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Sure...that's totally not intended. | |
If she had the wound to go with the tears in clothin it might be plausible. But she won't. | |
Whatever the case may be, The 3rd Birthday actually looks really good. I'll definitely be getting it. | |
Hahaha. Awkward eroticism in Square games? Never! It's kinda clever to highlight it like this. The strategic female clothes 'disappearance' quite an anime thing to do, anyone remember Soul Calibur 4? | |
Really? Clearly World War 2 was doing it completely wrong. You're supposed to blow their clothes off, not their heads. | |
For the PSP? Wow. But on a lighter note, boobies do help games sell. If she has got a nice set of knockers and shows some skin, then you know the game will atleast (and sadly) sell copies on that note alone. | |
Don't know about you but I don't find wounded chicks erotic. | |
You know, We should use that in sexual harassment cases. "Im sorry Your honor, After Miss Bernice came into work after being mauled by that bear, I couldn't help but stare. Her outfit had been torn to shreds" | |
Reminds me of this: And, of course, by extension, reminds me of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. | |
All I know is I am stoked to see another Parasite Eve, and cannot wai to play it! | |
Totally catering to the ero-guro crowd. | |
Reading those quotes just cracked me up. Hilarious. | |
If this was a ploy to highlight this feature.....it worked. | |
So i assume if they are going to lie to us like that, that in this game inbetween battles, she will find some form of replacement clothing? Of course not that realism means we must pay more money to people... Thats kinda like telling someone that showers were meant for sex scenes instead of getting clean. | |
There's nothing wrong with showing off more Aya. She's hot:) | |
"Just so you guys know, Aya will lose some of her clothes over the game. You'll probably find this sexy, but that definitely wasn't our intention. So yeah, just letting you guys know." To clarify, I don't find the tattered clothing silly, but the way they're trying to bring attention to it certainly is. | |
Well then why isn't she wearing armor? If you're going to fight something that is going to directly attack your body (and thus rip your cloths) why not wear some body armor to prevent, you know, your flesh from being torn. I mean its not as if these attack will glace off the skin, they should do major damage to her body if they are tearing her cloths. If its just wear and tear then why isn't she wearing something more durable? Do these people just manufacture cheap easily destroyed cloths or something? This doesn't make any sense as an actual reason. If you're going to B.S. your way out of trying to show some skin come up with a good reason. | |
Huh... so... even Hitler screwed up too...? He was just supposed to remove that horrible little block of a stache he had, which was clearly evil? | |
Hmmmm. Not sure if serious. If she doesn't have cuts gashes or other wounds from the attacks that rip her cloths off then this is all BS. | |
This makes me think of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer and Marge watch The Erotic Adventures of Hercules. "Hercules, the cyclops torn off my dress!" | |
I guess it's realistic. So I guess the new test for realism is "TITS OR UNREALISTIC!" | |
Bullshit... you did it so she would end up naked, dont deny it! | |
It's like a stripper yelling at everyone not to look. Slowly revealing more of a female's clothing is erotically orientated. This is so stupid, it's like pleading to Bayonetta players that the loss of clothing is a result of the demanding will needed to summon demons from hell. It's not an accurate representation of battle damage. When a person's head explodes do all their clothes fly off? They could have just not included this feature. Please refer to Batman: Arkham Asylum for information on how to represent battle scars and clothing damage accurately. | |
Sadly, in these situations when someone points out these things and then says "But we didn't mean that, honest!", the rest of us tend to believe that the opposite is true. At least, in my own personal experience. | |
...But blood causes the boner in the first place! I'm sure it wasn't intentionally, just like it's not in all the other Squaenix games you know like Tifa's "funbags", or Sazh's cheeky luck at Vanille booty...No not at all... | |
Then why doesn't she just wear armor that gets more and more beaten? | |
As someone pointed out before, they did this to a guy in Sands of Time and nobody complained. Didn't offend me then. Won't offend me now. Ah. PSP only. Well then. I guess it won't affect me either way. I have to stick to platforms for people with big hands and bad eyes. | |
People have been pushing the "clothes get tattered through combat" for ages and it goes for both men and women. The hypocricy that when it happens to Arnie, it's fine, but when it happens to Angelina, it's wrong, disgusting, using women and all the following bullshit. I've seen RL fights that end up in tattered clothes, so the realism is perfectly fine and makes sense. Whether the erotic element is counted on or not is irrelevant, this discussion wouldn't be here if the character in question was male. | |
Who cares? Parasite Eve is back! | |
I really wish this was like the originals, on PS3. | |
They didn't claim it was realistic in the sands of time. The Prince's pathalogical hatred of rips, tears and minor cosmetic flaws in his clothing was hilarious in a low-budget-porno kind of way. "Oh dear, my shirt is frayed" *rrrrrriiiiipppp* | |
This, I also. | |
Wait, do her clothes come off more and more as the game come on or is she just set into the "ripping showing my cleavage" model she has now? | |
I have never heard of this game, but the picture explains everything :) | |
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The 3rd Birthday Doesn't Mean to Turn You On, Says Square Enix
Square Enix says it didn't set out to make the upcoming game The 3rd Birthday "erotic" but if gamers take it that way, well, that's just the way it goes.
The vicious beasts threatening humanity aren't the only ones to suffer at the hands of Aya Brea, the heroine of The 3rd Birthday, an action-RPG set in the Parasite Eve universe. Her wardrobe apparently takes a beating too, shredding in fine Captain Kirk style to reveal ever-greater portions of skin as she bravely fights on. But it's not an attempt to draw in young, overly-hormonal teenage gamers with some sort of latter-day Strip Poker, according to Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase. It's just the reality of what happens to people's clothes when they battle evil.
"You may actually find some of the features erotic or sexy. But that's not our intention, really," he told Eurogamer. "For example, Aya, as she continues to fight, sometimes what she's wearing gets ripped and torn to reveal more of her skin, which lots of gamers may find quite sexy."
"But we didn't do that because we wanted to show her in a very sexy light. It's more like that's reality," he added. "If you keep fighting obviously you'll get ripped and damaged and injured and wounded. So we just wanted to make it plausible and realistic. That's all."
Plausible and realistic, and that's all? I haven't been in a fight since grade five and while I was only squaring off against a jerk named Chad rather than world-rending evil, I distinctly recall that strategic nudity did not result. Is it possible that Kitase's true intention here wasn't to deny the eroticism, but to highlight it? Surely not.
The 3rd Birthday is being developed exclusively for the PSP and is scheduled to come out in Japan in late 2010 or early 2011 in Japan, followed by a worldwide release later in 2011.
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