Playstation Vita thread

[Sarge]

My problem is that most Vita games tend to not just be boobs, but underage boobs. Barf.

[ElkinFencer10]

My problem is that most Vita games tend to not just be boobs, but underage boobs. Barf.

Age is a manufactured thing in video games and anime (and, getting to my points about the Vita, anime video games). Take this guy, for example. He's around 600 years old.




She's 2,000 years old.


Realism goes out the window when it comes to anime-styled games. That's why I don't let it bother me too much; most of the characters who look super young are impossibly old.

[MrPopo]

Ehhh, let's be honest. It's about a 50/50 split between "Really 600 years old" and "actually a minor" for the underaged characters.

[BoneSnapDeez]

C'mon dudes let's not drag out the "that scantily-clad loli is really a 3,000 year old witch!" rationale. It's not fooling anyone.

3DS RPG library is murdering the Vita RPG at this point in time. And the Vita even has Ys on its side.

[Michi]

You know it's not doing well when even Bone praises the platform that doesn't have an Ys title.

[MrPopo]

I think the thing that bugs me about the ecchi content on the Vita is its so gratuitous. It's like they're sitting around going, this game is ok, but what if we added boobs?

Like, I'm having fun with Dungeon Travellers 2 since it's a well balanced dungeon crawler with a variety of classes that serve different roles. But then when you beat a boss you get an ecchi binding scene where you magically seal them into your book. For no good reason.

[Reprise]

I have to agree, it's kinda tiring and overbearing at times.

Sometimes I'm embarrassed to show my Vita collection or feel bad when my wife asks me what my new game is like (e.g. Valkyrie Drive) and I show her ("oh, it's some underage looking girls, with giant boobs, in skimpy outfits, talking about how great their sister's boobs are, with scenes depicting characters being groped without consent. Lovely")

[Michi]

See, that just suggests to me that they weren't confident enough in the content of their game.

[laurenhiya21]

Personally, I'm not really bothered by the ecchi stuff. I don't really have much of a reason for it, but I think that if the games were super realistic, I would probably be bothered a bit.

I do find it funny sometimes when it's over-the-top or well written. As an example, I thought a lot of the scenes in Dungeon Travellers 2 were pretty funny. Not that my sense of humour is that great though, so it would make sense if most people don't find that sort of thing amusing ha.

[PartridgeSenpai]

Ehhh, let's be honest. It's about a 50/50 split between "Really 600 years old" and "actually a minor" for the underaged characters.

This!

I think the thing that bugs me about the ecchi content on the Vita is its so gratuitous. It's like they're sitting around going, this game is ok, but what if we added boobs?

Like, I'm having fun with Dungeon Travellers 2 since it's a well balanced dungeon crawler with a variety of classes that serve different roles. But then when you beat a boss you get an ecchi binding scene where you magically seal them into your book. For no good reason.

And this!

See, that just suggests to me that they weren't confident enough in the content of their game.

And also this: +1

All of the ecchi wouldn't bother me so much if the situations weren't so really fanservicy/objectifying, not to mention so many of the girls looking under age (You can say you're 6000 all you want, you still look like 12 year old, and considering that you're being viewed/used as a sexually-focused object, nothing past the surface level of your character genuinely matters).

There are some games that handle this kind of stuff fairly well, and even make fun of it. Even though it's a 3DS game, Project X Zone with it's constant jokes at the heroine's "one-strap [dress]" despite the fact that she's 16 had me in stitches precisely because of just how much it poked fun at how character designers feel so obligated to draw female anime characters so sexually despite their supposed age. Looking at an actual Vita game, Curse of the Great Curry God also had quite a few jokes that poked fun at anime character design and tropes, and actually had (most of the cast) appropriately dressed, or if they were sexuallized, it made a lot of sense in context (I am SO retrospectively gald that that game doesn't pull the "little girl with huge boobs" trope).

It just seems like a lot of these games art trying to pander so hard to the crowd of people who like fan service and ecchi because, let's face it, those are the only people buying Vita games! It's been shown time and again that having anime, specifically fan-servicy anime girls on the cover of your game will help it sell far more. That's precisely why a game like UPPERS did so poorly when compared to its sister series Senran Kagura, a series which has a lot of (and, I'd argue, less sum-total as UPPERS has some big-shots from a couple other studios working on it as well) of appeal and brand-awareness to the same group of consumers.