classic Laura was a sexy, strong woman. New Laura has all kind of mental drama.
- Classic Samus was a sexy, strong hunter. New Samus has overall weaknesses and daddy issues.

They think they're empowering women when they are effectively doing the opposite.

Which character little girls liked to choose? Peach. Which characters women choose in fighting games? A cute girl or a slutty woman (sometimes a cute male). Tifa, Lara Croft, Jill Valentine...the fanbase have a lot of women
That's because women (even ugly ones) used to admire beauty or selfinsert into, they still do, but they have the whole feminism making everything ugly. I bet there is more fanarts of Kat from Gravity Rush than from Aloy, Ellie x that jew girl barely have fanarts because they are ugly, meanwhile they liked life is strange lesbians because they were cute.

>he thinks that anyone would believe him with his zoomer opinions
LMAO

Also the bowstring will strike a woman's tits when fired. There are no big titted girls at the archery range, only boyish flats, and they still have to strap up those tiny titties. The bow and arrow is not a great weapon for a woman to learn. A sensible woman would choose to use that time practicing dual wielding .45s

she wasn't just beautiful, she was sexy, and loved it. A woman who knew she was good looking, enjoyed it, and didn't care if you did too.

SH3 is probably one of the few games that can pass that ridiculous feminist test
>female lead only
>is her own character, not a mirror of a male character
>isn't a buff female that replicates male power
>isn't a weak push-over either
>has emotional depth but her emotions are justified and not just infantisizing her as a female
>design isn't sexualized or deprived of femininity
what could you even criticize about Heather?
I guess the "sexy beam" easter egg costume, which isn't even really sexy.

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FUCKING. THIS. Girls loved old Lara, hell the Tomb Raider movie cinema was full of girls. Nu Lara is obsessed with her father when old Lara was just literally challenged her parents
I doubt feminists know Samus though

This is probably the best 3D classic Lara I've seen, as much as I like her old design the renders weren't exactly the best and she looked weird. This stylized approach looks way better

Classic Lara > Nu-Lara in looks
Classic Lara > Nu-Lara in personality
Classic Lara > Nu-Lara in lore
Classic Lara > Nu-Lara in everything but polygon count

perfect, and that's why they nerfed her

Do girls even like nuLara? I honestly only ever see zoomers and soiboys praising the new games (only counting people that actually played them btw).

Feminists would hate her too for being cute

Stop reading this thread and go play the classic Tomb Raider games, you repressed children.

>white people aren't white

>those tan lines
damn

I asked my sister (big fan of TR games) and she hates the new Lara, she is shorter, palette colours of the new games are ugly, and Lara can't stop talking/breathing hard and dislike her personality. Yeah she is just one person but I remember Lara Croft being big even within girls back then, go for forums, fanarts artists and you will notice a lot of females there. Times were different, Xena and Charmed for example was very liked by women
I'm sure games like Ateliers have tons of female fans too

this is true

he is right thought. Of course it is not the only reason why it sold so well. But her breasts on the cover are the main reason. Pointing out her breasts in the game shows clearly you have no idea what you are talking about, because you haven't lived in our times. Of course the triangle shaped breasts in the game were shit and a huge disappointment. But we were playing for those prerendered loading screens and prerendered cut scenes and hidden prerendered shower scenes. It was different times were games had much bigger suprises because back then devs still knew their audience. But it was also the beginning of the end.

The devs wanted to show off laras body in the game. But the publisher being the stupid mother fucker they are forced them to remove everything. The beginning of the end.

>people that call zoomers millenials
Are they actually retards?

>Kobe Tai
Got me. I also had an album of asian models like Kaila Yu.

I liked it because I could shoot dinosaurs with dual pistols desu

imagine being a dumb fuck who has no natural drives except eating you rotten piece of shit

Wooof Woof WOoof woof woof wooof woof

The left is more true, but she was kind of a bitch.

nu lara looks so disgusting. Like she was a alcoholic baby or somehting

First porno fap was to a promo to Danni's site with her in it, she was topless and motioning for the camera to follow her. I think it was also the first time I fucking really fucking hard. Before that I was just kind of casually rubbing it to Sears catalog shit.

>and bug out the guard?
You never bug him out though

Everyone had those high cut tan lines. I miss them.

what

her classic games are on sale for a buck convince me to buy them

They're only a buck and are challenging fun platformers.

I find it funny that women want to be seen as the girl on the left but instead act like the girl on the right and shame you for pointing it out be because #herbody

>convince me to buy them
Don't. Lara was hot back in the days, but there are no reason to look at old polygons when you can fap to high quality polygons like 2B now.

The only reason you'd want to buy the old games is to play and see by yourself the whole evolution of the games if you have time to spare.

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the TR games are fun for their gameplay though.
where are you buying them?
For the GOG versions I'd say it's worth it, it's only $1 after all.

She should be more like the one on the right except with garters and a maid outfit

ok boomers lol

>Remember a few months ago when that Tomb Raider movie came out and the only thing most ""classic Tomb Raider fans"" cared about was the size of the actresses boobs?
being mad because the developers cater to the leftist propaganda which attempts to censor everything that is sexy and normal is not the same thing as only caring about the boobs size. same with Tiffa and the ethics departament

this is how I wanna die

>I only play games for the faps
Fucking kumbrains.

>reading comprehension

That shiteating smile is unironically gold.

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You're welcome.

get it quick, I don't feel like resetting my router

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I don't care if you buy them

Dark skin like that reminds me of Integra from Hellsing.
I'm sure though that she was half Indian though so maybe old Lara was half British Rahj Indian?

underage retard

If faggots here gave any sort of shit about why Tomb Raider sold, you'd look at reviews and some of the old messageboards. They would give you a much better view-point of this whole issue rather than this circular arguments where neither side has any evidence outside of shit that came after the fact.
>here's an article proving AFTER lara croft became big that she was considered a sex symbol
>n-nuh uh, my experience is totally true and why everyone bought it!
>here's a ton of fucking adverts where her tits are focused on! Ignore every other 90's ad where they did the same exact thing!

Of course, that requires work, and there's a chance your opinions won't be the truth. Instead, it's much easier to talk in circles and never get anywhere.

thank you!

This was actually my first fap experience. Bought it at my vacation house, fapped in the bathroom and in the living room when parents were away like a madlad. I used to play doom 2 wads for entire days and watch shitty animes. Fuck I want to go back...

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that wouldn't prove shit as most people wouldn't admit they got a game because they saw tits