I was somewhat interested, even mildly excited about the upcoming Tomb Raider, still sort of am, but I was disappointed by this particular quote:
Just, what the fuck is this shit? This better not be the way they are designing or writing for the game... with this sort of mentality. I hope this EXECUTIVE PRODUCER guy is just a moron that doesn't know what he's talking about. But I kind of doubt it.
Like I can even sort of fathom what this guy is saying, most non-casual gamers are male (I think, don't quote me on that). Marketing knowledge says most males aren't comfortable playing females. BUT THIS IS LARA GODDAMN FUCKING CROFT. She has been around forever... Its not like shes totally alien and that when we played her in her old games that we were totally detached from being her. I remember playing the first Tomb Raider, and when I did, I certainly DID NOT think I was her fucking "helper" fuck that shit. Nor would I play a game with that mentality in any game WHERE I AM DIRECTLY CONTROLLING THE CHARACTER. Is he saying I should consider myself some sort of weird puppet master? Like, what even is his thought process? How could he come to such a dumb-fuck conclusion?
EDIT: Decent article on the topic: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/06/12/the-new-lara-croft/
it's not too uncommon for people involved in a game's creation to say shit that probably hampers the game's success. I stayed away from saints row 3 for a long time because of a gameplay video by a producer/developer or something where he plays unironically as a macho male-god and does nothing but blow stuff up and brutally decimate strippers: "you can do anything you wamnt, because you. are. the. BOSS!!! (and this is why u should play my game

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but concerning the new tomb raider, I wasn't really looking forward to that game. "we're reinventing the franchise". why? can you think of any reason? there's money in it obviously, and this gives them the opportunity for new sequels (can't have her get too old! "milf" age is pushing it......)
that article does raise an interesting point I haven't even thought of: throughout all the games, there were never any scenes where Laura was bound, helpless in the hands of a male, or under the threat of sexual violence. not that I can think of, at least. certainly this places her above Samus, after the most recent Metroid undid allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll of that work. if they're reinventing, at least they can't ruin what the character did have going for her...which unfortunately appears to be unique in big-budget games where you can't choose the character's gender.
edit wait uh there's
NOLF which was always one of my favorite games but maybe Archer was tied up at some point but that's a pretty common activity for a spy!!!!