"Dragon Ball Online" Discussion Thread

Post by **Herms** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:20 am

B wrote:GT is not taken into account for this game.

I don't think that's been officially said anywhere, but yeah, it certainly seems like they're ignoring the anime for this game: 4-fingered Namekians, Yardratians who don't look like the ones from filler, and Mister Boo apparently never fusing with Oob.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:50 am

If Goku's great, great, great grandson can be come a Super Saiyan (at what? ten years old?) Why can his decendants? And the decendants of Vegeta.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:00 pm

Anonymous Friend wrote:If Goku's great, great, great grandson can be come a Super Saiyan (at what? ten years old?) Why can his decendants? And the decendants of Vegeta.

Well this game ignores the events of GT first of all, as Herms JUST posted above you. And second of all... Because that's stupid.

B · Post by B » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:43 pm

I really have to say people are making outrageous assumptions based on one screenshot.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:58 pm

B wrote:I really have to say people are making outrageous assumptions based on one screenshot.

Did you miss the video where the human transformed into a Super Saiyan?

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:14 pm

Innagadadavida wrote:
B wrote:I really have to say people are making outrageous assumptions based on one screenshot.
Did you miss the video where the human transformed into a Super Saiyan?

Are you ignoring everything Herms said about humans breeding with Saiyans?

And just because they aren't taking GT into account doesn't mean they can't borrow ideas from it.

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:00 pm

Innagadadavida wrote: Well this game ignores the events of GT first of all, as Herms JUST posted above you. And second of all... Because that's stupid.

I think this game is just trying to please all sides of the fan spectrum. Most casual Dragon Ball fans would probably think its stupid not to have a Super Saiyan-esque form, while others think its stupid because humans shouldn't transform in the first place. Personally, if having a human turn into "Super" form is the only way to please those fans aside from having a Saiyan race, then I'll gladly take the former option. I can suspend my disbelief for the most part with the idea that this an MMO, so not every gameplay concept should be taken in the literal canon sense ("OMG Human turnizingz Supar Sayen thatz gay' "WHUT! No Supar Sayens.. that's gay!" and such). I just hope this doesn't somehow fuck up the storyline too much. Like Scarz said, the more we're shown of this game, the more questions it raises rather than answers.

I gotta say, that avatar using the Trunks-esque sword in Super form was pretty sweet.

B · Post by B » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:14 pm

Thank you for wording it the way I couldn't. Taking everything from a game in the literal canon sense would mean in the future of the Dragon World, everyone is controlled by a real-world person.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:27 pm

I didn't know that the game doesn't acknowledge the GT timeline, so Iguess it takes place a thousand years after the end of the Buu saga. But still, Buu having a lover is creepy beyond words, I just hope his mate isn't human but rather some other female alien blob.

Post by **Herms** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:09 pm

Scarz wrote:I didn't know that the game doesn't acknowledge the GT timeline, so Iguess it takes place a thousand years after the end of the Buu saga.

It takes place in the year Age 1000, which is 216 years after that last "10 years later" segment of the Boo arc in Age 784.

Teclo · Post by **Teclo** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:06 am

It's not surprising they're changing so much. MMORPGs tend to have the settings forced around the framework of the genre rather than being able to adapt to a particular setting or story. You can't really take a world where a handful of fighters save a worldwide population of useless humans from evil aliens and convert it with any real fidelity into a game where EVERYONE is the main character. If this was accurately based on the DB world, most players would only have one button: donate spirit energy to Goku - or the Goku-esque chap that isn't Goku at all but looks an awful lot like him.

Kiyza · Post by **Kiyza** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:42 pm

Hey, I was just thinking, what are the female majin characters going to look like when they transform? They already look a bit like chibi Boo.

spencer7x7 · Post by **spencer7x7** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:37 pm

Is this a free MMO like MapleStory or do you have to pay?

Post by **Herms** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:29 am

It seems that you have to pay.

saiyangerl · Post by **saiyangerl** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:12 pm

I just have to say that your Linux Goku avatar is AWESOME, spencer

spencer7x7 · Post by **spencer7x7** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:02 pm

saiyangerl wrote:I just have to say that your Linux Goku avatar is AWESOME, spencer

Thanks. It wasn't easy to get it in this size.

Herms wrote:It seems that you have to pay.

I hope there's no subscription fees because I can't afford a monthly RPG, even if it is Dragon Ball

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:59 pm

I'm playing videogames cca 1 day in month, si if there will be some monthly pay, I won't play it then

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:44 pm

I'd probably check the game out if it wasn't subscription based. But I'm not very fond of what I've seen so far, so I'm definitely not paying.

MisterFlashdude · Post by **MisterFlashdude** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:56 pm

spencer7x7 wrote:I hope there's no subscription fees because I can't afford a monthly RPG, even if it is Dragon Ball

As a gamer, the most expensive choice I've ever made was to stop playing a subscription based MMO and go back to normal, console games...
I ended up spending more on three games over the course of two months than I'd spent on gaming as a whole the preceeding year.
Trust me, if this is a game that actually holds your attention for over a month and you anticipate yourself wanting to play it for another month, $10 or $15 isn't going to be that much.

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:17 am

But you can play those normal games as much as you want until the end of time. These online games... you want to play the thing you already bought and paid for? Every single time you pick it back up, and every 30 days you need to re-pay for the game over and over again in little pieces. So the real cost of the game is hidden... because you never stop paying for this thing you supposedly bought years ago.