I’ve called out Koei-Tecmo’s Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 before, for its silly and sexist portrayal of women. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think sexuality is something to shy away from, and I’m certainly not a prude – but let’s be honest, Dead or Alive Extreme is teenage boy wish-fulfilment and nothing more.
It might get a pass if there was actually a decent game hidden beneath the lack of clothing, but there really isn’t. It’s not a particularly good volleyball game, and who really wants to play digital tug of war – unless your goal is to see half-naked digital women.
We know that the game isn’t being released in the west – which has some people riled up and angry, filled with furious vitriol. All because they now can’t buy a game they likely were never going to buy in the first place. Some are so angry that they’ve created a petition to get the game released in the rest of the world. That of course, is their right – and I’m not making judgements about the people who made the petition, or those who’ve signed it.
The rhetoric contained in the petition does make me smile a little though.
“This is a mistake. The puritan sensationalists are nothing but a self-glorified cabal of bullies and narcissists who are vastly outnumbered by their critics, most of whom are core gamers. The idea that any game should be withheld from its audience because of fear of depicting the female body is so outrageous that it should be called out and challenged wherever it is condoned, lest we give ground to the hackneyed pearl-clutchers who would put the world in a bottle if they had the power to.”
That’s some real fire there, some real passion. That’s not the best bit though. My favourite part of said petition is the writer’s inference that a game about bikini-clad women playing beach games is directly proportional to both happiness and comfort.
“I won’t live in a world where the comfort and happiness of a human being can be so effortlessly taken away from them by outside influences. For our lives and our hometowns, we must resist,” urges the petitioner
And really, I wish I cared about anything that much. Right now there are nearly 3000 people who’ve signed the petition, obviously signalling their purchasing intent.
In related news, Huniepot, developers of the PC dating sim HuniePop have made an offer of $1m US to Koei-Tecmo for the Western publishing rights to Dead or Alive Extreme 3. That game has its own bare anime chests, so probably won’t help the cause if DOAX3’s publishers are looking to avoid any sort of social backlash.
Last Updated: November 26, 2015
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 12:38
The petitioners are like…
http://i.imgur.com/EZdVKYg.gif
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 12:58
another one, do you have a data base for these things 😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:00
It’s called the internet oVg. 😛
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 13:01
Yeah…..internet………totally not a folder on my PC
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:01
So its not personal 😉
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:01
Networked folder. 😉
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:02
The should rename the Personal Computer to Public Computer.
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:09
lol
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 13:00
XD
HvR
November 26, 2015 at 13:08
Dogs rule
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 13:45
Read it as ducks rule for a second 😛
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:09
I’m surprised she’s able to hold her own against the dog, what with weighing the same as it 😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:13
Me too. It’s obviously some kind of feministism mariachi porpaganda. Wimman are portrayed as equal to man who they show as a dog.
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:17
Dats bcus dey al b beches!
Cyberats
November 27, 2015 at 01:56
Jap. teenage angst dogs ?
Hammersteyn
November 27, 2015 at 08:15
The dog represents the petitioners, as they are the ones who wants this game
Cyberats
November 28, 2015 at 22:57
Again, Artists’ Freedom of Expression, sell the game as is or not sell it at all.
To modify it for political correctness then to decide how well the game did is a falsity.
Sageville
November 26, 2015 at 12:44
Possibly one of the cleverest marketing initiatives I’ve seen to date (or purely a fortunate unintended consequence)
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 12:46
Gamer: I don’t want this
Publisher: That’s good because you can’t have this
Gamer: I WANT THIS!
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:10
THIS!
James Anderton
November 26, 2015 at 13:40
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 13:44
hahaha yes!
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 12:58
It’s like Hatred in that regard.
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:10
You are such an angry person!
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:00
I dont think it was intended.
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 12:49
America 20 years from now. Where kissing puppies is found to be offensive to the senses.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/10cd50e5cb4a8783633c2b3bc8c02ba7/tumblr_nh0oyo9Ydz1r7i70vo1_500.gif
Hammersteyn
November 26, 2015 at 12:54
Fun fact. In America cops can seize property on suspicion that it might be used for a crime alone and in most cases the cost of hiring a lawyer outweighs the cost of said property. Now the FBI have reported that in 2014 more property has been seized by the police than was stolen by criminals…
Ir0nseraph
November 26, 2015 at 12:56
WoW
Cyberats
November 27, 2015 at 02:00
Thus police have become the criminals.
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:03
YOU’RE a sense offender.
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:04
If I give you an emotional response then you are right.
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:05
I assume I’m right anyway.
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:08
bwahahahahaha I also stopped taking my medication 🙂
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:19
I thought Saturdays were your medication lol
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:11
You know what the say about assumptions…
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:14
That you shouldn’t make spelling mistakes when trying to insult someone?
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:18
Not when you are talking to an ass!
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 12:57
This is what you call a symbiotic relationship. The SJWs want to clutch their pearls over the game, and the HFWs want the game in order to make a pearl necklace.
HvR
November 26, 2015 at 13:11
*.. for the Samsung monitors.
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:11
WOW 0_O
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:14
No. It’s clever. ADMIT IT!
BEWBS4GAMERS
November 26, 2015 at 13:01
What do we want… CGI BEWBS!!!!! when do we want it.. NOW!!
