"Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement, Pre-, & Post-Release Discussion Thread

[Thanos]

This doesn't really look or feel any different than the games from fifteen years ago, but yay for Bergamo being playable!

I honestly find that refreshing, in comparison to Raging Blast which changed a lot of things for what seemed to be just for the sake of being different from the Sparking! games. All this really needs to be is that with better graphics and an updated roster and some mechanical adjustments (which has already been seen in the trailer with things like real time beam deflection).

[Quebaz]

This doesn't really look or feel any different than the games from fifteen years ago, but yay for Bergamo being playable!

I mean yeah, that's the point. Bring the series to the modern era with characters that have been introduced since Battle of Gods. If it was going to be different there'd be no point, it would no longer be Sparking!

[Gt91]

I'm incredibly excited for this new trailer! They brought back the gameplay pillars of the old games, from escaping to in-game transformations. The graphic is gorgeous and the animations are beautifully done. It's like literally seeing the anime in action.
I'm definitely happy to see characters like Broly, Bergamo etc but I hope they also add the most important ones from the old series or even characters from DBHeroes or what-ifs.

There is little to do, the game looks amazing and I love it. I haven't been this excited in a long time.



Historic roster boys!

Spoiler:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAzN6oraIAA ... ame=medium

Spoiler:

https://twitter.com/DbsHype/status/1732947838307635511

[ObnoxiousNamek]

Sadly this game (like most of the stuff the franchise has put out in the last decade) will flop. Yes even the great Tenkaichi now dont get me wrong the graphics look nice but they are not on the level of Fighterz they are better than XV2/Kakarot tho ( which isnt much of a feat tbh). The thing thats gonna kill this game is Based on the the PSN page & Steam this game will have no local multiplayer meaning you wont be able to play with friends in the same room everything is gonna be online. Normally that be ok if your game has crossplay or rollback netcode but seeing how this is a non serious/competitive game i highly doubt bandai or spike adds it let alone even know how to implement it. So no local multiplayer, crap online netcode, no crossplay, & I'm 100% sure its gonna be raditz to TOP which is boring we already did that in XV2 sort of. This game isnt bringing anything to the table.

[ObnoxiousNamek]

Almost a year after being announced (followed by an ungodly silence) and that is all they have to show. The Game Awards and the Oscars should include the "Best & Worst Marketing Campaign" category, that's one thing Dragon Ball these days would become a staple on, probably even on a winning streak, unfortunately it's for the latter, though.

Guess I'll just continue to be seated here, waiting for... something substantial to be shown and to talk about.

Is this the first game to feature Bergamo?

No, it's always Dragon Ball Heroes.

Were you expecting them to show everything all at once? if it story stuff then your setting yourself up for disappointment the story in these games are never good. I think they showed enough for an announcement trailer

[sangofe]

Sadly this game (like most of the stuff the franchise has put out in the last decade) will flop. Yes even the great Tenkaichi now dont get me wrong the graphics look nice but they are not on the level of Fighterz they are better than XV2/Kakarot tho ( which isnt much of a feat tbh). The thing thats gonna kill this game is Based on the the PSN page & Steam this game will have no local multiplayer meaning you wont be able to play with friends in the same room everything is gonna be online. Normally that be ok if your game has crossplay or rollback netcode but seeing how this is a non serious/competitive game i highly doubt bandai or spike adds it let alone even know how to implement it. So no local multiplayer, crap online netcode, no crossplay, & I'm 100% sure its gonna be raditz to TOP which is boring we already did that in XV2 sort of. This game isnt bringing anything to the table.

It won't have local vs mode?!

[Jord]

Hot take:
The Japanese voice actors sound very strained and I wouldn't mind a recast. It's not an isolated incident, since they have been going downhill for a while, with Kakarot being another showcase of how they struggle to perform their character voices. It's now at the point where it sounds distractingly bad.

[Lord Beerus]

Sadly this game (like most of the stuff the franchise has put out in the last decade) will flop. Yes even the great Tenkaichi now dont get me wrong the graphics look nice but they are not on the level of Fighterz they are better than XV2/Kakarot tho ( which isnt much of a feat tbh). The thing thats gonna kill this game is Based on the the PSN page & Steam this game will have no local multiplayer meaning you wont be able to play with friends in the same room everything is gonna be online. Normally that be ok if your game has crossplay or rollback netcode but seeing how this is a non serious/competitive game i highly doubt bandai or spike adds it let alone even know how to implement it. So no local multiplayer, crap online netcode, no crossplay, & I'm 100% sure its gonna be raditz to TOP which is boring we already did that in XV2 sort of. This game isnt bringing anything to the table.

It won't have local vs mode?!

If there is no local multiplayer mode, that's a bit of a deal breaker for me. I'm so burnt out on 3D Dragon Ball fighting games, in the sense of going through the same story beat and uninteresting side-quests, that just being able to mess around with the game with my friends in the same room is really the only major thing left that appeals to me.

I'm already very weary of Spike Chunsoft being the developer of this game considering their recent output has been quite poor, especially concerning fighting games.

Let's hope more positive news comes out soon.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

Honestly, lack of local versus is not dealbreaker. When was the last time any of us (both old and new fans) sit with our buddies to play games? That time is long gone, online play is the current paradigm.

