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It's a horror game, so they're shipping a horrific stature with it. I'm not really sure what the controversy here is. Are people just upset because it has boobs? The fact that it's a dismembered torso can't possibly be enough to earn it an eyebrow raise on its own. Not when you can buy any number of model corpses and limbs from costume and horror memorabilia shops. I actually quite like it as a design. It's a fun mix of cheesecake and B-movie horror. It reminds me a lot of the poster for Pirana 3D. I still wouldn't want one in my house, because catching a glimpse of it late at night after a few drinks does not seem like fun! | |
Instant collectors item. | |
Oh. Was that the reason it took you a day to notice the ribs? ;)
They absolutely did this to get attention for the game. I'm assuming people still remember the cinematic trailer for the first Dead Island. And for what it's worth, I have absolutely no problem with those tits. They look very fake, but hey, it's the modern age. | |
Silly enough lack of glasses when looking at the picture. When not really focussing on it it just looks like some bit of the top is hanging loose. edit : lost the ability to quote correctly | |
i think they all tried this and it lead to the sane person becoming insane.. | |
I kid, I kid. :) I actually made the same mistake on first glance. 1st thought: Is that a dismembered torso in a bikini? I swear there's a joke to be made here about women not being attractive if you can see their ribs. | |
Personally, I don't find the issue of gender an issue here. In fact, I'd probably be more inclined to buy it if it was a male zombie torso - I somehow imagine it'd take less explaining to anyone who stumbles across it, and people would probably judge me slightly less gravely, as indicated by the outrage the female model has caused. That said, as someone who put an unhealthy amount of time into this game, and enjoyed it hugely, the model being female and dismembered probably provides a more accurate representation of the game itself. The whole being mauled by bikini-clad and arguably sexualised female zombies was a dominant feature of the gameplay, and the accuracy of dismemberment was one of the key features of the game that they emphasized on their website during the build-up to the game's release. What matters to me is what was going through the developer's head when they created this. The cynical part of me thinks this is some sort of advertising ploy, as anyone intelligent enough to be trusted with the creation and release of this Collector's Edition would have some understanding of the outcry it would create. The hopeful, perhaps naive, part of me thinks this could just be a deliberate and self-aware joke about the game and its core content. I simply do not think they would be silly enough to follow the reasoning 'Hur hur, zombie tits will totally sell to our target audience'. Overall however, I think that this model was just a lighthearted representation of their game with slight ulterior motives of drawing attention to their game that got out-of-hand. When it comes down to it, Dead Island was a ridiculous game that shouldn't be taken seriously at all, it takes all the B-Movie zombie flick cliches and builds an enjoyable game out of them depending on your tastes - the model should be looked at it in the same light. ...Evidently, this won't happen. | |
I know that, and that has already been covered in one other post in this thread. Please feel free to look them up, as I wont be reiterating something I already covered.
The game takes place on a high dollar resort island. If you remember the start of your game you will remember that this all went down the night before, and even at night most of the woman were in their bikinis. The torso isn't out of place in respect to the zombies you face in the game. If you haven't played the game then your commentary on the torsos garb is a bit out of place, and misguided from lack of knowledge of them game.
I think at this point you are reaching a bit far, and trying to spin the situation into something more than it is. The walking dead box set was an example of another gore based items being sold with a horror based media. That may be how you feel about the head, but I myself see it for what it is. A piece of plastic meant to be a interesting item for the horror media fan. Same goes for the torso. The game is a hell of allot more gory than that statue.
