Is Dead or Alive 6 still overly sexualised?

TSA writes: "It’s fair to say that Dead or Alive has garnered a certain reputation as one of the sillier fighting game series out there. Its bouncy brand of bikini-clad brawling has been with us for more than twenty years now and while it may not have same sway as titans such as Street Fighter or Tekken, Dead or Alive has never been too far away from the spotlight."

[anonymousfan]

oh please stop censoring our games, let them be, if you don't like that genre don't buy it! I don't play dark souls games because I suck at it and dying a million times is not my thing... doesn't mean I have to kick and scream until they are given an easy mode!? Don't like, don't buy and don't spoil it for the rest of us.

[BadElf]

I like you

[ChrisW]

Love is in the air...

[n1kki6]

Totally agree, lets all just let devs make the games they want. If you don't like it don't buy it. Pretty simple. But have a kid fit trying to get it censored is dumb AF.

[SlagWolf]

Thank you
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[annoyedgamer]

Inshallah

[HighPlayer28]

1000% Agree

[LOLcheeseORZ]

If only the media had common sense like you.

[wwinterj]

I agree with you "anonymousfan". Too many people think everything has to cater to them these days. That's not how life works nor should it. Everyone is different and everyone likes different things. Providing it's legal I've no issue even if I like or dislike it. More importantly though devs should be allowed to create a game they want and the same can be said for movies without feeling the need to bend over for people who probably wouldn't buy the game in the first place.

[Kashima]

The world is so sensitive, keep crying feminists

[purple101]

I like your style!

women want the door held open for them, but also want equal pay!

piss off to Japan or almost all Eastern countries where women hold the door open for the men!

[JackBNimble]

I've actually been told that holding a door open for women could be considered sexiest and offensive by some women and not to do that anymore.
No joke ... this really happened.

I am Canadian

[rainslacker]

I hold the door open for anyone, male or female, if I happen to be opening the door, and they are entering or leaving. I was just raised to be polite by my mother, and that's always been considered to be a polite thing to do. I never understood why people would be upset over someone being polite. It doesn't mean that I'm sexist or chauvinistic, although I'm often prone to bouts of romanticism, which I find more women like that kind of thing, because it's not as common as it used to be.

Interesting fact. the reason this became a custom was due to womens clothing often not making it as easy to open a door. Women don't wear such fanciful clothing anymore though. When it comes to more modern times, it's a throwback to this tradition, coupled with some chauvinistic tendencies, but for car doors in particular, it gave the woman a chance to fix her clothing after she got in the car, or "fix" her hair or make up, which in itself could still be seen as a misogynist tendency, but it is what it is.

That said, if you are with a woman that doesn't like such things, and actually gets upset if you are polite, then maybe evaluate if they're worth the trouble. People who get too worked up over simple things tend to have a lot more drama in their life, and they will probably like you less as time goes on and you start to become immune to trying to impress them by agreeing with everything they say.

[InKnight7s]

What a great lady that hold the door for the love of her life whether its her father or husband. And what a great man that hold the door for love of his life whether daughter, Mother or wife.

Have some self esteem, openning a door or closing it for your lovers never and ever relate to weakness. It is absurd, how world now a day want to eliminate all morals and good altitudes factors in favor of femininity and whatsoever.

[jznrpg]

Eh I try to hold the door open for everyone it’s just a common courtesy . Now trying to make this game something it’s not is ridiculous

[Knushwood Butt]

Women don't hold the door open for men in Japan.

[VenomUK]

TheSixthAxis - if you don’t like it don’t play it. This is the sixth game in the series so you can’t pretend to be surprised by the content.

