I agree with second point completely... They will have to develop a completely new game, or release an upgrade ala Guilty Gear.kemuri07 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 1:12 pm1. I'd argue placing emphasis on arena fighters is actually the smart move on Namco's part precisely because of how cheap they are, and precisely because you can load them up with DLC and new characters and not have to worry about balancing them out for competitive play. The appeal of arena fighters is the low barrier of entry and that you don't necessarily play them in regards for how competitive. You play them because of the cool anime bullshit you can do with them, so it's totally okay if a specific character is over powered.ObnoxiousNamek wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 3:43 amit really does but i doubt they do it mainly because whoever is in charge of the franchise now has been making horrible decisions post 2018 in regards to well... everything. DBFZ2 would be an instant slam dunk but my worry is with the way they have been so cheap with the franchise as of late they'd rather do more low budget arena crap than a 2-d fighter since it isnt as expensive. Like 10 million is great but Fighterz should have been blown past XV2 in sales just off the fact its an infinitely a better product that the xenoverse series will ever dream to be. That worries me that both games have the same amount of copies sold.
2. Honestly, what would a Fighterz 2 even be? Just more characters? Isn't that just a patch update? Especially when you have the likes of SF6 or Tekken 8 on the horizon, it's not enough to just be "more Fighterz." It would have to be significantly different than the first to justify a likely 70$ price tag. And, "characters from Dragon Ball Heroes" just doesn't cut it.
3. Another issue is, well, Dragon Ball itself. The big thing about Street Fighter is that it often moves back and forth through time, which allows Capcom flexibility in character design as well as gameplay mechanics themselves. Street Fighter 6 is canonically the most recent in the game's lore. Goku will always be Goku and no design will dare go beyond anything that we haven't seen in manga/anime.
I'm sure a Fighterz 2 has been discusses and maybe one will happen, but I think it's just as likely that we get more character packs.
But FighterZ is pretty much done and finished at this point.
The thing with Street Fighter and original IP franchises is obvious, they can do anything, introduce anyone, write a new story...
Dragon Ball unfortunately doesn't have that kind of freedom, because it has to be faithful to the source material.
FighterZ is probably the only legit good game in the franchise, I wouldn't buy the rest if I didn't liked the show
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