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Lol fricking scammed
>here's your new Lara, bro.
debra wilson got fat?
Yep.
Squeenix didn't even fricking supervise Crystal Dynamics, and just gave them a blank check and free-reign to come up with something. They came up with an Uncharted clone, but with more killing for EXP.
>They came up with an Uncharted clone, but with more killing for EXP.
And Burgers fricked up one more thing.
"I'm stronk female with bow,I can fight 100 men hands on with my axe"
That makes sense, the 2018 tomb raider movie has the blank gray personality that Amazon seems to love
>embracer buys a bunch of shit from square for 300 million
>sells off a tiny worthless part of that shit they brought for double the price
Amazon hopes to turn it into a Marvel-tier franchise. They're fricking insane. Tomb Raider hasn't been relevant for a long time even when it was under Square Enix. The only thing they can hope to do is make a few headlines making people angry with the dumb changes they'll definitely make, but that'll be it.
>Amazon hopes to turn it into a Marvel-tier franchise
Lol. This is like the modern equivalent of "We want the Call of Duty audience".
but there's only 1 character, Lara Croft. everyone else is irrelevant. what do you mean by 'Marvel-tier franchise'?
I simp for Jonah.
yep. tomb raider is a fricking dead franchise. the new games sold less and less with each new release to the point where square just wanted to be rid of it.
people who likes the Indiana Jones parts about cool tombs and treasure hunting moved on to Uncharted and lots of hot girls came along in games after Lara so they no longer have that going for them either, not to mention they uglified her in the new games.
there is practically nothing left in the franchise and amazon have no clue about how to make a mass appealing piece of media going by what happened with the rings of power fiasco.
>there is practically nothing left in the franchise
all they have to do is
>make lara croft sexy
>big boobs
>loads of skimpy and cosplay outfits
>provocative animations / voice acting
>DoA beach volleyball gameplay
maybe even add a character customizer or some other characters from franchises they have the rights to
>Amazon hopes to turn it into a Marvel-tier franchise
kek
Marvel like franchise imply that they gonna have some sort of Avengers style movie with video games characters.
Lara is a start, and I assume they gonna start buying more video games IPs to complete the cast.
so they're just making Fortnite? uh ok
I agree that it's dead. Last time I remember anyone even talking about tomb raider was trying to figure out if the Sega Saturn, or Playstation version was better.
>Amazon
>600 million
Dunno how Embracer did it but good for them
>Marvel-tier
Kek. Is Amazon self aware? Despite Prime video being the cheapest streaming option, it is barely relevant and their successful shows are only a success because they are pretty much anti-Marvel which obviously is not for everyone.
Well, the only good thing of all of this is that we can safely assume we will not see anything good or even decent from Tomb Raider in a really long time.
Tomb Raider was never popular among normalgays no matter how you try to spin the history. Tomb Raider barely scratched success during the age of cereal mascot platforms thanks to the massive sexualization, legend trilogy flopped and Square Enix trilogy was only successful at the start thanks to Microsoft timed exclusive deal and how "mature" it was
>Tomb Raider barely scratched success during the age of cereal mascot platforms thanks to the massive sexualization
>barely
By 2002 Tomb Raider games made Eidos over a billion dollars. Lara Croft was so popular she was featured on the cover of gaming magazines.
You don't know shit.
Not even Marvel fans want to be the "Marvel audience" anymore, interest in those movies peaked years ago and is in the process of crashing. And the Tomb Raider games were a huge success because of the following:
>fast-paced, acrobatic platforming
>nostalgic adventurism a la Indiana Jones
>sexy protagonist
Nobody knows how to make the first type of game anymore, certainly not Amazon. There's a zero percentage chance Amazon will make a game that captures the feeling of the second point because they ALREADY TRIED THIS AND SCRAPPED THE PROJECT FOR BEING "RACIST", so yeah no hope at all of this in any way resembling the Tomb Raider of old. And finally, lol at the idea of Amazon making ANY female sexy.
Just when you thought it couldnt be worse than Squenix
No breasts no buy
This doesn't include the games right?
It's the entire IP.
It's over
Why? Amazon doesn't know shit about games. They're gonna pump out 1 bad TV series and then do nothing forever? That's a pretty good deal (for the seller).
How the frick is TR worth so much?
they're going to make her black, arent they?
Tomb Raider doesn’t matter anymore. No one likes playing as a female protagonist. And you can just watch the porn when they rip the game models for free anyway
>pays 600 million for a dead franchise
what did they mean by this?
>amazon
>most cucked company in the world
That's it. We're never getting a good TR game ever again. It's unironically over.
>series been shit ever since The Angel of Darkness which came out 20 years ago
>getting uppity that there's never going to be another good game NOW
Before this there was hope. Now it's over. Nothing that comes out of Amazon has ever been even close to acceptable.
>People actually though Tomb Raider was going to be respected after leaving SE
So let me get this straight, Square sold off Tomb Raider and Deus Ex IPs for 15 million, and then the new owners just sold her off for 600 million.
Are the leaders of Square getting fired now?
It's ok, they are recouping their loses with their new NFT scheme.
Squeenigs has the intelligence of an amoeba.
Square Enix doesn't care. FFXIV, DQX, their Sony deals and their non-vidya business print money
That's $15m they didn't have before, since they were barely doing anything with the IPs.
