Overdoing It: Boobies

It's safe to say that, despite the burgeoning number of females in the gaming market, there are still enough guys around to warrant a bit of sexy time in video games. Men thrive off sexually-driven material, let's be honest, and when coupled with the interactive nature of games, it can get ridiculously easy for developers to pop out the odd tit or two in order to increase sales.

But when does eye candy turn into mere exploitation for profit?

[Fullish]

Mmmm, boobs.

[xLordOblivionx]

I'm calling it now, 860 degrees, 0 conversations not about boobs.

[Rush]

Tekken 6 boobies ftw!

[Wizeguy21]

I have never seen the words Overdoing and boobies in the same sentence.. WTF!!

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I didn't read the article, all I saw was the boobies in the picture!!!

[Sarcasm]

Come on... I don't mind boobs in my games. What do these people want? Penises???

[thedoctor]

Slappa da titties

[StartWars]

Ooo boobies.

[TheGameLlama]

If only boobs could get as overdone in my real life as they are in my Xbox... oh well. :(

[SkankinGarbage]

Concerning Bayonetta's costume, I would argue that extremely skintight leather, all the sexually suggestive things she does, and the overly exaggerated way in which she walks makes her perhaps one of the most oversexed girls I've ever seen in a game. I guess it's not specifically the breasts though, so I suppose my point is moot.

[JQ]

I'm with SkankinGarbage.

Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd utter...

[DangerCurtis]

I want to see some tatties.

[thedoctor]

Bonerlicious, absolutely. But at least the devs had enough respect to give her some brains.

Unlike some.

"Hehe, this beach ball is oh-so-very heavy. I need your big manly thumbs to lift it up for me. Whoops, my top came off!"

[Nihilism]

Boobs make gaming that little bit more enjoyable.

[Bathyj]

Exactly. Its not neccessary, it just makes it a bit more pleasing to the eye.

Like a cowboy suit on a monkey.

[badz149]

it's not that I don't like them, but other people watching (mom, dad, wife, bro and sis) will start questioning the relevancy of it with my hobby and usually ended up with me failing to answer them! something like "what can I say?? it's not like I'm the 1 who made the game!" that's why if I'm playing games with this content, I prefer playing it with no one is around! save me some defending effort and give me more focus! :P

[Bathyj]

I understand where you're coming from.

Thats called a Guilty Pleasure, like eating something fattening, or a cowboy suit on a stolen monkey.

[badz149]

maybe you're right! most recent example was GoW collection! the part with the sex mini game and when you meet oracle!

[Whitefox789]

You mean something like this?

[Bathyj]

Exactly.

Haha, how can Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey be a bad thing?

[GSpartan777]

and people are stupid enough to buy it, I do not see what is wrong about it.

[CARRIERHASARRIVED]

is this an unofficial response to the boobies in the last heavy rain trailer, or is this just a coincidence?

[Jorrel56]

If it is in some kind of context I'm OK with it. If it is like Dante's Inferno, it is just distasteful

[Conventional]

When they showed Bea-tits, all I could think was, "wtf? I thought she was supposed to be the picture of innocence!" Rather it seems she's just the picture of a common gutter-slut.

[nogolis]

Here's the deal... People are idiots. You all know this cos a great many of you are just that. Boobs and sex and tight rubber/leather/spandex suits on hideously deformed and uncanny looking polygons shaped like make believe women get young boys off. This excites them and makes them feel like they're privy to something their friends my not be. It gives the something to brag and fantasies about... It's sad and lame and pathetic, oddly deranged, when I see people drooling over Video game characters... It reminds me of the time I caught my ex girlfriends brother jerking off to a cartoon porno pic of Japanese Anime girls. I told everyone.

So sex sells and pubescent morons are the buyers.

[Anorexorcist]

Sex sells to young adults. Sex sells to older men. Sex sells to married men. Sex also sells to women (though of course to a lesser extent than men.)

Don't kid yourself and try to come across with this image that you have never been influenced by sex to watch, purchase, or commit to something.

Edit @ Nogolis 13.2

Sex is always on men's minds. Yes I understand you may prefer more thought-provoking forms of entertainment such as more mature films and videogames that aren't based around girls in bikinis playing vollyball. I myself find more satisfaction watching films like The Departed or the Lord of the Rings films than all the copy-cat college stoner movies that are all about sex, but don't kid yourself into thinking that sex is a non-factor in everything you do, say, or think as a male adult.

As Tom Leykis would say: "Everything men say, do, and think leads to the bedroom"

[nogolis]

Yes, when I was 14... Sex doesn't sell to me. Give me substance. Give me something worth looking at. Something with some meaning. Something with some ambition. There is no ambition in sex or lust. There is a wealth of worth in actually being connected to someone for purpose, though.

Take your fake, disproportioned boobs and your absurd butt ass ugly female video game character models and be gone. I don't need them.

[danthegardner]

Nogolis is gay, /jk

[Nihilism]

For someone trying to come across as being too mature for animated breasts, you sure give the impression that you are an immature child with your fanboyism drenched posts every other minute. So why don't you go cool down in the open zone for a bit.

[nogolis]

No Danth, I'm just realistic and not derranged like a lot of people are. The violence rate is at an all time high in our world. The drop out rate in schools is higher than ever. Girls, little kids, are having babies as soon as they start their cycles... And then they get exploited on MTV and VH1 in a reality tv show for it. This world has changed... It's scary changed. Video games are a bit of the driving force for that I believe.

