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Video games are not mere time killers. They are albums of sound, aesthetics, animation and narrative.
This community is in appreciation of that. Screenshots, fanart, animations, gameplay clips. It is all welcome here.
The one common thread should be an eye for the aesthetic. This is not a place to discuss mechanics or stats, but to show off simply the artistic, expressed through the video game medium.
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- Include the name of the game your post is associated with in the post title.
- If your post is fanart, include a link to the artist in post body, if you can. You may also ping @saucechan@ani.social to have it attempt to find the source for you, and provide it in a comment.
- MARK ANY TEXT SPOILERS, as for art, do not post content that outright spoils key moments of a games narrative. Content that can only be understood with the context of having played the game, is ok.
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Was it really that bad?
I don't really remember it that way. To me it was a uniquely gripping game because it evoked feelings by pushing buttons some would consider distasteful. And it never ended up doing so in a way that would have made the pre-launch controversy warranted, IMO.
By the second half of the game Lara's deranged rage at the islanders was echoing my own.
Maybe some of the stuff in the game was supposed to please the sadists playing, but as someone who becomes the characters I play as, the unpleasant things that happen to Lara put me even more firmly in her shoes, and the sequels never managed the same.
My first playthrough of it was around when it came out and I didn’t really notice any issues and believed the controversy was blown out of proportion. In a recent playthrough, it became clear this game did not have well-written female characters in mind and it is hard to ignore that the execution of these topics was not in good taste.
Oh yeah no it's hardly a thoughtful exploration of anything. The entire remake trilogy was a complete disappointment in that regard.
Games with some cool stuff but also glaring flaws that by the third I was quite fed up with. I wanted the new Tomb Raider games to be more better, and they just weren't. Fun, but not "I'd wear that on a t-shirt"-good the way the Horizons or new GoW games are.
Exactly. It’s a fun romp but I don’t go out of my way to recommend it.