I was impressed when Team Ninja announced that Dead Or Alive 5 would ‘focus on the real women that surround us; the voice of a female, the mannerisms.’ However things started to fall apart when we discovered the game was to get ‘costume specific boob bounce‘ and since then Tecmo has been parading bikini clad babes at every opportunity.
Team Ninja were about to drag the Dead Of Alive series out of the gutter but they failed to live up to their initial promise, why?
“We were getting feedback from the overseas offices to tone down the sexuality – to tone down the sexiness of the game, and of the characters,” said game director Yohei Shimbori.
However once the fans got to play a demo of the game that was shipped with Ninja Gaiden 3 a very different message was received. “We actually got a lot of feedback from people who were playing it, saying, ‘We want bigger breasts. Make the characters more like that.’ That was kind of surprising.”
It’s rather sad that Team Ninja were pressured in to giving their characters big, bouncy bosoms and even more disappointing that they have tried to justify their inclusion.
“If you have a solid fighting game system there, there’s nothing wrong with having beautiful characters as a layer on top of that,” said Shimbori, “That’s another layer of entertainment that there’s a need for. ”
“If there wasn’t a need for it, people wouldn’t have responded to the alpha demo like they did, and send us feedback,” he concluded. Do you have a need for huge, digital breasts with their own physics engine in your fighting games? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Gamasutra
Tuffcub
I just realised, Alex is on a train and cant access TSA and everyone else is at Eurogamer. I HAVE TSA TO MYSELF! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAH!
POWWWEERRRR!
TSBonyman
Will these costumes be free or are they planning on milking the situation..?
Tuffcub
No you have to pay to see the flesh.
The Lone Steven
Is this you answering the question or you advertising yourself Tuffcub? :op *dodges a biscuit tin that was thrown in his direction*
The Lone Steven
So instead of focusing on fixing any problems DOA5 may have, they increased the size of the bouncing tits. Sorry, but it’s interactive porn at this point. No-one will be playing it for it’s gameplay but for a very expensive wank. I appreciate digital tits and arse but if the entire selling point of a game is that, then it going to send out the wrong message for many. I go by the if it uses sex to sell, it will be crap rule.
Team ninja, gamers are trying to get rid of the horny 13 year old image that we have. So instead of focusing on porn, how about focus on creating a decent fighting game that uses it’s gameplay to sell? If i want to see tits, i will either use Google, buy the sun or watch BBC parliment. Plus it is just giving the media an excuse to bash gamers and ignore any postive news. :(
hazelam
and people say sex and gaming have nothing to do with each other. o_O
and i’ll bet they didn’t need much persuasion.
not if it meant they got to feel up a bunch of women, in the name of research.
still, it meant they got rid of those ludicrous breast physics from the last couple of games.
Tuffcub
AT least they were funny *wobblewibble*
hazelam
yeah, they were, but everybody was laughing at them, not with them. ^_^
Motalla
I bought the game because of the media stir. A good ting, since I did not know that it was released on the ps3. In this game blocking matters. The bubbly physique of the female characters are a nice bonus., it sleeps focused.
Motalla
Keeps me focused I meant to write.