Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

[Windstar]

Nigga please. People otften hate on the ENGLISH dubs than the Japanese ones.

As far as DOA is concerned, both the Japanese and English dubs are on the low end of what I would consider good voice acting.

Personally, I'll likely be playing the game in Japanese. Partially because of my long history of playing fighters and I'm just used hearing fighting games in Japanese. There are a handful of cases where I stick to the English dub, though. Largely because of good voice English voice acting. DOA, however, is bad on both fronts and I'm just used to hearing the bad Japanese VA over bad English VA.

 

[Reave]

I seemed to be the only one speaking about it negatively so I took it as directed at me. Whatever though it's not remotely serious as I won't play the game if its online sucks.

 

[taffertier]

As far as DOA is concerned, both the Japanese and English dubs are on the low end of what I would consider good voice acting.

Personally, I'll likely be playing the game in Japanese. Partially because of my long history of playing fighters and I'm just used hearing fighting games in Japanese. There are a handful of cases where I stick to the English dub, though. Largely because of good voice English voice acting. DOA, however, is bad on both fronts and I'm just used to hearing the bad Japanese VA over bad English VA.

I just like the English voices for a change of pace, most of the Japanese audio is completely recycled from previous games and i'd like something different. Also i like the accents of English voices.

 

[UNDERX]

Gentleman - The only thing we should be fighting for is future customization for DOA... C'mon now people! :D

 

[Mr.Wah]

Not getting into any debate over this, but I have had the game for the weekend and was able to try it out online.

Initial impressions online: God awful. First match I found was slowdown to near 20 frames per second with 3 second input delay. (Was on PS3).

Switched over to 360 and had similar initial experience.

A friend of mine in Rochester, NY (I'm near Baltimore, MD) and I tried to have a match. If he was hosting we both had a 0.3-1s delay. If I was hosting, I was fine but he would have a 0.3s delay.

That was the worst of it. Since that time I've been playing pretty smoothly with random public matches, mainly due to more people finding ways to obtain a copy of the game.

I'm not going to lie and say it's a replacement for offline play, a fool would do that. However, I will say that my best experience was better than DOA4's netcode and at worst (minus the above) I got around a mid connection to DOA4. Playing with 5 bars seemed doable but the network delay is just as you would expect for an online game.

So I will disagree with the initial reports, and simply say that it truly just matters on who you're connecting to. You won't be able to connect to everyone with super smooth connections, but you'll be able to find some players and have an enjoyable experience where you're not trying to 'adjust' to the delay.