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[The Faceless Master]

From what we could gather after sampling the character for a few play sessions, Nicole is a slower, powerful character, offering the qualities of a heavy-weight fighter. With her Pillar of Autumn move, she picks up opponents and sends them flying. Her MAC Lunge move pounds opponents with a speedy right fist. Nicole also has a couple of Halo-inspired moves, including active camouflage which makes her translucent, and a plasma grenade which causes an explosion in the opponent after a few moments.

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Q: Can you discuss some of her moves? We noticed her active camouflage move and the plasma grenade, for instance.

Itagaki: The purpose of those is to just add fun. It's just more fun to have those kinds of moves in the game. This is a game where, in the safari stage, you can get attacked by a cheetah, so we can have a lot of elements that are in there just for the playful aspect. And it's just cool to have her attach a plasma grenade and have you blow up, or have her turn invisible using the active camouflage. Those kind of things just add to the fun, and add more depth, making her character more interesting.


Q: Does the camofauge actually give her an advantage, or is it just for show?

Itagaki: I'd say you'd actually have a better advantage with Hitomi wearing black pants because you can't see the movements of her legs in darker stages.

Right now, one of the final things we're deciding is whether or not to allow the active camouflage in Online competitive play. At this point, we're tentatively thinking of not allowing it for Online play because we don't want anyone to be accused of being cheap. But the people who've played it have said that they'd really like to use it in Online as well, so just as we have throughout this entire process, we're having communications with Bungie to make a final decision. One solution could be to make it available Online only when two Spartans are fighting each other, because then neither has an advantage.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/673/673089p1.html

discuss?

 

[Mr Jared]

The sticky grenade idea reminds me a bit too much of Link in SC2 (Lame), but I have no problems with active camo. in fact, I think that's pretty damned awesome.

Besides, you can still see her while she has the camo. It's not like say, Twelve in 3rd Strike or one of the ninjas in Mortal Kombat. That was total invisiblity and funny enough, even in those two examples it's never a big advantage.

My frothing demand for DOA4 increases

 

[Fusebox]

Sounds cool.

 

[jiggle]

How can that not be Lisa :/

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Anybody have an ETA on this game?

jiggle: I feel your pain :*(

 

[The End]

This was awesome when they did it in Virtua Fighter 4 Three Years Ago

 

[Nikashi]

Anybody have an ETA on this game?

jiggle: I feel your pain :*(

Dec 14th at least check.

 

[raYne]

This was awesome when they did it in Virtua Fighter 4 Three Years Ago

Because no other fighter before that had a character that could turn invisible?

Dec 14th at least check.

Yeah, that's supposedly the date.... I'll believe it when I see good confirmation.

 

[Fusebox]

Yeah punching and kicking was awesome when they did it in Kung Fu Master back in 1984

 

[The End]

ahem.

 

[dorio]

What's that disc thing on the right?

 

[raYne]

ahem.

Again.. and?

It ties into the series she's from! Same with the plasma grenade etc. Holy shit, not everything has to do with VF!

It's been done way before that.

 

[Mr Jared]

ahem.

It was cool when Mario jumped in, you know, SUPER MARIO BROS. Not in this gay Strikers game. I mean, what the fuck?

. . .

Spartans can use active camo. A Spartan uses active camo in DOA4. I do not see a problem with this.

 

[Sandman42]

Geez is that be nice. You are playing a tough battle on the jungle stage and *BAM* cheeta in the face. What a nice way to lose.

 

[Sho Nuff]

Ammo and sticky grenades?! Holy shit that is hot.

 

[Kasra]

Another cheese character.

But I guess there will be something to balance out Jan Lee now.

 

[Mr Jared]

Another cheese-

Stop making excuses for your lack of skill plz.

 

[The End]

Again.. and?

It ties into the series she's from! Same with the plasma grenade etc. Holy shit, not everything has to do with VF!

It's been done way before that.

Just one more thing Itagaki owes Yu Suzuki for.

 

[raYne]

Just one more thing Itagaki owes Yu Suzuki for.

Indeed...

Because no other fighter before that had a character that could turn invisible?

 

[The End]

Indeed...

You do understand that Yu Suzuki gave Itagaki the VF2 engine to make DOA, right?

 

[shuri]

Reptile never existed.

 

[The Faceless Master]

 

[The Faceless Master]

You do understand that Yu Suzuki gave Itagaki the VF2 engine to make DOA, right?

and kutaragi made the comment about toy story graphics...

oh, wait...

