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Petition to bring Lara Croft back to what she used to be
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To Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix This is a thread working as a petition to: Petition to bring Lara Croft back to what she used to be EXPLANATION! Since many people around here are complaining that they will never bring back classic Lara from the CORE era again, let me try to explain this better: this petition is asking for them to make Lara more close to the original/classic one, bringing back some aspects, elements, both for her look and personality, like her sarcastic attitude, her braid, backpack, dual pistols, acrobatic moves coming back (swinging on horizontal poles, for example) and maybe even her classic, blue tank top + shorts outfit. All of these made her an recognizable character, so these elements are her icons. Call it a new Lara Croft, a new classic Lara, it doesn't matter. She just needs to be inspired on what she was supposed to be originally. This picture is just a representation. Credits: FredelsStuff (deviantart.com/fredelsstuff) Quote:
As a fan, I feel insulted, offended. Just like many fans around here, I feel that we, as Tomb Raider and Lara Croft fans since the beginning of the franchise, are being disrespected. Imagine supporting and loving a franchise since it's first project/work, and then, suddenly, after years, they decide to change the main character completely. This is what happened to Lara Croft. First of all, the decision was only theirs and they think this is better for her, but what about us, longtime fans that miss the good and old Lara? It's almost a decade and they don't hear us. I decided that I will not support Tomb Raider anymore unless they change the character. I believe many of you decided to do the same, as I can see people commenting this here often. So, that's why I created this thread/petition. It's about time to unite all the people who agree with this and try to make a change! Lara Croft was drastically changed since 2013's reboot. Reboot Lara and the "original" Lara are completely different persons. Since the reboot, many fans of the franchise have been waiting for Lara Croft to finally become more mature, experienced, badass and sarcastic like she used to be (almost an entire change of her personality, but more modern and human). Also with a braid, backpack and dual pistols. These are important, iconic elements that she had and that we grew up with. They were recognizable by anyone because they were her icons. They made the character and they need to return. They're part of her and part of Tomb Raider. Just teasing us with dual pistols in the movie, TR 2013's ending, Rise of The Tomb Raider's DLC and many other classic easter eggs without them actually coming back at all won't do. It will never be enough. This is not a petition to scrap out the reboot, it's more like to continue the storyline making Lara more mature with these classic elements. It would be like she finally evolved into the experienced heroine we all know from the past games behind the 2013 reboot, but still with a modern and more human personality. Personally, I wouldn't mind for a soft reboot or a remake of a classic TR, but I think this is another discussion. We're here just asking for the change/evolution of the character, no matter if it will be a remake, soft reboot, reboot or a new sequel to the current timeline/reboot games. For example, let's talk about Final Fantasy and Resident Evil remakes, going back to their roots, revisiting classics, and that has resulted in so much money and success lately. Characters from many old-school franchises stay faithful to their classic ones, like we see in Resident Evil, Metal Gear, Mortal Kombat, etc. So why can't Lara Croft? Lara Croft was badass, so brave and confident, elegant and sarcastic. An icon as a female protagonist. A true empowered videogame queen. This is a petition asking for Lara Croft to return as the iconic heroine she used to be. 29 Times Old School Lara Croft Was A Total Badass How can you help? Just sign in this thread. Comment, show that you're in this cause with us! Just like @charmedangelin suggested, we can sign in the red color to help with visibility just like this: Signed Want to help even more? Put this in your signature: Quote:
