The classic video game series Tomb Raider is set to be released as a tabletop role-playing game: “Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth”. But Twitch streamer Asmongold is outraged when he sees a new approach to the popular game series featuring Lara Croft. Because in Tomb Raider, it’s no longer about “Tomb Raiding,” or grave robbing.
What outrages Asmongold?
- The new game wants to escape the “colonial past” of the “Tomb Raider” series.
- An article from April 9 states (via tombraiderchronicles): Lara Croft transforms from a grave robber into a seeker of truth – the company Evil Hat Productions wants to redefine Tomb Raider to escape a past scarred by colonialism.
- Other games in the series have already begun to work on this transformation by allowing Lara Croft to talk about her missteps in the past. This will continue, and the cultures from which artifacts were previously stolen will be approached with respect and support.
“Tomb Raider” is one of the video game series known even in the mainstream, the first Tomb Raider was released in 1996:
The premise of Tomb Raider is now problematic
Why do this? The developers say:
Raids, as depicted in the original Tomb Raider games and stories, involve seeking out ancient tombs and historical sites of various civilizations and acquiring artifacts. It is based on the assumption of ‘Finders Keepers’ that grants raiders the means and the urge to claim possession of artifacts, regardless of whether they have a historical or cultural claim to the treasure.
Asmongold says: If you want to do this, then make a new game
This is what Asmongold says: For Asmongold, the new approach is outrageous. In a YouTube clip from a stream titled “How to destroy a game series after 28 years,” the Twitch streamer says it’s “the most ridiculous, saddest crap” he has ever seen.
They are afraid that Tomb Raider “promotes colonialism” – that is absurd.
Why change anything? They should just make a new game.
They would awaken a game from its 20-year slumber only to turn it into something completely different. If you want to make a game about a “seeker of truth,” you should develop a new game.
But if you are developing a game about Tomb Raider, it should also revolve around “Tomb Raiding,” or grave robbing, just because the old premise is “politically uncomfortable,” you cannot simply change it.
This new game is for “weird people with internalized guilt complexes” – no one has ever asked for such a game. He hopes it fails.
What are the reactions? In the comments, it says
- that this is the definition of woke.
- Another classic is being ruined by a modern studio.
- Tomb Raider now with 150% less Tomb Raiding.
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What’s behind this: This is really a feast for the current mood in the USA, which Asmongold is currently fully embracing. The streamer, who just a few months ago was still making relatively normal gaming videos, is now on a crusade against everything he perceives as wrong in the world. In doing so, he sometimes goes too far, but with the new channel direction, he has found great success.
It must be clearly stated: The new Tomb Raider is a tabletop RPG and not a new video game in the series, so this uproar is actually two sizes too big.
The combination of “nostalgically idealized game series is politically incorrect and must reinvent itself” is truly the “Perfect Storm” in the current debate about “Woke people ruining our video games.”
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