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Idealists don't love the world, they hate humanity. This is why people with strong moral beliefs often treat taking a life with indifference at the best of times, and an indulgence at the worst.
L M A O great point. they hypocrisy and pandering is so fucking pathetic. that's coming for a latinA who's been in love with Lara since the first game.
@@MostlyCloudy yeah Lara kills a ton of locals - but actually taking stuff from a tomb nobody knows about is "colonialism". If they don't want to be a bunch of hypocrites - then they should arm Lara with nothing but some cash, a pair of crocs, a tourist clothing and a camera. And then try and sell it.
they just want to turn games into dull and boring lectures on whatever gets the most ESG money to whoever is making the game. Nobody really cares about "colonialism", especially not multibillion corporations, but saying "white people is bad" arouses the "DEI index" of investors at ESG and they give you just as hard cash.
I was having this conversation with someone today. Normal people can compartmentalise when they’re watching, playing, or reading fiction - they can choose to take what they’re viewing as pure fantasy that takes place in a different world from ours. We can enjoy things that are outside our usual world view because we just take it as make-believe. There’s something seriously wrong with people that can’t do this simple trick and just enjoy things for what they are.
The same people who would demonize Tomb Raider as imperialist and colonialist are surely the same kind of people (probably white Americans and Europeans) who would commit cultural imperialism and colonialism on East Asian games as we recently saw with Stellar Blade.
@@CommDante Yeah, but that's nothing new. Back in the 90s, very misguided localizers where adding pop culture references to jrpgs when bringing them over. Thankfully we have modders now who re-translate those old games with more faithful scripts. We just have the added garbage topping of politics added in along with bad jokes.
@@fattiger6957 Pretty sure most of those mistranslations were at least done in good taste/faith back then. Some people also complain about newest Vanilla Ware game being flowered up in middle age English... Japanese is a very basic language though, without a lot of nuances and subtleties afaik... Imho it suits the game and it doesn't entirely change context or concepts of og. . It's funny though, that the made up English version of Samurai Pizza Cats was way more appreciated than the original... Kinda makes me want to compare. But in current year I'd never even watch something where all the dialogue was just made up with total disregard of original design, because we all know it will be shite.
@@CommDante Japanese isn't as simple as you think. Which suffixes you use, which characters you decide to write the word down with, and so on do matter and it's very often not easy to translate. It's especially hard when trying to translate very japanese-culture centric works (like Persona or Yakuza series for example). Want an example? Find the difference between someone being addressed as John-sama vs Smith-san (assuming the person is named John Smith). Both are about being respectful and polite but in a different ways. Even today in 2024 we get official localizations that ignore that and go with whatever, literally misrepresenting characters' relationships (and that happens even to the biggest IPs). Of course it's another thing when original work is written in a way that avoids those hard-to-translate situations. And those bad translations of the past? They were intentionally bad because even less people than today spoke those languages and no one cared about being faithful to the original (unlike today, when being faithful is opposite to woke agenda). Also tbh, early Japanese games also did not care about being accurate to western cultures (just look at foreign players names in Japanese sports games on NES xD)
I think it's weird that no one in the current game dev sphere seems to realize that Lara was supposed to be an edgy 90's anti-hero rather than some noble Wonder Woman type. Lara being absolutely ruthless in pursuit of her goals and damn the consequences was Core Design's Lara Croft. Crystal Dynamics (an American company that was given the IP after Core folded) seems intent on making Lara a heroic character with parental issues...which she really isn't supposed to be. Bring back 90's British Lara. I don't like this new one.
Old lara was a badass and the games brought that childish fantasy of entering abandoned temples to collect the artifacts within while dodging dangerous traps and guardians. With just a hint of lewdness in the marketing because it was targeted to teenagers. Nothing wrong with any of that, there are no sins to make up for, its just evil people who want to reshape everything to their sensibilities
A tomb raider that doesn't have a tomb raider, what Crystal Dymamics does is a complete disrespect to all Tomb Raider fans and one of the most iconic characters in the gaming world Lara Croft, it's no wonder that the remasters of the original trilogy were a success, as it doesn't have any interference from Crystal Dynamics. 😮💨
5:56 "British Adventurer Lara Croft will transition from a Raider of Tombs to a Seeker of Truth" - In other words... An Archaeologist, A Historian, a TOMB RAIDER! That is literally what all Archaeologists / Historians do... The whole reason that so many investigated teh Pyramids was to Understand and Learn the past of a Culture they did not understand.. Seeking the truth of the civilisation that they had little to no understanding of!!! THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF BEING AN ARCHEOLOGIST!!! Oh boy! You have to wonder if these people ever look in a mirror and think "Am I on the right path here?"
@@garetht677 Yep they're always straining their scrawny necks too far out n blaming others for their own misfortunes when the bathroom mirror is right in front of em. As the Michael Jordan meme goes Stop it Get Some Help.
'every painting repainted, every book rewritten ... all history erased... - into an perpetuated present where the Party is always right.' ...little horror novel called 1984
I feel like an idiot that I never thought of that myself to put in the video - I mean, what would Biggus Dickus have to say about that? He has a wife you know.
I really hate this persistent trend of giving creative control over beloved series to individuals who clearly _hate_ what has made them great. Another example is Alex Kurtzman pissing all over _Star Trek._ 😢
If I understand correctly, is Lara also popular for being a villain protagonist, what she's doing is wrong but sometimes it's fun to just play the villain without a care in the world. There are certain things that shouldn't be allowed in entertainment, but stealing while bad, isn't one of them.
