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DOA X2 (X360) Famitsu scans

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duckroll

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TheTrin said:
Oh god duck, I really hope your sarcasm is so subtle that it sounds like geniune excitement. -_-
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What? DoAX was awesome, and the sequel looks improved in pretty much every way. :p

Team Ninja <3
 
Pimpbaa

Pimpbaa

Member
Perhaps Team Ninja will make a Eunuch Beach Volleyball for all the haters. Full of gender neutral characters so you don't feel unconfortable.
 
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Pseudo judo

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M3wThr33 said:
This still is just a dating sim, right? The last one was.
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No it wasn't, except for Zack there weren't any other men on the island, just a bunch of suntanning, sexually ambiguous ninja chicks.
 
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M3wThr33

Banned
Pseudo judo said:
No it wasn't, except for Zack there weren't any other men on the island, just a bunch of suntanning, sexually ambiguous ninja chicks.
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Yes. It was. The whole point of the game was wooing your "partner" with gifts before the volcano exploded.
 
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M3wThr33

Banned
Pseudo judo said:
I don't call that dating.
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You still basicaly had to woo the girls with gifts and shit and buy them bikinis and all that. Otherwise you were just playing a simple volleyball game.
 
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radios shipping overview

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M3wThr33 said:
This still is just a dating sim, right? The last one was.
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And the problem is...?

purnoman3000 said:
tan lines are hot..... on real girls
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Predictable. Try harder next time.

Nice to see that GAF hasn't changed at all since the last release. :D Everyone who's not waiting for this should just go play NGB another time through to work off your frustrations.
 
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anotheriori

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sale +1
team ninja eye candy for win. Seems logical that Tecmo needs inbetween games that aren't blockbusters (even tho doax seems like it).
 
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radios shipping overview

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M3wThr33 said:
Avatars = like of this game...

Photo of woman = You hate the idea
Drawing of woman = You love the idea
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Eh, 'snot saying much.
 
Pimpbaa

Pimpbaa

Member
M3wThr33 said:
Avatars = like of this game...

Photo of woman = You hate the idea
Drawing of woman = You love the idea
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I usually always had real women in my avatar in the past. Started using sprites just to be on the safe side due to the avatar nazis.
 
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drohne

hyperbolically metafictive
tanlines :lol

you kind of have to admire team ninja's salaciousness, but the doa girls are past due for a redesign. new hardware can do better than their alienating mannequin look...though i suppose some of the fans must be attached to their current appearances. i just gave myself the creeps.

i...liked the volleyball in the first one. the lesbian dating game not so much.
 
Pimpbaa

Pimpbaa

Member
drohne said:
tanlines :lol

you kind of have to admire team ninja's salaciousness, but the doa girls are past due for a redesign. new hardware can do better than their alienating mannequin look...though i suppose some of the fans must be attached to their current appearances. i just gave myself the creeps.

i...liked the volleyball in the first one. the lesbian dating game not so much.
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I do agree with the models being due for a redesign (and give them asses next too).
 
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Kunai

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M3wThr33 said:
This still is just a dating sim, right? The last one was.
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From the latest Gamepro:

When asked whether the inarguably taxing gifting system would return, Itagaki insisted that players can expect drastic change. “Giving someone you care a gift and having them throw away is something people understand”, he explains. “But it played too much negative reinforcements. We’re trying to move things in a more positive direction.” Pressed for specifics Itagaki elaborates, “I’m going to remove all the trashcans from Zack Island”.
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PepsimanVsJoe

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M3wThr33 said:
Avatars = like of this game...

Photo of woman = You hate the idea
Drawing of woman = You love the idea
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So what camp does your weird guy drawing put you in?

Seems to be a camp that hates entertainment.

Also throwing way the trash cans is a GREAT idea though I loved getting one of them to wear the tiniest outfits. Though I don't know if it was so much a challenge as it was finding some hidden exploit.
 
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radios shipping overview

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perplexcity said:
What are you dragging me into this for? I love DOAX for all its perverted ways and besides GoW, this is my most looked forward to 360 game.
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Nothing personal, sorry. I just meant to show that choice of avatar didn't necessarily reflect an exclusive preference for either real women or artistic representations.
 
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Baker

Banned
jiji said:
Nothing personal, sorry. I just meant to show that choice of avatar didn't necessarily reflect an exclusive preference for either real women or artistic representations.
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Oh no prob. Just didn't want to be put in the haters camp.
 
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Tempy

don't ask me for codes
If the game was about slicing people on the beach up it would be business as usual on GAF.

Anyway, I liked the original because it was relaxing and titillating. The volleyball game was definitely on the simple side, and the casino was worthless, but all in all, yes, I enjoyed it.

I'm hoping for more interesting mini games besides volleyball (make it slightly more complex and challenging, but not too much - it's not a hardcore volleyball game after all). The jetski game sounds like a good start, but we definitely need more info on the actual game elements in DOAX2.

Oh, and a good photo mode.

While I like lesbian dating, it'd add more variety if they actually added the DOA guys into the mix.

And the casino needs a complete overhaul - have it so you can see the casino table and the participants. This adds better atmosphere and is just more fun if you can see the other people's expressions as they win/lose.

