Gaming Today has written an article on the breast physics in gaming. They say that all people need to do, is slap on some sort of sex appeal on a game and it'll sell. They question the state on why video games have females with large "assests". Their concern is who enjoys the eye candy and doesn't seperate it from reality and the unrealistic, especially for young gamers. The young gamers will then expect females in reality to strut around in skimy clothes. What do you think? Are big breasted females manditory when trying to give sex appeal in a game?
Now Breast Physics (unlike say fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics) is not a recognized field of scientific research. Evolving with the video game genre from its earliest days in Custer’s Revenge for the 2600 up through Leisure Suit Larry and the Dead or Alive titles (especially DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball ), this field of study “floated” to the top of the video game simulation industry (thanks to the huge number of game designers who simply never got out of the office enough to interact with real women).
There are quite a few examples today of games built and sold completely around this unique simulation field and the latest game to show off advances in breast physics simulation - Dead or Alive 4 bounced onto the Xbox 360 in full color-high definition glory, or the numerous scantily clad elves running around in games like World of Warcraft - which is what brought this subject to mind.
The biggest concern though as someone who enjoys eye candy as much as the next man is: Does this unrealistic portrayal of human anatomy set unrealistic expectations for young male gamers when they actually encounter the real thing? Honestly think of all the boys out there who’ve learned through their video games that women’s anatomy comes with independent suspension! Real women don’t strut around in skimpy clothes while their chests jiggle like strapped on Jell-O for everyone to observe. More importantly how can any real female ever hope to live up to the fantastic behavior of these modeled mammaries?
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If you put girls with big breasts in Teen games, then yeah, maybe it contributes to a growing social problem, but for M games, I think it's a wonderful thing to have girls with desirable assets. I love watching them while I play the game. It's entertainment! I'm old enough to go out into the real world and not expect big breasts from every girl I meet.
They're just girls in action games, like how we like our girls in action flicks. There's more at stake when a hero's saving a hot chick. (Or when a hot chick is shooting the guns!)
But yeah, sex appeal sells, no doubt. It's getting ridiculous and over the line. Good God...Taki's breasts are like two basketballs...they gotta stop with the exaggerations.
People never buy those games, though. They just rent them.
Objectively, having physics for each body part adds to realism but I don't think they added breast physics in order to increase realism
In these fighting games though the breasts are becoming ridiculous. All those polygons and none used for a bra :-(
I don't see a problem with it, but I don't by games based on sex appeal. A lot of games I've bought happened to have the beutiful girls in it and I can't protest.