Wait... are you for or against DOA, then?
I will admit, DOA falls into the category of 'fighters with weak plot/character development', but personally, I think it's an improvement over SF and VF. It's certainly not Blazblue, Guilty Gear, or even Soul Calibur.
Divide everything in for or against it's kinda awkward way to give an opinion :D
DoA is fun
I consider SF/SC/VF superior? Yes (and i do'nt even like VF, but is Quality,no doubt)
Tekken have his own points that i don't like, but still i prefer it over DoA
Said that why not? I can still get DOA5U and have fun with it
I consider it B league (yes, B of Bewbs), but B is'nt necessary bad, there are so many letters worse than B :D
It's not A, but still good :D
If we talk about gameplay i'm not suppa expert, but i just feel the variety is weak
I'm NOT saying they're all the same but i just don't have tthe impression of huge difference of range/power/speed/lotofstuff between characters, where i ever find it in basically all other fight games.
This is getting better compared to the past but still all other games are ahead imho
And if we speak about chara design it's kinda the weakest thing japan can do, weaker than that and you're almost on west/MK league (almost eh)
When Jacky Yeah Bryant Yeah from Virtua Boring Fighter seem some kind of charismatic superstar in your game... well, your cast have a problem :-D
But again DoA5 was fun, the U version bring back my two favourite characters, so is going to be more fun for me
And we have no new fight games (i know, Chrono Phantasma but i'm not into BB)
Waiting next SF/SC/Darkstalkers, and SFxTK(the one developed by Namco TK style still in development).... it seem a looong time without FG
DOA5U is close and is fun, easy combo to get my $$$ :D