GenGAME writes: "I think Nintendo’s made a major misstep in its message for Wii U. When they unveiled the new Wii U GamePad, they spoke a lot about its capabilities – its dual-analog control with clickable sticks, its + Control Pad and ABXY configuration that has perfect parity with the “classic controller” configuration, added ZL and ZR triggers for maximum input options, and of course, its 16:9 touch screen.
"What I came away with was: “Okay, so this controller offers people tons of options for how they want to develop and play their games.” But what third-party developers seem to have come away with was: “Okay, so now we have to figure out how to implement that added touch screen in some kind of interesting way, just like we did for Wii motion controls last generation.”"
Polygon: "Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics launched a new website for the franchise on Wednesday — Valentine’s Day is also Lara Croft’s birthday — with another peek at the impending “unified” design for its action heroine. New artwork of Lara sporting a post-Survivor trilogy look that evokes her classic design supports the theory that the Lara we saw last fall in Call of Duty is basically the character’s future appearance."
Crystal Dynamics really going hard with the man face. They sure do hate feminine looks!
If you honest to God think that face is feminine, says alot about you pal. Go outside and see what actual women look like. Go google Unified Lara Croft Man Face and you'll see you're in the minority thinking this looks good. This is highly masculine.
***Go outside and see what actual women look like.***
Do you honestly believe I'm some freak hidden away from the world and don't have a mother, never dated, my wife isn't a woman, my daughter isn't a woman, and I work exclusively with men, some who choose to wear dresses sometimes?
***you're in the minority thinking this looks good. This is highly masculine. ***
Right. I'm in the minority. It must be me. Not online people making statements like yours.
"men, some who choose to wear dresses sometimes? "
lmao, do you work at the circus? Definitely somewhere where clowns are present.
@Vengeance maybe take your own advice and stop staring at anime all day. This doesn't look masculine at all.
A quick Google as to why this comment was made... Oh a twitch streamer Melonie Mac went right wing so all the brain broken little kids are following her crazy man face rants.
I used to follow her, but she started getting real weird when she consumed more and more meat and talked about it on a constant basis. Her eyes bulge out of her head now and she makes the most unhinged arguments while claiming to be holy.
Meat is fine, but don't forget your veggies.
Women come in all shapes and sizes pal, femine doesn't mean being put on a pedestal in looks.
Grow up lad.
You really going hard with the man face. You sure do hate feminine looks! Cuz if you honest to god think that face is masculine, says a lot about you pal.
Go outside and see what actual women look like...
Fixed it for you, bud.
On a serious note, you do need some help. Unplug, actually go outside, and soak up the sun. You'll be surprised of how much of a none entity you have turned into. Neither a man nor a woman, but a 4chan slime.
Seriously, seek help.
I think she has many masculine features, but wouldn't it make sense for what she does in game?
This is not PS1, it's a detailed model of a very built woman, who has a tough as nail edge...so yes, she has masculine features and she looks cool to me, I think the 3 Remakes were excellent, and can't wait for the next one.
Why are people looking for attraction in video game characters anyway?
@thesoftware730 honestly I can say the same thing to you guys?, Why do you look for realism in fiction, I can't understand that at all, people like seeing something that looks good, we all like Ryu looking like Arnold times 2 because it's cool, not because it's realistic or anything, same thing for women
@Vengance I wonder what you look like. It would be so ironic if you were this chubby guy with an overly round face.
I'm getting strong neckbeard vibes from him just looking at those comments. If you think average or plain Jane women look like men something is mentally wrong with you.
"Go google Unified Lara Croft Man Face"
Lmao!!! Who..i mean seriously who..in their right mind would actually go the trouble to even type "Man" after Lara Croft. Jeeze..some you people need help really.
I slightly see what you mean, but it's just concept art, so that will probably be improved.
Why would she wear an obscene amount of makeup to go out and plunder ruins? This proves even more you guys need to go touch grass and see the real world instead of E-girls
@isarai
I like your selective realism.
You could also ask why a woman would go and plunder tombs and ruins alone if you're going to go that route.
"This proves even more"
You have no better argument than I do; it's preference vs preference. I've been married for 16 years and my wife agrees - thinks Lara's face is cold and masculine.
Why would she put botox in her lips that make her look like a circus clown? That look is hideous.
Women don't look like that except in AI. No wonder you're single.
@thorstein
Lol. Slow down and take a breather, then keep reading.
