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by Teclo
Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:38 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Were Battle Powers Really Important?
Replies: 50
Views: 4520

I don't hate power levels because they're repeatedly stated to be untrustworthy. I'd hate them if they really were the be-all and end-all of DBZ, but they're not. The whole idea that "DBZ sucks because it's just PL vs PL" is ironic because DBZ itself was saying that PLs are bullshit. It's ...
by Teclo
Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:17 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: Dragonball Z Nintendo DS?
Replies: 13
Views: 1963

Apart from the font looking dodgy, the print quality of Goku (the full-colour one) looks very cheap. Also, they don't seem to make boxed "custom" DSs like this; they tie them in with certain major games, they don't just make a licensed one with no product to go with it. For things like tha...
by Teclo
Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:08 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragonball & One Piece: A Match Made In Heaven?
Replies: 209
Views: 20043

One Piece can be cheesy but I've never found it cheesy in the typical American way where it seems stripped-down, diluted and forced into being happy. Like, in the Apis mini-arc, the ending is a lot more bittersweet than a Disney ending, where we'd hear Celine Dion warbling away while the dragon swoo...
by Teclo
Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:19 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Dragon Ball Online" Discussion Thread
Replies: 1664
Views: 254441

I know Trunks takes you around time, but within the same timezone there are people that take you around the worlds you explore - it's a staple of all MMOs and usually certain classes get this ability themselves later on. So to go from West City to East City or whatever, you'd speak to these people a...
by Teclo
Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:16 am
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: Has anyone tried the Dragonball Z Senzu Bean candy?
Replies: 12
Views: 4342

I was going to buy a few boxes for me and my friend but the postage came to as much as the items, thus doubling the cost. For two boxes of the sweets it would have cost almot £10, or about $17.
by Teclo
Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:15 am
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Fanmanga - DB Multiverse
Replies: 30303
Views: 3690806

I've just read the whole thing. It's important that this is a manga rather than just a written story because it elevates it above what it would be if it was just text; the same can be said of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z itself. Most of DB/Z would work horribly as just text and a huge portion of it...
by Teclo
Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What exactly are the 'rumors/details' behind DragonBall AF??
Replies: 24
Views: 3008

That spacesuit thing isn't from the Uchuu Hen thing. It's probably at some point from when he's travelling to Namek; that was my first impression, anyway. He could have just been looking at a display on the wall, or at the food he had, and the background's been edited out.
by Teclo
Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:11 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What exactly are the 'rumors/details' behind DragonBall AF??
Replies: 24
Views: 3008

You mean "Saiya-jin Zetsu Metsu Keikaku - Uchuu Hen"? I have that on my PC and I just quickly flicked through it and couldn't see that. I'll watch it properly now and see if it does feature, it's only about half an hour long anyway. Edit It's not AF, but I saw some alternative universe com...
by Teclo
Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:04 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragonball & One Piece: A Match Made In Heaven?
Replies: 209
Views: 20043

To be honest, the typical DBZ villain flies around for a bit and blows up a few random "NPCs". That doesn't make me hate them at all. Sure, it gets the blood pumping for the upcoming fight, but I'm hardly thinking "God damn you Cell! How dare you blow up Man in Suit #4!! I was really ...
by Teclo
Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:01 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: "Dragon Ball Online" Discussion Thread
Replies: 1664
Views: 254441

Guys, trust me, you don't want it to be free. Free MMOs suck. Not only is the moderation lax, you get less events and so on and - most importantly - there'll be another way for the hosts to recoup costs and profit. A way like charging real money for in-game items; a practice that makes a mockery of ...
by Teclo
Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:32 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragonball & One Piece: A Match Made In Heaven?
Replies: 209
Views: 20043

One Piece is a great successor to DB without being the same. It seems to be massively inspired by DB without stooping to brainless imitation. And interesting thing is that Oda says that he doesn't care if they fights are epic or not and doesn't really care how they go; he just does them to let off s...
by Teclo
Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:24 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One redeeming quality to GT?
Replies: 26
Views: 3000

It's not a redeeming feature per se, but I have always thought that a lot of the things that GT gets attacked for are just continuations of things in DBZ anyway. If you accept the "Legendary Super Saiyajin" thing happening to every main Saiyajin in the series, then "going beyond"...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:32 pm
Forum: The Podcast
Topic: Episode #0188 (23 August 2009)
Replies: 16
Views: 3016

Anyway, I apologize for my sound quality, which really gets worse as the episode goes on. We had to re-record a lot of my lines as the episode went on, and even then it's still often undecipherable. I'm really not sure what happened, but Mike did his best to edit around it. I actually thought it wa...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:22 pm
Forum: The Podcast
Topic: Episode #0188 (23 August 2009)
Replies: 16
Views: 3016

In terms of the Street Fighter mention... As well as the cyborgs from the anime, there's actual a canon "power level" thing for the Darkstalkers characters. It has the bosses being S Class, with Morrigan's father being S+. It goes down to something like D-Class and apparently below that cl...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:52 pm
Forum: In-Universe Discussion
Topic: The M's are dead?
Replies: 12
Views: 1568

Vegeta was fighting Goku, of all people. Spopovitch was fighting a little girl. At least, in comparison to his steroid abusing, magically enhanced self. Yeah but Goku and Vegeta were more or less matched (SSJ3 aside) whereas Videl broke his neck by 180 degrees. It doesn't matter if your neck was br...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:41 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: DBZ just isn't the same...
Replies: 156
Views: 15051

All Faulconer delivered was crap aimed at 14-year-old Americans with black hoodies on. It arguably works when you're a young teenager but when you grow up, it sounds actually laughable. So horribly overwrought and ham-fisted. For the record, I'm not particularly a fan of the Japanese music. It defin...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:36 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What is your plan if the unthinkable happens?
Replies: 27
Views: 2447

I'm saying it in the context that some people seem to think Funi aren't expecting to sell much. If Diet Coke truly only sold to people who were genuinely on a diet and yet still wanted to drink carbonated, caffeinated sweet water (rather than, y'know, actually healthy food and drinks), it would have...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:59 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Costumes?
Replies: 22
Views: 2708

Piccolo: Turban only Wh-HOA, let's not get carried away here. Some things are best left to the imagination. :wink: Well he'd be like a green Ken doll anyway. For me I'd have to say: Vegeta's pink shirt - after all, real men wear pink The clothes that Goku and Piccolo wear for their driving lessons ...
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:46 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama designs?
Replies: 17
Views: 2135

Well technically Bardock was designed by Toriyama since he is Goku with a palette swap, but I know what you mean.
by Teclo
Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:44 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What is your plan if the unthinkable happens?
Replies: 27
Views: 2447

Yeah typical advertising spiel. Or do you also think that Pepsi Max is really for people that skateboard on the roofs of Skyscrapers? You also have to put it in the context that it was being announced at a pretty hardcore place - your average person will never, ever set foot inside an anime con. I m...