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wumpus

10-03-2002, 10:18 PM

http://www.evilavatar.com/redirected.asp?fromurl=http%3A//www.evilavatar.com/EA/Screenshots/Xbox/M40771/pictures.htm%3FIMG%3D/EA/Screenshots/Xbox/M40771/13926.jpg

Murph

10-03-2002, 10:21 PM

I predict this game will sell billions of copies.

mtkafka

10-03-2002, 10:44 PM

If sex sells, then DOA Volleyball will sell a billion copies. Did you see the screenshots of that game? WOW! 8)

etc

Murph

10-03-2002, 10:48 PM

There've actually been a few good volleyball games over the years. If they take the gameplay from one of those, and throw that in for eye candy...

Yeah, I agree mtkafka. DOAXBV could sell a bunch of copies.

Brian Koontz

10-03-2002, 10:55 PM

mtkafka

10-03-2002, 11:04 PM

I like this

http://www.newtechnix.com/Webmasters/supertony/Images/News_X-Box_Dead_or_Alive_Xtreme_Beach_Volleyball_68.jpg

and this

http://www.newtechnix.com/Webmasters/supertony/Images/News_X-Box_Dead_or_Alive_Xtreme_Beach_Volleyball_69.jpg

etc

voltaic

10-04-2002, 12:33 AM

I predict this game will sell billions of copies.

I predict I am so fucking tired of links that are so wide that I have to scroll horizontally to read all the damn posts in the thread.

wumpus

10-04-2002, 01:08 AM

Are you gonna cry?

Supertanker

10-04-2002, 10:38 AM

Mike Cathcart

10-04-2002, 11:17 AM

I predict I am so fucking tired of links that are so wide that I have to scroll horizontally to read all the damn posts in the thread.

See also: big-ass images.

Is it too much to ask for someone to use the url tag to it's full potential? Like this. (http://www.evilavatar.com/redirected.asp?fromurl=http%3A//www.evilavatar.com/EA/Screenshots/Xbox/M40771/pictures.htm%3FIMG%3D/EA/Screenshots/Xbox/M40771/13926.jpg)

Anonymous

10-04-2002, 01:13 PM

Everyone always says "Sex Sells" when it comes to games, but where are all of these successful "sexy" games? Lots of games have tried to use sex, but which were actually successful?

ciparis

10-04-2002, 01:47 PM

As far as receiving boost in appeal and popularity from a pretty image, Lara comes to mind. I haven't seen anyone's attempt to out-Lara tomb raider pay off nearly as well.

The teenage response to the extensive physics modelling in doa volleyball should be interesting. Jiggly!

Dave Long

10-04-2002, 01:56 PM

It'll be interesting...but let's not start thinking that they're using real physics with those girls. I've seen women with large breasts in bikinis playing volleyball before and they sure as heck don't move like the ones in the games Team Ninja makes.

The only difference with past "sex sells" video games and these upcoming ones is that it's clear with DOA Xtreme Volleyball that it's bordering on soft porn more than it is a game. Should be interesting what kind of rating the game gets. Sex is a big taboo for our ratings system here in the US. They might have to alter the game a lot to put it on shelves in this country with an M rating.

--Dave

Tom Ohle

10-04-2002, 03:55 PM

My understanding is that a game can only be rated Adults Only in North America if it contains penetration. So DOA beach volleyball will likely get an M, but that's it...

voltaic

10-04-2002, 06:00 PM

I predict I am so fucking tired of links that are so wide that I have to scroll horizontally to read all the damn posts in the thread.

I'm not having that problem using IE5.5 at 1024x768. The link is long, but it wraps.

It's not supposed to. The W3C spec calls for something without spaces/breaks to not be broken into parts by the browser. Glad I don't use IE, I suppose. I'm in Mozilla at 1024x768, by the way.

voltaic

10-04-2002, 06:02 PM

The only difference with past "sex sells" video games and these upcoming ones is that it's clear with DOA Xtreme Volleyball that it's bordering on soft porn more than it is a game.

How do you get from big hooters in bikinis to soft core porn? You can see big hooters in bikinis on the street, you can't see porn of any kind (unless someone is breaking the law). I mean it isn't even nudity.

Don Quixote

10-04-2002, 07:27 PM

You obviously haven't seen any of the pics with the girls feeding each other strawberries, or hugging, etc. These girls are rather... close.

:shock:

Dave Long

10-04-2002, 08:02 PM

Take some time to read about the game, Voltaic, then get back to us.

--Dave

voltaic

10-04-2002, 09:19 PM

Take some time to read about the game, Voltaic, then get back to us.

