The UK Writers Guild has released its shortlist of nominations for its Video Game’s category. Rounding out the list are Rhianna Pratchett for Tomb Raider, Mike Bithell for Thomas Was Alone, and Graham Goring for Lego City Undercover.
During the Game Developers Session (GDS) conference in Prague, we had the privilege of speaking with Rhianna Pratchett, an award-winning writer and narrative designer. Pratchett, who has penned some of the most memorable female protagonists like Nariko from Heavenly Sword, Faith from Mirror’s Edge, and Lara Croft from the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot, delves into the challenges and freedoms of writing for different media, AAA and indie games.
Complex? She literally made Lara Croft whine and have father issues for an entire trilogy
Groundbreaking...
"have father issues"
To be fair, that IS a complex... Just not the right kind, lol!
The dad stuff wasn’t entirely her fault.. She was given outlines she had to flesh out and not full freedom. from the article…:
“ And there were things that we kind of butted heads more on, particularly with Rise [of the Tomb Raider] because I wasn't a fan of the dad plot. I didn't really like her motivation being her father because it felt like that's often the motivation given to female characters and it's also motivation that's very prominent in the previous movies as well. And I would have rather it been about her own experiences in the first game and how that had changed during the second game. But sometimes you just have to do your job, you just have to find peace with it. And I kind of played around with my relationship with my father and kind of put some aspects of that and then that just made me feel better about it. And sometimes this is what you have to do.”
She never seemed that whiny to me given the circumstances.
If you’re a good writer you’d have been able to do that a little better but she didn’t
She was restricted sure but with what she had with an outline she didn’t do a good job
She’s not her father, she got work and into the industry a lot easier because her father was a great writer.
It’s nepotism basically
Female Commander Shepard is a way better female character then Lara Croft has been.
Meanwhile it seems that female characters across entertainment media are being dumb down. What they've done to the female characters in the Avatar adaptation is insulting.
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From Eurogamer: "Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett wants Lara Croft to have fewer father issues in the forthcoming next game.
Speaking to Eurogamer at last night’s BAFTAs, Pratchett confirmed she's not working on the newly announced title, but is "very excited to see what they do with Lara next".
"We had a really fun time evolving her character, so I would like to see probably less father issues," she said. "And that's coming from me!""
But...it was her shitty writing of Lara as a character that focused on the father/family issues in the first place
Rhianna wrote Lara to be a whiny, non assertive and just completely different to what people loved about her as a character in the originals and Legends.
I'd like to see a version where she has MORE daddy issues.
Maybe they could write a gentleman's club or two into the story and the plot could explore Lara's journey from exotic dancer to adventurous explorer. I mean right...right?! ;)
Makes sense. That explains the big boobs from the original games. You're on to something there
Writing is about homing your identity and threading it through the story. It means that the ready is ready to move on and make Lara behave different.
It’s not bad news, it’s good news.
It is projection. It’s fine to criticise yourself as a writer. You have to.
If she’s ready to move on and make the character different then that’s ok isn’t it.
If Mike Bithell could make any other film game in the same formula of John Wick Hex what would it be?... It would be Bond. James Bond... Hex
I don't think these characters really fit this kind of gameplay
I'd love a great John Wick game or James Bond but they'd have to be full on action adventure story shooters, third person for John Wick and either third or first for James Bond.
when i see games that look like this, i think about my childhood then be like it's 2020. smh
