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I still want to play the new Tomb Raider. My two issues with this one though is that the platforming seems like a huge step down and they're removing the supernatural stuff like giant monsters and dinosaurs. It feels like it's trying too hard to pander to the AAA market, but it still looks fun.

As for what we said before, I'm not saying she shouldn't have been changed, just that it's awkward when she freaks over killing someone, then is taking out a small army. This doesn't necessarily ruin a story, but it does make one worse and is clumsy storytelling.

Yeah, but why can't there be a new take where the gameplay and story reflect one another? They could have given Lara a personality where you believe she can take out this many people while keeping her human or made the gameplay reflect that she was not a killer. Not saying this necessarily makes the games bad, just nothing I would consider good video game storytelling and something we shouldn't ignore because, "The game is fun."

I gotta side with Macho on this. It's just awkward taking a middle ground where they act like they've never killed before, then take out a small army. Either make the story reflect how serious of a problem that is, accept how unrealistic it is and go with it, or have the gameplay be done where every kill happens rarely and feels significant. Hell, the series has been about platforming, why couldn't they just have her find ways to climb around guards?

Not saying that makes the game bad either. I haven't played TR and will probably enjoy it (though probably not as much as the last 3 TR games). But to have a story that's the complete opposite of the gameplay just sounds wrong to me.

I know we're supposed to hate the Spike VGAs, but I'd totally be down with only the games that they pick for GOTY getting GOTY nominees. And if you violate this, you will have your big toe cut off with the option to buy it back for 1200 Microsoft Points. I think that's fair.

Wrex died? You really need to fix that.

Thanks.

I considered not putting Desmond on this list because he is terrible, but I just realized the only difference is we see more of him than Baird. If we only got a few comments out of Desmond, he wouldn't be seen as that bad. 

Baird was many things. None of them particularly good.

Cole Train would have been great to star. Gears' story may be terrible, but it did a great job feeling like some awesome cheesy 80's action movie that would have starred Stalone or Schwarzeneggar to make up for that.

Gears was a pretty good series, even if 3 felt like a step down outside its horde mode. I'll still get Judgement eventually.