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Post #41
Am I the only one who thinks that this is finally the bold direction they should be taking in this industry
It's finally something not made as a publicity stunt and actually helps develop the character
I guess it's too different in the sense that Lara has always been this strong female lead who was a badass, however that image went right down the drain after the replaced her boobs with skin balloons. Maybe here with different scenarios like these we can finally show that not only does the character have balls, but so does the game
figuratively of course
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Unless you're against rape in any form of media, you really can't say this is somehow bad.
If they glorified it or made it purely with shallow intentions, then yes, that would be a adequate problem.
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also it's being made a bigger deal than it should be
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At the mercy of men? She kicked his ass to oblivion!
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If you think that a slight rape scene in a video game is worse than a scene where you have to kill innocent people, watch your family get murdered, or torture people in other video games, there's a problem.
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rape as quick time events??
i think having strong non-convoluted plots and fleshed out characters should be that bold direction
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The only other way to do it would have been pure pre-rendered footage, and that doesn't draw the player in at all. Might as well just watch a movie.
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quick time events are not how to draw in the player
it's like 'oh rad time to watch a cool cutscene *put down da controller* wait fuck!'
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Most people won't feel comfortable with this. The few select few like you who enjoy watching people get raped will still buy it. As for me, if the rape scene was as bad as I initially thought, there's no way I'd buy the game. Nor will most people because they'll see from reviews or the rating on the back that "OH, rape scene" no thanks.
I choose my movies that way. I don't enjoy movies with a constant theme of sex. So when it says something like that on the rating on the back, I'm not going to rent it.
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Ever play F.E.A.R. 2? Driving force of the plot is avoiding and containing a ghost which wants to rape you.
You fail in every way.
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Why is it that of all the things video games have presented, you draw the line at rape concepts?
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You don't know jack shit about the plot or characters, at most we've been shown ten minutes of footage and had a few scraps thrown at us by the developers.
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Ok, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to point this one line out as it is just fucking stupid.
Rape is physical and mental torture. So much so that many rape victims actually turn to suicide to end the suffering.
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why are they doing it in the first place besides generate attention and some easy shocks?
i could see why they'd be desperate, by now there have been so many Tomb Raiders i think even the developers have gotten bored.
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plus the fact that this small scene isn't the only means to develop the character obviously
not to mention the fact that you prevent it anyways if you play the game
who the fuck puts the controller down in the middle of the cutscene that's just inconvenient
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i didn't draw any line, i'm just extremely cynical.
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You could use this piss poor argument for ANY concept if you really wanted to.
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People get mad and offended by everything, it's the way it's been for the last century.
Pretty much every form of entertainment that isn't books or music has been criticized heavily since it's conception.
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Then be cynical for all that applies or not at all.
Right now it sounds like you're bitching for the sake of bitching.
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What's the issue here? It's a fucking video game. We can have torture, murder, obliteration of races and societies, wife abuse, anything by H.R Giger, but as soon as one person is a victim of ATTEMPTED rape in a VIDEO GAME it's an issue?
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Are you telling me survivors of the Syrian massacres, or veterans of The Vietnam War got off easy compared to Lara after she was slightly felt up in that video?
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at least you're aware
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I think it's good that they're going into darker directions with their characters and I want to see more of it in the future, but I just really doubt it's going to properly help with developing the character.
I want to see games that are unafraid of doing darker stuff to further develop good characters in interesting ways, I just don't think they're going to do this particular example well.
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I fail to understand how you could have the audacity to say that watching people die is not mental and physical torture.
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I fail to understand how you can liken rape to prostitution.
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well maybe it's not videogames, but the audience that is the problem
either way, both need to mature up before games can attempt to tackle actual issues apart from 'russians are evil' or whatever
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Honestly I want to play this scene and get Bad end, Not because I want to watch someone get raped, but to see how far they actually go with it.
Because I expect it to be some softcore copout and this bullshit to be just LOL BUY OUR GAME AND WATCH LARA CROFT GET RAPED LOLOLOLOLOLOL WHY CAN'T I HOLD ALL THIS HYPE!?
Prove me wrong developers.
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"Russians are evil" isn't exclusive to games, have you watched a movie or read a book made in the last fifty years?
Plus that stuff mostly exists in Call of Duty and Battlefield nowadays, and Battlefield is basically just a parody of COD.
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He said forced prostitution.
That is literally rape with a multiplier strapped to it.
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FUCK ME that's intense-looking. I'll be picking this up for sure.
Also crashing Antinov
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In their defense, why would they need to put a high-detail rape cutscene in a series that is about platforming.
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Oh my God will everyone shut the fuck up. The scene is on, one of the goons grabs up and gets all up on her, but unless you're a fucktard you'll beat the QTE and Lara survives completely unscathed.
The only reason they're hyping it up as a complete "rape" is for controversy and publicity.
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High detail rape scene? What the fuck are you talking about? It's a thirty second at scene at most that involves Lara being touched for two seconds and then a guy being kicked in the dick and shot.
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softcore copout?
who the fuck is going to animate an actual rape scene? imagine being given that job as an animator.
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they wouldn't, but if you put a rape scene in something it better be at the very least unsettling.
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You're missing the point. You're saying a video game like, for instance, the original Call of Duty, is somehow better than a game that has any form of rape because rape is "physical and mental torture". Do you understand what PTSD is? Do you, in your sheltered, safe, life, understand that war is so destructive to a persons' mental and emotional safety that some many veterans end up killing themselves because of it? I'm not saying rape is good, but saying that rape is wrong in games but murder and war are okay is ignorance. When you lose a friend to PTSD and he almost commits suicide, you realize that war and killing a man is no joking matter. Maybe you haven't realized that yet.
Go out and talk to a Vietnam War veteran and ask him how fun killing little kids was.
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what the fuck are you talking about?
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She doesn't ACTUALLY get raped.
It says attempted, so it's probably just that bit from the tralier where that bloke starts groping her.
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How about read the rest of his post?
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The whole concept of war. Killing a man.
It's the same thing as being raped in a video game. You're just desensitized to it because video games have had "killing" since day 1.
Agree x 11
Funny x 1
Dumb x 1
Zing x 9
