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>A year before [it] came out Itagaki was interviewed talking about how he wants to make the most hardcore game ever. Then as it gets closer to release you can see him talking about how “All Fighting games are, are macros where you just have to hit one move and you win. I don’t want that in my game” (sorta paraphrasing
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>>5985794
>Personally, I think the series does everything better than Tekken
Yes
>Virtua Fighter
Not even Itagaki himself would agree with you there because he's a massive VF fanboy and made DoA as a VF homage, and DoA never, ever reached VF's complexity at any point, it's just a more accessible VF expy with the gender ratio reversed.

>>5078883
Tits.
Also Itagaki was really, really, REALLY mad at Tekken for some reason and wanted to one up that franchise hard so he tried to make his own version of Virtua Fighter, a franchise he greatly admired, and added all the stuff he liked, in fact DoA and VF do share a few design similarities, let alone the fact that nowadays VF survives through DoA.