Tomb Raider I-III Remastered gave Lara Croft up to date seems to be when it launched for PC and consoles earlier this yr, however gamers have observed that just a few in-game photographs can now not be discovered following a latest replace.
As reported by Kotaku, one fan on Reddit observed that a few pinup footage of Lara, which might beforehand be discovered at the start of Tomb Raider 3’s Sleeping with the Fishes degree, are now not seen when switching to the remastered model of the sport’s graphics. Others shortly booted up their copies of the third Tomb Raider sport to verify for themselves and located that the photographs have been certainly gone, with many reporting that they remembered seeing them there simply weeks in the past. Curiously, the unique graphics possibility nonetheless appears to function the photographs of Lara in all their blurry glory.
It is unclear precisely when the change occurred, however it seems to have include the sport’s second main replace, which rolled out on April 11. There is no point out of the posters or their elimination within the patch notes.
You’ll be able to see a earlier than and after picture as offered by X/Twitter consumer @SmashJT beneath.
No fcking approach. They did it. They really did it.
Crystal Dynamics censored out the pics of Lara within the replace on Tomb Raider.
WTF!?
Credit score/Thx: @momiji_doa pic.twitter.com/yaSBtFXaoH
— Smash JT (@SmashJT) April 19, 2024
IGN has reached out to builders Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics for touch upon why the remastered graphics model of images disappeared greater than two months after the trilogy’s launch. Including to the weirdness is the truth that, days after the Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy launched, the franchise’s official web site highlighted the posters as an attention-grabbing element that some followers might have missed. It’s additionally value noting that Tomb Raider I-III Remastered opens with a message warning gamers that they might encounter offensive materials. The crew selected to maintain the content material as a way to current Tomb Raider in “its authentic type, unaltered.”
Nonetheless, the spontaneous elimination has led many to hurl accusations of censorship towards Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics.
“Completely pathetic that somebody might suppose one thing so innocent wanted to be eliminated and much more so making an attempt to cover it by making it a undocumented change,” one Reddit consumer stated. “Disgrace on Aspyr and disgrace on Crystal Dynamics.”
“I am wonderful with them not being there tbh they do not make quite a lot of sense,” one other consumer stated.
Whether or not the photographs’ elimination was intentional or unintended, it wouldn’t be the primary time there was confusion concerning Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. Final month, followers observed that the Steam and Epic Video games Retailer model of the expertise have been completely different in just a few substantial methods.
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