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Stoney Mason:
Just a thought but I noticed there are sometimes random events or gaming news that happens or just random thoughts where I want to make a snarky comment but its not worth making a new thread over and shitting up the board. And its not worth derailing that "What are you playing thread" which is pretty cool and actually serves a pretty good dedicated purpose.
Sort of like the random talk thread on the off topic side. Mods just lock it if you don't like the idea.
Anyway this tickled me recently.
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Followed up by their comments.
--- Quote ---Dead or Alive: Paradise director Yoshinori Ueda has told Eurogamer that his PSP game is not supposed to be softcore pornography nor degrading towards women, despite titillating promotional videos and a marketing slogan that reads, "Paradise in the palm of your hand."
"That's certainly not something we're intentionally going for," he said. "From our perspective, we're trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus - we want our characters to be beautiful. The DOA characters are strong and that they look the way they do is based on trying to bring out the beauty of women."
"We're certainly not trying to degrade women. They have beautiful bodies. We're trying to show off the beauty of their bodies but we're not trying to be degrading about it - we're trying to show that they are beautiful characters."
"It's not that we were trying to make softcore porn. That's definitely not the goal."
In Dead or Alive: Paradise, bikini-clad girls take part in various paradise beach games like volleyball and going to the casino. Players can also have the girls pose for the camera and take photographs of them.
That element of the game irked America's ESRB age-ratings board, which claimed DOA: Paradise was filled with "creepy voyeurism" and "bizarre, misguided notions of what women really want". The ESRB later apologised and offered a more level-headed explanation for the mature rating.
"We know that everyone is going to have a different experience with the game - everyone has their own opinion," shrugged Ueda. "For us, the goal was really to offer a little bit of paradise to the users, and we hope that people playing the game will be able to come away with the feeling that they've visited paradise."
Ueda understands that DOA: Paradise isn't a game in "the traditional sense". "What we offer is a selection of things to play and activities to have fun with. The players have the freedom to play Paradise however they want," he said.
Dead or Alive: Paradise will be released here on 2nd April.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/doa-paradise-goal-was-not-soft-porn
Its funny to me that "soft porn" has a stigma. As if Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, or Playboy isn't "soft porn". This game occupies the same space as those products. It's just weird that we all have to tip-toe around the subject since games are supposed to be only for kids.
Don Flamenco:
wow, reading the response, then watching the trailer for the first time is...perplexing. Nothing wrong with representing women by combining beauty and power, but the trailer was clearly all sex. Not that the game doesn't have a right to exist. He just came off as a porn director giving some tongue-in-cheek justification to the press.
Stoney Mason:
--- Quote from: Don Flamenco on February 27, 2010, 03:58:17 PM ---wow, reading the response, then watching the trailer for the first time is...perplexing. Nothing wrong with representing women by combining beauty and power, but the trailer was clearly all sex. Not that the game doesn't have a right to exist. He just came off as a porn director giving some tongue-in-cheek justification to the press.
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Agreed.
Which I guess is sort of what he feels he has to do because there is a natural tendency for people to backlash against these things and play the moral crusaders and "Think of the children" type bs. It's pretty clear the game and certainly the trailer is selling sex appeal. Which is honestly fine. That's what most movies are doing also otherwise why would Megan Fox be in anything. It's just a little weird because he can't be honest about it.
cool breeze:
I have nothing new to post right now but I like the idea for this thread.
Third:
That video kinda turned me on. Is that strange? I mean, that was pretty sexy.
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