Now, a game with the sole purpose being to gain as many conquests as possible, like Leisure Suit Larry, seems to me to get rather boring after a while. I don’t think games should get rid of their sexual content. I love playing The Sims 2 and part of that is getting them to make “whoopie.” But I do take up issue if it becomes sexual violence against women. If the violence is simply beating them up like you would any other character in the game, I will be bashing her head in with the rest of you. But when it crosses that line and becomes sexual assault, I would have a problem with it. And I mean more violent than Grand Theft Auto. But so far the most sexually offensive thing I can find happens to be the bad boobs. And that is because mine look a lot better than video game boobs.
And sure, it gets a little old when games have yet another girlfriend sidekick or princess to rescue as your options for a female character. I think it would be hilarious to have the choice of being some supreme bitch in a game. Give her the bouncing boobs if you must, but I like a good bitch in my entertainment. Sure, that is just another stereotype of women, but at least it is different than being a submissive twit.
So yes, as a girl in the gaming world, I recognize it is a world largely created by men. I have no problem with it being a man’s playing field. I’m just saying I notice where the men fall short and don’t really get the bouncing boobs just right.
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?