"Dragon Ball Online" Discussion Thread

TheNamek · Post by **TheNamek** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:20 pm

Yet another reason to NOT play this game.

Altered qutoe of Vegeta: "Did I miss something? When was it that the transformation to the Legendary Warrior of the Saiyan race was reduced to a HUMAN's play thing?!?"

@ 00:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgyf-Fia1qw

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:25 pm

TheNamek wrote:Yet another reason to NOT play this game.

Altered qutoe of Vegeta: "Did I miss something? When was it that the transformation to the Legendary Warrior of the Saiyan race was reduced to a HUMAN's play thing?!?" "

Exactly. Even if you wished for this, it would only be a facade. It's not real. You can't actually become a Super Saiyan through intense training. You're granted the ability magically without any hard work at all. It's virtually meaningless.

You'll see kids running around all the time with golden hair. Whoopdedoo. If it was something only a Saiyan could be, and achieving the status would require you to be a super nerd, and even seeing one would be special, then the game might be pretty cool in that aspect. But Super Saiyan has quite literally been reduced to a humans play thing.

TheNamek · Post by **TheNamek** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:31 pm

The transformation should be a skill for saiyans ONLY and through very intense training and skill build up.

Super Saiyans Humans and wasnt there girl Nameks in there somewhere?

Is it a Human or a Saiyan in that photo anyways?

This game is stretching out WAY too far. I would have rathered Mr. Toriyama move his focus is a few new post kid buu arcs or a few new movies than this.

Bura · Post by **Bura** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:33 pm

By the way, here are all the new screenshots I found.

In town
Nameks VS Dinosaur
Girl
Namek
Namek VS Dinosaur
Quest Succes
Attack list
Personality
Map
Through a forest
In a lake
On Namek
Skill list
Pink Namek
Map icon view
Who would this be?
Girl vs Rat
Skills again
Charging
Attack of the floating Saibamen heads
Get DragonBalls > Call Shenron! > Get super skill!
Another alien attack?
Ginyu Cyborg-Freeza fusion?!
Time guardian Trunks steps in
Capsule Corp Robot
Female NPC?
Namek sure looks pretty
Gyumao look-a-like
Muuri sure has gotten... big
It's the Popo shrine XD
Versus grandpa Gohan
Lets go find Goku
Fighting
Baby Goku has been returned!
Little indian
Airplanes
From Yardrat
Nameks vs OOZARU!!!
Battle power
Oil tanks
Milk delivery?

Post by **Herms** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:53 pm

TheNamek wrote:Super Saiyans Humans and wasnt there girl Nameks in there somewhere?

You're thinking of the female majin.

Is it a Human or a Saiyan in that photo anyways?

So far only Earthlings have been revealed to be in the game, so that's presumably an Earthling. There might be a lot of Earthlings with traces of Saiyan blood after 200 years of interbreeding.

@Bura: none of those pictures are working for me.

TheNamek · Post by **TheNamek** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:15 pm

To make them work; refresh.

Post by **Herms** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:22 pm

When I do that, it says they're forbidden.

Bura · Post by **Bura** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:30 pm

Herms wrote:@Bura: none of those pictures are working for me.

Here's the site I got them from.

Post by **Herms** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:06 pm

Wow, thanks! That's a nice article.

Bura · Post by **Bura** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:26 pm

Herms wrote:Wow, thanks! That's a nice article.

You're welcome!

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:30 pm

Innagadadavida wrote: Exactly. Even if you wished for this, it would only be a facade. It's not real. You can't actually become a Super Saiyan through intense training. You're granted the ability magically without any hard work at all. It's virtually meaningless.

