Dead or Alive 6 - Early 2019

[Zivouhr]

What could Dead or Alive the series do to really change up the formula so it doesn't seem like the same game each time but with slight improvements and new characters/costumes? I guess not much if it remains a pure fighting game. Maybe a new mode, that somehow switches up the combat to a different style, so it's not so much combo streaks of one player beating the hell out of the enemy, and then the enemy getting up and that repeating for the player or vice versa. A mode with more defensive blocking moves maybe. Not sure how they could do that with the existing set up.

I'd like a mode where you could have the character freely be controllable to go to walk around a store, or some of these locations, to explore a larger map, buy the extra equipment, gear, outfits and maybe even swords and shields to fight with. Weapon combat, like Samurai Shodown would draw me back into the series. Just something new that takes advantage of the hardware beyond just small improvements.