Tomb Raider I-III Remastered gave Lara Croft up to date appears to be like when it launched for PC and consoles earlier this yr, however gamers have seen that a couple of in-game pictures can now not be discovered following a current replace.
As reported by Kotaku, one fan on Reddit seen that a few pinup photos of Lara, which might beforehand be discovered firstly of Tomb Raider 3’s Sleeping with the Fishes stage, are now not seen when switching to the remastered model of the sport’s graphics. Others rapidly booted up their copies of the third Tomb Raider sport to examine 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 characteristic the photographs of Lara in all their blurry glory.
It is unclear precisely when the change occurred, but it surely 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 removing within the patch notes.
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No fcking means. They did it. They really did it.
Crystal Dynamics censored out the pics of Lara within the replace on Tomb Raider.
WTF!?
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— 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 fascinating 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 could encounter offensive materials. The staff selected to maintain the content material with a purpose to current Tomb Raider in “its authentic kind, unaltered.”
Nonetheless, the spontaneous removing has led many to hurl accusations of censorship towards Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics.
“Completely pathetic that somebody might assume one thing so innocent wanted to be eliminated and much more so attempting to cover it by making it a undocumented change,” one Reddit person mentioned. “Disgrace on Aspyr and disgrace on Crystal Dynamics.”
“I am tremendous with them not being there tbh they do not make a variety of sense,” one other person mentioned.
Whether or not the photographs’ removing was intentional or unintentional, it wouldn’t be the primary time there was confusion concerning Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. Final month, followers seen that the Steam and Epic Video games Retailer model of the expertise have been completely different in a couple of substantial methods.
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