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

[Bardock God of Time]

It's over Biobros

[Mr Baggins]

Globku's gameplay overview and IGN's overview both cover a lot of stuff the trailer didn't.

- CPU vs. CPU confirmed
- UI Sign / UI Goku confirmed to be a separate character from Super Goku (I'm okay with this)
- Bardock's default outfit is confirmed to be his Minus/Broly incarnation
- Encyclopedia confirmed

And probably more info I missed. The menu scenes look hella good, FWIW. No Jaco or OG DB content outside of Goku (Teen) is a tad disappointing but I'm sure they're somewhere in the future DLC pipeline, and the roster is fantastic overall. Excited to get my hands on this.

[danyq94]

First look of "Goku (mini)" from Daima

Spoiler:

[GTx10]

Kid Goku is just snuck in there as an afterthought in-between the two montages and they used regular Piccolo for the opponent.

He really was thrown in there with zero thought. His reveal was what 7 seconds at best. Very disappointed.

[Koitsukai]

I wonder how big the DLCs will be. I wouldn't cough up 20 bucks just for 5 characters, not when I already have almost 200 characters (if they do Beast, Orange, Cell, and G1 and G2/ GT Vegeta, GT Trunks, Twin Dragons and S-17). Well maybe for SH, I would.

They must be more than a handful, for SH I'm thinking around 10-ish characters (4 Gohans, 2 or 3 Piccolos, Cell Max, 2 androids, 2 teenagers). Even more for GT (2 Geets, 2 Trunks, 2 Gotens, 2 Gohans, 2 or 3 Rildos, Super 17, at least 2 and up to 6 dragons)
For the movies probably there will be a henchmen pack, 2 or 3 goons per movie, totalling around 10 sidekicks.
DB should have also at least 10 guys (Old and Young Piccolo, General Blue, 2 Tao Pai Pai, Son Gohan, Arale, and a couple more I'm not including).
Daima is unclear so far.

I doubt they'll xenoverse the DLCs and just provide 2 to 4 characters. Unless the DLC is made of GT and DB with a few guys per series, with 10-ish characters in total.

[FiReFTW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4USzR1F-Fz0

This looks quite awesome, but hopefully this is not the whole Trunks story, its way too short.

[Hellspawn28]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4USzR1F-Fz0

This looks quite awesome, but hopefully this is not the whole Trunks story, its way too short.

Probably not. They have the fights with Freeza, King Cold, #17 & #18, and Cell too.

[Cold Skin]

- Bardock's default outfit is confirmed to be his Minus/Broly incarnation
- Encyclopedia confirmed

Very nice, good job on their parts!
Although there might be a discrepancy between Bardack's look and his behavior if he's 2-in-1, but hey, at least they've put the right one as a priority in his representation.

[Bardock God of Time]

Time to avoid the internet, why have they allowed all of this stuff to come out? (Story, Costumes)

[Makaioshin]

Kid Goku being based on an animation error is a fun reference but him being the main look is the strangest decision I have seen made for these kind of games. Really glad to see some of these movies characters that I didn't think would make it and some DB characters appearing via costumes.

Slightly disappointed with the lack of stages -- hopefully DLC adds more. Really thought the U6 arc arena and a frozen area for DBS Broly/13/Uiro were givens.

[Koitsukai]

Yeah, the lack of stages sucks, it bothers me even more than not having King Piccolo, because we have 182 characters, we can't really be that upset, but the stages aren't proportional to the amount of characters.

I don't think we need 20 more stages, but the Ice stage, U6 arena, Planet Vegeta and probably another one I'm not remembering now would keep us happy.

[Jord]

First look of "Goku (mini)" from Daima

Spoiler:

That actually looks really bad. You have a round head with the square body shape and the flat shading contrasting with the realistically rendered background.
And yes, I know the clothing makes it look squared but that doesn't make it any better.

The contrast with the background though....makes it look like one of those photoshopped "leaks" we'd get during the ps2/ps3 era.

