Haha how can anyone insult SF's costumes? The game has 50 characters, each with unique body types and costumes that actually fit their personality, and the girls aren't treated like objects. Juri is not going to wear a maid costume in a fight because she's not there to please maid fetishists. Decapre's summer DLC isn't a thong because even a murderous clone has enough decency to leave something to the imagination. It's those kinds of design decisions that separate great characters from sex objects.
That's a nice circlejerk there boss...why should costumes oh so suddenly matter and somehow make them sluts but SF's females somehow get away because? Fanservice exists in all games and SF is just as guilty as any other fighting game, whether they choose to indulge themselves with costumes or not.
DOA today is like - want Kasumi to be a nurse for you? How about schoolgirl Tina? For $2 they're yours! It's basically a virtual whore house. The new TN just banks on impulse buys from horny teens, raking in millions with minimal effort and spending a few grand on publicity (eg. pot bonuses, the TFC thing, etc) pretending to care about the FGC. They are definitely very clever
Yeah, Capcom doesn't do the same thing with plenty of ridiculous expansion pack sequels before DOA was even a thing even when it really didn't need to, nor nickel and diming with DLC you need to even have a damn ending, let alone things that are not actually on the freaking disc.
And the DLC costumes are just that, costumes. Trying to use them to force the identity on the characters is as stupid as me saying that Decapre wearing a bikini IS what Bison would let her wear or something she wants to wear(oh hey, I guess Decapre somehow finds that Gladiator outfit to somehow be efficient and Bison didn't give a shit)
Anyway maybe it is pointless to keep ranting about this sort of stuff, as it's obvious Tecmo cares a lot about money. But it's disappointing that the new TN chose this path for DOA because series like Tekken, SF, MK, etc. have proven there are more legit ways to make money than banking on impulse buys from horny teens
Yeah, there's plenty of expansion pack spam, sex appeal, locking content within the disc, blood and gore, nickel and diming with F2P games- oh wait.
The one saving grace is that the path they chose has only one end, if you look at other examples like Idolmaster and Dream Club. Eventually the girls will be whored out so much that they're not making as much money from DLC, and it means they will have to introduce an entirely new cast. At that point they'll most likely go down the same path, but there's also a small chance things can turn around.
How about you take that self preaching bullshit out of here? Dead or Alive does it what it needs to get it's money and I'd rather take how they do it than expansion packs it doesn't need, locking DLC onto the disc you need to pay for, whoring out it's F2P model among other such shit.
But nope, it's somehow wrong because you say so...
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