DoA Dev Says Jiggle Physics Are Part of Japanese Culture

[Roxas1359]

It's part of Japanese culture? Don't remember seeing that in my Japanese 211 class syllabus today.
OT: With how the DoA series has been I'm not surprised by the way that portray woman. I mean with how long it's been going on for their games, biggest example being Beach Volleyball it's common knowledge that they design their woman characters to be for sex appeal. Really it can be compared to a group going after South Park for being offended at a joke that they made. At this point people just go "it's South Park" and move on.

 

[Slayer_2]

>Implies breasts larger than your head look attractive.

To be fair, just because you don't find it attractive, doesn't mean everyone doesn't. I personally don't find it hot either, but I also don't find sex with men, bondage, or sex with animals at all attractive, yet don't preach about it, different strokes.

Let the developers make their game, I'll be giving it a pass, do I really want to buy a bad fighting game mostly about tits and ass? Nope, so I won't buy it, easy as that. I'll leave the big fake boobs for porno. If you don't like it, don't buy it. There's really nothing else anyone can do, I don't know why everyone is getting so up in arms about something they can't stop, short of getting rid of freedom of expression.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Yeah but it;s not a conscious choice. We don't sit there and decide 'Oh I will wear this because some random man will like it'. -.-

OK, just to make sure: you firmly believe that women NEVER dress attractively to be attractive?

I think you, and others, are totally misunderstanding her.

Women (and men for that matter) dress attractively to make themselves feel good. This feeling good comes from others, including men, admiring and appreciating their looks.

Men are a means, not a goal, in this.

They do not dress attractively so that anyone else may feel good about looking at them. How others feel whilst appreciating them is irrelevant, as long as they're being appreciated.

Just examine the feeling you get yourself when you're dressed up in a fancy suit or any other clothing you think you look good in and someone else notices that.

It also makes them feel very good to think that men play no part in their wish to be attractive. This is false, but the wish to maintain the positive feelings they get from the deception is too strong to see through it.

Oh so you know better than the poor women who are too blinded by their delusional thinking to know what motivates their own actions. Are you a mindreader perhaps, or do you just think you know everything about what women really think?

I think thoughts are the least things that motivate our actions. That's out of our hands, and into the hands of the psychologists. I don't see why I'm more qualified to say why I act than someone else is, if they have a better argument than me.

You're kidding right? You think that mysterious, unconscious motivations underlie our actions more than our conscious selves? I may not like everything about who I am or what motivates me, but I know myself and I can tell what motivates a particular action I take. The problem is you're not talking about yourself, you're saying that you know better than women what makes them want to dress up and look nice.

"I want to dress up nice" isn't a motivation. Now obviously she does want to dress up otherwise she wouldn't do it, but the reason why doesn't necessarily lie in what reasons she presents. Look at sex - some people justify it by religious obligation, others by pleasure, for some it's to have kids. Freud said it was something else. But fundamentally I don't think it's any of those - it's the organism doing what it needs to do.

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

I love how everybody seems to ignore the fact that the men are being portrayed as fricken muscle bound Adonis' with apparent crotch bulges XD

*EDIT* Team ninja, could you add jiggle physics to the mens crotch bulges? That would rock XD

I think this guy might be onto something :3

 

[znix]

Japan is awesome. People who get offended by digital boobs, or boobs at all, should stay inside and pull the plug. The ability to get offended by exaggerating or emphasizing the most NATURAL of things is a thing to be pitied.

 

[Fulbert]

I guess it's okay if it's a cultural thing specific to the Japanese. On the other hand, it's not okay and big jiggly boobs are demeaning and Japanese culture sucks and we should probably nuke them again and bring them the democracy like we do with all the bad mothers who like things that we don't.

 

[Porygon-2000]

I can appreciate a nice pair of aesthetically appealing boobs as much as the next gay guy, but the exaggeration and emphasis on them in DOA is just... distracting. Cultural or not, that just puts me off the series so bad.

 

[ceeqanguel]

Some people miss the point entirely: Guys in Twilight taking their shirt off before a fight is empowering. The girls of DOA might be fighters, but they fight 5% of thier time (90 seconds max) and pose to show off their charms in submissive poses for our viewing pleasure 95% or the rest of the time. Fullplate vs bikini chainmail.

The problem is not about the depiction of the female body, it's about the purpose of the female body. Nobody is offended by the naked breasts on the Venus of Milo, because of its purpose: Immortalizing the female body in a respectful way in art and stone.

Lady Godiva used her nudity to protest against tax raises her husband wanted to impose on peasants. Even here, nudity (and apparently she was smoking hot) was used in a positive, poignant way. Some might even say a propaganda tool.

Sex is omnipresent in both real-life and fiction as a storytelling tool. In religious texts... another topic.

But digital girls have very little purpose beyond posing to look available for sex. I have many friends who have been DOA fans for years and still can't be bothered by the storylines.

 

[RafaelNegrus]

I don't actually see how sexuality is discriminatory. In that line of thought, is Twilight sexist for its shirtless werewolves in skinny jeans?

If anything, isn't it sexist to depict fighting females as all butch and shit? It'd be equal to a whole, girls have to be like guys to fight with them deal.

A girl can dress provocatively and still kick ass.

What makes me laugh is that this is taken as evidence that the developers think women all have/should have huge breasts, but at no point does anyone point out that it also says women are all violent psychopaths that are always kicking people in the chin.

I dont know about anyone else, but its been weeks since a busty lass last kicked me in the face.

My last time was just yesterday, cause she didn't take too well to me calling her lass