Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes | VGC
Honestly I'm glad we've moved from "Censor out anything that might be slightly objectionable" (Like they did with Sam & Max for example, and I believe the GTA Trilogy got hit with a bit of this), to "Look the game is old and from a different time, what society deems acceptable is always changing, deal with it or move on."
I'm so beyond tired of being told I can't have a steak because a baby can't chew it. I actually bought this three pack solely because it didn't censor Tomb Raider, a game I was very sure they were going to censor
Like they did with Sam & Max
I had to look that one up since I had no recollection of anything that stood out as offensive. Most seemed silly to change to me, but I do agree with changing the line about the goggles being designed for special needs children after Sam referred to Max's "hideously oversized skull."
Sam & Max didn't cause that much of a fuss because all purchases of it came with the original version of the game, but the censoring was still cringe.
What stereotypes were in the games?
While Crystal Dynamics didn’t specify which content it’s referring to, it’s speculated that it could be the animalistic depiction of Pacific Island natives in Tomb Raider 3, who are implied to be cannibals.
There might be others, but The Dagger of Xian plotline in Tomb Raider II is a little "woo woo Chinese mysticism". You plunge it into your heart and turn into a dragon.
I'm not offended by it but I'd imagine that's not the kind of thing you'd write in a video game today.
While Crystal Dynamics didn’t specify which content it’s referring to, it’s speculated that it could be the animalistic depiction of Pacific Island natives in Tomb Raider 3, who are implied to be cannibals.
Like the fictional Indiana Jones style villages? Or the real life North Sentinel Island Sentinelese? I'm scratching my head too...
The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.
Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)
Dinosaurs without feathers.
In what world is that a question for a reasonable person?
A media company remade and re-released a piece of media and acknowledged that there may be problematic content, but that we should consider the time the media was made.
You don't need to know what the problematic content is, just accept their statement on it.
In what world is that an answer for a reasonable person?
you don't need to know what the problematic content is
You seem like the kind of person who would become a moderator, start banning people and when they ask why they were banned you would block them after replying "lol get fucked"
In what way is acquiring more knowledge a bad thing? If I don't recognize any possible problematic content, but other people say it's there, why shouldn't I be a Le to ask what's problematic about it? Have I been going around being casually racist without knowing?
Like damn my dude you're getting pissed at people for wanting to better themselves.
"Shut up and consume"
That's not how this works
Then they don't need me to buy their shit lol.
I'd still like to know.. Might be a deal breaker
Genuinely struggling to remember what that could even be about.
I mean, it's been like 25 years since I played them, but I don't recall any obviously bad things in there. It's not like it was filled with old Jackie Chan film levels of cartoon racism.
The voice acting has quite a range of stereotyped accents. Nothing they say is overtly racist, but the over the top accents themselves are insensitive.
Oh, OK. So more George Lucas than Tintin in the Congo.
I think there were some "jungle tribe" type enemies somewhere but don't quote me on that
In Tomb Raider 3 an antagonist faction includes black men who want to eat Laura, and not in the same way I do if you catch my meaning.
I haven't played it but that doesn't sound racist to me if the context is right. There are cannibal tribes today. They are black skinned. This is fact.
This is perfectly fine, its how they did it for the old Looney Tunes DVDs.
And is what they should do rather than trying to delete it.
Provide context so that future generations can enjoy what's good about the media and acknowledge how parts of the content/media are problematic and not appropriate.
Something I and probably everyone else forgets is that Looney Tunes was made in the 1930s and 1940s, not the 1990s.
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I'm glad they did that, change on a remake or something, I don't recall if they actually did it for Anniversary since it was still a ps2 game, but if games are art they should be preserved as they were, this is just a remaster that you can even play with the old graphics if you want.
didn't need to be news does it?
Neat, I'm with everyone here when I say this is the much better solution.I'd prefer it to be a bit more clear of a warning and a bit less of a company apology so people who do need the warnings such as younger kids are informed and not immediately put off by playing something almost immediately presented as 'inexcusable'.
Ermahgerd! Why dey gutta ram politics into mah games, they're ruining my heritage or something I dunno, rabble rabble!!!
/s for the morons
But when will Nintendo start issuing those warnings for Mario games?
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So long, gay Bowser!