Pedro The Hutt said:
In fact, you're now indirectly insulting your colleagues considering The Escapist gave DoA5 a respectable 4/5 score when it came out last year.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/9996-Dead-or-Alive-5-Review
Furthermore, considering the Escapist's review of the game helped convince me to buy the game, does that mean you're insulting me by proxy as well for believing that review had any merit at all?
Belated said:
They're just lazily grabbing on to any female character who has the audacity to dare to look attractive, and taking cheap shots to increase their traffic, ironically exploiting sexy women far more shamefully than the artists themselves do.
These two points are the ones that I agree with the most. I am being entirely serious when I say that if it wasn't for the Escapists news articles, I'd never have heard of SkullGirls or Dragons Crown's busty witch character, and if it wasn't for Jim Sterling I'd know nothing about DOA featuring women with uncommonly large breasts.
Obviously being a gaming website, gaming news is appropriate, but it is the contradictory tone that is used that I find irksome. They are essentially giving them free advertising at the same time as they are mocking them, reviewing them and giving us updates on them.
It's like letting a guy know that a new Playboy magazine is out, telling them you give it an 8 out of 10, and then calling them a pervert for showing an interest in it.