@Animasta said:
I think the point is that if Lara did not shoot that guy in the head, well... It was just kinda uncomfortable. The fact that she's making a lot of moaning sounds is also a little weird, and can come off as torture porn-ish. I'm not saying it's any more or less misogynistic than games usually are, but still, it's a little more in your face in tomb raider. They're also probably not going to talk about the rape attempt in any decent capacity, rather sweeping it under the rug which is a little insensitive.
Also pretty sure plenty of people were angry about how women were portrayed in Heavy Rain.
edit: Heavy Rain is undoubtedly more misogynistic than Tomb Raider will be
Isn't that the point of every game though? If you don't act something terrible befalls your character, like death, or the world ending, etc. When that action becomes rape or sexual assault it's suddenly too much? If this is in film is this even thought about twice? It's long been a character trait of large villainous gangs to be rape hungry, it's just one more quality that gives them their disgusting image.
I think honestly a lot of this push back comes from the fact that the gaming industry is in fact so male dominated. Gamers and those who work in the industry are now so aware of the image they've had for years with the double d breasted Lara and the booth babes, it's almost as if now there is a much more conscious effort to avoid those sexist pitfalls which is great but it goes to a fault like this. To me I only ask one thing, is this a natural course for these characters and this story? The answer is yes, this isn't throwing in gratuitous nudity or having the main character fight in a bikini the whole game, it's a deplorable action by a villain in order to establish the idea that as a woman on this island Lara is faced with even more dangers than a man may (thusly having to actually over come gender differences quite literally). And all of this is from a fucking implication, and impli-fucking-cation, not the actual action.
I also have to laugh that it makes you uncomfortable to think about what would have happened if she didn't shoot the guy in the head. The over the top violence at this E3 doesn't seem to phase anyone, but a little bit of implied rape or sexual assault from a villain is apparently stomach churning. I guess I kind of find it hard to take critiques on things like this from an industry that lost their shit when the main character from The Last of Us shot a defenseless guy in the face with a shotgun. It's like people are trying to find some sort of line for where taste lies in the gaming industry but it's a fucking joke to try and figure it out.
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