Yosuke Hayashi, leader of Team Ninja, has said Dead or Alive 5 will be ditching the huge norked bimbos in favour of ‘real women.’
Talking to Gamaasutra he said the old team were ‘known for making games that just had two primary elements: Sex and violence,’ and the series had a ‘Sports Illustrated [aesthetic]. like a magazine for high school kids.’
“We’ve always had the sex factor in the game; in the past, the female characters had to have big breasts, they had to have scanty dress,” says Hayashi. “In DoA 5 especially, we’re trying to focus on the real women that surround us; the voice of a female, the mannerisms. We are being realistic about it.”
“We want to show something that’s more high class, that adult males of our generation could look at a woman [character] and be impressed with her as a woman, not just as a pin-up. That’s what we wanted to tell our fans.”
They key phrase there is ‘not just as a pin up’ – sounds like DOA5 will have babes, but babes with brains.
Hayashi says that new Team Ninja will take both female bodies and narratives a bit more seriously, ‘The world has changed,’ he concluded.
Maybe he should have a world with these guys.
Source: Gamasutra
KeRaSh
No more DoA Beach Volleyball?
Who actually buys DoA games for the fighting aspect? ;)
hazelam
DOA ultimate on xbox was pretty good.
in fact the beatemup aspect of the DOA games has always been good, against other people at least, the ai is ridiculous.
and i liked the dress up part of the volleyball game. ^_^
that furry swimsuit looks bloody horrible though.
and the volleyball was fun, at least until you hit the Virtua Tennis wall, as i call it, where suddenly every other player gets, like, five million times better and your player can suddenly never return the ball.
HelixSundown
I kinda liked the huge boobs. :[
hazelam
after seeing what they did to Samus in Metroid, i don’t have high hopes.