It's Happening; DoA....

[Paragon Fury]

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Marie Rose is actually a pretty giant "Fuck You" to Sweden from Team Ninja. Since there was talk of banning the DoA games in Sweden because of characters like Ayane and Kasumi, TN designed someone specifically to piss the Swedish rating boards off, made her Swedish and thumbed their noses at Sweden.

Its pretty glorious actually.

 

[someguy1231]

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Marie Rose is actually a pretty giant "Fuck You" to Sweden from Team Ninja. Since there was talk of banning the DoA games in Sweden because of characters like Ayane and Kasumi, TN designed someone specifically to piss the Swedish rating boards off, made her Swedish and thumbed their noses at Sweden.

Its pretty glorious actually.

Yeah. Whatever you think of the character, the story behind her creation is pretty clever (and hilarious).

 

[Leg End]

A porn game that you play for the gameplay... That has got to be a kind of insult right? It's like a unmentioned admonition that the porn isn't good enough.

No, it's a case of a game being so good, the porn is a bonus.

I suggest Sengoku Rance.

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Spoiler

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

A porn game that you play for the gameplay... That has got to be a kind of insult right? It's like a unmentioned admonition that the porn isn't good enough.

No, it's a case of a game being so good, the porn is a bonus.

I suggest Sengoku Rance.

One should hope that the gameplay is the bonus, but that is nitpicky. I kind of doubt DOA E3 will be good in this respect though. I have slowly lost interest in fan service games over the years. Tastes change.

 

[FPLOON]

OH SHIT! If this gets a western release, then maybe we can also get a Free! game under the same engine!

Other than that, if it's as good as the last two (or better), then I might buy it since it would be on a console I would own at that time...

 

[Maximum Bert]

I got the first one both because of the sex appeal and because I was curious if it would be any good. Found the volleyball to be pretty awesome actually although fairly easy I mean once I got the hang of it after the first few matches I dont think I ever lost one again although one was damn close. As for the rest of the mini games well they were trash.

Never played the second I just did not feel there was any need to update and revisit. As for this one I am not really that excited but certainly more interested than I was for the second I just hope the volleyball is as good still dont know if I will bother getting or not.

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Marie Rose is actually a pretty giant "Fuck You" to Sweden from Team Ninja. Since there was talk of banning the DoA games in Sweden because of characters like Ayane and Kasumi, TN designed someone specifically to piss the Swedish rating boards off, made her Swedish and thumbed their noses at Sweden.

Its pretty glorious actually.

Is that true? lol well I am indifferent to Marie Rose and Honoka anyway. Always liked Ayane though after Tifa she is prob my favourite game female character and prob one of my top 5 game characters full stop.

Just so everyone knows as I understand there was a vote in Japan and Marie Rose and Honoka took the top 2 spots which is why they are on the box over there. Kasumi and Ayane took 3rd and 4th respectively. Also not all the girls are in this game for whatever reason. Yeah so anyway the newcomers are pretty popular over there it seems but obviously its only one set of data. If they did a poll in the west I would be surprised if Marie Rose got above the bottom 5 least popular characters in the game.

Then I check stats on Eventhubs and apparently she is the 17th most popular out of 34.*shrug* and Honoka is 27th in popularity then again these are usage stats not oh I like the character stats so its not really the same.

 

[RJ 17]

Or rather, its fappening.

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 is coming out on PS4 and Xbox One.

Correction: it's coming for the PS4 and Vita, and thus far only has a Japan release confirmed.

 

[happyninja42]

Funny thing, the outfits some of those girls were wearing when playing volleyball were as revealing, or in fact less revealing than some of the outfits I remember seeing female volleyball players in the olympics. And before you freak out please note that I said SOME. I dunno, from the bits in that trailer, I don't see anything I haven't actually directly seen people do at the beach for fun in real life. Tug of war-esque games in a pool, check. Volleyball in skimpy bathing suits, check. Laying about in sexy poses while soaking up the sun and being observed by people, check. So, yeah, I don't really see the issue.

I mean it's not like humans don't do this kind of stuff on a regular basis. Anyone who thinks they don't clearly hasn't ever been to a Spring Break festival at a major beach somewhere. Now if you don't like it simply because it's so gratuitously sexualized, ok fine, fair enough, but it's hardly unrealistic behavior. The body models might be a bit on the unlikely scale, but oh gosh, what a surprise there. Physically exaggerated proportions in a video game? *looks at all the meathead guy models out there that are totally impossible* What a novelty!

 

[Buckets]

The original DOA extreme Volleyball was a pretty good volleyball game with interesing controls, the other crap buying and friendship aspect of it was a load of old bollocks. Its a pity they didn't just make a volleyball game out of it, you spend too much time arsing around, wondering what the hell a Sachertorte was. That said it was always funny when you bought a really shitty hat for your 'friend' and they wore it during any subsequent volleyball matches they played in.

 

[visiblenoise]

Did I say that gamers were that?

You were implying that gamers looking forward to this particular game are "basement-dwelling socially-lifeless manchildren who objectify women." I find it utterly hilarious how you lecture me later on that "kneejerk reactions don't help anything", and yet you have no problem posting such insulting stereotype-ridden language like that. Look, I don't care what games you like or don't like, but insulting fans of games you don't like is just pointless and makes people unable to take you seriously.

What I said was that this game will fuel the stereotype of gamers that other people have.

So what if it does? Why should we care about what other people think of gamers? What business is it of ours? Gamers don't have to fulfill anyone's expectations of what sort of lives they "should" lead. If some people are going to look down on gamers because of their own negative stereotypes, then that's their own damn problem.

