"Raging Blast 2" Gigantic On-Going Gaming Discussion

[Kingdom Heartless]

It is a little odd, but I'm not very torn up over the loss of Slug.... to be honest, I prefer getting new obscure characters.

[Saimaroimaru]

- Now the costumes are by number as in Meteor. Goku finds his clothes Yardrat, Trunks is playable without his jacket. The characters are represented by fixed artworks, therefore, impossible to know which suit is selected visual.

- There is no story mode itself. Galaxy mode (main game mode) offers to do some fighting with ALL characters. As there are sixty, it promises to be lengthy. Each character in a fight against a boss, for example, Ten Shin Han is in second form cons Cell. Having assured nervous breakdown a few battles are very difficult, with its power Gohan must defeat Majin Buu revealed without getting hit.

- The tournament mode allows new possibilities is the return of the RING OUT. We can even form teams in this mode.

I like the bold parts but what the hell, no story mode.

I guess they got tired of the whining about Story Mode and just dropped it altogether. Congrats, this is what people get for whining. Better luck in RB3.

On a side not can someone translate this? People have been using it as proof of Lord Slug for some reason. But the site won't pull up:http://gameinformerfrance.noelfm.com/news.php?id=42

[AceSharp]

Eh, I can understand why they haven't gone with Slug. His giant form was kinda the whole point. Shame.

Am I the only person who doesn't mind Story Mode being left out? Nobody's ever got it right, and the criticism is eternal every time.

They're better off focusing their efforts elsewhere. We all know it well enough.

[InfernalVegito]

I cannot accept the reason that Slug's giant form ruined his appearence. They put in Super Janemba and just leave out his first giant form. So why not doing it with Slug as well?
Sometimes I could just slap one of the producers.

[LeprikanGT]

I... doubt Table (where's everyone getting Tarble from?) will make it across seas. Kuriza didn't. Unless Funi decides to release the 2008 Special soon, there's probably gonna be a bit of confusion over his inclusion. Though I suppose there's already going to be confusion (and lots and lots of raging idiots) over the "Plan..." being Japanese audio only. >_>

I'm not sure if that was just really subtle sarcasm or an inside joke with someone else why where in the world would you even get the idea of tarble NOT 'coming overseas'?' He is part of the Z universe just like Bardock or Future Trunks [both had specials.] Wasn't his name Tarble in the special anyways? I've never seen him called anything different, on any forum or site talking about him. And what confusion? If people watch and follow the series, they should know who he is by now. That Special was like 2 years ago............on the other side of that, you better believe I'm one of those 'raging idiots' that is going to complain my head off that I wasn't given an ENGLISH dub on an ENGLISH release of a video game in an ENGLISH speaking country.

They for reals dropped the ball on skipping out on having not added Slug. Does that mean there is one more slot or did someone else already fill it?

@Ace: I'm 'alreight' with no story mode as long as we get something new and exciting in its place. A few of the earlier games didn't have a full on story mode and people seemed to love them just the same.

[DNA]

on the other side of that, you better believe I'm one of those 'raging idiots' that is going to complain my head off that I wasn't given an ENGLISH dub on an ENGLISH release of a video game in an ENGLISH speaking country.

So.... Should I complain when the game comes to my country and his not spoken in Portuguese? Or when it goes to France and it's not spoken in French? Or when it goes to Spain and...

You see? Honestly, you're no more deserving of a dub than the rest of the world. Just be thankful with what you have. I know I am.

[VegettoEX]

Kuriza's inclusion came to DragonBall Z 2 after the release of Budokai 2 in North America (remember that for those three games, the American release came rather significantly earlier than the Japanese release; for Budokai 2, it was a full two months). So... well... it's no surprise he didn't make it in, since he didn't exist yet in the game. The closest we've had to something like this was (Neko Majin) Z not appearing as the helper character in Supersonic Warriors 2 (which only came out about a week before its Japanese counterpart).

The reason why some people choose to spell the character's name as "Tarble" is probably two-fold:

(1) "Table" looks too similar to our English word "table", such as the thing you sit at when you eat, it has chairs, etc.

(2) The elongated "aa" sound in katakana typically represents and/or is romanized with an "r" sound in there somewhere. ターブル / taaburu can become "Tarble" the same way that プンター / puntaa can become "Puntar" and why some people toss an "r" into バータ / baata somewhere (though I'd argue that they mostly just do it with the strange "Burter" FUNimation adaptation they're used to, in that case...).

