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Tecmo Talk Dead Or Alive, Ninja Gaiden
Thanks to Gamers.com for posting two in-depth interviews with Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki about his Xbox-exclusive titles, one discussing Dead Or Alive Online, and the other regarding the forthcoming Ninja Gaiden. Discussing other products, Itagaki tries to claim that "..the female designers came up with more radical, more sexy [swimsuit] designs than the male designers" for Dead Or Alive:Xtreme Beach Volleyball, but then admits that the super-risque Venus swimsuit was his own creation, and stirs up trouble trashing substandard Xbox ports: "To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all these recent cheap multi-platform games. They take data coded for low-end machines, sprinkle a bit of anti-aliasing on top, and try to pass the thing off as an Xbox game. I would never do that kind of work, at least."
How innovative. The guy's using sex appeal to lure in gamers. And, of course, the game stinks.
Why do I say it stinks: Whats better?
1: Playing a game by yourself watching animated chicks play Semi-XXX volleyball or
2: Actually play along with REAL chicks and try keep one
Anyways, it's summer. If you're playing games that simulate a summer game, you're really a loser.
Yeah, this is a troll. Just as much as the game BMX-XXX was too. Think about it.
How about having a fetish? Animation can do things that real cannot, and some guys (girls?) get off on it.
It's the same way some people get off on B,D,S,M panty hose, foot, suffocation..etc. Also, considering that many "children" sexualities are illegal but animated children are excepted by that rule. That makes for some mighty nasty legal loopholes.
I told somebody about that, and they liked those pictures. Why? Because they can imagine partially being there and doing things to "her".
I prefer a real woman.
All the Dead or Alive games pretty much suck in comparrison to other fighting games (although, ironically, it is probably the best fighter on the Xbox...but considering the compeition (Kabuki Warriors, Tao Feng, Kakuto Chojin, etc.), that isn't saying much). DoAXBV had no gameplay to it, just graphics of girls in skimpy bikinis.
Taking DoA online isn't going to suddenly make it a better fighter.
I fear for Ninja Gaiden, myself. I loved the Ninja Gaiden series on the NES, and I hate to think of how horribly Team "All Graphics, No Gameplay" Ninja will destroy this once proud franchise. The game looks spectacular, as all Team Ninja games do; but I fear it will have little to no gameplay, as all Team Ninja games do.
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I happened to read a forum for DOA:VB and pretty much confirmed my suspicion of that game. They got board of it really quick, and confirmed that the re-playability was quite low.
Makes sense, for a game that originally was going to just be a computer generated movie the volleyball part was tacked on so that they could sell it as a game.
I find this part funny:
"To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all these recent cheap multi-platform games. They take data coded for low-end machines, sprinkle a bit of anti-aliasing on top, and try to pass the thing off as an Xbox game"
Yet you seem to have no problem doing this to YOUR old saturn/ps1 and dreamcast/ps2 games? From the sounds of the interview besides probably reusing and updating a game coded for other platforms, all they are doing is adding online support and enchanting the graphics.
I also find it funny that the creator of the DOA girls is protective of "his girls" and doesn't like the nude patches/pics/etc, yet the hypocrite has no problem with dressing them up in skimpy outfits and using the sex sells pitch.
"Discussing other products, Itagaki tries to claim that "..the female designers came up with more radical, more sexy [swimsuit] designs than the male designers""
And this is important because...? So that we know he practices Affirmative Action while making cheesecake? Or is it simply showing just where the team's priorities lie when making a game?
"for Dead Or Alive:Xtreme Beach Volleyball, but then admits that the super-risque Venus swimsuit was his own creation,"
Personally, I wouldn't be proud of that. I think the word "silly" is more fitting here than "risque."
"and stirs up trouble trashing substandard Xbox ports: "To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all these recent cheap multi-platform games. They take data coded for low-end machines, sprinkle a bit of anti-aliasing on top, and try to pass the thing off as an Xbox game. I would never do that kind of work, at least.""
Yeah, what he does is completely different. He calls them Xbox exclusives instead.