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does her "sexiness" annoy you?

25%Cotton

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hey, i'm not denying she's hot (i do find her hot *sigh*, unfortunately.... ), it just bothers me. why does it bother me?

1. well there's the whole people going "ur a perv 4 playing ZSS!!", which has only happened once, so yay.
2. then there's the whole annoying kids going "dam she sexy lemme pause and lookit her *body part*"
3. it's pretty sucky representation of the character, samus, whose body is much more "realistic" in the games (or mp3c, at least)
 

FBM

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I never think about her appearance when I'm actually playing because I'm pretty wrapped up in the game, though I do like the way she moves - it's very acrobatic, which looks cool imo.

I do notice her looks more at the victory screen, but it's because after she does her dance or w/e I'm always thinking "oh no I hope everyone here doesn't think I play this character for the way she looks..... " :embarrass
 

Ekaru

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they are pixels and everyone is entitled to thier own stupid beliefs and thoughts
Porn is usually displayed through pixels, not to mention porn is occasionally edited. So are women in modeling magazines. Go go airbrush!

Point is, if people can find porn hot, and can find edited pictures of women hot, then why not a video game character who looks hot? Although, Zamus's 'melons' are pretty average. They're not ginormous or anything. But fictional characters can, in fact, be hot. Does it matter if they are fictional? They could even be real for all we know. Like an alternate universe where fiction is brought to life. Like, a parallel world, you know?

I mean, there's no proof that there ISN'T a parallel world where hot fictional women are brought to life.

...That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Besides, she's graceful. I wouldn't want a fat women try to be graceful as she is. It'd just be... ugh. Her body is pretty average among older teenage girls anyways.

Oh, just let geeks be geeks. There's nothing wrong with it. ;( Don't discriminate!

Watch this whole joke will entirely fly over some people's heads.
 

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the only intelligent debate about her body is on it debasing her as a strong female character.
^^ this.
The problem isn't that "omg she's secksy im distracted lol". It's that Samus' character had actually been a great step forward for attitudes towards women in the video game scene. We had a strong, independent woman protagonist in a mature line of games, and the fact that she was a woman was irrelevant. She did not have to be glamorous, nor "catered" to a target audience of immature males. She was just the hero, who happened to be a woman.

Now Sakurai's team releases their ZSS, a real slap in the face to the progress Metroid was making. They even include crude comments from Snake about Zamus' body. This immature treatment of women means the game excludes a userbase; many people, especially women, are turned off of games because of this type of stuff. Seriously, many of us have stories of being looked down on when a non-gamer sees us playing a game with ZSS. It genuinely detracts from the game.

Dude she's hot so what? Anyone who's complaining on this thread about her being hot is either gay or a woman (not saying I have anything against either of them).
Bull****. You have nothing against gays and women, but you don't mind an aspect of the game that you claim discourages them, exclusively, since they're the only ones who would complain about it.

As a Hentai fan,
Ehrmmm...... moving on.....

But if Zamus' hotness is really bothering you, go play Soul Calibur IV for a while, where every female character's melons jiggle every time they make the slightest movement. By the time you're done playing that game, Zamus won't phase you.
And hurray, you've been desensitized to the sexual objectification of women! Because that's not overdone.

The last tournament I went to, there were 80+ guys competing, and zero girls. That's indicative of a problem, that girls are uncomfortable in our videogame communities. Props to those with the balls (*ahem...*) to do something about it.
 

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Honestly, I think she looks ok, its just that the general public needs to act more mature and see how a video game model moves so elegant and graceful, while still pwning.
 

gunterrsmash01

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i'm sure people would find a animated version/drawing of angelina jolie hot.... wouldnt the case with zamus be the same? does it really matter if zss isnt a real person?
 

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video game characters are real if you believe they are real!
i'm sure people would find a animated version/drawing of angelina jolie hot.... wouldnt the case with zamus be the same? does it really matter if zss isnt a real person?
but there isn't a real version of her at least form what i've seen anyway, or is there?
 

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It's actually irritating when players gawk at her. Those who think of Zero Suit Samus like a **** probably didn't play many of the metroid games, hence the lack of respect.
 

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^^ this.
The problem isn't that "omg she's secksy im distracted lol". It's that Samus' character had actually been a great step forward for attitudes towards women in the video game scene. We had a strong, independent woman protagonist in a mature line of games, and the fact that she was a woman was irrelevant. She did not have to be glamorous, nor "catered" to a target audience of immature males. She was just the hero, who happened to be a woman.