[danthegardner]

I see where your coming from but the article is about videogame boobs, not young mothers or violence. Just because we are naturally attracted to boobs and sex doesn't mean we will kill people and knock up 13 year olds. Next time lets try to stay on topic.

[Nihilism]

So what you're saying is that video games are responsible for little girls CHOOSING to have unprotected sex, and have children, and that it is also MTV's fault that they CHOOSE to sign a record deal and use their image to make themselves rich.......

Right.

Accountability: learn it.

If you have kids and they got themselves knocked up because you didn't teach them about safe sex, it's only one persons fault, and it isn't gaming or MTV.

[ZombieAutopsy]

Things have been like that for a long long time, its just now people are beginning to notice...but we all know you're a negative nancy.

[Bathyj]

Stop acting like liking sex is a bad or abnormal thing loser.

And so what if some 14 year old finds a game charactor sexy. Are you so old you've forgotten what its like to be a horny teenager and not be getting any?

PS
Just how long did you have to stalk your girlfriends brother before you finally caught him flogging off? Then you couldnt wait to tell everyone you'd seen your first penis.

[Bathyj]

Haha, this is too funny.

nogolis just sent me an offensive (well it tried to offend anyway) PM.

He insulted my avatar, my taste in war movies, my penis, my hands, my arse, my masterbory habits, and my sex life.

Then glorified himself as a non-conformist, while calling me a sheep and a muppet.

I've got to admit, he packed alot into 2 sentences.

He's certainly making a strong case for his immense maturity level which we'll apparently never attain because we like breasts.

OMG, I just realised nogolis is silogon backwards. <:0

[kraze07]

"The violence rate is at an all time high in our world. The drop out rate in schools is higher than ever. Girls, little kids, are having babies as soon as they start their cycles..."

Violence is always high in this world and it's been worse before. Also your point about little girls having babies is kind of moot seeing as how in the pass and even in some 3rd world countries now families would have their daughters, some as young as 11 years old, get married to men well into their 50s or 60s.

The world has always been a jacked up place. Boobies in video games have little to nothing to do with all the bad that goes on day to day.

[Anorexorcist]

As long as the "exploitation" of boobies doesn't turn everything into shovelware, how the hell are they seen as a negative thing?

The author must be desperate for material or is light in the loafers!

Edit @ TheGameLlame

As maybe you and most everyone who wasn't born in the late 90's knows, Tomb Raider was the breakthrough IP that ushered in this still-thriving trend of using big-breasted women as protagonists to obtain boys/young mens attention to a particular game. Tomb Raider in its day certainly was not a bad game and I have seen the Dead or Alive's out there that take the whole virtual boob physic schtick to ridiculous levels, but not all videogames with "BOOBS" necessarily are exploited and result in bad games.

[TheGameLlama]

But the problem is that people buy games with boobs on the cover instead of good games. For every quality Bayonetta, there is a DOA Beach Vollyball, a sequel, Rumble Roses, a sequel, and RapeLay. And the inevitable sequel. Boobs sell, but that doesn't make it good.

[djfullshred]

Boobs are great...real boobs that is. Pretty silly to get excited about CG boobs programmed by horny nerds.

[xabmol]

I'm sorry, but it's impossible to "overdo" boobs.

I've seen a million pair, and tonight I'll see a few more. ;)

[danthegardner]

I like your avatar and have fun with those titties tonite.

[xabmol]

You must be one sad, angry little man. I'ts people like you that fuel my misanthropy. Go die please. -_-

Thanks danthegardner, I will! xD

[GUNS N SWORDS]

I'm not interested in the concept of chicks needing bigger breasts. chicks with small boobs can have tons of sex appeal, even more so than chicks with over sized ones. for me it's not at all a requirement. (for both games and in the real world.)

Frankly, i don't like the idea of walking with a chick that has a size 40 DD. the last thing i want on my mind is srtangers and onlookers already knowing the reason why i'm dating or talking to a chick who has that.

[FantasyStar]

Would you still want them when you're 60?

[GUNS N SWORDS]

Ask Hugh Hefner....he's like in his mid 80's :)

[FantasyStar]

I was referring to 60 y/o boobies. Clearly Hefner is still good for it.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

i know how you meant it, i was just implying how there's a double meaning in it. :)

[FantasyStar]

Well played then. sir. Well played.

[themizarkshow]

If a box has boobs on it, I'll totally buy it. That's just a fact.

[Bathyj]

Finally, a topic I can sink my teeth into. ;)

[hazelamy]

i just love how so many devs will put women in their games if they can be half naked but not so many bother with women if they'd be equal to the men in the game.
can't have women in shooters now can we, no women allowed in cod, moh, crackdown 2, warhawk, mag or brink, to name a few.
i don't mind them showing women as sexy in some games, because at least in most of those games, even though they usually have to wear very little they're the equal to the men in the game in most respects, they can kick arse as well as the men in the games.
let the men have something to drool over and we'll have a strong woman kicking arse and not bothering to take names :)
who just so happens not to mind showing a bit of skin.

[Quickstrike]

should not be in the same sentence.

[Whitefox789]

I wouldn't really consider it exploitation its just taking advantage of the average male mindset. I mean this kind of discussion is thrown everywhere: movies, television. Hell go to a bar and your bound to find at least one group of guys commenting on a woman's breast. So its not really that out of the ordinary that they would take this subject and implement it into a mainstream form of media. To try and make more money out of it. However this formula doesn't really work all the time for instance Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball.