After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

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After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:16 pm

No doubt ArcSystem's upcoming game for Dragon Ball will be highly successful... if they play their cards right, but what I fear is Budokai's significance to DBZ games might be forgotten by the community.

After a long list of low-quality DBZ games before it, Budokai was a bit of revelation when it first came out in 2002... not for being a great fighting game that could compete with the likes of Virtua Fighter or even Soul Calibur but the first DBZ game in recent memory that wasn't a complete failure. The combat while limited was fast-paced and fairly close to the action depicted in the anime, the story mode made you really feel like you were immersed into the show itself, and there was bells n' whistles everywhere. It was like a love-letters to fans in top of being a competent fighter.

It's sequel Budokai 2 did improve several things (namely the graphics) but it wasn't till Budokai 3 where Dimps really started to step up their game. The game was a massive improvement from it's predecessors with the combat being greatly fleshed out, a story mode with far more longevity and replay value, gorgeous (for the time) cel-shaded graphics, and the spectacles was taken to a whole another level. It received accolades from gamers and critics alike... even by those otherwise disinterested in Dragon Ball. It also developed a small but devoted competitive following.

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However, ever since FighterZ's announcement the community has been more vitriolic of the 3D games and Budokai is not safe from them.

Now what do y'all think? Will Budokai still be seen as the series that revolutionized DBZ games or would it eventually go down as being just another "shallow DBZ stimulator" that the masses eat up? I would hate for that to happen.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by VegettoEX » Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:26 pm

I see this as a huge "nothing" sort of situation.

The most competitive of the players will move from Super Dragon Ball Z (if they're still playing it at all; they were never stuck on Budokai 3 in the first place) to FighterZ, and everyone will still have their nostalgia for what they liked at any given point in time, be it Super Dragon Ball Z or DBZ / Budokai 3 or Sparking! METEOR / Budokai Tenkaichi 3 or anything in between.

There's really nothing to say here based on what you're proposing.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by Nickolaidas » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:50 am

Budokai will be remembered in the US audience as the first DBZ game which wasn't flat out horrendous.

FighterZ will be remembered in the US audience as the first TRUE, solid DB fighting game.

And seriously OP, why do you talk like the Budokai series has any sort of relevance today?

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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by The S » Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:29 am

Yeah outside of the HD collection, the last Budokai came out 16 bloody years ago. I'm really not sure what you're going for, here.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by ShadowBardock89 » Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:10 pm

Infinite World was the send off to the series (though there was the HD Collection, but I digress).
There is nothing for the series to become of as it has been done since 2008.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by emperior » Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:02 pm

If FighterZ is a success, I hope Dimps will consider finishing Xenoverse as a trilogy with XV3, and then start development for a spiritual successor to Budokai 3/IW with Xenoverse's customization and RPG-like features but 2.5D gameplay. Considering they probably wouldn't be using FighterZ's models, that could be the occasion for Dimps to make a semi-competitive game with tons of characters and a fast 2.5D gameplay similar to Burst Limit/Shin Budokai 2.
Hopefully they will at least improve Xenoverse 3 graphics, because I can't see many people liking its look after Fighter Z if it keeps XV2 style.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:18 am

Nickolaidas wrote:Budokai will be remembered in the US audience as the first DBZ game which wasn't flat out horrendous.

FighterZ will be remembered in the US audience as the first TRUE, solid DB fighting game.

And seriously OP, why do you talk like the Budokai series has any sort of relevance today?
The FighterZ community are trying to be enemies with the Budokai community for some reason. They keep lumping them together with the Xenoverse community (despite having little in common) claiming how they would hate FighterZ because it requires "skill" and generally rubbing the games' name in the mud.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by Nickolaidas » Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:52 pm

... there's a Budokai community?

Like, today?

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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by ShadowBardock89 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:06 pm

If anyone was thinking the HD Collection might have reignited interest in reviving the series, they have been sadly mistaken.
Dimps has moved on since then.
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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by bleed0range » Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:36 am

Budokai was great but it’s been over as a series for over 15 years. Fighterz has no real effect on that franchise other than probably ensuring that it has no place to be revived since Fighterz bests it in every way as a traditional fighter. But even so, the “Budokai” name as it related to say Budokai 3 died before the actual gameplay did as Burst Limit came out and was basically a sequel to Budokai in HD. So even if a game like that came out they probably wouldn’t even use the Budokai name anymore.

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Re: After FighterZ comes out and is a success, what will come of the Budokai series?

Post by Nickolaidas » Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:09 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
Nickolaidas wrote:Budokai will be remembered in the US audience as the first DBZ game which wasn't flat out horrendous.

FighterZ will be remembered in the US audience as the first TRUE, solid DB fighting game.

And seriously OP, why do you talk like the Budokai series has any sort of relevance today?
The FighterZ community are trying to be enemies with the Budokai community for some reason. They keep lumping them together with the Xenoverse community (despite having little in common) claiming how they would hate FighterZ because it requires "skill" and generally rubbing the games' name in the mud.
Ah, how little things change. Remember where ten years ago, it was the Budokai fans vs the Sparking! fans?

Now it's FighterZ fans vs Xenoverse fans. *sigh*


As for the 'skill' part, I'd really like to see a pro Xenoverse player play against a mediocre Xenoverse player, and see how he will fare when compared to a pro FighterZ player vs a mediocre FighterZ player.

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