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Do you like the new Lara design?

  • Yes

    Votes: 167 78.8%

  • No

    Votes: 45 21.2%
  • Total voters
    212
Team Andromeda said:
Who gives a shit?. For most of the game, all you'll see is her back and ass. I care more about the game having a varied amazing looking world to explore
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Lara was very much a British icon in the late 90s especially.

Despite the original designer's intent she became a bit of a sex symbol due to her numerous portrayals by models and her "girl power" attitude.

For me she's very much the female James Bond, and so much of that was lost with the prequel trilogy.

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Team Andromeda said:
Who gives a shit?. For most of the game, all you'll see is her back and ass. I care more about the game having a varied amazing looking world to explore
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Yep. I want a paper thin plot, huge isolated world, tombs, puzzles, occasional action and ludicrous stunts to get wrapped up in for hours.
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Personally I'm a big fan of the new design.


1. Character face is beautiful, especially compared to the retarded funny eyebrow look of prequel trilogy Lara. Her face has more of a Mediterranean like classic Lara too, thicker lips. Breasts are smaller than classic Lara, but I still love it.

2. Classic costume is back for the first time in a mainline game since Chronicles way back in 2000.

3. Game itself, so far no sign of human enemies, screenshots seem to show traversal and hints a puzzles only. And no sign of rumoured companion characters either.

Visually it looks very nice (albeit blurry screenshots), Lara looks very realistic, I'm assuming she's a Metahuman as this is in Unreal Engine 5.

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monica bellucci lara?
Fuck yeahhhhhhhh
 
Team Andromeda said:
Who gives a shit?. For most of the game, all you'll see is her back and ass. I care more about the game having a varied amazing looking world to explore
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It's based-signalling. There's obviously a point at which female character designs are perfomatively non-sexual/androgynous, but equally performative is the pre-emptive "mods will fix this" stuff.
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Lara was very much a British icon in the late 90s especially.

Despite the original designer's intent she became a bit of a sex symbol due to her numerous portrayals by models and her "girl power" attitude.

For me she's very much the female James Bond, and so much of that was lost with the prequel trilogy.



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Always thought it was quite pathetic that people looked on a CGI character as a sex symbol. If CORE had used a real model for Lara at the start, I could understand it better. I loved the game for how good it was it and how well the 3D world was made and held up, when so many big studios (other than NCL) couldn't make a decent 3D game at that time. Incredible for a tiny UK studio (at the time)
MrJangles said:
Yep. I want a paper thin plot, huge isolated world, tombs, puzzles, occasional action and ludicrous stunts to get wrapped up in for hours.
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You even played the 1st Tomb Raider? It hardly had a wonderful plot. I've always seen TR games as like Indiana Jones films and care more about the action and tracking around the world. Really enjoyed both Rise and Shadow, so have high hopes for this
 
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ProtoByte said:
It's based-signalling. There's obviously a point at which female character designs are perfomatively non-sexual/androgynous, but equally performative is the pre-emptive "mods will fix this" stuff.
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I really couldn't careless how Lara looked or looks. You play most of the game from behind her anway, and care more about the gameplay and how the world looks.
 
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Team Andromeda said:
You even played the 1st Tomb Raider? It hardly had a wonderful plot. I've always seen TR games as like Indiana Jones films and care more about the action and tracking around the world. Really enjoyed both Rise and Shadow, so have high hopes for this
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I think I pretty much summed up the original (which incidentally is in my top 3 goat) in my post.

Fuck her mental health and avenging her dead father or whoever, just find the scion in a near empty world, jump across 40 foot wide chasms two hundred foot above the ground, tombs puzzles and a bit of action every 20 minutes 🧐

That's exactly what I want again.
 
The cover is a bit shite but the in-game model is not bad at all. But my kryptonite is smokey brunettes so I might be a bit biased. 😁

Now let us raid some fucking tombs.
 
Alright, that doesn't look bad at all so far. I'm very ready for a new TR game. Hopefully this is planned for Q1 next year. This the same studio that made TR 2013, Rise and Shadow?
 
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Doesn't look bad, but she has the deer in the headlights thing going on whereas OG Lara had confidence and edge; ironically things devs try too hard to to shoehorn in where it doesn't fit these days, and yet when they have a character who was originally formulated that way and executed well, they go in the other direction in a misguided attempt to ground the character, only to suck the soul out:

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Looks good to me but i get the feeling some people have very unrealistic expectations. No anime face/figure and huge tits means its.....ok. lol
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Lara was very much a British icon in the late 90s especially.

Despite the original designer's intent she became a bit of a sex symbol due to her numerous portrayals by models and her "girl power" attitude.

For me she's very much the female James Bond, and so much of that was lost with the prequel trilogy.

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People just have no idea how big this character was back then. Once the second game released you literally had the sentence "featuring Lara Croft" below Tomb Raider II like she was a famous actress:

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The woman was the cover of magazines that had nothing to do with videogames:

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She transcended the videogame industry and was the first woman to do so.
 
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