Open Question: Which is better? Tekken? or Dead or Alive?
May 12th, 2010
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Greetings all fighting game fans, fellow members and guests to the videogame society! :-)Tekken and DOA have long been in competetion with each other (Or more like DOA being in competetion with Tekken, while Namco seemed indifferent about the whole thing.) They are both very popular games. Tekken and Dead or Alive both have extremely great graphics, almost to the point of being realistic. My fellow fighting game fans, which of these fighting games are better? Tekken or DOA? Lets take all of these into consideration:
+ means pros
- means cons Tekken
+ Awesome graphics system
+Recently became availible for the PSP and XBOX 360 consoles as of Tekken 6
+ 40+ unique and somewhat well developed characters with long moves lists, individualized strengths and weaknesses, counters and movement.
+ A decent storyline... FOR A FIGHTING GAME??? LOL
+ Cool soundtrack
+Some cool (and funny) endings sequences
+ Insane customization options
+ Cool game modes (i.e. Devil Within, Tekken Force and Scenario Campaign.)
- The game is occassionally overlooked by players who perfer simpler fighting games (i.e. Street Fighter, KOF, MK, etc.)
- The characters are easy to use but extremely hard to master
- Small (but not significant) environmental background glitches
- Not noob friendly depending on difficulty
- Some ending were senseless and/or slightly confusing
- Death by Degrees didn't help the series Dead or Alive
+ Smooth, Incredible and Crisp graphics system, mainly on high quality + Lengthy and easy to use characters with smooth animation
+ Players can utilize the environment for their advantage, multi-tiered stages (You can knock other characters into different backgrounds or possibly different stages.)
+ Some vibrant character designs and customes
+ Decent counter system
+ Impressive soundtrack
- Famous moreso for the jiggle physics rather than the game itself. Boobs is not going to impress any real fighting game fan...
- Volleyball sequels does not help either - Weird/Slow storyline
- Some cutscenes and endings were... strange. (Two women fighting each other over lettuce? Mermaids? Lei Fang getting groped by older man? Come on, guys! There was like... three out of all endings that I could even tolerate.) - Many of the characters are bland or underdeveloped(in terms of personality.)
- Decievingly simplistic rock- paper- scissor esque gameplay (Counter, Throws and Attacks)
- Difficulty curves will get ridiculous. In fact the series just recently had a very bad SNK boss That's Tekken and DOA in a nutshell. Now having said that before your guys take your pick, I would to give warnings out to fans: Tekken fans:
= Don't use Devil Gene, Ogre or Jinpachi as an excuse. All of the characters on the series are CLEARLY able to combat against to type of characters and it had been proven in many endings, cutscenes and trailers. Also keep in mind that there are characters from the DOA series like Tengu and Omega which are equivalent to most of the boss characters from the Tekken series (in their own way.)
= Don't use strength, ouch factors and speed as an example. This isn't Dragon Ball Z.
= Don't compare Tekken girls with DOA girls. The fact is that the series both have attractive woman in their series. = Lastly, don't say that any of the characters from either series are weak or slow. ALL CHARACTERS FROM BOTH OF THE SERIES HAVE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES! IT'S A MATTER OF GAMEPLAY!!!! NOT THE CHARACTERS ABILITIES!! Tekken's gameplay is based on realistic and focused technical and aggresive gameplay. DOA's gameplay is based on fast-paced, hardcore and easy to learn gameplay. Now DOA fans:
= Don't use Ryu (The Ninja Gaiden character) as an excuse and say: "OMG u r wrong ryu destroys tekken cuz hez kewl..." or something like that. The truth is that Ryu is powerful ninja... period. But, he cannot face the entire Tekken cast alone. Many fans also overlook that there is always Yoshimistu (The wierd ass samurai and ninja robot...) and Raven who are virtually equivalent to Ryu. Yoshimitsu is capable of pulling the same tricks as Ryu (See his Tekken 4, 5 and 6 endings.) and Raven is no different. = Fighitng games fans shouldn't give a care about how big a womans boobs are... It's not going to make any difference in fighting ability
= Try to pretend that the volleyball series doesn't even exist
= A handful of characters are capable of using chi and invisibility... But, so are a handful of Tekken characters. Once again... This is not Dragon Ball Z.
= Again DOA fans... same goes for Tekken fans. All of the characters from BOTH of the series have their own strengths and weaknesses. DOA characters are NOT faster than Tekken characters. The gameplay is faster but not specically the characters. It's a matter of gameplay differences. Hell, for all I know Tekken and DOA are evenly matched according to several in-game data and
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