We used to get yearly Final Fantasy games and a new main Elder Scrolls title every 3-4 years. Now, games take over a decade, and have no focus on worldbuilding or gameplay. Why? Because primarily high intensity graphical requirements for a marketable game. I have never met a man who demanded 'pretty graphics', yet I have never met a woman who will play a game older than Skyrim because they're 'too ugly.' (Exceptions are if they grew up with the game, like WoW)

>>712813387 (OP)
AoD is peak Lara, all downhill from there

>>712813387 (OP)
Do we need three miss Croft threads? I'm not complaining mind you.

>>712813518
This, but it's Legends Lara. Her one liners + ponytail combo make her the best by a country mile.

>>712813807
>Legend Lara
Parents shit lore (which I hate) notwithstanding she's literally classic Lara

>>712813387 (OP)
>Women are unironically at fault
You could have just stopped there.

>>712814139
Yeah I get what they were going for with her parents lore, I don't like it much either but it wasn't as obnoxious as the reboots. Plus Legends Lara is just so loveable it doesn't bother me that much. Too bad she instantly lost all her quirks in Underworld and became Boring Serious Lara.

My wife Lara!

We are on the verge of possibilities in gaming that were mere pipe dreams half a decade ago. people dont know it yet but SOON we are going to have AAA games with individual armpit hair strands being fully modeled and ray traced with real time physics based movement. 8k armpit textures. REAL TIME SWEAT PHYSICS where your character sweats more the more she moves around. DLC packs of 20 different pubic hair styles with higher geometry counts than entire xbox 360 character models.