Happy Lara Croft day peoples!

[Angry Young Man]

Yesterday was St Georges day. He gets a day for slaying a dragon. I think that this is unfair to all the other Dragon slayers. So here's to you, Lara Croft.

http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/images/2/2f/TombRaiderII.jpg

Btw tomorrow is Beowulf day.

[F9]

I prefer the real life Lara Croft actress than the anime one tbh!:cool:

[h0m0revolutionary]

No way, anime one whey hotter.
Lara Croft Day!
:D:D:D:D:D:D
wh00t!!

[hugsandmarxism]

Eh, it seems that the PS1 era wasn't too good to video game heroines. She looks kinda homely in that picture. Aya Brea from Parasite Eve fared better. Great game, if you haven't played it.

http://elpodcastdelogan.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/parasite-eve.jpg

[Angry Young Man]

There aren't really that many videogame heroes, tbf. But Lara Croft is one of the highest of them. She is the Shakespeare of the videogame canon.

[Angry Young Man]

Matter of fact, I think it'd be cool to make a team-style game (sort of Rainbow 6-ish) with all the videogame canon. You could have Lara Croft and Solid Snake constantly scoring points off each other cos they're both so badass. So to avoid resentment Crash Bandicoot, with no natural rivals among them becomes troop leader.

[F9]

http://roddysrockinreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/lara_croft_tomb_raider.jpg?w=201&h=300

This Lara Croft is more on my taste, that anime one seems weird :p

[hugsandmarxism]

There aren't really that many videogame heroes, tbf. But Lara Croft is one of the highest of them. She is the Shakespeare of the videogame canon.

There are alot of video game heros. If you meant heroines (female heros) this is also mistaken. As for Lara being the highest of them... well, she surely is agile, and deals out kick-ass with those handguns of hers, but I personally think that Jill Valentine from Resident Evil could take her. Honestly, after escaping the zombie plague and the assortment of monsters that she's taken down with crappy camera angles and minimal ammunition, Jill's demonstrated that she's as tough as they come.

http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02/art/mvc2-jill.jpg

[Angry Young Man]

Jill Valentine can kiss Lara Croft's pixellated arse. Given the amount of hoisting herself up she does in the first game, suffice to say that Lara would win a boxing match.

And Fuserg9, you can fuck yourself for bringing up that abomination (the film, not Angelina Jolie. I've no objection to Jolie. Matter of fact, if she's still with Brad Pitt, I wouldn't mind a menage-a-trois).


But the elite troop of heroes is Lara Croft, who specialises in the paranormal and puzzle-solving; Solid Snake, the spy; Sonic; Mario (their talents yet to be decided; and Crash Bandicoot the troop leader (he has no rivals)

[Raúl Duke]

Between Jill Valentine and Lara Croft...

hmmm

While surviving zombie outbreaks are tough in terms of skills at least Lara Croft can jump around and shit.

I've also played Parasite Eve, specifically the 2nd one.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I like Jill, sorry.

[Angry Young Man]

But Lara Croft has class! I don't mean it in the elitist sense that she's classier because she's an aristocrat. It's just that she's British, and we do tend to have more class than Americans:lol::laugh::D! And at the moment, she's voiced by Bolly Knickers off Ashes to Ashes, which is as good as Life on Mars, so don't be deceived.
I mean she's generally more badass. So Jill survives a zombie horde. Lara survived a super race of Atlantians, a Dragon (hence why she gets a day), A gurt spider thing brought about by four magic stones and the Ancient Egyptian god of Evil, to name but a few.

[Pirate Utopian]

The greatest videogame heroins are ofcourse Bratz.

http://www.gamershell.com/static/boxart/large/uk/10584.jpg
My sister actually has this game for the PS.

[hugsandmarxism]

But Lara Croft has class! I don't mean it in the elitist sense that she's classier because she's an aristocrat. It's just that she's British, and we do tend to have more class than Americans:lol::laugh::D!

Class, eh? Let's see about that. Lara lives in a mansion, has a butler, travels the world looking for treasure and graves to rob. She's a bourgeois **** who lives a life of adventure. Jill Valentine is a police-woman (that is to say, not paid incredibly highly, even if she did work to crack skulls for the capitalist state) who, after the incident at the Spencer Estate, was fired from the Racoon Police STARS unit, and spends her time trying to thwart the plans of the evil Umbrella Corporation, that Lara would probably own shares in with her rich ass.


And at the moment, she's voiced by Bolly Knickers off Ashes to Ashes, which is as good as Life on Mars, so don't be deceived.

...


I mean she's generally more badass. So Jill survives a zombie horde. Lara survived a super race of Atlantians, a Dragon (hence why she gets a day), A gurt spider thing brought about by four magic stones and the Ancient Egyptian god of Evil, to name but a few.

Lara did all that with infinite ammunition for those stupid pistols, and she never had to fight with this motherfucker.

http://www.clubdesmonstres.com/nemesis.jpg

And Nemesis here is worse than a Dragon. Totally. He regenerates his flesh (thanks to the T-Virus in him) and totes a rocket launcher and a mini-gun! Seriously. I still get the shivers when I hear the musical score that means he's lurking nearby...

