Whatever happened to cliffhangers?

[synce]

They kind of built this up as a big new feature of DOA5, but I think only 2 stages in the game even have a cliffhanger. Does anyone know the story there?

 

[TRI Mike]

It's a retarded mechanic. It should have been completely gone.

 

[Ghosty-J]

I know right? It's hilarious they had a ridiculous amount of hype surrounding cliffhangers and they're hardly existent in the game. Even funnier there's a title to unlock which required 100 cliffhanger attacks each for strikes and throws. If there were only to be 2 stages with this mechanic, then it may as well have been removed.

 

[miyodarius]

I love the cliffhangers, but I'm sick of those 2 stages already. If they don't add some kind of DLC for more cliffhanger stages, then they just wasted money in their budget making the animations.

 

[d3v]

Competitive community/FGC didn't like the mechanic, so they took out focus from it.

 

[Rikuto]

The power of feedback.

 

[Kronin]

It's sad, I really liked them
However I can understand the reasons for the competitive players.

 

[Rikuto]

Honestly its better this way. Every stage needs its own personality. Having a cliffhanger on only a couple stages makes them more unique.

 

[kupo]

You're right but I wouldn't mind one or two more stages (maybe new ones) with Cliffhangers.

 

[Prince Adon]

I like them. But I also think it's good that there isn't a lot of them.

 

[Doug Nguyen]

I miss the stair grabs. And I wanna see a stage with more than one cliff hanger spot.