I will not be talked down to by Zoomers on this matter

Of course it's not clear why she's hot, it's a still screenshot with a res bump. To truly appreciate Lara you need to see her on a small 480i tv and with the PS1 texture jitter.

I remember the first time I saw Doom on the SNES. It was the most realistic thing I'd seen a computer render, the equivalent of playing the latest FPS game. Then I got a Nintendo 64 and Super Mario was the most realistic thing I've seen. Each successive generation of game has been both the most realistic thing I've seen and the theoretical limit of realism for computer graphics. Something makes me unable to imagine a higher level of fidelity than 2024 releases without it just becoming haptic sensors, and if I see a female character in that 2024 game it's as realistic as a body can get. While I didn't play Tomb Raider because CDs were obnoxious, I remember the characters in Golden Eye and Perfect Dark being vaguely attractive to a child who had never seen a naked woman.

Also big fan of when you see someone reference the literal worst content imaginable from the 2010s and the comments are full of zoomers saying "bro this was my CHILDHOOD"

No, bro. This was 5 years ago. If this was your childhood, you're still a child.

These zoomers don't know what it was like. Imagine a time before pornography at your fingertips. Before it invaded every empty digital space and defied Volcel fatwas openly wherever it tread. A time when if you wanted to connect to the Internet you had to plug it into the phone line (a hole in the wall that required a physical connection) and speak the language of electronic Satan to summon the 640x480 super-compressed jpegs of boobs that took 72 minutes to download apiece. It was a wasteland out there. Simulated booba, no matter how crude, would activate anyone's neurons in such privation. Shame, shame on any would castigate their ancestors for their will to survive. Shame.

Yeah, I'm not gonna let some kid who never shoplifted a Penthouse from the seedy gas station talk about what I find attractive

I never understood the hype when I was a kid either.

Honestly, I think it was mostly by dudes to justify why they're playing a game with a woman lead. We forget how sexist everyone was back then. The only way a female protag could be justified was as eye candy.

Also I'M NOT OLD

We made do with what we had.

When the big triangle boobed fairy came out of the fairy pool in ocarina of time that was it for me. Also the girl from the lonlon ranch malon i think.

I still remember debating my friend over which girl in oot was hottest

games are all smoke and mirrors designed to evoke emotions and imagery, the actual pixels on the screen only tell half the story

basically you had to be there and also be 14 and horny

Country girls make due

I'm pretty sure it was all the promotional art that people lusted over, not the in-game graphics

Lara be rockin the cyber truck look, especially with that dump truck ass.

There are certain genres of porn that should be permanently blocked for everyone. Any Japanese word that ends in "-con", of course, but also simpsons, minecraft, and roblox hentai. Talk about unrealistic body standards!

Well technically ps5 lara is still made out of triangles

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I imagine a lot of the horny people simply used their imagination to fill in the blanks

Ok, polygonal Lara Croft is debatable. Gadget from Rescue Rangers is not.

chica is a billion times hotter than lara croft

What's the evil bird animatronc?

Considering one of the criticism seems to be "woman made of triangles" which still holds true to this day as per video game characters this begs the question of how many triangles the OP assumes are necessary before you get to jerk off to a video game character

Cutscene Lara Croft

What is the “evil bird animatronic”? Honestly can’t think of anything.

it's ahistorical to not consider that bras used to be pyramid shaped

It's weird because I do remember finding that shit hot as a kid and then years later I see it and wonder how I ever found myself attracted to it.

Final Fantasy 7 did some damage to me growing up, because my reaction is weirdly Victorian.

This harlot is showing too many triangles. Leaves nothing to the imagination.

Not Tomb Raider 1, obviously. We meant Tomb Raider 2.

yeah well at least chica isn't p*sh

If cybernetics happen I need ones that make everything look like it was rendered in GoldenEye's engine on a real N64. Everything needs to be blurry as shit

I got a demo for this game in the mail as a kid and had a very very different horny video game experience than most it seems.

Jokes on yall my first fictional crush was rosalina (followed by the anime version of Clement from pokemon xy though I didn’t realize it was a crush at the time)

Why do I suddenly feel like an ancient being