Favorite American-made DBZ Game

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:43 pm

Hello! Here I am, with an interesting post.

We all know that the majority of DBZ Games are made in Japan, mostly by Namco-Bandai, then are distributed here by Atari. Most of the time, the games are well recieved. However, the majority of American-made DBZ games are not. Which games, however, in your opinion, are your favorites?

I happen to like Legacy of Goku 2, which is tied with Legendary Super Warriors. I'm not sure if LSW is American, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:16 pm

TLoG II improved so much on the half-decent formula used on the first. And unfortunately, the third lost its touch.

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:35 pm

bkev wrote:TLoG II improved so much on the half-decent formula used on the first. And unfortunately, the third lost its touch.

I totally agree. I think 2 was the best of the trilogy.

Post by **Herms** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:39 pm

Legendary Super Warriors is a Japanese-made game.

I've always liked the Legacy of Goku games, even the first one, but I think Buu's Fury is my favorite. Though I loved the scouter system in LoG II, where you could scan any random person and thing, including dogs and butterflies, and it'd give you their exact stats. I just love that attention to detail. You can sort of still do that in Buu's Fury, but you can only see the stats of playable characters or enemies.

kusakun004 · Post by **kusakun004** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:40 pm

The second Legacy of Goku was the best. The first one only had one character and once you beat it it only went back to the Freeza fight which would make you want to restart the game. The third game I have yet to beat as I can't get past Buu as Gohan. But the second was easily the best.

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:54 pm

Legacy of Goku 2 ALL THE WAY. That game was revolutionary, IMO. In Buu's Fury... every single enemy was easy as hell because if you just backed them into a corner and started punching... they wouldn't even move! That really made the game a little less challenging and fun. Legacy of Goku 1 was pretty much bad... right once you start the game... you have squirrels and things that are like, freakin 2-3 times stronger than you? I mean... what's up with that?

--Fanboy rant over--

LOG 2 = Best

Buu's Fury = In between

LOG = Worst

Yeah.

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:34 pm

DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:Legacy of Goku 2 ALL THE WAY. That game was revolutionary, IMO. In Buu's Fury... every single enemy was easy as hell because if you just backed them into a corner and started punching... they wouldn't even move! That really made the game a little less challenging and fun. Legacy of Goku 1 was pretty much bad... right once you start the game... you have squirrels and things that are like, freakin 2-3 times stronger than you? I mean... what's up with that?

--Fanboy rant over--

LOG 2 = Best

Buu's Fury = In between

LOG = Worst

Yeah.

God i hated being so weak
you know that there was a cheat code within the game or invincibility?

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:35 pm

It was so buggy, you could become invincible just by getting hit by ki when "flying".

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:17 pm

VenomSymbiote wrote:
DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:Legacy of Goku 2 ALL THE WAY. That game was revolutionary, IMO. In Buu's Fury... every single enemy was easy as hell because if you just backed them into a corner and started punching... they wouldn't even move! That really made the game a little less challenging and fun. Legacy of Goku 1 was pretty much bad... right once you start the game... you have squirrels and things that are like, freakin 2-3 times stronger than you? I mean... what's up with that?

--Fanboy rant over--

LOG 2 = Best

Buu's Fury = In between

LOG = Worst

Yeah.
God i hated being so weak
you know that there was a cheat code within the game or invincibility?

Haha, yep... Hitting the D-Pad and A+B (forgot the combination lol) during the little "title sequence"... or American DBZ Opening #1. lol

@bkev: haha... man... that game was really full of blunders.

I like Buu's Fury a lot, too, but it's no Legacy of Goku II... that's for sure.

@this board

: I remember that I went with my dad to GameStop in June '03 to pre-order the game.

Ahhhh, good ol' kick-ass 2003.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:20 pm

It's a toss-up between Buu's fury and LOG2...although for some odd reason I semi-enjoy DBGT Transformations despite the controls being a tad stiff.

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:24 pm

NeptuneKai wrote:It's a toss-up between Buu's fury and LOG2...although for some odd reason I semi-enjoy DBGT Transformations despite the controls being a tad stiff.

