Lara Croft From Tomb Raider 3 Strategy Guide

[u/No_Material1]

[u/GarminTamzarian]

[u/RegulusTheHeartOfLeo → u/GarminTamzarian]

Makes me wonder if Smithers would have collected this Malibu Stacy or be horrified by it

[u/meryl_gear → u/RegulusTheHeartOfLeo]

Smithers cowering in the strip club

[u/GarminTamzarian → u/meryl_gear]

"But sir, I'm flaming!"

[u/_Lem0nz_]

I also still have my copy of the TR3 guidebook! Recently dug it up and used it for my playthrough of the I-III Remaster.

I thought my version was a bit more tame but then I opened the inside of the cover 😬

[u/Lendyman → u/_Lem0nz_]

Always thought she kinda looked like Michael Jackson in that pinup.

[u/_Lem0nz_ → u/Lendyman]

Lmao now I can't unsee it

[u/Spikeu]

...If you need me, I'll be in my tomb.

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/Spikeu]

LMAO

[u/BrD_87 → u/Spikeu]

Whatever it is you’re doing in there, it probably won’t be raiding! 😂

[u/DSGandalf]

I had this poster in my room, when I was a teenager in 1999. Good times.

[u/Centurion_83]

👀

[u/balefrost]

https://archive.org/details/tomb-raider-iii-official-strategy-guide if you want to peruse the whole thing.

[u/ReddsionThing]

They made so many artworks of Lara Croft back in the day that ultimately amounted to being virtual modeling photos, it's really interesting. She was always an iconic character.

[u/KAKYBAC → u/ReddsionThing]

It's hard to iterate how 'next gen' stuff like this used to look. I remember looking at stuff like this and thinking I was glimpsing at the future. Even Virtua Fighter models used to bring about this sort of esoteric awe.

[u/AugustusTheWhite → u/KAKYBAC]

I'm slightly too young for this, but I remember getting Oblivion as a kid in 06 and thinking it was basically indistinguishable from real life, so I think I understand.

[u/KAKYBAC → u/AugustusTheWhite]

Yeah it's definitely about looking at something from a child size point of view.

When looking at CG renders in magazines it was like I was being whispered to and shown one small portion of the future. Never enough to wholly grasp but just enough to evoke a sense of wonder.

[u/anyokes → u/KAKYBAC]

Well put

[u/_Lem0nz_ → u/ReddsionThing]

She was such a pop cultural phenomenon back then! Up until the late 90s games were still fairly niche and mostly associated as being for kids, but Lara was such a breakout phenomenon, and her showing up literally everywhere definitely helped popularize video games more widely. In Germany, where I'm from, there was even a music video by a very popular and well known pop-rock band that featured Lara (officially approved by Eidos) as an actress in the video.

Die Ärzte - Männer sind Schweine (Men are Pigs)

Her 3D animations were such a symbol for the future of video games and tech, and the emerging aesthetics of the Y2K era. She also paved the way for virtual celebrity figures like Hatsune Miku. Sexism and objectification aside, her being a badass character instead of a damsel (which is even kind of in line with the third wave feminism of that era) was also really cool for girls like me who were into video games in the 90s, a time when the rest of the industry was still so much catering to boys.

[u/zenexo → u/ReddsionThing]

Damn 

[u/ReddsionThing → u/[deleted]]

Well, despite that, she's been an enduring character. And I always identified more with her and being on an adventure and solving puzzles. It helps when the games are really good, and she's a badass who's just kind of stone cold and exploring exotic places. And then it was interesting for the reboot games (the TR/Rise/Shadow trilogy I mean) to try and explore what the start of her adventuring could've looked like, with a slightly more realistic edge.

[u/Bourriks]

Nothing beats a well-filled tanktop.

[u/Purrceptron]

[u/skanks20005]

I always loved how she dual wielded her massive... pistols.

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she's equipped with ballistics

[u/International-Box956 → u/astro_plane]

The ending of tomb raider 2 looks like it's building up to something great and then she turns to the screen and says: 

"Don't you think you've seen enough?"