[Fritzwochel]

The problem isn't feminism per se. I'm all for equality and shit -- the problem arises when they go overboard & wanna reduce the male to something sexless and deprive him of his rights. Feminists are all about sexual freedom, but on their terms. E.g. they don't want the guys to have access to porn - they want to starve the males of it so that they can use their sexuality as a means of control. Examples are video games such as DoA and Senran Kagura. A lot of people lack purpose in life, but these women has found the true puropse of existense - the fight against exposing men to cleavage and jiggle physics! XD

[BuildTheWall]

I am NOT for equality , I believe in treating people based ONLY on their behavior , attitude , work ethic & work efficiency , regardless of their race , sexual preferences , gender or religious beliefs.

[WitcheRivia]

I don't know. Why don't you buy this $92.99 Season Pass to find out?

https://store.steampowered....

[carcarias]

Holy crap, that's some expensive season pass!

[CrimsonWing69]

Who cares!? if it offends you play one of the many other fighters out on the market. Not everything has to be catered to your sensibilities. There should be games allowed to be "sexy" and games that don't want it. We don't need fu**ing stories about is X game overly sexualized. If you're offended by it you probably didn't care about the series to begin with.

[ziratul]

I wouldn't play it without bouncing boobs ffs.

[ThunderGod_Cid]

Yeah, as much as I love the DOA series, they still bent the knee to SJWs and shrunk the characters bust size and removed most of the bounce in DOA 6. Which is why Soul Calibur VI got my money this time around.

[ChrisW]

Personally, I think they made it more realistic. In DOA5LR all of the female characters, except for Marie Rose, had nearly identical bust size. Sure Ayane, Hitomi, Kasumi, Pai Chan, and Leifang were kind of slightly smaller than the others, but they were still out of proportion.

BTW, I'm glad Nico in DOA6 doesn't have over-inflated funbags.

As for the super jiggles, I always set it to "Natural"... and sometimes even then it'd be a little too much.

[Yi-Long]

It's never been 'OVERLY sexualized'.

It's slightly sexualized, but it seems (mostly) Americans tend to have a serious problem with healthy sexy bodies, (semi-) nudity, and occasionally sex in their entertainment.

[rainslacker]

Apparently being sexy at all is considered overly sexualized by some nowadays. I never got it, because when I go out and about, it seems most women still try to maintain themselves to either look sexy, or at least presentable. Even if they're not in the market for a partner, they often more keen on keeping up with themselves than I see from the typical male who can just throw on some jeans and a t-shirt, maybe comb their hair, and be good for the day.

[cogniveritas]

I wouldn't say these are typical healthy sexy bodies, but much better than the older DOA days when I thought the breast physics where amusing, but now the older games are a little cringe how they would bounce all over the place and the women weren't bothered. It was weird because I knew that in real life, many well endowed women don't even like to run without supporting themselves a little to avoid the pain of the bounce.

[wolokowoh]

Not Americans. Only the busybodies. SJW journalist types who are represent the views of a fringe minority in the left or politicians of both party pandering to the least tolerant groups within the Evangelical Christian groups and fourth-wave gender feminists. Evangelical Christians are the main demographic of America and most of them are very cool with type of stuff existing. Where they tend to draw the line is in their personal lives, not in the lives of others and entertainment. For example, they'll watch Game of Thrones, but obviously have a distaste for adultery, murdering, wife beating, prostitution, and incest in real life. Unfortunately the busybodies have undue influence when it comes to influencing generational moral panics.

[Cobra951]

Yeah, the censorship is like a pincer attack these days--both from the extreme left and the extreme right. Strange bedfellows, these oppressors.

[Fluttershy77]

It is overly sexualized. Sexuality is not the way this series depicts it; it presents a deformed imagery of sexuality and its been taken to a 300% with the intention of entertain; these are not "healthy sexy bodies", these are cartoon satirized bodies

[gamer7804]

I'd wager these are all actually fine examples of healthy bodies, neither are overtly borderline anorexic nor do any of them fall into the obese range, which all doctors across the US agree if you are anorexic its not health or you are obese its not as healthy and you are prone to more health issues. Are they sexy? sure, but alot of people are.

[rainslacker]

Outside rather generous breast sizes, these are the types of bodies you often see on physically fit people. Especially those trained in martial arts. For the wrestlers or boxers in the group, they also have more built upper bodies or leg muscles due to the nature of those forms of fighting.

