My answer, if it wasn’t obvious already, is Street Fighter II. To explain my hatred for one-shot supermoves, I’d have to answer the trick question posed earlier. The comeback mechanic, for once, is not completely stupid Depth is taken as far as the two participants are willing to push each other.Īnd I love it! The three system is an old-school way of designing a foundation, but it isn’t antiquated because it’s been proven over and over again to be solid. This keeps every critical decision just simple enough for anyone to competently play, yet it provides for complexity to flourish on the player side of the game. The number three is everywhere, and when it comes to decision-making, Dead or Alive rarely breaks from it. You can technically play the game with a three-button stick, using only block, punch, and kick. Being knocked on the ground has three possibilities of wake up (a term for getting your character to stand back up): attack, roll, stand - which in themselves have their own set of multiple choices. This obviously turns blocking into its own set of three, which is crouching, standing, or activating a Hold (more on this later). Attacks beat Throws.įrom here, the system breaks down into other sets of three. In Dead or Alive 5’s case, everything revolves around these three core concepts: Throws beat Blocks and Holds. It’s more of a devolution, where designers are trying to create depth by slathering convoluted systems and meter-management mechanics on top of otherwise solid foundations.ĭead or Alive 5: Last Round’s design goes against this complication trend by trimming out unnecessary top layer systems and building off of the genre’s tried-and-true philosophy of threes: rock/paper/scissor. Modern fighting games have a horrible design trend.
Rock, Paper, Scissor, Attack, Block, Throw, High, Mid, Low …
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