ESRB cancels game due to fan service

[finalark]

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You know, I hate fan service. I'll always see it as immature and proof that you're desperate for sales. Now that I've said that, I'll proceed onto what I want to talk about.

I was talking to a friend, and somehow the ESRB came up in conversation, and he mentioned a game that they canceled due to the fact that it has far to much fan service. The game is apparently called Ikki Tousen, and is a fighting game based off a crappy ****ing anime that I had an unfortunate run-in with a few months ago (I knew it would come back to haunt me).

I did a bit of research, and apparently if you damage your opponent enough, some of her clothes will rip showing panties, breasts, and other immature subjects. I don't know much about this game (nor do I care), so I don't know to what degree the sex appeal is. But let me ask you this; if that degree of sex appeal gets a game ban, then why is it that this game is published with a T rating(by the way, the following video doesn't even begin to sum up the amount of sex appeal in that game):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27ZQox2UYI

And this is even aloud in the US:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/deadoralivextreme2/index.html?tag=result;title;0

Once again, I'll clarify. I hate it when developers shove ungodly amounts of sex appeal into a game, it's just a cheep way to try and get your game to sell. I just needed to point of one of the ESRB's many hypocrisies.

 

[Firus]

I thought fan service was generally just putting things in a game to please the fans of a franchise or whatever? Like, if Ridley got put into Brawl that would've been fan service because of all the people who wanted it, if that was the reason why he got put in. Or maybe it can be both, I dunno.

Regardless, I agree, sex appeal pisses me off. Seriously. If you're that perverted and want to see tons of skimpy outfits and such, there's something called A) Get a life, and a girlfriend to satisfy your needs, B) Magazines and such, or even C) Use the internet. Don't clog up games with crap like that.

 

[Falconv1.0]

Agreed, 100%

It's kinda stupid on both sides really, I mean canceling a game just due to too much sex appeal is stupid, but at the same time this is becoming an issue for me.

WTF is wrong with game design/developers, they make it seem like the fine folks at Valve are the only ones on the planet who can make a realistic female character.


Honestly I would have enjoyed KH at least 30% more if Yuffie didn't dress like she was in one of those top notch amateur porno where the girl walks into camera and starts um, 'pleasuring' a male whose face you havent even seen yet. And the girls in SC are essentially the entire reason why I refuse to touch it.

 

[finalark]

WTF is wrong with game design/developers, they make it seem like the fine folks at Valve are the only ones on the planet who can make a realistic female character.

I like you more and more each time I read one of your posts.

I'll say this, I liked the Soul Calibur games. That is, the second and first ones, seeing how those were the only good ones. It reminds me of a time I was playing Soul Calibur IV in arcade mode. Ivy shows up as my next opponent, but just as the mach starts my friend walks in the room and asks, "Why are you beating up a hooker?"

 

[Falconv1.0]

I like you more and more each time I read one of your posts.

I'll say this, I liked the Soul Calibur games. That is, the second and first ones, seeing how those were the only good ones. It reminds me of a time I was playing Soul Calibur IV in arcade mode. Ivy shows up as my next opponent, but just as the mach starts my friend walks in the room and asks, "Why are you beating up a hooker?"

Ah, yes, to correct my last point, I had SC2, and it wasn't THAT bad. But SC4 just...it's so stupid. Really makes me want to have a chat with the character designers that ends with fire.


On an unrelated note-do you haz aim?

 

[finalark]

Ah, yes, to correct my last point, I had SC2, and it wasn't THAT bad. But SC4 just...it's so stupid. Really makes me want to have a chat with the character designers that ends with fire.


On an unrelated note-do you haz aim?

I no haz aim, I can haz Xfire.

On a related note: And the Dead or Alive games... talk about ruining would COULD have been some pretty neat games. You know what would be a miracle? A fighting game with an all-female cast in which all of the characters are dressed and proportioned realistically.

IT'S A HINT, TEAM NINJA.

 

[Falconv1.0]

Mmm, it's not on meebo, baw, I'll get it later but I'll complain!

 

[REL38]

Sex appeal and the such are ever present in video games, manga and anime. They can get an estimate of how much money they might rack up from a game with a good story line, gameplay, etc., but they can't always guarantee it. But they KNOW that if they make a game with girls wearing next to nothing that they're guaranteed at least SOME profit. If they manage to incorporate the two together, then that's even more money for em'. It's all about the money for the developers.

 

[Falconv1.0]

I think it should be noted that GG totally did fan service right, anyone who argues otherwise is a communist.

 

[Skip2MaLoo]

what will they think of next? panda porn?

 

[Falconv1.0]

what will they think of next? panda porn?

Rule 34 my friend, it's been done, probably more than five times.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 9,000 times.

 

[Skip2MaLoo]

Rule 34 my friend, it's been done, probably more than five times.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 9,000 times.

how about panda porn on a boat?

 

[Falconv1.0]

how about panda porn on a boat?

Rule 34 mother ****er. It's there, you just gotta look hard. There's a calvin and hobbes porn comic, there's pronz for EVERYTHING.

 

[Jam Stunna]

lol i hate looking at scantily clad women for no apparent reason lol

 

[Teran]

Yet they allow games which encourage sadistic murder and needless, excessive gore.

God bless America, no wonder the country's got f***ed up things like the Virginia Tech massacre happening, they have no idea what is actually damaging to a child's mind.

 

[Red Arremer]

Teran's avatar offends me. v.v

Anyway, at the topic at hand... If the game is so "revealing", why not put age restrictions onto it? I mean, there are games like the Lola series, with girls completely naked and performing in pornographic situations... why is that game from Japan so bad, then?

 

[Darkslash]

You know maybe they should actually bring the real Super Robot Taisan instead of the original generation ****.

The only fan service in the game is the game its self. SRT is basically the pinnacle of proper fan service.

 

[Skip2MaLoo]

ok im 100% sure rule 34 does not apply to panda porn on a boat kung fu style fight during the porn with bush in the background rapping to the instrumental of wu-tang clan's "cream" beat