Tomb Raider writer expressed an interest in making Lara gay?

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

*sigh* An I the only one feeling that heterosexuality is becoming unpopular? And our next generation we will have to make only love with our gender, or else your some kind of a weirdo?

It can feel like that when you run into people online who are really interested in making pop culture characters gay, lesbian (or bi) so as to re-invent characters, properly update the image in a progressive sense and represent a non-hetero demographic.

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[Tom Waits' hat]

It's a Tomb Raider games. Lara find treasures and fight wolves and dinosaurs.
There's no need to over analyse this. If the writer want to make her gay, so what?

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Wouldn't such a cheap and obvious bit of pandering to the infamous (if I may quote a greater man) 'pocket mining demographic' have been the silver bullet between the eyes of all their other efforts to remove this Lara from the overt sexually immature image of old Lara?

Lesbian = pandering to males
"Almost rape scene" = pandering to males
Keeps wearing a tank top = pandering to males
FACT THAT SHE EVEN EXISTS = pandering to males

Anything I missed?

You being a smartarse aside, I am now totally reversing my opinion since I've been able to play the game (money being precious and all) since it dropped in price.

I would totally buy on a legit level that this Lara could be gay because it changes NOTHING about her development as a character. At worst it makes (potential) attraction to Sam one of many driving forces that compel her to ultimately dive in to fight demonic samurai, a mad cult and an enraged God queen spirit to stop her from dying. So what? Lara maybe being in love with her friend doesn't diminish how courageous the act is in and of itself. In truth, as soon as Sam was saved I was expecting a kiss.

I was wrong on this one, while Tomb Raider turned out great and Lara Croft has probably emerged with many new fans and hopefully drawn in existing old fans, I really see where it could have naturally and maturely given us Western gaming's first solid lesbian protagonist. Hell, a few changes to dialogue and it would have also been a pretty solid love story.

And not a panda to be seen

 

[thenoblitt]

my problem with all of it, is that devs are forcing lbgt into games instead of really thinking about them so instead of having actually good interactions its all forced and unnatural and crappy.

 

[aba1]

This does't surprise me at all, Sam does seem to be a little obsessed with Lara and out of all her friends that Lara takes to the island, Sam does seem to be her main concern.

I kinda like it that way, maybe there is something there, maybe they're just really close friends. But if they had just made Lara gay, it wouldn't of bothered me. Though I imagine that some fanboy/girl somewhere would have been upset about it.

I agree normally this stuff with established characters feels really forced but here I can actually kinda see it. Having read a few more comments I can kinda see where people are coming from. Saying they are against it because she was a sex symbol before the reboot and that being a awkward transition or that it was nice to develop the character and having her suddenly revolve around a relationship which would be tedious. So I am more undecided I can see it but I can see some stronger benefits from leaving her sexuality out of the equation for the most part.

This is actually a really interesting topic.

 

[StarFleet86]

I think it would add variety. I would not care that much, but others would.

 

[nexus]

I never asked for this.

Since when did sexuality even matter in video games to begin with? I never normalized myself with video games as a "heterosexual". I never identified myself with, or felt more comfortable with a game because of "heterosexual" mechanics or plot.

Bioware really cracked this one open with relationships. A really benign, nearly pointless addition to an otherwise excellent genre of games, that has completely tainted their work, and permanently opened a can of worms/pandora's box etc.

Every gaming site I go to, I feel I'm being "scolded" even as a neutral party, because I'm a male heterosexual, being led to feel guilty and being corralled into a sub-group of people I do not identify with. Here's the thing, I've never actually seen any worthwhile "romance" or mature sexual themes in any video game that was even worth noting, hetero/homo or otherwise. Does the hetero "family unit" count?

Is this one of those things where e.g. if you're white, you are just ignorant of all your privilege, so you need to shut up and accept whatever a person says?

 

[IceForce]

STOP CASTING THREAD NECROMANCY!

You realize you bumped this thread again when you posted that, right? Nearly 24 hours after the last post in this thread? And that you put this thread right back on page 1 of the forum again?

 

[TheRookie8]

Just played the game...

This may be odd, but I thought that she WAS gay. There was definitely something going on with Lara and Sam (especially that bit at the end).

I just assumed that the writers/designers decided not to glorify it...if that's the case, then it's refreshing subtlety.