DOA might not be that great, and my expectations of KT andTN couldn’t be any lower (for now), but I do have a little bit of hope left. DOA5 was more popular after they released 5U with more characters, core fighters and more content. I think releasing DOA6 core fighters right after releasing DOA6 was a big mistake. It made people feel like they bought the game for no reason when they could’ve gotten a free version. DOA6 is only doing “worse” now because
1: there’s this SJW vs the BonerCulture political fight going on over female characters getting “covered up”.
2: Shimbori completely fucking up the interviews and sending out mixed signals.
3: the core values situation, even though it gave 6 more publicity, it also made people look at the game like a joke. That moment on stream was hilarious, but very, and I mean very unprofessional.
4: releasing a seasonpass that’s almost twice the price of the base game with disappointing, drip feed content. The only thing that’s really worth buying the seasonpass for right now, is Mai and the other new character.
5: not being able to buy costumes separately if you live in the west and play on PC or PS4, you basically get forced buying costume packs with underwhelming costumes just to get the costume you want for a character.
6: removing tag. Tag has been in DOA games for a while and even though tag was broken in 5, it was fun.
7: Removing Momiji, Rachel and Akiraa. All 3 of them were very popular characters. Which brought in more fans. I hope to see all 3 of them return.
7: Delaying the game for 2 weeks and it still being an unfinished product with lacking costumes, a lot of bugs and other issues. I actually would’ve liked it if the colours were just filters you could slide through in the costume select instead of being separate costumes.
9: Promising lobbies ever since the second beta and not keeping their promise. The lobbies came out a month after the release. They promised for lobbies 3 times and now they released the lobbies, it’s still lacking a lot of stuff they’re adding through updates.
10: The gameplay. DOA6 was even made more easier and mash friendlier than it already was with the S button. The sidestep attack beats most of the characters moves, really limiting how people can approach others that (ab)use the sidestep attack.
11: last but not least, underwhelming story, and 2 boring newcomers. DOA isn’t known for its good storyline, but damn. 6’s story is honestly worse than the story of 5. The new comers also were underwhelming and just boring. Diego is really bland and boring and his gameplay doesn’t make up for it. He’s extremely boring to watch and brings nothing new or exciting to the table. Only thing good about him is that he’s hot. NiCO was a well thought out character, but her being another loli ruins the thought behind her. Even though NiCO has a stereotype anime personality, she does have a nice background story explaining why she is like that and why she did what she did in the story. NiCO is the perfect example of a character with a lot of potential, but poorly executed.
To me these are the reasons why DOA6 is doing worse than 5. I have hope for 6 but I don’t expect much until they released a ultimate version of 6.