Same here! I LOVED that game a lot. I looked everywhere for it when it first came out. It was like nowhere to be found! Not even in GAMESTOP or BEST BUY, people! The controls were a little clunky. But the game was a joy ride! I beat it the first day I got it, in like 2-3 hours, though.

I had fun playing as Golden Oozaru Goku!

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:56 pm

Buu's Fury is better than LoG2 for one major reason - no goddamn egg-carrying. Also, Vegetto.

I also thought Sagas was actually decent for several reasons:

-I never encountered the supposed huge amount of glitches other people have (but then, I've never had Windows BSOD on me either).
-It had characters that had never been in a game up 'til then.
-A actiony beat-em-up was a welcome difference from the endless array of fighting games - it was like LOG in 3D.
-Two player co-op!

Forgotten Hero · Post by **Forgotten Hero** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:16 am

I guess Legacy 2, SSJ2 Gohan is just awesome. My friend and I use to hack the emulated game and use SSJ2 Gohan on Cooler.(I owned the game back then.)

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:22 am

Rocketman wrote:Buu's Fury is better than LoG2 for one major reason - no goddamn egg-carrying. Also, Vegetto.

I also thought Sagas was actually decent for several reasons:

-I never encountered the supposed huge amount of glitches other people have (but then, I've never had Windows BSOD on me either).
-It had characters that had never been in a game up 'til then.
-A actiony beat-em-up was a welcome difference from the endless array of fighting games - it was like LOG in 3D.
-Two player co-op!

Sagas was actually really good at first, IMO. But then, it got "out-dated", if y'know what I mean. LOGII's egg-carrying was a challenge... but it was pretty damn fun. lol

@ForgottenHero: Haha cool! I always loved that last battle with Cell... and I always wanted to use SS2 Teen Gohan outside of that battle. My friend used an Action Replay to pimp out his characters... and in turn... he stayed in everyone's transformed state nearly forever... and their health never went down. And he repeatedly handed Cooler his ass for at least 2-3 hours continuously and non-stop, with each character. -.-* I really loved playing as Hercule... he was worth it with those super awesome, full of win attacks!

I really like that "Solar Flare" type attack... I think it was called "Sun Flare" or something... I forgot, since it's been over 4 years. My GBA broke 2 years back.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:25 pm

The only thing I didn't like about LOG2 was that Gohan fights as SSJ2 in Saiyan Armor. Would it really have taken that long to change him back to his piccolo outfit.

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:40 pm

omegacwa wrote:The only thing I didn't like about LOG2 was that Gohan fights as SSJ2 in Saiyan Armor. Would it really have taken that long to change him back to his piccolo outfit.

Oh man. I've had that game for a long time and I never noticed that he wasn't in the Piccolo outfit. Some fan I am.

Post by **Herms** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:50 pm

omegacwa wrote:The only thing I didn't like about LOG2 was that Gohan fights as SSJ2 in Saiyan Armor. Would it really have taken that long to change him back to his piccolo outfit.

That always bugged me, especially because they have Gohan wearing a Piccolo outfit earlier in the game, so why not use it for the Cell Games Gohan sprite? They could just have him come out of the Room of Spirit and Time already wearing it.

But that aside, LoG2 is a pretty good game. Did anyone notice that in the key-stealing hermit's house, you can get experience points by hitting the punching bag? It's a really small amount each time you hit it, so it's not very good to level up with unless you're just on the very brink of going up a level, but it's still a neat detail.

Super Saiyan Turlast x4 · Post by **Super Saiyan Turlast x4** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:59 pm

Well, I agree with the general consensus about LOG2 being the best U.S DBZ game.

The only thing that I didn't like, was the fact that you couldn't do battle with Mecha Freeza & Cold along with their henchmen. Instead, we have to look at SSJ Trunks take all of them out, though that was very cool too.

Some of you are seriously underestimating Taiketsu.

*Quickly leaves topic*

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:15 pm

Oh, the game I bought and returned in the same day.

Super Saiyan Turlast x4 · Post by **Super Saiyan Turlast x4** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:20 pm

You didn't like the how Goku had to turn SSJ just to use the Spirit Bomb? That was greatness in itself.

The cover of the game surely didn't give us the proper hint of what the game really was capable of, though.