Why is Dead or Alive a bad fighting game?

Well it's much more balanced than SC4 since the button smashing is easily dealt with in DOA4 with counters.D00nut

[QUOTE="D00nut"]Well it's much more balanced than SC4 since the button smashing is easily dealt with in DOA4 with counters.Saturos3091

When there is a talk about fighting games and someone mentions DOA they get flamed. There are quite a few fellow DOA fans here but everywhere else I get eaten alive. The only reason I heard is that all the characters have 'weak personalities' (because we all know that Vitrual fighter's characters are so deep with their one-liners and story-less cut scenes) and the combos and few and too easy to pull off. But besides blind hatred can anyone give me detailed reasons why it's a weak fighter? :(Nerkcon

Honestly it doesn't give you the connection the characters have in other games.

Battle arena toshiden suffers from pretty much everything you just said :|

the sega game you're talking about is eternal champions which also suffers from everything you just said

and i always thought DOA 4 was pretty balanced (except for the boss battles)

st1ka

Hahaha, check it out!

Remember me asking about the guy with the Trident?

Guess what his name is?

Yep, Trident. Ah, the glory days of originality and creativity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Champions