Lara always looked feminine. She looks decidedly masculine here.
https://x.com/MediaRaider19...
With all due respect (which is none at all) vengeance ur so off on this lol.
@Vengeance
My man, she raids tombs, she scales building, mountainsides, trees, and anything else she can, she shoots guns,, fight hordes of men/women, animals, and dinosaurs, walks, runs, swims, and, swings on vines/ropes.. What do you want her to look like? Barbie?
So, I agree with you about her masculinity, but have no problem with it, for all the reasons above. Additionally, if you played the remakes(I highly enjoyed all 3)..you would see her actual physical appearance change from game to game, gaining muscle and more masculine features, the dev even had an interview talking about her change..this Laura that you see in this new artwork was always the end game.
Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and then Shadow, all the same Laura as she gets more experienced, to finally become the iconic version, with the 2 guns and short shorts.
Great artwork but please…this unified timeline shit sounds awful
It won’t work
Classic Lara and Survivor Lara have completely different origin stories meaning they are two separate timelines you can’t unify together
I really don’t want Survivor Lara anywhere near Classic Lara.
Survivor Laura in the remakes was a better character imo lol.
But, they can infact retcon, and unify everything. Take note of the remakes, they were always leaning into Laura becoming the, 2 guns, short shorts wearing version, just a more fleshed out, better written and more believable version of the old one.
How? She just whined and whined
Then you think after her progress near the end of the first reboot game the sequel would continue that but she goes back to her old self
The same then happens in the third game but now she’s arrogant and a bit of an arsehole at times especially to Jonah.
First game - Become the Tomb Raider
Second game - Become the Tomb Raider
Third game - Become the Tomb Raider
They are completely different timelines they can’t be merged, even the origin stories are totally different
It’s just a bad idea
Make a new universe or continue the original one
As long as she had dual guns, and doesn't whine all the damn time. They really dropped the ball with the new lara, had such a good start and didn't know what to do with it.
She wines a lot less in the 2nd and 3rd game (she's pretty solid on her goals in the 3rd), but, yeah, lots of whining in that first one. It's not that she whined, it's when she whined at times. At some point, you have to recognize you're not in Kansas anymore, but she still had some moments pretty late in the 1st game.
She was new to Tomb Raiding in the first remake...she progressively became more confident, muscular and experienced in each game.
So the "whining" sort of made sense...even though I would call it inexperienced.
Yea, I actually really loved the moment in 2013 Tomb Raider where Lara truly transforms into the badass, blows the fort doors down shouting "That's right, run you bastards! I'm coming for you all!"
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I thought hey, there we go! She's become the Tomb Raider!
......bbbuuuuut then she reverts back to the whiney-ness immediately at the start of Rise of the Tomb Raider all over again. I never made it far enough for her to return to that confident Lara again, but the character evolution was just terrible IMO. Inconsistent.
Whining wasn’t my issue with Laura in new games. The issue I had was the extreme homicidal aspects of her, she went from “surviving” treacherous scenarios in the 1st one to just straight up going to action murdering trinity.
Even to the point of flooding an entire town to “stop” trinity. She murdered a crap ton of innocent people.
And she also wouldn’t listen to reason from anybody else for the sake of her goals. I could never fully attach to her and it’s why the 3rd game is still unfinished for me.
I also remember when they were supposedly designing gameplay that gave you options for stealth but 0 scenarios in the game truly allowed you to progress without killing a wave of enemies. So that was just flat false advertising for me.
Yeah she whines alot. You'd think by a third game..her whining would lessen but nope. Only reason i put it up with that..is because its a reboot and you know..before her roots.
No excuse now...
The Call of Duty version?! Surely there is a Fortnite version they can use instead to really nail the feel.
Gamesradar writes: "Embracer Group's bloodbath continues as Tomb Raider dev Crystal Dynamics reports layoffs
Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has suffered a wave of layoffs just months after insisting that the ongoing staff hemorrhage at parent company Embracer Group wouldn't affect the new Tomb Raider game or the studio's collaboration with The Initiative on the Perfect Dark reboot."
Nothing sad about that, the original three were amazing games! Can't wait to explore the Croft manor again and find all the secrets... It's been ages, so I barely remember the games these days.
lol secrets. You know the first thing you’re gonna do is lure the butler to the freezer and shut the door on him haha.
