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Eidos: We need more 'Lara's

The Eidos executive thinks that the games industry needs more iconic characters to compete with movies, TV, and comics:

Industry veteran Ian Livingstone thinks that game developers need more character. The Eidos product acquisition director, speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2007, told the audience that characters were extremely important not just in games, but also as intellectual properties that can then be used in other products.

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MK_Red - 856 days 1 hour ago

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Well, I have all the Laras I need and there are more than enough in that picture.

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Chexd - 856 days ago

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I do se what they mean. Where as we could say Agent 47, lara and Sam Fisher they have sort of died down with the exceptions of people like Solid Snake and Master Chief.

Having played Stranglehold Demo, what was with the horrible voice acting and cheesy dialouge?

Great fun game, but lacking in characters that could be "cool". Kratos is another character who i now see as iconic but more games should have stronger leads....who cares about Tequila???

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MK_Red - 856 days ago

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Good point. We definitly need more Snakes, Master Chiefs and Marios.

The funny thing is that the biggest icons of out time are exclusives, Snake is Sony's, MC is MS' and Mario is big N's.

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LSDARBY - 856 days ago

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Nariko!!

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hella whip - 856 days ago

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I agree. As long as the game is as good as it sounds she will no doubt become big, but doubt any videogame charachter will become bigger than Lara was for a while yet.

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MK_Red - 856 days ago

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Good one. Nariko's more than more Laras. She has deep story and great background, is much more detailed and realistic looking and has been called Goddess Of War... I love her as well as Kai.

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ParaDise_LosT - 856 days ago

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Big Daddy :o

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MK_Red - 856 days ago

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AWESOME. Big Daddy rocks!
I love BioShock and if Big Daddy with huge real life models and action figures is already famous. Hope BioShock sells really good (more than 5 million but unlikely in reality) and Big Daddy AND Little Sisters get the attention and fame they deserve.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 855 days 22 hours ago

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Big Mommy!

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SmokeyMcBear - 856 days ago

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Conker

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Tsukasah - 856 days ago

7 - Consoles need their own characters..

I miss when nintendos iconic character was mario, playstations was crash bandicoot, and segas was sonic... i miss sega consoles :( oh well.... dreamcast ftw!!

anyways, what are the icons now?
XBox = Master Chief, The dudes from gears, bill gates
Nintendo = Mario(still, but mario is beginning to suck) :(
PS3 = Solid Snake? Nariko? Nathan Hale(RFoM)? I suppose Ratchet and Clank could be but.... yeah....

Instead of multiple icons.. and instead of humans being an icon for a console, they should have strange creature things for icons as consoles...

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Chexd - 855 days 15 hours ago

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"Nathan Hale(RFoM)?"

yo anwsered your own question lol. If you have to state where the character is from or who they are...then they are not iconic. :)

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Tsukasah - 855 days 2 hours ago

7.2 - Ahhh

actually i said (RFoM) for hte people who havent played resistance and dont know the characters >.>

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Eclipticus - 855 days 20 hours ago

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i think he meant we need more hot action to chicks so videogames nerds will buy our sh*t.

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Eclipticus - 855 days 20 hours ago

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remember when sony was pushing Crash as its mascot, with all the commericals....
i think jak-daxter/ratchet and clanck, would be good
of course Sly is a good mascot... i guess.

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s8anicslayer - 855 days 19 hours ago

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lara is played out already we need a new chic

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GRAMPAGAMER - 855 days 11 hours ago

12 - Lara's more tired than Linsay Lohan's sobriety test.

the only thing special about those games were the double D's and then they cut those down.

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Chriswsm - 843 days 4 hours ago

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I would never argue with Ian Livingstone. The warlock of firetop mountain has spoken.

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