Dead or Alive 5 Announced for 2012! PS3 and Xbox

I've heard either reinstalling or restarting your system after install fixes that.

 

Been playing as Sarah.

Pai and Sarah have the fastest stepping in the game apparently. If you slide the inputs between 4 and 1 like 414141 they will backdash away really quickly while guarding. For the rest of the cast doing 44 then repeated QCB's seems like the fastest option.

Is it me or is the throw system pretty silly? Untechable throws can either be 7, 10 or 12 frames so fuzzy guard won't be very effective against them. They have more range on this game than in any other fighter I've ever played. They go like half of the screen. Seems like any disadvantage is just 50/50 between attack or untechable throw. They also seem to be the best punishers?

Edit : Played a bit online. Played about 25 games, about 3 of them were bad. Everything else seemed fine. The most lag is on the character select screen apparently : /.

 

PS3 is the lead console for this game, so there won't be anything better on the 360 version other than the amount of people online.

 

It can be the lead console and still not be as good as other versions. Not sure what your point is. The 360 version doesn't stutter like the PS3 version, been playing both since Monday.

 

Install the game that's my point

 

Link to the streamed launch party tournament.

twitch.tv/iplfighters

Soo refreshing to see high level play.

 

After spending more time with it, shedding the bias, and using tech(thanks DOAWorld!) i can say, saying this game is VF Lite for over the years was a dumb error. If you had to make the comparisons, just had to, the game is closer to Tekken than VF. I know it's, it's own game and I'm glad that what the series is know, gameplay wise has been toned down, but I'm not sure I'll playing it past shits-n-giggles. It's cool and the matches probably won't take as long as TTT2, but yeah....

GT, how did you unlock Pai?

 

You unlock Pai by getting 100 titles.

 

So after spending some time with Pai I've noticed that in this game you don't seem to really get a bunch of frame advantage on hit. Also 2P really isn't quite as great either, you don't really get any meaningful frame adv on hit, it looks like none to me on normal hit, you're just even.

Right now I've basically broken this game's movelist into two categories. There are the moves you use outside of critical stuns, and then there are moves you use in critical stuns. It seems like during those stuns is the only time you have meaningful enough frame advantage to do any bigger moves. It's almost as if they decided to make frame advantage easier to figure out by adding the stun system instead of VF style hidden frame advantage stuff.

Getting good at these stuns will work wonders for my stagger recovery in VF, at least that's one good thing this game will do for me.

 

2P stuns for a bit on CH. The frame data is odd though. A Basic P from Sarah grants less frame advantage on CH than it does on Guard. It's like +1 on Guard, 0 on NH, 0 on CH.

What's funny to me is Sarah range specific advantage on 4K is in DOA : D. You can only get +5 though.

 

Thanks. Ill Just stick to messing with her in VF.

 

I thought I had made up my mind but reading everyone's reviews , I'm still on the fence.

Okay, Femto so DOA in your opinion is not a VF lite is that right? And you're saying if anything its closer to Tekken than it is to VF correct? But to be totally accurate you're suggesting that DOA is its own game right?

I have found SC to be deep in its own right (easy to play, takes real skill to master)
I have found Tekken to be deep in its own right (easy to play, takes real skill to master)

Would this apply also to DOA 5? Is there really a complete deep fighting system there? One that is not VF, Not Tekken, and Not SC? or is it a watered down combination of these games?

Although I have great respect for Tekken and its awesome players, IMO VF reigns in this genre of fighting game. After looking at lots of Youtube on DOA5 and reading some of these posts, I'm starting to wonder if DOA 5 is just a entry level fighting game, that might not be as deep as a Tekken or Soul Calibur.

From some of the videos I've seen it looks like there's an awful lot of floating going on. I thought I saw a few 10 to 15 hit combos

Maybe I should buy it, so my 3D fighting library will be complete

 

I can see how was all over the place and that's because Im really picky about my 3D fighters so when I was givin this a crack I was like "eww..." because of the supposed similarities to VF. The only time I played people that knew what they were doing was in DOA2U and at the time it felt like VF lite with no side-step.

Now that I'm wiser and not a complete dipshit, I see this game is nothing like VF except in G-Cancel, String Delays and button layout. I feel the sum of its parts are similarities to VF and Tekken and it's own thing like the Critical Hits, Holds and stage interaction. I hate to compare it to other games, and mentioned you should look at it as DOA, but in doing so you will see the similarities and whether that rubs you the good way, bad way or neither that's up to you to decide.

The Holds have been toned big time in this, which is a plus for the series!

 

i just ordered my copy of DOA 5 and I'm wanting to know what are your guys opinions on this game cause I'm wanting to know if I will be impressed with this game or not.

 

now that is a nice review right there. good stuff blackstar

 

Having spent only a day on it, I'm surprisingly flowing well with Akira and much less surprisingly with Hayate, but I definitely want to get a good momentum with Ayane. I think that with enough practise, she'll be my main in this one, as before in DOA2.

 

+1 on block but even on hit? It's pretty odd and nonsense.

 

unspoken/written points are the most unobvious points of all.

 

Is sidestepping effective in this game?