Gaming Studies

[SaiKar]

 

And so we finally come to the screw attack. Yes, a feature which seems actually unlikely to be preformed in a 3D world. It however did happen, in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. I never played that game before, so I can't really say how it works. I do think it has to do with a special energy field around Samus when she is quickly rotating in the air. This energy also gives Samus a jump boost.

Having finally gotten far enough in Echoes to see the Screw Attack, I can say it's pretty awesome. When you try to perform a third jump in the air, the camera automatically goes into 3rd person as Samus whirls into a ball in mid air. It like the Morph Ball system surrounded by an aura of energy. The Space Jump boots propel the ball forward and up, so you can sort of "hop" through the air and cross long distances, totally invulnerable to anything that might attack you.

The actual physics wouldn't be that different from the Space Jump and Morph Ball, though I can imagine trying to fire a boost at a consistantly down and back angle while whirling rapidly in ball form would be an engineering nightmare.

[Razor]

You know, the game doesn't give you much information to use the space jump "tap A repetitively" after about 5 minutes of tapping A like a mad man I though I was doomed to be stuck in that area forever.

Of course, then I stuffed up my button mashing and found that I had to press it every half second or so.

[GaryCXJk]

Note that the Charas versions will have no images, but when a site comes, it might will.


Also, I don't currently have time to update it soon, but I will try to do it as soon as possible.

[Drighton]

Originally posted by GaryCXJk
Note that the Charas versions will have no images, but when a site comes, it might will.


Also, I don't currently have time to update it soon, but I will try to do it as soon as possible.

What is this about Jerry? Its like you finished a sentence that you started in your head.

(LOL, like JD in Scrubs)
..."There would be banana hammocks everywhere!"

[Linkizcool]

Originally posted by SaiKar
I'm not sure how much it helps, but I believe that in Metroid Prime / Prime 2 the odd symbols that appear when changing your weapon are actually the configuration of Samus's fingers inside the cannon itself. Something to think about.

I was gonna say that. But ya , thats what it is.

Secondly, she doesn't seem to have a large breastsize

Play Metroid Zero Mission on GBA and play untill sfter she destroys the Mother Brain and takes off her suit in her ship. That proves that wrong.

[GaryCXJk]

Compare Zero Mission to Fusion without suit.

[GaryCXJk]

Gaming Studies
Issue #7
Female characters
Various - Art?

Lara Croft, Tifa, the Dead or Alive girls, perfect girls, or at least girls many men get the hots for. But what makes them so much better than, for example, a Samus Aran, or a princess Peach, or Rinoa?

Girls! Girls! Girls! A movie by Elvis Presley. To be honnest, I think it was one of the worst Elvis movies ever, and it didn't even have that many girls. And the ones in the movie weren't even THAT beautiful. I believe it was also in the time that Elvis didn't want to make movies anymore, especially because of abominations like this movie.

But, to get back on the subject, female videogame characters. Yes, many are beautiful, and the ones who aren't are badguys. Or kids. And I don't think you want to get the hots for kids, now do you?

*Ahem*

The main reason why developers make girls very attractive is to get more sales. Yes, men just love pretty girls. And how attractive or buff you make a Link or a Jan-Lee, you won't get the sales up by attracting girls. The biggest gaming public is, or was, young guys.

Okay, this is shifting now, but we get to this later.

But what makes a Rinoa less attractive than a Tifa, what drives people on wanting to wank on Lara Croft instead of Samus Aran? Why are Dead or Alive girls far more known than Tekken girls?

We start with the first reason: the better known the game, the better known the characters. Face it, Final Fantasy VII is far more popular than Final Fantasy VIII. Tomb Raider has been more known than Metroid (up until Metroid Prime that is).

But this doesn't really count for Dead or Alive, does it? Sure, it has had a lot of sales, but Tekken still is in lead (though this game gets competition from the Soul Blade or Soul Calibur series, ironically from the same company). What also sets the mood?

Okay, when you set Samus next to Lara, what do you see? Samus has a lot of armor, you would only see her in a bathing suit when completing the game 100% or within a certain ammount of time, while Lara most of the time wears a skimpy outfit. If you set Tifa next to Rinoa, Tifa is dressed like a slut. Seriously, give her more clothes.

