Big Boobs- why do people complain?

[Angstysquirrel]

It's not that I hate large breasts, I just dislike the abundance of them.
In almost every game where a woman in present, the majority of said women must have huge boobs. I wouldn't mind so much if only one or two women in a pick of 30 games had large breasts, but when every damn game has them? It's annoying, and rather distracting.
In DA2, for example, they did everything they could to show of boobs. Every woman had large breasts, and some so large they defied logic, and was just... annoying. I understand it is part of the engine they use, and therefor everywoman has the same breast size, but it's just odd when 90 year olds haave the same breast size/shape as a 20-odd year old.

 

[Giuglea]

i simply don`t like women with big boobs..just like that..don`t find it really attractive...

 

[Necromancist]

I agree with what seems to be the general sentiment, that big breasts are nice in moderation.

And the whole "every woman has huge tits in DA2" is because the story is being told by Varric, who exaggerates EVERYTHING. Notice how stacked your sister is in the beginning of the demo, and then compare it to her chest size when Varric tells Cassandra "what really happened".

Also, a bit of obscure trivia: the reason that Tifa has such large breasts was because the graphical limitations of the PS1 forced the developers to give her a big rack. For comparison, here's a piece of early artwork of Tifa by Yoshitaka Amano: http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/0/00/AmanoTifa.jpg

 

[Souplex]

I don't inherently have a quarrel with big boobs in games, but I fail to see how something like this is at all attractive;

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I'm a heterosexual female, I like dicks. If I ever saw a guy in a video game with a bulge that freakishly disproportionate with his body, I wouldn't think it was hot, I'd wonder what the hell was wrong with him.

Pretty much this. Except the heterosexual female part.
Past a certain size, they stop being attractive, and start being freakish.
CAPTCHA: tuduc joska
Also: People complaining aboot over-muscled males, you can get that way by hard-work and dedication. An action hero expected to be physically fit.
People would complain if Marcus Fenix (Why is he the example people keep using?) was out of shape.
However, no amount of exercise can increase bust-size. It can help them defy gravity, but that's hardly the point.

 

[WanderingFool]

2. Complaint: It isn't normal for women to have such big boobs. It is genetically abnormal!

Response: All above average traits, including above average intelligence, are genetically abnormal. If one were to accept that being attracted to abnormal traits is wrong, then being attracted to women who are more intelligent than average would be wrong. Moreover, because intelligence is more important than attractiveness, it seems somewhat illogical to complain- what seems to worse to you, that there is a an area of desirability/human attractiveness that actually matters, where only a small percentage are born with the most desired traits (highest intellect), or that there is an area of desirability/human attractiveness that doesn't really matter where only a small percentage have the desired traits(appearance)?

More simply put, shouldn't the inherent genetic elitism of a trait that actually matters bother you more? And yet, we accept the inherent genetic elitism of intelligence as a simple fact...while crying out against the far less important genetic elitism of appearance, treating it as totally malleable...despite the fact that beauty has always been elite.

Biology... always fun stuff...

 

[Zizzousa]

I don't really mind them, I guess...I mean the only game I can remember with massive boobs in it were Lulu's in FFX, and they were very well done - like they actually looked like they had some give to them, and weren't full of helium. I guess I just don't really pay attention to, or get distracted by, tits. Insane space-marine muscles, unrealistic and crazy, however...

 

[Daveman]

Well I don't see why people who complain about big boobs in games don't also complain about real people who have big boobs. I mean they're not going to live up to them either by their argument.

 

[dkyros]

Its called fan service, deal with it!

Whats not to love about large breasts. If only a game was made in which the female smothers some guy with her breasts in the game it would show the world the utility of superhuman jugs.
And theres more to do than just grab them (people who say a handful is too much need to think outside the box)
I agree that they arent needed on every character

 

[hurfdurp]

This reminds me of how I specifically played the MvC3 arcade mode with every character to get the figurines so I could zoom in and see who had the biggest bulge. It was Spider-Man by the way. Why doesn't he get jiggle physics, he deserves it.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

Well I don't see why people who complain about big boobs in games don't also complain about real people who have big boobs. I mean they're not going to live up to them either by their argument.

I don't complain too much about women with big breasts because I know that they're uncomfortable, physically and even socially. If anything, I feel sorry for them, and even more so if they put implants in just to achieve such size. Just imagine the kind of sagging that happens when they get to about 60 without having regular surgery to tighten things back up or wearing some kind of support at all times. Painful, expensive, and surely embarrassing.

