DOA5 and Sexualization: Too Much?

[Hayabusiness]

I'd buy DOAX3 if it were a quality spin-off minigame collection... if it featured double the attractions/sports, it included male characters, more interactions, more secrets, more Blanc Manger, Bass winning the butt battle trophies, Gen Fu flying off the slide and XTREME BEACHVOLLEY STRIKES* then I'd spend hours and hours on it.

*: an Xtreme Beachvolley Strike is something akin to those special attacks in Super Mario Strikers Charged. That'd be really Xtreme.

That said, I'm impressed to see how the Japanese DOA fans are in our same situation, but I guess the ones who dislike the exaggerated h-game-like sexualization are a vocal minority over there too.
But... are people who want things to less get exploity really that much of a minority?

 

[Jyakotu]

The only guy I want included in DOAX is Eliot. It'd be his very own harem. Lol

 

[Mayor-Of-Mustard]

The only guy I want included in DOAX is Eliot. It'd be his very own harem. Lol

NO, GEN FU IS THE TRUE HAREM KING
Eliot can be the typical harem "male friend" character tho

 

[werewolfgold]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, fuck harems.

 

[Brute]

fuck harems.

I believe that's the point of them.

 

[Argentus]

I believe that's the point of them.

In real life yes.

In anime the point of harems is to eternally blue ball the poor guy.

 

[Brute]

In real life yes.

In anime the point of harems is to eternally blue ball the poor guy.

While giving him an absurd amount of undeserved attention and exhibitionism that his pathetic, author-surrogate ass would never receive otherwise.

He can fuck a napkin and quit whining.

 

[Argentus]

While giving him an absurd amount of undeserved attention and exhibitionism that his pathetic, author-surrogate ass would never receive otherwise.

He can fuck a napkin and quit whining.

Methinks you dislike the genre.

 

[David Gregg]

So I've been getting the opinions of Tekken players on DOA since at this point Tekken is our current "sister" 3D fighter. Many of them are curious about Last Round especially given the current gen and PC ports. Ironically, the biggest complaint I hear about the game isn't the sexualization but the amount of paid DLC.

 

[werewolfgold]

The DLC prices are kind of redonkulous, even with discounts and sales...

 

[HHH816]

to be fair look at GGxrd even recolor cost $0.99 and tales of xilia costume cost $2.99

 

[Jyakotu]

Ironically, the biggest complaint I hear about the game isn't the sexualization but the amount of paid DLC.

Well, they have to look at it this way. What is DLC in DOA5(U) doesn't really change the overall gameplay experience (minus the new characters). You don't NEED to buy Private Paradise and you certainly don't NEED to buy every costume to enjoy the game. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 had their "new" characters patched in and the only DLC for Tag 2 is music and videos from the old games. And because Tag 2 also has a robust customization mode, Namco has no reason to release costume DLC, since you can make your own within the game.

 

[werewolfgold]

to be fair look at GGxrd even recolor cost $0.99 and tales of xilia costume cost $2.99

Well, in GGXrd, $0.99 nets you 6 re-colors. Meanwhile, there have been times when TN will charge $1.99 for 1 re-color. That's comparatively kind of bad.

I don't know anything about Tales of Xilia, but that sounds overpriced too.

 

[Aerospark]

ToX and ToX 2 charging $2.99 for costumes is worse than TN charging $1.99 to put a jacket on Ayane :///////

 

[Woozy]

I don't really care about sexualization in games, but goddamn am I tired of fucking bikinis. I'd like to see them put actual effort into these costumes, instead of going for something so cheap. Also, the costumes need a price gouge. They should cost half of what they do for how little seemingly goes into them.

 

[Tyaren]

Just going to leave this here:

 

[Jadeinchains]

Just going to leave this here:

#sothirstyrightnow

 

[Mayor-Of-Mustard]

Just going to leave this here:

 

[Woozy]

Just going to leave this here:

More of this too please

 

[werewolfgold]

Huh. Well that happened.

Truthfully, I'm pretty okay with sexiness/sexualization if A: it isn't so heavily weighted to one gender and B: it's not to the point where it crowds out all other aspects of the product (both are issues that DOA perhaps has).

I think that A is kind of important because I don't think that generally the straight male demographic understands how the other side feels when that type of thing is shoved in their face constantly. Telling them to "get over it or GTFO" is always there, understanding can be brought through sharing the pain. Heh heh.