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Hojulas
Joined: 12 Nov 2010
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 Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:01 pm |
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| Toups wrote: |
| I mean I get I how origin stories work. I still think it's regressive. Never mind that Lara Croft doesn't really need an origin story. Showing her this way is just plain inconsistent with how she has always been presented. Even ignoring the ways in which it is sexist, it's also just kind of lazy. It does not seem that they put much thought into what her character has been originally. I mean -- I guess this is like a "preboot" so they can discard that old persona, but that just makes it... more regressive. It doesn't look good no matter how you cut it |
She always had an origin story, originally I believe it was a plane crash in the mountains, and the rigors of survival toughened her into a badass and, as we discussed the last time this came up, quite possibly insane.
Hell, when you look at Anniversary they were arguably regressing her in some ways. Though mostly just some of the elements that made her look like a madwoman.
| Toptube wrote: |
| Also, the striking differences between some of these reviews leads me to believe that people's own personal experiences or maybe even prior subjective press about this game, are largely dictating their comments on it |
If that dev/PR/whatever dude hadn't been running around with that that "protecting her" shit and some other comments, I wonder if people would be looking at everything so closely. |
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Hojulas
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:52 am |
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| tacotaskforce wrote: |
| Hojulas wrote: |
| She always had an origin story, originally I believe it was a plane crash in the mountains, and the rigors of survival toughened her into a badass and, as we discussed the last time this came up, quite possibly insane. |
That was CD's origin story. Her CORE origin story was that she was bored of her upper class life and just took up adventuring. Her parents disowned her too! |
Actually, it's both.
She survived the plane crash and toughened up, then got bored with high society, went adventuring and got disowned. |
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Hojulas
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:43 am |
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| tacotaskforce wrote: |
But CD used her father from the movies who worked himself to death adventuring as well and
jesus don't make me get into a Tomb Raider lore fight. |
Well, I was just talking specifically about the CORE stuff, as both the plane crash survivalist bit and later disowning is in the original game's manual.
The CD stuff and her father and all goes into what I mentioned about Anniversary basically going back and writing Lara so she seems less crazy, like giving her a reason to go after the scion (and her adventuring in general) beyond shits and giggles. |
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