![]() ![]() Official statement from Koei Tecmo Games #KTfamily /4G2kV4hf7I- KOEI TECMO AMERICA December 1, 2015 Koei Tecmo’s response to the Facebook comment days later didn’t the situation. In short, fans and one retailer started blaming “social justice warriors” for the lack of a Western release for Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. ![]() ![]() Initial reactions were tinged with doubt over the reasoning, but the ease of important coupled with the fact that Hayashi went on to suggest that a Western (albeit a modified version) could be in the cards if fans made enough noise kept discontent at a comfortable level.Īt least until November, when someone on the Dead or Alive Game Facebook page wrote this in response to a fan’s question about a potential Western release.Īce reporter Patrick Klepek wrote an excellent article on the fallout from that comment. So, after much deliberation, we’ve decided to release the game only in Japan and other Asian territories.” “As a fighting game, there are a great deal of fans overseas, but for the Xtreme series, domestic fans make up an overwhelming majority. Producer Yosuke Hayashi explained the reasoning behind the decision in an interview with Japan’s Weekly Famitsu. There are those pleased with these events, and there are those decidedly displeased, to put it as mildly as I possibly can.īasically shit’s all fucked up, and in the middle of all of this Tecmo, now Koei Tecmo, decided it was a good time for a new bikini volleyball game.īy the time Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune for the PlayStation 4 and Venus for the PlayStation Vita were announced in August of last year, Koei Tecmo had already decided to restrict the release to Asian countries. Features that years ago wouldn’t have warranted a second glance generate scandal, and developers are quick to respond. New games are quickly evaluated based on how women are treated and portrayed. Over the past decade attitudes towards the depiction of women in video games have become the subject of intense scrutiny and fierce debate. Every once in a while I still catch myself humming Reel Big Fish’s “I Want Your Girlfriend to be My Girlfriend Too.” That’s DOAX’s fault. Collecting all of the bikinis became a goal in life just so thirteen years later I could say I did it (I did not.) I even enjoyed the licensed music. The two-on-two volleyball matches were simplistic but satisfying. That Tecmo would release such an overt attempt at cashing in on the popularity of its 3D models delighted me. They play surprisingly enjoyable games of volleyball.Īt the time of its release, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball was a ridiculous spectacle, and I was completely charmed. Over the course of 14 days the women gamble, play mini-games and trade presents. Zack, the eccentric creep of the fighting games, transports seven of the female characters from Dead or Alive 3 (plus newcomer Lisa) to his private island resort for a two week vacation. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Note the lack of a volleyball on the cover of this game.ĭead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is a stupid game. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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