[Angry Young Man]

Do you think you can go all the way through using only the pistols? Plus, she never shows any sign of fatigue. Most people would be knackered after climbing to the top of an ancient Egyptian city! Not her though.

[hugsandmarxism]

Do you think you can go all the way through using only the pistols? Plus, she never shows any sign of fatigue. Most people would be knackered after climbing to the top of an ancient Egyptian city! Not her though.

Yes, she's fit enough, and can jump high, but does she have the strength of character that someone as human as any of us, in a city full of the living dead and bio-engineered hell beasts, with scarce ammunition and a heavily armed killing machine whose sole purpose is to rip her head off? Physical strength and agility are one thing, the will to survive in the worst situation imaginable is another.

[Angry Young Man]

Well, she never showed any kind of fear in any game, and keeps a wise-ass/bad-ass demeanor throughout. So I'll say yea.

[hugsandmarxism]

Well Lara is still a bourgeois thrill seeker with no fashion sense. I mean, seriously! Jill's berret is frickin sweet.

http://ui14.gamespot.com/2093/jillmvc2_2.jpg


And who the hell keeps editing my posts and removing my pictures?!? Stop it already!!!

[Angry Young Man]

She'd still get her arse kicked across the marketplace by Lara Croft.

[Pirate Utopian]

Selby's marketplace atleast.

[hugsandmarxism]

No, she'd load an acid shell into her grenade launcher and blast that snobbish aristocrat right off of this mortal coil. End of story.

[Angry Young Man]

Oh She needs weapons? What a poof, considered that this is meant to be a boxing match

[Angry Young Man]

Selby's marketplace atleast.
No. It'd be such an immense beating that it'd have to be Camden.

[hugsandmarxism]

When was this decided? No matter. I'm fairly certain she could take Lara in a boxing match as well. She can take a punch as well as give one.

Anyhow, we can both agree that Solid Snake deserves his own holiday.

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/089/7/c/Solid_Snake_by_kandoken.jpg

Taking on Metal Gear Rex by his lonesome definitely warrants a day off in his favor.

[Angry Young Man]

Was Rex a dragon? NO!

[hugsandmarxism]

No, Rex wasn't a dragon. Rex was a giant nuclear-equipped walking battle tank complete with a rail-gun, heavy machine guns, missile pods, a lazer beam, and a bat-shit-insane genetically-enhanced pilot hell-bent on world domination. Rex > Dragon.

[Angry Young Man]

Hater. The string of days is for people who slew dragons.

[hugsandmarxism]

Oh come on. If you give a holiday to everyone who slays a dragon, then you'd have to give one to the guy in True Crime: Streets of LA.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3316/271325-nickkang_large.jpg

And yes. This shallow moron character in this failed attempt to make a GTA rip-off battles a dragon in a labyrinth under China Town. Does he deserve a holiday? Well, does he? NO.

[Angry Young Man]

I've never played that game. Now it's Beowulf day. Can anyone think of any other dragon slayers?

[hugsandmarxism]

http://ninjagaidenworld.com/images/547px-Ninja_Gaiden_big1.JPG

Ryu Hayabusa slayed a dragon (at least one that I know of, but maybe more than one). He definitely qualifies for a holiday...

[Pirate Utopian]

Oh come on. If you give a holiday to everyone who slays a dragon, then you'd have to give one to the guy in True Crime: Streets of LA.
That game was so fucking terrible.

[hugsandmarxism]

That game was so fucking terrible.

It was indeed. Ugh, the things we played between GTA installments...

[Pirate Utopian]

I played Bully, that was good.

[Black Sheep]

Mirror's Edge
http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398d68548000201101629da22860c-500pi

running and stuff

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/900/900446/mirrors-edge-20080820034709988_640w.jpg

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/900/900446/mirrors-edge-20080820034707816_640w.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/mirrors.edge.comic.teaser.2.490.jpg

beating up cops while wearing a tanktop, ftw

[An archist]

But is there a dragon being slayed?

[Sasha]

:lol: it took me reading this thread to remind me that revleft is just like any other part of the interwebs, no matter what your ambition is, it wil always ends up with geeky teenage boys fighting over virtual girls.

[NecroCommie]

All you could just die! Jarlaxle is THE character in all fiction, appearing in books and computer games alike! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlaxle

He has killed several dragons, one of which was a ghost! OK, so he is not a hot gal, but I am ready to forgive him considering his recent relationship with a dragon.

[Angry Young Man]

Happy Jarlaxe day, everyone!!!

[Black Sheep]

How the hell is that pronounced?

[NecroCommie]

The initial J is pronounced as a consonant form of Y (like j-letters always). The rest of the name is quite simple, but it is very important to clearly pronounce every letter, even the l after the x. The e-letter is pronounced pretty much like in the word "death", and the a-letters are pronounced like in the word "android". The r-letter is pronounced like in "rat".

You think thats difficult? Try pronouncing Drizzt Do'Urden, or Drizzt's panther Guenhwyvar.