Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi wants to make Dead or Alive vs. Virtua fighter.

[MG]

http://www.edge-online.com/news/hayashi-keen-dead-or-alive-crossover

Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi admits he would like to develop a Dead Or Alive crossover title similar to Street Fighter X Tekken.

Capcom's upcoming game combines two of the most revered fighting game series of all time, something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago when fighting games were unpopular and Capcom and Namco were competitors, rather than collaborators.

In an interview, Hayashi told us: "In terms of collaboration titles, there are staff on our team who just love fighting games and if there was any chance to do that we'd actively, possibly do that.

"The first 3D game I played was Virtua Fighter, that's the IP I respect most. Virtua Fighter was the father of 3D gaming, so it's very well respected."

Hayashi's comments show just how much Team Ninja's outlook has changed since he replaced Tomonobu Itagaki, who quit parent company Tecmo Koei in 2008, as the head of the studio. Itagaki would never have sanctioned a collaboration with a rival - he once listed his five most-hated games, and all of them were from the Tekken series.

The change in thinking doesn't end there, either, with Hayashi explaining Team Ninja's changed stance on the depiction of women in its games. "Up to now we thought, with other games, let's show the beauty of a woman," he said. "How do we do that? Make her breasts big and just make them jiggle, that was the concept."

We spoke to Hayashi during our first look at Dead Or Alive 5, which was announced at the Tokyo Game Show in September and is due for PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year. Hayashi has previously said that the latest in the series - the first to receive a multiplatform release since Dead Or Alive 2 - will be "fighting entertainment" rather than "just a fighting game". Either way, he hopes it proves more successful than Dead Or Alive Dimensions, which he admitted didn’t sell as well as Tecmo Koei had hoped.

"We believe we squeezed pretty much all of the horsepower out of the 3DS that we could have, really," he said. "In the performance sense we believe it was a great title. We hoped people would be playing more portable consoles out there but unfortunately that wasn't the case."

[DEMONKAI]

 

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[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

you got to be joking right? if this will be true then OMG! Kai wasnt we just talkin about this team up in the sf x tekken thread?
   Dream Come True if made. 

[DEMONKAI]

you got to be joking right? if this will be true then OMG! Kai wasnt we just talkin about this team up in the sf x tekken thread?
   Dream Come True if made.  

yeh. when Moon Girard mentioned that the DOA dude spoke on it i was pretty curious to see the info on that

[wolviesam]

Oh man this is cool  



 

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

indeed! think about it seriously tho: both companies have great innovative game mechanics that reallyu only die hard players would even touch it and be good at it. no fireballs! no projectiles, just bare knuchkle mano e mano in your face fighting. All based on REAL martial arts styles and added in extra moves.
That means a win for both sides in how they can present it too. Vf would have to deal with the open areans and multiplatformed  stages ( Lau kicked out a window of an 8 story office building..Kai words ) DOA have to deal with those fighters with insane  technical styles and both can benefit from DOA countering system,. maybe even a modified version of it to suit both styles since VF has countering too.  Keep the fast gameplay of doa and add more techinical moves to doa fighters. mannnnnnnnnnn the goodness i tell you. I would be on that game foreverrr. plus add in VF 5 final showdown insane  large catalog of customizing clothes and looks. DUDES! so much win right there! It Must Happen!

[wolviesam]

Yes u're right my man, this is like a dream... VF was the first game i played on 3D kinda graphics bro and Dead or alive is one of my favs also.

Def this is gonna b a classic x sure. 

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

yeah bro. i remember when i first saw Vf in the arcade. i was like wtf is this...3d? a ...fighting game? and once i popped the quarters in and tried it out, i been hooked on 3d fighters big time. Vf is indeed the father of all 3d fighters and DOA is the crazy grandchild that just went apenuts with it and showing off. so this would be a classic for all times in a cross over .

I actually play VF 5 still. i have to get all the unlockables and master some more of the characters. Some were pretty easy to grasp while others are definetly for the truest of hardcore techy peeps to handle and pull off every move they actually want to in a heated fight. Akira is a monster in the right hands cause his moves can be frustrating to get off solid in a tight fight. 

DOA4 is my standout fav cause of the speed, countering system and its just so pretty and flashy. . so a game using both games mechanics with some good new tweaks to ramp up the play factor would be beautiful.  I would only ask for 3 new fighters on each side and use all the roster from previous games To make things even more combat fun they both have characters that can rival the others style. like the jeet kune do users  Jacky ( VF) and Jann Lee (DOA), both have american and lucha libre wrestlers, ninjas,the works. a few styles missing, for instance one would be Capoeira on both sides. I would go with DOA5 new graphical look. would do VF side some cool justice too, even tho VF5 series is tight as well in the graphics. of great possibilities with these 2 companies to make one immense and intense game. total EPICNESS!