Also for besides being filthy rich and not to do ballroom parties and play dressup, she spends her money to risk her own life 'in search for treasure'. She walks and talks like a proper Lady, but her thrill lies in raiding tombs.
If I die and a thousand years pass, people are welcome to take my stuff. It's not really stealing at that point. In fact it's better for someone to have it rather than have it sit in the ground.
If they don't want to sell a tomb-raiding game, don't license a tomb-raiding franchise to make the game with. There's no other way in which this ends well. "Next, in Star Wars - with the destruction of all stars across the universe, the survivors struggle and work together to build a lasting colony for humankind around the SMBH left at the center of the galaxy. Curiously, all weapons mysteriously explode the moment they are made... so we won't have any war. stay tune for the next episode of -Star- -Wars- ... uh, Black Hole Colony Survival."
It's almost like video games are based on fantasy and fiction and not reality and are much more fun when they embrace the fantasy side of things instead of trying to simulate the reality we are trying to escape.
I hate these internet weirdo's who take everything so seriously I wanna go back to like 2005-08 I just wanna repeat them times..Im so sick and tired of these people even getting heard/voicing their pathetic opinions.
The channel has made some fire content lately and I'm all here for the voices of reason. The world is far more complicated than, "British woman bad because colonialism" and I fear far, far to many people only hear very filtered versions of history and don't ever research the whole story, even if has become easier than ever. Thanks again for standing with gamers and common sense 💜
I'm Latin American, not white, "conquered" by one European/Western super power at the moment (Spain) and Tomb Raider is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, sagas of all time. The original Tomb Raider trilogy is among my gaming treasures. I don't need Lara Croft to be brown like me, nor do I need her to be anti-imperialista or whatever, I love her the way she is: beautiful, British, adventurer and with that delightful devil-may-care attitude. She's my female James Bond and political ideology is ruining her!
Beware of that pesky little spanish invaders when you go out at night. You dont know what invaders? Neither do I, ask the cult 😅 greetings to overseas from the Vaterland, fellow Tomb Raider 🍻
A lot of people seem to be very annoyed about a table top game. When it comes to the next AAA Tomb Raider game we know nothing solid other than it’s being made using Unreal Engine 5. The way online drama can influence so many people to crap on their “favourite” series says alot more about people than they realise. Just wait for the game to release… play it… experience it… then decide whether you like it or not.
You know the far left have gone overboard once you see non political video game RUclipsrs like LadyDecade and RGT 85 getting into the mix. Thank you for the common sense.
This is harmful to actual people on the left to think. There has been blue hair infiltrators that screech louder than the rest of us that just think taxes should fix roads and schools. I don't abide by this belligerent flaming by these weird French people (sic)
indeed,people who say they aint interested in politics dont understand that politics will take an interest in you....these wokies make everything political and silence wont make you safe from them anymore,they want you to openly lick their boot like a maoist struggle session. dont buy anything with wokeness in it
I somewhat recently bought almost all old Tomb Raider games on GOG - before remaster was even announced. Just few weeks later we got remaster and I wasn't even disappointed I missed on uplifted remaster: I managed to not support woke product and deal with that annoying reminder of people that did not create Tomb Raider being woke and apologizing for something they had no hand in (insincere apology is worthless).
I learned about Mr. Blobby in the weirdest way: a Volkswagen coffee table book, “VW Beetle: Colour Family Album”. The book is from the UK, and one of the many Beetles it features is a cup racer that somebody had painted to look like the character (along with a little inflatable representation). I got the book pre-RUclips, and that show never made it across the Atlantic, so I didn’t realize that he was a PARODY of childrens’ television characters. I just assumed that poor little British kids were actually being subjected to this nightmarish pink Barney knockoff. Even without hearing that voice or watching him move around, that inflatable creeped me out. 🤣
Amusingly, although beginning life as a ''PARODY'' on an adults show, later he would receive his own children's tv show, revealing he had a wife and Blobby child too haha
Lara Croft was originally meant even be Latin American, and, honestly for me, it wouldn't have made any difference despite me being Latin American. I never even felt my self that this had to do with colonialism, but, these guys would probably believe that Latin American Lara to raid Tombs in Peru would be totally okay for some reason, but, really, you just gotta see it as the same character. Also, you can take the plot of Tomb Raider 1 and 2 as good examples that, they have nothing to do with Colonialism as well, but i believe this guy probably never even got far into these games.
Thanks again for speaking out on this. I noted by various wordings and topic choices that you'd fit the centre-left or classical Liberal left, so instead of mostly only right leaning onwards speaking up but to hear more and more people who lean Left now speak up is very reassuring. This means that the issue is non-partisan for the most part. Worth noting, I've interacted with such people like that Tomb Raider board game developer wherein I've shown them up to be extremely racist and transphobic. They're more often intentional hypocrites, kinda like if fascists sussed out reverse psychology or similar. They, who are 99% of the time white people, flip from "white people cannot experience racism" to completely anti-black when they think a black person is being racist towards them.... A thing I predicted when having such an interaction with such people (esp on the Twttr site). We need to pull the pendulum back to the centre before it has the chance to teleport to the opposite extreme.
