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Darc Requiem said:
LegitHyperbole said:

I agree with everything you said but despite the scanning Shift Up did... enhance Eve, they gave her a case of scoliosis and some outfits change her body, if you flick through them quickly you can see some...enhance her posterior as well as add to that scoliosis which makes her completely unrealistically attractive. I have never seen any woman, super model or whatever have that certain level of perfect posture while also having severe scoliosis but it's all still nonsense cause Eve isn't even human. When Robots are mass produced they'll probably look even better than Eve and have features such as their eyes made larger to make people more trusting of them which will add to attractiveness in a completely unrealistic way. There is nothing wrong with being unrealistic in art either. Hypocrites they indeed are and it only takes one look into a journos prior work to find severe doublethink. 

This is Eve's second body model. Yoon Seolhwa. When Eve's figure is more "exaggerated" it's using her body. I'm not saying they didn't tweak her model at all, but it's not the extent that you think. When I only thought they used Shin Jae-eun, i thought as similary as you. Eve's figure clearly differs depending on her nanosuit. 

Oh yeah, it's definetly her body for sure but all I'm saying is they made certain changes that are beyond human, this model does not have the same perfect posture while the arch of her back is severely deformed like Eve does. Again it makes sense cause she's not human but if a really human had an arch like that all the time there would be severe stability and movement issues... if she was human. It's incredibly attractive though. I'm not trying to take anything away fron the two models, they are very attractive women but Eve is inhumanely, next level attractive. 



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Stellar Blade wouldn't be selling nearly as well as it has if it was just pure eye candy; there are plenty of erotic video games and they're mostly quite niche and sell in modest numbers.

Sex appeal is absolutely a selling point, but you don't get to 3 million plus on that alone, the fact that it's also a damn good action game is boosting it as well.



curl-6 said:

Stellar Blade wouldn't be selling nearly as well as it has if it was just pure eye candy; there are plenty of erotic video games and they're mostly quite niche and sell in modest numbers.

Sex appeal is absolutely a selling point, but you don't get to 3 million plus on that alone, the fact that it's also a damn good action game is boosting it as well.

Indeed. Dead or Alive was a solid series with sexualised characters. Didn't really help it stand a chance against Tekken.

The "I love my hot sexualized waifus" crowd would generally rather pirate games or jerk off to free hentai sites. In my opinion a small percentage of players bought this game "only" for the hot protagonist. Eve's appearence is just the icing on the cake for most people.

Let's not forget that NieR Automata's success was also largely attributed to 2B and her booty. The argument was that hack and slash games generally sold a fraction of what it did. But then Devil May Cry 5 came out and eventually outsold it even without a Switch version.

2B and Eve's memes may have drawn a lot of attention and helped marketing their games, but not a lot of people would have bought them if they weren't well made.



Stellar Blade was the best selling game in the US following PC release:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465060/stellar-bade-was-the-best-selling-game-in-the-us-following-pc-launch/



Kyuu said:
curl-6 said:

Stellar Blade wouldn't be selling nearly as well as it has if it was just pure eye candy; there are plenty of erotic video games and they're mostly quite niche and sell in modest numbers.

Sex appeal is absolutely a selling point, but you don't get to 3 million plus on that alone, the fact that it's also a damn good action game is boosting it as well.

Indeed. Dead or Alive was a solid series with sexualised characters. Didn't really help it stand a chance against Tekken.

The "I love my hot sexualized waifus" crowd would generally rather pirate games or jerk off to free hentai sites. In my opinion a small percentage of players bought this game "only" for the hot protagonist. Eve's appearence is just the icing on the cake for most people.

Let's not forget that NieR Automata's success was also largely attributed to 2B and her booty. The argument was that hack and slash games generally sold a fraction of what it did. But then Devil May Cry 5 came out and eventually outsold it even without a Switch version.

2B and Eve's memes may have drawn a lot of attention and helped marketing their games, but not a lot of people would have bought them if they weren't well made.

Tekken is the best selling 3D fighting game. "Didn't really help it stand a chance against Tekken" applies to every 3D fighting game not named Tekken. Dead or Alive is the 3rd best selling 3D fighting game series behind Soul Calibur and has outsold the Virtua Fighter series 2 to 1. Dead or Alive 6 decided to shift the marketing away from the "hey we have hot waifus" tactics of the prior games and that, along with questionable fighting engine changes, caused it to only sell 2 million+ copies.



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Darc Requiem said:
Kyuu said:

Indeed. Dead or Alive was a solid series with sexualised characters. Didn't really help it stand a chance against Tekken.

The "I love my hot sexualized waifus" crowd would generally rather pirate games or jerk off to free hentai sites. In my opinion a small percentage of players bought this game "only" for the hot protagonist. Eve's appearence is just the icing on the cake for most people.

Let's not forget that NieR Automata's success was also largely attributed to 2B and her booty. The argument was that hack and slash games generally sold a fraction of what it did. But then Devil May Cry 5 came out and eventually outsold it even without a Switch version.

2B and Eve's memes may have drawn a lot of attention and helped marketing their games, but not a lot of people would have bought them if they weren't well made.

Tekken is the best selling 3D fighting game. "Didn't really help it stand a chance against Tekken" applies to every 3D fighting game not named Tekken. Dead or Alive is the 3rd best selling 3D fighting game series behind Soul Calibur and has outsold the Virtua Fighter series 2 to 1. Dead or Alive 6 decided to shift the marketing away from the "hey we have hot waifus" tactics of the prior games and that, along with questionable fighting engine changes, caused it to only sell 2 million+ copies.

Virtua Fighter is obviously bigger than DoA overall. Where are you getting the 2 to 1 from?

DoA sold 9.7 million copies as of 2025.

VF sold + downloaded (PS Plus) 18 million as of 2021

I'm not including DoA's f2p downloads because unlike VF, DoA5 and 6 were permanently available in f2p. 

DoA had more multiplatform releases (all VF except 5 were exclusive) and started as a Playstation game. Virtua Fighter was capped by very small install bases, and by the time it supported Playstation, it was too late as Tekken established itself as THEE 3D game. VF4 should have been multiplatform like DoA2, might have prevented DoA from being Xbox's go-to fighting game. VF never got a true new release since 2006. The last DoA came out in 2019.

Virtua Fighter was quite huge in Japan. DoA isn't that big anywhere. I'm curious where you're getting these figures from. 2 million+ seems in line with what the series typically sold, isn't it? I'd argue DoA5 and 6 being available as f2p and the general decline of 3D fighters are more responsible for the weak-ish sales than anything else. DoA6 still had hot waifus, just less sexualized, if even that:

https://youtu.be/oOdzRDFdpok?si=Dop3BfdtofjMCSHQ

Waifus and sex appeal can help sell a good game, and sometimes a crap game, but so many gamers seriously overstate their significance. Tekken > VF > Soul Calibur > DoA.

Last edited by Kyuu - on 30 June 2025

If boobs is all it took then why isn't Onechanbara more popular than it is? Because those games are generally not very good with the exception of Origin. Decent but nothing great.  The best game is like a low 7 high 6 out of 10. Those games it's a big boobed lady in a bikini killing zombies. That 360/Wii game is esp bad.



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