Now Sakurai's team releases their ZSS, a real slap in the face to the progress Metroid was making. They even include crude comments from Snake about Zamus' body. This immature treatment of women means the game excludes a userbase; many people, especially women, are turned off of games because of this type of stuff. Seriously, many of us have stories of being looked down on when a non-gamer sees us playing a game with ZSS. It genuinely detracts from the game.
I love you. Marry me.
 

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I have plenty XD.

1) She is not real.
2) She is animated.
3) She is dispraportionate.
4) She is computer generated.
5) She is a video game character that isn't based on reality.
6) If she was real, she would probably be a lesbian considering her power and might.
7) Nobody knew she was a woman until the suit came off.
8) She is not real.
9) She is not real.
10) SHE IS NOT REAL
The Twilight series (it's a book) has a male character who is apparently the "perfect" guy. A lot of young girls are more than obsessed with him, despite the fact that he's a vampire (LOL).

I mean if a book that only describes a person in WORDS can get this much acclaim and have little girls wishing he was real before they go to bed every night, then something VISIBLE should be able to do the same thing if not more.

Although I wonder how many people in this type of forum would have heard of Twilight...

She may very well be hot.
Fine.
Do we want to hear about it?
No.
Yeah, despite what I just said, I never, ever want to hear about it lol

EDIT: How did I even get into this thread...
 

E.M.

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I like ZSS's "sexiness". She doesn't look all prissy and valley girl-like, like zelda and peach.

ZSS looks like the type of girl who can wrangle a cawk very well.
 

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Why not complain about CF? Isn't he sexy as well? (No I'm no gay.)

Though he needs muscles to be fast and strong. Too bad muscles don't mean priority.... :-(
 

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HEY! :mad:

No talking about The Captain. Or you get a knee to the back of the face!
 

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Then why aren't there more female smashers?
LOL, are you implying that you play Smash because the characters are sexy?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Dude, this game's about Mario, Sonic, Kirby, Pikachu, etc....... maybe the reason ZSS stands out so much is because she's so miserably out of place here.

Nevermind, I think I get that you're joking now :)
 

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Then why aren't there more female smashers?
generally, if you like playing games where characters are sexy/scantily clad, you buy a 360 or ps3... or just pc game.

wii isn't exactly a magnet for "UGH i wanna see some **** ***** babes *** ***** ***** ****!"




then again, i'm not denying there are those kind of people who own wiis, i'm just saying that generally that kinda stuff is for 360/ps3/pc owners :laugh:
 

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Bull****. You have nothing against gays and women, but you don't mind an aspect of the game that you claim discourages them, exclusively, since they're the only ones who would complain about it.
He does not hate them, but does not care much about them either apparently. So he won't do something against them, because he does not hate them, but he also won't neccasarily be against something that annoys them, because he also don't care much about them. So it was no bull****.
If you do not care for something than it is possible that you also do not hate it.
 

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You know what really annoys me? This topic has more replies than 95% of the rest of the topics in the ZSS forums.

I wish the ppl around here would talk about something useful...


EDIT: this thread actually has more replies than every other topic except for the Q&A thread :\
 

E.M.

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"You know what really annoys me? This topic has more replies than 95% of the rest of the topics in the ZSS forums."

Because sex sells. People see "her", "sexiness", and there like I gotta see what they're talking about.

How do you think I got in here? :chuckle:

Try making topic titles with certain key words in it and see how a bunch of male posters flock to it. Something like....

'ZSS uses her whip on Peach's rear'

'ZSS moans when touched by Zeldas magic fingers'

'Snake vs ZSS- Using Snake to hold ZSS down with grenades and penetrating her with his Nikita'

:laugh:
 

25%Cotton

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You know what really annoys me? This topic has more replies than 95% of the rest of the topics in the ZSS forums.

I wish the ppl around here would talk about something useful...


EDIT: this thread actually has more replies than every other topic except for the Q&A thread :\
i'm actually very saddened by that... i mean, i kinda was hoping for a thread lock or deletion or something after i posted it, because it's really very irrelevant and is now basically just a couple metroid fans upset about her exaggerated representation and a bunch of people wondering what the problem is.


i think it's time to request a lock. lol what exactly do i do?

REQUESTING LOCK, CAPTAIN ZSS MOD!!!
 
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