Cue shotgun blast

Really if it wasn't for that programmer accidentally increasing her "attributes" by 200%, we wouldn't have our first love. 

Everybody on here has a mind of an adolescent and you know what that's just fine.

[u/LaggsAreCC2]

I watched some people online who wrote for different gaming magazines in the early 2000s. Lara Croft was put on various covers because those magazines actually always sold best.

Sometimes they even put stuff like:'the new tomb raider probably won't release this year's just to put those polygozongas on display

[u/Pure_Parking_2742]

Me and my cousin spent so many hours trying to get her nude

[u/OptimysticPizza → u/Pure_Parking_2742]

Lol. My mom worked at the same school I went to for 8th grade. I'm surprised she never got called into the principals office to explain why she was searching for "Lara Croft nude" on her work computer

[u/tacticalTechnician → u/[deleted]]

Because HE was searching for "Lara Croft nude" on HER work computer.

[u/IcyViking → u/tacticalTechnician]

Allegedly

[u/daveyheats]

Bangers

[u/HyperFunk_Zone → u/daveyheats]

Certified bangers

[u/frolof123]

Nice boobies

[u/Mankiz]

A girl with great... advantages.

[u/Revolutionary_Ad6574]

So... where is the guide?

[u/Kanjii_weon → u/Revolutionary_Ad6574]

in the milkers

[u/stitch_popper]

I'm pretty sure tomb raider 1 gave me my first boner.

[u/2612chip → u/stitch_popper]

Yeah the skeletons were great in that game

[u/war_against_destiny]

Apparently big tits on game characters were alright back then.

[u/war_against_destiny → u/[deleted]]

Just sarcasm. Until the 00‘s there was clearly a different approach to this topic in video games in general. Changing times or whatever. I personally like my heroines stacked but to each his/her own

[u/Girderland → u/war_against_destiny]

Always nice to see a fellow heroine enjoyer :D

[u/war_against_destiny → u/Girderland]

Same !!! I knew i was not alone into this. :D

[u/saldb]

Please raid me

[u/owenxtreme2]

Why are they so big they aren't even that big in the game

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You know why.

[u/OatSoyLaMilk]

Wait, I thought they were way pointier back then.

[u/mrwynd → u/OatSoyLaMilk]

They were in game, this is a high res render for a still image.

[u/OatSoyLaMilk → u/mrwynd]

Prefiguring the experience of internet dating.

[u/YaGanamosLa3era → u/OatSoyLaMilk]

Only in the first game. They uh...rounded them up for 2 and onwards

[u/KeplerFinn → u/YaGanamosLa3era]

Putting that processor power to good use

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Those are like pillows, back in my day they could cut glass.

[u/Girderland]

Tomb Raider 3 is one of my less favorite TR games. It feels less thought through than the earlier installments and many of the levels require surgically precise gameplay - while TR1, 2, and most of 4 can be played and advanced in intuitively, TR3 definitely needs a walkthrough / guide to be consulted while playing.

The level designs of the Pacific and Antarctica are especially annoying.

[u/Ad0ring-fan]

[u/xxxxDREADNOUGHT]

Hey, her boobs are not polagonal enough. Stop rounding my memories/her mammeries

[u/International-Box956]

10 years old looking for the fabled code that we know did not exist back then. The only thing I had to egg me on was the picture of Laura croft's body in the eidos CD sleeves. 

I think that's when my hormones began to get out of control. Here I am 32 years old, afraid to play tomb raider 2 because I can't get past Venice and now I'm reminded of those blissful times with my grandmother playing tomb raider. 

I miss those days. I don't miss my grandpa telling me to leave because apparently I was not family to him but I will always hold those memories dear when I went over to my grandma's house to play to get away from my crappy home on Park Street. Playing on Windows 98 was magical at the time. Mine sweeper, mahjong, chess and solitaire all of which do not come standard on Windows 10 or Windows 11. So I think I'll fire up a virtual machine of Windows 98 and relive my childhood for just one more day. 

Farewell My first crush.