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:05
sexist 😛
oVg
November 26, 2015 at 13:07
It is actually a good middle finger to America. THE LAND OF THE FREE. lol
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 27, 2015 at 07:29
Currently, Land of the Whine!
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 26, 2015 at 18:43
BBEEWWWBBSS always win!
https://media.giphy.com/media/3f77f7CD0HCM/giphy.gif
HvR
November 26, 2015 at 22:31
Think that might be her 3rd chin she is wiggling
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 27, 2015 at 07:29
Plot twist – that’s her inner arm flabs….
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 26, 2015 at 13:06
Heh. Huniepop has 6 times the amount of people playing it that Evolve does.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 26, 2015 at 19:25
The HuniePop devs also told Kotaku to suck a nut – lol
https://twitter.com/HuniePotDev/status/669589014354255876
RinceThis
November 26, 2015 at 13:08
HAHAHAHAHA!
HvR
November 26, 2015 at 13:17
This is why I dislike the SJW movement (and pretty much all anti or “ban it” movements) the louder they scream and the more airtime they get the more crap like this gets airtime and will get pushed.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 26, 2015 at 18:45
It’s absolutely beautiful.
The coolest part of this is that they actually bring games under your radar that you wouldn’t have normally even bothered with. Now I want to get Dead or Alive Extreme 3 volleyball just to rub it in their smug, little crybaby faces. lol SJWs are their own worst enemy.
HvR
November 26, 2015 at 13:23
If was a developer on this game I would definitely let an CGI penis or testicle slip out every 50th bikini malfunction, just to keep things fresh and everybody on their toes .
David
November 26, 2015 at 13:32
Say what you will, both sides of this issue tend to be hyperbolic. There’s are cases of online stores that stocked the last one being emailed endlessly with, “Wow, I’ll never shop here again because you sell this game.” (Paraphrasing, more or less).
So there is SOME form of pressure on the devs over what is a “teenage boy wish-fulfillment and nothing more.” It’s not some rape-sim or something. But nevertheless, being called a sexist these days might as well be the r-word.
On the other hand, a petition? Measuring your life’s pleasure by the ability to buy a game? There’s the hyperbole from the other side. 😐
BakedBagel
November 26, 2015 at 15:00
I love it when a gaming site applauds when games wont be shipped to potential customers
L O V E I T
Cause you know, fuck those people right? ayy.
Gavin Mannion
November 26, 2015 at 19:29
you’re not referring to this article are you?
BakedBagel
November 27, 2015 at 07:35
Not specifically *THIS* article.
In my view anyway, especially a Gaming Journo, should never applaud when a game wont be shipped, just because this game goes against his/her “views”, and the Mocking of gamers who do want to play this game FOR WHATEVER REASON (be it pervy, be it vollyball) and their efforts to be able to purchase the game locally just leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
Why do gaming journo’s like to mock parts of their audience?
Gaming should be first. Personal views Second. Imo.
Edit: this is not directed at anybody specific. The question is a general question.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 26, 2015 at 18:41
Usual suspect Game journos provided all the lulz – when they got trolled by PlayAsia! Everything else is just delicious salty gravy!
Fnights
November 26, 2015 at 19:03
i’m still wondering why these people care what other people do or play at their own home or how they spend their money for.
Is beyond me why they want so much remove fictional art that doesn’t rapresent any human being to begin with, and not focus on REAL matters, forcing their vision to everyone and force developers to censor or ban their own games. The sad thing is that they will never play these games.
Can’t blame people who like these niche games be so angry, i think that censorship is bad in every form of art, because art is something absolute, not relative to some personal tastes.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
November 26, 2015 at 19:29
I couldn’t agree more, and that’s why they get so much resistance from gamers. It isn’t actually about PC culture with SJWs, it’s all about control. The politics come secondary to their need to control every aspect of other people’s lives. The implication being that everyone is wrong and that their (SJW) way of thinking is absolute and infallible. “STOP YOUR WRONGTHINK, SHITLORD”
Hence why I gladly mock these mental midgets with all my heart!
Cyberats
November 27, 2015 at 01:58
But in reality this has to do with artistic freedom of expression, not user’s opinions.
You either sell it as is or not.
Don Peny
November 29, 2015 at 02:58
Wow a negative opinionated piece on DOA x3. Big surprise. Is it that bad that people want to play this game? Ordered my copy through playasia.com. I must be one of those teenagers the game’s supposedly designed for. Either that or maybe I’m a gamer and a collector instead of someone who vomits their opinion over the internet. At least you blog under Lazy Gamer. Lazy.. indeed.
Zac Spencer
November 30, 2015 at 09:57
Everyone please sign these petitions.
https://www.change.org/p/team-ninja-yosuke-hayashi-koei-tecmo-release-dead-or-alive-xtreme-3-worldwide-not-just-in-japan-and-asia-markets
https://www.change.org/p/koei-tecmo-bring-dead-or-alive-xtreme-3-to-the-west
https://www.change.org/p/team-ninja-please-bring-dead-or-alive-xtreme-3-to-western-markets
Christopher TheWarangel Haskin
June 30, 2020 at 06:09
This makes no sense if you don’t like it don’t buy buy it. Now you are probably going to lie and say you don’t watch porn. There is no way to prove that you don’t. Something that uses real women in waayyy more damaging ways than a yes a teen and adult male fantasy, dress up, dating sim, volley ball video game. You are only doing this to get attention you don’t care about this as much as you care about the image you are trying to present for yourself.