Thank you all, Tomb Raider fans. We're together in this. This means a LOT to me and many of us, I can assure. I know many don't even have hope at all, but please, let's try to believe a little bit and it will be enough. We all know there's a possibility that this won't work, but on the other hand, there's a possibility it will work. Just take your time to sign, please, it will probably take less than one minute of your time. At least we're trying. I still have hope that our old and classic Lara can return one day. I grew up with her, she was an icon to me and I can't wait to meet her again UPDATE As we can see, the more-classical-approach-Lara stars in her Lara Croft games (Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris), also in Lara Croft GO and now Ubisoft teamed up with Square Enix to give Ash a classic Lara Croft skin in Rainbow Six Siege. And we have more! One more classic skin of Lara in Brawlhalla. I guess this is time to have her starring a major game again. UPDATE 2 The famous Tomb Raider composer Nathan McCree joined our cause! Proof of the conversation I had with him on twitter: UPDATE 3 Changed the main picture. TRF members who signed: (for twitter supporters, please check the hashtag mentioned above) 1.GabrielCroft 2.Legends 3.Costel 4.charmedangelin 5.AdrielRaider 6.Athukraz 7.Ross C 8.laracroftonline 9.Kivlov 10.CroftManiac05 11.Tomb Raidering 12.dcw123 13.RAID 14.larafan25 15.klona 16.Nigel Cassidy 17.Alterjano 18.Kubsy 19.LaraFan08 20.trfansince96 21.Daft Raider 22.Tombraider95 23.Ivy Valentine 24.amiro1989 25.JsotoTRSaga 26.TR1249 27.HarleyCroft 28.kimiawn 29.VictorXD 30.Matie 31.GRiannisRaider 32.Amunet 33.andre_costa 34.Samz 35.Error96 36.thabani33 37.Shirley_Manson 38.paulojr_mam 39.Aerie 40.Delamo1999 41.Gemma Darkmoon 42.PinkyPromise 43.Brendanlovesu1 44.**LARA LOVER** 45.heyitsalexxd 46.tombraider4ever 47.veigafd 48.BlueCake 49.laratombgirl 50.noonbob 51.SpaceChild 52.dylan_croft 53.trfan16 54.AshesBorn 55.Artifact 56.EchoTR 57.Eldart 58.Yeauxleaux 59.Cezar 60.Persefone 61.ActuallyArlow 62.TRBeth 63.ANoDE 64.New Dwight 65.dg1995 66.ersel 67.SpyrosMonster 68.Shauni0 69.Zolee 70.E.Carnby 71.EscondeR 72.Leon2703 73.Marina_KFP 74.Red Master FFX 75.SamusSeeker 76.JayB_1988 77.Isidor90 78.GFY2013 79.MrBrown1602 80.Tancha 81.ccroft2003 82.SeanCordernay 83.Nerdy 84.Sarah7777 85.Avalon SARL 86.Lara_C 87.jhons0529 88.plastiboi 89.Jamise_Croft 90.fortezza 91.Petite 92.isanvel 93.Raider8 94.josh2l 95.Kidd Bowyer 96.Evan C. 97.FanosCroft 98.suli 99.TRJTA 100.kimonap 101.bublehed 102.TombRager 103.MuruCoder 104.UroshUchiha 105.Chamayoo 106.Sjun 107.WhiteTiger 108.NYCL@R@ Last edited by GabrielCroft; 17-06-20 at 18:01. |
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Signed. Bring Back Classic Lara!
__________________ Team Classic: We want our Classic Lara Croft back! Last edited by Legends; 21-01-20 at 15:51. |
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You will need more than just people on this forum. Maybe you should learn and create a real online petition if you want to have more chances than this.
But I am going to help a bit. And while I dont want a full return of classic Lara I actually want dual pistols and shorts back. Bring back dual pistols and shorts. |
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#Team Classic We want our classic Lara Croft back! #Team GOLD Give Our Lara Duals Last edited by charmedangelin; 06-01-20 at 02:11. |
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It's ok if you don't want a full classic Lara return though, you still want some elements so it helps a lot, of course |
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06-01-20, 02:04 | #6 |
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She isn’t coming back. They’re not going to spend years re-creating Lara as a character to then transform her back to how she originally was. Sure, I wouldn’t mind some traits coming back or them looking back and using certain things as inspiration moving forward. If anything was to come back I’d prefer her backpack but other than that nothing else really bothers me.
Classic Croft will always have a special place in my heart, as I, like so many others, have grew up with her. She was my first Lara but times change. I hope this petition does, something, I don’t know what but I honestly wouldn’t get your hopes up too much. |
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We can organize another petition for Reddit and maybe another one for Twitter as there are a lot of fans on Twitter as well. We have to get the word to spread.
Edit we should sign in red so we know which posts are signatures. Last edited by charmedangelin; 06-01-20 at 02:11. |
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06-01-20, 02:12 | #9 |
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Please bring the classic Lara back! I guess he already did the petition... i guess there are rules about not sharing external links here. Anyway, i will sign any petition to help you. I really miss the classic lara especially the dual pistols and backpack. #TeamClassicLara Last edited by AdrielRaider; 06-01-20 at 21:42. |
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