Talk:Shadow of the Tomb Raider/@comment-1500935-20181019090047/@comment-2038153-20181019181354

One issue I, and many others, have had with the Survivor games after A Survivor is Born, is that the series has been playing it as safe as it can. I mean Rise and Shadow are just retreading the plot of the first game with less interesting supporting characters and refusing to give Lara any emotional challenge that really effects her. I mean she caused the Apocalypse and while she feels guilty about that she still pushes it aside and no one ever calls her out on it except Dominguez who was going to do the same thing without any regrets and kill even more people.

I'm so tired of this series playing it safe and want them to take a few risks again. Bring Back Sam and have a big part of the game's story be about her and Lara rebuilding their relationship. Give Lara a villain who actually makes her confront her own mistakes, like someone who is after Lara who is related to someone she killed from the first three games and flesh them out as a character so Lara being forced to kill them isn't an easy scene to watch.

Also, give everyone in the game their own character arc and have them be as well rounded as Lara instead of making this a one woman show. Have Sam over coming her own personal demons as well as rebuilding her relationship with Lara, give the villain some genuine humanity like Khan from Star Trek or Ghost from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And give the supernatural more layers to it instead of just, "This is a bad thing it has to be stopped." plot that we've had for 3 games now.