Talk:Lara Croft (Survivor Timeline)/@comment-25477620-20161127102357/@comment-2038153-20161128010156

Hm, not sure I agree and my counter argument is that the DLC's, Blood Ties not withstanding, had Lara working with Nadia and the new co-op mode also has Lara teaming up with Nadia again. And these DLC's and Co-op were very well received by fans as many felt that Nadia presents helped lighten the mood of the story.

I understand why many fans would be appose to having a romance, even hardcore Salara have said that they would rather have Lara doing all the adventure stuff on her own. I'm in the minority on this one and I'm okay with that. However, I don't think fans are against Lara having a romance nor do I think it would take anything away from the game. The reason Kurtis sucked was because he was a bad character who was only there to be Lara's love interest and nothing more like Mako in The Legend of Korra or James, and maybe Mon-el, in Supergirl.

Now Sam was originally intended to be just the friend that Lara saves and nothing more but thanks to the comics and Arden Cho's performance in the first game she became more then that. And even if she was used as a AI partner I would like her to at least take on the role of mission control and help Lara over the radio during her missions.

I would also like to point for all the lone wolf talk in Rise of the Tomb Raider Lara had help during most of Rise and fought along side several members of the Remnant. And Rise is considered to be one of the best games in the series by fans so and many of those same fans were very disappointed that Sam was not included in the game as Lara's love interest.

Now would I be okay if it was kept ambiguous in the games and they were only ever made a couple in the comics? Sure, I would be okay with that so long as Lara doesn't end up with Whatshisname from TTTI who I'm pretty sure was actually killed in Rise, (the guy that Konstantin gouged the eyes out of has the exact same face as Whatshisname (and for the record I really hope that is the case cause god was he a bad character)).

Either way what I want is to have more Sam in TR11 and to see more of this relationship as I feel it adds a lot to Lara's character as it gives Lara something to fight for beyond whatever object she is trying to get to before Trinity. Still in the end these are just my opinions and you are free to disagree with me.