Jupiah

I laughed until I realized I have 3 dressers in Breezehome each filled with over 4000 encumbrance worth of loot. One of them is just filled with worthless clutter like cups and brooms and rags. My house would actually look worse then Glarthir's if containers didn't have infinite storage capacity.

So yeah, awkward.

As awesome as that fight and the destructible environment were, I had to laugh at the bizarre surrealism of it all thanks to the standard fighting game "3 round death match" and "non-lethal death blow" tropes.

Only in a video game can someone have their neck snapped then be slammed into the ground from a 20 story tall rooftop with enough force to shatter concrete, then get back up for "Round 3, Fight!"

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Part of the issue is that fit, muscular martial artist men tend to actually look like the men in these games. Those video game men are realistc - real men really could look like most of those video game characters with enough exercise and training (excluding the obviously fantasy characters like Blanka or Hugo).

The women on the other hand, look like skinny, smooth-skinned big-boobed supermodels, not tough martial artist women who regularly punch through steel girders. Where are the muscles and washboard abs for the ladies? These games, like most entertainment, promote a female body standard that is virtually impossible for the vast majority of actual women to ever attain without lots of plastic surgery.

@wrongThinker

Yes and that is why they are toning down the sex, they don't want to be pigeonholed into a market of exclusively teen to 30 men. Women and older men buy video games too.

And sex doesn't sell nearly as well as most people think. Studies have been done about this, people tend to pay attention to and remember sexy commercials, but they only pay attention to the sex. They usually can't remember what the actual product was and aren't much more likely to actually buy it. Sex makes for great entertainment, but in advertisement it tends to distract from the actual product.

Haggar eating the hamburger under the trash can was the best part.

It looks pretty awesome but why is everyone soaking wet? There is so much water flying around.

@SisypheanLife - In this case it's justified because the first two games were on the xbox and playstation 2. It's not like we're complaining that Zelda is a nintendo exclusive.

Considering that spartans supposedly weigh half a ton in their armor, I think it would be pretty cool to make the Chief actually feel heavier. Get rid of the weird moon jumping, crack some floors when you fall on em, give em some inertia so it takes a second to speed up when he runs but he can plow right over his enemies with his sheer weight (grunt pancakes!), make the warthog strain a little to move around when he climbs in, etc.

I like how in the second video, two Japanese guys were playing as the Japanese martial artists, the woman was playing as the girl fighter, and the black guy was playing as the black ninja guy.

This is good. If they are going to stop pandering to the lowest common denominator and using sex appeal as a crutch to sell their game, that means they'll have to up their game and actually improve and expand upon the core gameplay. I'm actually interested in following a DoA game now, for like the first time ever.

Improving their reputation might be kind of hard though after releasing two of those embarrassing Extreme Volleyball games.