Thanks daddy. You know try as I might, I didn't find anything that qualifies as porn. Maybe you could send me a link to a picture or a preview. I'll be first in line to agree about the suggestiveness and so forth of the game, but I haven't seen reason to agree on the pornographic tip. You see, I'm from the old school where you have to have nudity or explicit sexual situations before you can have anything resembling porn.

wumpus

10-04-2002, 10:18 PM

Bullshit. Clearly, "Son of the Beach" is straight up PORN and you know it, voltaic. Why you gotta front?

Robert Sharp

10-05-2002, 06:14 PM

Speaking of porn, I am actually old enough to buy porn, and for cheaper than DOA volleyball will cost. Why would I want computer gen porn, when I can get the real thing (which is better by the way).

Sparky

10-05-2002, 06:45 PM

You see, I'm from the old school where you have to have nudity or explicit sexual situations before you can have anything resembling porn.

You must have been in kindergarten when I was in old school, then, because I don't consider it porn unless it contains Great Danes wearing yellow rubber raincoats being splashed with butterscotch pudding by men in ersatz Peter Pan costumes.

Robert Sharp

10-07-2002, 03:42 PM

It's funny to call that view "old school" since porn (or sexually explicit things) is more tolerated now than ever before, in America anyway. Our country is still just about the most prudish country on the planet, and certainly the most amongst Western cultures.

Paxton

10-07-2002, 04:34 PM

Our country is still just about the most prudish country on the planet, and certainly the most amongst Western cultures.

yow! way to gloss over the islamic world...
oh and india, china, and most of the rest of asia.

Jason Cross

10-07-2002, 08:28 PM

I think the whole concept of "sex sells" is the idea that it sells more than the same product/marketing/whatever, minus the sex, would. I think we can point to a whole lot of really crappy stuff that had sex appeal and flopped.

But I'd bet my bottom dollar that DOAXBV sells far better than any other beach vollyball game made to date, even given the limited worldwide installed base of the Xbox. And I don't think that will probably be becuase it's a vastly superior vollyball game compared to, say, Beach Spikers. (It may be, I dunno, but I doubt that's the reason it'll sell well)

Likewise, if you stripped the T&A out of a T&A beer commercial, it probably wouldn't be as effective. Not unless you replaced it with something else equally attention-grabbing. I'm sure you've all seen that amazingly annoying Maxim Hair Color for Men commercial, and I have to wonder if it wouldn't be selling far worse if they had a commercial like the old Grecian Formula one or something.

Sex is tantalizing and it gets people's attention. I think that's all that's meant by "sex sells." Certainly sex doesn't GUARANTEE sales, it doesn't sell in every instance (it's not going to move copies of the latest Disney home video), and it's absolutely not the ONLY way to sell (see the "Got Milk?" campaign).

Would this topic even exist, or people even be talking so much about DOAXBV, if it weren't for the half-naked women? The sex has already done its job: it's raised awareness and generated buzz.

Murph

10-07-2002, 10:58 PM

Personally, I am sheerly interested in the game from a volleyball standpoint.

Really.

:lol:

Although, Super Spike V'Ball on the old NES was a pretty fun game. If they can capture some of that gameplay, and make it look pretty, it deserves to sell.

Brian Koontz

10-11-2002, 03:37 AM

In the shot where she's lying down (given her hair she must have been thrown down by the dino) it seems to me that the dino is very HAPPY to see her in that position... more happy than I'd expect a dino to be. And the next one joining them seems flat out *Delighted*.

Bestiality in the Stone Ages?

Here's a likewise interpretation of the shot with worse writing (scroll down the page near the bottom)...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-10-07

Given the commonality of the interpretation, did the developers have this same interpretation when they released the shot? Then again, perhaps Molyneaux is so fucking old he can't conceive of that sort of thing anymore.

Joe O'Malley

10-11-2002, 10:50 AM

This is a Lionhead game, right? The dinos probably just finished teaching her not to eat her poo. :roll:

Robert Sharp

10-12-2002, 06:50 PM

Robert Sharp

10-12-2002, 06:52 PM

And, BTW, some Islamic television even has nudity and more sexual innuendo than we do. And much of Asia allows prostitution and other sex that we look down on. Still, I should have been more clear. We are a very prudish country though, when you consider how aggressively we label ourselves as "progressive".

Brian Koontz

10-13-2002, 02:47 AM

We are a very prudish country though, when you consider how aggressively we label ourselves as "progressive".

Progressive doesn't necessarily mean "Liberal". You can be progressively conservative, for example.

All progressive means is progressing towards *something*... its ordered or directed movement. Any movement toward something is seen as PROGRESS by the person directing the movement.