*Ahem*

But the most important thing of all: the size of the breasts. Tifa just has big knockers. Seriously, you can't deny the size of her boobies. I bet a whole watermelon can fit in each of them. But if you look at Rinoa, her breasts are like, little humps. They're not flat, they're just little humps.

Same goes for Lara Croft. She has big breasts. Samus doesn't. However, with Samus it has a reason. Her breasts aren't that big, simply because she's a real fighter. She's like, an amazon. I bet you know that amazons cut off one of their breasts to make archery easier. Well, Samus just has regular sized, but not too big, boobs. Small and humble, or, like Shakira once sang, so you won't confuse them with mountains.

In Dead or Alive they even want to go a step further, there the breasts are literally bouncing. This trend has pushed on to other beat 'em ups, but it's a developement I rather don't want to see.

Luckily, all of this is now changing. No, they are not making Lara an old hag, and they don't make the boobs in Dead or Alive empty sacks or popped balloons. If you recently has seen Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, you might have noticed Tifa's breasts are of a normal size. Also, Eidos has shrunk the boobs of Lara Croft to appeal more female players. Only the bouncing boobs stay.

But also new female characters show more resemblance to real women. In Another Code Ashley is just a girl with the normal sizes. Of course, she's just 14 years old, but in the time when I was 14 there were enough girls with growing bumps.

*Ahem*

But, does that mean female characters must not be sexy? The answer to that is no. Take Nintendo. For a long time Peach has looked like a deformed... well... I don't know. Luckily she got plastic surgery, and not only her face looks better, but she actually has breasts! So, beauty is a good thing for games. But, like Nooj in Final Fantasy X-2 said, let's not overdo it.

[Razor]

Kudos Gary, noone in the history of Charas has got to say "breasts" and its synonyms that many times in one post in the history of Charas!

And I like Samus more than Lara. Samus is cooler. Coolness counts.

[Drace]

Tomb Raider sucks. The only reasons why people buy those games are because Lara makes that lil moan of pleasure if you run against a wall, because the camera allways seems to zoom in up to her *** and because she has big SQUARE boobies.

[shadus]

What's next?Why are do they make non-humen women sluts?

[Drighton]

heh heh

Originally posted by GaryCXJk
boobies

This one was a kind of obvious observation.
I can remember one game in particular, Blood Rayne, in which every time she loaded into a cut scene (even if she was just standing in the cut scene) she would have the bouncing boobies effect as if she had just landed from a jump.

[GaryCXJk]

Originally posted by Drighton
This one was a kind of obvious observation.
I can remember one game in particular, Blood Rayne, in which every time she loaded into a cut scene (even if she was just standing in the cut scene) she would have the bouncing boobies effect as if she had just landed from a jump.

Hehe.

Well, I might post a new article later today, or maybe some other day. School has a priority though.

[Almeidaboo]

Many times I wonder how many of you EVER got laid...

For God sakes breasts are nothing more than necessary. And also a nice and round a$$. Thatīs why those girls are all hotties and stuff: cause thatīs better.

See, nobody dates the "cool-and-only-that" girl. Something else has got to come up. Generally the pretty face does the whole job, but why not persue a nice, bendy and marvelous body? It doesnīt really hurt does it? Iīll answer that one for you guys: no it doesnīt, and those bodies feel really, really nice. Itīs so much better than feeling BONES pressing against your chest...

Oh yeah, Tifa dresses like a slut? I feel bad for all people not born in Brasil than. Thatīs pretty much like not knowing how to appreciate a womenīs body, and being ungrateful for the fact that youīve been blessed with the sight of most of that body!

I KNOW that weīre talking about videogames here, but letīs face something here male people, women are women everywhere, otherwise all videogame characters should be sexless (invented word?), given that factr that it doesnīt really matter...

[Drighton]

You should try and chuckle every now and then, its good for the heart.
I don't see how people can live being so serious all the time.

[Neonlare]

Please... Just, read through this ok?

 

For thoose that don't have a microscope,

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