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Tekken was boring and easy... never played DOA... mostly because the ridiculious character models feel like an insult to my intellegence... VF was lame.

2D fighters are still the best. I'd take KoF or Street Fighter over any of those any day. Of course most of my expierence is in the arcades. Arcades are the only real way to play fighting games.

Really i'm not a fan of the insane combo games though as they tend to lower strategy rather then improve it for anyone who is good enough to memorize the combos... vs other games where continued play lets on to your style and you have to adjust and change things up.



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Tekken by a long shot.

DoA is fun, but it's basically

Enemy Attacks > Counter

Over and over. You don't even have to be offensive to win.

In Tekken, you actually have to memorize combos, make up some, and learn to block moves that lead to your defeat depending on your health.



I'd say I'm sorta mixed on my opinion. I like that Dead or Alive 4 had a "story" and had the videos you unlocked after you beat it with each character, etc.

But I like the character design and the HUGE amount of options and characters Tekken offers.

As far as fighting...I like both.



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Tekken is far better IMO : it actually has a good story , the gameplay is faster and the combos are actually good . Also , at least the lower end fighters can challange the high-end ones , while that is impossible in DoA ( the game is much more ballanced ) .



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Dead or Alive appeal is definitely the bouncing of boobs and the sexiness of the characters, as well as the destructible environments. I forget about Tekken that is just a Virtua Fighter wannabe.



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Real hardcore fighting fans will pick Tekken over DOA. There's a better combo system, the fundamental gameplay is all there and there's a far better community. DOA is a decent game with better graphics than tekken (until T6 comes out), and it's more of a fan service. Tekken > DOA.



Tekken hands down offers much more than what Dead of Alive can, but I still love both.



                                     

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Eddie makes Tekken woth it
but boobs do come close



both are great fightin franchis but i will lean towards tekken



bbsin said:
Real hardcore fighting fans will pick Tekken over DOA.

Haha, you're kidding right, any REAL hardcore fighting fan would pick neither. Street Fighter 2, Street fighter 3: 3rd Strike, Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur before they would touch Tekken or DOA.

At the arcade, there's always one dude sitting there waiting for people to challenge him, and he will almost always picked Hwang, Eddie, Jin or Lei and they'll always win by spamming the same attacks. With DOA, it's the Ninja's. That tells you how balanced the games are (i.e they aren't) and that's why any competitive player of fighting games wouldn't pick those two games.

There's a better combo system, the fundamental gameplay is all there and there's a far better community.

Considering that Tekken hadn't gone online until the last installment, you can't say there's a far better community and be objective about it. Better combo system is also subjective, and it would be the "better" if you meant the ability to easily string combo's together but considering most tekken players spam 1 or 2 attacks, there's not much of a combo system (let alone a game mechanic to balance spamming).

DOA is a decent game with better graphics than tekken (until T6 comes out), and it's more of a fan service. Tekken > DOA.

Agree to that one, the "realistic jiggling engine" is a waste of time by tecmo and just shows how perverted the head of the design team is. Tekken is not much better though, considering how scantly clad all the female Tekken fighters are (I've always wondered how they fought in the attire they wear, I mean Nina in a ball gown....)


 Considering OP posted this on a Sony forum, I question the validity of this thread, what other response were you going to get?

 If I had to choose between the 2 I would say Tekken (but that'd be taking out the above mentioned fighters first), only because of sentimental value, the epic boss battles (as cheap as they can be at times) and because when 2 people fight without using the overly cheap characters, it's actually a decent game. I'm also think DOA fan services is way more over the top than Tekken's.