I one hundred percent agree with your comments on colonialism. Yes it had its downsides, but it also had many upsides as you described. Also people seem to think that it was only the English, when as you have said there were empires from many nations throughout history. One can always argue that thanks to colonialism we now have to suffer the Nigerian Prince and Indian call centre scams, so we only bought it on ourselves.. 🤣🤣
if tomb raider ( and others) are so evil..... why not just make you own new properties that suit your idealology? i know why, but i'd love to their there bullshit answer.
What's mind boggling, is how many executives thought this was a good idea, and how do they get promoted when nothing they do makes any money? I have played TR from the beginning. Oddly, of late, the mobile games while different in format, are much closer in original spirit.
Reminds me of Sarkeesian's Tropes vs Women. She pretty much problematizes everything that makes video games, video games. So far we've seen non-ugly women removed from big franchises. We've seen violence against non-whites being questioned by IGN (re. Resident Evil 5). We are seeing tomb raiding being removed. Let's keep seeing what happens next.
Only recently discovered this channel but adding some comment love for the algo. Great work. And we need more of these kinds of voices. And I do mean people that are both women and "minority" voices. As a fellow Brit also in his mid 30s raised in the 90s back then we believed those kinds of things didnt matter and tried to minimise them. Now its all anyone wants to focus on lol, and as a white man the voices of me and mine are ironically often shouted down. But in any case, love the content, hope the channel keeps growing, keep fighting the good fight.
Speaking as someone who's country was liberated from the nazis in 1944/5 by the Canadians, I am DAMN GLAD that the French and British created the colony of Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries.
I’ll just enjoy the Tomb Raiders of days gone and watch the future of this IP sadly turn into a roaring dumpster fire. Any future titles will sell poorly with this ideology and it’ll somehow be spun into it being our fault. Keep up the fight LadyD!
I remember getting tomb raider on the ps 1 I couldn’t wait for 2 and 3 and the rest of them, other than fifa games I looked forward to playing each tomb raider game I was a geek wait I’m almost 50 still a geek lol 😂 I played eafc 24 wasn’t as good as I thought anyway it’s such a shame what they are doing by destroying games we all love especially Tomb raider. I think they should re release the next lot after 1-3 with the next lot of games. I loved underworld that was my favourite tomb raider game after no2. Why are they trying to destroy what wasn’t broken in the 1st place? It’s pointless them releasing it because of they’ve messed it up unfortunately
And now Amazon has publishing rights to the games. With how Embracer (the current owners) are in financial trouble, I wouldn't be surprised if they sell the whole franchise and development studio (Eidos and Crystal Dynamics) to Amazon.
@@blitzerblazinoah6838 I thought it was Andrew Tate starring as Lara Croft in the upcoming Amazon Reboot of Tomb Raider? I guess they could only find Brian Lara I guess.
0:39 L000L thank you for bringing back this crying old man meme back from my childhood 😂 i love the dramatic important news flash vibe because frankly to me all tomb raider news is important!!!
Awesome video! My only nitpick is that there's a difference between a board game (e.g. Monopoly, Gloomhaven, etc) where there's a physical board or pieces present, and a tabletop roleplaying game that primarily takes place in one's imagination and is in essence a shared storytelling experience coupled with plastic math rocks. Still, you truly are a beacon of sanity and common sense in this era of PC Insanity, so I applaud you and will absolutely subscribe. Cheers Lady Decade!
Left wing extremist Europeans and Americans sure as hell want to spread their "values" to the rest of the world, particularly East Asia as seen on how those people go hard against Japanese and Korean entertainment.
I live in a commonwealth country. Had British and Japanese colonialism. We still loved them till today. Plus Americanism. 😂 Doesn't mean I should change the history tho. I mean the movie Prey was dubbed also in the local tribal of language for whoever wants to hear it. That's a better way to make change. Rather than ruining an established IP, you give it more awareness and make it more accessible.
I went to the 2012 Seattle Mayday demonstrations/near riot, saw protestors with signs that read, "Rise and decolonize". "Huh, what is that about"? I get it as an American, but why fuss now? I had and still have a lot to learn. We all have a lot to learn. Lara is growing up. This IS her natural character arc, like it or not. Tomb raiding is cool, but improving the often impoverished societies with their historical wealth is cooler. Lara will just be raiding the raiders from here on out. Do try to enjoy the ride.
Happy Saturday the 13th Lady D and everyone else 🙂. I can only speak for myself...I only loved the 1st 2 Tomb Raiders and overall liked the 3rd game...all the game sequels and movie adaptations after that seemed unnecessary.
This is what you get when you employ activists instead of decent game developers. Sure they may be cheaper but when they say I reject your reality and substitute my own, then you know you've made a mistake.
Okay...no more games about Chinese empires, Japanese empire (oh wait...but those are diverse, right? so it´s okay!), no more e Romans.....geez...everybody is a victim...
Thank you for being the voice of reason once again. People will vote with their wallets but the downside of this is that franchises such as Tomb Raider could lose their identity and prestige with this constant, pandering agenda. Some of the recent Disney franchises seem to have followed this path sadly. The past is the past.
Do not give money, attention, or effort to people that hate you. They frame the narrative in such ways that you always look like the bad guy no matter what you say or do. The only winning move is to not play. I've all but given up on mainstream gaming. I encourage you all to do the same.
overall a well thought out and informative video, although i found the background music too loud and therefore distracting, making it difficult to listen to your video while i worked. when i stopped working and watched the rest of the video and read the subtitles it was fine, but i would recommend keeping any background music to a minimum for future videos.
