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Rhianna Pratchett, who is a writer, not an actress, says farewell to Lara Croft
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UnemployedVillain
Member
Guess the next game's getting a time jump to an older Lara?
edit: I'm dumb. For some reason I jumped to her being the actress. Probably because it says "farewell to Lara" instead of "farewell to Tomb Raider"
edit: I'm dumb. For some reason I jumped to her being the actress. Probably because it says "farewell to Lara" instead of "farewell to Tomb Raider"
flaxknuckles
Member
Thank bejeesus!
Well new game is in production at Eidos Montreal so she maybe finished story for that.
Straight Edge
Member
Why? She's the writer not the actor.
She is the writer, not the actress.
DOWN
Banned
Smooth Operator
Member
Time to bring Rihanna the hugely famous musician instead
James Scott
Banned
The writing and overall story telling in RoTTR is abysmal so this is good news
AuthenticM
Member
Is this good news? I never played those games but I kept reading how the writing was really bad.
GalacticMouse
Member
Camilla Luddington is Lara's voice actress.
Rhianna Pratchett appears to be a writer on the series based on her twitter account.
Rhianna Pratchett appears to be a writer on the series based on her twitter account.
kittenbreath
Member
I also did not know this woman's connection to Tomb Raider.
My first instinct was to google before posting.
bananafactory
Banned
No disrespect to her but as someone who found Lara's character almost as offensively boring as the rest of the cast I'm excited to see what someone new can bring to try and get me to like this series more
chalkitdown1
Member
Great news. The story, plot and characters in the 2 new games are bloody woeful.
Begaria
Member
Naw, Square Enix is hitting her up next for Brave Exvius.
Spare us the condescension. It's an honest mistake and I edited in very little time.
ChoklitCow
Member
People, this is the lead writer of both the last TR games...not the voice actor.
Edit - nvm. Beaten.
Edit - nvm. Beaten.
GravityInsanity
Member
I still don't know the source here. What the hell is going on?
I don't know if I should be happy that she is moving on from the reboot series, as the games writing (specifically the original Tomb Raider 2013) was awful. I honestly think it was because she butted heads with the developers and it resulted in a story that really doesn't make sense (she is an action hero in-game but story has repeatedly say 'I can do this' over and over).
I hope that if she did write for the Edios Montreal TR, that she was on a level-playing field with the developers and they worked out a story that makes sense both in-game and within the story she is writing. But I wish her the best for any future projects she works on.
I hope that if she did write for the Edios Montreal TR, that she was on a level-playing field with the developers and they worked out a story that makes sense both in-game and within the story she is writing. But I wish her the best for any future projects she works on.
whalleywhat
Member
lol
Yeah the writing is really bad tbh and it takes itself too seriously at times.
Yeah this. I like playing the two new games but the story is terrible. Lara herself is such a damn bore. She's Indiana Jones devoid of any charisma.
QuantumBro
Banned
She can't do it.
So basically hire 4-5 people to write the game script and have Rihanna sign the box.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
ROTTR had terrible writing, so... okay.
And she's actually a pretty good writer, so I dunno what went wrong.
And she's actually a pretty good writer, so I dunno what went wrong.
SolidSnakex
Member
It's from a movie called Jesus Camp (obviously minus the raptor man). I'm sure you can imagine what it's like from the name and the gif.
This would be good news...if she didn't write the upcoming Shadow Of the Tomb Rader.
I hope Eidos Montreal switched the writer for that one!
I hope Eidos Montreal switched the writer for that one!
GrayFoxPL
Member
Exactly.
bananafactory
Banned
Sometimes two good things just don't mesh well. Might not have been the right fit
I'm willing to give the writing the benefit of the doubt along these lines for TR2013.
Not so with Rise. The core of the plot is rotten in that one.
ShutterMunster
Junior Member
Writing great stories for video games is tough stuff. I appreciate what she brought to Tomb Raider. I've been critical of the narrative in those games but they were ambitious and nailed the mark more than they missed.
Best of luck to her in the future!
Best of luck to her in the future!
Rihanna is a talented writer but be it the nature of Video Game writing or some other circumstance, she was never really able to make the new Tomb Raider games interesting. AAA VG writing is always going to be more committee based than not so maybe she just needs to stick to smaller projects or have more creative influence over the process.
LucidMomentum
Member
Man, if Squeenix made a pop music mobile Macross game featuring major popstars across the world, it would be dope.
Smh.
Her writing of the new Lara was good. The rest of the characters and the stories in general were subpar. But I wish her the best of luck.
Goose_Se7en
Banned
Nothing to do with the thread and I wish this lady writet nothing but success, but I would so love a Tomb Raider game in which Lara is older, much older and wiser and like some Dark Knight Returns type ish.
Lara could pull off some shit like that.
Lara could pull off some shit like that.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Came in here expecting the singer.
AuthenticM
Member
Here's hoping they can bring back the confident bad-ass Lara from the original games, the one who quips a lot.
purseowner
Member
All respect to her, but the writing in those games was horrendous. Good news.
Demoskinos
Member
I really liked the last two Tomb Raider games so this is sad news for me. 
Hopefully whoever they get to Lara doesn't fuck up what they did with the last two games.
Hopefully whoever they get to Lara doesn't fuck up what they did with the last two games.GravityInsanity
Member
Thanks