DOA: Your Favorite Scenes

[Awesmic]

Oh, my. Where to begin? This could take an essay or two, so I'll just go by the earliest point of my life where I actually played a DOA game.

1) I recall a DOA moment where when I first played it at this big-screen arcade at Boomer's located in Florida. It was sometime after I got sick of getting my ass kicked by my sister in Sonic the Fighters (salt was strong back in those days). I checked out this game and thought to myself, "Did they just smex up Virtua Fighter 2?" Curiosity took its grip on me and I readied my tokens. The first character I played is very hard to believe coming from me... it was Gen Fu.

2) Another DOA moment I recall is when I went through financial hoops to buy an import Saturn to get Vampire Savior and eventually DOA a few weeks later after selling Tekken 3 within 30 days. It was then established in my mind that DOA would be my 3D fighter of choice.

3) I recall watching a preview of DOA2 for the Dreamcast and rubbing my eyes in disbelief about how incredible the game looked. You never forget those first impressions back in the day...

4) Actual in-game cinematics and full voice acting in a 3D fighting game? Destructive, interactive environments? Rich, colorful backgrounds? First time I noticed this in DOA2, I was like, "Team Ninja, if you keep this up, you're gonna be on top of the world."

5) Meeting Christie for the first time in DOA3. 'Nuff said.

6) Ayane's ending in DOA3. 'Nuff said.

7) DOAX's announcement. Part of me wanted to say "WTF" for being a standalone game, but deep down I knew I always wanted to see Christie play volleyball and take part in an Animal Crossing-type environment.

8) DOA2 Ultimate's announcement. I literally did not see this coming. I thought the games couldn't get any more gorgeous, and Team Ninja proves me wrong yet again.

9) Visiting DOAC for the first time. It was... not the most graceful of times.

10) Winning an Xbox 360 drinking 6 bottles of Mountain Dew before launch, then proceeding to pay DOA4 in full to keep up with the rest of the community I was since aware of.

Yeah, I'll finish this tomorrow. I got more DOA moments than I can count.

 

[David Gregg]

Keep up the stories Awesmic! I especially enjoyed the babysitter one. She sounded like a hottie.

 

[AkaShocka]

lol but Lisa didn't die?!? I thought it was one of those "we led you to believe [insert character name] has died but they miraculously managed to escape and survive" kind of thing.

Lisa can't die!! We all know she used her La Mariposa skills to get out. And just to say, in DOA6 I bet Ryu saved her ass, because we all know what he wants and I don't blame him. If you are going to be a badass ninja you might as well bang these bitches. Am I wrong? xD. Besides, Lisa has a pretty solid story in the storyline, because of project epsilon thing and her relationship with Tina. P.S my favorite scene was Tina's DOA4 ending and Lisa's.

 

[David Gregg]

lol I'm not worried that she's going anywhere either and yes that Ryu...he is the ladies' man.

 

[Rawbietussin]

Lisa's an independent black woman that doesn't need a man by her side.

 

[KingGhidorah]

I take that you're glad to see the old fart go?

Very glad.

 

[Rawbietussin]

Very glad.

What did he do to you? o_o

 

[KingGhidorah]

What did he do to you? o_o

He is frustrating to deal with, I've been through hell against him. His stuns, annoying. His deceptively fast hits (Which are apparently only going to be increased in speed)

 

[Rawbietussin]

He is frustrating to deal with, I've been through hell against him. His stuns, annoying. His deceptively fast hits (Which are apparently only going to be increased in speed)

But aren't there always ways to get around it?

 

[KingGhidorah]

But aren't there always ways to get around it?

Maybe for others, but for me, no. It's like some fucked up curse or something. Almost as if the game takes my DOA4 days of maining Eliot into account thus automatically turning me into his chew toy by default.

 

[SilverForte]

33 minutes

 

[Rawbietussin]

Maybe for others, but for me, no. It's like some fucked up curse or something. Almost as if the game takes my DOA4 days of maining Eliot into account thus automatically turning me into his chew toy by default.

Well... I know that the AI and playing a person using him is different but I like to study moves the he can dish out at me first by playing against him in training and learn how to block, hold and crush.

 

[KingGhidorah]

Well... I know that the AI and playing a person using him is different but I like to study moves the he can dish out at me first by playing against him in training and learn how to block, hold and crush.

It wasn't the A.I. that made me not like the guy, good players did. However, I will say this; I prefer him over Pai any day.

 

[Ael]

Favorite scenes in DOA: Ayane and Hitomi's DOA3 endings. Pretty much the only endings that I can watch over and over again. I enjoy most DOA openings also, but these two are just special. The transition from being a young female into adulthood is truly etched into them, making me enjoy the emotions they brought out. Plus, the music was killer also.

 

[Matt Ponton]

33 minutes

That scene insults my every bit of doa fandom, and not just because of Hayabusa.

To me, DOA3's ending, one of which Ayane kills genra was a way of telling her right of passage. That she alone took on Genra, defeating Hayate, and realizing killing Kasumi just shouldn't be a primary goal. She grew up after that ending.

Then DOAD comes along and says, "Oh, no, she had to do it with Hayate's help, and you know what? Both of them still couldn't get the job done. They ONLY could defeat him with Hayabusa's help, because he is the super ninja after all."

 

[SilverForte]

I'm a ryu fan so I'm a bit biased, but I see your point.

 

[Rawbietussin]

That also had likely manifested in DOA5's story. If Ryu didn't shoot out fireballs to make the Kasumi clone susceptible from Hayate and Ayane's attacks as she was backflipping, she could have taken both of them down.

 

[Brute]

Ryu's always been weird in DOA. He's canonically so OP I don't see how DOATEC survived past the first game...

 

[SilverForte]

Ryu's always been weird in DOA. He's canonically so OP I don't see how DOATEC survived past the first game...

Obviously because he considers it the mugen tenshin's problem and only helps them out a bit because of his friendship with hayate and the promise he made. Doatec isn't on the same level of Archfiends or Dragon gods taking over the planet.

 

[Rawbietussin]

Ryu's always been weird in DOA. He's canonically so OP I don't see how DOATEC survived past the first game...

Not to mention everyone else who is not a ninja surviving to begin with.