"Dragon Ball New Project (AGE 1000)" Official Discussion Thread.

[Chuquita]

Disappointed it's just Xenoverse 3. I did play 1 & 2 forever ago, and I liked them, but not enough to stick around for the DLC.

I was looking forward to seeing some reinvented DBO-type thing instead of more XV, but oh well.

[Grimlock]

If confirmed, Toriyama contributed to the Xenoverse series, one last hurrah from him! I have a vague memory that it was him who chose the design for Kaioshin of Time among a bunch that were presented to him, but I might be misremembering it. It would also come full circle, he spent years on Dragon Ball Online, so he had to be involved in the series that took hard inspiration from it.

I really hope they confirm it's Xenoverse 3, it is one series that deserves and should have a trilogy. If anything, it's already confirmed that the hairstyle will change with the Super Saiyan form, if the cost for that is reducing the amount of hairstyles, so be it. I just want them to change with Super Saiyan 2 as well.

[The Dark Knight]

Considering nearly every major character from Z and Super are in Xenoverse 2, I hope they include a lot more GT representation, as well as finally bring original DB characters into the fold.

[IntangibleFancy]

Is it weird that I’m still not convinced it’s Xenoverse 3? Idk, it’s just that the way the project has been described seems like something completely different than what Xenoverse has gone for. Plus, unless they’re ignoring Daima (which would be weird since its whole thing is the demon realm), a big part of the story is outdated.

I think if it does have something to do with Xenoverse, it’s going to be like sparking zero where it’s basically a reboot for old and new fans.

[Bardock God of Time]

There still is a lot of content that can be told in Xenoverse 3

OG Dragon Ball, I can see there being a mission like OG Dragon Ball Online where you have to protect Baby Goku & Grandpa Gohan from Frieza Soldiers

There's still some Z Villains like Garlic Jr, Dr Wheelo and Bio Broly who can be integrated into the plot. I've been watching Salad Saiyan's "What if Everything was Canon" and I think they can find an interesting way to incorporate Dr Wheelo into the story. Why not have Dr Wheelo steal Raditz's corpse (did it ever get buried? did it just rot away?) to become the World's Strongest?

There are Z characters that aren't playable like Semi-Perfect Cell, Frieza's 2nd and 3rd Forms, Chaiotzu, Master Roshi, I can go on and on.

With the Moro arc getting animated finally, I'm betting that will be a DLC scenario for Xenoverse 3. And I hope once we get to Granolah, we get a Cerulean race added to the game.

[shadd21]

The thing that excites me the most about this game being Xenoverse 3 is that there's a 0% likelihood the base game will include content from the Moro arc, meaning that for them to expand the roster, they have no choice but to use characters from DB, Super, and Gt whom never been playable in a game before (sans Heroes or Legends)


Given Dimp's history of repurposing character assist and animations from their older games into newer ones(Heroes was build on the Budokai engine and reuses it's animation , same with Legends as it was build in the engine XV2 and uses it's some models and animations as base) I can see them repurposing the deep cut characters playable in Legends into Project 1000.

[Mr Baggins]

As long as Sparking! ZERO continues to get updates and support, I'm satisfied. But yeah, there goes what little interest I had in this (unless it turns out to be very different from XV2).

[The Dark Knight]

There's still some Z Villains like Bio Broly who can be integrated into the plot.

Why would you wish such an atrocity on mankind ? Hasn't the human race suffered enough ?

As long as Sparking! ZERO continues to get updates and support, I'm satisfied.

I can see SZ getting enough support to include missing characters and stages from the current story arcs, but I have a feeling Moro and everything after will be saved for a sequel.

[kiarasuraru]

That's a big bummer.
I really hope they're using Xeno3 for the sake of branding and it's not just following the same old tired formula until the end of time again. Near-zero chances for that to happen though.

[IntangibleFancy]

Yeah. If I had a choice between a game centered around Heroes, Online, and Xenoverse, I’d take the other two. Heroes has a plethora of original characters, villains, and areas with their own storylines. That’s awesome, right? Heroes has that too, with a lot of fanservice content like super saiyan 4 Vegito and golden cooler. That’s awesome too.

Xenoverse doesn’t really have any of that. Maybe they plan to do something different here, which I hope, but when I think of Xenoverse, I think of characters turning purple for a decade. The DLC after 6 were a step in the right direction, some flavor was added to it at least, like taking down “good guys” like Bardock and Jiren, but it’s still more of the same “oh no, this guy turned purple and strong! Beat them up”

[Bardock God of Time]

That's a big bummer.
I really hope they're using Xeno3 for the sake of branding and it's not just following the same old tired formula until the end of time again. Near-zero chances for that to happen though.

The game could be completely different in terms of story, it might focus on the Age 1000 element more than going back in time to fight a slightly stronger villain

But the gameplay will stay the same

[The Dark Knight]

Now that Heroes is officially over, I can see them using XV3 as a way to keep that content alive. The likes of Ssj4 Broly and Vegetto will do really well when it comes to marketing this game.