Should this game not exist? Should gamers who conform to any negative stereotype of gamers make themselves invisible until those "other people" say otherwise? I know you're going to deny that, but that's the implication I got from your original post.

I don't like developers that re-release the same game every year or two with minimal changes (CoD, most annual sports games, etc). Should I insult or stereotype gamers who like those games? Should I barge onto threads for fans of those games and leave a snide comment to the effect of "And then we'll turn around and wonder why gamers are stereotyped as gullible lemmings who will buy the same game again and again."?

Of course, kneejerk reactions like yours don't help anything either.

And as I said earlier, condescending, passive-aggressive insults like yours don't help anything either. So spare me your lectures about who is "helping" anything. You're the one who started this whole conversation by making such an unprovoked and uncalled-for implication.

jesus christ, he was being sarcastic, and the "kneejerk reaction" he was accusing you of having blinded you to it.

it's as if we can't laugh at ourselves at all, with some of you people

 

[Fat Hippo]

The original DOA extreme Volleyball was a pretty good volleyball game with interesing controls, the other crap buying and friendship aspect of it was a load of old bollocks. Its a pity they didn't just make a volleyball game out of it, you spend too much time arsing around, wondering what the hell a Sachertorte was. That said it was always funny when you bought a really shitty hat for your 'friend' and they wore it during any subsequent volleyball matches they played in.

Sachertorte is an Austrian chocolate cake, originally invented in Vienna and served by the Café Sacher. It's quite good[footnote]Though it should not be paired with hot chocolate. I thought I could handle it, but it turns out there is such a thing as too much chocolate. Who knew?[/footnote], and the café is nice as well, if you like old-school European classy establishments.

As for the game series, I suppose it appeals to the same crowd of gamers that plays virtual dating sims and such? But with some volleyball thrown in. I doubt the Japanese otakus care if we think their games are shit. Though so many of them really are.

 

[MerlinCross]

I actually thought about this game when looking at the "What game would you like to see made" topic. And not for the reasons you think, we have the net people. No I wanted to see this because a thought popped into my head. After the second game, how much further can they push before this turns into a "A" rated game? What over the top insanity will they put into the game?

I guess I'm gonna get my answer. That and the salt produced by this will fill up my popcorn reserves for like the next 3 years

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

... you know, it never ceases to blow my mind that this was originally a fighting game.
I mean... every one of these characters could beat a man to death with their fists.
And they're playing Beach Volleyball.
...
God bless you, Japan.

 

[sageoftruth]

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Marie Rose is actually a pretty giant "Fuck You" to Sweden from Team Ninja. Since there was talk of banning the DoA games in Sweden because of characters like Ayane and Kasumi, TN designed someone specifically to piss the Swedish rating boards off, made her Swedish and thumbed their noses at Sweden.

Its pretty glorious actually.

So, what was Sweden's complaint about Ayane and Kasumi specifically?

 

[go-10]

Marie Rose is the worst thing to happen to DOA.

Marie Rose is actually a pretty giant "Fuck You" to Sweden from Team Ninja. Since there was talk of banning the DoA games in Sweden because of characters like Ayane and Kasumi, TN designed someone specifically to piss the Swedish rating boards off, made her Swedish and thumbed their noses at Sweden.

Its pretty glorious actually.

So, what was Sweden's complaint about Ayane and Kasumi specifically?

Kasumi used to be 17 and Ayane was 16 in all DOA games pre DOA 5

 

[happyninja42]

... you know, it never ceases to blow my mind that this was originally a fighting game.
I mean... every one of these characters could beat a man to death with their fists.
And they're playing Beach Volleyball.
...
God bless you, Japan.

Hey, even hardcore martial arts badasses have hobbies. Don't judge them for their lifestyle!! xD

 

[CritialGaming]

And then we'll turn around and wonder why gamers are stereotyped as basement-dwelling, socially-lifeless manchildren who objectify women.

If you don't like this game, don't buy it. Simple as that. No need for you to insult or stereotype people who buy games you don't like.

Yeah, hypothetical person that the poster was referring to, no need to be insulting!

Though honestly I don't think the DoA volleyball series is bad at all, at least they have a reason to be in bikinis. Would be nice to see a version with dudes, though

We need more dick physics in games. I wanna see some floppy dong action. I'm not even kidding, if chicks have to have their tits out for eye candy purpose, then lets put some dick dangles and waggles in games too.

 

[Maximum Bert]

And then we'll turn around and wonder why gamers are stereotyped as basement-dwelling, socially-lifeless manchildren who objectify women.

If you don't like this game, don't buy it. Simple as that. No need for you to insult or stereotype people who buy games you don't like.

Yeah, hypothetical person that the poster was referring to, no need to be insulting!

Though honestly I don't think the DoA volleyball series is bad at all, at least they have a reason to be in bikinis. Would be nice to see a version with dudes, though

We need more dick physics in games. I wanna see some floppy dong action. I'm not even kidding, if chicks have to have their tits out for eye candy purpose, then lets put some dick dangles and waggles in games too.

Why? is it just a want drawn out of seeking some kind of parity? im not against a game like that I do have mount your friends but is there much market for a game you are suggesting? also lets be honest breasts are much more on show in real life than dicks are. If you have a game with huge floppy dick physics I think it would veer much more to the comical than to eye candy.

Regardless this game is very clear what it is about I really dont think many people will buy it and feel disappointed that there are no guys with banana hammocks in it. Rest assured though if there are enough gamers who would be open to being marketed to by what you suggest then we will see (non indie) games like that as well.

 

[EyeReaper]

As long as they (e)rectify the mistake the last game made and add in Nicole (aka the best DoA girl) I'll be sure to purchase it.

But I swear, I'll only play it for the articles... of clothing.