I just hope if they make another TR game there's not a penis slider. In all honesty - as someone whose politics have always been left leaning - I just don't get these activists that call themselves "The Left".
And yet Nathan Drake got to do all of his raiding without any eyebrows raised. The call is coming from within the house, with this destruction of property.
"Tomb Raider is also a franchise that's been around for almost 30 years and is a HUGE DEAL! Lara Croft is easily one of the most iconic characters in video games, so I get a personal sense of sexual satisfaction when I imagine her grovelling and begging for forgiveness for her wicked colonial ways, and think it's about time we appropriate this franchise for my personal agenda and fart-sniffing sense of self-righteousness." Sorry, just felt like I needed to translate the segment. It's important to remember that these people will rally against their fictionalised version of historical colonialism that they have made up in their heads, but have no problem enforcing their social "localising" and censoring aspects of other cultures that they decide are unfit to exist in the modern era. Colonialism, after all, is the supplanting of a local culture with an invading one, and they have no problem pushing their own social morals and norms, their culture, on other nations.
The thing i don't understand is no gamer wants this... and none of us feel guilty or racist... considering our history aint nowhere near as bad as others 😂 no ones gonna apologise and no one cares... do they hate money, aparently yes 😂😂😂
Anyone noticed everyone in charge of making decisions for tomb raider looks like giant potatoes with lipstick and mascara? when I say potatoes, I’m trying to be nice. I would say garbage truck with lipstick and mascara,, but I don’t wanna be too Mean.
I like the original Tomb Raider time line games. (1996 - 2000, 2003) If (or when) some one calls me a sexist, racist or worse for liking the old TR games. Then so be it. That will be there problem and not mine.
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nintendo would tell those people to F off
@@greenkoopa koopa koopa koopa 🐢🐢🐢😎😎😎
So killing hundreds of people is fine, but collecting artifacts is immoral 😂😂😂😂
Idealists don't love the world, they hate humanity. This is why people with strong moral beliefs often treat taking a life with indifference at the best of times, and an indulgence at the worst.
hundreds of huwite people is fine*
Sounds about right.
L M A O great point. they hypocrisy and pandering is so fucking pathetic. that's coming for a latinA who's been in love with Lara since the first game.
@@MostlyCloudy yeah Lara kills a ton of locals - but actually taking stuff from a tomb nobody knows about is "colonialism".
If they don't want to be a bunch of hypocrites - then they should arm Lara with nothing but some cash, a pair of crocs, a tourist clothing and a camera. And then try and sell it.
You nailed it when you said that these people can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
they just want to turn games into dull and boring lectures on whatever gets the most ESG money to whoever is making the game.
Nobody really cares about "colonialism", especially not multibillion corporations, but saying "white people is bad" arouses the "DEI index" of investors at ESG and they give you just as hard cash.
They're ruining both, Games have been ruined by suits and blue and purple hair.
They can. But if you respekt a lie Enoch Times..
I was having this conversation with someone today. Normal people can compartmentalise when they’re watching, playing, or reading fiction - they can choose to take what they’re viewing as pure fantasy that takes place in a different world from ours. We can enjoy things that are outside our usual world view because we just take it as make-believe. There’s something seriously wrong with people that can’t do this simple trick and just enjoy things for what they are.
@@Melissa.Garrett well said.
The same people who would demonize Tomb Raider as imperialist and colonialist are surely the same kind of people (probably white Americans and Europeans) who would commit cultural imperialism and colonialism on East Asian games as we recently saw with Stellar Blade.
And with those crinch 'localisations' that immediately date a game.
@@CommDante Yeah, but that's nothing new. Back in the 90s, very misguided localizers where adding pop culture references to jrpgs when bringing them over. Thankfully we have modders now who re-translate those old games with more faithful scripts.
We just have the added garbage topping of politics added in along with bad jokes.
@@fattiger6957
Pretty sure most of those mistranslations were at least done in good taste/faith back then. Some people also complain about newest Vanilla Ware game being flowered up in middle age English... Japanese is a very basic language though, without a lot of nuances and subtleties afaik... Imho it suits the game and it doesn't entirely change context or concepts of og.
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It's funny though, that the made up English version of Samurai Pizza Cats was way more appreciated than the original... Kinda makes me want to compare.
But in current year I'd never even watch something where all the dialogue was just made up with total disregard of original design, because we all know it will be shite.
@@CommDante Japanese isn't as simple as you think. Which suffixes you use, which characters you decide to write the word down with, and so on do matter and it's very often not easy to translate. It's especially hard when trying to translate very japanese-culture centric works (like Persona or Yakuza series for example). Want an example? Find the difference between someone being addressed as John-sama vs Smith-san (assuming the person is named John Smith). Both are about being respectful and polite but in a different ways. Even today in 2024 we get official localizations that ignore that and go with whatever, literally misrepresenting characters' relationships (and that happens even to the biggest IPs).
Of course it's another thing when original work is written in a way that avoids those hard-to-translate situations.
And those bad translations of the past? They were intentionally bad because even less people than today spoke those languages and no one cared about being faithful to the original (unlike today, when being faithful is opposite to woke agenda).
Also tbh, early Japanese games also did not care about being accurate to western cultures (just look at foreign players names in Japanese sports games on NES xD)
Sony did that.
