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| Dr Baghead 1998th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):DOAX"
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Hey. My roommate just got an XBOX and I was wondering. Is DOAX worth getting? It looks wacky and all but I'm not sure is worthy of $50 since I've heard it's just a tech demo with a volleyball mini game. Anyway, any opinions would be welcome!
I've been playing the game quite a bit and I enjoy it, but really there's an easy way to tell if the game is worth it.
There are over 500 items to collect for each girl (300 or so being suits) so in total that's more then 40000 slots to fill. (which is no cake walk, specially when it comes to giving exclusive suits as gifts)
Anyway, ask your self:
"Will I fill every girls Collection completely?"
if you say "yes! yes I will!" buy it, if you say "No, probably not" rent it play as Lisa, see what the Venus looks like, and return it, you'll have gotten pretty much everything unrelated to collecting out of the game. If you say "hmmmm, not sure" rent it and if you enjoy collecting buy it, if not it's due back on the 7th day by Noon!
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| Ammadeau
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| "Re(5):DOAX" , posted Fri 21 Feb 00:14
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I don't think it's worth it. I rented it and thought it was boring. The volleyball is way too simplistic, and the casino is rather unremarkable. Custom soundtrack implementation is pretty good though (Allows you to choose individual songs for a playlist, for day and night). I enjoyed DOA2/3 but personally I think this effort is weak.
Did you play volleyball on anything other than the lowest difficulty setting? It's not simplistic, especially when you play against a good team set to 'confident,' which is the highest skill level. Not even factoring it that your partner's feelings towards you will effect her performance and how your character's stats will effect your own performance, there's plenty of complexity and variety in the actual playing.
Timing your spikes / fakes / passes / serves, knowing when to fake and spike, knowing how to position yourself and your partner, knowing how to set up the other team and break up their defence, knowing which players are strong on defense and which are better spikers, planting your spike / fake where you need it to be, etc. I could go on and on, but there's already a faq on gamefaqs that goes into pretty good detail on this already.
In over 50 hours of play I've played a ton of volleyball and no two games are ever the same... well, except the very first game that the computer basically lets you win anyway. Just because it doesn't have power meters and other artifical crap don't think there isn't any depth there.
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| Juan 2957th Post
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| "As deep as a pot hole on the street." , posted Fri 21 Feb 00:41
I have the game. Its mainly an eye candy game, or a game just to show to friends or people that dont know the xbox and make them go "keanu reeves woah." Besides the eye candy you have the collecting part, which is fun since you get to make your characters wear/use the stuff you get, and the custom soundtrack is heaven sent since the default sound track is utter pop crap. But thats my opinion anyway.
The volleyball game is as deep as pong. Not that its bad, its fun, specially in 2 player mode, but its very very simple. If you want dept go play beach spikers or one of the old NES volleyball game (super spike vball is a good one.) There is no dept. There is no spoon.
But yes defenetly rent it first.
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Timing your spikes / fakes / passes / serves, knowing when to fake and spike, knowing how to position yourself and your partner, knowing how to set up the other team and break up their defence, knowing which players are strong on defense and which are better spikers, planting your spike / fake where you need it to be, etc. I could go on and on, but there's already a faq on gamefaqs that goes into pretty good detail on this already.
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| dorikyasu 664th Post
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| "Re(6):As deep as a pot hole on the street." , posted Fri 21 Feb 13:30
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I liked the comparason of DoAX to Pong, that's a perfect description!
Congrats on post #2K, Doc. 
As for DOAXV, it is shallow, no doubt. Yet it is strangely addictive and I have spent way too much time on it than I'd like to admit due to that. (definitely more than anyone posted in this thread so far...)
Volleyball part of DOAXV = Pong. Yup, that sounds about right. For the most people, I think your level of satisfaction with DOAXV will vary depending on how much you paid for it. Personally, I got it as a gift, so I think it is just fine as it is now. But I don't think it's worth $50 at all... In other words, rent it first!
"Let me tell you what entertainment is: Violence. Sex. Friendship. Death. Surprise. Betrayal. Dancing."
- Tomonobu Itagaki
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| Grave
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| "Re(1):As deep as a pot hole on the street." , posted Fri 21 Feb 16:44
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I have the game. Its mainly an eye candy game, or a game just to show to friends or people that dont know the xbox and make them go "keanu reeves woah." Besides the eye candy you have the collecting part, which is fun since you get to make your characters wear/use the stuff you get, and the custom soundtrack is heaven sent since the default sound track is utter pop crap. But thats my opinion anyway.
The volleyball game is as deep as pong. Not that its bad, its fun, specially in 2 player mode, but its very very simple. If you want dept go play beach spikers or one of the old NES volleyball game (super spike vball is a good one.) There is no dept. There is no spoon.
Deep as a pothole, eh? You obviously don't live in Pennsylvania... the potholes here could swallow cars whole. We'd be dealing with one extremely deep game.
As for the music, yeah, I love my custom soundtrack, and I think the inclusion of those Reel Big Fish tracks was nice. This game needs fun music like that. More ska would have been nice, the pop stuff can be kinda grating, but it does seem fitting with the girls and the atmosphere. I use a mostly Andrew WK soundtrack, myself, hehe.
Anyway, I can certainly see what you're saying. I use Super Spike V'Ball as the benchmark to compare all volleyball games to, and none have ever been that good, DOAX included. Of course, I'm looking for a real 6 person volleyball sim, but it's never gonna happen. Having played volleyball through part of my high school career, I tend to be a bit more demanding than most in my volleyball games, hehe.
My major gripe with DOAX is that the scoring is all rally point. There's no option for side outs to regain control of the ball before you can score. Also, there are no boundaries. No outs, and hell, there are obviously no refs, because half of the hits the girls get would be called as throws in a real volleyball game. 
Of course, if someone was buying DOAX and looking for a serious volleyball sim, they'd be, well, seriously lt down. But for a while, I did have a lot of fun with it, and I'm not selling it because I know I can pick it up again somewhere down the line and enjoy it. It's just not for everyone, that's all.
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