 

[Fusebox]

The End, dont be so insecure about your precious VF, this is a DOA thread mate.

 

[Kasra]

Stop making excuses for your lack of skill plz.

onoes i suck at teh doa!1

 

[Oichi]

The plasma grenade move is just a throw, so it's not a projectile. Nicole grabs the opponent, sticks the plasma grenade into them and tosses them away. Then a second later it explodes.

The active camo is just her taunt move... you can still see her outline though, so it's not really that cheap. In fact it's not cheap at all.

 

[Mr Jared]

The plasma grenade move is just a throw, so it's not a projectile. Nicole grabs the opponent, sticks the plasma grenade into them and tosses them away. Then a second later it explodes.

The active camo is just her taunt move... you can still see her outline though, so it's not really that cheap. In fact it's not cheap at all.

1) That is the coolest thing I've ever heard. Worries == Gone

2) So it IS like Twelve, only with more visiblitiy. That is cool.

Now what would be even BETTER. . were if it was released this year.

 

[The Faceless Master]

The plasma grenade move is just a throw, so it's not a projectile. Nicole grabs the opponent, sticks the plasma grenade into them and tosses them away. Then a second later it explodes.

The active camo is just her taunt move... you can still see her outline though, so it's not really that cheap. In fact it's not cheap at all.

sticks it where?

nice to hear the camo isn't cheap... how long does it last? or is it like Zack's lights on taunt? does it turn off when hit?

 

[kIdMuScLe]

oh man i was expecting CAMO pics of DOA4 girls

 

[Callo Merlose]

Yoshimitsu from the Tekken 3 intro.

 

[Mike Works]

oh man i was expecting CAMO pics of DOA4 girls

man that would've been so cool, we totally could've beat off to that

man

 

[Oogami]

Does that mean this game won't be ported to PS3?

 

[The Faceless Master]

Does that mean this game won't be ported to PS3?

they can port it and throw in murai instead... or rachel!

 

[dillingerx]

Does that mean this game won't be ported to PS3?

This is Tecmo's Baby. Only the best console gets DOA. Hence it's on 360

 

[Ghost]

The plasma grenade move is just a throw, so it's not a projectile. Nicole grabs the opponent, sticks the plasma grenade into them and tosses them away. Then a second later it explodes.

The active camo is just her taunt move... you can still see her outline though, so it's not really that cheap. In fact it's not cheap at all.

Does the plasma grenade make the Halo 2 sound?

 

[GhaleonEB]

What's that disc thing on the right?

It's the end of an air canister. You can see it from a different angle in this shot:

 

[CarlosX360]

DOA4 FTW!

 

[Oogami]

Why is the game delayed again? Every games I want get delayed always.

 

[GhaleonEB]

And you do understand that Itagaki debunked that particular myth a LOOOONG time ago, right?

Yeah, what Sega gave Tecmo was the license to use Model 2. Bit of a difference there.

 

[Oichi]

sticks it where?

nice to hear the camo isn't cheap... how long does it last? or is it like Zack's lights on taunt? does it turn off when hit?

She sticks it in their stomach. Think of it as like Rasengan from Naruto... she plants it in their stomach and they go flying and... boom.

Camo turns off after a clean hit, yes.

 

[Beer Monkey]

But does she show Camo Toe?

 

[raYne]

But does she show Camo Toe?

Yep.

HAWT.

 

[Unison]

I played through Halo 1 & most of Halo 2. Where from Halo is this character?

 

[raYne]

I played through Halo 1 & most of Halo 2. Where from Halo is this character?

Halo Universe, not Halo game series. Read the books...

 

[The Faceless Master]

She sticks it in their stomach. Think of it as like Rasengan from Naruto... she plants it in their stomach and they go flying and... boom.

Camo turns off after a clean hit, yes.

what about on block? does it run out by itself? you know i dont watch naruto!

 

[The End]

Umm...not to stir any more shit, but couldn't they made her a little hotter? You know, some formfitting armor or something?

 

[Raiden]

Umm...not to stir any more shit, but couldn't they made her a little hotter? You know, some formfitting armor or something?

Like tittie armor you mean.

 

[The End]

Like tittie armor you mean.

Exactly!

 

[The Faceless Master]

Exactly!

it's combat armor!

 

[The End]

it's combat armor!

It's a DOA game!

It could...uh...be...uh...a Diversionary Tactic!