Why bother including male characters in the game anymore? Just make it …

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Comment on Dead or Alive 5: “And You Thought It Was About Fighting!” by Tere:

Why bother including male characters in the game anymore? Just make it about sexy women beating the crap out of each other already. Who honestly plays DOA games to see the male characters anyway?

Tere made other comments on this post:

• Dead or Alive 5: “And You Thought It Was About Fighting!”:
  

  Anon 21:54: “…but within the fanbase everyone has fans, and people actually 100 page threads of paragraphs about the stories and the character backgrounds.” Thanks for letting me know I’m talking to a rabid fan. That clears up so much about how you keep missing my point. As most blatantly illustrated by the following, “And you want to talk about DOAX, then Zack is in all of the DOAX games, so does that make him in the same league as the ladies for you now?” To explain it for the slow: He was …

• Dead or Alive 5: “And You Thought It Was About Fighting!”:
  

  @Anon 17:30 I’m going to take this slowly for you. Game companies make spin-off games of popular characters. The more popular the character, the more likely it’ll get placed in a spin-off. UNpopular characters don’t get spin-offs. So, ‘Popular characters = Spin-off games’ and ‘Unpopular characters = forgotten by everyone not a die-hard fan’. This means that the female characters of the DoA franchise are more important than the male ones. To the point that they, and they alone, appear in ALL the …

• Dead or Alive 5: “And You Thought It Was About Fighting!”:
  

  Oh, you’re right! That was unforgivably cynical of me. I must have totally forgotten about the two Extreme Beach Volleyball games that featured the male characters. Oh, wait… /sarcasm The only male character most outsiders even know about is Ryu Hayabusa, and only because of the Ninja Gaiden games.

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