what happened?

They were planning to release a special edition version of the game that comes in a box shaped like a mutilated woman's torso.

Dead Island Riptides bloody torso statue sparks anger, confusion [Warning: it is pretty fucking disturbing]

i guess the horror nerd in me doesn't get why that's bad.. what if they offered a choice of male or female would that be better?

i'd honestly buy that lol that probably makes me a jerk. i have made dead woman for horror houses though so it doens't really phase me

*women

i like the game but year. how about bad taste.

*yeah

Does it have to have massive tits? I mean, you can totally be a decapitated limbless torso without having a bikini and massive jubblies.

I wouldn't have been so :/ about it if it was fully clothed and not sexual at all

it has a bikini but the boobs are eh..

I know, I saw the picture

well considering all the girls in the game are bikini clad..

yeah that

Some of them are wearing clothes too, tshirts and shorts

i can tell you they are rare but anyways

i wonder who went and said: hey this is a GREAT idea!

i'm still confused why a female torso is bad. if it was a male torso would anyone be outraged? are men the only ones allowed to be mutilated?

nimil: A male torso would be gross, but probably not spark outrage. But, they would never do a male torso because it wouldn't sell. They are exploiting sex appeal, and tying it to horrific violence.

yeah i think it's more the sexualized thing, not a gender thing.

i kinda giggled at it being called a collectable bust i figured they wre making a joke or a play on words. maybe i am broken >_>

They are basically selling a monument to sexual violence against women. You can't even tell that it was supposed to be a zombie. It could just be a woman who was drugged, raped, and dismembered.

im not THAT outraged personally, watched enough Texas Chainsaw to be a bit de-sensitized, but i don't think it was a good idea to give that in a game pack

i just don't see it that way..

www.amazon.com/The-Walki... walking dead has a zombie head with a screwdriver in it (which i think is cool) no one is pissed about this...

yeah but it's APPARENTLY a zombie. i think that's what Jacek means.

i dunno to me having the dead island logo automatically says "hey this is a dead zombie torso"

indeed their bust just looks like a decapitated and dismembered woman, not a zombie that got killed. if that makes sense.

lol it's not exactly the first thing you notice either

On top of that, a lot of people in the games industry have been trying to address the misogyny and discrimination that drives away female designers and developers.

speaking of that, there's way worse sexism in Dead Island than this thing

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So this move was especially badly timed and out of touch. It has struck a serious nerve.

www.eurogamer.net/articl...

see, THAT pissed me off to no end

It's basically rubbing the fact that the industry is totally male-dominated in the face of everyone who wants to change that.

The fact that this concept must have been okayed by a dozen people - almost certainly all male - and not one of them stopped to think that this shit is unacceptable.

very very probably