Being ashamed of it is a weird way to phrase it, but I get where you're coming from. I also don't get why people say it's an honest game, while there are actually people who argue the game is not about half-naked women, but rather a volleyball or holiday simulation... Sure. Of course there should be a market for mostly everything, also softcore. But it's even less than that, it's nothing but a lot of teasing, I don't see any situation in which I'd like that more than real softcore material or hardcore, be it game or movie, which seems A LOT more honest to me than wrapping some shallow modes around a game designed for arousal.
I'm all in for people who want to wank to or get aroused by whatever they want. But it's nevertheless hard to argue against the fact that the existence of a game which stars _popular_ female characters of a fighting game series with a (more or less) serious backstory, which are now portrayed as nothing but virtual dolls to look at, is kind of harmful to the progress we made in the portrayal of women in video games.
I have a lot more respect for a self-assured pornstar than I have for the producers of this game, honestly.
And no, DoA(X) is not the only game which is harmful in that way, but it's definitely the japanese poster child.
They're videogame characters. It's literally what they are.
Stupid, humanoid objects created for certain purposes, in this case the purpose beeing sexual pleasure.
Ehhh, what? Going by that reasoning, we could just do whatever the fuck we want with video game characters without respect to gender, race, whatever, of any kind.