Paradise Director: "We're Not Degrading Women"
Dead or Alive ParadiseNot surprisingly, a game like Dead or Alive Paradise is going to encounter some indignant replies from women, but the game's director says there's nothing sinister about his bikini-laden volleyball game.
Paradise director Yoshinori Ueda spoke to Eurogamer about the backlash thus far and wanted to clarify that the game isn't designed to offend women. All he says is they intended to create beautiful women, and that's that. "We're trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus - we want our characters to be beautiful," said Ueda. He went on to add that such character models are supposed to "bring out the beauty of women" and that any other view is simply incorrect.
"We're certainly not trying to degrade women. They have beautiful bodies. We're trying to show off the beauty of their bodies but we're not trying to be degrading about it - we're trying to show that they are beautiful characters. It's not that we were trying to make softcore porn. That's definitely not the goal."
In Dead or Alive Paradise, players can place the girls on the beach, pose them by the pool, and participate in any number of little mini games, like hopping on colored cushions in said pool. You can take photographs of them if you so choose, and there are quite a few swimsuits to purchase and try on. Oh, and they can play volleyball, too, complete with a good deal of...bouncing. By the way, remember that opinionated ESRB description? They've evidently apologized for that and have replaced their rant about "creepy voyeurism" with a more "level-headed explanation." Finished Ueda:
"We know that everyone is going to have a different experience with the game - everyone has their own opinion. For us, the goal was really to offer a little bit of paradise to the users, and we hope that people playing the game will be able to come away with the feeling that they've visited paradise."
Related Game(s): Dead or Alive Paradise
2/26/2010 9:27:59 PM John Shepard
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BTNwarrior
Monday, March 01, 2010 @ 2:33:52 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:13:21 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:33:15 PM
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Highlander
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 12:59:32 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 3:04:44 AM
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Orvisman
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 6:45:28 PM
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Orvisman
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 6:55:23 PM
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Hezzron
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:24:09 PM
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Now if only they could somehow bring me a sandwich and beer, I might actually marry one of those DOA babes.
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tes37
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:36:28 PM
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fatelementality
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:38:08 PM
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Scarecrow
Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:59:43 PM
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These women are virtual. And aren't even aiming at any particular "women group." It's all casual "fun" if you can put it that way.
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BikerSaint
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 12:09:01 AM
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.....all that bouncing is bound to put someone's eye out!
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Alienange
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 1:06:27 AM
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Let me see... "pose them by the pool" ... yup, it's degrading.
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Highlander
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 1:06:40 AM
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The worst thing about this to me is that because these are virtual women, not real people are condemning and trying to police thoughts. Are we now at a time when the thought of a (not real) scantily clad buxom young lass in a bikini is so offensive that we should find it morally repugnant? When the thought police come knocking at your door - think "I'm out!".
But, let's go a step further, what about those male characters with impossibly big chests, biceps and six-packs and thighs like a Rugby player on steroids? You know the ones that wear a loincloth and romp around games displaying their flesh for all to see. If games are degrading of women, where are the people decrying games like GOWIII on the grounds that it's degrading of men?
Yeah, right, back in their little politically correct cocoon.
As for this game, I am going to buy it now out of sheer principle. As for degrading women, let's look at all those cheap reality shows that have drunk college girls cavorting around. That's degradation.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 1:45:47 AM
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BikerSaint
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 2:52:14 AM
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And the only reason I keep constantly hitting the re-wind button is so I be 100% certain.
Hmmmm, think I'll go watch it again, just so I don't wind up changing my mind.
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Highlander
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 3:07:56 AM
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ed_winchester
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 5:03:41 AM
funniest thing I've read in a long time lmao
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pillz81
Monday, March 01, 2010 @ 3:05:55 PM
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Robochic
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 8:02:32 AM
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tes37
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FullmetalX10
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 9:16:35 AM
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How the last sentence of the first part of the interview went in Ueda's mind:
It's not that we were trying to make softcore porn. That's definitely not the goal *cough* just a nice sideproduct *cough*
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herukuti
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 5:36:41 PM
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sonic1899
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 8:23:02 PM
As for the porn thing, that ‘conflict’ is something I still don’t understand. What can porn do to you? It can’t hurt you, it can’t kill you, and it sure has hell has no effect on your health. What you describe isn’t the effects of porn; it’s an addiction and a general one at that. “further for a man to succumb to these images is damaging for hisself”; the same thing is said about drugs and just about anything else that’s ‘hookable’. If a guy can’t meet a girl because he’s busy with his cyber babies, it’s because he choose to go that route, not because of porn made him that way. If there’s something wrong with porn, then there must be something wrong with sex, too. They’re both related; it’s just one’s participating and the other is watching.
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BikerSaint
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 11:03:06 PM
Oh seriously now, it's only a game, with cute virtual cartoon girls on steroids.
If you had the game & it had the new motion sensor abilities, tell me that you wouldn't be causing "shaken controller syndrome" just to see how many nipples you could pop out.
And.....you wouldn't try to platinum the game by dropping all their g-Strings????
Come on, fess up.
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sonic1899
Monday, March 01, 2010 @ 2:44:09 PM
As for the porn thing, that's a conflict€™ is something I still don't understand. What can porn do to you? It can't hurt you, it can't kill you, and it sure has hell has no effect on your health. What you describe isn't the effects of porn; it's an addiction and a general one at that. 'further for a man to succumb to these images is damaging for hisself'; the same thing is said about drugs and just about anything else that's 'hookable'. If a guy can't meet a girl because he's busy with his cyberbabies, it's because he choose to go that route, not because of porn made him that way. If there's something wrong with porn, then there must be something wrong with sex, too. They're both related; it's just one's participating and the other is watching.
NOTE: I had to repost due to the those symbols :P
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sonic1899
Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 8:24:04 PM
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kraygen
Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 8:40:30 PM
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Can an entire profession of women, a profession that many women aspire to i might add, be degrading to women?
Regardless of your thoughts on the game aren't there real women who do what the game characters do?
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BTNwarrior
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Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:02:57 PM