It'll be a nice change of pace after slicing up zombies in a mall :p
 
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Adam Blade

WWKC
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Go away Amir0x. >:3


BOOBIES~
 
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Aaron

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I still want DOA Xtreme Bowling with the guys in over a hundred different bowling shirts and rented shoes, and manly gifts like a sucker punch to the gut, and drinking contests mini-games, and unbeatable 'boss' bowler named Jesus... Seriously. With multiplayer.
 
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Pachinko

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I'm buying it, why the shit not ? I got the first one and my friends shamed me into trading it for something else but then I repurchased it later becuase I decided I'd collect team ninja games for xbox. It's funny to think that this is the game that'll push the 360 userbase above 250K in japan within a couple months of its release. Also hopefully it's out in novemberish like has been rumoured so the team can get to work on finishing ninja gaiden 2 for next november.

The original was a simple time wasting game that could easily enjoyed with a friend or enjoyed in... other ways on your own. Oddly , I see it's much more popular with girl gamers then guys becuase it was basically a virtual barbie simulator.
 
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Barnolde

Banned
Pimpbaa said:
No it wasn't. It was one of the best for the system. A nice relaxing game.
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Yeah... you're just wrong. It was just plain bad, had no depth, was very boring and pretty pathetic, hell, it wasn't even ****ing 4 player! I eBayed that game pretty damn fast.
 
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Adam Blade

WWKC
Barnolde said:
Yeah... you're just wrong. It was just plain bad, had no depth, was very boring and pretty pathetic, hell, it wasn't even ****ing 4 player! I eBayed that game pretty damn fast.
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NO U
 
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Barnolde

Banned
Adam Blade said:
NO U
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YOUR OPINION IS WRONG. Sorry.

DOA: XBV is sadder than the "pathetic" thread in the off-topic board. Super Volleyball on Genesis was a better volleyball game and real porn is better to look at.
 
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Adam Blade

WWKC
Barnolde said:
YOUR OPINION IS WRONG. Sorry.

DOA: XBV is sadder than the "pathetic" thread in the off-topic board. Super Volleyball on Genesis was a better volleyball game and real porn is better to look at.
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If you hate the games so much, stay out of the thread so the rest of us can enjoy it without having to listen you b*tch so much about it.
 
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Tellaerin

Member
Dunpeal said:
So....who would fund a game like this? What market would like a game like this?

I don't get it...
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A market where guys like cheesecake pinup art and aren't ashamed to admit it, apparently. As opposed to one where guys who sit around in their mom's basement beating off to internet porn swear up and down on messageboards that they would never play something like this, because it's for pathetic people. :p
 
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arne

Member
how come nobody is talking about the casino "mini-game?"

DID YOU NOT PLAY IT?

Most addictive part of the game ever.

Almost
Better even than admiring the, er... physics.
 
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Kobold

half-wit retard monkey's ass
DOAX was a nice change of pace on the shooterbox, this will be the same, but arguably more enjoyable and varied.

My opinion of other peoples opinions is moot, but i'm still of the opinion that some people are morons anyways. :)
 
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Azure Dream

Member
Wasn't the casino part poorly randomized? I think there was even an exploit for it, some way you could work out the sequence for roulette or one of the other games...


Looks like they're adding in a bunch of the features and depth I'd hoped to see in the original. (Other sports, tan lines, physics-based bouncing instead of hand-animated, and so on.)

I was kind of let down by how shallow the original ended up being, on both the gameplay and gravure sides, with some poorly-designed gameplay systems like the "Gifting," and even the namesake sport was beat down by friggin' Outlaw Volleyball. And it didn't help that Tecmo USA promised all these different gameplay elements in their forum before the original was released, and it was later revealed that they'd just gleaned most of their "information" out of a public trailer, and made some guesses that were WAY off-base.


At any rate, I wonder if this is going to smack into problems with CERO? If it's anything like the original, there's some remarkably-revealing costumes, and apparently CERO will refuse to rate a game with nudity?
 
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Adam Blade

WWKC
Kulock said:
Wasn't the casino part poorly randomized? I think there was even an exploit for it, some way you could work out the sequence for roulette or one of the other games...


Looks like they're adding in a bunch of the features and depth I'd hoped to see in the original. (Other sports, tan lines, physics-based bouncing instead of hand-animated, and so on.)

I was kind of let down by how shallow the original ended up being, on both the gameplay and gravure sides, with some poorly-designed gameplay systems like the "Gifting," and even the namesake sport was beat down by friggin' Outlaw Volleyball. And it didn't help that Tecmo USA promised all these different gameplay elements in their forum before the original was released, and it was later revealed that they'd just gleaned most of their "information" out of a public trailer, and made some guesses that were WAY off-base.


At any rate, I wonder if this is going to smack into problems with CERO? If it's anything like the original, there's some remarkably-revealing costumes, and apparently CERO will refuse to rate a game with nudity?
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I don't think any of Itagaki's games have had nudity.
 
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Azure Dream

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Adam Blade said:
I don't think any of Itagaki's games have had nudity.
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Well, I was talking about how close some of the swimsuits came.