I think it's weird that no one in the current game dev sphere seems to realize that Lara was supposed to be an edgy 90's anti-hero rather than some noble Wonder Woman type. Lara being absolutely ruthless in pursuit of her goals and damn the consequences was Core Design's Lara Croft. Crystal Dynamics (an American company that was given the IP after Core folded) seems intent on making Lara a heroic character with parental issues...which she really isn't supposed to be.
Bring back 90's British Lara. I don't like this new one.
The left said back then she was a sexist icon.
Yeah the real Lara was more of an anti-hero type character :-)
I think some might realize it, but are afraid to say anything for fear of losing their job.
Old lara was a badass and the games brought that childish fantasy of entering abandoned temples to collect the artifacts within while dodging dangerous traps and guardians.
With just a hint of lewdness in the marketing because it was targeted to teenagers.
Nothing wrong with any of that, there are no sins to make up for, its just evil people who want to reshape everything to their sensibilities
@@illegalonsunday6838 id garentee that.
Lots of devs have this feeling because they have been isolated in the industry
This makes me want more blatantly offensive games just to spite designers/publishers/players that find offense in fantasy.
The guy doesn't even know the difference between archeology and sociology
"guy"
Industry crash can't come soon enough. People like this have no business making decisions about where to go for dinner, let alone popular IPs
A tomb raider that doesn't have a tomb raider, what Crystal Dymamics does is a complete disrespect to all Tomb Raider fans and one of the most iconic characters in the gaming world Lara Croft, it's no wonder that the remasters of the original trilogy were a success, as it doesn't have any interference from Crystal Dynamics. 😮💨
Guess that's one game company that doesn't like people to play their games/money.
it's not "looking for misery where there is none," it's demanding misery. it is wholly manufactured
5:56 "British Adventurer Lara Croft will transition from a Raider of Tombs to a Seeker of Truth" - In other words... An Archaeologist, A Historian, a TOMB RAIDER!
That is literally what all Archaeologists / Historians do... The whole reason that so many investigated teh Pyramids was to Understand and Learn the past of a Culture they did not understand.. Seeking the truth of the civilisation that they had little to no understanding of!!! THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF BEING AN ARCHEOLOGIST!!!
Oh boy! You have to wonder if these people ever look in a mirror and think "Am I on the right path here?"
@@garetht677 Yep they're always straining their scrawny necks too far out n blaming others for their own misfortunes when the bathroom mirror is right in front of em. As the Michael Jordan meme goes Stop it Get Some Help.
As if the industry wasnt already doing a great job of actively destroying itself. These folks pulled a "hold my soy latte" moment.
It's all gone in the wrong direction.
Isn't it called Tomb Raider, not Truth Seeker?
🤦yup. It used to be. But this is a headache
'every painting repainted, every book rewritten ... all history erased... - into an perpetuated present where the Party is always right.' ...little horror novel called 1984
"Truth Seeker the Tomb Unraider" 🤣
Well, apart from medicine, irrigation,
health, roads, cheese and education,
baths and the Circus Maximus,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
Good old Life of Brian.
The Vikings were the bads ones. The Romans did good
I feel like an idiot that I never thought of that myself to put in the video - I mean, what would Biggus Dickus have to say about that? He has a wife you know.
@@LadyDecade lol... that is too good.
@@LadyDecade Really ? What is her name ? 🤔
people forget that most tombs had traps on them to stop their own people from robbing them.
I really hate this persistent trend of giving creative control over beloved series to individuals who clearly _hate_ what has made them great. Another example is Alex Kurtzman pissing all over _Star Trek._ 😢
If I understand correctly, is Lara also popular for being a villain protagonist, what she's doing is wrong but sometimes it's fun to just play the villain without a care in the world. There are certain things that shouldn't be allowed in entertainment, but stealing while bad, isn't one of them.
Also for besides being filthy rich and not to do ballroom parties and play dressup, she spends her money to risk her own life 'in search for treasure'. She walks and talks like a proper Lady, but her thrill lies in raiding tombs.
If I die and a thousand years pass, people are welcome to take my stuff. It's not really stealing at that point. In fact it's better for someone to have it rather than have it sit in the ground.
@@ObversechaosI agree with this totally. If my ghost still hangs around after a thousand years, it would be exciting to see this happen.
Reminds me of when people called Animal Crossing New Horizons colonial
haha i never heard that before. That conjures up some pretty silly images.
If they don't want to sell a tomb-raiding game, don't license a tomb-raiding franchise to make the game with. There's no other way in which this ends well.
"Next, in Star Wars - with the destruction of all stars across the universe, the survivors struggle and work together to build a lasting colony for humankind around the SMBH left at the center of the galaxy. Curiously, all weapons mysteriously explode the moment they are made... so we won't have any war. stay tune for the next episode of -Star- -Wars- ... uh, Black Hole Colony Survival."
It's almost like video games are based on fantasy and fiction and not reality and are much more fun when they embrace the fantasy side of things instead of trying to simulate the reality we are trying to escape.
I swear RUclips is full of CHUD’s
"..anyone who knows me, knows that anti-colonial design is in all my games." THEN WHY ARE YOU IN CHARGE OF TOMB RAIDING TOMB RAIDER???
The tomb of good old Tomb Raider games had been raided by a tomb raider that hates Tomb Raider.
