I feel exactly the same way. This game is a buy, but it's not getting played on my lunch break.
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Dragon's Crown (Vanillaware PS3/PSV) Sorceress Trailer
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I feel exactly the same way. This game is a buy, but it's not getting played on my lunch break.
Knux-Future
Banned
Another thing I don't get.
People would be ashamed to play this in public?
You are already playing a vita. People already look down on people who play portables... That's not a widely accepted thing for adults to play..
But still who gives a shit.
What is this grade school?
People would be ashamed to play this in public?
You are already playing a vita. People already look down on people who play portables... That's not a widely accepted thing for adults to play..
But still who gives a shit.
What is this grade school?
There really aren't enough BEU's for everyone's taste, especially not ones from such prolific developers.
But really, what's the point at getting agitated at people who are annoyed by certain traits of the art? It's what the artist drew, what the animators animated... like it or not, it's a part of the game.
Exaggerated reactions for Exaggerated styles... fitting!
Before anyone gets their hands on the game, all one can do is talk about gameplay perceptions and graphcs / art on hand. Both have actually happened in this thread already!
A great number of video games should not be played around kids. I have a wife and a 3 years old and the last game I played with them was Journey. I will play this game with my wife around for sure. She'll laugh at it, don't know if she'll want to try it though. The violence in some games is the only thing that really bothers her and it starts to rub a bit on me too. This, it will not.
As for the poor design choice, narrowing its target audience, that is a complete uncertainty. A more realistic or gender neutral art style could be better for you and a few others, but no one knows if it would result in a net gain of more users buying it. For all we know this art style is what is making this game have so much exposure and could result in an higher reach.
People look down on typical gamer nerds, not on handhelds per se. If anything, tablets made portables (who don't look like fisherprice toys) far more accessible.
It's getting it deemed 'inappropriate' by HR thanks to someone seeing it and saying, "That's obscene."
I really don't care if people think I'm 'childish' for playing a handheld at work, I just want to keep my job.
michaelius
Banned
Grim Grimoire would be great with touchscreen
Game looks awesome and people who have a problem with it are giant sticks in the mud. If you don't like it, don't play it. It's a product of a foreign culture, anyways. Do you only play games to be PC and respect realistic female proportions? Give me a fucking break. I think the ones who need to grow up are those who take issue with and constantly whine about a video game sprite for it's overtly sexual nature.
Knux-Future
Banned
That's all good but we already know what this game looks like. So you know this is game with big tits big muscles and big ass. It is the style chosen. Not liking it is cool but once you know that why attack in every thread?
I guess I will never understand rolling in every thread about something you don't like just to post why you don't like it.
More power to y'all tho.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Hey its alright, we can just play COD and let the children see people getting shot in the head.
People should understand that this most likely is not a kids game. Look at the rating (which iirc has not been decided yet) if you want to know what you can play in front of your kids and what you cannot.
Every DC thread we get nothing but complaints about gigantic tits. Seriously guys stop acting like your defending women's honor. We get it you don't like it stop with it already, please don't buy the game and support the horrible art you find so offensive. Don't come to the OT when it releases they aren't going to change art direction it's not going away.
Knux-Future
Banned
New News -> New Thread -> New Exposure to new people -> New time to exchange ideas.
Pre-release conversation is all pretty much just made of different shades of the same topics, though. Talking about the crazy of an artstyle here isn't much different than talking about the lazy of Flashback Reboot's artstyle, or the Sterility of New SMB's style.
I can understand the annoyance of the "not this again!" feel, but this game has given us very little to go on, pass it's visuals. It's not like we have hours of gameplay, control explanations, and commentary to go on. We have a dripfeed of character trailers.
If Atlus / Vanillaware wants to change the subjects at hand, they can always release more variety for us to talk about...
Lambda Pie
Banned
the way the lady says "Sorceress" sounds like "Sauce Heiress".
i bet she got a spell named Heinz Ketchup.
i bet she got a spell named Heinz Ketchup.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Wait, this isn't on hold anymore? This is actually coming out?
ohgodyesohgodyesohgodyesohgodyes.
Personally I don't have a problem with big sorceress tits. They're pretty ridiculous and will probably make my wife's eyes roll, but I'm playing the Knight or the Dwarf anyway. Same way I played King of Dragons.
