Slightly disappointed in Crystal Dynamics...

[TRaiderGurl]

The dress is probably a high fashion designer dress like the one she modeled in Face magazine befroe TR 2 came out...

Originally Posted by Xxx_Lara_xxX

or have one thigh holser like this:

Then people will say "OOOOO EMMMM GEEEE, Lara is showing too much leg, how disgraceful!"

Lara enjoys being sexy, so why should yall complain

[WraithStar]

Both of those dresses (the red one and the Mr. & Mrs. Smith one) look very good and aren't grossly revealing. I wouldn't have a problem if Lara was wearing either of those (or the blue one from Chronicles, that one was nice too) Or well, the black one should have shoulder straps. It doesn't in the figurine, but it does in the picture from the movie.

[TRaiderGurl]

So this has nothing to do with her but hanging out? Just her breasts? Cause her butt and other unmetionable could easily be seen in all those dresses with the large all the way up the leg slits. And her breasts are still quite revealing in her black strapless. I see lots of cleavage.

I think yall all just looking for something to whine about.

[WraithStar]

Originally Posted by TRaiderGurl

So this has nothing to do with her but hanging out? Just her breasts? Cause her butt and other unmetionable could easily be seen in all those dresses with the large all the way up the leg slits. And her breasts are still quite revealing in her black strapless. I see lots of cleavage.

I think yall all just looking for something to whine about.

In those dresses, her butt and her breasts are entirely covered. You can see her leg through the slit, but that's it. I can't see any cleavage in either of those dresses, especially not to the extent of the dress she's allegedly wearing in the game, which shows her entire cleavage from her throat to her bellybutton. Oh, and I did say that I like the movie version of the Mr.& Mrs. Smith dress better than the figurine version. The movie version is better with the straps because it doesn't look like the dress is stuck onto her.

[ShadowOfOblivion]

Originally Posted by TRaiderGurl

So this has nothing to do with her but hanging out? Just her breasts? Cause her butt and other unmetionable could easily be seen in all those dresses with the large all the way up the leg slits. And her breasts are still quite revealing in her black strapless. I see lots of cleavage.

I think yall all just looking for something to whine about.

Yeah and I'm sure you're confident in wearing something as loose and dangerously revealing as that dress?

I assume you're a girl so..question: Would you want your breasts accidentally popping out in public? I quite honestly doubt it.

[SasaPisa]

I’ll leave the social ideology arguments to others as I think it’s not relevant to this particular issue.
There’s nothing in the TR line of games that should lead one to assume that Lara strictly holds to the conservative fashion exemplified by much of the European aristocracy. We can however make other assumption of Lara based on the provided information and past history of the franchise.

We can assume someone of her pedigreed and privileged back-round and taste for adventure might exercise good taste with an understated elegance flirting the line with risqué. Definitely the risqué part has long played a role in advertising TR in establishing Lara as both a sophisticated yet sexy heroine.

While I may not have cared for much of the sexual innuendo associated with past TR advertising campaigns featuring Lara (the bathing suits and such…) she is after all a fictional character. Ignoring that, she has always been shown sporting fashionable clothing in good contextual taste. Presenting Lara in tasteless fashion conflicts with the established view of the character.

The above is a long winded way of saying that the dress shown on page one is ugly. Whatever the intention was it’s not working, it’s garish. You may like it…you may also have bad taste. But, beloved personal fashion faux pa’s aside the dress is garish and tasteless. Where to start, the width of the strap, the cut, the drape of the fabric, ect…it’s all wrong. Someone at CD needs a refresher course on high fashion.

p.s.

Eh, my english was a bit off and I left ot a few words..corrected now.

[Xxx_Lara_xxX]

Originally Posted by SasaPisa

Presenting Lara in tasteless fashion conflicts with the established view of the character.

The above is a long winded way of saying that the dress shown on page one is ugly. Whatever the intention was it’s not working, it’s garish. beloved personal fashion faux pa’s aside the dress is garish and tasteless. Where to start, the width of the strap, the cut, the drape of the fabric, ect…it’s all wrong. Someone at CD needs a refresher course on high fashion.

Amen.

[Johnny]

Originally Posted by TRaiderGurl

Then people will say "OOOOO EMMMM GEEEE, Lara is showing too much leg, how disgraceful!"

I LOVE that dress. It would've been cool to see Lara in it, but I still like the new black one.

[Xxx_Lara_xxX]

The Chronicles dress covered her legs, her bust and her arms, it was a formal opera dress and very elegant. I wonder if they copied it for Mr & Mrs Smith? The Legend dress leaves nothing at all to the imagination, not even her rump because its barely covered with cloth flaps

[Xxx_Lara_xxX]

BTW I can't believe this has gone on for 5 pages-- Does CD even care about our divergences of opinion ?

[Xcom]

Originally Posted by Susan

Spielberg would never do this to Indy.

Do what to Indy? Put him in a dress?

[Taigerr]

Originally Posted by TREEBLE

Lara Croft is not real.

LARA NOT REAL!!!??? ... Sir/Madam... I scoff at your outrageous nonsense.... why, she is right here next to me!!

[Treeble]

And are you bothered about the way she's dressed up? She'll say sod it, after all she couldn't stand the aristocracy anymore after the plane crash and became a rebel, didn't she?

