Fri, Feb 26, 2010 | 18:10 GMT
DoA: Paradise is not “softcore porn” or “degrading to women”
Dead or Alive: Paradise director Yoshinori Ueda has said that the game was not deigned to be softcore porn or degrading towards women.
Speaking with Eurogamer, Ueda says that the developer’s only intention was to create lovely girls.
“That’s certainly not something we’re intentionally going for,” he said. “From our perspective, we’re trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus – we want our characters to be beautiful. The DOA characters are strong and that they look the way they do is based on trying to bring out the beauty of women.
“We’re certainly not trying to degrade women. They have beautiful bodies. We’re trying to show off the beauty of their bodies but we’re not trying to be degrading about it – we’re trying to show that they are beautiful characters.
“It’s not that we were trying to make softcore porn. That’s definitely not the goal.”
This bit is in response to the ESRB description of the game that called it “creepy voyeurism”, “bizarre, misguided notions of what women really want” and stated that “Paradise cannot mean straddling felled tree trunks in dental-floss thongs” before an apology was offered by the board and the description taken out.
“We know that everyone is going to have a different experience with the game – everyone has their own opinion,” said Ueda. “For us, the goal was really to offer a little bit of paradise to the users, and we hope that people playing the game will be able to come away with the feeling that they’ve visited paradise.
“What we offer is a selection of things to play and activities to have fun with. The players have the freedom to play Paradise however they want.”
Still, it’s better than a game where there’s men running about in banana hammocks, we reckon. Unless WWE or UFC games count as that.
Dead or Alive: Paradise will be released in Europe on April 2.
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Tags: dead or alive paradise, DOA: Paradise, Yoshinori Ueda
12 comments
#1
G1GAHURTZ
26/02/10, 6:27 pm
Oh yes it is!
#2
joshua nash
26/02/10, 6:36 pm
totally agree with G1GAHURTZ, i figure 90% of the guys who buy this play it while using their person joystick
#3
dirigiblebill
26/02/10, 6:36 pm
It isn’t? Damn.
#4
Demiath
26/02/10, 6:41 pm
Sexual objectification isn’t necessarily wrong in and of itself -or at least it’s a quite essential part of human biology, both male and female – but there are definitely ways to do it (in the context of entertainment products) which are more degrading and offensive to actual human beings than others. DAO:P is undoubtedly on the creepy side, but considering the gigantic commercial success of significantly more vulgar (or so I’m told) Internet pornography I’d say there are worse things to ESRB and similar organs to get their knickers in a twist over…
#5
Gheritt White
26/02/10, 6:47 pm
I bet it’d sell ten times better if it was hardcore pr0n.
#6
polygem
26/02/10, 6:47 pm
nah, it´s just degrading the game designers of doa.
#7
Retroid
26/02/10, 7:24 pm
/Tries scrolling past this story twice
/Can’t
#8
Psychotext
26/02/10, 7:28 pm
I have to renege on my posting hiatus just to say…
…nom nom nom.
#9
McLovin85
26/02/10, 7:33 pm
I buy it for the tight fighting mechanics…..mmmmmm tight like a tiger.
#10
Gheritt White
26/02/10, 7:44 pm
Somehow, I feel this image is appropriate.
#11
Aimless
26/02/10, 8:06 pm
It’s more degrading to men seeing as they’re the target audience, no?
#12
Erthazus
26/02/10, 10:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7cdOOKVOo&feature=PlayList&p=CC0682DA2ABEB0B6&index=17
THIS !!!!!!!!!!!