Free Step Dodge

Aside from of course break holds costing 2 meters instead of one, it was a lot of fun, the biggest issue was the odd amount of input lag but we know that's not present in the retail version. Once I have a better connection it'll be pretty seamless when the game launches I think. There will be plenty of high ranks running around so I doubt it'll be a problem.

I swear for this game, I'm going to get a PS4 this year. We weren't able to have those Akira mirrors I always wanted to have in 5, but it'll still be nice to play such a longstanding friend.

@Zeo I know man ahaha. I remember the good ol days of you, me, Galen, Sly, and Ghosty-J. Lots of Akira talks and moments, those days were epic and fun. It's always great hearing from you Zeo, good to see you are still around bud. Demo gets pretty hectic and super close matches playing with Bladez and Emann up on the rank up there, though game gets harder to find people so lobby for 6 might be the way to go probably.

@Zeo If you ever get a moderate PC and get DOA5LR on a super cheap sale, let me know whenever for fun games yoo.

Yeah, I mostly took the time to lab up and check my curiosity on things. I miss the last day though as I decided to hang with some fam. Saw no point in going ham as, well, it's a demo. I am more interested in fighting better players tbf

Hearing you playing Emann and BladeZ, my jealousy knows no bounds. Everyone in the 360 crowd just up and moved to PS4. I guess it made sense since that was the tourney platform but it was pretty jarring to come back all these years when my nephew got an XB1 and just see this barren wasteland called online. People will be on XB1 when 6 comes out, but all the heavy hitters will be on PS4. I'll be there, at some point.

It was fun playing again, but things are going to be busy and I'm probably not going to be able to get the game immediately, so I'm going to disappear again. This is actually a very busy time for me IRL. But I'll be back this time, and it won't take 3 years.

Yeah break holds taking 100 percent feels like an experiment and not final to me. Just feels off.

It was worse than I was expecting it to be.

Brute and Lopedo should advocate how bad 6 is and get TOs to support 5 in tournaments still. I can see this legit happening. 5 was the pinnacle and they take a step back. I can see this being an issue for the DoA5 players but it seems to be more so with the 4 crowd? If SFV for example had more of 4's elements

Everyone would be happy. I think SF is the only series people want to see stay the same forever but it does the opposite lol No game does but there always seems to be defining traits of a series left over in new installments. With SFV, it's hard to find the identity. No matter the DOA, you have the triangle system.

went into it thinking i was gonna hate all the new stuff, but in practice i ended up enjoying it alot more than i thought i would. meter was not the end all be all I thought it would be, i just had to let my 2D fighting game sensibilities take over and alter my approach when my opponent had meter stocked. The lack of SE still kinda bugs me, but having SE when stun is this low would be even more ridiculous

love and hate the lack of force techs in this game (it does exist in some form with double 1p/2p when they're feet away head towards but with tech ups being so fast it hardly seems worth it), on one hand the knockdown force tech vortex from 5 and 4 is mostly gone but on the flipside there's little to worry about when you're knocked down so yeah, feel like that needs to be addressed

but overall im am sooooooooooo ready to move on from 5 and into this game, friday can't get here quick enough

I thought I'd hate the meter too but tbh DoA handles it very well, as they did with PBs and PLs last time. It doesn't make or break the game for me. Think people whom have 2D knowledge can appreciate the idea behind the extensions with meter but maan, do some stages get ridic with it lol