Should more fighting game have more fanservice? Games like Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur are great examples. Guys like seeing curvaceous female characters while girls like seeing muscular male characters. I think it’s always good to add glamour to fighting games that are already very competitive. Also, the characters in fighters should have more costumes to add more flavor to them. Anyone agree?
Everyone should be naked forever.
Technically, fighting games have had fanservice in them ever since SFII and Fatal Fury.
I could definitely do without booby ladies in my games. They don’t make any sense and it’s distracting how ridiculous they are. I don’t mind when it makes sense with their character (Morrigan, Poison), but why would Cammy and Chun-Li be flashing their asses all over the place?
Fanservice is OK, but it’s annoying when you’re playing against a friend and someone walks up and says “WOW HER TITTIES IZ HUGE BOLOLOLOLOL”.
It’s more annoying than anything.
Because sex sells. Look it up.
Well yeah… the little girls in Arcana Heart 3 is a necessity to sell the game to the loli pervs and the big breasted women in the game are a must to sell the game to the regular anime pervs. Circle of life.
So why do the designs still suck?
It’s all about the cut scenes and unlocking the “art”.
How does sex equals fanservice?
When does Chun Li flash her ass?
Having woman in fighting games is primarily for fan-service
I mean it doesn’t make any “sense” that a scrawny woman would stand a chance to a man in a fight
Unless they look like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PfgzU7BLxIg/SH6mFA6lWAI/AAAAAAAAGBM/bHFcl-v8vyM/s400/2+-+Angela+Belti.jpg
doa isn’t fanservice; itagaki is just a perv.
why would team ninja design “nipples” into the models when there would be no way to see them unless someone hacked the game?
Hardly a necessity. It’s very possible for a FG to be good and also full of sexualization. Vampire Savior is a great example - as a FG, the game wouldn’t be any worse if it didn’t have fanservice (and VS has a lot, from lolis to catering to vore and inflation fetishes)
i want another HnK.
It’s a must if you want sales but not if you’re trying to make a good game
Fanservice is every important for fighting games nowadays.
If they aren’t getting their money from fighting game fans, they have to get it from Geeks/Otakus.
Guilty Gear and BlazBlue are the biggest examples. Their anime-style character designs seem to attract more Otakus and by constantly promoting it at Anime Conventions where attendees will look at their characters and say “I want to cosplay as that character in a few months” they will get a lot of sales.
As far as I can tell, through my internet-tinted glasses, fan service is essential to selling anything and everything in Japan. From video games and pancakes, to politicians and pesticides.
Is blood the American version of fanservice? Mike Z, will SkullGirls have blood and fatalities?
I feel fortunate that the “tits-in-games” trend started after I moved out of my parents’ home thereby removing the necessity of having to explain ivy’s proportions to my mother. X_x
[media=youtube]4plJzcqFuD4[/media] Whenever she does anything…
Actually the designs don’t suck they are your average archeytpe characters. Anyway a fighting game can sell withough fanservice but fanservice consist of more than just scantly clad woman though.