I hate these internet weirdo's who take everything so seriously I wanna go back to like 2005-08 I just wanna repeat them times..Im so sick and tired of these people even getting heard/voicing their pathetic opinions.
Based Lady Decade. 👏 👏 👏
The channel has made some fire content lately and I'm all here for the voices of reason.
The world is far more complicated than, "British woman bad because colonialism" and I fear far, far to many people only hear very filtered versions of history and don't ever research the whole story, even if has become easier than ever.
Thanks again for standing with gamers and common sense 💜
Well said now everybody out there please don't buy the new game not even just to check it out make them go broke
Just like JKs Harry Potter game.
@@Remake5182 not exactly like-for-like is it?
I agree
Literally three home run videos in a row. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm Latin American, not white, "conquered" by one European/Western super power at the moment (Spain) and Tomb Raider is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, sagas of all time. The original Tomb Raider trilogy is among my gaming treasures. I don't need Lara Croft to be brown like me, nor do I need her to be anti-imperialista or whatever, I love her the way she is: beautiful, British, adventurer and with that delightful devil-may-care attitude. She's my female James Bond and political ideology is ruining her!
Nice, just a correction, Latin is not race, but a culture.
Other than that, you are on point.
Beware of that pesky little spanish invaders when you go out at night. You dont know what invaders? Neither do I, ask the cult 😅 greetings to overseas from the Vaterland, fellow Tomb Raider 🍻
A lot of people seem to be very annoyed about a table top game. When it comes to the next AAA Tomb Raider game we know nothing solid other than it’s being made using Unreal Engine 5. The way online drama can influence so many people to crap on their “favourite” series says alot more about people than they realise. Just wait for the game to release… play it… experience it… then decide whether you like it or not.
its bad when they demand a fictitious charater has to applogize for their fictitious actions
How brave of them. So, so brave. 🙄
You know the far left have gone overboard once you see non political video game RUclipsrs like LadyDecade and RGT 85 getting into the mix. Thank you for the common sense.
This is harmful to actual people on the left to think.
There has been blue hair infiltrators that screech louder than the rest of us that just think taxes should fix roads and schools. I don't abide by this belligerent flaming by these weird French people (sic)
indeed,people who say they aint interested in politics dont understand that politics will take an interest in you....these wokies make everything political and silence wont make you safe from them anymore,they want you to openly lick their boot like a maoist struggle session.
dont buy anything with wokeness in it
Everyone should be pissed
Spawnwave too. He talked about stellar blade drama.
The umbrella of "far right" grows larger every year.
This is how to destroy an IP
I hope someone with some dignity and respect for the gaming medium can snag the Tomb Raider IP.
Team Samus!
I'm sticking to the classics screw most nowadays games.
I somewhat recently bought almost all old Tomb Raider games on GOG - before remaster was even announced. Just few weeks later we got remaster and I wasn't even disappointed I missed on uplifted remaster: I managed to not support woke product and deal with that annoying reminder of people that did not create Tomb Raider being woke and apologizing for something they had no hand in (insincere apology is worthless).
I learned about Mr. Blobby in the weirdest way: a Volkswagen coffee table book, “VW Beetle: Colour Family Album”.
The book is from the UK, and one of the many Beetles it features is a cup racer that somebody had painted to look like the character (along with a little inflatable representation). I got the book pre-RUclips, and that show never made it across the Atlantic, so I didn’t realize that he was a PARODY of childrens’ television characters. I just assumed that poor little British kids were actually being subjected to this nightmarish pink Barney knockoff. Even without hearing that voice or watching him move around, that inflatable creeped me out. 🤣
Amusingly, although beginning life as a ''PARODY'' on an adults show, later he would receive his own children's tv show, revealing he had a wife and Blobby child too haha
Colonization ~ "The sh!t that comes out of these colons as they try to rewrite anything that's not theirs."
Lara Croft was originally meant even be Latin American, and, honestly for me, it wouldn't have made any difference despite me being Latin American. I never even felt my self that this had to do with colonialism, but, these guys would probably believe that Latin American Lara to raid Tombs in Peru would be totally okay for some reason, but, really, you just gotta see it as the same character.
Also, you can take the plot of Tomb Raider 1 and 2 as good examples that, they have nothing to do with Colonialism as well, but i believe this guy probably never even got far into these games.
Thanks again for speaking out on this.
I noted by various wordings and topic choices that you'd fit the centre-left or classical Liberal left, so instead of mostly only right leaning onwards speaking up but to hear more and more people who lean Left now speak up is very reassuring. This means that the issue is non-partisan for the most part.
Worth noting, I've interacted with such people like that Tomb Raider board game developer wherein I've shown them up to be extremely racist and transphobic.
They're more often intentional hypocrites, kinda like if fascists sussed out reverse psychology or similar.
They, who are 99% of the time white people, flip from "white people cannot experience racism" to completely anti-black when they think a black person is being racist towards them.... A thing I predicted when having such an interaction with such people (esp on the Twttr site).
We need to pull the pendulum back to the centre before it has the chance to teleport to the opposite extreme.
History happened, Tomb Raider is fine as it is. Stop being afraid of offending somebody over colonialism when nobody is offended by it.