[sangofe]

Honestly, lack of local versus is not dealbreaker. When was the last time any of us (both old and new fans) sit with our buddies to play games? That time is long gone, online play is the current paradigm.

If I play against humans that's how I do it.

[Nickolaidas]

Those character models are absolutely insane, holy shit. I'm stupid excited for this.

They had already nailed them since Raging Blast 2.


The thing that has me most hyped if Bergamo. He insinuates an INSANE roster.

Hot take:
The Japanese voice actors sound very strained and I wouldn't mind a recast. It's not an isolated incident, since they have been going downhill for a while, with Kakarot being another showcase of how they struggle to perform their character voices. It's now at the point where it sounds distractingly bad.

Hell, even the US actors are starting to show their age.

[Bardock God of Time]

You guys saw that article that says it will include a Historic Roster?

This game is bigger than we anticipated

[Nickolaidas]

You guys saw that article that says it will include a Historic Roster?

This game is bigger than we anticipated

Yeah, both Tenkaichi 3 and Xenoverse 2 are going to have their asses handed to them, roster wise.

[Quebaz]

Honestly, lack of local versus is not dealbreaker. When was the last time any of us (both old and new fans) sit with our buddies to play games? That time is long gone, online play is the current paradigm.

I recently emulated Tenkaichi Tag Team just so I could have a proper 4 player match with my friends. I would absolutely like to see a feature that was a staple of the franchise for 5 games to come back.

[The Iron Fjord]

My Sparking Zero/BT4 roster wishlist

-Gowasu
-El Grande Padre
-Rildo the Dildo
-Ribrianne
-That one Yardrat guy from Universe 2
-Cheelai
-Fused Zamasu with the big purple hand
-Tarble
-Katopesla (Pepsiman from Universe 3)
-Cell Max
-Gamma 2 (not Gamma 1)
-None of the Super Manga characters
-Supreme Kai of Time
-Whatever new characters get introduced to Daima as DLC or something.

[Hugo Boss]

Did Vegeta just deflect that huge kamehameha?!

I haven’t played Dragon Ball games since Ultimate Tenkaichi, so I don’t know if this is old news, lol. Now that I recently acquired PS5, I’m wondering which game would be the best to get now until Sparking Zero release.

[goku the krump dancer]

If its been animated and shown on t.v in some way I expect some level of representation for it.

The only thing that I hope carries over from Raging Blast is compiling all the separate versions of Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and adult Gohan together. Even though they still had Ultimate Gohan separate for some reason.

Adult Gohan from the Boo arc, GT and Super Hero should all be one character. Piccolo is Piccolo all around, Vegeta from the Saiyan arc up to Super Hero/Daima before being turned into a kid should be one character with GT being separate because of SS4, same with Goku.

Though I wouldn't mind a healthy curve ball where its just one Goku and Vegeta but the twist being that if you choose to go the SS4 route you lose access to the God forms and fusions but gain access to the Limit Breaker forms and fusions and vice versa. You'd obviously be able to revert to base form and start over if the match plays out that way but yeah that could be fun too.

[ObnoxiousNamek]

Actually I think I see why there may not be local multiplayer it’s cause it’d have to be split screen. Games have gotten so complex visually and otherwise that there's not much horse power left over for splitscreen in many cases. A lot of games now are struggling to hit smooth frame rates and solid resolutions for just a single player and when you do split screen that work load to render the game twice goes up big time. Not to mention that games with splitscreen back in the day would often make heavy sacrifices to performance to achieve it - Goldeneye on the N64 would frequently drop into single-digit FPS range when playing 4-player.

Any game that released with a splitscreen mode that ran like that now would get absolutely ripped apart by the press and players alike, even those who loudly bemoan the lack of splitscreen in modern games.

[shadd21]

Sadly this game (like most of the stuff the franchise has put out in the last decade) will flop. Yes even the great Tenkaichi now dont get me wrong the graphics look nice but they are not on the level of Fighterz they are better than XV2/Kakarot tho ( which isnt much of a feat tbh). The thing thats gonna kill this game is Based on the the PSN page & Steam this game will have no local multiplayer meaning you wont be able to play with friends in the same room everything is gonna be online. Normally that be ok if your game has crossplay or rollback netcode but seeing how this is a non serious/competitive game i highly doubt bandai or spike adds it let alone even know how to implement it. So no local multiplayer, crap online netcode, no crossplay, & I'm 100% sure its gonna be raditz to TOP which is boring we already did that in XV2 sort of. This game isnt bringing anything to the table.

Nice bait

[Gt91]

Did Vegeta just deflect that huge kamehameha?!

I haven’t played Dragon Ball games since Ultimate Tenkaichi, so I don’t know if this is old news, lol. Now that I recently acquired PS5, I’m wondering which game would be the best to get now until Sparking Zero release.

Yes, it's a feature from the tenkaichi/raging blast series. You can deflect super attacks with the right timing.

I suggest xenoverse 2. The basic version costs very little and there are also discounted DLCs.




p.s. From the trailer itself you can guess but I’ll confirm: Sparking! ZERO will have a huge roster we’ve ever seen, all the way from OG to Daima, including GT as well!

https://twitter.com/DbsHype/status/1732947838307635511