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Home News Dead or Alive 5 Fans "Want Bigger Breasts"

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Dead or Alive 5 Fans "Want Bigger Breasts"

Posted on Friday, September 28 @ 12:18:13 Eastern by

I don't really need to get into why the Dead or Alive franchise has this certain stigma, right? I mean, there's a Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. And Ryu Hayabusa isn't exactly in it. Actually, I'm surprised that he can keep his composure in the first place with all his buxom, uh, friends. Perhaps chastity is his true ninjitsu form.

Anyway, Director Yohei Shimbori for Dead or Alive 5 revealed in an interview with Gamasutra that the fan feedback of the game's demo compelled them to lend more importance to the sexualized traditions of the franchise:
We were getting feedback from the overseas offices to tone down the sexuality—to tone down the sexiness of the game, and of the characters.

We actually got a lot of feedback from people who were playing it, saying, 'We want bigger breasts. Make the characters more like that.' That was kind of surprising.

There's definitely still room for having sexualized aspects. If you have a solid fighting game system there, there's nothing wrong with having beautiful characters as a layer on top of that—that's another layer of entertainment that there's a need for. If there wasn't a need for it, people wouldn't have responded to the alpha demo like they did, and send us feedback.
In this manner, the Dead or Alive franchise is paying for its past success, though it's difficult to single out this series from all the other fighting franchises for having busty women. Even with Tomonobu Itagaki not at the helm of Team Ninja, the "sex sells" philosophy that brought the series so much appeal at the beginning of its life is preventing it from being mature in the best way possible, especially when Dead or Alive 5 is trying its best to become involved in e-Sports. To sell more copies and please its fan base, this issue will likely never go away for the franchise.

Thankfully, Dead or Alive 5 certainly tones down the jiggly breast feature from past installments, enough so that I think that people can more easily focus on the fighting gameplay during competitions. It's important if it's trying to be more serious that it turns down the joke factor, and ridiculous breasts is one of them.
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    213EDD
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  • Jessica_Vazquez
    Jessica_Vazquez
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
    They're surprised that MEN want to see bigger boobs? Seriously? I think they should increase the boob size as DLC and add an additional mud wrestling arena lol.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
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    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
    Bigger isn't always better. Great idea about the mud wrestling arena.
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  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 1:58 am
    Considering they're always perfectly shaped in video games bigger is always better
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    Noritama
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    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
    "I'll buy that for a dollar"
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    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 1:59 am
    "I'll holler for a dollar", said Honey Boo Boo Child.
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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
    Made a name for yourself early with cartoony tits, now you wanna be all respectable and make a good fighting game. We try it out and say "this is a nice game... but where are the cartoony tits?" Not every streetwalker marries a millionaire like Julia Roberts. Sometimes just be happy being a guilty pleasure and take our money.
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  • wildmario
    wildmario
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    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
    Where's my Lara Croft boobies?
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    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
    Give me tits, or give me death!
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  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
    Hey guys, i got a question for ya. Why won't everyone in the world take gamers seriously and actually recognize video game as an art?

    Answer: scroll up to the article.
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  • leavesofgrass611
    leavesofgrass611
    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 7:33 am
    That may be reality, but it's still stupid. There's immature, silly crap in every medium...there's also semi-pornographic material in every medium. Just because 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and 'Blood Meridian' are both printed on paper and sold as novels doesn't mean one negates the other.
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  • strangebiscuit
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    Posted: Oct 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
    That sounds a little crazy to me...isn't that like saying every time someone films a dumb action movie with big titted girls in tight costumes, it invalidates the medium as an art form? Like every Michael Bay movie cancels out a Hitchcock, or something.
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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
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    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
    The female figure is astonishing. I support this claim.
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