Everybody must be as controversial as they can. Push back against these people. Show them WE DONT CARE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY
I one hundred percent agree with your comments on colonialism. Yes it had its downsides, but it also had many upsides as you described. Also people seem to think that it was only the English, when as you have said there were empires from many nations throughout history. One can always argue that thanks to colonialism we now have to suffer the Nigerian Prince and Indian call centre scams, so we only bought it on ourselves.. 🤣🤣
if tomb raider ( and others) are so evil..... why not just make you own new properties that suit your idealology? i know why, but i'd love to their there bullshit answer.
I love your take on this so much! Thank you for standing up for common sense and reason!
The concept of *IT IS JUST A F*CKING VIDEO GAME* seems to be LOST on quite a few people.
What's mind boggling, is how many executives thought this was a good idea, and how do they get promoted when nothing they do makes any money? I have played TR from the beginning. Oddly, of late, the mobile games while different in format, are much closer in original spirit.
Reminds me of Sarkeesian's Tropes vs Women. She pretty much problematizes everything that makes video games, video games. So far we've seen non-ugly women removed from big franchises. We've seen violence against non-whites being questioned by IGN (re. Resident Evil 5). We are seeing tomb raiding being removed. Let's keep seeing what happens next.
Let's not see what happens next. Let's stop it from happening to begin with.
@@dapperfan44 I mean ideally, ofc. But I've got a feeling that these activists and publishers and journos are not yet ready to listen...
It's just,ugh can't these people just shut up for a moment!? They only ruin it for the rest of the demographic and that's very selfish.
Only recently discovered this channel but adding some comment love for the algo. Great work. And we need more of these kinds of voices. And I do mean people that are both women and "minority" voices. As a fellow Brit also in his mid 30s raised in the 90s back then we believed those kinds of things didnt matter and tried to minimise them. Now its all anyone wants to focus on lol, and as a white man the voices of me and mine are ironically often shouted down.
But in any case, love the content, hope the channel keeps growing, keep fighting the good fight.
I always wondered why the third game of the most recent series completely dropped the ball.
Where is the image on the left of thumbnail from?
In the words of Wolverine omce said," Someone doesn't have all their motels to their Monopoly set!"
Bull I want evidence of that, I can't believe wolverine actually said that! Seriously? Seriously!?
@@soul_of_a_gamer Correction, was a woman. Pardon the typo, my bad.
Another correction digital, sorry for that typo also.
@@stevensanders2692 meh personally a better line would be "you put the wrong hotel on park place bub!"
Speaking as someone who's country was liberated from the nazis in 1944/5 by the Canadians, I am DAMN GLAD that the French and British created the colony of Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries.
I’ll just enjoy the Tomb Raiders of days gone and watch the future of this IP sadly turn into a roaring dumpster fire. Any future titles will sell poorly with this ideology and it’ll somehow be spun into it being our fault. Keep up the fight LadyD!
I remember getting tomb raider on the ps 1 I couldn’t wait for 2 and 3 and the rest of them, other than fifa games I looked forward to playing each tomb raider game I was a geek wait I’m almost 50 still a geek lol 😂 I played eafc 24 wasn’t as good as I thought anyway it’s such a shame what they are doing by destroying games we all love especially Tomb raider. I think they should re release the next lot after 1-3 with the next lot of games. I loved underworld that was my favourite tomb raider game after no2. Why are they trying to destroy what wasn’t broken in the 1st place? It’s pointless them releasing it because of they’ve messed it up unfortunately
the mister blobby callback was brutal.
you are a fine lady and i like how you wield that Saturn. good stuff
The people that own tomb raider have been ashamed of her for decades
And now Amazon has publishing rights to the games. With how Embracer (the current owners) are in financial trouble, I wouldn't be surprised if they sell the whole franchise and development studio (Eidos and Crystal Dynamics) to Amazon.
@@fattiger6957 can't wait for the morbidly obese and very racially diverse Lara Croft jumping from ledge to ledge like an athlete.
@@wrmusic8736Tomb Raider reboot incoming, starring Brian Lara as Lara Croft.
@@blitzerblazinoah6838 I thought it was Andrew Tate starring as Lara Croft in the upcoming Amazon Reboot of Tomb Raider?
I guess they could only find Brian Lara I guess.
I feel a certain noisemaker is at the helm of this virtue signaling.
0:39 L000L thank you for bringing back this crying old man meme back from my childhood 😂 i love the dramatic important news flash vibe because frankly to me all tomb raider news is important!!!
Crazily, all the TR mobile games are far closer to Classic Tomb Raider.
Awesome video! My only nitpick is that there's a difference between a board game (e.g. Monopoly, Gloomhaven, etc) where there's a physical board or pieces present, and a tabletop roleplaying game that primarily takes place in one's imagination and is in essence a shared storytelling experience coupled with plastic math rocks. Still, you truly are a beacon of sanity and common sense in this era of PC Insanity, so I applaud you and will absolutely subscribe. Cheers Lady Decade!
God of War hasn't created armies of neo Spartans or neo Vikings, killing across the world.😂
Was it colonialism or was it Europeans spreading diversity around the World, which, as we all know, is a strength?
Ha, well said.
Left wing extremist Europeans and Americans sure as hell want to spread their "values" to the rest of the world, particularly East Asia as seen on how those people go hard against Japanese and Korean entertainment.
I heard Fire Emblem BGM in the beginning...
"We wish to distance ourselves from Lara's colonial past."
Still calls the game "Tomb Raider."
Good video! This is wild what they are doing with this franchise.
