Poll: Lara Croft's character.

[Teepop]

My favourite parts of TR2013 were when Lara went a bit cold blooded psycho. I think halfway through some guy is on the floor trapped or injured and she (I) execute him and she says "go to hell" or something like that. Later she shouts that she is going to kill the lot of them or words to that effect.

Fantastic!

But....then she meets up with her friends again and seems to revert back far too easily/freely to being the old Lara. Seemed inconsistent to me. When challenged by Reyes why didn't she grab her by the throat or put a gun to her temple (and immediately show remorse for doing so) instead of just calmly debating.

I hope the sequel portrays her as someone whose friends are a bit scared of her new darker side that came out in response to the traumatic events on the island. Someone who feels uncomfortable because they fear they may enjoy killing and are worried that little separates them from those they are fighting against.

 

[halisme]

To me she didn't seem to have much of a character, in either new or old games.

 

[Batou667]

I'm chiming in as somebody who has managed to pretty successfully avoid playing a Tomb Raider game for 18 years and counting, so have your pinches of salt at the ready.

I like the idea of Lara being a public-school misfit who is in her element scrambling through ruins and killing wildlife, but completely lacks in people-skills - but I'm not sure how well this was actually portrayed in older games. It's very easy to claim a character has "attitude" or say the designers envisioned her being the strong, silent type... but, come on, back in 1997 she was a mute, pyramid-busted bunch of polygons with a poorly painted-on face. It was hardly friggin' Shakespeare.

I can well imagine that Pratchett did characterisation much better, although that's probably more a product of the technical capabilities, rather than the direction she took her. Even then, I gather the Tomb Raider reboot suffered tonal inconsistency problems - Lara is simultaneously a victim and a mass killer. I think it's more accurate to say that whatever game Lara appears in, she plays second fiddle to the set pieces.

 

[Jarmam]

I picked up the 2013-TR game during the recent Steamsale (I've never played a TR-game for more than an hour), but this thread has sparked my interest for the rest of the series. I'll check out the Legend-games. The idea that Lara Croft steals shit and kills people because she's not a particularly nice person makes sense.