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Coastal Ruins (2025-2026)

Next stop: Alexandria, Egypt for TR4🦂 Incredibly proud to have this one finished! As I talked about it a little in the insta post (link above), I came up with the initial concept for this painting about 10 years ago. I think I even posted a little teaser for it here on Tumblr, it was that long ago!

The new tomb raider used AI for early build, but the company “promises” that they will use AI only for early models and will use humans for the new models

“developers Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog have revealed that AI tools were used in the game's early development.”

the Steam page for the game was updated, and now includes an AI Generated Content Disclosure.

The disclosure is fairly brief, only stating that AI was used "to support some early exploration and temporary development content."

It also notes that all assets created using AI have since been "replaced or refined by humans."

“Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog have not elaborated on the AI Generated Content Disclosure, and there's no real way of knowing just how much it was used in the creation of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.

Far from me to ruin some hypes out there, but that mention of Kurtis Trent in the magazine's cover is nothing but an Easter egg. Fortunately, because lore wise it makes zero sense. Kurtis was always a man of low profile, being anonymous is key to his survival. Appearing in a cover magazine would mean his impending death.

The mention of other characters belonging to different timelines strongly reinforces the idea of this being just a detail to catch classic audiences thirsting again for some crumbs.

I don't want crumbs. I want the whole bread. And we're not getting it anytime soon (it doesn't matter when you read this. 2006? 2016? 2026? You name it.)

But overall I have a heavy heart seeing people pre-ordering those brutally expensive collector/special-ish editions before even having seen the thing. As cool as it looks, whatever we saw was just a cinematic trailer. We haven't seen actual gameplay, and people is already buying and preordering like there's no tomorrow.

They're literally preordering a wrapping gift paper and the bow that comes with it (the statue) without having seen what the gift actually contains. Capitalism at its finest.

And don't get me wrong, I respect everyone's personal choices. You do with your money what you want to do. It's just I don't know at which point people started accepting that a merge of three absolutely incompatible timelines would be a great idea.

The price you pay is the erasing of lots of lore belonging to each era, sacrificed in the altar of unification. They already did that to Lara. Now even if not being present, to Kurtis, who would not allow his name being public at any point.

And don't get me started with the erased dubbings and the AI generator disclaimer. I'm too tired now.

You're on Tumblr.