How did you find your main character?

GodlyHades

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I lose my flame from time to time, but each time it comes back it shines a little brighter. I'll always main Ryu through thick and thin. Now in DAO5U i'm ready to join you with Ein, first time I saw him I knew he would be an epic character. My first secondary. I can't wait.
 

Rawbietussin

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Slightly off topic but I'll never forget that DOA 2 demo vid for the dreamcast. I was too young to appreciate how epic it was (since I never bought DOA2) but I'll never forget that one scene where Kasumi-Alpha laughs and Kasumi calls her a swindler. I had no idea what was going on but that scene always fascinated me. I then ironically bought a used DOA1 game for my PS2 probably like a year later and it never occurred to me that I should get DOA 2 (I was mostly consumed with Pokemon and Power Stone at that point).

Power Stone was great, especially Power Stone 2.
 

PureYeti

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Back in DOA 2 hardcore, I didn't know who I want to play against my friend so I mess around with Ayane and Helena. Later on I finally owned DOA 3, Lei-Fang and Tina was my next choice after reading wikis. I looked up cheat codes for any unlockable characters and saw Ein. After unlocking him, Ein interest me with his matrix trenchcoat, fighting style, personality, and history. He had to be my main for now on.

I planned ahead to pick another main just in case Ein won't appear anymore because of story. I chose Hitomi because she trained with him and Akira because he was the Ryu character. In the end, DOA is a great series so I want to play with all characters
 

Brute

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*DOA Revelations*
Oh...my...gosh.. I think your right...
idk I rather ppl tell me what they believe my strongest character is...its too hard.. I'm so indecisive
I kinda recall it being Ayane, but don't quote me on that.

More study is needed.
 

peachyO

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i'm a doa newcomer; 5 is my first. bought it on a whim because SCV disappointed me, Tekken and SF are just casual games for me, and MK had already been left behind by NRS for Injustice, so i knew there would be no new updates for it. i expected to play a few days and get bored, but doa5 has enslaved me. more specifically, bass made me his bitch and won't turn me loose. he picked me, i didn't pick him. i love him. i relate to him. those hi counter throws, those air grabs, that pick-up...that incredible power!!! just my type!! plus, he's a man's man, not an emo pretty boy, not an arrogant ninja, not a bitchy hothead with a bruce lee fetish. biker/offshore oil rigger/pro wrestler...how much more manly can you get?! i will NEVER drop him!!

bass has generously shared me with two secondaries...bayman and gen fu. both rough, rugged, manly men with plenty of power and styles that suit my tastes beautifully. he also let christie into the club, and promised to let me experiment with leon and rachel soon. but bass is my #1 and will remain so no matter what!!
 

Forlorn Penguin

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Sigh. This thread depresses me.

I didn't originally start playing DOA4 until sometime very early in 2010 (I had actually played it briefly back in 2006, but I was just mashing back then). I started out with Hitomi, I think. I honestly don't remember why I picked her, or if I even felt like I clicked with her. After a few months, I had unlocked every character and was mildly curious with the final one to be unlocked; some dude called "Tengu".

Initially, I didn't really give him much of a go. He looked interesting and I wasted so much time fighting the AI to get him, so I figured I'd try him out. Why not, right? Well, he sucked. Like, he really, really sucked. I didn't spend much time with him before returning to the other characters and not looking back. I picked him every once in a long while, just for shits and giggles. I wouldn't do very well with him and I'd immediately switch off of him for the next match.

After several more months, I found myself bored with my characters one day. I felt like mixing things up, just for a little while. My brother suggested that I pick Tengu, specifically because he sucked and it would be funny if I actually played him for awhile. I thought it would be interesting, so I actually did. I picked Tengu and spent a few days playing only him. I never really intended to go very far with him. I was just fucking around for a change of pace. The more I played him though, the more I started to fall into his groove. He began to flow more naturally to me and he just felt... right, and after a short while, it became obvious that he was my main.

Since then, I came to absolutely love the character. Everything about him. It felt good playing him too because no one else did, so I got to feel unique doing it. I loved all the hate mail too. Tengu is my guy and I will always main him, whenever possible.

Then came DOA5...
 

Brute

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That's similar to my experience with Tengu, except that I didn't wind up maining him. My brother and I always thought he was a giant dumbass in 2 & 4, and I only really started to look at him in 4. SURPRISE! He was the shittiest character in the game, bar none. When I discovered this, coupled with his general weirdness, I found the ultimate troll in DOA.

