Magic Carpet
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Maybe they will make a new animated show like Arkane?
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Rumour: Amazon has reportedly bought Tomb Raider franchise (Update:) Tomb Raider leased out for 600 million Krona (57 million USD)
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SuperSaiyanWithDreads
Banned
Would of been better if Sony bought them
dotnotbot
Member
Official hentai would be cool
Kacho
Gold Member
If true, I'm guessing they want the IP more for movies/tv shows and less for games. Unless they're shifting their gaming business from an MMO focus to more single player experiences. I dunno it's a weird purchase. The IP has value but it's not something I'd expect a large corpo to have interest in.
ToTTenTranz
Banned
Why would "official" hentai be cooler than what's already out there?
I'm sure many people already mined Lara's 3D model from the videogame and produced plenty of pre-rendered animations with it.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
$600 is big money and the franchise just fell into amazons lap outside of uncharted tomb raider dominates the third person treasure hunting genre.
LordBlodgett
Member
I could see Amazon making pretty good Movie/TV adaptations if they give them to the right team. Unfortunately they will probably botch it like they did with LOTR or Wheel of Time. It blows my mind that they can completely nail some shows (Reacher or The Boys) and then waste some of their best IP with terrible writers. The other thing is I don't trust them to release a decent game at all. I guess they would outsource development????
Wildebeest
Member
Pay 600 million extra for a dated franchise where AAA development budgets don't even reliably allow you to turn a profit.
diffusionx
Gold Member
All these companies care about these days is getting IP to throw at the screen. They dont give a shit about quality as we see from their output all the time. That said this price is insane unless they’re getting a nearly finished game (I dont think they are) and a nearly finished movie out of it.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Like 90% of rumor threads on NeoGAF this should be insta-closed.
Shit might as well have come from a YouTube comment.
Shit might as well have come from a YouTube comment.
This is how I feel about the rumor. I just can't see why someone would invest that much, for the privilege of paying countless millions to hopefully turn a profit. I might be wrong, have been before and will be again, but this IP does not strike me as something that carries sufficient water for that kind of investment and risk. I just don't know of anyone who feels passionate about it.
Hero_Select
Member
Amazon doesn't inspire confidence unfortunately.
I liked the first few ep. of RoP but then (even as someone who hasn't read the books) the show just meandered around and then tried to speed everything up in the last ep. I hated it.
I liked the first few ep. of RoP but then (even as someone who hasn't read the books) the show just meandered around and then tried to speed everything up in the last ep. I hated it.
spartan30gr
Member
Square enix right now
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I have no interest in Feminist Raider.
Wildebeest
Member
It has been given to the person behind Fleabag not those two.After Wheel of Time and Lord of the Rings I am pretty sure Tomb Raider will be ok.
Spyxos
Gold Member
Never heard about Fleabag is it good?
Wildebeest
Member
Not really watched it, but it is a very highly rated comedy.
twilo99
Member
top notch
anthony2690
Banned
Update:
Apparently they leashed out the Tomb Raider IP to Amazon for 600million Krona ($57milliom USD)
Apparently they leashed out the Tomb Raider IP to Amazon for 600million Krona ($57milliom USD)