One should have a really sad colourless life if a fraction of a second glimpse of stripe of extra skin drives him/her that crazy... especially considering we are talking about pixels :rolleyes:

What about Alice Liddel then? Would you call her "not sexualized" (according to your definition)?

It's incredible how some people can cling to one small episode and make an elephant of a fly... when some games are entirely IQ insulting :mis:

Sigh, it's a child, can't you grasp that? That's just wrong.
It doesn't drive anyone crazy, it's just that a lot of people agree that it was unnecessary and wrong move.

I'm not sure why you say that they are just pixels. Porn on my screen is also just a bunch of pixels.

Er, what are you on about? :confused:

Actually, you're pretty much the only one who doesn't agree with us on this matter.

How old is Lara supposed to be in the Ireland section of Chronicles?

If you think it's "porn" when someone is getting ready to go to bed or merely changing their clothes (as it appears in that cutscene), then you need to see a therapist or something :p. It's all about context ;)

Well, Lara was born in 1968 in the Core bio and according to this trailer the Ireland events took place when she was only 11.

Who said it's porn? I just followed EscondeR's line of logic that they are merely pixels. Nudity is nudity and Lara was definitely underage at that time. Yes, she was about to go bed, but that's irrelevant. Core didn't need to show it, this doesn't develop the Ireland story, it's just there for the sake of it.

If that scene in question was from TR2013 I wonder how different some people would sound.

That's the answer I found too, at Stella's TR timeline. I couldn't believe it though, she doesn't look eleven. She looks the same age she does during the Angkor Wat thing in Last Revelation, apparently she was sixteen then.

Yeah, it really sounds very young. I'd say 14ish sounds better.
The fact that she was 16 in Angkor Wat is irrelevant IMO. Core didn't have the resources/didn't bother to make a new model so they just reused it. Fair enough.

You compared it to porn... Should I quote?

I see you have a very wide definition of nudity.
Exaggeration is exaggeration. Period.

Nope. You said they are just pixels. I said that porn for example is also just pixels. Yet there is a huge difference between them. Just because the FMV is made of pixels is no excuse.
Right, bad wording. Suggestive material?

It's the context that you're getting wrong, saying it's suggestive gives the impression that scene is in some way purposely titillating. It isn't, it's just a girl getting changed (for whatever reason). There's nothing suggestive or titillating about that context.

I think the thing is that because it's Lara, it's Lara.... it becomes a bit awkward, like...you've waited all this time to almost flash her *****, the talk of the town, and it happens to be when she's 15? It's just weird that it happened like that.

Oh my ****ing God. ***** is censored.

This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion thanks to EscondeR.

It had to be censored after someone made a tribute thread about you :p

/I didn't see this earlier. :p

Just because they have access to visual scripting, C++, Lua, etc. for scripting, does not mean it was at all an easy task or 'flick of the wand', gurl. This stuff is still very difficult to code in! :p

I still think it's harder for those using TRLE and for us who are not experienced "pros".

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Oh definitely! TRLE/NGLE doesn't have any sort of visual scripting, which is an amazing resource of newer engines. And scripting is indeed daunting when you don't have a lot of education with it. :p
I'm just saying that, after doing some studying with other advanced engines, I'm intrigued by how they set up a lot of the mechanics in TR. :pi:

volumes?

When Lara enters a certain area, a certain state will exist and she'll play a different animation, and out controls will be different within that state. maybe?

It's definitely something like that. I think they set up some sort of road or path entity that has special parameters that cause Lara to perform those specific animations, and that causes the player's control to be modified. That makes sense at least for the sliding sections of the game--the waterfall slide, the slide after the crashing plane, etc. But, I'm especially confused about the parachute part. I suppose a similar path entity could be set up, and whenever she goes outside of that, she dies, and the death animation plays, but that doesn't quite sound right. My head hurts. But the scripting behind these entities is my main curiosity. :p

It could be an entirely separate game function, the parachute. It ends after a cutscene, maybe it's set-up like a mini game and you just play a "level" with special parameters/ movement effects.

I bet that's it, because TR uses background loading during cutscenes, and since that sequence is surrounded by cutscenes, that would make sense. :)

I'm a genius.

I need new TR media.

What do you guys thin will be the first image we see of the next game? D:

Lara obviously. Crystal are that predictable.

Nah, it will be leaked concept art :).

You spilled some hot truth tea. I was about to say the same thing.

Of Lara :p

actually...

Lara wasn't even in the first image of her self-titled spin-off series. It was just the logo.

It's only a series if there's more than one game ;)

I don't think it's uncommon to see the character you play as in the game in the first concept arts/leaked concept arts.... :p

The reboot was so Lara-centric. They can keep using Lara as the face for the future campaigns, so they don't have to hire fame hungry and overly expensive girls anymore, but let the game speak for itself next time.

No it'll be the 'monsters' of the environment :)

With Lara in the middle :tea:

I just saw this originally on the Eidos Forums, but I just had to share:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a723923c0...5hdvo1_500.jpg
http://suzannewolfs.tumblr.com/post/...roft-sculpture

:eek: This is just amazing.

i dont like her face that much but other than that it's amazing :D

They can never get the face right lol. I s'pose it is hard like.

It's a good little model though :).

That's what I was gonna say. :p

Love the pose of the statue, though.

Although, I have a very old model of TR2, of her in her wetsuit holding the harpoon gun and her face is spot on.
It's just the newer games they have a hard time getting it as closely to the game/renders as possible.

I don't know for sure, but I think this is fan made. The face isn't spot on, but it's a close interpretation. I just love the sculptre as a whole, the pose is great. It's reminiscent of the TRA one only with a bow.

This is fan made I saw it on someone's deviantart :)

oh my gaaawd im dying at this tumblr post :vlol:

http://booasaur.tumblr.com/post/5119...the-ending-was

I didn't notice it at first. lawl.

:vlol: So true.