Forum - View topicINTEREST: Dead or Alive 6 Tones Down Characters' Sexuality
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Romuska
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Well, I'm into guys so if I want fan service I'll play Street Fighter.
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VORTIA
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Now they just have to make a fighting game actually worth playing, & they might make it in e-sports!
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invalidname
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Reining in the worst excesses, getting the franchise back to, say, DOA2 levels, would be fine with me. Would be nice to see a similar rebalancing of Soul Calibur, which has insisted on pushing its women characters up a cup size every installment (poor Taki and Sophitia!).
I'm sure someone's gonna bust out a "ess jay double-u's runin' mah games", but seriously, watch the damn trailer: Helena's still sporting ample cleavage and wearing lace stockings as she fights. Hunky/sweaty Jann Lee vs Zack probably does plenty for the hot guys crowd too. Point being: this is still plenty sexy. When the game turns into frumpy middle-age characters in sweatpants lecturing the player about the dialectic, then you can panic. |
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MisterLuck
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So how are they going to make money? Seeing as their business is mostly made up of selling hundreds of risque DLC costumes.
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Kougeru
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lol wtf. This isn't Dead or Alive then. Also what's wrong with boobs bouncing? They do that. Should at least be costume options to add/remove "Support". This isn't even a sexist thing, lots of females love these games. Game looked like a letdown anyway. Seemed like they were trying too hard to be "Cool". Admitting, I skipped 5 so maybe all the slow motion rotating cameras are not new, but it's lame and tryhard.
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MaskOfBrutality
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Saw this earlier and established my fears, being influenced by American comics and and movies is very concerning considering the state both are in at the moment. I find the excuse flimsy but if they want to go after a crowd who feel some sort of shame in playing a game with sexy girls and guys (but mainly girls) by all means abandon a core part of your audience.
I love the sexiness of it, was an added bonus on top of the, for me, best gameplay of a fighter. Hell even the 3DS game was fab and that had less sexiness than most other entries. I am on the fence as to whether to buy this now, I sincerely hope they do a 180 and go back to what the fans love and ignore the calls from certain groups. No doubt the regressive western gaming media will love this, they always treated the series depictions of sexy women with disdain and their ilk are part of the reason we never got DOAX3 over here (thank the lord for the Asia version). |
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Angel Investor
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Not even interested in these games, but when a series that is most well-known for its gratuituous fanservice decides to tone it down, something is wrong. I say screw the haters and make it even more risque than before.
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HueyLion
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Oh great. Thats gonna cost them a loss a lot of their buyers, the fan service is all those perverts want playing this game series.
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invalidname
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Then you're missing out. DOA games have a nice 8-way run system that uses the environment (like Soul Calibur and unlike the flat Street Fighter and its many derivatives), and a nifty system of reversals that rewards luring your opponent into being overaggressive and then punishing them for their foolishness (far more powerful than ordinary blocks in other fighting games). |
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Chrono1000
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Team Ninja says that they are following the US comic book industry by moving away from sexy female characters which is an odd decision to make since the US comic book industry has been shrinking for the last several years. The feminists will give them some faint praise for removing boob physics from the game engine but they are making the DOA franchise look like all of the other gritty fighting games. The boob jiggle and the sexy outfits were defining features of the DOA franchise.
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FrameFreeze100
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Wasn't DOA5 originally toned down too but then feedback led to bigger breasts later on?
I wouldn't be surprised if default or tournament only models (primarily for eSports) are these toned down versions but they bring back the sexier versions for individual gameplay (or paid DLC) Also amusing that current American comics are used as a source of inspiration for appearance. Not too familiar with the subject but isn't 'ComicsGate' a reason why Marvel decided to cancel a bunch of titles that failed and sold terribly? |
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wolf10
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AnimeLordLuis
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Team Ninja don’t pander to progressive western ideology it will not end well for you because when you give in to a small but very vocal minority (who don’t buy your games in the first place and never will) you will lose your entire fan base the ones who shell out every last dime for your games and other merchandise the very fans who supported you since the beginning and made you what you are today and if you lose them then you really will be just like the current US comic industry.
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IanC
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Lol they said the same back when DoA5 was in development, so I doubt this will stick.
Whatever happens I'm not buying it, the dlc in DoA5 was disgusting. |
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