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Dead or Alive Creator Badmouths Tekken

Posted by Zonk on from the speaking-ill-of-the-newborn dept.

Dead or Alive creator and leader of Team Ninja Tomonobu Itagaki spoke with 1up.com about the DoA series, tournaments, and other fighting games. He had some very pointed things to say about Tekken 5. From the article: "First they put in all of these half-finished "features", then they take them right out again. Tag fights, elevation differences, walls. I don't know if it's because they're impatient, or because they lack the ability, but no matter the reason those guys are a pretty weird bunch. Any of those things would have become a bonafide feature if they took the time to do it right."

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  1. Right to talk by Apreche · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the creator of such a fantastic fighting game like DoA which boasts a bouncing boobometer as a game innovation has a right to talk about which fighting games are good and bad. Not that Tekken 5 is any masterpiece.
    Street Fighter 2 CE, Soul Calibur (any), Mortal Kombat II and maybe Virtua Fighter are still the defining games of the genre. All the other fighting games are just wanna-bes.

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    1. Re:Right to talk by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Are you on crack..lol? MK2 was the best one in the series....although that doesn't really say much. When they took the story into left field with 3 it just felt much cheezier to play it. All the ani/friend/baby -alities sucked too. Most people I know would play MK3 long enough to see all the *alities and then never play it again. c'mon man... but I guess everyone's entitled to their opinion. ;)

      MK4's gameplay was slow and clunky, but looked nice at the time. The new ones play a little better now, but there's too much going on to enjoy it. We don't need 3 different fighting styles for each character... why can't anyone "Keep It Simple Stupid?" in the gaming world anymore.

      While I'm here... the original Mortal Kombat Movie was kinda cool...but Annihilation blew complete ass ;)

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  2. I almost wish DOA *didn't* have the breasts... by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While that title might look shocking, wait just a few sentances :)

    I've always thought Dead or Alive's playing was far superiour to Tekken. In Tekken the only way to play well seems to be to memorise a fixed set of increasingly long combos, whereas dead of alive feels much more flexable (sure, you can still learn combos, but it feels much less like you are forced into a small fixed number of patterns.)

    While I do love the breasts and semi-nakedness of DoA, it makes it much harder to convince people that there is one of the best 3d 1-on-1 beat-em-ups under there as well :)

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  3. hypocrite by scottind · · Score: 2, Insightful
    DOA badmouths Tekken for putting out a crappy shiny new game. In the meantime, Teamninja recycles DOA2 into DOA Ultimate.

    You notice how Itagaki never says anything about the actual gameplay? you wonder why DOA is not taken as a serious fighting game in competition.

  4. Re:Uninteresting Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most of the people involved will be Americans, latency issues, and costumes. The last question involves Tekken and is present just to flatter the him.

    Hey, are you the guy who wrote my VCR instructions back in the 80s?