 

[SkyeNeko]

Like what has been stated in a few posts, I think that a female character with a chest out to here just doesn't fit in with most of the things they have her do. A muscle bound hunk can fight. It's power. He is physically capable of pounding things into the dirt, jumping high, and doing flips. A woman with 30 extra pound tacked onto her chest is going to have problems just standing up. Forget hitting anything or properly defending.

Also, I think there are far more good non-muscle bound male characters than there are good non-bigboobed female characters. (Yes there are some good F cup female characters, but it takes away from their intelligence and personality when they show up in a shirt made for a little girl.) This is more of a problem for me in media in general, where there are more standard men (old, fat, dumb, etc.) than there are female counterparts. The husband can be a fat lazy tard, but the wife is almost always a shapely woman that seems to be out of his league.

I also get embarrassed when playing a game with BOOBS just out there with a male friend/relative. Boobs are secondary sex characteristics. Muscles are not. The boobs, most likely, will have my male friend thinking about boobs. And then some time during this game, he will inevitably look at me and I will have to decide whether he is comparing me to this video game woman.

It's also pushing it when the woman is well... a girl. A fully matured woman with huge knockers is better than a tiny tween with melons as big as her head. That's just creepy.

A man can exercise to get big muscles. A woman cannot do anything short of inserting pieces of plasticy material into her chest to get bigger boobs.

 

[kogane]

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That makes perfect sense, because Bayonetta is always in control of her sexuality. SHE flirts with the camera; the camera isn't zooming in on her ass/boobs when she's having a conversation (for example), without her being aware of it. Basically, she isn't Aya Brea in the latest Squeenix debacle.

No it does not, It does not matter if the female character is dominative over her sexuality or submissive. She still is objectified and reduced to fetish doll by a majority of puberty teens.
The way she is acting does not change how she looks and what was she designed towards.

Of course it matters! This is one female character in over a thousand who's sexy but also in control.

Also, if you're a man? (or even another women for that matter) you do not get to tell other women what they can and what they can not feel empowerment through.

hth.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

Boobs are cool. I'm a guy, I like boobs. Most of us do except from those of us who swing the other way. Game developers acknowledge this and put it into games. Is it wrong to use boobs as a selling point? Well, if used as it's sole point then yes but if it's an added bonus, the more the merrier. Just gives me something to appreciate while playing the game. Kinda like my having a good looking girl in a shop where you work. You aint gonna work different, it just makes the world a happier place for a while

 

[Daveman]

Well I don't see why people who complain about big boobs in games don't also complain about real people who have big boobs. I mean they're not going to live up to them either by their argument.

I don't complain too much about women with big breasts because I know that they're uncomfortable, physically and even socially. If anything, I feel sorry for them, and even more so if they put implants in just to achieve such size. Just imagine the kind of sagging that happens when they get to about 60 without having regular surgery to tighten things back up or wearing some kind of support at all times. Painful, expensive, and surely embarrassing.

Ah but then the question is do you complain about video game characters with big boobs? Because tbh if they were to grow old (/live in the real world), they'd have to deal with all that shit too.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

It's called pandering. It's a natural program for human males to be attracted to "Larger" breasts because of natural selection.
However this is something that can be changed in preferances but still remains a deep seated value.
Remember kids
Sex sells.
I can tell you right now that If Ivy had boobs that large she'd have serious trouble jumping or running around.
Those things are monsters.
I dont care if a character has big boobs or not just as long as it fits the character design. If all the characters have huge breast sizes, it only reinforces to people like me that all men are perverts. People like to blame me for being "sexist" and "stereotyping" when I talk down about how most guys are perverts. Do I blame them? Machoism in society forces them to be that way.

It does kinda suck for a female gamer to see that all the time though. Personal experiace in 3 ..2..1..
Im flatchested(AA Cup so STFU you), so seeing all these girls with giant giggling tits makes me pissed off.
"What no love for the flatchested girls? you know thats a whole fetishism in japan damit!"
I can't help but be lefted thinking "Maybe i'd feel better about my self if my boobs were bigger..."

I don't see a serious issue with giant boobs. WHAT I DO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH, is the bouncyness of said Virtual tits.
Boobs dont bounced like that, Thats sick and perverted and.... entrancing, i mean distacting.
Seriously
I dont see why EVERY girl in these games needs to be wearing a visible thong and have boobs that sway like the ocean when shes standing and doing her idel motion and bounce like water balloons when shes running around.
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Now don't get me wrong, I wouldnt mind seeing that every once in a while, I mean Dead Or Alive dementions was screaming "3d Boucing boobies!" so I fell for that and reserved it with my 3DS, and I wanted a mobil figting game.

