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That controversial Tomb Raider 'rape' scene? You've already seen it

"Categorically not a theme that we cover in this game"

Words: on June 14, 2012
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  • samsneeze - June 14, 2012 noon

    As I've said before they're trying to give personality to someone who already had a more or less established personality. There's nothing wrong with that, this is a reboot after all, but the thing is, they're trying too hard. Call her past appearances a "blowup doll" all you want, you'd just sound like the type of person who judges a book by the cover to me. And the way the guy was talking about it is what bothered me the most. He was saying it like it was a feature or something and that you'd want to protect her or something. That shit is just fucking creepy to me. In the end over all this other crap, I'd still rather have her puzzling and platforming, not this press 'X' to win crap.

  • gazzc - June 14, 2012 11:39 a.m.

    Show something of a slightly sexual nature in a video game and the papers go mental, yet these same papers are quite happy to have a full page dedicated to a photo of a topless woman.

  • LIAMthescot - June 14, 2012 11:55 a.m.

    But didn't you know? All video games are made for children! Even the ones rated 18!

  • FOZ - June 14, 2012 11:31 a.m.

    This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. That the publishers/ writer of the first article is far too incompetent to even acquire a picture from the correct game is astounding.

  • ultimatepunchrod - June 14, 2012 11:25 a.m.

    I don't see how games can mature as a medium when this kind of thing happens. Crystal Dynamics was attempting to add some mature and psychological story elements in order to ground Lara Croft. They say the word 'rape' and everyone goes crazy. They aren't promoting rape; they were simply raising the issue, and if you watch the video, nothing actually happens to Lara because she's too tough of a character to let anything happen to her. Instead, she learns to fight back and grow into the Lara Croft of the other titles.

  • potpan0 - June 14, 2012 3:04 p.m.

    Don't you get it? Games are for kids, and you can't have anything possibly mature in a game, even if it's 18+, because of the children. Why do you think there was such an outcry against GTA 4? Because it led to 10 year old kids going out killing and raping, because you got points for doing it in the game. THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!

  • ColinKapow - June 14, 2012 10:48 a.m.

    It makes me sad that people will read that there is rape and believe it is true and that the evil medium is at it again.

  • radiodeaf - June 14, 2012 11:18 a.m.

    controversy for media...another story blown out of proportion? how is this so? who would do such things? humans, we are all old women sitting at fences.

  • bash street kid - June 14, 2012 10:46 a.m.

    Good job they didn't get their hands on a copy of Rapelay.

  • MetroidPrimeRib - June 14, 2012 10:42 a.m.

    I don't get what the big deal is about rape. Berserk - the manga - has so much rape in it (handled tastefully) and nobody complains. Everybody knows that famous scene in the movie Deliverance. It's iconic. It's also rape. OH BUT THOSE VIDEO GAMES ARE SO EVIL THEY WARP YOUR BRAIN

  • Tjwoods18 - June 14, 2012 3:01 p.m.

    Colonel clusterfuck

  • ObliqueZombie - June 14, 2012 10:40 a.m.

    This is one reason why I want to be a journalist, so I can correct the wrongs of my incompetent counterparts. I mean, seriously? ONE word is taken entirely out of context again? This is why people laugh at the thought of modern media. Plus, why target games? Don't movies show women getting raped by frikkin' GHOSTS? And doesn't CSI, a TV show, show women periodically getting raped in public on a subway? For shame, you two-faced editors. I should hope you learn from these mistakes, yet again made in hopes to slander the name of video games.

  • potpan0 - June 14, 2012 3:05 p.m.

    It probably isn't because they are ignorant, it's just that journalist knows that 'Game lets kids rape people' as a headline will sell papers, instead of 'Video Game for adults has a suggestive moment'.

  • ObliqueZombie - June 15, 2012 9:07 a.m.

    I feel you, and I'd be hard-pressed to say otherwise. It's to sell headlines. But dammit, if their morals are to sell papers instead of deliver the truth, they're in the wrong business.

  • Larry Legdrop - June 14, 2012 10:37 a.m.

    NO,means, NO, gentlemen.Thank You

  • Travia220 - June 14, 2012 9:58 a.m.

    The game might not be demeaning to women but the interview from Ron Rosenberg was very demeaning and he used some poor wording in that interview. Thus the internet and news exploding about it. In the end, The Metro, Guardian and Sun are not exactly reliable news sources, it's like when Fox News ran the Mass Effect sex scene thing. However, Ron Rosenberg focusing on "Potential" rape as a building tool for her character was easily the dumbest thing he could have said. There are a lot of other things to focus on than that. The best thing they can do is not allow this man be in interviews anymore. On the subject of the game, I take it back on demeaning. Until I actually play the game I can't say for sure but from what I seen it wasn't. Knowing that's what the developers were aiming for "You need to protect her" blah blah, basically now has instilled that "they are portraying this as demeaning." Although it being a clone of Uncharted ruins the entire game anyway so I may not even play it. The entire game is a disaster from what I've seen. As for company's trying something new? How is this game trying something new? It's not at all. There have been plenty of games where a female character is portrayed in a weak state and her character develops over the length of the game. I guess this generation of gamers never played games from 15/20 years ago.. and wouldn't remember.

  • zombiekoolaid - June 14, 2012 9:31 a.m.

    (agree w/ tjwoods18) My son is 5 and i don't let him see any of the mature games i play and he wont be allowed to play them until he is an appropriate age and can understand whats going and can put it in context. Now if he happens to put in gta4 or skyrim and see something he shouldn't then 100% of blame rest with me. Not the game developer, not the publisher, not the store where i purchased the game, but with me. Our society has a real problem not taking accountability. Everything is always someone else's fault be it the government, media, other parents or schools. Sorry if this offends anyone but maybe your kid being a loud-mouth, expletive spewing, entitled snot-nosed hitler youth is b/c u suck as a parent not b/c of something they saw or heard on tv or in a game.

  • HorriBliss - June 14, 2012 1:58 p.m.

    Hear, hear! The man speaks sense! Give him a promotion!

  • Tjwoods18 - June 14, 2012 5:44 p.m.

    I never knew why so many teenage murder's always blame halo and grand theft auto for their afflictions. The imitation of behavior through video games is subjective towards the ability to seperate reality from fantasy. If you are able to do that then no video game will make you kill someone.

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