Talking Point: Where Do You Want 'Tomb Raider' To Go Next?

Forget the vulnerable Lara nonsense

"Where do you want Tomb Raider to go next?"

To Amazon, of course!

Back to the 90’s when it was still okay to have big boobed attractive females in triple A games. 🤣

Would love an open world game with a million artifacts to find and a larger mysterious storyline to discover.

Maybe remake and modernize the OG games, like Resident Evil has been doing?

Do Tomb Raider Legend remaster. Absolutely loved that one and bring back that Lara Croft please.

Well for one, respect its roots. Isolation, exploration, puzzles above everything else.
Lara is not a vulnerable millenial, she is tough, charismatic, and confident and yes that includes her using her sexuality for her own gain.
Remove the godawful side characters and ‘Trinity’ crap.
Croft Manor as a actual real training area/side area
For the love of god get a actual British woman to VA a British character…

I really enjoyed Rise and Shadow a lot. Not so much the 2013 one. But generally I think these games were something that they had to do and just kind of getting it out of their system. Addressing some underlying paradoxes about Lara as well. But it is about time they bring it back to the OG style and vibes. The "predator" gameplay from Shadow was very solid however. Also, maybe a different voice actress could be good too. There is something about Camilla Luddington that doesn't really work well for me.

Reboot 2.0 - more of the "realistic" take on it.

However, not a ton of confidence in the embracer/amazon duo.

I want the series to go along the lines of the article. I want isolation. I want the series to go back similar to how it used to be. Or at least shades of how it used to be.

The newer games were good but they weren’t very Tomb Raider to me. I can appreciate what they were trying to do with the series but it was too action packed. It was too much guns blazing and not enough exploring.

The older games you truly felt alone. I remember the original almost had a touch of the horror feel to it. Exploring caves and tombs. Being in a world where humans didn’t walk in many years. Discovering artifacts and locations. Solving puzzles and completing missing pieces of a wheel to progress. Then the dangers of the animals in the area. In the first game I think there was only two or three humans in the whole game. I was on an adventure that made me feel like I was the only one able to get to these places.

The newer games they wanted to explore Lara’s past and I’m okay with that but they lost the spark of what made her character and the feel of the game. Lara lost her sassiness. Her confidence. Maybe she hadn’t built all that up yet but I didn’t recognize the character. Then I wasn’t alone. I was traveling with others. Yes I separated from them but there was enemy humans everywhere. Lara had yet to kill anybody. She makes her first kill and it affects here. I was okay with that, but I had issues with her taking down wave after wave of combat trained men with guns. I was no longer alone. I was a novice but I’m killing army’s of soldiers? It didn’t add up to me. Where were the tombs? Where were the traps? Where were the puzzles? The artifacts? The locations nobody had step foot on in centuries? I think I would have liked the games better if they didn’t include Tomb Raider characters, namely Laura. I would like the game better if it was just a brand new franchise, brand new character. I would’ve been OK with that. I’m not bashing the games, I liked them. I just didn’t love them. I love the old Tomb Raider franchise. That’s what I want more of.

They've been a fantastic series of games, but where I want them to go next is into retirement.

I would like to see a new game that is similar to the recent hitman trilogy. A game were every level is like a large hub that has the objective of finding a treasure or two with maybe smaller treasures to find as bonus objectives. The player would have many different ways of going about completing that objective like the hitman games. A more attractive Lara with a stronger and more confident personality would also be preferable.

Something closer in tone to the originals, or at least the Legend/Anniversary/Underworld era. Lara getting beat up all the time isn't fun.

@Stormcaller "For the love of god get a actual British woman to VA a British character…"

Meanwhile square as a Brit voicing new Yorker frey in forspoken 😆

@Magabro They did that with the first Tomb Raider and called it Tomb Raider Anniversary it's on the Xbox 360.

I would like a step back to a direction like TR Anniversary or Underworld.

I would actually like to see a Tomb Raider based in Egypt, Iraq, China, or even Iran. Or across them all.

Some place where there is a ton of real history they can wrap into the story rather then made up history. That I think is really missing from the series in this past trilogy.

Looks like I’m the outlier but I really like the addition of more combat to the series.

Bring back first Tomb raider

I want Lara to be the experienced globe trotting explorer of yore. I miss that Lara Croft as her journeys took her to numerous locales in one game.

I also want a much larger emphasis on puzzles. If memory serves me right, not only were they larger, but they were also not always contained in one small area in the earlier games and reboot. Underwater exploration like Tomb Raider Underworld would be welcome as well.

Basically just bring back the old Lara and her style with modern tech. Oh, and for crying out loud...please bring back the large setpieces of Croft Manor with its mysteries and exploration.