More trying to contact NCSoft and other stuff

[Mentalshock]

Gail Simone is going to say something supportive on her blog...and if I know her, she's going to have a LOT that ISN'T supportive about Boobs and Shame to say after the video I just sent her.

If you thought the one you saw before was bad?  Get a load of this.  (Ladies, please take a tranq before viewing).  This is their "dance" emote for the female.  And oh, yeah, that little black "Victoria's Secret" number she's wearing is one of the standard costumes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5rgsmtO4k

O.O

Okay, that's even worse than it first appeared!

[eabrace]

[Vulpy]

If you thought the one you saw before was bad?  Get a load of this.  (Ladies, please take a tranq before viewing).  This is their "dance" emote for the female.  And oh, yeah, that little black "Victoria's Secret" number she's wearing is one of the standard costumes.

I...really want you to be kidding right now. Or I want this to be from the wrong game, or...

[JWBullfrog]

 I fully admit, even from a male point of view that is just...
 
ok, is there a word for that?
 
Sleazy?
 
Skanky?
 
Embarassing?
 
I think the word sad sums it up for me.

[downix]

Words fail me......

[Codewalker]

It's not even sexy, not just because it's trying too hard, but because OMG THAT FACE. 

[QuantumHero]

Gail Simone is going to say something supportive on her blog...and if I know her, she's going to have a LOT that ISN'T supportive about Boobs and Shame to say after the video I just sent her.

If you thought the one you saw before was bad?  Get a load of this.  (Ladies, please take a tranq before viewing).  This is their "dance" emote for the female.  And oh, yeah, that little black "Victoria's Secret" number she's wearing is one of the standard costumes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5rgsmtO4k

WOW, um, uh, gasp...WTF.  There are just no words to describe the complete and utter WASTE of what could have been a nice game. 

The play control, backgrounds, smoothness of animation, and overall character detail appear incredible....and what they decided to *use* it to emphasize and promote make me want to absolutely vomit....WHY are the wasting what could have been a quality game (even if *FAR* from original) by turning it into a cheap porno flick.  Beautiful textures and backgrounds with the most explotive piece of garbage I have ever seen attempt to masquarade as a game.

That is just utterly degrading to women and gamers in general.  By all means court the lowest common demoninator, the guys who are so stupid and desperate to wack off to over exagerated female *objects* that will be controled by other male players. I anticipate a high female toon population and a painfully low female player population

Not that I have *anything* against people who are actually gay or trans, I want to be clear....but the idea of the likely homophobic morons, who will play this, wacking off to other guys masquarading as women...It would serve them right.  And then when boobs & sluts is shuttered by ncsoft, using whatever lame excuse they use this time we have to accept *that* crowd among the honored dead of real games <ugh>.  We can at least hold torches in the air.  For them shafts of wood, I do hope they get splinters.

Okay I'm done with my little snark fest...but dear lord that is simply awful. 

[downix]

And it's not the only dance either, like WoW, each race and gender gets their own dance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV2UPa44w8&feature=related

Watching them... the legs keep driving me batty. They look bolted on, not part of the body at all. Game-experience breaker for me.

[eabrace]

Maybe they're just trying to encourage fitness?

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/bestoftv/2012/07/31/ac-ridiculist-exercise-equipment.cnn

[Victoria Victrix]

And it's not the only dance either, like WoW, each race and gender gets their own dance:

But the "adult female" dances are all universally modeled after stripper moves.

[Aggelakis]

Watching them... the legs keep driving me batty. They look bolted on, not part of the body at all. Game-experience breaker for me.

The legs are also way too big around and way way way too long. Also, apparently the chicks have vaginas of epic sizes because there's like gaping chasms between their legs.

[Segev]

But the "adult female" dances are all universally modeled after stripper moves.

Really? Of the ones in the montage of all the dance moves, only two of them looked overtly sexual to me. And only the one that you linked, VV, looked like it couldn't be anything BUT sexual. (And I agree with codewalker; it was not sexy. It was just...not. Nothing alluring about it, and frankly, the oversexualization and the CGI makes the ones trying to be sexy fall into Uncanny Valley very, very hard.)

[Kaiser Tarantula]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5rgsmtO4k

There's sexy, and there's trying way, way too hard.  This is the latter.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV2UPa44w8&feature=related

That female dancing at 1:56... what is WRONG WITH HER LIMBS?!

 

My right eye and the left corner of my mouth is twitching and I'm not sure why.  I think this is... rage?  Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's rage.

I'm a guy, and I love a bit of sex appeal in games.  But... this is just... ugh.  I wanna take these characters by the shoulders and shake them violently, yelling "HAVE YOU NO DIGNITY?!"

All of this beautiful texture and modelwork, gone to waste.

[Victoria Victrix]

Really? Of the ones in the montage of all the dance moves, only two of them looked overtly sexual to me. And only the one that you linked, VV, looked like it couldn't be anything BUT sexual. (And I agree with codewalker; it was not sexy. It was just...not. Nothing alluring about it, and frankly, the oversexualization and the CGI makes the ones trying to be sexy fall into Uncanny Valley very, very hard.)

I guess I hung out with strippers too much in my misspent youth (disclaimer: I could sew, I needed money, and they needed "costumes").  I pretty much watched all the "adult female" dance emotes and saw my former customers trying out their gear.

I want to take out an ad on Korean TV:  Women of Korea!  This is what NCSoft wants the world to think you are like!

[Segev]

I thought strippers were supposed to be sexy. Alluring. This...isn't.

...sorry, it's bugging me that they'd put so much effort into something this overtly sexual that is supposed to be a "fun" aspect of your character (and I'll admit that there is a target audience for "sexy" == "fun")...and have it FAIL AT BEING SEXY. It's just plain unattractive.

[Victoria Victrix]

I thought strippers were supposed to be sexy. Alluring. This...isn't.

...sorry, it's bugging me that they'd put so much effort into something this overtly sexual that is supposed to be a "fun" aspect of your character (and I'll admit that there is a target audience for "sexy" == "fun")...and have it FAIL AT BEING SEXY. It's just plain unattractive.

They could have put the same amount of work into ballet moves or modern dance.  Or floor gymnastics. 

[Segev]

They could have put the same amount of work into ballet moves or modern dance.  Or floor gymnastics.

Absolutely.

And a fair number of the two that I didn't think looked overtly sexual were not disturbing to watch. The funny little kid dance with the running motions made me chuckle.

But even worse than WHAT they chose to do with the "sexy" dances is that the failed in what was obviously their goal. So they made it offensive and repulsive on all levels, not just the moral and feminist outrage ones.

[Back Blast]

It's not really attractive at all. I've been in a strip club (friend's bachelor party) and those gals danced a whole lot better and more alluringly than that. Frankly after a bit I started checking out the pretty background art. They did do a good job on that at least. A pity it's being wasted on a porno game.

[UberGuy]

If you thought the one you saw before was bad?  Get a load of this.  (Ladies, please take a tranq before viewing).  This is their "dance" emote for the female.  And oh, yeah, that little black "Victoria's Secret" number she's wearing is one of the standard costumes.

Good lord. I'm mildly tasteless about this sort of thing, and that still registers as insanely over the top, even to me.

[therain93]

Not to totally derail the original intent of this thread, but I really hope that part of the feminist message is strong representation of women in CoH (even though there is the option to go the stereotypical comic way..and the same can be done with men).