Oddly shaped bodies would be more like street fighter, where they often have one aspect over exaggerrated.

[ibrake4naps]

Unfortunately I think they held back some of the sexiness this time :-(

[senorfartcushion]

No, by th state of that season pass, it's overlymonetized.

[shammgod]

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Simple as that. Not every game has to appeal to every single human

[Rapidfirepunches]

There's a million other games you can play if you don't like sexy games. Don't cry because one single game doesn't fit your core values.

[sampsonon]

without even reading the comments. "SJW"s! BLAH BLAH BLAH!"

[BlackTar187]

doesn't mean it's not true, it just means you like to close your eyes and plug your ears.

[sampsonon]

it's not true. you all need to get a F ing life.

[Spartacus10]

That's because subconsciously even you agree with that opinion.

[sampsonon]

i agree with retarded people like you? lol no

[Spartacus10]

@ sampsonon
Cry more bitch.

[battlegrog]

WHO CARES

[Aaroncls7]

sex sells, bitches.
No amount of feminist hacktivism or loser white-knighting is going to EVER change that.

[Tross]

I consider myself a Liberal, but what’s so taboo about attractive women in revealing outfits? Are you advocating for a future where women always dress like they’re in the arctic even if they’re on a beach around summertime? I’m all for shattering the glass ceiling, but I feel as though encouraging women to feel ashamed of their bodies will have the opposite effect.

[rainslacker]

How one dresses, or how a gender is represented as sexy or not, really has nothing to do with glass ceilings. Media can set an unhealthy expectation for how people should behave or dress, but in the real world, those expectations are set forth by the companies themselves, and everyone who wants a job will conform to the expectations of the company they're working for, or applying for a job for.

[cogniveritas]

Sometimes people are asking for too much. Attractive women in revealing outfits are less likely to be the cute shy humble Japanese stereotype and more likely to be an Instagram model with an onlyfans page and conceited from the thousands of men boosting their egos. Not very likely to be participating in fighting tournaments.

[obidanshinobi]

Booooooobs
Sorry, what were you asking?

[rainslacker]

Why are things over sexualized? Being sexy is fine. It either is or it isn't. If it's over-sexualized it's really just a matter of personal subjectivity and one can decide for themselves, and I never felt the older games really went too far, except maybe the Vita version with it's jiggle simulator, and even then, I didn't care that much because while it's a curiosity, it isn't something I'd sit there and spend hours on. Used the "feature" once, then moved on, because I was playing it to play a fighting game.

[BadElf]

Over sexualized? We all know this is a article we shouldnt even click on.

I think games could be MORE sexualized at times...but now we cant even have a pretty character anymore...a pretty face is too much for some.

It will change for the better folks, thankfully, remember how DoA developers were talking months ago? Different tune now!

[nucky64]

very odd. it's ok for women to walk around wearing next to nothing in public but god forbid there is a video game where women are fighting while wearing skimpy outfits. this makes no sense.

[GrizToof]

Dead or alive should maintain the amount of sexy women and men that its always been known for. These games our for us, not a thing for you to cry over.

[originaljonty]

From article:

In terms of how it plays and looks, this is exactly what you’d want from a sequel. As for its values and the sexualised representation of characters, Dead or Alive really hasn’t changed one bit and depending on your own personal views, that’s either deeply upsetting or an assured delight.

[spwittbold]

SJWs: Female's are far too oversexualized in video-games.
Also SJWs: Women should be able to wear their tits out without being patronized, esp. while breastfeeding. It's just more natural! Stop making us cover up!

[TheEnigma313]

I really don't think the women will save this game. DOA has suck for a long time now.

[DualWielding]

Is Mortal Kombat still overtly violent?

[lucian229]

Let's flip this.......I'm offended Kratos is so muscular and shows it off. They overly sexualize Kratos by showing off his chest which obviously doesn't protect him.

End sarcasm.

People need to stop with this.

[Segata]

It needs more big bouncy boobs.

[skiggy34]

I cant stand feminists. They are worse than / if not liberals. The game creator can make whatever the hell they want. Dont play it.

[Dragonscale]

More like some people are overly sensitive tbh.

[bumsick]

Tbh, the only people who are likely moaning about this would be people who aren't fans of the games. The fans know what they are buying, the devs make the games for the fans. Its called capitalism people!

I wonder if the same groups moaning about this shit also whine about dildo's being too phallic.....

[lucian229]

Pffffft as if such a masculine looking object or object looking like a male genital is the perfect shape to please a woman. Soooooo sexist and male superiortist!!!

End sarcasm 😂

[Casepb]

You know it dawg! But seriously if you take away what makes the game unique then it will no longer have its own identity. Its existence would become pointless.

[jznrpg]

This game doesn’t try hide what it is. Don’t buy it if you don’t like it .

[WickedLester]

LMAO isnt that sort of the point of this franchise?? That's like writing an article titled "Is Mortal Kombat still overly violent?"

[djl3485]

It's not sexualized enough.

[Shikoku]

Man can you people just fuck off seriously. Im so tired of this bullshit.

[KickSpinFilter]

My wife and I are feminists but will not play this game without boobs and scanty cloths. Without it my wife has no interest in playing it. Ironically I don't care either way as long as it's a good fighting game. FYI...There is a big difference between feminists and SJWS or whatever they are called.

[rainslacker]

It has boobs. They didn't even tone it down much like They said they were. They made the jiggle physics less preposterous, and toned down the destructible clothing.

[feedurhabit]

It's DoA. At this point complaining that Dead or Alive is sexualised is like moaning that the walking dead features zombies.

[DafunkyRebel]

It better be

[isarai]

I thought it was toned down though?

/sarcasm

But seriously, it's sexualized, but no more than fifty shades of grey or sex and the city and both of those are praised to heaven and back, BY WOMEN! might i add. seriously what is the harm in it? tell me please cause im failing to see what's wrong with this

[rainslacker]

50 shades is cool because it involves a codependent woman who can apparently fix a dominate male of his perverse fantasizes by being part of those perverse dominating fantasized.

I don't get it, but apparently it isn't worse than anything in gaming for what these activist seem to want. Weak female, dominating male, codependencies and submissive behavior equals new York Times best seller and billions at the box office. A game which sells a couple million copies has some cleavage or shows some midriff of strong female characters who are capable and can fend for themselves equals evil misogynistic male dominated power fantasy where white male repress women.

[lucian229]

Made by Japanese men haha

[Firebird360]

Hopefully it is. It's one of the major things its known for.
Censoring doa is like blurred titties is jap porn, it benefits nobody.

[tigertron]

Who cares? DOA has always been sexualised, that's one of the appeals of the series.

[valormeer]

Boobs = Bad
Ripping off faces = Good!

[Skuletor]

What about ripping off boobs?

[Handys17]

Weird thing is, go to any concert, night club , or beach town. Butt cheeks and cleavage everywhere. Why call video games into question?

[sampsonon]

so how long will N4G allow for TROLL articles to grace their site? i mean we get banned for trolling yet they allow with open arms these troll articles. then if you comment on the article they say you're the one that's trolling.

and for you morons that keep reacting to every troll article about these stupid topics, shame on you for being so stupid.

WE GET IT, YOU WANT TO HAVE AN ALL MALE WORLD WHERE WOMEN ARE JUST FOR SEX AND COOKING. your mothers must be soo proud. oh wait! you would never say the things you type to your mothers because you would be an ass for doing it. so hide keyboard warrior, hide.

[Scatpants]

Fuck all of you that use terms like "overly sexualized". DOA has always been just the right amount of sexualized and that amount is however much the devs want to add. Please stop with all the puritanical censorship of anything remotely sexual.

[2pacalypsenow]

Yeah I mean look at those muscular men being sexualised.

It’s time men stand up and fight for their rights, we want to be known for our minds, not our muscles.

/s

[windblowsagain]

I heard $92.99 for a season pass.

Hahahahahha.

You would have to be a very sad person to pay for that.

[AK91]

No if anything its not sexualised enough. Especially in comparison to previous entries.

[SinisterKieran]

Won’t be perfect till I see the nipples

[2pacalypsenow]

A boob is just not a boob without nipples.

[TheHan]

More liberal cry baby bullshit. Stay the fuck away from my video games

[endclickbait]

It's okay to have tits

[salmonade]

No. The game is fine. Stop looking to be offended. Stop looking for potential outrage topics. Just shut up and buy the game if you want, or don't.

[DemoIishor]

Who cares, let people buy whatever products they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone else

[pinkcrocodile75]

Don't play it then. Problem solved

[Surt]

Leave it be. Doubt those complaining about DOA out of all fighting games of being too "sexualized" don't buy the game. Get your head out of your righteous ass.

[jcfalcone]

Who cares? Just let the game be or fight whenever man is sexualised as well.

[Zenbaby369]

Can we seriously just stop talking about dead or alive being sexualized? this beating a dead horse for years on end. this is what the game is it's what people want leave with the f*** alone if you don't like it. Also get more creative and write something worth reading.

[Ninjamonkey82]

They won't be happy till women in gaming are represented in full body burqa.

[NapalmSanctuary]

Yes... and thank you, Team Ninja.

[PCgamer98]

These political agendas and outrage culture should die already or stay the f away from videogames.

[nommers]

No such thing. When you’re naked, you’re in your most natural form :)

[RizBiz]

It isn't possible for anything to be overly sexualised.

[DillyDilly]

Its what DOA is known for (sighs) stupid SJW PC ahole

[J-DARKnes]

I hope so

[motorsport71]

Sjw liberal tumblr sensitive snowflake millennial

Is this the correct comment for an article like this?

[Soybetaboy]

Skeet Skeet

[pyroxxx]

I thought that was the point of the game's art design?

[81BX]

Overly sexualized?? Uh yeah. Isn't that part of its appeal?

[Nephesh]

I doubt I will buy this version because this one has been overly censored. dead or alive has always been about fighting and hot girls, if they were going to start sensoring that then they’re gonna lose their audience

[Knushwood Butt]

Nice pair of eyes.

[Majinzo]

I don’t care if it is. That’s the style of game they want to sell let those who enjoy those games buy them.

[Sammyto]

who cares dammit

[Artemidorus]

The real topic, are generation Z gamers becoming more and more like weak little snowflakes.

Instead of ignoring these games they have to give an opinion because they feel it's more important and normally request changes or a ban.

[DrShoe]

Stop it with this puritanical nonsense. The games were fine how they were. No to censorship!!

[Smokehouse]

Sixthaxis: Oh sweet, a DOA launch, that’s easy traffic on sexist claims

DOA dev: we have toned down the sexy for more badass.

Sixthaxis: nooooooooooooo

DOA dev: just kidding

Sixthaxis: *wipes forehead*

[Samus707]

nope.

[Gwiz]

Now what if dem tities were able to knock a man down?lol

[JesusBuiltmyHotrod]

Oh no, sex....but decapitating folks is ok in games.

[LucidIllusion]

Some people are too weak to even be alive.

[carcarias]

I'd imagine it's exactly as sexualised as it wants to be, as per the developer's goals, and all games should be as the developers intend.

It's their game after all, the creatives should be allowed to do what they want and the market/consumer will decide if it will be a success or not.

[darklaw]

Why is this always about women? Ooooo too much cleavage, oh no , you can see buttocks, her boobs are too big, So friggin what. How com no one ever says "oh he has too many muscles, or they all look like male models, I mean really, stop already. This is an art design, and fans who have loved previous games appreciate the art form. If you don't, then don't play it.