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Taiku
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BAFTA recently gave out awards for most iconic video game characters. The list is pretty spotty, you can tell a public poll was involved, but Lara Croft was at the #1 spot and someone in Discord said to my face that Lara "wasn't really relevant until her reboot."

Ah yes, the biggest gaming icon of the late 90s. The star of one of the PS1's flagship titles. The female lead in gaming with more sales & household recognition than Samus Aran. The character who got used in dozens of commercials ranging from food to phones to cars. The character who's voice actor posed in Playboy following the game's success.

Yeah, nobody cared about Lara Croft until 2013.


daavpuke
@daavpuke

Say what you want about the underlying framing, but I bet you couldn't name 3 more characters whose impact on society permeated this deeply.

If anything, the reboots never even came close to the original craze.


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I mean, did people care about her character/games or did they care about her because hot video game woman? Seriously, I wasn't around for the 90s so I just don't know. I'm hoping that it was the former, but the few ads im looking at involving her just seem to be emphasizing her sex appeal. I guess either way would make her iconic, but not in the same way that Mario or Crash is iconic.

Call it British Bias, a Brit character made by a Brit dev, known the world over. Otherwise best not to take awards like this as wise to the winds of time so much as a look inside how an institution functions.

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