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That's how I say it. You pronounce it like Laura even if its spelled "Lara". If people had initially intended to make it sound like "Sarah" except with an L at the beginning they should have spelled it "Larra" to emphasize the "ah" and "raa" sounds.

Since I know I'm going to play the game I've steered clear of reviews and gameplay footage aside from the IGN review. That review was enough for me.

I think you have it wrong there. People played the original DMC3 and loved what they got there. The Special Edition had Virgil as a playable character so people played that version for Virgil. I own the original and rented the SE version.

I'd like to say that I played and beat all 4 of the DMC games (yes, even DMC with both Dante and Lucia) and Bayonetta. I have not played DmC yet nor do I plan to play it anytime soon because everything I saw and read about the game told me it wasn't the DMC game I wanted. I'm sure its a functional character action game, but that isn't what I wanted.

Revengeance on the other hand has me totally hyped despite not caring about the MGS universe. Platinum has earned my attention over the years (they make great games) and I saw enough of their crazy stamp on the game to know its my thing.

I've never played a Ninja Theory game, but I've heard that their games are mostly good even with their flaws. I might try DmC for free, but I'm not spending my money and time on something that doesn't appeal to me just to support some cause.

I don't understand why fans voting with their wallets is suddenly a bad thing.

I had pre-ordered the game on steam and got the first one for free. I played that and really enjoyed it. I bought Diablo 3 some months after, but a bunch of hours into that (around 100) and made a little bit of money off the real money auction house. I haven't touched that game in months.

When TL2 finally came out I only played the first act (same area as beta), started the 2nd act, and the Borderlands 2 came out and I never came back to it.

Maybe I should try to round up a group here on giant bomb and actually play it.

I saw the Cyberpunk trailer to be indicative of the cyberpunk styles so I'm going with that.

This sounds great. I'll always be behind developers taking their pitch directly to the fans. The fans are demanding what they want with their wallet so there should be no issue. It turns out games cost money to make.

No one said anything? You must have missed the backlash with people saying the situation was being blown out of proportion. It was around the same time as "Girlfriend Mode" and people thought the reaction to that was stupid as well as the term had been thrown around for years already and had been used to describe the assists from a 2nd player in Super Mario Galaxy.

It then came out that the lead writer for the game was Rhianna Pratchett. You can imaged it was quite a shock when all the white knights learned that the imaginary misogynistic white male writing all these "sexist" scenarios for Lara was actually a woman.

http://www.edge-online.com/features/tomb-raider-writer-rhianna-pratchett-on-controversy-and-characterisation/

The response of a gaming press and public, many of whom had not even seen the trailer let alone played the scene in context, was a source of frustration to Pratchett. Not least because at the time of the furor she had yet to be announced as one of the writers working on the project.

“It got people talking and thinking about character and the relationship between characters and females. The debate had a value to it. I just wish there had been more restraint and people had waited to judge it in context. People were assuming you were white, straight, middle class American man.”

Sounds like good news. I hope this translates to more sales for Bayonetta 2.

I haven't tried anything yet. The forums didn't work for a while on mobile and then they did. I'm sure they'll get to playing videos on the mobile site eventually. I just posted to add the iTouch to the list of things that didn't play since I'm not sure what browser version it uses.