[WittyUsername]

Gonna be honest, if they couldn’t be bothered to include Piccolo Daimao, I think they might as well have not even bothered giving Kid Goku a slot in the base roster.

Anyway, poor Bio-Broly. He’s really never going to be featured in a Dragon Ball console game. That has to be some kind of testament to how hated Movie 11 is.

[TheRed259]

This track reminds me a lot of Dragon Ball Super's music:
https://youtu.be/4USzR1F-Fz0?t=198

[JulieYBM]

Holy crap, Eric Vale stop whatever you're doing, that shit is painful for your throat and painful for my ears.

[FiReFTW]

One thing I find odd when I was looking at the tournament mode, you can filter which characters you want by sagas or stuff in the tournament, and there is a filter for Dragonball.

Why would they have a filter for Dragonball when they don't even have 8 characters for Dragonball in order to make the complete 8 man tournament, a bit odd right, either lazy or they do plan to do a DLC for Dragonball in the future?

[sunsetshimmer]

I really dislike "story" mode of this game, it's a big disappointment compared to previous entries. Yeah we will have "what if" scenarios but that's it. And they really made Goku Black and Jiren have their own campaigns Can't wait for fans to create proper campaign through custom battle mode.

Anyway, custom battles and custom tournaments are the real modes of this game. So much possibilities.

Naming of characters in this game is weird as hell.
-We get "Bardock" who looks like DBS version but fights like DBZ version.
-GT characters all have "GT" tag even if they do not appear in other series. I mean Omega Shenron (GT) is my favorite version of this character for sure!
-Then we have Future Trunks who for some reason doesn't have "Z" or "Super" tag. Z version is just "Trunks" and Super version is "Future Trunks". I guess classic Trunks isn't future anymore, cause DBS Trunks is more future.
-DBZ Gogeta is called "Super Gogeta (Z)" while other versions are simply "Gogeta" with proper tag ("Super" or "GT")
-Vegetto is just..."Vegetto". Not Z, not Super. They had to create separate Super version of Frieza so you can't use all his forms in single character because he didn't use second or third form in Super. But apparently using Vegetto with all the forms is not a problem.

Gonna be honest, if they couldn’t be bothered to include Piccolo Daimao, I think they might as well have not even bothered giving Kid Goku a slot in the base roster.

They added him so they could say "this game offers characters from every series"

[Rinsankajugin]

One thing I find odd when I was looking at the tournament mode, you can filter which characters you want by sagas or stuff in the tournament, and there is a filter for Dragonball.

Why would they have a filter for Dragonball when they don't even have 8 characters for Dragonball in order to make the complete 8 man tournament, a bit odd right, either lazy or they do plan to do a DLC for Dragonball in the future?

OG DLC should be coming, but even in the base roster, it wouldn't surprise me if the game counted Roshi, Yajirobe, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu as OG characters (a la the 22nd and 23rd Budokais). In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw that Jackie Chun and Bandit Yamcha alts were confirmed for the game in a menu tour video.

[WittyUsername]

The more I look at the roster, the more it sticks out to me how incomplete the GT portion comes across without Super 17. I know most everyone hates the Super 17 arc, but that hasn’t stopped past games from including him, and he has plenty of material for a good moveset.

[sunsetshimmer]

The more I look at the roster, the more it sticks out to me how incomplete the GT portion comes across without Super 17. I know most everyone hates the Super 17 arc, but that hasn’t stopped past games from including him, and he has plenty of material for a good moveset.

You'd be surprised how many people are pissed off Super 17 isn't there. He is probably the best example of "we hate GT but we want GT characters in games".

While it's completely understandable they won't fit EVERY character from past games in base game considering how much content Super introduced, taking away anything from already lacking GT representation is sad. And this time we are not even getting GT story, that was also always pathetic, but was there in any form. I'd say having 100% of what GT had in BT3 should be granted and then add something new in DLCs.

And oh god, that OG DB 'roster' is a joke. I get it's very unpopular series compared to even GT, but they should've added King Piccolo at the very least. Showing kid Goku use great ape fist on Piccolo Jr. was sad.