Dead or Alive 6 was supposed to be tamer than its predecessors, but Eurogamer.net reports that it’s just as lewd as ever. While default costumes show characters like the 18-year-old Honoka all covered up, you can unlock alternative outfits that reveal a dizzying degree of skin. Breast physics are also back, but they’re tied to clothing this time, so the more that a fighter lets loose, the more jiggle you’re going to see on screen. The feature can be turned off if you prefer, but the title looks static this way.
Perhaps most interesting is that producer and game director Yohei Shimbori doesn’t feel like the game can get away from its hyper-sexualised roots. “The thing is, this is part of the legacy of Dead or Alive,” he said. “If you lose this, the core fans would move away. So you can't really move it.” The compromise from publisher Koei Tecmo in a changing culture is to make the more saucy threads unlockable, so you never need interact with them if you don’t want to.
For the likes of Shimbori and his team, it all just sounds like a distraction that detracts from the work it’s investing into the actual gameplay. “We are honouring the long-term fans and making sure they also get what they expect,” he continued. “We would really appreciate it if the media would focus more on the topic of we are building a good game here and not only focusing on this jiggle talk.” Yeah, good luck with that!
[source eurogamer.net]
Comments (49)
Don't worry, Sony will censor the game for you.
Well that’s good too hear. I mean it’s the thing that makes dead or alive DOA. Would be like removing gore from mortal kombat, weapons from soul calibur or nintendo characters from smash.
At least the team recognises that making good gameplay is more important than jiggle physics. You can have all the jiggle in the world but if the game’s not good then people won’t buy it. Yes, I’m talking about those Senran Kagura spin-offs.
Ok is this a joke just like IBeAGamer. The beta was playing fantastic so because you the girls still look sexy. I just cant take these people serious anymore just like IBeAGamer. 😜
I have no problem with this at all. Good gameplay and jiggle physics,
@Flaming_Kaiser Silly isn't it who plays a fighting game for boobs
@Areus i do....i mean, yeah who does that "looks around nervously"
No problem for me
Look, this is the closest some of these folks will ever come to seeing a female beyond their mother (poor woman). They haven’t been outside since birth after all. Somebody think of the incels!
Anyone playing this game for the skin is a loser, sorry. No interest in this title nor the mammaries. Go ahead and censor it. Focus on real games of quality instead of raunch for the sake of it.
@nessisonett actually the pedo-perves of the world don't want a game that plays well. they want sexual content. why else would doa xtreme exist? doa is a third rate fighting franchise that has never been taken seriously and never will. whether or not the fighting mechanics are good is irrelevant.
It's just a bit of tit...illation. Chill out prude dudes.
Hopefully Sony doesn't censor or they should just not release it on the PS4 straight up.
@Porco As long as the girls are of age and the dudes are on show too then I guess it’s not exactly harming anyone. Not really sure who gets off on this stuff though tbh.
Glad they know why people buy this games, obviously for the gameplay right
@Flaming_Kaiser someone loves me.
@Areus I know man how sad. Yeah i wont buy Injustice 2 not enough cleavage.....😑 😔
If you see some of the games that are censored i think would you even admit you play something like this.
I dont like censoring and i dont agree with everything but some stuff yeah it makes me feel uncomfortable to say the least.
@Porco Its a rocksolid fighter. And the people who wont buy it if there is less cleavage are just sad. Did you even try the beta and it has a nice amount of free customisation and costumes.
The game has never been a thirdrate only the fanservice is a big money maker thats for sure. I takes away from the solid gameplay.
@IBeAGamer You mean your hoping cos that's what you really want Sony to do so you can have a good moan.
What a bunch of whiny haters, I don't see y'all complaining about the gore in Mortal Kombat, but some jiggly action and y'all start acting all superior and calling people virgins for liking it etc.
I'm not even buying this game but I won't ever complain about there being some skin in a videogame, I like girls, I like jigglypuffers, what's the harm, get off your high horses already.
I just want the game.
@Amusei What are going on about even the developers feel held hostage by the "fans" the options are still there? The "fans" are seeing ghosts. It shows what fan you are that skin is more important then solid gameplay. There is enough skin the girls still look hot i dont see the problem here?
@Mikethemosher back in the day DOA used to be a decent fighter, now it's just a perv simulator for pre-teens, urgh.
I agree. Anyway, violence and murder are way worse than exposed thighs or cleavage so why aren't people asking for CoD to remove killing, violence and guns?
@Porco
"I hate it therefore is third rate!" Soul Calibur 6 has just as much skin, if not more since you can create pretty much any pervy character your mind can think of. Also everyone in DOA is an adult so your pedo comment is just as stupid as your post.
It sounds the developers are hoe stay frustrated. It sounds they don’t want it to be as sexual as before, that’s their genuine vision, but people keep whining. I’m glad their finding a more middle-ground personally.
@Flaming_Kaiser I think you misunderstood what I was saying and I'm not sure what you are on about either lol
@AdamNovice Actually I hope they don't since I love this series.
