The first DOAX didn’t have English voices. Neither DOA1, DOA3 and DOA4.

And I’m telling you that those “many people” are using the term incorrectly. The release in the different territories is dealed with by the publishing side of the business, not the localization side.

And if you’re going to say “why would they publish without localizing”, know that that happens all the time in many…

I get what you mean.

Because XBox One is next to non-existent in Asian markets in general and Japan in particular.

I disagree with the DOA5 not surpassing DOA4 statement.

“The games just haven’t been as good since Itakagi left, and I hate saying that given how simplified DoA4 was after how amazingly technical DoA3.1 was.”

“No one really criticized this game in particular.”

Wrong. It HAS been criticized. Not to mention that this series in general has been one of the top go-to examples when people criticize women objectification in games since the first game was announced.

(Sigh) Here we go again...

The game IS localized. Menus, in-game text and subtitles are fully translated to English. What they didn’t was to publish it in Western markets.

Sorry, but I’m a game localizer, and I’m starting to being sick of seeing this mistake made whenever people talk about this game.

Localization is NOT…

“Goes back to the whole sex vs violence issue. Sex is something beautiful but heavily censored. Violence is something that is horrible but glorified.”

I think it will be more surprising if they DON’T offer the other characters as DLC, to be honest.

The thing is the first DOAX game was legitimately good as a volleyball game. Not a master piece nor anything, but still, legitimately good. (I personally didn’t enjoy it that much, but I’ve met and seen way too many people enjoying it in that front to just dismiss it) And still it was next to impossible to deviate the…

Oh, I agree.

But that’s the argument we’re having.

That’s the issue.

Both nowadays and ten years ago, it’s not that we argue whether to have giant jiggly boobs and skimpy outfits in a beach volleyball game is more appropriate than in a fighting game.

It’s that we argue whether giant jiggly boobs and skimpy outfits are appropriate at all.

“They don’t like sand.”

Sorry, sorry! I just can’t resist! lol

“I like the characters well enough, but I’ve enjoyed the Xtreme series because of its seemingly fruitless struggle to be something slightly more than what it is. Team Ninja wasn’t even trying here.”

You could argue if trying was even worth it to begin with.

DOAX could be the best volleyball game of all time, a…

[Insert “I don’t like sand” reference here]

Hey, don’t look at me like that! You made it way too easy, Mike!

My thoughts exactly.

I don’t know if this is less sexualized or not, but it’s definitely more physically implausible. lol

I think they didn’t really expect to follow up “Battle of Gods” when they first wrote the script.

But eventually they did, and when they decided to level-up the Super Saiyan God (partly because most audiences found its design underwhelming), they found out they had written themselves into a corner.

God, Nintendo literally created the biggest meme creator app ever!

This is one of those things I never knew I wanted!!!