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View Poll Results: Who do you want to develop the next TR game?
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Old 20-03-19, 03:01   #331
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I was always on the EM train, but after reading more interviews and the notion that becoming a Tomb Raider = protecting humanity I'm so over it. I absolutely adore what they've done with the game design, but ultimately I want a developer who will respect the roots of Tomb Raider and what Lara Croft was created to be, a witty and rebellious adventurer who raids tombs for the adrenaline rush and sport of it all. Lara Croft was not a hero, it's getting old seeing her be shoehorned into one.

Capcom is slaying it lately. I can only dream of what they would do for Tomb Raider. Or at the very least, hopefully whoever is developing the next game (I'd guess CD but who knows) will take some notes and start respecting source material in the future.
i think it would be better if we just had a separate series of games with the likeness of Core Lara
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Old 20-03-19, 03:10   #332
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i think it would be better if we just had a separate series of games with the likeness of Core Lara
Classic Lara spinoffs that are true to the old-school formula and Lara's character (GoL and ToO weren't that) I'd totally be about, and reboot savior Lara can continue. I'd play both and love them, but honestly it's a little exhausting to see someone who is basically a new character entirely take the spotlight away from the most iconic woman in the history of gaming.

We still need the original Lara Croft, and if that's through a spinoff I'll take what I can get.

I love the new games and even the new Lara, but I can't help but be upset to see Lara Croft take a 180 and be a completely different person than what she was created to be.

Let's be real here, it's the 90's Lara that became an icon and is one of the most recognizeable characters in the history of gaming, and there's a reason for it.

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Old 20-03-19, 03:30   #333
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Classic Lara spinoffs that are true to the old-school formula and Lara's character (GoL and ToO weren't that) I'd totally be about, and reboot savior Lara can continue. I'd play both and love them, but honestly it's a little exhausting to see someone who is basically a new character entirely take the spotlight away from the most iconic woman in the history of gaming.

We still need the original Lara Croft, and if that's through a spinoff I'll take what I can get.

I love the new games and even the new Lara, but I can't help but be upset to see Lara Croft take a 180 and be a completely different person than what she was created to be.
Yes, I completely agree. It's super exhausting. A lot of my hate for the reboot comes from this exact reason. I would welcome a reboot series if it didn't completely block the "old" Tomb Raider and Lara Croft.

I could like the reboot, or a reboot with a younger inexperienced Lara Croft if it was actually true to her original character and didn't completely change her. They've made the reboot so unappealing, which just makes it worse that the old Tomb Raider seems lost. I guess the last glimmer of hope was The Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris, but that was still far from a classic experience.
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Old 20-03-19, 03:41   #334
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Yes, I completely agree. It's super exhausting. A lot of my hate for the reboot comes from this exact reason. I would welcome a reboot series if it didn't completely block the "old" Tomb Raider and Lara Croft.

I could like the reboot, or a reboot with a younger inexperienced Lara Croft if it was actually true to her original character and didn't completely change her. They've made the reboot so unappealing, which just makes it worse that the old Tomb Raider seems lost. I guess the last glimmer of hope was The Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris, but that was still far from a classic experience.
I agree, It would appear as if though this is the saddest time ever to be a TR fan in the history of the franchise.

There is nothing TR in Reboot, not even Lara.
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Old 20-03-19, 04:31   #335
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Anyone but Crystal Dynamics.
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I agree, It would appear as if though this is the saddest time ever to be a TR fan in the history of the franchise.

There is nothing TR in Reboot, not even Lara.
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Old 20-03-19, 05:16   #336
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Classic Lara spinoffs that are true to the old-school formula and Lara's character (GoL and ToO weren't that) I'd totally be about, and reboot savior Lara can continue. I'd play both and love them, but honestly it's a little exhausting to see someone who is basically a new character entirely take the spotlight away from the most iconic woman in the history of gaming.

We still need the original Lara Croft, and if that's through a spinoff I'll take what I can get.
I'm sure a lot of peoples were claming the same thing when AOD/Legend was released nothing change on the sun

You can't market Tomb Raider with a new reboot saying New and Tasty (Oddworld reference ) on the box when it's actually the same old formula used in 1996.

Classic Lara does have a lot of adventures to experience on TRLE thanks to the passionate fan base. There's only three games with Reboot Lara but the developement was lasting more time between each games, that's why you think Reboot Lara as stolen the spotlight when it's not really the case.

Eight years and Core have done six games, thank's we are not in the 90s anymore. Also Lara is still the most recognisible face that's true but mostly with the publicity, now she's marketed in a different way.

You can see the contrast for exemple between

Legend promotion for FHM with the Lara Croft challenge when a bunch of mannequins doing exercices like shooting, mud combat in sexy outfits all for winning a new car and a sexy photoshoot.

The Making a Tomb Raider released recently focused with one athlet overcoming obstacles and winning nothing at the end but having a lot of fun.

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Old 20-03-19, 07:42   #337
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I'm sure a lot of peoples were claming the same thing when AOD/Legend was released nothing change on the sun

You can't market Tomb Raider with a new reboot saying New and Tasty (Oddworld reference ) on the box when it's actually the same old formula used in 1996.

Classic Lara does have a lot of adventures to experience on TRLE thanks to the passionate fan base. There's only three games with Reboot Lara but the developement was lasting more time between each games, that's why you think Reboot Lara as stolen the spotlight when it's not really the case.

Eight years and Core have done six games, thank's we are not in the 90s anymore. Also Lara is still the most recognisible face that's true but mostly with the publicity, now she's marketed in a different way.

You can see the contrast for exemple between

Legend promotion for FHM with the Lara Croft challenge when a bunch of mannequins doing exercices like shooting, mud combat in sexy outfits all for winning a new car and a sexy photoshoot.

The Making a Tomb Raider released recently focused with one athlet overcoming obstacles and winning nothing at the end but having a lot of fun.
Legend wasn't Core though?

TRLE can't really update the classic engine enough to make them feel like new games, stuff like melee attacks, Those poles you could place in Underworld and outright new enemies seem to all be things that are either impossible or take so much work almost no one bothers with them in TRLE.

Also on the whole "Sexism" thing you might be going for, at least Classic Lara wasn't reduced to a punching bag, in the actual games, so we would "Want to protect her."

She was only sexualised in Promo material, not done by the developers.
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Old 20-03-19, 08:26   #338
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I was always on the EM train, but after reading more interviews and the notion that becoming a Tomb Raider = protecting humanity I'm so over it.I absolutely adore what they've done with the game design, but ultimately I want a developer who will respect the roots of Tomb Raider and what Lara Croft was created to be, a witty and rebellious adventurer who raids tombs for the adrenaline rush and sport of it all. Lara Croft was not a hero, it's getting old seeing her be shoehorned into one.

Capcom is slaying it lately. I can only dream of what they would do for Tomb Raider. Or at the very least, hopefully whoever is developing the next game (I'd guess CD but who knows) will take some notes and start respecting source material in the future.
I absolutely agree everything you said. Though, I'd like to note that Crystal are equally as guilty of the same thing. The line at the end of Rise about making "...the right difference..." *vomits* ...reboot Lara is just so ****ing cringey.

I do wonder what Eidos would of done if they were in control of the reboot from the get go. What would their Lara be like?
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Old 20-03-19, 09:45   #339
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Eidos Montreal, but without Square and Crystal breathing down their necks telling them to take the classic stuff out.
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Old 20-03-19, 09:51   #340
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Crystal Dynamics. PERIOD.
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