And actually, yeah they have. Usually in the FMV, but there's always real-time gel Kasumi...
 
bumpkin

bumpkin

Member
arne said:
how come nobody is talking about the casino "mini-game?"

DID YOU NOT PLAY IT?

Most addictive part of the game ever.

Almost
Better even than admiring the, er... physics.
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So why isn't it BC on the 360 yet, hmm? Less chatter and more BC'ing... Stranger's Wrath, Panzer Orta and Psychonauts compel you! :D

Sorry 'bout the slight tangent... Yeah, the casino game was damn addictive. I kept telling my best friend how cool it was, but he kept insisting I played the game with my controller in one hand and my penis in the other. :lol

...is that the truth? The world may never know. But I'll definitely be picking up DoAX2, 'cuz everyone needs a guilty pleasure.
 
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Kunai

Member
Translation from the scans ( http://xboxyde.com/news_3396_en.html ), made by Ishichan from DOATEC’s Forum (http://www.doatec.com).

1. He put some of his best programmers to work on the sunburn system and they came up with an engine capable of overlaying up to 255 different sunburn patterns. However, it's pointless to go this far, so they had to decide how many suburn layers the game would actually support. Some people in the team felt one was enough, but he figured that they'd already taken the trouble to create the engine, so they might as well use it. They ran some tests and saw that upon the third layer the pattern started to look messy, so they locked it to two layers max.

What this basically means is that you can combine sunburn patterns for two different bathing suits at the same time, but no more.

2. Sunburn marks will reflect different levels of tanning. So, when you change bathing suits, your tanlines may start to dissipate as unburned areas get their own relative tan. The point is to be realistic and to let the player enjoy the watching the girls get tanned "beautifully." For players interested in this sort of thing, the sunblock and tanning lotions are back.

3. There are so many new elements for fans to enjoy that Itagaki's worried they might not be able to present them all before the game's release date.

4. They currently have over 180 gravure scenes. They're redoing some of the more popular ones from the previous game, like Hitomi on the swing. There is (at least) one more surprise as far as the gravure mode's concerned, which will be revealed in subsecuent issues of Famitsu.

5. There are parts of the island which only appear special gravure scenes which only come out when certian conditions are met. They're not particularly "hidden", though - you should be able to find them just by playing normally.

6. This time there are three different hotels to choose from: Seabreeze Cottage, Gemstone Suite and Moonlight Reef. Seabreeze cottage is a "floatting cottage." Helena's pictures were taken there. Moonlight Reef is kinda "girl-ish." The hotel you choose somehow has an effect on the feel of the game. It plays into your "strategy" (again, he's being deliberately vague).

7. The garbage can system's been completely done away with in favor of the "how-good-you're-getting-along" system.

8. It's official: Kasumi's knockers have grown in size. Seeing as how it's the tenth anniversary of DOA, Itagaki decided to redesign Kasumi and Ayane's physiques so as to return to the series' roots. Still pictures only convey about 3% of their current "charms", though (I believe he's referring to the fact that you can't see them, er, "wiggle" in still pictures).

9. Itagaki's just done finalizing which bathing suits will be available to which girls. He thinks that in the last game, anywhere from 50 to 70 % of bathing suits were not captivating at all. He feels that lots of bathing suits were just pretty much the same. This time, all bathing suits have their "uniqueness." In the previous game, he felt it was like all you needed to do was play as Lisa, but this time all the girls will each have their "captivating" suits. Not just in the "kinky" sense, but captivating overall. He's only addopting suits which reflect each character's taste, allure and uniqueness. They're now working on every character being able to wear every bathing suit, and things are going along smoothly.

10. He's currently working on each girls comment for each accesory. All accesories have a default description, but the girls will also give their own two cents on them.

11. He believes the camera system will offer the player the most freedom ever. He's taking inspiration from Halo to provide a "FPC" (First Person Camera).

12. The game's currently 70% complete. They've already done the Japanese voice recording and are currently doing the English voice recordings. He thinks the voices will fit: the voice actress who will do the voice of Tina is (allegedly) an actual Texan, for instance. The Japanse version will *also* include the English language recordings (no word on whether or not the Overseas version will also include Japanese voice-overs, but I'd say it's a given). Oh, and the first day tour will be different from last time, where Lisa was always your guide. Apparently they have a surprise in store in this regard.
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Adam Blade

WWKC
They ran some tests and saw that upon the third layer the pattern started to look messy, so they locked it to two layers max.

Sunburn marks will reflect different levels of tanning. So, when you change bathing suits, your tanlines may start to dissipate as unburned areas get their own relative tan.
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:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O~~~~~~~~~~~~

/me runs around in circles :O~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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PepsimanVsJoe

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Kunai's post/translation/whatever = AWESOME

This will be the greatest game of all time. God if the ladies started complaining about sunburns over the course of the vacation I would DIE....DIE I TELL YOU!

Also why is Barnolde part of the "Hating Fun Force" along with the rest of the naysayers? It's a deliberately cheeky game that brings nothing but warm smiles and hugs with every play. If Tecmo added kittens somewhere on the island I would DIE AGAIN!
 
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