Unfortunately it had the opposite effect on me. Morbid curiosity took over and made me wonder what other fucked up cutscenes I could get. It was not good for my health.
As someone who used to work in EMS I think it's a good thing.
If you're gonna make a game where you deal out violence, it should carry weight y'know?
Like the guy you just shot in the chest isn't dead. He's suffering from a collapsed lung and weeping in his own shit. You paid for violence, well, here it is
Those Tomb Raider games also angle in on that too a little bit. Most games that let you kill people nobody cares or you're treated as heroic for doing it (or at least 'normal' if you're playing as a soldier).
NuTomb Raider Lara is a historian and fresh explorer. She gets stranded on an island with her friends and coworkers. The inhabitants are extremely hostile. Lara proceeding to go feral and depopulate that island freaks her friends out and drives a wedge between them, and even in the later games Lara being 'off' mentally is used as a plot point.
I mean, it's fucking gross. Like, snuff film bad. Not even in a campy way like a Saw film.
For me it's just too far. There's scary violence and then there's just depressing. Like that lady that gets absolutely tortured to death by the dinosaurs in Jurassic World. I'm not thrilled, I'm just wincing.
i think there was one scene where she falls down a waterfall or stream, bangs into a bunch of rocks and then gets her torso and legs imapled on a bunch of wood too thats was brutal
It certainly gave them one hell of a marketing push, that was the only thing I and a lot of friends ever knew about the game until I finally played last year. Needless to say, I did my utmost to not mess up lol
Well it absolutely worked on me. Knowing you're one missed button press from seeing your main girl get piked through the fucking skull is a powerful motivator.
That's a weird take (the developer I mean) - for me it showed the constant level of danger Lara was in and what a badass she was tanking all that cumulative damage.
But yeah it definitely caused damage fatigue in me, like give the woman a break. I think it was around the plane crashing where she was where I just sighed and prepped for QTE.
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u/koro90 Sep 11 '26
I swear whoever designed those QTEs absolutely hated Lara Croft on a deep and personal level.