You are missed, Tengu.
 

Keved

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It was a pleasant Friday evening, the weekend was looming & I had a few mates over to have a few drinks with & to just muck around like young people do on Friday evenings. Indoor soccer was on the cards along with who could shoot their M&M's the furthest distance by sticking them up our noses & blowing them out. That is until one of my mates "Big Steve-O" had other ideas. He was the last one in the house as he gleefully carried a mysterious box (perfect sized to fit a console in) from the boot of his car. "What contents consist within this peculiar box of wonderment" i ushered to myself. Meanwhile inside the house, beers were freezing in the fridge & M&Ms were placed out of their packets, readied for our nostrils. Big Steve-O marches in like a boss, I eye the peculiar box cradled in his arms. Within the box was an Xbox console with a copy of Dead or Alive 3. We know & love our Tekken's & Street Fighters but this game was new to us. We gathered around the new Xbox console like startled children wanting an early peak in their Xmas stockings.

"What game is this!!! Looks awesome" as we all hover around the game cover like hyenas to a fresh carcass.

Big Steve-O says "Mate, you ain't seen a fighting game like this before, this is next gen fighting entertainment fellas, mark my foaming words"

These words from the big mans gob had us ripping the black beast out of it's box, plugging it in & firing up DOA3 for the first time ever. We huddle around the T.V, wide-eyed with excitement. The green Xbox logo blazes across the screen letting us know that we plugged it in correctly. Aerosmith's Nine Lives smash out at the menu screen, we're in our zone!!

Paper, scissors, rock decides who plays first against Big Steve-O.

John shakes his mitt *scissors*

I shake my mitt *rock*

I win, John is out. It's now between me & Marco who get's first go

Marco shakes mitt *rock*

I shake my mitt *paper*

Boo Yah!!!! First fight is between me & Steve-O!

Character select screen blazes across the screen as my blood shot sunken eyes are met with a dozen of attractive character faces.

"Pick the lass with the white hair!!" yells Marco as he shoots back a Wild Turkey like it was water

"Go with the purple haired girl, she looks bad ass" said a distant noise mumbling in the background which happened to be John *still hurting over not being the first to play the game*

I ignore the character pleas & butt-sore moans & pick Jann "WATAHH" Lee.

"Why did you pick him? You're gonna lose bro!!" says Big Steve-O brimming with confidence as he highlights Tina Armstrong

The first-to-three win count battle commences

Big Steve-O gets first point after Tina grapples Jann's beaten body into submission

Big Steve 1 Keved 0

"I told you to pick the purple headed girl bro" replied John, nearly spilling his beer in excitement

Round 2 & Big Steve-O leads again crushing Jann Lee's head like rotten fruit with a Tina elbow drop

Big Steve 2 Keved 0

"What did i say!? What did i say!? Did i not say you should have chosen Christie at first" replied a half sober Marco

Round 3 kicks off & the dragon within Jann Lee awakens, i win a tight round with a finishing counter which sees Jann Lee twist is foot on Tina's broken face

"DAYUM!!!!!! that was brutal!!" replies Marco

Big Steve 2 Keved 1

Round 4 kicks off & Jann Lee wins this bout without hardly breaking a sweat, finishing the fight by slapping Tina against an electrified fence

"**** OFF! did he just slap her against an electric fence?" replay starts "Shite!! He DID just slap her against an electric fence!!"

Big Steve 2 Keved 2

The make or break game gets under way & is full of hesitant back dashing. Jann Lee goes in for the kill with his epic distance shattering dragon fist sending Tina across the screen span & into the electric fence.

ROAR's of victory erupt in the lounge room as the fight is won 3-2 thanks to my Jann Lee selecton. This was an epic battle & the beginning of a special fighting game that will live long in our memories.

It was this moment & this victory alone where i thought to myself "Jann Lee...... this is the guy, this is the guy that will be my main"
 

Juan The Man

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Do I'm playing foa for the first time n I decide to play arcade mode n in lookin at the characters n I see it this one cha racter who had the same bday as me n I'm he looks cool plus ninjas are bad ass...turns out he was a super ninja and one of the greatest charecters of all time....n I've never even came close to learning anyone else
 

Awesmic

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OK, the R-Rated version:

I remembered the good ol' days of my childhood in late 1991. Back then - apart from that thing called school - Saturday morning cartoons, the Disney Afternoon, and the non-stop talks about Sega giving Nintendo a run for its money ruled my life. Things couldn't get any fucking better, right? Wrong. One day, my mother found a better paying job, and it occured to us we needed a babysitter to watch over me and my little sister. She was an exquisite, majestic being... short hair, curvy (like fucking bangin, yo), high school senior, and quite the grease monkey. It could be safe to say she was my first crush, the first person to make me appreciate motorsports and biker chicks, and the one to give me my first boner. And wouldn't you know it, her name was Christie.

