Before I got into KoF earlier this year, I was really hyped about DOA5. I know that DoA will most likely never be serious, but the games have always been fun when you get into them. People think it's all boobs and fanservice, and to be fair that it was. I like the style they are heading towards with DOA5, I hope the gameplay is good to go along with it.
You never know... DOA3 by far was the most serious of them all, but the thing that held it back imo was the usual stigma of DOA (TnA, counter mash fest, etc.) as well as the game not being on PS2, which was the most popular vs Xbox. Even though the first Xbox did pretty good in the states, it took a long time before it was viewed as a good console for fighters, and DOA3 came out mad earlier than say the xbox ports of CvS2, KOFs (NeoWave as well), Samsho5, SvC (oh yeah!!)...
DOA4 could've been serious if Team Ninja didn't try to dumb the game down... Sure, it was at EVO, but once people started playing the game, the stigmas came back with a vengeance... Alot of people were expecting DOA3 style play as well, after hearing how solid it was, only to be given something way less... On top of that, whatever DOA3-like properties that was in 4.0 was removed in the 4.1 patch... Plus the stages got flatter imo...
Hopefully this game can get a solid audience and the attention it deserves... Team Ninja is taking this game in the right direction, and they're actually using top DOA players to help facilitate that movement...
