11 Offensive Video Game Moments You Need To See For Yourself
10. Tekken 7's Revealing Character Models
Last I checked, it wasn't the 1950s, and that's before you get to the fact that an escapist medium such as video games should be the go-to place for pretty much any aesthetic choice - be it scantily clad, fully covered or anything in between.
Naturally, that didn't stop the 'SJWs' (as they're labelled) getting stuck in to attack the fact Tekken 7 was receiving some Dead or Alive-style bikini costumes.
"Why objectify the women over the men!?" they screamed.
"Well, actually, we're doing costumes for the male characters too" came the figurative reply from Namco, as Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada really laid into those complaining who hadn't done the research:
"A lot of times - the swimsuits was a good example - people who don't even play the game, they maybe just hear that there are swimsuits in it and then they say, 'Woah, you have these girls in sexy swimwear, what's wrong with you? You're such male chauvinists etc.'"But, what they don't know is that it started off in the arcade and it's a season line, like you do for Christmas, Halloween or whatever. And it's not just the women. Robots have them, Kuma, Panda, the male characters have swimwear. It's not like we're trying to sexualise the female characters at all. But they don't go and look for that info before they criticise. So, that is pretty frustrating."You know what they say about assuming...
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