Honestly, the exaggerated style is nothing new. Take a look at the proportions of world of warcraft characters. Is there a reason to have a male human's hands be 3x the size of a female's? It's just stylistic choice. If it's not your choice then that's fine, and it isn't wrong to say the designs are mysogynistic (lol at people who don't know that there can be multiple meanings to a word even after getting linked to the fucking definition), but it doesn't stop this from being a day 1 purchase for me, not by a long shot.
ohgodyesohgodyesohgodyesohgodyes.
Personally I don't have a problem with big sorceress tits. They're pretty ridiculous and will probably make my wife's eyes roll, but I'm playing the Knight or the Dwarf anyway. Same way I played King of Dragons.
Honestly, the exaggerated style is nothing new. Take a look at the proportions of world of warcraft characters. Is there a reason to have a male human's hands be 3x the size of a female's? It's just stylistic choice. If it's not your choice then that's fine, and it isn't wrong to say the designs are mysogynistic (lol at people who don't know that there can be multiple meanings to a word even after getting linked to the fucking definition), but it doesn't stop this from being a day 1 purchase for me, not by a long shot.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Let's just make fun of them when they do, problem solved
Preach! Same people complaining better keep their traps shut when the Amazoness trailer comes out. I need my fix.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
lol at the hourglass waist and big tits. She shouldn't even be able to move. Clearly it's not sexual objectification if the anatomy is exaggerated. /sarcasm
Don't watch video game related stuff at work, especially involving this game. I would think watching any video at work is inappropriate. Just watch on your phone at break time.
^^
Game looks fun but I don't think I'd even be able to play this at home. My kid likes seeing what I'm playing and I wouldn't want him seeing this. Let alone my wife...
djplaeskool
Member
That'd make an interesting unemployment application
Funny enough, there are a couple other people where I work that are jazzed for this game.
Isn't the word amazon already female?? Lol... there are no male amazons...
Well if the bewbs feel awkward already to myself, then why wouldn't it be awkward with other people around too?
Yeah, me and another guy at work are looking forward to this and Muramasa later this year.
djplaeskool
Member
If every thread about this game is going to devolve into arguments about art design and misogyny, then I just give up.
ThatStupidLion
Member
man, i'll get this game. and i'll love it.. but i really don't like the size of her breasts and the other girl's Hugh Jass. im all for the sexiness wtc, but the proportions are really jarring aesthetically.
I think the real question is, why would you give a shit what people around you think? Are you that vain?
Heart of Black
Member
What exactly is rotoscoped about any of the game?
I don't get the constant use of "False outrage". All of us have a mother, many of us have sisters. Lets not even mention girlfriends or wives. That's not enough relation to say "I wouldn't want to see a woman close to me, portrayed in such a way"?
I find this desire to deflect discussion of the art style to be kind of comical. Even those who do not like Vanillaware's gameplay ALWAYS talk about it's art. It's the strongest thing about the company. So Praise and repeat-posting of Muramasa gifs are ok, but speaking of dislike of an element of the styles presented isn't?
I'm sure people will be talking on and on about the gameplay, as soon as a "Let's Play!" or "20 minutes of Dragon's Crown!" or some such comes out. Until then, yeah, people are going to talk about the most attention-getting features. Just like the animators and artist spent some of their most time getting those things to work and move as they do.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
While I do feel that this issue is being overblown, the presence or lack of presence of upset females shouldn't matter. A guy can provide an equally valid critique of sexism, regardless of his gender. So the presence of outrage girls doesn't validate a game's sexism, just as much as the presence of not-outraged girls doesn't invalidate it.
I feel like part of this art style is completely exaggerating a certain type of character. So yes, the Sorceress has huge boobs and long ass legs because she is supposed to be a sexy character. Just like how the Dwarf has pulsing muscles because he is supposed to be a ripped badass dwarf. Just like how the Amazon is freaking huge and muscular because she is supposed to be a giant.
I really see no problem with the character at all.
I really see no problem with the character at all.
I think they are confusing vanillaware's unusual ball-and-socket animation style with how odd rotoscoping can look.
Of course you are free to dislike the art style.
But when people are throwing around words like 'misogyny' and 'exploitative', it starts to get ridiculous.
