What exactly is DOA? All I know about it is that its got a volleyball game
Best summary I can give: 3D-movement fighting game, very much based around having three heights of attack, and a few ways you can guard moves based on their height, as well as react to your opponent’s guard.
It’s mostly known for sexualized characters, some of which are visually on the “younger” side, and a very complex, DLC-driven, gacha-based method of unlocking other costumes for its roster. It shares a universe with the Ninja Gaiden games, so a few of those characters like Ryu Hayabusa appear as more than just cameos.
This thumbnail tells you everything you need to know about DOA:

I never thought I’d see the return of Booba Physics Fighter but here we are.
Accurate thumbnail choice for the series.
I’m imagining getting a headshot of Kasumi, upon which she indignantly says “Hey! My breasts are down here.”
Yup, came here to say it’s clear this is all about those breasts. Amazing it flies in today’s world
It’s Japan, they dont really care about things like these. Just look at all their anime, games and doujin market.
At this point, it’s closer to a tradition than anything. Its more of an eye roll thing at this point. Real fighting game fans don’t play this.
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Why do you think it’s amazing? There’s an entire genre of adult games available that were never possible before. How would dead or alive, a twenty year long franchise, suddenly be crossing the line?
Its a mainstream game series. Tentacle-rape-simulator-sengoku-jidai-7 doesn’t get a lot of flak because its not on the shelves and its got an audience of about 50. There was plenty of fighting about them when they had their turn in the spotlight, and im pretty sure a lot of them got delisted on a lot of sites thanks to the “think of the children” crowd.
This series has never had a problem though. Saying it s amazing it’s made today is ridiculous, when the games have always been fine.
There’s lots of things that we never had a problem with before that we have a problem with now. Blackface on TV for instance.
Not sticking my hand in this hornets nest and saying pros and cons for any of this stuff, just trying to explain why the other guy is surprised.
I just find it weird to be honest. Same with marvel rivals. All their character designs and especially paid costumes are clearly just made to show as much skin as possible. And that for a game that is aimed for kids. I don’t think children, young adults or adults need to be sheltered from nudeness. But it’s just to make money and for people to play their mediocre game. Same with the doa games. No one on the planet ever thought about playing their shitty games if it weren’t for the boobs.
They’re just filling a niche and it seems to work for them ¯_(ツ)_/¯
With the world slowly regressing over the last few years due to pushback from people who opposed society becoming more tolerant, it actually isn’t that surprising.
I don’t know. I think adults should have their place. I remember festivals where adult shit went on. Every big event kept getting more family friendly. And ruined the fun of getting drunk, smoking pot and seeing boobs. But then they decided every fucking event had to be family friendly and they brought cops in to enforce it. Then it wasn’t long before the event just stopped happening because nobody wanted the Disney version of fun adult events. It’s really not fair to take away the rights of adults to have adult fun. That being said, this thirsty bullshit isn’t for me. Like, it’s just sad and kinda pathetic to me, but let adults have silly adult fun as ridiculous as it is. I don’t think DOA is really adding to rape culture or anything.
Regardless of the fan service, the core fighting mechanics are pretty solid.
Not until they show the physics updates…
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I wonder how much DLC this one will have?
They can hardly top themselves, they already did infinity.
Remember when they made people pay for changing a character’s hair colour? No, not even unlocking individual colours, but actually paying every time you change it, even to a colour you had previously?
TBH, paying for every RGB combination would have been a bit funnier, as the ridiculous next step of paying for retextures.
Letting people pay for every change is just too lazy and uninspired…
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Every character is a DCL. The base game will be like $70. /s
$100 for the Swimsuit edition DLC
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DOA is an amazing fighting series! My college buddies and I spent more than 1000 hours playing DOA 2! Random vs Random on Random stage! 😁
I highly recommend trying this!
Sweet. Favorite fighting game back on the OG Xbox. The only fighting game that I felt good button mashing
No good fighting game should make it feel good to button mash. A good fighting game would discourage than in favor of actually making the player need to learn how to play.
It’s got to serve both masters. It should be fun when you don’t know what you’re doing, that person should always lose to someone who does know what they’re doing, and becoming the person who knows what they’re doing should be fun, too. When you don’t know what you’re doing in DOA, you’re still kicking people off rooftops and down the steps of the Great Wall of China.
Right, I’m sick of infinite combos. I can’t remember a 80 button press combo, and even if I could, I can’t get the timing down.
That’s neither here nor there, and it’s not much of a problem in the genre either.
You’ve never played the recent mortal Kombat games, have you?
I have, and the last Mortal Kombat that had a problem with infinite combos was 15 years ago.
They should strive for both. In the one I got hooked on (3 cant remember) there was a super-easy to learn counter button. Serious players can counter-counter-their-fakeout-counter but newbies can just mash away and its fun for all.
DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.
A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher







