This week, Daniel Haddad from Cwerki Studios joins us to discuss his latest project – Min: A Space Adventure. We also talk about the Tomb Raider rape controversy, romance in games, and more! Also, new co-host Resulka makes her debut!
The Third Chair – 6/15/2012 – Rape, Romance, and More
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Does Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft really have to be a survivor of a rape attempt?
Crystal Dynamics issues statement regarding Tomb Raider
Do Romantic Choices Influence Your Decision to Buy?
I'm the co-owner of Nerd Vice. I sometimes produce content ... nerdy content. I'm a 25 year old woman from New Jersey. I love fashion and girly stuff. I consider "Super Mario Bros. 3" to be the perfect game, though "Silent Hill 2" is my personal favorite. I'm also happily married to this guy called Leon Thomas.
I haven’t liked Lara for awhile, not that I ever got into the games that much anyway, but this latest trailer actually got me excited about the game. The darker tone sold me on it being a much more adult game then it has been before. The rape scene made me gasp and a little and then almost cheer for her beating him down. Rape is a touchy subject but it does push her to the limit, to the very edge of deciding between being weak or strong.
The ToR thing I am unsure of as I have heard that they wont be changing the characters that are already in the game but had something along the lines of new characters for gay love stories. Since you can only get the love on with your companions and they have a storyline that brings that about not just picking a NPC on some random planet it would mean kinda rewriting the storylines they already have and changing it for people who had already gone along with the love storylines. Hopefully they get it in there, blocking same sex love in the game is kinda silly and seems so unlike Bioware.