I guess in the end Microsoft was right ot have preventive measures from those Black folk from Amazon and Google, in case they want to buy their way into the console/mobile market.
Either MS buys Activision/Blizard/King or Sony dies within a couple of years where Amazon and/or Google gets the majority of the market.
Lara Croft will never be popular again until they accept the one reason that she was ever popular in the first place. Massive breasts.
Is this shit even popular to anyone except normies?
Anybody who expresses even slight optimism for this is 100% a paid shill. There is no way anybody could expect good things after witnessing what Amazon did to the last big IPs they purchased.
Time for black raider.
Apartment Raider
who cares. it's been a dead franchise for years now
Tomb Raider always kinda sucked and turning it into Uncharted under Square Enix's ownership was the biggest improvement it saw. The most notable thing about it was that Lara had breasts. Then I guess the reboot made it a ryona and snuff fetishist's wet-dream?
Either way I don't think Amazon can actually hurt it. I think they pissed away $600 million, personally.
>buy Tomb Raider and Deus Ex for 300 million
>sell Tomb Raider for double the price
Meanwhile Square is releasing Forspoken and investing in NFT
Burn everything!
It's insane to me that they're buying and selling these decades-old IPs for this much money yet can't produce anything even remotely popular with them. It's Amazon though, they have infinite money, so even if Tomb Raider winds up being a huge money pit that eventually costs them over a billion dollars (and it WILL) it's not gonna even make a dent in their bottom line.
Forspoken was profitable thanks to Sony exclusivity deal
And NFTs, despite being mostly forgotten at this point, are a low investment high profit business if you're the one creating them. Is enough if a couple of millionaires buy your shit just to collect them
>And NFTs, despite being mostly forgotten at this point, are a low investment high profit business if you're the one creating them. Is enough if a couple of millionaires buy your shit just to collect them
It has zero growth potential. There is no real market for NFTs, no way to expand it. It's a fricking dead end.
I know, that's why I said that is enough if a couple of millionaires buy your shit, remember, millionaires are pretty dumb sometimes or just don't care about a couple of wasted millions.
>I know, that's why I said that is enough if a couple of millionaires buy your shit,
Which means it's not something any huge corporation should have any interest in. These companies don't invest billions just to sit on a fixed income based on the interest of a few hundred people. They are interested in growth potential, in making more money next year than they did this year. That's the whole reason they went woke in the first place.
Dude, you don't need that much money to create a NFT. The whole point of NFTs is that creators and marketplaces basically invested nothing yet thanks to the craze they could earn massive profits from buyers/re-sellers. That's why I don't blame Square Enix to still invest in NFTs, that investment is probably peanuts and they only need one millionaire wanting to waste some bucks to make a profit. If their NFTs don't sell, they don't even lose that much money. And finally, they're not as dumb as Ubisoft or Meta who wanted to integrate NFTs to their products and services.
How does any of Squares executives still have jobs
They control all of Japan's fortune telling magic
Now we can officially bury the franchise. I know some have beef with the "rebooted" Lara, but they are good games even tho they copied the Ucharted and made the game more about action and less about exploring tombs, as the trilogy progressed.
>but they are good games
they were boring as frick, I tried playing one and gave up after a few hours, all grey and brown with mind numbing shoot mercenaries gameplay that could be out of any other shitty third person shooter game.
no atmosphere, no exploration, nothing interesting.
>MMO
>tomb raider
>raid tomb that have puzzles gear traps gun clothing upgrades dinosaur etc
Coming soon to all platforms!
black gurl stole mah tomb
call da popo
I'll never understand the mindset of some of these companies. You have long standing, well known IPs like Tomb Raider with a bunch of pretty talented developers and instead of getting them to work on new games you just sell it all away to focus on NFTs which are basically dead in 2023 now. This must be one of those things where you refuse to admit you're wrong so you just double down on the moronation.
Basically somebody very high up at Squeenix bought into the NFT cult. Got conned super hard, basically. And so he's all in on NFTs because he thinks he has some kind of inside track before the "singularity" or the rapture or whatever they believe is going to happen to usher in the new age of web 3.0.
No way that is Lara's actual face in that screenshot, it looks like Sasha Grey's face was photoshopped on.
We know Crystal Dynamics is working on another TR game, and it’s supposedly coming out before Perfect Dark which would mean it was certainly greenlit by Square.
So Square knows they have another game in the series on the way, and they choose to sell the IP, the studio making it, and a bunch of other studios for a song?
What the frick were they thinking? This isn’t a rhetorical question, what in the hell could they possibly have been thinking, especially when Embracer manages to flip just the IP for twice what they paid Square like 8 months later
>So Square knows they have another game in the series on the way, and they choose to sell the IP
because even as moronic as square are, they know the game is going to be trash because crystal dynamics is a crap studio that has failed repeatedly with TR, so they washed their hands of it.
embracer did really well to fleece Amazon though.
lara sisters..?
$600,000,000 is way too much
They should follow the old Tomb Raider comics as a framework. Make Lara strong and charismatic with just a bit of sexuality. An actual heroic female character with sharp wit who uses her brains to get out of tricky situations. People would eat it up as there is currently a lack of strong female characters that aren't dealing with trauma or depression.
Maybe show her getting fit in the gym and that could inspire more real girls to do the same.
Pitch a movie staring these two
lmao
Amazon has genuinely become the place IPs go to die and its hilarious how fleeced they get every time
Why? It's not worth 6 million.