But Everytime? Seriously every game that is capable of viewing a girls chest, that has the graphics and phyics engine to do so has applied it to the female breast function.
Seriously, even the MMORPG and 2 MMOs i play are guilty of it, and one of them is suposidly designed as a kiddie game(uhuh sure, not with those game mechanics and DnDs boobs boucing around like that.)

I could not agree with you more. I don't really care about most of this stuff, i just want the game, and than they shove these ginormous breasts in my face and i just toss the controller down because they just ruin it for me.
It's wrong and demoralizes most women.

 

[Kroxile]

please view my avatar... then read my response lol

(real and fabulous, no autographs please)

I find it hilarious how offended people get over something as common as boobies.
Women in video games with "unrealstic" traits have never bothered me. ever.
do giant masses of muscle like marcus fenix bother you boys?
no?
exactly.
we just accept them as badass, amusing-looking characters and leave it at that.

They're just boobs, and people need to develop a sense of humour about them.

This, omg this.

Its always bothered me how a game can throw a huge muscle bound idiot with a gun in a game and no one (well, very few) ever says a thing, but the second a woman gets on screen with a slender frame and big boobs everyone has a fit.

Double standards about sex exist in games too, apparently, and thats what I would complain about the most.

As for the topic at hand: I like visually appealing characters. Though big boobs don't necessarily make or break the deal on what I consider good looking, but I have found that they rarely hurt it either

 

[dementis]

I can't take the game seriously anymore. I mean, for more 'fun' titles I don't really have a problem with it, but in games I take more seriously I find them childish. I like sexual attraction to be subtle, and just throwing some breasts on screen is anything but. Like in the Dragon Age 2 demo with that gypsy woman. The first game had fairly modest appearances (despite the lust demons and Morrigan's shirt) but in the demo suddenly there's Uncanny Valley level bra sizes. It's distracting, and doesn't actually help with immersion. Instead, because the character is clearly being objectified, it's harder to develop an emotional response and not treat them like an object.

In Dragon Age 2 she has larger breasts because the story is being told by Varric (the dwarf) and he exxagerates the story.

 

[Space_Titanium]

What I think is the large issue here is that people are tired of women constantly being treated as sex objects, and yet I'm seeing people say "well, because the women in games are sex objects they have no correlation with real women". Does this honestly make sense? Is this honestly being fair to the other half of the human population out there?

I can understand why men have trouble understanding this as we usually aren't viewed in the same spectrum, but because of that we should just shut up for once and listen to what people are telling us. If a female character happens to have big breasts, then fine, that could be part of the character, but at least they better be a character and not just a sex object walking around.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

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on the point of ivy, its not just the fact that she has big boobs, if you look at that picture extra credits kept showing, it was a hypersexualised picture, way over the top, she has boobs bigger than her head and the total surface area of her clothes is enough to cover her nipples and no more, i think thats the problem.
while i agree with just about everything you've said, i still think the inclusion of big boobs in games makes the medium seem immature and is generally used just for sex appeal (no different from tv or films but whatever)

 

[Sarah Frazier]

Well I don't see why people who complain about big boobs in games don't also complain about real people who have big boobs. I mean they're not going to live up to them either by their argument.

I don't complain too much about women with big breasts because I know that they're uncomfortable, physically and even socially. If anything, I feel sorry for them, and even more so if they put implants in just to achieve such size. Just imagine the kind of sagging that happens when they get to about 60 without having regular surgery to tighten things back up or wearing some kind of support at all times. Painful, expensive, and surely embarrassing.

Ah but then the question is do you complain about video game characters with big boobs? Because tbh if they were to grow old (/live in the real world), they'd have to deal with all that shit too.

Only if the monster tits are all the character has besides the unnatural ability to flip and twist around without the slightest sign of "Ow, that kind of hurt" as the massive meat lumps fly and bounce around. DDD-cup breasts as a selling point stops being fan service at some point and becomes an insult as the designers start assuming that the fans lack the developed maturity to notice anything but tits, tush, and violence.

And I would get a good laugh at seeing any image of the extra busty women in their old age, but such is rare indeed unless done by fans who probably avoid thinking of what 40 years of gravity would do on that anatomy. Or perhaps their spines snap well before then, leaving very few DDD-cup grannies going around.