[chuchoryu]

Dead or Alivs Vs....I like to see vs Virtua Fighter or Tekken 

[Enso]

I'd like to see this coming.

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

i actually went and played me some rounds for like 3 hours in both VF5 and my DOA4. . i think this is a much better vs for these 2 games to do a full 3D crossover. I saw of great matchups between characters that have same styles but do them with different movesets.there are only i seen just with Jeffery a need to have someone counter his style, more like a huge mixed martial artist, along the lines of a Craig Marduke type ( tekken dude) but not exactly. Add in a few new characters with different styles like Kenpo, Jujitsu, Capoeira and Tae Kwon Do strictly styles and you get an even more solid gameplay with a wide range to choose from.
 ok i put rest in a spoiler.  

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I would like to see Open/Tier stages with the bg stuff going on to effect gameplay as well like DOA5 has so to see how the VF fighters can take advantage of that and not boxed in. I think with the characters overall looks they should go more with the doa5 look and dont skim on the girls too much. . Make the VF5 side even sexier to match the DOA side.  i would personally rather have the hit sounds from either VF5 or doa4 rather then what i heard in doa5. no ryu Hayabusa fireball fx either. strictly hand to hand. Plus find a cool pace thats both as fast as DOA and as fluent as VF5 .  The only trick would be the countering system.  The ones in VF5 are very very technical and the ones in doa are more simplistic but stiil  both require good timing to land exactly the counter you want to actually do. i say again find either middle ground with the countering where both feel fundemental to their base games but still unique enough to feel a bit new. have new unlockable characters from both sides, maybe 2 dlc as well one for each side, a few of the other features i mentions above before,  a cool boss ( not dural or some odd out of place guy ) that plays a good part to a cool story/plot of the game, and have cool cg endings like DOA and make sense too. A tag team mode like DOA with those special tags moves for certain matchups and with some of each games core features added in i think this will be an amazing 3D realistic with a dose of technical and zany fighting game experience for us cool hardcore fighters of the game from both series or casual new gamers wanting to see something new. This game MUST happen!    

[MG]

Check the second half of the video.

[DEMONKAI]

Check the second half of the video.

Yep pretty much a pinch of me felt like this inside when i saw that video earlier today

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhA9BoQ16Y&feature=related

[Violent Ken Masters]

I think Akira in DOA5 is just a test. Either its a test, or Sega doesn't want to do a full blown crossover. I'm for it. VF and DOA have similar play styles... I just wish they would have chosen Sarah Bryant over Akira... oh well.

[Uche_of_IMT]

If that is true, then I believe that the test was successful.

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

If that is true, then I believe that the test was successful.

TOTAL FKIN YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LMAO @ Kai on the vid!  yoo when i saw Akira i was in total 3d bliss! i saw in a thread on google where they already showed akira but no actual footage ..till just now i saw. duuuuudes, the 2 best full 3d fighting games i believe will go head to head. This will be Doa5 vs VF5 Brain on Overload Orgasmic Fighting 3d game bliss! ...for me if not yall.  


oh and DOA5 is shaping up to be total freakin awesome as ever. Tecmo just dont do like capcom....please god NO!

[HyperVoiceActing]

A DoA/VF crossover would be very nice I agree.

Although IF they do make it a reality, am I the only one who would love to see Sonic be a guest char for the VF side? Kinda like how they did MegaMan and PacMan for SFxT only not as stupid.

I know I know, Sonic fanboy making stupid ideas but come on, it could work. Sonic the Fighters is pretty much a Virtua Fighter game (only more shoddy) so we know he could work in the gameplay style. Question is: who would his rival be? What else does Tecmo make?

[Silva-silva]

A DoA/VF crossover would be very nice I agree.

Although IF they do make it a reality, am I the only one who would love to see Sonic be a guest char for the VF side? Kinda like how they did MegaMan and PacMan for SFxT only not as stupid.

I know I know, Sonic fanboy making stupid ideas but come on, it could work. Sonic the Fighters is pretty much a Virtua Fighter game (only more shoddy) so we know he could work in the gameplay style. Question is: who would his rival be? What else does Tecmo make?

Monster rancher, dynasty warriors, ninja gaidan.... other stuff..

[DEMONKAI]

Monster rancher, dynasty warriors, ninja gaidan.... other stuff..

and had part in developing last years (dynasty warriors style) Fist of the northstar: Kens rage