I think you really are a bit to hung up on all of this. Makes me think you never played the game at all. See I have no idea if it is an attempt to sexualize the statue. I can tell you that it isn't out of place from the content in the game. See I don't know the mind of the people behind the game. And I'm not going to try to make claims based on opinion, and state them as facts, like you have done. I can tell you though from my prospective that if they are attempting to sexualize the torso some how, it has failed. I like my woman with all their limbs, and head attached. =)
And if it had a blue ribbon around its neck, and whistled children songs, then it could be Little Bo Peep. I get it. You don't like the statue. No one is forcing you to buy the torso of gory goodness. You may not think it is art as it stands because of the gore, but to that I say this. You only have to look back in history at the artists from hundreds of years ago, and see far worse. And those artists are celebrated today for their works. Even the gory paintings, and in some cases especially the gory ones. And the really messed up part about those paintings In many cases they depict real events. Not fake ones from a video game. Is this torso some great art piece for our day? No not likely. Is it to be damned because it is a female form, in a bikini and is mutilated? Not by me, again it is a game. What would disgust me isn't a chopped up torso of a man or woman from a game. It's fake. It is meant for the gore lover, who love movies like the Evil Dead, Videodrome, Scanners, and games like Dead Island, Dead Space, and Postal. In the end it isn't real. So if you don't like the torso ignore the collectors edition. No one is being forced to buy this, and no one is being killed to make the statue. All the butt hurt over the statue really is the lowest thing on my list to be concerned about in this world. Maybe because I'm an adult with a two year old child, and I have bills to pay, with real life worries, and a statue for a game doesn't make my list of things to be concerned about. | |
It's not necessarily a zombie corpse, it's just a corpse with "perfect tits". The point is that it was supposed to be based off of Greek statuary and they didn't reference a particular statue so that point was totally lost because of the stupidly abbreviated sculpt. It's a statue of tits with everything else violently torn off or mutilated as if it didn't matter that it existed in the first place, that's the problem, it's a statue of tits as if only tits mattered. All they had to do to make this "alright" was to base the mold off of the Venus de Milo and give it a zombie head. I'm more annoyed at how bad the sculpt looks honestly, get a professional damn it. | |
who the fuck thought that was a good idea?! | |
I can't believe people are actually bitching about this. It's a statue from a fucking zombie game. What do you expect? I for one like it and think it fits the theme very well. P.S. Fuck all the people that think it shouldn't exist just because they don't like it. | |
Not really but thats because im cheap. If I had the money to blow? nope. But I stand by there decision I got a friend or two who would love that damn thing. Tismo "I can't believe people are actually bitching about this. It's a statue from a fucking zombie game. What do you expect? I for one like it and think it fits the theme very well. P.S. Fuck all the people that think it shouldn't exist just because they don't like it." The green ranger said it and as such is INCONTESTABLE!!!! | |
What does gender have to do with it? It's a stupid statue. | |
Well, it's not like they can back out now! I'm sure there's people out there who already pre-oredered that edition and are probably looking forward to it, for whatever reason. I don't seem them pulling the pre-order out, especially because they would have to have some sort of replacement ready right now. I just think its dumb. It looks like a bad mannequin; why not do a full body version of it? It would be interesting. Or maybe even just a dismembered arm. But that just screams "HEY! You like boobs?! Then you'll like this game!" | |
This isn't offensive. People are just oversensitive to sexism. If it's a guy's corpse cut up like this, COOL! If it's a woman's corse cut up like this, ALSO COOL! What? She happened to be on the beach at the time? SEXIST!!!! UNREALISTIC! WOMEN DON'T GO TO THE BEACH! IT'S A SEX OBJECT FOR MEEEEEEN!!!!!! Yeah right. Necrophiliacs, maybe. Sometimes gamers try a little too hard. I don't understand the appeal of a cut up corpse in the slightest but it's extremely ridiculous that people didn't like it because the corpse belonged to a woman who was on a beach. | |
I know for certain that this will never get recalled, changed or scrapped. The only smart thing that they could do is ship this particular special edition to somewhere else, like Brazil and Mexico | |
Well, it's kind of something to know that huge mass-scale internet bitching apparently catches the ear's of the people up top. Crass, distasteful etc. blahblahblah it's all been said before. Still, they're probably not going to pull this as much as I'd like them to. It's moments like this where people just put their foot down and cause a huge ruckus over something this pointlessly offensive for no reason that makes me think that sometimes, the gaming community is pretty cool. Keep it real, guys. I see this as progress. | |
so the outrage is simply coz its a torso and is female and is in swim wear??? This is really what legions of ppl are going to rage about ? Take a closer dam look at the world we live in there are far FAR worse things in this world and deserve your collective outrage then a f**king torso in a zombie themed game. Kids starving in the world, war for the sake of profit, dictatorships, and our world leaders none stop lies/mis-information to the public. If they took all that money they waste of the endless random bullshit and the endless bullshit wars they claim are fully justified there would not be a single human on this earth that would go hungry or uneducated. Oh no no thats just trivial silly stuff. Carry on bitching about a female zombie torso in a zombie themed game. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY IT. OTHERS LIKE IT SO THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY IT. GTFO YOUR SOAP BOXES | |
I really don't see what the problem is. It's a bust of a mutilated corpse. From a game about killing zombies. *shrugs* | |
