I just realized that Tekken has Ex-VF2 Devs, and now a Ex-DOA dev (Shimbori) is with them living very good. Tekken bringing most fighting game devs to the fold.
Yakuza & T8 comes out in two days. While i'm most very likely going to be on the newest Yakuza installment, enjoy Tekken 8 everyone. Be safe and have a blast on it, hope everyone gets success with it.
Not sure if I'll get Tekken 8 because the investment and involving myself with a new community is a huge journey. Playing and learning a new fighting game currently is a huge time sink vs years ago. Kinda regret and wished I learn Tekken around 2010-2015 instead of now so I winded up...
Yep. it was a multitude of reasons, but yeah here's some bits regarding DOA2HC and ancient posts I found to see if it checks out which does I believe:
https://www.siliconera.com/tomonobu-itagaki-reveals-how-dead-or-alive-2-was-released-unfinished/
Basically this pretty much confirms that...
Like mentioned before, it was briefly mentioned by Itagaki that technically they "could" of added more for that version (potentially could of fixed bugs and many more other issues) because the PS2 was in fact a better hardware than the Dreamcast was, but they specifically chose not to give too...
Ironically, DOA2HC is also the complete edition that Itagaki envision according to his FB many years back because it was based off the JP update of DOA2 (?), when the guy was active on FB he also mentioned that they could of technically added more into DOA2HC but was unable due to time...