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By deflecting blame onto critics, they’re managing to avoid having to stand behind their own product.
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But feminist critics are a convenient, timely scapegoat, and a way to quickly rally the full fury of #GamerGate to their side. I suspect the real reasons for Xtreme 3’s reluctance to export has to do with costs and a potentially limited audience pool. To say that it shouldn’t be allowed to be criticized? Now that’s what we call censorship. It has the right to exist, and it simultaneously has the right to be criticized. Yet I am not calling for its execution, nor trying to ban it from our shores.
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No, I wouldn’t really shed a tear if the series didn’t come to the West or ceased to exist altogether.
Yes, from my perspective Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 seems horribly out of date as things are getting better overall in the treatment of female video game characters and Xtreme 3 is about as regressive as you get. If there are enough Dead or Alive fans out there who want to see the game come to the West, they should be chastising the developer for refusing to stand behind their own game, not a specific group of critics. It could be a real concern that the game simply would not perform well enough in the West to justify the cost of getting it there.īut to hide behind potential criticism is cowardly. Sending Japanese games to the West is a costly process, and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 wasn’t exactly a blockbuster hit, with a 53 Metascore (and a 6.2 from users). If there’s another issue at play here, that’s fine.
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No piece of art will cease to exist because of professional criticism alone. Critics can criticize anything! Critics pan every Transformers movie, yet they still keep being made because audiences still want to see them and they make money.
I just don’t understand how people can be mad at critics about this issue. Turning tail and running only implies that they know they have no place in this modern era. If they want to feature women in their games that are clearly sex objects or meant to be objectified, they have to defend that philosophy of game design. Kojima squirming around the issue and Koei Tecmo hiding behind a shield of potential criticism implies that they think they are doing something wrong.
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Instead he concocted some ludicrous explanation about how she had to breathe through her skin and wear revealing clothes because of that instead of just saying “I enjoy incorporating scantily clad women into my games,” which is pretty clear to everyone at this point. This whole situation reminds me of Hideo Kojima bending over backwards to explain why we should all be ashamed of ourselves for thinking MGSV’s bikini-clad sniper Quiet was supposed to be a sex object. And by refusing to stand behind their own product and its philosophy (virtual sexy women are fun!), they are the ones who are in the wrong here.
They do not have the right to make that game and completely avoid criticism. Yes, it’s beyond a doubt pure objectification, but a developer certainly has the right to make that game. Instead of shrinking from inevitable criticism, they should say “yes, we made a game full of beautiful CGI women that will appeal to the kind of people who find that attractive.” While that may not be me, I have no issue with people playing these games who either enjoy them or do indeed find all these volleyball-playing, tan line-having virtual women attractive. Koei Tecmo needs to be brave enough to stand up for their own product. A game primarily focused on the objectification of women and the titillation of men (new advertised features in Xtreme 3 include tan lines and “bikini damage”). Instead, all the game faces is criticism. No, I’m sure the series doesn’t have many feminist fans, but is there some widespread call that the game should be restricted from leaving Japan and coming to the West? Of course not. “Maybe Zelda and Peach should rescue Link and Mario for a change” does not equate to “ Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda should be stripped from store shelves.”Īnd the same thing goes for a game like Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. And yet, throughout all that criticism, there are not calls for bans of this content. In the last few years, there certainly has been a big increase in feminism-oriented game criticism which questions how women are traditionally treated in games, usually as objects to be ogled or princesses to be rescued. I’m sorry, but if this is legitimately the reason for Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 not coming to the West, than everyone should be upset at the publisher itself, not feminist game critics.
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