@Matroska theres a big difference between a healthy element of sexuality and huge unrealistic flapjacks that defy gravity. Its just cringey IMO. I said the exact same things about quiet in MGS. She couldve been handled a lot better (more maturely).
Good, keep making them if it annoys people this much.
Ka-boom, 10/10 GotY. More jiggles, more money.
Want more jiggles? $10 DLC. Badaboom. Perfect game.
Game of the year? More like Game of the GENERATION.
Eurogamer is trash.
Showing more Skin colored texture on polygons is not a big deal.
Anybody noticed that while they've been covering up the female fighters, the male fighters have been just as revealing (or more so) than before? Interesting thing that.
News: DOA is still DOA. If you liked earlier entries you'll like this one.
It is funny how Soulcalibur is just as full of fan-service, in fact probably more so with custom characters, yet DOA gets more flack. On that note, the new mechanics in DOA felt less intrusive than Soul Calibur's repeated RE and CE cut-scenes when I tried the beta.
Great to hear. I wish these Japanese publishers would push back against Sony's prudish policies more. It benefits no one.
I feel sorry for the poor devs, feeling they must please certain ideologically-driven factions of the modern games media (not here) when it's just not possible and believing the drivel they spout about the western audience by and large finding the overt sexiness offensive. I mean there is no global trend for toning down sexualisation in reality - just an incredibly vocal minority who've turned whining very loudly, morally policing anyone they deem morally inferior, and taking lots of offence into an Olympic-worthy competitive sport! They're so good that they make me want to join in the whining competition like I'm doing here! 😄 Anyway, the bouncy-booby option wasn't obligatory in DoA5 as far I remember, they're all supposed to be 18 or over, and they're giving the serious fighter fans less distracting clothing options now which is good, so short of dressing them all up as nuns I don't see what else they can do.
@WCB You do know we're part of Eurogamer, right?
@get2sammyb Hahaha, can't speak for WCB, but whilst I knew you're part of the same company, the reporting style and tone here is very different to Eurogamer. I love this site for news, but in the past year or so I've mostly avoided going on the Eurogamer site for it (though I still prefer it for articles than a few others I can think of lol), so I mostly just go there now for walkthrough segments like with AC Odyssey, which tbf are generally pretty good. Pssst: this site's better, basically! 😉
@get2sammyb Can I ask why this site reporting is different from eurogamer? I rarely see clickbait articles (gamer are dead, games x should be censored, etc) in here compared to eurogamer.
I think games journalism/reporting reach a new low when they refused to report news from devs they didn't like (kingdom come deliverance) or news they didn't like (sony censoring games).
That's one of the reason I read pushsquare, it's only about games in here.
@wiiware We're part of the same network but we work as an independent website. Push Square is very much our own voice in the same way Eurogamer has its own voice.
@ShogunRok Ok, that's good to hear
Imagine removing the bikini segments from universe contests. Believe it or not, violence and sexuality have never been this present. You can't watch 90% of Netflix shows without seeing excessive amounts of both. Even T rated movies have naked breasts in them. If it has always been part of DoA, then it shouldn't have to be removed. Let people decide for themselves and turn it on or off. No problems. It's not even like it's a touching mini game.
@kai_ lol. Agreed.
Is it not a "No-Brainer" that the lack of over-sexualized characters makes the game maturer? You have games like GTA where they exploit sex, an indication that said game is for a maturer audience.
Then you have sexual innuendo, where tits and ass are the highlight, but mainly to attract weak minded audience, people who still a child at heart (not trying to offend anyone, it's just true). This doesn't make a game mature, gore violence does, graphic sexual scene does, not the showcase of sideboob and skin.
All this seemingly bad press will backfire and make more people buy the game. I never bought a DOA game, I'm not that much of a fighter fan. I have to say I am tempted to support the Dev just because they are trying by putting behind a unlock. Don't like it don't buy it, it's as simple as that. Whats the point of going SJW over things you don't care for in the first place? When you know you will never be forced to use, purchase it, or even view it.
Do you guys not have phones?
"Toning down" the franchise would be a huge mistake and I doubt Tecmo would really be that dumb. DOA has ALWAYS been about fanservice, anyone saying otherwise has obviously not played a single DOA game. Since the very first game, DOA has made a deliberate effort to appeal to male gamers. It was one of the first fighting games to have jiggle physics implemented as a major feature and even the commercials for DOA2 and 3 were obviously geared for a male audience ("she kicks high"). The DOAX Volleyball games take this and dial it up to 11.
Don't get me wrong, there's a solid fighter underneath all the sexy (I was a big fan of DOA2) and I'm not really complaining, just pretty much stating a fact. The DOA series is known for sex appeal, it's literally part of the franchise. Changing it now would most certainly lose sales just like taking fatalities and gore out of Mortal Kombat would lose sales. There's nothing wrong with that either.
Listening to some vocal minority who most likely doesn't even play the games anyway would be a mistake. Assuming Sony doesn't censor these games, they should be as bouncy and sexy as they've always been. That's what most people buy the games for.
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