[PhantomSaiyan]

But didn't they say that the point of this game is to have a setting in the DB world that we've never seen before, years into the future, with a completely new cast etc

How do they plan to turn that premise into a classic Xenoverse game exactly? If it's just "go back to the past to fix the timeline" again for the third time, then that just makes that very cool premise appear pretty lame and useless

[The Dark Knight]

But didn't they say that the point of this game is to have a setting in the DB world that we've never seen before, years into the future, with a completely new cast etc

Yes, but they never said anything about the old cast being absent though. The game will be set in the very far future, which is a time frame the series has never explored before. It will include a new cast of characters messing with the classic timeline, which is where the old cast comes in.

[PhantomSaiyan]

Yes, but they never said anything about the old cast being absent though. The game will be set in the very far future, which is a time frame the series has never explored before. It will include a new cast of characters messing with the classic timeline, which is where the old cast comes in.

If they waste this cool new setting for a typical Xenoverse style "let's go back in time to fix the timeline" shenanigans, then it's lame, and the new cool setting will be living up to it's potential which is really disappointing.
Obviously we know nothing about the game, but if it follows the typical Xenoverse formula, then my hopes aren't very high for the setting actually mattering.

I guess the people that wanted more Xenoverse will be happy, but hijacking this DB Online style world with generic Xenoverse plots doesn't sound very appealing to me personally

[Bardock God of Time]

Yes, but they never said anything about the old cast being absent though. The game will be set in the very far future, which is a time frame the series has never explored before. It will include a new cast of characters messing with the classic timeline, which is where the old cast comes in.

If they waste this cool new setting for a typical Xenoverse style "let's go back in time to fix the timeline" shenanigans, then it's lame, and the new cool setting will be living up to it's potential which is really disappointing.
Obviously we know nothing about the game, but if it follows the typical Xenoverse formula, then my hopes aren't very high for the setting actually mattering.

I guess the people that wanted more Xenoverse will be happy, but hijacking this DB Online style world with generic Xenoverse plots doesn't sound very appealing to me personally

I mean didn't Dragon Ball Online have us go back in time to stop changes?

[PhantomSaiyan]

I mean didn't Dragon Ball Online have us go back in time to stop changes?

Did it? I never played it since it was basically impossible for me back in the day, I just know the lore bits.

But regardless, I doubt it was in the same veins as Xenoverse, and even if it was, then it's bad in Online as well, doesn't change my argument about wasting a potentially cool setting.

But I guess there was no chance we were getting a game without the legacy characters... I would rather have all new cast, with some descendant characters, but I guess it would not be as popular as a cookie cutter Xenoverse 3. I'll at least look forward to the Toriyama made lore about the future of the Dragon Ball world.

[IntangibleFancy]

Yes, but they never said anything about the old cast being absent though. The game will be set in the very far future, which is a time frame the series has never explored before. It will include a new cast of characters messing with the classic timeline, which is where the old cast comes in.

If they waste this cool new setting for a typical Xenoverse style "let's go back in time to fix the timeline" shenanigans, then it's lame, and the new cool setting will be living up to it's potential which is really disappointing.
Obviously we know nothing about the game, but if it follows the typical Xenoverse formula, then my hopes aren't very high for the setting actually mattering.

I guess the people that wanted more Xenoverse will be happy, but hijacking this DB Online style world with generic Xenoverse plots doesn't sound very appealing to me personally

I mean didn't Dragon Ball Online have us go back in time to stop changes?

It did, but it also had a lot of original things too. Like the red pants gang, Cell X, frieza force soldiers sticking around, dark namekians, etc etc.

[kiarasuraru]

If they waste this cool new setting for a typical Xenoverse style "let's go back in time to fix the timeline" shenanigans, then it's lame, and the new cool setting will be living up to it's potential which is really disappointing.
Obviously we know nothing about the game, but if it follows the typical Xenoverse formula, then my hopes aren't very high for the setting actually mattering.

I guess the people that wanted more Xenoverse will be happy, but hijacking this DB Online style world with generic Xenoverse plots doesn't sound very appealing to me personally

I mean didn't Dragon Ball Online have us go back in time to stop changes?

It did, but it also had a lot of original things too. Like the red pants gang, Cell X, frieza force soldiers sticking around, dark namekians, etc etc.

Exactly. The Time Patrol stuff was just one of many things. DBO had a lot of plots in the current era. Sure, the Time Breakers had hand on many of those other factions but the key point is that they were original unique plots to the game that could only and did happen because of the game's setting.

The worst part about Xenoverse is that you heard the NPCs doing all sorts of cool things. That one mention of a timeline where Piccolo Daimao absorbed Kami and was engaged in a three-way war against Babidi and the Red Ribbon Army lives rent free in my head. What do we, the players, get? Oh no, MC-kun! Villain-sama got a +1 in their powerlevel that gave them a color swap in their model! Quick! You have to help them defeat Villain-sama or the timeline will go wack if they win!
That's 99% of Xenoverse's content. I have no words to describe how absolute lame it is. Even worst what-if on TikTok is more creative and interesting and original.

[kprison]

Well, that sure was a leak.

I thought Xenoverse 1 was mid and hated Xenoverse 2, from the hub design to to the story to the visuals to the DLC, so unless this is a radically different approach my interest is dead.