If gathering the Dragon Balls were as easy as you guys somehow make em out to be, I'd agree with you. We don't even know the difficulty of obtaining them as of yet, but I'd imagine it would be quite perilous and challenging given all the time travel quests, traveling, and grinding trademarked of an MMORPG. In any case, I find it to be an overreaction of what we've been shown so far. I certainly hope it isn't easy as it seems to be made out. I hope there's some sort of set condition aside from gathering the Dragon Balls (like being at the max level cap), then I probably wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Overall, I'm just curiously optimistic, but like most, I don't like the inclusion of the "Super Skill" (unless there's some sort of time limit on it ala Super DragonBall Z), but I'd imagine this is some sort of way of pleasing the Saiyan-holics who weren't looking forward to the game because their beloved race wasn't included.

B · Post by B » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:18 pm

http://www.4gamer.net/games/038/G003825 ... SS/040.jpg

Saibaman?

Also, I'm pretty sure Super Saiyan is a temporary powerup for battles that goes away fairly quickly. It's the only thing I can think of for why they would include it. If they were just gonna hand it out to players, they wouldn't have killed off the Saiyan race.

I see no reason to worry about n00bs.

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:46 pm

God, the pink Nameccian makes my eyes bleed. Some of those other pics are neat though.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:28 am

So happy this page has a sample of multiple hairstyles for avatars. X3
I hope someone compiles a full gallery of styles/colors at some point.

The google translation (though I don't know how accurate this is) seems to point to the humans in this game as having at least some saiyajin ancestry in them.

I'm not in that field, but, is it even possible for Goku and Vegeta's bloodlines to expand that much in 200 years?

Saimaroimaru · Post by **Saimaroimaru** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:28 am

So it seems you can wish for super saiyan.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:37 am

Innagadadavida wrote:You can't actually become a Super Saiyan through intense training. You're granted the ability magically without any hard work at all. It's virtually meaningless.

We have absolutely no information on the level required, or how difficult it is to gather the Dragonballs, for all we know you might have to reach the level cap before you can wish to become a Super Saiya-jin, which would take quite a bit of work.

So it's a bit too early to pass judgement on this, I think wishing to become a Saiya-jin is a nice way of satisfying fans without screwing with things too much.

Tekkaman-James · Post by **Tekkaman-James** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:45 am

The way I see the addition of this "Super Skill" is rather simple in terms of genetics. After 200+ years of their Saiya-Jin DNA being intermingled into the human race, you can essentially look at the ability to turn Super Saiya-Jin as a dormant, recessive gene that some humans might possess.

Think about how hard it was for Gohan and Future Trunks, as half-blooded Saiya-Jin, to turn into Super Saiya-Jin the first time. Couple that with the fact that Pan, as a quarter-blooded Saiya-Jin, never had the ability to turn Super Saiya-Jin at all. Take that Saiya-Jin blood and thin it out over 200+ years, and the amount of humans with diluted Saiya-Jin blood exponentially increases.

Clearly, if a quarter-blooded Saiya-Jin like Pan couldn't harness the power of the Super Saiya-Jin, no human in Age 1000 that might have Saiya-Jin blood could ever hope to...unless they wished for it. So, sensibly, from a plot standpoint, having this "Super Skill" attainable from a wish from Shenlong definitely works.

Personally, humans being able to tap into that small amount of Saiya-Jin blood would have to take a ton of concentration and energy to cause the change. So, I agree that it would make a whole lot of sense to just have it as a brief, last-ditch power-up in battle with a very long recharge time. However, if it can be activated at will, thematically, this works too. Once a character in DBZ finally achieves the state of Super Saiya-Jin, they appear to be able to easily turn it on and off after that point. So, if a human wished for this "Super Skill" in the game, it wouldn't be remotely far-fetched that they could also turn it on and off after that. Either way, the skill should still have a really long recharge time.

At the end of the day, I'm going to be a Namekian, so it doesn't really matter to me.

Senzu_Bean · Post by **Senzu_Bean** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:11 am

We don't know if Pan couldn't go SSJ since she was only four the last and first we see her.
But Shenlong grants the SSJ wish is utterly ridiculous.

Senzu_Bean · Post by **Senzu_Bean** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:11 am

*Delete this post, please*

Sunlight & City Night · Post by **Sunlight & City Night** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:18 am

What exacly are the system requierments to play this game?
Have they been announced?