Lara's height. Are you serious?

[SuperSEXY]

Is it me or is Lara the shortest human being on the island? In some cutscenes she's even shorter than Sam, who's asian! I didn't know making someone innocent and inexperienced requires making them barely 5 feet tall. Watching this petite girl taking on giant dudes made me chuckle a bit. I'm curious was she this tiny in previous TR games?

[GrimAquatic]

Developers wanted to make her look more like an average woman. I don't know exact figures but guess they made her around 170 cm tall,

Originally posted by fatwednesdayite:

Lol. Hopefully, she'll drink more milk before she decides to return to tomb raiding, might gain an inch or two.

I don't think she would grow any taller at twenty one.

[Pencliff]

What's wrong with her being short?

The short guy is always the crazy kick ass one in martial arts movies :P

[SuperSEXY]

Originally posted by GrimAquatic:

Developers wanted to make her look more like an average woman. I don't know exact figures but guess they made her around 170 cm tall

170cm for a woman is almost minimum required model height. Does Lara look like model to you? She looks about 150 cm tall compared to her male crewmates.

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by SuperSEXY:

170cm for a woman is almost minimum required model height. Does Lara look like model to you? She looks about 150 cm tall compared to her male crewmates.

She doesn't look like a model (170 for a model is way too short), nor does she look like 150 cm tall. She looks exactly like an average height woman

[SuperSEXY]

Originally posted by GrimAquatic:

Originally posted by SuperSEXY:

170cm for a woman is almost minimum required model height. Does Lara look like model to you? She looks about 150 cm tall compared to her male crewmates.

She doesn't look like a model (170 for a model is way too short), nor does she look like 150 cm tall. She looks exactly like an average height woman

173 cm - minimum height required to be runway model. The more you know...

Even if we assume she's actually average female height (170cm) she's still tiny compared to others. Which makes no sense to me.

[nospamail]

Its been reported that the 'old Lara' was 5' or 5'3" and our new Lara is actually 5'7".

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by nospamail:

Its been reported that the 'old Lara' was 5' or 5'3" and our new Lara is actually 5'7".

Reported where and by whom? "Old" Lara was tall, taller than 180 I'd guess. They made "new" Lara shorter to make her more realistic.

[AMS AGENT 000]

Isn't Sam wearing heels though?

[Dellicious]

She's as small as AJ Lee from WWE and that's a sexy height

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by Dell | CL 2NE1:

She's as small as AJ Lee from WWE and that's a sexy height

Then they did it wrong, because sexy was not what they were looking for.

[Dellicious]

Will you stop saying they're trying to make her un-sexualised.

She's one of the sexiest characters there is and always will be. There is a reason she is an attractive young athletic British girl.

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by Dell | CL 2NE1:

Will you stop saying they're trying to make her un-sexualised.

But that's true. When someone is trying to make a deep character the audience may empathize with sex appeal is the last thing on creators mind. It's very easy to make people care for an attractive character of virtue, it's much harder to care for Quasimodo.

Originally posted by Dell | CL 2NE1:

She's one of the sexiest characters there is and always will be. There is a reason she is an attractive young athletic British girl.

Yeah, and that reason is mostly male developer team and audience.

Originally posted by fatwednesdayite:

Besides, I cannot believe that people are seriously arguing about Lara's height. Short or tall, it does not really matter.

It is preposterous. What's next, someone will complain about her having two earrings in her right ear?

[-ETU-Daedalus]

If you have an f*cking AXE it doesn't matter how tall you are, you just ram that thing in these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and if you cannot reach his head then the knees or something. Really, what is the point in discussing her height. Why does that matter? Looking so badly for some negative points for that game?

[dark_tiger888]

Someone open a discussion about Lara's height? What the ..... Seriously, that's the least of my concerns in this amazing game. The only thing I'm worried is if she'll ever raid tombs ever again like before or they transformed this saga into an action game.

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by dark_tiger888:

Someone open a discussion about Lara's height? What the ..... Seriously, that's the least of my concerns in this amazing game. The only thing I'm worried is if she'll ever raid tombs ever again like before or they transformed this saga into an action game.

I asked this once but no one seemed to notice. So here we go again.

How many actual tombs has she raided? I remember various locations from different games and very little of them have to do with interment.