171: OMG Bewbs!

[FuckYouDad]

I think this article is horrific. Realism? Can you in any way view the breasts in modern games as real? Have you ever seen breasts up close, or is your idea of breast realism based on porn?

I don't find the idea of breasts in games as something horrible. Yeah, sure, it's sexist to show off breasts as much as is done, but it's just as sexist to show men as muscular heroes solving all problems with violence. Hell, this whole issue is called "Guns, Cars 'n' Tits" and is supposed to cause us men to dribble with testosterone and shout "HELL YEAH!" But that's all right, call me cynic, but that's what you expect when you play video games. As have I come to expect immaturity and sexism whenever female characters are introduced.

But to praise the photoshopped, perfectly formed, porn star tits which seems to glow whenever as much as a candle is directed towards it as "realistic"? Realism is stretch marks, different sizes, pimples, freckles and a LACK of bounce. Just look at the ad background. One of these people have realistic skin. Guess which one.

 

[Psychedeliasmith]

I am haunted by the ghost of Ivy's boobs. Really, they were quite alarming, and their very presence made me suspicious of Soul Calibur 4 in general - was it such a weak game that it needed them? Possibly not - it was alright, not exactly a thrilling step up from SC3, but that should have been obvious as Ivy's boobs were the whole topic of every preview article until its release. I preferred the fact you could re-enact Tom Of Finland pictures using parts of Voldo's outfit but that still didn't mean I played it for more than a week and felt a bit dirty afterwards.

I vote smaller boobs, they seem to indicate better quality. Anyone remember the slappable enormo-boobs from Freak Out/Stretch Panic? I do wish they'd settle on a figure for poor Lara though, I read she's gone up a bra size again lately. I could be wrong, she may just have a thinner waist. Won't someone think of the gameplay?

All in all, I actually don't want my sexuality to be nudged by computer games. There's something disturbing about catching yourself thinking dirty thoughts about them. Nathan Drake nearly crossed a very fine line for me; I had to keep him well away from waterfalls. I dread to think how heterosexual men live with themselves after playing Dead Or Alive or Tomb Raider. Do you just give in to it?

 

[xitel]

I will admit that boobs have been getting more realistic in games in that they are becoming smaller, but I for one am kind of glad. I am a straight man, and even I have been getting sick of it.

 

[TheZaius]

Ivy's fat boobs in Soulcalibur 4 look disgusting. They were fine in the previous games but now they're just... yuck.

I, for one, am glad SOME games are becoming a little more sophisticated and less retarded and childish in that regard.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I am haunted by the ghost of Ivy's boobs. Really, they were quite alarming, and their very presence made me suspicious of Soul Calibur 4 in general - was it such a weak game that it needed them? Possibly not - it was alright, not exactly a thrilling step up from SC3, but that should have been obvious as Ivy's boobs were the whole topic of every preview article until its release. I preferred the fact you could re-enact Tom Of Finland pictures using parts of Voldo's outfit but that still didn't mean I played it for more than a week and felt a bit dirty afterwards.

I vote smaller boobs, they seem to indicate better quality. Anyone remember the slappable enormo-boobs from Freak Out/Stretch Panic? I do wish they'd settle on a figure for poor Lara though, I read she's gone up a bra size again lately. I could be wrong, she may just have a thinner waist. Won't someone think of the gameplay?

All in all, I actually don't want my sexuality to be nudged by computer games. There's something disturbing about catching yourself thinking dirty thoughts about them. Nathan Drake nearly crossed a very fine line for me; I had to keep him well away from waterfalls. I dread to think how heterosexual men live with themselves after playing Dead Or Alive or Tomb Raider. Do you just give in to it?

Lets just say alot of these titles are designed to be played One Handed. Or rather, thats how they wind up getting played. I confess to a little needless swimming in the opening level of Tomb Raider: Legend.

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[Gummy]

the worst imo, is the strip clubs in GTA:IV. not that they're any more realistic than the next game. but the lap-dance mini-game is focused on them, really distracting to my morning's GTA fix.
and it's not my fault, its Roman's. "Hey cousin, we're gentlemen, lets go to a Gentlemen's Club!" y'see! y'see!

 

[AuntyEthel]

I prefer real boobs. Pixels don't do anything for me. If developers put more effort into boob physics than making a decent and original game, then thats just kinda sad.

 

[Crusnik]

I much preferred Tira in SCIII over Ivy or the others.
That being said, I like Chell, Alyx and Jade (from Bg&E) because they are strong female leads that aren't sexualized. Even if digital boobs get smaller and less outrageous, then fine. I'll stick with real boobs.

 

[DonPauliani]

Unbridled prudes vs. the depraved sexual deviants-- an America painted under the rule of the FCC. Don't know how many of you Americans out there had frontal lobes that chaffed under the wardrobe-malfunction thing.

 

[Cinder Block of Oppression]

I was hoping for pics.

