Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Western release canned over sexism concerns
Seems a bit like defeating the point, do you think?
Supposedly it was because the Japanese developers "didn't want to deal with" the accusations that would be thrown their way if it came out in Europe or the US. Other places are encouraging its sale by promoting imports. Your thoughts? I personally might pick up the game because the PS4 is region-free and I think the backlash is silly.
Last edited by Tupin; 11-25-2015 at 01:56 PM.
Well they were probably correct that there would be a fair amount of backlash here in the US and this could have hurt sales. But the Xbox One is region free so those that want to pick it up can still do so.
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Originally Posted by THE 1 2 P
Like with any controversy, you'd get people buying the game just to experience it. It happened with Hatred and its AO rating, and a similar thing to this happened with Dragon's Crown scantily clad female characters. All the outrage made the games sell more. Hell, the company that is importing them is getting so many preorders for the game that it wouldn't surprise me if Tecmo changed its tune soon.
And nothing of value was lost.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. One on hand, I'm absolutely appalled any game at all should have a western release cancelled because of concerns from the anita sarkeesian feminazi movement. because you knwo they'll take this as a "victory" when in fact the only thing they "won" was denying work and profits to American localization teams since this is a niche game and would sell only to a niche crowd and will do so anyway because of region free.
That said, the Dead or Alive Xtreme series has been historically dubious in terms of quality. The original Xbox game was solid in its ideas but the execution of them was haphazard, with a Persona-like attention to time management that I didn't like nor did I feel added anything.
Then the Xbox 360's Xtreme 2 was just bad.
Given the amount of time and how excellent DoA5/Ultimate/LastRound is, I suspect that Tecmo could make a really excellent game....but I'm not sure that will happen. I'm going to wait and see if I can find unbiased reviews. If the game is good, then I'll import, but if it is good, then it'll be the first time for the Xtreme series.
But ultimately, fuck censorship and the anita sarkeesian movement. Almost everything they deem to have a problem with in gaming is ether skewed way out of the reality of the game or is just plain factually wrong. The times they do have legitimate complaints are in games that are clearly made solely for adults and a particular niche. Gaming is art just as film or television is. Denying the release of a game is denying art. Simple as that.
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^ This.
DOAX has been garbage for as long as I can remember.
My ex thought it was great...I thought it was a great excuse to play something else... namely, Phoenix Wright.
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I have no interest in DoAX3 but this kind of thing isn't good for the video game industry. Japanese developers are already scared to localize games, because the video gaming market is so small in comparison to everywhere else, this is where these feminists and women's rights people can get their voices heard, but they're ruining the possibility of people to play the games they want. You might not want to play DoAX3, but what about people who actually like it for more than just the boobs? What happens when it's a game that you want to play that just happens to have character models like those in Dragon's Crown? And it's like these people don't even attack every game, it's just random. Look at how many Senran Kagura came to the west, the Hyperdimension Neptunia games, etc, and none of these games were attacked? I know that Satoshi Matrix in particular is a fan of the Hyperdimension Neptunia games, so what if NIS was attacked for that game and backed out on localizing the games. The hate towards the game is just really bad for the video game industry in the west.
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Maybe so, but I don't think that's the point.^ This.
DOAX has been garbage for as long as I can remember.
My ex thought it was great...
Although after I thought about it, I wonder if this will be a marketing stunt for publicity and they'll eventually release a copy here in the west after much demand.
It looks like they haven't announced an Xbox One version yet, just the other two systems.
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SJW thought police actually had an effect. Looks like angry joe was wrong. Damn....
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