Big Boobs- why do people complain?

[Togs]

Not everyone finds it attractive, in fact as straight male I find characters like Ivy and Isabela kind of repulsive
And yes its unrealistic, very few women have norks that size, you make some vague arguement regarding intelligence that holds no analog at all- women are not objectified on their intelligence.
Plus most of the time its for little more then base titiliation on the most crude level, appealing to the lowest commen denominator- that is to say an immature treatment of sexuality.

 

[joshuaayt]

I live in Australia, in which it is illegal to even look at breasts under C size, so I guess our various game committees would be in total support of this phenomenon.

I would like the industry to get over the whole sex thing, but I don't really see it happening, so I find it easier to just grin and bear the existence of Mr. Shirtless Growly Musclearms and Mrs. Chesty Bikini-Clad McBreasterson

 

[Ranorak]

Because when the developers put needless big boobs on a character, I feel insulted to be the target audience.

Right there with:
You're mom will hate it.
It has like totally much blood!

It's immature and I'm waaay passed the age where I give a damn about the size of a girls chest.

 

[CommanderKirov]

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Wait let me get this straight. You are against women to be objectified on sexual level to men in games.

While having Bayonetta as your role model...

I'm sorry but something in there just does not compute.


(Not that I think that objectifying women in games as sexual symbol is good. I just find your choice of role model and your stance on this matter a tad conflicting)

EDIT: Role MODEL not role MOTHER. Damnit what's wrong with me today.

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.

 

[Belated]

I would dare say, that being against big boobs in games is actually hateful. What, so busty women can't shoot a gun or enter a combat contest or save the world? What's wrong with having a big chest? Women with huge breasts also have feelings, and they can do anything a flat-chested woman can do. Except maybe press their nose up against a wall.

But the point is, while big boobs is a gaming stereotype, the alternative - only depicting women with small or average boobs - is much worse, because such a policy would be discrimination against busty babes.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

According to undergarment manufacturers in the US, the average American woman is a 36C, up from the previous average of 34B only thanks to implants and widespread obesity. By contrast, the average female character in video games is dealing with something easily inside the D range and the worst offenders are easily in the triple-D if to F range (Soul Caliber's Ivy is easily a DDD for example).

My problem is two fold. First, it is unrealistic to the point that I'm often left to question things I shouldn't have to question, such as "how does someone built like that stand up straight" and, "good god, how uncomfortable is that breastplate considering the size of said breasts". The second is that I personally do not care for absurdly large breasts.

 

[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;

Spoiler

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.