DOA3 creator bashes Tekken 4!

"Tekken 4 is a piece of ****," says Itagaki, "one of the worst things about Tekken 4 is the concept planning. It\'s really half-ass. Tekken 4 attempts 3D environments, like I did in DOA 2, but they failed miserably. They should\'ve stayed in a 2D world. To be quite honest, I don\'t think they have the technique to go to 3D from 2D." What about the graphics? "Graphics look very cheap," continues Itagaki, "the people who made the platform (Tekken) will be angry as to the end result of Tekken 4." And the gameplay? "The gameplay is very slow -- very incomplete feeling while playing. The game balance is also way off." He concludes his Tekken 4 talk by saying, "I really hope when they start to work on the home console version of Tekken 4, they will fix these problems and make a better game. With the game in its present state, right now I don\'t see them as my competition.

You can read this and more here.

Everyone\'s entitled to an opinion, even developers, but to openly bash another game of the same genre? Maybe Namco outta show them how much more money they\'ve made, or how many characters TECMO has ripped off. Pathetic.

/ dm /

I think this is the worst case of company/game bashing i\'ve ever heard from another company.

But just wait, a xbox fanboy will be here telling you this is common practice in the industry.

Itagaki - Tekken 4 is a piece of sh!t. You have a problem with dat bit*h?

edit - blah, it didn\'t load the picture of him.



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He just needs to talk big to make his game sound better. Because his series are one of the shallowest fighters ever

We all know which game is probably going to end up selling the most, so it really doesn\'t matter.

I still am in a little bit of shock that he said that.  It just sounds... fake.

Tekken 4 is a piece of ****," says Itagaki, "one of the worst things about Tekken 4 is the concept planning. It\'s really half-ass. Tekken 4 attempts 3D environments, like I did in DOA 2, but they failed miserably. They should\'ve stayed in a 2D world. To be quite honest, I don\'t think they have the technique to go to 3D from 2D." What about the graphics? "Graphics look very cheap," continues Itagaki, "the people who made the platform (Tekken) will be angry as to the end result of Tekken 4." And the gameplay? "The gameplay is very slow -- very incomplete feeling while playing. The game balance is also way off." He concludes his Tekken 4 talk by saying, "I really hope when they start to work on the home console version of Tekken 4, they will fix these problems and make a better game. With the game in its present state, right now I don\'t see them as my competition.

Yep somebody had to say, and who better than the creator of DOA3. LOL.....this is some funny **** I\'m starting to like this guy, he\'s got balls and he\'s not afraid to use them....LMAO

We all know which game is probably going to end up selling the most, so it really doesn\'t matter.

Yep, so true.

LOL..

He looks pretty gay

Btw. Tekken 4 isnt that bad..
I havent played it.. So I wouldnt know..

But I saw a video of it on this months PSW. Looks very nice indeedly!

Also here is what Itagaki, says about Virtua Fighter 4 :

What about Virtua Fighter 4? "I have to be careful how I say this," explains Itagaki, "VF4 is a very well-made game. The biggest problem is that it\'s old. They only were partially able to catch up with what DOA 2 was doing." One area that DOA 2 and DOA 3 have over the competition is the size of the arenas; Itagaki was quick to point out VF4\'s shortcomings in this area. "Even though the fighting worlds are good looking, they\'re very tight and constricting. DOA 3 has multi-leveled terrain that is more realistic -- where players have to adapt to different situations." Itagaki\'s final thought on VF4, "From a developer\'s point of view, VF4 was a bit of a disappointment, from a gamer\'s point of view, it\'s just a fun game to play."

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I would be upset, but it is true that T4 was a bit rushed. Its getting killed by VF4 in Japan. And he did say that he hoped the console port would be much better.

But, to say that much trash talk about a respected fighter like that... I hope hes made quite a few adjustments to DOA\'s fighting engine, or else hes going to get a lot of backlash from this comment.

Made adjustments to the fighting engine in DOA?  Well, just look at DOA (the original) and compare it to how DOA3 plays.  Has it changed that much?  What has changed the most?  Better graphics do not make for a better game.

Itagaki talking about how cheap a game is... talk about the pot calling the kettle black.  Oh well, I find it funny how his game is being considered a "killer-app" because the graphics look good.  Puh-lease.

Originally posted by Ryu
Made adjustments to the fighting engine in DOA?  Well, just look at DOA (the original) and compare it to how DOA3 plays.  Has it changed that much?  What has changed the most?  Better graphics do not make for a better game.

Eh, all I know is that the characters can move around a lot more freely now(Which is a pretty big improvement, IMO). The only adjustments that really need to be made(Er, IMO) are the damage that those counters take, and they need to make \'em harder to execute so that some players wont use \'em as much.

Tekken 4 was rushed. Even I can tell that.

note, DOA3 interests me in the least, as DOA2 was shyte


Eric Jacob

"The gameplay is very slow -- very incomplete feeling while playing. The game balance is also way off."

POINTS:
1)Yeah as if the DOA series was known about its game balance.The exact opposite.
2)Slow?DOA3 is super fast.Faster than normal.Also the fights are more unrealsitic in DOA3 giving more opprotunities to developers.
3)Many prefered VF games because they werent as fast as Tekken games and focused more on strategy.
4)VF3 surpassed graphically T3 but that didnt affect its success.
5)if T4 wasnt in 3D funs would be disapointed.They asked for 3D.There was even a poll in Tekkenzaibatsu.

The only character in DOA that makes the game somewhat unbalanced is Jann Lee. But even hes not that big of a problem.

That was pathetic,
usually you don\'t see professionals going this low,
especially Japanese companies. I wonder what his motivation was?
greed, fear, loathing?