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by Thanos
Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Replies: 916
Views: 97747

Re: A new Budokai Tenkaichi has been announced

With that logic you could say the same with Xenoverse as its a 3D DBZ fighting simulator and now we have Tenkaichi so why not have a more casual friendly 2.5D game?(FighterZ isn't a 2.5D game but you get the idea) If this game releases in 2024, that will put eight years between Xenoverse 2 and this...
by Thanos
Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:20 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Are you sick of Goku?
Replies: 53
Views: 3273

Re: Are you sick of Goku?

No. There aren't any characters that would be more interesting as protagonists. Gohan and Goten are cultured versions of Goku (in other words, without the attributes that make Goku interesting) who don't care about fighting so you can't really do it without it coming across like bad fanfiction. As f...
by Thanos
Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: DBZ (finally) returns as the main series brand for marketing as DBS brand is on it's death bed
Replies: 10
Views: 1557

Re: DBZ (finally) returns as the main series brand for marketing as DBS brand is on it's death bed

The newly announced Budokai Tenkaichi game also uses the Z-branding. To be fair, the game's title has not been confirmed. They could very well drop the "Z" branding from the game for all anyone knows. IAs a personal take, I hate "Z" it was a total arbitrary split in the storylin...
by Thanos
Tue Mar 07, 2023 8:07 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Replies: 916
Views: 97747

Re: A new Budokai Tenkaichi has been announced

I dunno what to think about it. I would've preferred a budokai 4 over this. You mean Infinite World? That's a Budokai 3,5 to me. No shot Budokai comes back concurrently with FighterZ still being relevant. They'd definitely do another FighterZ before reviving Budokai because of, ya know... money and...
by Thanos
Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:58 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball's spiritual successor
Replies: 36
Views: 2376

Re: Dragon Ball's spiritual successor

Wasn't Dragon Ball technically a spiritual successor to "Dragon Boy"...? :)
by Thanos
Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:59 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Replies: 916
Views: 97747

Re: A new Budokai Tenkaichi has been announced

I know its a Tenkaichi game, but I'm having a hard time believing Spike managed to make a DB game look as good as DBFZ from ASW. Didn't even know they were still around. It's one of those things I will only believe when it's officially confirmed. One of the big mysteries here seems to be the develo...
by Thanos
Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:28 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Replies: 916
Views: 97747

Re: A new Budokai Tenkaichi has been announced

I know they're doing it for hype reasons but I hope they ditch the Budokai Tenkaichi branding for the final release. Pick a name, call it that in all regions... I think they have to for online purposes. It looks like they've already made their mind up since there's two versions of the trailer, one ...
by Thanos
Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Replies: 916
Views: 97747

Re: A new Budokai Tenkaichi has been announced

I've been curious how the roster would be handled in a modern context. There were already an absurd amount of Gokus and Gohans, now there's even more. There's definitely some fat they could trim to the third game's roster, such as some of the Dragon Ball characters and ones like Babidi, Yajirobe, et...
by Thanos
Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:40 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: I just watched the ending of GT (Japanese version) and it was one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen
Replies: 63
Views: 4548

Re: I just watched the ending of GT (Japanese version) and it was one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen

The best word for the overall feeling throughout GT in general is 'wistful' (defined as having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing), and I don't think you can really dissect that feeling any better than that. GT absolutely nails that and it just climaxes by the end. The 10th Anniversa...
by Thanos
Sun Feb 12, 2023 2:10 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Could foreign dub casts be a thing of the past?
Replies: 48
Views: 3572

Re: Could foreign dub casts be a thing of the past?

I was actually toying with this a bit myself before I knew anyone else was and I got some interesting results. I fed a line from the Buu arc from Piccolo and used Toshio Furukawa and I think it sounds pretty good . Aside from being an interesting novelty I'm not sure I see much real-world applicatio...
by Thanos
Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:50 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Are you done with Dragon Ball?
Replies: 56
Views: 4391

Re: Are you done with Dragon Ball?

I've come to accept I'm in it for the long haul. I'm almost 33 and have been a fan since I was 10. Virtually every other interest, opinion and sensibility in my life has evolved or completely changed, but somehow my interest in this franchise remains solid. I still feel excited with every new releas...
by Thanos
Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:07 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Shunsuke Kikuchi has passed away
Replies: 97
Views: 15440

Re: Shunsuke Kikuchi has passed away

Agreed. Animated Dragon Ball lost part of its identity when it moved away from Kikuchi's sound and started sounding "modern" (RE: generic). GT wasn't as bad in that regard since Tokunaga's score was kinda emulating Kikuchi, but from Kai onward Dragon Ball music just sounds so bland and ge...
by Thanos
Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:59 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 15616
Views: 2149352

Re: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread

I would think a movie-related Gohan would be able to transform into Beast Gohan? What's the point if he doesnt? The answer to this question is the exact same answer to the question: "Why are Bojack/#13 first forms in the game but not their transformations?" The roster logic for this game ...
by Thanos
Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:38 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu - The Worst Fighting Game by Matt McMuscles
Replies: 6
Views: 5215

Re: Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu - The Worst Fighting Game by Matt McMuscles

I think I remember hearing about the Saiyan Smash game in an old Game Pro article that talked about a bunch of games that Atari plan for the franchise. I remember that too. It did pop up on a few random video game news websites as being a GameCube game. I had no idea that the Taiketsu sprites were ...
by Thanos
Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:35 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 15616
Views: 2149352

Re: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread

Leakers just throwing “confirmed” dates like that has gotten so old. I’ll believe an announcement when I see it. Okay, so you have a lot of subscribers on YouTube... does that mean that somehow a Japanese production company is feeding you information that they won't tell the public? I remember Geek...
by Thanos
Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:38 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 15616
Views: 2149352

Re: "Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2" Official Discussion Thread

No way it's not GT Vegeta the way the voting looks online. Ahh, is this the part where they put in as little effort as possible and not even bother fixing his weird off-model face but just changing the hair? They could still do a Xenoverse 3, it's just I don't think it's going to happen anytime soo...
by Thanos
Sun May 22, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Were people unfair to the Raging Blast games?
Replies: 6
Views: 2030

Re: Were people unfair to the Raging Blast games?

They felt like diet Sparking games. That about sums it up. The first Raging Blast specifically, it was one step forward, and about four steps back. There were some decent ideas in terms of gameplay and the upgraded character models were nice (for the most part… this is about when it was decided Veg...
by Thanos
Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:47 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Budokai 4 in 2022
Replies: 25
Views: 4930

Re: Budokai 4 in 2022

Well, hopefully there's something this year other than "The Breakers", because frankly that isn't going to cut the mustard. It feels like a super cheap spin-off game. What the hell else is Dimps doing other than periodically releasing a character and some Parallel Quests anyway!? I can't i...
by Thanos
Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:39 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Am I the only one who feels like I missed out on Dragon Ball?
Replies: 41
Views: 4974

Re: Am I the only one who feels like I missed out on Dragon Ball?

I became a fan in late 1999/2000, and I feel like I missed out. Hell, even if you live in America and jumped on board in 1995 around when the series came here, you'd be coming in right as Z was ending in Japan. I know how you feel though, I feel that way about a great deal of things I enjoy--not to ...
by Thanos
Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:23 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
Replies: 5562
Views: 585199

Re: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"

I feel like the fanbase just gets more picky and grumpy over the years. If new content isn't exclusively rehashing 30-year-old plotlines (if I see Coola brought up one more damn time... yeah, forget new original plots, let's just check boxes on rehashing non-canon plots into canon) and 99% mindless ...