 

[Psychedeliasmith]

Well, I guess you've got a point, although it's needlessly controversially stated - some people want realistic eye candy, some people want glamourised eye candy and some want massive udder-like appendages swinging in the breeze. And some can find their jollies elsewhere, of course. I don't think anyone was even considering censorship at this point though.

If the wardrobe malfunction thing made a glaringly prudish impact, consider the effects of the UK press - in the 90s there was a truly magnificent advert for Tango, an orangey soft drink, which featured an old lady standing at a bus stop holding a balloon. A little man runs up behind her with a pin, goes for the balloon, and the old bag explodes gratifyingly. The Sun newspaper ran some story about how offensive it was to old people and claimed that leading coffin-dodger charity Help The Aged were upset and the advert was pulled within a week.

Help The Aged later went on to announce that they'd loved the advert, largely because it was hilarious but also because portraying old people in 'youth' comedy can be a really positive thing. Didn't help the advert though, it stayed buried. I can't really believe even the American press cared about Janet's solitary and rather sad boob, much less the public. But I can believe in the amusement they must have gotten from publicising the 'shocking' event over and over and over until everyone in the world had seen it.

 

[Joeshie]

Really, we put a man on the moon in the 60's and here we are in 2008 still fixated on female breasts and more so female nipples.

Are you suggesting that the more technologically advanced the human race gets, we should become less interested in human sexuality?

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

There's interest in human sexuality, and then there are video games. If you need to play a video game to get it up, you've got a problem. A big one. And I'll.. I don't see why people think video games, sex, and boobs really need to be in the same sentence. If I want tits, I'll ask my fiancee to take her shirt off. When I was a teen in the 90's, I rarely ever thought twice about what the women looked like in a video game. I preferred cute girls who looked more proportionate and normal, however, to the massive juggernauts that people apparently want to see in video games. If that means that realistic graphics is forcing people to reduce the size of the breasts, then so be it. I don't particularilly care for realism in video games, insofar as you can get up to a point that is, but I'll definitely be behind it if it forces people to stop oggling the women and get back to design decent games.

I've been pretty darn depressed about the current state of the video game industry and its fascination with breasts and sexism in general. Even characters like Samus Aran, who I thought would be immune to it all, have slinked down the road of eye candy for the little boys (and men who think like boys). To read this article and be told that all of video gaming has been about making better tits? I find that understandably hard to believe, considering I never really cared much for this obsession with higher graphics. Some of the greatest games out there are not only 2-D using sprites, but on older consoles where they designers focused more on the actual game, and not on making the sweat glisten on perky breasts just right to make the average man creame his pants.

I actually find it insulting that the game industry would even consider that the sort of thing I want to see. I muchly enjoyed characters like Jade and Chell because they were attractive (in a realistic, down to earth sort of way), and their characters had depth... well, okay, not so much Chell because she never said a word. But I loved the games they were in because I wasn't having to watch pixelated boobs bouncing up and down every time they moved.

As a straight, heterosexual male.. I found this article both interesting, yet offensive. However, I did find it interesting even more how many people in here actually share my sentiment on the subject.

 

[mrnelsby]

This articles lack of pictures of digital boobs and real boobs for comparison is disturbing.

Fail.

 

[felixader]

There is nothing wrong with looking at breasts. You just sould not forget the rest who counts to it too.

 

[Psychedeliasmith]

If I want tits, I'll ask my fiancee to take her shirt off.

Who says romance is dead?

 

[mattaui]

So I have to wonder what some of the commentators in the thread think of WoW's females? Does it just feel a little too ridiculous that they're marching around in steel-plated lingerie? I know some women that are bothered by that, and others who like their characters to look sexy. How does it differ in a game where the player makes the character (when they're basically representative avatars, like most MMOs) from a single-player experience?

I think you _can_ present an interesting female character that is also attractive in a cinematic fashion, but that so many times, designers won't bother.

 

[mattaui]

...If I want tits, I'll ask my fiancee to take her shirt off. When I was a teen in the 90's, I rarely ever thought twice about what the women looked like in a video game. I preferred cute girls who looked more proportionate and normal, however, to the massive juggernauts that people apparently want to see in video games....

Boobs on demand, 24/7? Must be nice to have such a compliant SO! In my experience, it tends to be a little more complicated than that.

Your sentiment seems to indicate a lack of wanting sexuality to feature in any sort of entertainment, to which I'd say puts you solidly in the minority. If you really just mean to say that you don't want them in games, what makes games different than, say, movies or comics? And is it that you only want 'realistic' boobs (to go along with all the other realism in the games, I know), or that you just don't want any at all?

I find some of the faux offense and self-righteousness that pops up whenever this subject is raised to be pretty amusing.

 

[Nikral]

Uhm....UHM!!

Wow.... Did no one play Duke Nukem 3D. That was my first introduction to boobs! Giving those strippers some money and then a little flash. Oh how interesting that was!