Every other day on the weekday after school she'd keep me on top of my shit... chores, school work, you name it. But unlike my mother, she would allow me to get my Disney Afternoon fix WHILE I do my homework, which was fucking genius. My mother always taught me that was impossible to do, but Christie opened my eyes. I always felt smarter after watching Darkwing Duck anyway. But the real fun part of the day was after we finished all that stuff. By the time we were finished, it was game shows back-to-back: Nick Arcade, Double Dare, Video Power, it didn't fuckin' matter, we had a fuckin' blast. And all the while I had tendencies to cuddle with her in my mind, or maybe have sex with her (which I had no clue what it meant back in the day, I only saw Cool World and my parents made me believe that was it, lol)... but I never made it too obvious.

For over a year, she watched over me and my sister, and when our grades went up, so did our gaming library. She was a godsend to me. My ideal woman. If I were to ever get married, I would want one just like her. Who'd have thought exactly 10 fucking years later, I'd come pretty close, but not in a way I was expecting?
November 2001. Fresh from some sneak peeks of Dead or Alive 3 in previous magazine issues, I was already an avid fan and preordered it and an Xbox on blind faith. I literally had no fucking clue what I was getting into, nor how good the game was going to be (or whether it was gonna be a big piece of fucking shit like a previous E3 private showing implied). When I booted the game up, I was literally put in awe about just how un-fucking-believable the visuals were.

Upon slightly getting over the spellbinding intro, I proceeded to play the story mode and try out the new characters. One of them was named Christie, and the immediate thought that came to my mind was my babysitter at childhood. Unable to resist my dirty urges, I played the character instinctively, not knowing shit about how the character plays or anything. She seemed fast, easy on the eyes, and easy to get into... well, maybe not in the literal sense. *ahem* Double entendres aside, I plowed my way through most of that story mode, but came across some weird shit when I had to fight the last boss in an admittingly uncomfortable angle... like, what the actual fuck was Team Ninja on when they decided to progrram this fucking fight on this piece-of-fucking-shit angle? Blue-and-yellow purple pills? Obviously so, 'cause they let Ayane officially win that fucking tournament... fucking big-boobed, purple-haired ass ninja succubus! I wanted Christie to win, dammit.

Even though she didn't win, it turned out that I was winning in the end. As I delivered the final blow to Genra, aka Omega in the final battle to decide the fate of the world, there was an image that would forever etch to my memories for all time... the shapely fucking buck-ass naked derriere of Christie while taking a hot fucking shower after a hard day's work as an assassin. And as they say, you can't be a good assassin without having twice the ass. It was that moment that I knew Christie was the one for me... the main I wanna bang. The DOA character I always wanted to play. No DOA girl in recent memory has ever made my dick rock-hard as she did with that particular ending. It was like she was the reincarnation of my first crush given form as a video game character. My mind and my balls were just blown from the thought. The rest was history.
 

KingGhidorah

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OK, the R-Rated version:

I remembered the good ol' days of my childhood in late 1991. Back then - apart from that thing called school - Saturday morning cartoons, the Disney Afternoon, and the non-stop talks about Sega giving Nintendo a run for its money ruled my life. Things couldn't get any fucking better, right? Wrong. One day, my mother found a better paying job, and it occured to us we needed a babysitter to watch over me and my little sister. She was an exquisite, majestic being... short hair, curvy (like fucking bangin, yo), high school senior, and quite the grease monkey. It could be safe to say she was my first crush, the first person to make me appreciate motorsports and biker chicks, and the one to give me my first boner. And wouldn't you know it, her name was Christie.

Every other day on the weekday after school she'd keep me on top of my shit... chores, school work, you name it. But unlike my mother, she would allow me to get my Disney Afternoon fix WHILE I do my homework, which was fucking genius. My mother always taught me that was impossible to do, but Christie opened my eyes. I always felt smarter after watching Darkwing Duck anyway. But the real fun part of the day was after we finished all that stuff. By the time we were finished, it was game shows back-to-back: Nick Arcade, Double Dare, Video Power, it didn't fuckin' matter, we had a fuckin' blast. And all the while I had tendencies to cuddle with her in my mind, or maybe have sex with her (which I had no clue what it meant back in the day, I only saw Cool World and my parents made me believe that was it, lol)... but I never made it too obvious.

