I would be down for MILF Lara.
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Tomb Raider |OT| Lara's Misfortune
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Net_Wrecker
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But you clearly have a bias. This is like Arrow + Nikita: The Game. Your opinion is not to be trusted.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Imagine if Max washed up on the island instead of Lara.
Max Payne 4: Max Goes on a Cruise. It Does Not Go Well.
Spazznid
Member
I'd be up for her.
They're saving that for the third installment.
There were several sections in GoW3 where I had to avert my eyes. The shotgun to the chin in this game makes me go :/.
MK has always been more cartoony to me than anything and I don't play RE.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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GenoZStriker
Neo Member
I think this man is on to something.
For it! I say you make the awesome OT again!
actually, yes. In comparison to other video games at least.
toastyToast
Member
I wake up hanging in a cave with sand my mouth and vomit in my hair. I shouldn't have punched that dude in Jersey
Net_Wrecker
Member
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Hell, I'm game if Rockstar's game. I wouldn't mind writing it either, Housers!
Bringing to a new page. Can anyone help me out here?
How would it go?
Beelzeboss
Member
A Max Payne survival game?
Damn it guys now I want this more than anything and it will probably never happen.
Damn it guys now I want this more than anything and it will probably never happen.
This would be an acceptable OT title.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
The cult doesn't seem all that murderous; they mostly seem to be trying to survive Lara's onslaught.
Isn't that what every Max Payne game is? That guy has the worst luck.
Didn't he go on a cruise in Max Payne 3? If I recall correctly, it did not go well.
I can see it! Post-Panama blackout!
You are correct!
Net_Wrecker
Member
This island smells worse than the watering hole I got my booze from, with looks to match. I guess it's still better than Jersey.
*8 hours later*
--Achievement Unlocked, Gone Natives: Killed 5,000 Natives In Bullet Time--
Baconsammy
Banned
Thanks for the OT. My only disappointment is you didn't include the Conan review score gif.
Can't wait to play this next week. HYPE
Can't wait to play this next week. HYPE
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
And for me, Tomb Raider and The Last of Us invoke a primal revulsion in me. Look at Lara get brutalized in that gif. Look at her pump machine gun rounds into that guy who was slumped on the floor. In The Last of Us, look at them force you to blow the head off a man begging for his life.
These games have officially crossed the line for me. When a game forces me, literally FORCES me to murder these people, is when I just put down the controller permanently. This is not a 40-polygon Lara Croft flailing into bamboo spikes. This is not silly physics as you beat an old lady to death with a baseball bat while yakety sax plays. These games have gotten too real in their portrayal of violence, and utterly remove the real-world consequences these actions would have on the protagonist's psyche. They are relentless murder machines, reveling in the wholesale slaughter of other human beings. You aren't killing monsters or zombies, you aren't a hardened soldier in a war, you are a somewhat normal person engaging in genuine muder-porn and being fazed by none of it. I do not want to hit that button, I am not compelled to hit it by any stretch of the imagination.
Just not for me, bros.
GenoZStriker
Neo Member
Please no baldness. I would not be able to look at her.
Yes. Quite chubby too.
We can't have this, though.
Had I not finished that game, I might've believed this post was real.
Riposte
Member
As Seth McFarlane would say: ...
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Max decides to take on a relatively menial job on a research ship that cruises the ocean in Southeast Asia. After a freak storm, he awakens alone on a mysterious island. No pills, he must rely on natural drugs in the environment. There's a deadly and mysterious cult on the island that worships some sort of horrific mythology (bring back those myth references!) Max tries to finally be the hero he's always been driven to be and confront the animal within.
I wouldn't call either murder-porn. Manhunt is murder-porn. The Last of Us takes a very graphic tact, but we see that the people that you fight are simply as desperate as you are. They have conversations, they have friends, work together. It's a very grey situation (plus you can stealth areas). Tomb Raider, I wouldn't characterize as murder-porn either. The island's inhabitants are very hostile and dangerous, so Lara's thrust into a kill-or-be-killed situation. Plus, the island's dangers are pretty fucked up, so you wanna avoid the horrific ways you can die.
It's not like you're playing a serial killer. These people that Lara is brutally murdering do exactly the same to her. It's self defense. In games, just like real life, you come at me I'm gonna give you some. In real life that's most likely gonna be fists but in a game I'll use what tools I'm given. It's fighting for survival. If you can't understand that then yeah these games (and many more to come) aren't for you.
Wait... so kinda like Far Cry 3?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Buckethead
Banned
Nice OP.
Will play even though Lara's VA is awful.
Will play even though Lara's VA is awful.
i dont want to save her anymore then
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
Yeah, but that guy was done. He was disarmed, begging for his life. Pistol whip him unconscious and run away. Handcuff him to a radiator. Any number of things other than blowing his head open and skipping gaily away.
But that's the thing. That gif of her machine gunning that guy? That is not what a normal person would do. Their goal is not "kill all the enemies," it's "get away from this shit." That guy was slumped against the wall, he was done. Self defense is fine, but her goal should be to RUN. Running is real. Trying to survive is real. "Kill everyone" is not real.
Eh, I dunno. I think the cult members most of the time are trying to kill Lara because it's a kill or be killed situation. She's storming through their places shooting at them. They take prisoners, she doesn't.
No, it would actually be good.
Oh god what is this quote from? please give episode number too if its a tv show.
thetrin
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I don't think most people would bother doing that after the world has ended. People become pretty brutal when there's a hair's chance the world will be brutal back.
toastyToast
Member
Tony Soprano in True Romance
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
It's from True Romance.
Kinda this. Was that really necessary? I don't have problems with gore and litres of blood in games, but if they wanted to create some sort of emotional attachment with Lara and her misfortunes like crashing with a ship, being alone and hurt, hurt more and then, over the top realistic death scenes....
Dunno man, will wait for drop or clearence of backlog.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Y'know, I don't take offense to the violence, but this is something that should be brought up. The combat is a little gratuitous considering Lara's supposed to be a rookie to all this adventuring + killing stuff. I don't see any hesitation, or struggle, or disgust, or anything in these kills. In fact it's the exact opposite with lots of unflinching up close finishers, explosive tactics, and general insanity. There's nothing in the animations that suggests Lara's anything but a cold blooded human being. People can justify the combat all they want with "Well it's self defense," but the fact remains that the narrative is going one way, and gameplay is going another. It makes no sense.