I am certainly not a major gamer. Chances are that the cool games everyone is talking about are ones of which I know nothing of. And while my favorite game will always be Bubble Bobble, I also enjoy some of the contemporary more mature games. I wasn’t so out of the loop as to not get a PS2 or Xbox, but I am also not going to die if I don’t get every new console that ever comes out.
As a non-gaming girl, I find many video games to be quite amusing. I certainly don’t expect females to not be sexy in games because honestly, who wants to play a game where you look at some revolting person — be them male or female? Males in the games go shirtless too, so I see no reason to demand better for females, but let it slide for males. Heck, I don’t even denigrate the codes to play Nude Raider or see the characters in The Sims 2 without being blurred over. I think those things are funny.
That humor is partially why I tend to laugh at video games more than anything. Because the women wear revealing clothing or nothing at all, I pay attention to how ridiculous some of the women in video games are. So yes, they have extremely large breasts. That doesn’t bother me. It is the fact that in games like Dead or Alive 2, the breasts jiggle in the most unrealistic of ways. If you really want bouncing boobs in your game, you might as well make the entire chest area bounce, not just the area surrounding the nipples. Though it is amusing that setting the age of these girls to be older makes the boobs bounce more, it is still in the wrong area. Nipples don’t jiggle, boobs do!
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Ken Edwards
I feel it is a total travesty that the women of DOA (and other games) do not have good breast physics. I think more research should be done in this area to make sure they get it right next time.
:-)
2 - -E
Physics? HA! If the guys that designed these games got out from the computers and in the real world they could see real boobs jiggle and it wouldn't be a problem. Extend the movement to the top and bottom of the breast at least!
3 - Matthew T. Sussman
Looking to video games for good video games is like going to Hooters to play Frogger.
4 - Matthew T. Sussman
Er ...
Looking to video games for good boobies is like going to Hooters to play Frogger.
5 - -E
I've yet to come across a Hooters Girl that didn't have a camel toe, but people claim they have good wings there too. Why can't video games also have good boobs?
6 - Ken Edwards
They are going for realism in video games these days, after all...
7 - KingKRool
Lmao! Good article! XD
Soul Calibur had reakky great jiggle effects. A little over the top though...
8 - -E
Honestly? Boob jiggling is just something I laugh about in the games. The boobs in general don't reflect real boobs. Mine don't look like the ones in the games, and I personally like mine. And I haven't had any complaints either.
9 - Eric Berlin
Well, I think the real question here is: is the target demo for these games really going to be able to tell the difference?
10 - -E
HAHA Are you asking because they are too young? Or because they never do anything but play a game so they never see the real thing? Either way, we should prepare these young men for what a real woman looks like. And boobs are part of it!
11 - Eric Berlin
Yep, pretty much. Not sure how much vid games are going to prepare them though!
12 - -E
HAHA, well it won't prepare them at all. But these young boys shouldn't be shocked when a nipple doesn't jiggle but an entire boob does!
13 - kiddicus maximus
can we get some kind of comparison? i've seen a few (thousand) sets of real boobs, and you are very right.
14 - Ken Edwards
Wow I would have lost my bet, it took 13!
15 - -E
Ken, you know you wanted to ask that the whole time ;)
16 - Vaginarian
There's a few japanese games where the boobs are adjustable.
17 - Kermit D. Frog
Get over yourself :)
And what I mean by that is, no one cares, no one really wants to read your Blog, at least no one important. A Blog is just a means for socially retarded people to feel like they get some sort of attention.
You fail at life.
18 - swingingpuss
Kermit, are you sure you are croaking on the right thread?
19 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
The computer game that teaches a guy to deal with REAL women hasn't been invented yet. If it had, GTA, and the whole crop of current games wouldn't have any players - no matter how realistically the boobs jiggled.
20 - Simon
Kermit you're reading the blog **sighs** nice piece, its copletely true. But unless you start developing games with realistic boobs (would laugh at a game box saying NOW WITH REALISTIC BOOB JIGGLING!!) then no one else is.
21 - swingingpuss
Erin, its a fantastic post. Check this google video on halo
Its downright hilarious
22 - Joe
"but I like a good bitch in my entertainment"
Play Bloodrayne then
23 - adminyo
seee. i dont see why that matters, the people that make the games are 30 year olds sitting next to a computer as virgins. that is the only pleasure they have and they probally have never seen breasts anyways.....
whatever
24 - Retro
What the hell is all this?
Yes, I agree that the boobs in games just aren't realistic. It isn't really surprising.
What I love here though, is the idea that all gamers are fat, reclusive and/or virgins who have never seen a real pair of boobs move.
I bet if somebody attacked female blog writers for always blogging about the same stuff, you'd feel fairly angry and want to comment on it, too. You'd probably be annoyed at the ridiculous sterotyping. Although that would make you a bit of a hypocrit, given that you're branding a good 100 million people in one fell swoop.
I'm a gamer. I've run a gaming website for 5 years. I live with my girlfriend and indeed, I'm not a virgin. Neither am I particularly fat. I laughed at Dead Or Alive Beach Volleyball's ridiculous "boobimation" and so did my girlfriend...
As for developers - The three I count as friends are all married and all have at least one child.
Oh I see, you meant the *other* gamers and developers... sorry. My mistake. You meant the other reclusive gamers who are probably sitting down in their breaks from gaming, watching porn. Pornstars aren't *all* silicone enhanced, you know...
25 - -E
I certainly never said all gamers are fat virgins who never leave their homes. I simply said that as a girl who certainly isn't a gamer by any serious standards, I find a few things entertaining and amusing for reasons not intended by the developers. There is nothing wrong with me finding entertainment in how unreal something is. Doesn't stop me from playing the games now does it?