I can remember the secrets so clearly! Haven't played them since I was a kid but tha mansion just stays in my head
Im only disagreeing because it’s not sad. Im excited as all hell for these. I can’t even remember if i played 3, but 1 and 2 are still ingrained in my mind. I love remasters and im actually excited to play these in a clean looking “ps1” mode…. i guess that would be a “pc” mode.
I’m not sad as in “I don’t want the remasters” I’ve wanted them for years. I’m super excited.
I’m sad with how they’ve handled TR over the years, I should be super excited for their next modern release but they have nothing but the remaster trilogy.
And I’ll say it…I didn’t care all that much for the reboot trilogy, it just didn’t feel like Tomb Raider at all. Like a new IP with Tomb Raider slapped on where you “become the Tomb Raider” for 3 games
Yeah. I agree. I think i got burned out on “realistic” Lara, thats trying so hard to catch up to Nathan Drake, that i miss the old adventures of Lara. The Lara that would be in a bath robe with a shotgun.
"Crystal Dynamics made the difficult decision to part ways with 9 Brand/Marketing and 1 IT employee today due to an internal restructuring..."
Small layoff, hardly news worthy.
With Aspyr handling the rereleases, what exactly would these CD marketing people be doing with no game release scheduled for any time soon? More yoga sessions on Twitch?
Marketing is being cut simply because Amazon will market the next Tomb Raider title, while Microsoft will market Perfect Dark. Crystal Dynamics will probably be fine due to development contracts with Amazon and a Microsoft. Unfortunately, I can’t say that rest of Embracer Group has any long-term stability.
Embracer has left one hell of a mess and Tencent will be swimming around picking at the scraps.
ffs, Embracer is already looking to sell Gearbox ... Volition studio was shutdown
now, CD got affected and even affect Eidos aswell?
Better sell Gearbox to Sony
And CD & Eidos to MS
than shrink these studios to bare minimum
Activision has unveiled a new-look Lara Croft who’s set to hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone as part of Season 5 Reloaded, and the design has certainly set tongues wagging within the Tomb Raider community.
Not sure, can’t see her body at all and I can see she is wearing a sports bra that the average incel would cry “censorship”. I she simply resonates more with the image most people have of Lara.
Yeah cuz it’s cool to objectify women these days… wait. No it’s not. .
***It's only cool when women can monetize objectifying themselves, right? ***
Yes, this exactly. Kind of the same way it's not rape when they give consent. The fact you don't get this bothers me.
Embracer "layoff" Group - due to buying all the companies and making zero money so they will re-GROUP and layoff... piss poor EU money bags that failed with their investments and now will hurt amazing talent within those companies
Hopefully we get this Lara next
The sad thing is…to see Lara again and she’s being exploited for Call of Duty of all things
Between this and Homelander super heroes and such it's looking less like COD, more like Fortnite with constant sell out sponsorships. These are essentially goofy ads woven into a FPS with a presumably serious tone. Not a fan
Yeah I noticed that
It's even bad for Fortnite because that's all it's really known for now, the big crossovers
I mean there's Niki Minaj , 21 Savage and Snoop Dogg which were added as in game characters to celebrate 50 years of hip hop. Now did Call of Duty really need to celebrate 50 years of hip hop?
Still has the best FPS gameplay of any game on the market, i don't like it as much as you, but it has to be said.
@fsfsxii - Hmmm, VERY debatable. Not saying you're completely wrong. But Counter Strike and Rainbow Six Siege are a thing.
lets not forget Nicki Minaj.
the character everyone has been waiting for to play as /s
Even this version is really downplaying her hotness with that "safety" modesty tank top underneath her teal shirt to hide any potential cleavage. Also drastically reduced her chest size.
Angelina Jolie Lara Croft is what to aim for, that is as on brand as you can be.
just wondering does nintendo make them have to use it in some way then if so just do something pointless with it like touch it to switch weapons or just put a map there
I think it isn't fair for the Wii U to be skipped because developers don't think they can make use of the touch screen. That's what Off-TV play is for. Core Wii U owners will gravitate toward that content with or without the specialized functionality. Cap com is releasing an updated version of Monster Hunter 3 and that won't even have Off-TV play. Why can't other debs try this? Especially if porting the game is relatively cheap?
Do we really need an article about it?
Redundancy to its finest.
Just use the touch screen for inventory, checking your map or puzzle mini games.
I didn't know devs were being forced to use it, if they really don't know what to do just implement off TV play.
I like how zombiu used the side of the screens as extra buttons.