Lara Croft Actress Thinks Courage Is Sexy
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It didnt, the games are just VERY heavy on the call backs that relies on you knowing thing of the previous titles to get the full impact of the twist (and since there is time travel involved then yeah, you kinda need to know what happen in a certain period)Mcoffey said:
Unless you think that, by sheer incompetence of the hardware developers, you cant play the old games because they no longer make old consoles to play it. I can see that as a continuity problem, however, all the series could be played with a Playstation 2 thanks to the backwards compatibility , so fear not.
Want to suffer a bit more? how much of a punch in the gut could it be to see your precious well written timetraveling badass vampires in TIGHT leather be OVERSHADOWED by the pussypires of Sthepany Meyer? i can just imagine the undescrible pain of Amy Henning, seeing the world just going crazy for the blandest characters in fiction and leaving one of the best series of all time in the dust.Infernai said:
Simon Templeman, Michael Bell and Tony Jay worked their asses on giving life to the characters.....and yet, all the world cares is that Dane Cook wannabe of Uncharted.
Seriously, where are the omnicidal maniacs when you need them to PURGE the world of the abominations that call themselves humans?
Well...yeah. That makes sense. Can't really argue with that. And really, if we're focusing on Lara Croft and the word sexy comes up, I'm glad to hear that it's her courage this time, and not her "Stonking great tits", and the expediently loquacious curmudgeon of a bard once said. It's almost like they actually care about her character now!Karloff said:
I so wish I could play this game. x.x Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control I will not be able to. I just wish there was a way to skip over certain issues. x.x
The rape scene? Easy way to skip over it: it doesn't happen. It's all media hype mongering and exploitation for the sake of clicks. This site especially has done nothing but throw around hot button words and start fires. No rape, no sexual attack, no Lara being abused. A guy puts his hand on her leg and proceeds to be shot in the face.AngelBlackChaos said:
Forgive me if that's not the issue you were referring to. I've just seen it come up so many times that I've come accustomed to typing that response.
I laughed because it was funny and because I know what it is fromFantomOmega said:
I deserve that punch more than you!
.I'm probably biased but I usually find video games attempts at "humanizing" the women in them to just be marketing ploys.Actual said:
Probably because its always so on the nose. Mostly for the reasons you've said, very rarely are male larger-than-life characters humanized with a coming of age story.
Buuuut I don't voice it much before people snap on you for not supporting "the movement" >_>.
This post is hilarious to me. I've heard nothing but complaints over the lack of information we've had from CD. After its announcement at E3 last year, we literally had no news at all about the game until this years E3. In fact, we've yet to see a thing beyond the first third of the game, or anything about the tombs we'll be exploring (which are there, I promise). We know nothing about the story, other than the premise with Lara being trapped on a hostile island. I think this approach to marketing the game is commendable.The_Waspman said:
I'm with Actual [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.381495-Lara-Croft-Actress-Thinks-Courage-Is-Sexy?page=2#15028659] I'm having a hard time seeing how throwing this innocent girl into a survival trial-by-fire is going to create the Tyrannosaur-stomping, tomb-raiding, relic-securing, many-trophied adventuress that in some way resembles the Lara Croft we knew and once adored.
Unless somewhere in the midst of this game she gets the hang of snacking on bugs, of rendering a carcass into tidy kebabs, of drinking filtered urine and of hiding from predators, hominid or otherwise, unless she actually gets into it, I don't buy this as the transformation to Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider.
Granted, I'll buy the game if its generally good, because I like good games. But as it is the franchise connection is actually detracting from my inclination to get it. This story doesn't feel like Tomb Raider but survival horror, and it sounds like it's a gritty reboot just to be a gritty reboot (as opposed to, say, getting into the guts what it takes to survive in the bush [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7699-Red-Dead-Redemption] long enough to find a lost city and some fabulous treasure) and that does not bode well.
There are ways to reboot Tomb Raider. I'm kinda fond of this one [http://problemmachine.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/the-passion-of-the-croft/].
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Unless somewhere in the midst of this game she gets the hang of snacking on bugs, of rendering a carcass into tidy kebabs, of drinking filtered urine and of hiding from predators, hominid or otherwise, unless she actually gets into it, I don't buy this as the transformation to Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider.
Granted, I'll buy the game if its generally good, because I like good games. But as it is the franchise connection is actually detracting from my inclination to get it. This story doesn't feel like Tomb Raider but survival horror, and it sounds like it's a gritty reboot just to be a gritty reboot (as opposed to, say, getting into the guts what it takes to survive in the bush [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7699-Red-Dead-Redemption] long enough to find a lost city and some fabulous treasure) and that does not bode well.
There are ways to reboot Tomb Raider. I'm kinda fond of this one [http://problemmachine.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/the-passion-of-the-croft/].
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It'll still be a better reboot than DmC.Uriel-238 said:
You do realise that her magic transformation doesn't have to happen necessarily over the course of one game? (Sequel Bait) And maybe they're not going to turn her into the t-rex killing, big tits badass we all knew, but something more fit for modern times. I hope they do something that's in between both extremes.
And of course, we can all judge after the game is released
Thats whats awesome about this new Lara. Old Lara was just flat (well except in one wayAnoni Mus said:
) she didn't seem particularly special because she didn't find what she was doing hard. Wasn't even that attractive as a character because she was just too obvious and unreal. This one actually has difficulties she overcomes, and hardships which actually hurt to face down way more interesting in all respects