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

[WittyUsername]

As of right now, this is the list of characters from BT3 who have yet to be confirmed for this game:

1. Garlic Jr. Base
2. Appule (I would’ve considered this unnecessary, but they have Toma, Cheelai and Mighty Mask in this, so at this point, Appule might as well be fair game)
3. All the non-Vegeta Great Apes
4. Pilaf Machine and its combined form
5. Kibito Kaioshin
6. Arale
7. Chi-Chi (if she’s included in the game, I could see them using her teenage self from the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai instead
8. Tambourine
9. Cyborg Tao

[The Dark Knight]

As of right now, this is the list of characters from BT3 who have yet to be confirmed for this game:

With the exception of the great apes, I think all of them have been found in the game's files, so whoever doesn't make the cut this time around will surely do so next time.

[Bardock God of Time]

If they add the Great Apes, they'd also have to add a Great Ape form for Tora

[Koitsukai]

I feel the "+30 characters" is small print for the different variants or forms of the characters already shown.

So, Ohzaru Toma, Ohzaru Seripa, Ohzaru King Vegeta, Kibitoshin, SS Might Mask, Cyborg Tao, Red form of the 4 Star Dragon.

[MCDaveG]

But we are not getting Mighty Mask, what did I miss here?
There are no sources to back it up, or are there?

It was announced officially, with images and a trailer. Just check the NEO trailer and even the game's website.

Spoiler:

This is from the official website.

Holy shit! Ok!
Looking forward to what they did with him. Besides the promo Daima Goku, the characters are quite wholesome.
Just a pitty that we won’t have more complete and epic story mode with so much characters.

I imagine, that the new mode is basically going through map and fight the whole roster placed randomly around and with buffs, for zeni with already completed shop

[The Dark Knight]

It looks like before and after battle voice clips for Adult Chi-Chi and the remaining two members of Cooler's squad were just found in the game's files, so these might be the remaining handful of characters that haven't been revealed yet.

[djh1991]

Here's what +30 characters that revealed from Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Super Limit-Breaking Neo DLC:

1. Super Saiyan Bardock (*New)
2. Fasha (Z)
3. Tora (Z) (*New)
4. King Vegeta (Super) (*New; I hope his Z outfit will appear in the game. Also King Cold should get his Z outfit as well if Spike Chunsoft implement it in the game)
5. Supreme Kai/Nahre (Z) (I hope Kibito will be a separate character and similar to Hell Fighter #17 (GT) and Android #17 (Z) that merged into Super #17. I hope that both Kibito and Supreme Kai will get the same treatment for them to merge into Kibito Kai by using the potara earrings)
6. Kid Uub (Z)
7. Salza (Z)
8. Zangya (Z)
9. General Blue
10. Mercenary Tao
11. Android #8/Eighter
12. Demon King Piccolo
13. Grandpa Gohan
14. Devilman
15. Cheelai (*New)
16. Jaco the Galactic Patrolman (*New)
17. Champa (*New)
18. Nam
19. Vegeta (GT) (*New)
20. Super Saiyan Vegeta (GT) (*New)
21. Trunks (GT) (*New)
22. Super Saiyan Trunks (GT) (*New)
23. Hell Fighter #17 (GT) (*New)
24. Super #17 (GT)
25. Nuova Shenron (GT)
26. Pikkon
27. Mighty Mask (Kid Goten and Kid Trunks alter ego) (*New)
28. Chilled (*New)

Now here's the remaining characters that I hope they include in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero videogame:

29. Teen Chi Chi (if they implement her in the roster, then I hope that they include Goku's End of DB outfit for Goku (Z; Early))
30. Neiz
31. Dore
32. Appule
33. Pilaf Machine (Base, Fusion)
34. Piccolo Jr. (Base, Giant)
35. General Rilldo (GT) (Base, Hyper Rilldo, Metal Rilldo)
36. The rest of the Shadow Dragons from GT
37. Ledgic (GT)
38. Goten (GT) (Base, Super Saiyan)
39. Basil
40. Lavender

[comicstar100]

Will never happen but I'm always hoping for the rest of Turles's crew from Tree of Might. Amond, Cacao, Daiz, Rasin and Lakasei.

[djh1991]

I hope for them to add the rest of Bardock's crew (Shugesh, and Borgos), and the rest of Bojack's henchmen (Bido, Bujin, and Kogua).

[Koitsukai]

Not even a date yet? It's gonna be july 7th and they'll say it's coming out on july 10th. I bet they'll give us a 3 days heads up.

[The Dark Knight]

Not even a date yet? It's gonna be july 7th and they'll say it's coming out on july 10th. I bet they'll give us a 3 days heads up.

It'll likely be previewed in V-Jumo before it gets released, so the earliest we can expect it is the last week of July.

[Cold Skin]

I know people say that being able to get extra costumes would be a great incentive to play the game for hours, but there's an even simpler idea than that, one that would be easy to put in place for the devs as it wouldn't even require creating 3D models: customized portraits for the character selection screen.

I know the character selection screen uses 3D models to show you the look you've given to your characters, but give us the option to use beautiful and famous 2D portraits for every character and make us win them randomly through a lottery of sorts or when reaching the various levels of mastery of the characters and fans will play for hours.

Imagine having character cutouts from the most famous artworks from Toriyama, Toyotaro and the anime artworks from several decades available to represent the characters on screen. People would play for hours to customize the presentation to their favorite representations / art styles for the various characters.

