Lara Croft Actress Thinks Courage Is Sexy

[The Last Melon]

This headline made me blink. Hard. The phrases "You mean there are people that think that it isn't?" and "This is news?" fought for control over my mouth.

Thankfully the article wasn't about something so banal.

 

[Flight]

I see how well Crystal Dynamic is doing and I can't help but wish that they spent as much time on Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain, as they spent on Tomb Raider.

Ooh, I agree. It's too bad Amy Hennig left the company, iirc.

That said, while I can see what the actress is talking about on the matter of courage, I can't say I'm very fond of her voice. I hope her performance in the game doesn't reflect that, though from what I've heard of it, it does.

 

[ProtoChimp]

The only thing that pissed me off about the game was that the developers seem to be dim as a sack of bricks and sincerely lacking in common sense, however, at least they seem to be talented and I hope, I really fucking hope, this will be good. And it looks like it will be. Hurray.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I arm wrestled a bear to death once, Camilla Luddington. call me

 

[The_Waspman]

This is why we cant have nice things.

Fucking developer video's, pre-rendered trailers, every single story detail months (or years) prior to release...

Don't get me wrong, I like this kind of thing as extras that you can unlock (The Uncharted Games and Heavenly Sword get kudos for this) but I don't want to see this kind of shit almost a year prior to the release of the game.

Stop with all the fucking marketing. We know when games are coming out, you don't need to bombard us with all this stuff to constantly remind us of the fact. No wonder so many developers are going under.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

I'm yet to see that brave and courageous Lara that everyone keeps talking about. So far all I saw in the trailers and gameplay was some girl who wouldn't stop crying and whining. I get that it's a little more "real" and "dark" but holy crap is it annoying.

When you get impaled by wooden spikes then ok, crying a little is understandable - but when you actually start to say "sorry" to a deer for needing to eat it's meat...Yeah, I have no interest in seeing that kind of heroine.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

I see how well Crystal Dynamic is doing and I can't help but wish that they spent as much time on Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain, as they spent on Tomb Raider.

Ooh, I agree. It's too bad Amy Hennig left the company, iirc.

...*sigh* damn. Can't say that I'm too crazy about her current work [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted].

 

[hydroblitz]

That narrator's "casualness" makes me angry. How long do you reckon he had been holding that latte? What a chump.

Zachary Levi is actually a really cool guy. Have you seen video game high school? If not, go watch it (and the behind the scenes, too)

I'm yet to see that brave and courageous Lara that everyone keeps talking about. So far all I saw in the trailers and gameplay was some girl who wouldn't stop crying and whining. I get that it's a little more "real" and "dark" but holy crap is it annoying.

When you get impaled by wooden spikes then ok, crying a little is understandable - but when you get to the point to where you actually say "sorry" to a deer for needing to eat it's meat...Yeah, I have no interest in seeing that kind of heroine.

What, you mean a human heroine?

 

[MortifiedPenguin]

It's weird listening to her talk, her accent goes from british to american back to british. I just hope she can keep the accent from slipping to much.

 

[Infernai]

I see how well Crystal Dynamic is doing and I can't help but wish that they spent as much time on Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain, as they spent on Tomb Raider.

Ooh, I agree. It's too bad Amy Hennig left the company, iirc.

...*sigh* damn. Can't say that I'm too crazy about her current work [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted].

SHE LEFT WORK ON THE BEST WRITTEN VIDEO-GAME OF ALL TIME FOR....THAT!?


Then again, i guess it would be a bit difficult to continue given Tony Jay throwing off his mortal Coil (The man who played our beloved Elder God, may he now rest in peace).
Still, she could have at-least concluded Defiance a little bit better or handed it over to a writer who could carry it on from where she left off.

I hear a reboot is in the works, but i swear to god if they don't get Simon Templeman and Michael Bell back as Kain and Raziel respectively then i'm not even gonna bother giving it a chance (I'm sorry but, as far as i'm concerned anyone elses voice for those characters would be a downgrade in my eyes).

 

[DioWallachia]

This game still looks like the most promising thing to come from Crystal Dynamics in years.

This, along with how awesome Deus Ex turned out to be, has me more convinced than ever that Square buying up Eidos was a really good thing.

The new hitman still looks kinda sketchy, but I'm willing to give it the BOD and chalk it up to advertising pandering to the shooter crowd.

As long they dont touch the IP of Legacy of Kain they will not conjure the wrath of The Wheel Of Fate.

 

[Actual]

Lara Croft kills lions, tigers, panthers, wolves, bears, centaurs, and motherfucking tyrannosaurs. She does all this shortening of the endangered (/mythical) creatures list with a jaunty flick of her hair and a full twist backflip.

This child cries when killing a deer.

There is no possible way to chart a course from this child to Lara Croft, because she's an impossibly cool bad-arse. This is why we don't see Masterchief learns to shave, Kratos has his first crush. It's too mundane, they're impossibly large characters they can't be realistic, they should just be left to murder the fuck out of everything.

This release stinks of the marketing department's damage control attempts.

I think this looks like a good game apart from the snuff porn vibe just calling her Lara jars my ability to focus on the game's good qualities.