Every character in the game is a caricature and none of them have realistic proportions.
It's what they feel. Like I've mentioned before, I don't think that's Kamitani's intent. But he's making a game that'll get world release, and a world stage will get to judge it.
A style this strong deserves strong words in response to it, though. And I actually find it surprising at how minor some people think these elements are. The defense is brushing it aside like people are talking about hair animation, or eye color; the people aganist it are speaking about it as if it's an element of a trend they dislike.
What's just "business as usual!" for many artist themselves, means a lot more to the audience who recieves the products, I suppose. I often find this interesting; it's funny when art boils down to simple self expression for the artist, rather than a larger statement. What a person shares through illustration says a lot about them, and there's a part of me that always find that side of things very interesting...
When actual women comment on the state of women in video games, lots of people in neogaf get in a big huff.
Lots of people can't separate criticism on character design vs criticism on the overall game. This game looks awesome and I want to get it, but that doesn't mean I can't see the problems with the character designs.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
The comparison to Muramasa is fairly interesting now that you bring it up. People were never that outraged by Muramasa, even though it ended up having way more sexist themes without having Dragon's Crown's big boobs. Even Play magazine's infamous Muramasa cover didn't generate as much outrage and talk as just this thread has.
Of course the answer is simply that "big boobs" are a much easier target of outrage while the more worrisome aspects of these games are too complicated for most posters to bother dealing with.
Its not misogynist, no. But it is exploitative, without question. However, you could make the argument that its equally exploitative, regardless of gender. Not sure how that would pan out, but its a legitimate argument one could propose.*
*without checking, I'm betting that the game's marketing sabotages this though.
Nice, Vanillaware is saving the best classes for last. Good to have the two fluff characters out of the way. BRING ON PULSATING DWARF, ASSCHEEK JIGGLES, AND FEMALE LINK!
Oh, I forgot about Wizardroth. Bah, another boring class.
PURPLE VEINS AND ASSCHEEK JIGGLES
Oh, I forgot about Wizardroth. Bah, another boring class.
Oh for sure, I was just commenting subjectively. I've always been more into physical classes, and the knight looks boring to me from a design perspective, is all.djplaeskool said:
PURPLE VEINS AND ASSCHEEK JIGGLES
Booty jiggles.
djplaeskool
Member
After checking the video, it looks like each spell has an accompanying spellbook color and letter next to the character data at the top.
Ice Jail has a purple book with the letter I on it.
Gravity has a purple book with the letter G on it.
Seems to be a bunch of spells categorized by type, as other spells had (what I assume to be) their first letter on books of varying colors.
Also seems to be a static number of casts/uses restrictions on certain, if not most spells
I dunno about fluff.
Those are some useful spells from the looks of them, overall. Seem to have a ton of utility.
Being able to airdash and cast mid air only makes it better.
Actually, makes me pretty excited to see the other character expositions as well.
We probably knew a lot more about the game's gameplay, too, by that point. So even though the allusion to a famous Ukyo-e paining was interesting, we had other things to speak about!
As far as after the game was out... much like this game, styles and designs settle in then, and the only thing one cares to talk about tends up being gameplay related, and even at that, those things are normally mentioned by acceptingalready- fans.
In a way, I think it boils down to animation. The boobs aren't just attention-getting because they're large for her frame; it's also because of how much emphasis has been put on their motion, reaction, and significance. For Kamitani, I'm sure Expanding Man-thighs and Skin that's so chisled it transforms into ROCK while he breaths is just about equal in expression... to the average viewer? Naaaa...
I'd bet on either the Elf, or Dwarf. They probably want to avoid putting 2 women, or 2 mages, in a row.
Man real women with boobs bigger than their heads must disgust you.
semiconscious
Member
...i've never seen the whole 'what's offensive/immature, what isn't' thing being any more complicated than this. if you're not embarrassed about someone watching you vicariously blowing people's brains out, i'm not sure why you'd be embarrassed about just about anything else...
i mean, seriously - a full-grown adult reduced to hammering buttons & flipping sticks, totally absorbed in manipulating a piece of plastic electronics in an attempt to control a cartoon? gaming, at its core, is already, to a great extent, pretty fucking pathetic even without these controversial 'trimmings'
...WTF dude. Don't play the game when you are at work.