Weren't the Mongols also Colonizers
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I live in a commonwealth country. Had British and Japanese colonialism. We still loved them till today. Plus Americanism. 😂 Doesn't mean I should change the history tho. I mean the movie Prey was dubbed also in the local tribal of language for whoever wants to hear it. That's a better way to make change. Rather than ruining an established IP, you give it more awareness and make it more accessible.
I went to the 2012 Seattle Mayday demonstrations/near riot, saw protestors with signs that read, "Rise and decolonize". "Huh, what is that about"? I get it as an American, but why fuss now? I had and still have a lot to learn. We all have a lot to learn. Lara is growing up. This IS her natural character arc, like it or not. Tomb raiding is cool, but improving the often impoverished societies with their historical wealth is cooler. Lara will just be raiding the raiders from here on out. Do try to enjoy the ride.
Happy Saturday the 13th Lady D and everyone else 🙂. I can only speak for myself...I only loved the 1st 2 Tomb Raiders and overall liked the 3rd game...all the game sequels and movie adaptations after that seemed unnecessary.
This is what you get when you employ activists instead of decent game developers. Sure they may be cheaper but when they say I reject your reality and substitute my own, then you know you've made a mistake.
Okay...no more games about Chinese empires, Japanese empire (oh wait...but those are diverse, right? so it´s okay!), no more e Romans.....geez...everybody is a victim...
What i find funny is that they still use the title of Tomb Raider. It's like "let's use the famous brand name, but strip it of what made it famous"
They need to remember the old "movie" tagline. Just keep repeating "it's only a game, it's only a game"
Thank you for being the voice of reason once again. People will vote with their wallets but the downside of this is that franchises such as Tomb Raider could lose their identity and prestige with this constant, pandering agenda. Some of the recent Disney franchises seem to have followed this path sadly. The past is the past.
Do not give money, attention, or effort to people that hate you. They frame the narrative in such ways that you always look like the bad guy no matter what you say or do. The only winning move is to not play.
I've all but given up on mainstream gaming. I encourage you all to do the same.
overall a well thought out and informative video, although i found the background music too loud and therefore distracting, making it difficult to listen to your video while i worked.
when i stopped working and watched the rest of the video and read the subtitles it was fine, but i would recommend keeping any background music to a minimum for future videos.
I can live without a tomb raider board game. Im looking forward to a proper tomb raider game TR 1 rereleased in VR (beef raider).
From "Tomb Raider" to "Tomb Curator?"
Excellent explanation approximately 18:55-19:30, and again at 20:11, and throughout... Well done!
Very, very well-covered and researched, Lady Decade.
I just hope if they make another TR game there's not a penis slider.
In all honesty - as someone whose politics have always been left leaning - I just don't get these activists that call themselves "The Left".
These are far-left people, it’s okay (and I think encouraged nowadays) to be a moderate.
Excellent stuff. Really underscores how the people who are no fun at parties are now the ones taking over the parties.
The entire premise is "Whte People Bad"; sounds a little racist to me.
Yeh
*cue progressive lecture about how white people cant experience racism because we recently redefined the term to conveniently make it so*
How come Montreal keeps coming up with all these games? What the hell is going on in Montreal?
The far left side of the poster, the character is so obviously a self-insert of the artist herself
So in the first game she should have gave the Scion to Natla. Natla was the last living Atlantean after all 😅 that's her culture
Thank you for the video and your thoughts 👍
And yet Nathan Drake got to do all of his raiding without any eyebrows raised.
The call is coming from within the house, with this destruction of property.
"Tomb Raider is also a franchise that's been around for almost 30 years and is a HUGE DEAL! Lara Croft is easily one of the most iconic characters in video games, so I get a personal sense of sexual satisfaction when I imagine her grovelling and begging for forgiveness for her wicked colonial ways, and think it's about time we appropriate this franchise for my personal agenda and fart-sniffing sense of self-righteousness."
Sorry, just felt like I needed to translate the segment.
It's important to remember that these people will rally against their fictionalised version of historical colonialism that they have made up in their heads, but have no problem enforcing their social "localising" and censoring aspects of other cultures that they decide are unfit to exist in the modern era. Colonialism, after all, is the supplanting of a local culture with an invading one, and they have no problem pushing their own social morals and norms, their culture, on other nations.
I don’t recall Lady Decade ever being this ticked off. This is so frustrating.
We love you lady decade. You're the best 🏆 ✌️ 💪
The thing i don't understand is no gamer wants this... and none of us feel guilty or racist... considering our history aint nowhere near as bad as others 😂 no ones gonna apologise and no one cares... do they hate money, aparently yes 😂😂😂
I must have missed the bit when Lara stole the Elgin Marbles.
Thanks for making this. Good job miss decade.
Anyone noticed everyone in charge of making decisions for tomb raider looks like giant potatoes with lipstick and mascara?
when I say potatoes, I’m trying to be nice. I would say garbage truck with lipstick and mascara,, but I don’t wanna be too Mean.
I like the original Tomb Raider time line games. (1996 - 2000, 2003) If (or when) some one calls me a sexist, racist or worse for liking the old TR games. Then so be it. That will be there problem and not mine.
As soon as I saw that Twitter/X bio, it all made sense
You've been putting out some great content lately. While the obscure game systems are interesting, I like the social commentary. Its good to mix it up
why is always have to be them in the game and not the game characters.