For over a year, she watched over me and my sister, and when our grades went up, so did our gaming library. She was a godsend to me. My ideal woman. If I were to ever get married, I would want one just like her. Who'd have thought exactly 10 fucking years later, I'd come pretty close, but not in a way I was expecting?
November 2001. Fresh from some sneak peeks of Dead or Alive 3 in previous magazine issues, I was already an avid fan and preordered it and an Xbox on blind faith. I literally had no fucking clue what I was getting into, nor how good the game was going to be (or whether it was gonna be a big piece of fucking shit like a previous E3 private showing implied). When I booted the game up, I was literally put in awe about just how un-fucking-believable the visuals were.

Upon slightly getting over the spellbinding intro, I proceeded to play the story mode and try out the new characters. One of them was named Christie, and the immediate thought that came to my mind was my babysitter at childhood. Unable to resist my dirty urges, I played the character instinctively, not knowing shit about how the character plays or anything. She seemed fast, easy on the eyes, and easy to get into... well, maybe not in the literal sense. *ahem* Double entendres aside, I plowed my way through most of that story mode, but came across some weird shit when I had to fight the last boss in an admittingly uncomfortable angle... like, what the actual fuck was Team Ninja on when they decided to progrram this fucking fight on this piece-of-fucking-shit angle? Blue-and-yellow purple pills? Obviously so, 'cause they let Ayane officially win that fucking tournament... fucking big-boobed, purple-haired ass ninja succubus! I wanted Christie to win, dammit.

Even though she didn't win, it turned out that I was winning in the end. As I delivered the final blow to Genra, aka Omega in the final battle to decide the fate of the world, there was an image that would forever etch to my memories for all time... the shapely fucking buck-ass naked derriere of Christie while taking a hot fucking shower after a hard day's work as an assassin. And as they say, you can't be a good assassin without having twice the ass. It was that moment that I knew Christie was the one for me... the main I wanna bang. The DOA character I always wanted to play. No DOA girl in recent memory has ever made my dick rock-hard as she did with that particular ending. It was like she was the reincarnation of my first crush given form as a video game character. My mind and my balls were just blown from the thought. The rest was history.

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EMPEROR_COW

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DOA1 arcade.. was always a VF player from the start.. loved Kage and Sarah .. but then I saw DOA1 and immediately Leifang caught my eye.. see I had this thing for Girls with short hair. and the fact that she was chinese but NOT a stereotype (black leather shorts n top) was something /i thought to be too damn awesome (unlike all the Pais and Chunli's at the time).. and that was it .. hooked since ..

Come home version of DOA1 (saturn) .. and my friend "Goro" picks Tina .. (in VF he played Wolf and Akira .. so there you go )

In DOA2 They introduced Helena .. and Leon ... Leifang was still my main. but I liked Helena simply for the fact that she was a partner for leifang in Tag Mode (which was what I loved playing the most as it was the "new" thing) ... Leon.. I simply liked because he was aggressive and had a turban .. n that just sold him for me.. lol .. but still Leifang was my main and She was cooler as ever .. and she rocked the Black shorts and ponytail ! (this is an important plot point)

DOA3 (the reason I got my Xbox)... again nothing much changed except that now all the characters I liked simply got cooler to use ... then I see Christie, Hitomi, and Hayate.. and I instantly liked them .. (Hitomi had that SFA Sakura .. similar to Ein as Sakura was to Ryu.. something I found pretty cool) .. and I liked Cristie for just being and evil chick ... something the game lacked before she came about. Again .. Hayate was cool cuz he was Ninja Ein! .. (Also "Goro" started messing with Hayabusa so kind of a new rivalry grew .. lol ) Leifang rocking the Black leather was still my main ... (plus the ending pig tails which was epic !)

DOA2U .. I didnt play much cuz well ... I felt like I was taking a step back from 3 despite its graphical superiority .. I played it .. but always went back to DOA3 ... I would have to say is what did change is that it made me appreciate playing multiple characters.... and it may have been the start of my selecting random all the time ..