You could choose to have a Goku cutout of the Toriyama artwork showing the three Saiyans against the three Boos for Super Saiyan 3 Goku for example, while having an Ultra Instinct Goku cutout of the Toyotaro artwork for volume 15 of the DBS manga for Ultra Instinct Goku, while also having a cutout of Bardack coming out of his spaceship on planet Meat from an anime shot for Bardack, etc.

It's a simple concept of creating cutouts of existing artworks and putting pictures in the data, but just some sort of "artworks gacha for the game's presentation to your liking" would make players hunt for artworks" for hours.

Brush fans the right way with fan service and customization, and you can come up with things that are probably very simple programming-wise that will keep fans on the game for hours.

[MCDaveG]

I know people say that being able to get extra costumes would be a great incentive to play the game for hours, but there's an even simpler idea than that, one that would be easy to put in place for the devs as it wouldn't even require creating 3D models: customized portraits for the character selection screen.

I know the character selection screen uses 3D models to show you the look you've given to your characters, but give us the option to use beautiful and famous 2D portraits for every character and make us win them randomly through a lottery of sorts or when reaching the various levels of mastery of the characters and fans will play for hours.

Imagine having character cutouts from the most famous artworks from Toriyama, Toyotaro and the anime artworks from several decades available to represent the characters on screen. People would play for hours to customize the presentation to their favorite representations / art styles for the various characters.

You could choose to have a Goku cutout of the Toriyama artwork showing the three Saiyans against the three Boos for Super Saiyan 3 Goku for example, while having an Ultra Instinct Goku cutout of the Toyotaro artwork for volume 15 of the DBS manga for Ultra Instinct Goku, while also having a cutout of Bardack coming out of his spaceship on planet Meat from an anime shot for Bardack, etc.

It's a simple concept of creating cutouts of existing artworks and putting pictures in the data, but just some sort of "artworks gacha for the game's presentation to your liking" would make players hunt for artworks" for hours.

Brush fans the right way with fan service and customization, and you can come up with things that are probably very simple programming-wise that will keep fans on the game for hours.

While interesting idea, it will clash with the UI design a bit, as it will take away your focus from actual fight and it's such a small detail at the same time. It actually doesn't make much sense from functional design standpoint.

[Noah]

I would be surprised if Bio-Broly were included. That character has always been treated as taboo for any game that isn’t Heroes or Dokkan Battle.

That actually made me lol

now I kind of want one of the Dragon Ball lore historians around here to settle this once and for all. Which characters are actually more "taboo" when it comes to being added to the games: Bio-Broly, or GT Gohan and GT Goten?

[WittyUsername]

I still don’t get the point of including Hell Fighter 17 in this. What exactly is he supposed to add to the game, other than letting players fuse into Super 17? I’m pretty sure no one is going to use him outside of that specific purpose, and past games got by just fine without treating Super 17 as a fusion. He doesn’t even have a unique outfit. He looks indistinguishable from DBZ 17.

[Scsigs]

I still don’t get the point of including Hell Fighter 17 in this. What exactly is he supposed to add to the game, other than letting players fuse into Super 17? I’m pretty sure no one is going to use him outside of that specific purpose, and past games got by just fine without treating Super 17 as a fusion. He doesn’t even have a unique outfit. He looks indistinguishable from DBZ 17.

He's pretty much the only variant of 17 they CAN include besides the original since the original is barely different between the normal & Future Trunks timelines & they gave him his Super clothes as an alternate outfit, iirc, so they probably figured why not.

[PhantomSaiyan]

He's pretty much the only variant of 17 they CAN include besides the original since the original is barely different between the normal & Future Trunks timelines & they gave him his Super clothes as an alternate outfit, iirc, so they probably figured why not.

17 from Super is a different character entirely in the game, with a different moveset, not just an alternate outfit.

[WittyUsername]

I would think this game already had enough variants of #17. I don’t see why they needed to add a particular version that I’m pretty sure no one was asking for. I get that it obviously didn’t require much resources, since the assets were already there, but it still seems like a waste.

[DarkPrince_92]

I would think this game already had enough variants of #17. I don’t see why they needed to add a particular version that I’m pretty sure no one was asking for. I get that it obviously didn’t require much resources, since the assets were already there, but it still seems like a waste.

Personally speaking I was asking for Super 17 since launch, he was one of my mains from BT3.

I don't understand the marketing for this game at all at this point. The content they plan to release looks like things that should've been in the game in the first place from the roster to the game modes.

[WittyUsername]

I would think this game already had enough variants of #17. I don’t see why they needed to add a particular version that I’m pretty sure no one was asking for. I get that it obviously didn’t require much resources, since the assets were already there, but it still seems like a waste.

Personally speaking I was asking for Super 17 since launch, he was one of my mains from BT3.

I don't understand the marketing for this game at all at this point. The content they plan to release looks like things that should've been in the game in the first place from the roster to the game modes.

I’m not talking about Super 17. On the contrary, I always found it baffling that he was excluded from the initial roster of this game, despite it including all of Baby Vegeta’s forms. Super 17 is someone I’d consider a necessity for a game that covers GT, but Hell Fighter 17? What’s the point? That’s like if they decided to include Future 17 and Future 18 as their own separate characters in the game.