Anyone else getting the 'MASSIVE PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY' vibe from this? They couldn't have possibly been this naive. THEY COULDNT HAVE | |
You know what is gruesomely offensive? That this world is so batshit crazy, self important and twisted around with Politically correct hypocrisy that a company cant even make a useless trinket without people going out of their way to be offended. In fact I am so offended that when I saw this I could care less, but now I would gladly pay good money for this CE. Im offended by this offense, so wheres my cave in response? If this is what has you worked up in the world we live in you might want to take a step back, breathe and re-evaluate your priorities. | |
Number 1: I want one SOOOOOO BAD. Mainly because I'm a zombie fan and enjoyed the original game, and because it's pretty neat to be able to have a lil'gruesome statue to put somewhere in your house. (Next to my Zombie games/DvDs) Number 2: Most of the people who complained are probably people who NEVER played the game, or ever intend to. More then likely alot of NON-Zombie/horror fans. | |
HEY! My cheese room is a homage to the always exciting Mad God. But ya, I get what you're saying. Most people don't spend their time hacking apart defeated corpses. I don't understand how anyone could have thought this statue was a good idea... | |
1. I have in fact played and enjoyed the game, and felt it did deserve a Game of the Year award from at least one publisher, as it did. Honestly, it was kinda buggy but I still enjoyed it. Custscenes were a little sketchy. That point is moot. The zombies are bikini clad because that's how they are in the game? No, really? I never would have guessed. Next you'll be telling me the sky is blue and my username is German. My point is this: They had many options of memorabilia to derive from the game. So many possibilities of what they could have given us to really interest us in buying it, and THIS is what we got? It's not purely that I find it offensive. It's that out of all their choices of what to put in the Collector's edition they decided on possibly the SINGLE WORST ONE that would offend everybody. It's a smack in the face for players of the game like me. We wanted something iconic, not something people would question my character for owning. EDIT: See this? I found this on Deep Silver's twitter. I'm glad to know this is still an option. | |
Any chance of apologising for the X series while you're at it Deep Silver? | |
Oh please, this sounds like an awesome thing for a horror-fan and the kind of thing fans of zombie movies and games would think is cool. At the very worst it's no more extreme that similar props used for haunted houses during Halloween, or even for seasonal Holiday decorations (I've seen similar items for sale around Halloween especially in seasonal shops, or outlets like Spencer's Gifts). To be honest I'm MORE apalled by Deep Silver backing down and apologizing so quickly than I could ever be by a horror movie/game or prop. To be honest this is exactly the king of thing game/movie/TV producers need to stick by and defend. Backing down here just encourages censors to be even more aggressive. That said, let's hope for a US edition, if not maybe I'll have to see about ordering overseas if I can. :) As far as flags as bikinis, that's an Ollld idea, and pretty much every flag from a civilized nation has been turned into a Bikini, especially the US Flag, Japanese Flag, and Union Jack. | |
When the Dark Souls "controversy" erupted over the difficulty everybody was saying how people playing the game on easy mode wouldn't ruin the experience of others. Same thing here. Don't like the collectible, don't buy it. | |
Hehe, I agree that they should have hired a better artist, the sculpture looks lop-sided :-) I do not see it as a "sculpture of tits", I see a dismembered torso that happens to be of a woman. Tomato to-mah-to | |
lol wow never though it could get any stupider... well it's official, every "professional" is terrible at their job. | |
THANK YOU. Really, I don't see any reason for such a huge controversy. Yes, it's in bad taste in general, and i wouldn't have a plastic mutilated corpse bust on my shelf- but as for the sexism thing or whatever this is about, really!? When I first saw it, the line of thought was "eww, that's ugly. Makes sense though, woman in bikini makes you think tropical paradise, where there happens to be zombies in this game. But I don't want it. Next news article." If there was a zombie game about an outbreak and you're a prisoner in a prison where the breakout strikes, and they did this, it would be a dismembered guy in an orange jumpsuit (or whichever color your countries' prisoners generally wear). As this happens in a tropical vacation paradise, the most iconic thing is probably people in swimwear. Since a male beachgoer doesn't have an article of swimwear on their chest, as this isn't the 1920s, all that would be would be a bare male torso, which wouldn't be the type of specificity of message they're trying to get across. A female has a bikini top though- so, when showing a torso only, and you want to get the "people who died in swimwear" message across, you use a female form. I mean ffs, at least it wasn't an outbreak at a swingers' resort, THAT may have led to an offensive ass bust. ...that is, offensive-ass bust. Not offensive ass-bust. Probably. | |
Oh wow a dismembered body of a bikini glad zombie from a zombie game about dismembering bikini clad zombies on a tropical, hot island and people are shocked? If you are, do not buy it, do not look at and do not care about it. Simple. | |
Oh, I thought they were already apologizing for the game. But it turns out it was a silly looking statue. | |
Why are they apologising? Religion offends me. Pop music offends. MLP offends me. I dont expect an apology because it doesnt matter what i think. Only what others think. If they love that stuff then great. Just cos you dont like something doesnt mean you need to be vocal and expect an apology. Its pathetic really. Just ignore it or just dont buy it. | |
On a side note. If it was a male statue, i doubt there would be this issue. :-) | |
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I don't see how this has warranted the amount of uproar that it has. In fact I hope they still ship with it because I'd like one.