What I didn't mention is that behind the scenes, I always had a thing for Ayane.. especially since I didnt have a PS2 and was only able to play DOA++ at Goro's place ... lets just say she was always there on the side .. something like a secret boss character in my arsenal of growing characters...

then DOA4 comes out ... and first thing I do is ... try and unlock everything Leifang ... and to my disappointment, she did not have her damn black leather shorts ... and the new characters didn't attract me much .. All this before I even discover the mechanical shit-fest the game has to offer ... I instinctively said .. fuck this game and moved on ... No shorts .. no play .. was simple as that ... (Yes, I had DOA3.1 and it just played way better so I wasn't impressed with 4 at all... not visually or technically) ...

A little after that I moved to the UK and started drifting away from DOA and got introduced to the competitive world of fighting ... and started rocking Dhalsim (of all characters) in SF4 .. Goro was missing in action in some other part of the world .. so my DOA rival also disappeared in a sense ...

then... the miracle happened ..

DOA5 alpha demo... it came at a time where SF4 was just becoming too shit and imbalanced ... (I'm looking at you Yun) ... and it had something to offer that was so new yet so nostalgic to me .. It was DOA3 on crack .. that was the best way I could describe it ... And my so called Secret character (Ayane) surfaced ... and I was instantly in love with the way she played ... In fact, I was so obsessed with the game and looking forward to it .. that I created the Alpha demo tutorial series .. because by now I had that competitive play part of me and I wanted people to see how great this game truly was ..

Then out of nowhere .. my friend Goro pops out of his incubation chamber and says hey .. I moved to London .. lets play some DOA5a .. LOL.... (for the record we had no contact for literally 7 years at least .. the whole age of DOA4 I suppose) ...

Because the alpha demo only had 4 characters, it gave me the chance to pick up and learn those 4 characters even better...

Then came the E3 version and it had Tina and Akira.. (Goro's VF secondary) .. and I got my Leifang to back up my Ayane... and I was insanely in love with her new clown costume look (despite hating that role in the story) .. again something fresh and non-stereotypical..

Then the Gamescom/GVN build comes and I get to play Sarah ... (side note, I had been training with her to the point of making her my main in VF5:FS .. Sorry Kage .. I truly miss you ma ninja bro.. ) So now both of us have our DOA5 mains and our VF secondaries ...

(I had the honor of being able to play those 2 versions of the game probably longer than anyone here .. thank you TN)

by then the news of Leon not making it in had become concrete and for some reason ... that made us both hate Bayman ... (in DOA3 we also had a Leon-Bayman rivalry going ...) .. I personally never minded Bayman in 3 or 4 ... but having him in 5 and not having Leon ... just made me look at him in disgust .. I kept thinking, "that Russian scumbag took the place of my homie Leon .. and yes I know hes italian .. be we always called him the Arab .. lol) .. so the campaign to bring him back evolved ...

you can imagine that with the growth of my character select screen with every build, I was pretty much playing everyone up until 5 was released and tournaments became serious ...

in DOA5 .. Leifang got her black leather shorts back ... and despite it being the worst version of the costume in my opinion (especially without the ponytail) .. I finally felt my character was complete! .. but for some reason .. I just didnt want to main her anymore .. for one reason only .. her FUCKING FACE seemed way too ugly compared to the other girls ... she was the only girl with sandbags under her eyes and when she did the "THIS IS REAL TAI CHI CHUAN" win pose, she fucking looked like a Lizard ... (yes a Lizard .. pop the game in and take a look for yourself). I was constantly messing around with other characters trying to find the character that fit me the most ... Sarah played nothing like her VF self despite having technically all her moves and tricks ... the stun game just wasnt clicking well with me cuz in VF my focus was on flamingo, where as in DOA its a weak point ( no low kick parry and no FL 4K jump status to crush lows) ... so I put Sarah on the side for now ... Then I started learning everyone else .. but, I always went back to Lei Fang ... and everyone who plays me always kept saying you just play her better than other characters (not that my other characters were bad... she was just on another level cuz she felt the most natural to me .. )

So now in my wait for 5U.. I managed to circle all the cast and I can confidently say that I can play any character now at a decent level ... with Leifang in her black leather shorts still being my main .. (damn I want that pony tail back) ...

in DOA5U I intend to rock Leon and Momiji ... first... before I learn the other 3 .. Will Lei Fang finally not be my main anymore.. I don't know... time will only tell ..

(Note to TN: I would kill for Kage and Wolf in DOA... make it happen ... better yet .. give us DOAxVF .. that way I can rock Eileen as well (my VF5 secondary) and Goro can rock Aoi (his secondary) .. ) .... one can only dream ...

And there you have it ..
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