I’ve only seen 4 cgs matches but The womens DOA matches overall seem to be more entertaining, skill based and with better combos.
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How good are the CGS players anyway? The fact that they don’t play in an open tournament makes me wonder how rigged the whole thing is.
This. Ryu is broke as a joke, which given Itagaki’s method of balancing characters based on their actual power level in the story, makes perfect sense. 
And yeah, IIRC it’s generally accepted as:
- Ryu
- Ayane
- Kasumi
- Gen Fu
- Hayate
- Everyone else
DOA (and MK) is pretty much the fighting game that you may enjoy, but tend not to admit playing due to its engine problems and the lack of a “valid” competitive community. Perhaps the biggest tragedy is that people see key things that could be done to the engine that would allow it to keep some of its current feel but fix the major problems but the bias and/or blindness of the developers prevents it from ever happening. Someone had outlined seven key fixes DOA needs in another thread but due to the usual spam that surrounds DOA threads it got locked.
Yeah. It’s fun and has a few cool features (Ryu Hayabusa, super punches that send people flying, tiered stages), but the shit is broken by design.
Are we watchin the same CGS here?
This generated more discussion than I thought it would
Honestly though, DOA get’s more shit than necessary. I’m not saying it’s perfect or even balanced for that matter (and I don’t pretend to know like some do, as I don’t claim to play it at a high level… Hell, I don’t even own the game), but for people’s main argument is to call it a glorified game of rock paper scissors?
That’s irrelevant. EVERY FIGHTER boils down to a glorified game of rock paper scissors. In every fighter, including DOA, you try to guess what the other person is about to do based on what you’ve observed before, and counter it with something that will beat that out.