Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

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Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Saimaroimaru » Wed May 12, 2010 5:50 pm

In your opinion what is the most unique DB/Z/GT game?

Have to be Super Dragon Ball Z for me.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Blue » Wed May 12, 2010 6:00 pm

The Super Gokuden series for the Super Famicom. A choose your own adventure story with RPG elements thrown in. Awesomeness, I should really get to finishing the 2nd one. It's much harder then the 1st game.

Edit: Come to think of it as far as uniqueness goes DBZ Barcode Battler is probably the better choice.
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Post by MCDaveG » Wed May 12, 2010 7:32 pm

I like Gokuden series a lot too, I finished Gokuden 2, but I never realized how to play the first game.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Sprite Satan » Wed May 12, 2010 7:46 pm

That DBZ barcode battler thing in the 90's. Although I'm not sure if it's so unique. Barcode battling was a fad for a while as well as all its spin-offs, like Monster Rancher reading the CDs to generate monsters.

Maybe the Super Gokuden games? I love it and, as I don't actually play that many import games, it's not something I see a lot of either way.

The Raging Blast/Tenkaichi series seems to have few comparable contemporaries but I might be wrong.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Rocketman » Thu May 13, 2010 6:46 am

The Tenkaichi series is the most unique series. No other DB game has ever done it like Tenkaichi-series.

SDBZ is functionally identical to the 'classic' fighting game, so it's not unique at all.

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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Thu May 13, 2010 7:26 am

I'd have to say those Bandai PlayDia games. :P



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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Silver Sinspawn » Thu May 13, 2010 4:36 pm

Saimaroimaru wrote:In your opinion what is the most unique DB/Z/GT game?

Have to be Super Dragon Ball Z for me.
How is SDBZ original?
Its similar to every old school fighter.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Blue » Thu May 13, 2010 5:11 pm

Rocketman wrote:The Tenkaichi series is the most unique series. No other DB game has ever done it like Tenkaichi-series.
I don't know, Legends came pretty close to being proto-Tenkaichi.
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:I'd have to say those Bandai PlayDia games.
Ah, good one.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Saimaroimaru » Fri May 14, 2010 5:06 am

Silver Sinspawn wrote:
Saimaroimaru wrote:In your opinion what is the most unique DB/Z/GT game?

Have to be Super Dragon Ball Z for me.
How is SDBZ original?
Its similar to every old school fighter.
I said most original DBZ game in your opinion not going around questioning others. Seeing as its my opinion and first DBZ game to get the traditional fighting style right I feel its unique among the DBZ games.

This is getting annoying, people misinterpreting my posts, ect. this is my last post in this thread.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Fri May 14, 2010 5:25 am

Blue wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:I'd have to say those Bandai PlayDia games.
Ah, good one.
Thanks, but that's if you can actually call them games. They're more like "interactive videos".

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by mysticboy » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:13 am

Budokai 2 was the most unique to me

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by VegettoEX » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:06 am

Anyone who doesn't say Idainaru Gokû Densetsu for the PC Engine has clearly only played games made after 2002. ^_~

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by desirecampbell » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:12 am

I loved Budokai 2's board-game-style story mode. But I'm infinitely more excited about DB Online.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Vashkey » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:50 pm

Rocketman wrote:The Tenkaichi series is the most unique series. No other DB game has ever done it like Tenkaichi-series.
But can you really say it's unique any more when there are a series of them now? Theres three of them as well as another game that plays the same by the same developer. And there are two more Dragon Ball games in developemt that use the same gameplay.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:07 am

Vashkey wrote:
Rocketman wrote:The Tenkaichi series is the most unique series. No other DB game has ever done it like Tenkaichi-series.
But can you really say it's unique any more when there are a series of them now? Theres three of them as well as another game that plays the same by the same developer. And there are two more Dragon Ball games in developemt that use the same gameplay.
Yeah, but no other series of DB games plays anything like the Tenkaichi series.


And can you really say each game in the Tenkaichi series plays the same? Go play Tenkaichi 1 and then Tenkaichi 2 and honestly tell me they're the same.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by goku the krump dancer » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:03 am

I'll probably go with Carddass/Dragon Battlers.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Taku128 » Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:42 am

Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:
Vashkey wrote:
Rocketman wrote:The Tenkaichi series is the most unique series. No other DB game has ever done it like Tenkaichi-series.
But can you really say it's unique any more when there are a series of them now? Theres three of them as well as another game that plays the same by the same developer. And there are two more Dragon Ball games in developemt that use the same gameplay.
Yeah, but no other series of DB games plays anything like the Tenkaichi series.


And can you really say each game in the Tenkaichi series plays the same? Go play Tenkaichi 1 and then Tenkaichi 2 and honestly tell me they're the same.
Some minor improvements don't change the fact that they're all basically the same game. Something isn't unique when there's multiple of them.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:05 am

Taku128 wrote:Some minor improvements don't change the fact that they're all basically the same game. Something isn't unique when there's multiple of them.
I would agree with you when comparing Tenkaichi 2 to Tenkaichi 3, but there's too much of a difference between Tenkaichi 1 and Tenkaichi 2 to call them the same game.

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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Blue » Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:09 am

Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:
Taku128 wrote:Some minor improvements don't change the fact that they're all basically the same game. Something isn't unique when there's multiple of them.
I would agree with you when comparing Tenkaichi 2 to Tenkaichi 3, but there's too much of a difference between Tenkaichi 1 and Tenkaichi 2 to call them the same game.
I have to agree Tenkaichi 1 was like a Preschooler drawing an apple. Tenkaichi 2 was like a college art major drawing an apple. Tenkaichi 3 was like the same student touching up the picture a year later.
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Re: Most Unique DB/Z/GT Game

Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:11 am

Blue wrote: I have to agree Tenkaichi 1 was like a Preschooler drawing an apple. Tenkaichi 2 was like a college art major drawing an apple. Tenkaichi 3 was like the same student touching up the picture a year later.
Agreed. Tenkaichi 1 is nothing compared to Tenkaichi 2. Anyone who's played both games can see this.

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