Why would a rebel still follow aristocrat manners is beyond me.

(and this post is based on that profile of her that mentions the Swiss Finishing School, which she frequented just before the plane crash)

[WraithStar]

Originally Posted by Xcom

Do what to Indy? Put him in a dress?

Put him in something disgustingly ugly in order to capitalize on his body after promising to treat his character with the utmost respect.

[TRaiderGurl]

Originally Posted by ShadowOfOblivion

Yeah and I'm sure you're confident in wearing something as loose and dangerously revealing as that dress?

I assume you're a girl so..question: Would you want your breasts accidentally popping out in public? I quite honestly doubt it.

Actually, i have no problem wearing stuff like that, cause it looks nice and sexy...i guess that makes me a slut or stripper then.

And second of all, shes a video game character, her breasts aren't going to fall out.

[Melonie_TR]

I could deal with the dress if her breast didn't look like balloons. C my foot, she's at least a D there. Yuna wore a revealing top in FFX-2, but she looked a lot nicer because she had better form. Lara looks fake, no other way around it.

Toby Gard obviously didn't care very much about Lara's image to allow that. Sure, he talks the talk, but obviously he doesn't walk the walk.

There's a lot of beauty in modesty, not in trampiness. This is by far the trashiest outfit she's ever worn in a game. Shame on CD. Some one needs to start a petition.

[ShadowOfOblivion]

Originally Posted by Melonie_TR

I could deal with the dress if her breast didn't look like balloons. C my foot, she's at least a D there. Yuna wore a revealing top in FFX-2, but she looked a lot nicer because she had better form. Lara looks fake, no other way around it.

Toby Gard obviously didn't care very much about Lara's image to allow that. Sure, he talks the talk, but obviously he doesn't walk the walk.

There's a lot of beauty in modesty, not in trampiness. This is by far the trashiest outfit she's ever worn in a game. Shame on CD. Some one needs to start a petition.

That's why I love you Melonie, you always see what I have to say eye to eye. This is the worst outfit that's been featured in a Tomb Raider game. It looked far better in the concept art when much less of her breasts were showing.

(This is Derek btw.)

[danny.rex]

Is very stupid making so much drama when Lara's wears something revealing and sexy, why can't you let lara be sexy?

Lara is a sexy character, deal with it

I think she looks fantastic and it doesn't make her a slut, a revealing cleavage is not trashy, and the female body is a beautiful thing

the aristocrats don't wear dresses like that, neither raid tombs or shoot people and animals

Yeah, Diana wouldn't wear that, but she neither would wear booty shorts or anything that Lara wears

If someone is so mad about someone else (even if she not real) when she wear something revealing, she/he must have problems accepting his/her own body

[ShadowOfOblivion]

That's the thing. It's not SEXY its SLEAZY. There isn't a pinch of class to be found in that dress at all, and if you wanna be sexy you gotta know how to respect yourself by not wearing sleazy clothing first.

And uh, for the record? I'm perfectly fine with my body. Thanks.

[susan]

Originally Posted by Xcom

Do what to Indy? Put him in a dress?

Originally Posted by WraithStar

Put him in something disgustingly ugly in order to capitalize on his body after promising to treat his character with the utmost respect.

Exactly. And by doing so risk making Indy something ridiculous to titter at a la, "Favourite new gadget? Double sided sticky tape". Hoo hoo hoo, very funny.

[susan]

Originally Posted by danny.rex

Yeah, Diana wouldn't wear that, but she neither would wear booty shorts or anything that Lara wears

Princess Diana did wear shorts that were the length of the shorts in the original games - on her holidays. They were a reasonable size.

It's only for Legend that Lara's been given knickers to wear as shorts. I don't care for them making the shorts outfit ten times more skimpy than before either.

[Acceber]

I think 'sleazy' only occurs when someone else labels it so. 'Sleaze' is in the inhibitions of the beholder; sexy is in the confidence and self assurance of the wearer, the latter two characteristics being inherent to Lara Croft. Therefore, I know what I think of the dress on such a character.

[GoranAgar]

Anyone remember that stupid, very ridiculous and to my taste EXTRA OFFENSIVE jeans outfit she wore in AOD? Now that deserved a pertition.

[=Shrensh=]

I don't think that Lara's dress is particularly bad compared to some of the stuff that Core put her through. She is a female game character and female game characters tend to get treated like this. It could have been a lot worse (look at the female characters in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for example). It would be nice if this wasn't the case, but I doubt it's going to stop any time soon.

Originally Posted by Susan

You can contrive any situation in a storyline to justify something. But, somehow, women always seem to find themselves in situations where they need to be scantily dressed.

Pretty much my exact thoughts when people say "But Lara has to extract information from a Yakuza party."

Originally Posted by Xcom

Well, Lara may be on a mission there, and it can be dangerous, so she needs freedom of movement. I'm very curious how one would perform saltos and all her acrobatics with the dress tightly covering the legs and going to the ground. "Good taste" can kill you.

I don't know if a well-endowed woman would wear that dress if she's expecting to have to fight... Running around and jumping with no support in the chest-area? Doing acrobatics with flopping dirty-pillows?

[GoranAgar]

BTW, time for some humour: