Dragon Ball Z : Sparking

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:39 am

Xyex wrote:It looks like ZoE DBZ style, and it looks awesome. Anyway, you sure those are the release dates? I was hearing October for the release of Sparking! and November for Budokai Tenkaichi... Strange that the JPN release would get pushed back 2 months with no change to the American...

ZOE style in the sense that you can never become unlocked from your opponent it seems. There's one part in video 2 where Cell makes a slight move, and Goku automatically moves the exact same move to keep in the same tracking field.

Fuujin · Post by **Fuujin** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:51 am

OMG OMG OMG FANBOY ORGASM!

Whole Ginyu Force?! DID THEY SAY WHOLE GINYU FORCE?!

CRUSHER BALL TIME, MATE!

ngnikolaos · Post by **ngnikolaos** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:43 am

Heh, yeah, I can't wait to play as Baata, Guldo.. maybe even Kiwie!

I really hope they have most of the never-again-in-a-fighting-game characters, because Sparking seems really promising.

Fuujin · Post by **Fuujin** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:55 am

It seems that "Ultimates" have at least two levels - Cell used an apparently weaker Kamehameha and used 50% of his energy bar, then Goku replied with Ultra Mega OMG Uber Kamehameha and used all of his energy.

Than again, I think drawing conclusions at this point wouldn't be a sensible thing. The game seems to be at an eraly alpha stage, no music, bad lip-synching, shabby camera...

I wodner though, will we see any Oozaru battles? They wouldn't work well in a game like Budokai (which Final Bout proved, then again it's not the best example...), but I could see it here.

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:51 pm

Fuujin wrote:I wodner though, will we see any Oozaru battles? They wouldn't work well in a game like Budokai (which Final Bout proved, then again it's not the best example...), but I could see it here.

IGN's preview mentioned 'giant monkey' so I think it's safe to assume that Oozaru will play a gameplay role (and they finally can do it and have it make sense, considering how large the areans seem to be).

Personally, I'm really intrested in the idea of 'What if' storylines. Budokai 3 touched on that a bit, but it'd be great to have lots of them. IGN's preview mentioned 'What if Freeza beat Goku?', which is a great example.

Aurek · Post by **Aurek** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:52 pm

Well in the fourth video the person being interviewed says you can play as an Oozaru, so its in there

Xyex · Post by **Xyex** » Fri May 06, 2005 2:10 pm

It's already been confirmed that there will be a Eurpoean version.

And so far characters confirmed are the entire Ginyu Force, all the Androids (does that include the movie ones?), all the Saiya-jins (again, I wonder if this includes the movie ones (Broly, Paragus, and Turles being the only ones I can think of), and while I don't think Chaotzu is actually listed anywhere is confirmed it's pretty much given I think. Plus, of course, Janemba. I'm seriously looking forward to this game, especially after seeing the game play videos. ^^

Leotaku · Post by **Leotaku** » Fri May 06, 2005 2:13 pm

As far as I know, they never counted transformations as separate characters in the other games (they counted fusions though, but I'd accept that). So, hopefully 60 characters is REALLY 60 totally different characters. It's not that big of a stretch anyway. I mean, Budokai 3 had like 40 characters. If you throw in neglected characters and movie characters, and possibly even characters from DragonBall or GT, you can easily reach 60.
At the bottom of the first page of screenshots on IGN, there's a picture of SSJ Goku fighting SSJ Vegeta. Then in the screen next to it, they're in their normal forms. So let's just hope that's taking place during the same battle.

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:57 pm

IGN's updated their pictures section. Some nice stuff. Piccolo, yay!

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/742/742303/imgs_1.html

jochickabee · Post by **jochickabee** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:13 pm

Sorry if this has been asked before. But I've been out of the DBZ gaming loop for the past 5 years or so, and am not familiar with any of the American versions.

My simple question is whether or not the American games are usually dubbed, and if so, is there a language option for Japanese instead?

I'm interested in purchasing the "Sparking!", but would rather buy the Japanese version..if only for the original voices.

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:18 pm

jochickabee wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before. But I've been out of the DBZ gaming loop for the past 5 years or so, and am not familiar with any of the American versions.

My simple question is whether or not the American games are usually dubbed, and if so, is there a language option for Japanese instead?

I'm interested in purchasing the "Sparking!", but would rather buy the Japanese version..if only for the original voices.

As far as I know, all North American versions of the games are dubbed. I have Budokai 2 and 3, and both are dubbed, with no options for the Japanese audio track.

No news about the audio track for the North American version of Budokai Tenkaichi though. It'd be nice if they included a dub AND the original japanese voices.

ruffriles19 · Post by **ruffriles19** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:30 pm

I'd say that there's little to no chance of the U.S. release having a dual language option. Europe may see a dual language version, like their B3 Special Edition, though. So that leaves subbies pretty much SOL unless you know anything about PS2 modchipping to play the import JPN version. The best chance for North Amer. fans to play it with the original voices would probably be to hope for a release of a gamecube version, then play the import with pro action replay or freeloader.

B-kun · Post by **B-kun** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:58 pm

To be honest, it's no big mystery there's not a dual-langauge version. The games are American made and usually released in the States first, the Europe and Japan.

The S · Post by **The S** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:42 pm

And just for the record, there is a game that has more than 60 characters - Namco x Capcom. It will featrure 100 Namco characters, 100 Capcom characters and at least three new characters.

But that's an RPG.

If we get ALL of the Androids... does that include Ha-chan?

SpaceKappa · Post by **SpaceKappa** » Sat May 07, 2005 1:41 am

I know it's kind of an asshole elitist thing to say but one reason I don't play the Budokai games is that I don't like the voices. This is not the place to discuss why, but I will say that they'd have my money with Sparking if there was a dual language option.

Oh, and if they called is Sparking instead of the retarded Budokai Tenkaichi.

ngnikolaos · Post by **ngnikolaos** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:21 am

Gamespot mentioned 80 characters (Chiaotzu included), so I shudder to think who they might be. "Main" DBZ characters are around 45, so that means 35 characters from GT, movies and possibly DB.

Unless of course, transformations count as unique characters.

Chiaotzu is definitely in the game, the producer said it so in his interview in Gamespot. I wonder if Yajirobe is going to be in it.

The game looks okay, but I think that blast attacks need a little work. Cell and Goku fired around 5 kamehamehas, yet I think none reached its target.

Leotaku · Post by **Leotaku** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:08 am

Mizugi wrote:Oh, and if they called is Sparking instead of the retarded Budokai Tenkaichi.

My reasoning on why they named it Budokai Tenkaichi:
- "Sparking"'s meaning probably isn't as widely known in North America to a more general audience (I'll admit that I didn't know what it was, actually, until I read here

)
- They have "Tenkaichi Budokai" backwards so that "Budokai" comes first, perhaps making it seem like another Budokai game (even though it isn't), and make it more familiar to the buyers of the previous games. If they put "Budokai" last, it might look a little odd, assuming my reasoning is true. I mean, you wouldn't call the next game "4 Budokai". It'd be "Budokai 4".
So maybe they just turned it backwards for that.

Those are just my ideas. I still don't actually LIKE the title.

ngnikolaos: Gamespot said 60 characters, not 80. I think you misread the 6 as an 8. From Gamespot:
"We're told that the roster will include 60 characters, including relatively recent additions to the DBZ universe, such as Janemba, and old favorites that haven't seen the Budokai treatment yet, like the diminutive Chaiotzu."

Also from Gamspot:
"In addition, character models will now be modified during fights as each character takes damage. For instance, Goku started the fight with a relatively clean uniform, but at the end of the fight (in which he barely managed to defeat Buu), he was noticeably bruised up, and his outfit had numerous tears and scrapes in it."
That sounds cool. Wish they had a screenshot to back it up.

SpaceKappa · Post by **SpaceKappa** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:35 am

Leotaku wrote:My reasoning on why they named it Budokai Tenkaichi:
- "Sparking"'s meaning probably isn't as widely known in North America to a more general audience (I'll admit that I didn't know what it was, actually, until I read here )
- They have "Tenkaichi Budokai" backwards so that "Budokai" comes first, perhaps making it seem like another Budokai game (even though it isn't), and make it more familiar to the buyers of the previous games. If they put "Budokai" last, it might look a little odd, assuming my reasoning is true. I mean, you wouldn't call the next game "4 Budokai". It'd be "Budokai 4".
So maybe they just turned it backwards for that.

Yeah, but to me it's just another instance of not being faithful to source material. Yes, it'll get name recognition but I see it as a disrespect to fans of the original rather than the dub.

Dewgel · Post by **Dewgel** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:00 pm

This is infact another Budokai game, my friends.

Gamespot confirmed this by saying stuff like "next in the Budokai franchise."

And Donny Clay made a reference to Budokai 3 a lot, and kept saying "fans of the original Budokai games.

Anyway, I have another reason for Budokai Tenkaichi and Sparking!'s names.

Sparking! is used in the Japanese game because it is fashionable in Japan to act Western, (or at least it is at the minute, apparently.)

This works both ways, for Budokai Tenkaichi also. They got it the wrong way around because they suck. And also, Budokai means Tournament, and Tenkaichi means World's Best. (Roughly)

So guys, Dragon Ball Z Tournament World's Best is coming November '05. Be there, or be square!

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:22 pm

I always thought Tenkaichi meant something along the lines of 'Best Under Heaven'.

Kanzenshuu

Dragon Ball Z : Sparking

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