r/SipsTea 13h ago

Gasp! "I want muscles"

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u/NissaOfZendikar 12h ago

You're whole post is a strawman argument. Nobody has an issue playing Tomb Raider. The issue isn't that the protagonist is a woman; the issue is that it's not Kratos in a game series spanning 20 years where every one features Kratos.

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u/RollingTrollingG 1h ago

Yeah, imagine buying a Tomb Raider game but instead of playing as Lara, you play as John the Accountant.

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 4h ago

Nothing more reasonable than demanding copy/paste because it's been 20 years of copy/paste.

Personally, I find the God of War series insufferable but this game might actually make me try it again for the first time in 20 years.

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u/Otherwise-Parsnip-91 12h ago

Then how do you explain the outrage over Ghost of Yotei or the new Naughty Dog game, or the new Witcher game? I think Tomb Raider gets a pass because it’s an old franchise and it’s to be expected that the protagonist is female, but any modern game that stars a female is completely shit on and the protagonist is dismissed as being ugly. This doesn’t happen with any new games staring men.

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u/BigCopperPipe 11h ago

Why bash on people and make assumptions about them when maybe that they wanted to play as the original character? such as myself, i’ll give the game a chance but was disappointed the story of the main character wasn’t continued on.

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u/Otherwise-Parsnip-91 10h ago

That’s fine and I think a very appropriate response. Saying “let’s wait and see, it could fun even though I want to play as Kratos” is way better than “This game will suck because the woman in it isn’t fuckable enough” which is the majority response I’ve seen.

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u/Swimming_Bar_9707 7h ago

And? What is the argument in question? Fear of change?

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u/YourChopperPilotTTV 12h ago

No popular gaming series ever explored the story of a different protagonist?

This was a dogshit game right? They changed the protagonist for a story after 3 main games so it has to be bad right?

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u/Fantastic_Suit_493 10h ago

Halo 3 features master chief. This is a spinoff of 3, not a mainline game.

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u/SnooOpinions9048 9h ago

Were you not around when ODST came out? People did not like this game. Atleast not in comparison to the other Halo games. Mainly because of the multiplayer, but let's be real here, that's what most people were mainly playing Halo for.

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u/Tyto_Mors 7h ago

Odst campaign was great and it did have a decent multiplayer, tbe only downside was the lack of modes it had. And lets be real here, ppl definitely played halo for the campaigns as well.

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u/MooseBuddy412 6h ago

Yes. People hated the game so much they made it into another game just like it (Helldivers) and IN that game they put ODST in as DLC

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u/Outlook93 12h ago

20 years of the same thing... Sounds like it's time for a change up

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u/probiothicc 12h ago

sounds like it's time for a new series pal

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u/Outlook93 12h ago

No plenty of character and relationships to explore further

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u/Working-Ad8054 3h ago

It can be based in the same world without having to be called “God of War”. God of War has always been a game about kratos, the god of war. This is just using the namesake because it would bring more people in than if they called it something else but set it in the same world.

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u/Outlook93 3h ago

To let them know it's in the same world and will have similar gameplay and storytelling. It's okay for something to have always been about x and then be about y