Personally, I've been sticking with "Table" (pronounced aloud correctly as something like "Tah - ble") since I don't spell Vegeta's name as "Vegeeta" or anything -- we closely approximate the English words they're puns on, balancing pronunciation with "obvious" spelling.

DNA's pretty well taken care of the language/dubbing question. Remember, dear Americans: we are not the only people in the world.

[Kaboom]

Arale made it in to BT3, too, and Tarble's not much more of an obscure character for Western audiences than she is. Shoot, he's probably more well-known, since despite never being dubbed or released in anything over here (yet), he's still a "new hotness" character, while she's rather... "old-school" at this point.

[VegettoEX]

Eh, Arale was in the DragonBall manga and TV series, both of which were released here in their entirety. Even if she's technically "from" Dr. Slump, she's just as includable (yeah, that's totally a word) as someone like Akkuman.

The Jump Super Anime Tour special also *was*, remember, legally streamed subtitled in English in North America -- superfans had a similar opportunity to get familiar with him as the Japanese did (minus the exclusive, few-stops tour and the send-away DVD, of course...).

[Saimaroimaru]

I bet people are gonna complain about the no Story Mode situation. Ironic as people have been complain about how repetitive it is or how it makes each game a rehash. Spike reacted, just not in the way people expected. Lol, oh well.

[Fishman]

... Arcade-Style "Story" Mode.

Fuck.

Yes.

[DNA]

Oh wait, NOW I realized what "arcade style story mode" means. That's actually quite interesting, gives you a reason to play as every single character. Every character has a story mode and every character has a boss fight.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

I bet people are gonna complain about the no Story Mode situation. Ironic as people have been complain about how repetitive it is or how it makes each game a rehash. Spike reacted, just not in the way people expected. Lol, oh well.

Believe me, at least outside this forum, a LOT of them are.

Even after these guys went so far as to specifically leak the rest of the roster for us, plus give us a nice amount of backup information instead of waiting on Spike, people are still pushing themselves so far into denial. You should see some of the threads on other boards. Some of these people will be the sole reason that they are disappointed when the game is released. The information is out there, and they simply refuse to believe it. Spike may not have done everything they should have for RB2, but the fans will be the ones to set up their own disappointment.

We've known for a long time that Galaxy Mode wouldn't have cutscenes, and I still see 20 posts a day going "So wht cutscene do u think will be ur favorit, cuz u no Spike will hav a story mode w/ cutscenes, they can't just cut them out..." or "Do u thnk thay will finally get Gokus SS transformation rite? caus no of the games b4 have ever gotten it rite. he need blue shurt, spikey hair, then it need flash, and lots of lightning while he yell". xD

[Vegeta's Wire]

on the other side of that, you better believe I'm one of those 'raging idiots' that is going to complain my head off that I wasn't given an ENGLISH dub on an ENGLISH release of a video game in an ENGLISH speaking country.

So.... Should I complain when the game comes to my country and his not spoken in Portuguese? Or when it goes to France and it's not spoken in French? Or when it goes to Spain and...

You see? Honestly, you're no more deserving of a dub than the rest of the world. Just be thankful with what you have. I know I am.

Exactly! But many games, including most (if not all) Dragon Ball videogames are subbed in French or Spanish at least. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the good ol' Portuguese...
Edit: Coola's transformation scene in RB2 is marvellous!

[LeprikanGT]

360 achievement list:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game ... ievements/

Mini-games confirmed by that 2nd one?

[TheDevilsCorpse]

360 achievement list:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game ... ievements/

Mini-games confirmed by that 2nd one?

Seems like it will be the replacement for Videl's Punch Machine mini-game from Raging Blast... not that excited for it as of right now.

[LeprikanGT]

360 achievement list:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game ... ievements/

Mini-games confirmed by that 2nd one?

Seems like it will be the replacement for Videl's Punch Machine mini-game from Raging Blast... not that excited for it as of right now.

Videl's punching machine = the only redeaming reason to have Videl in the game = Videl shouldn't have been there to begin with. Maybe it will be something more along the lines of the Infinite World mini-games.

I'm a little confused....will there YES be cutscenes in the game or NO? How do they plan on telling the sto.....oooooooh, no story mode right?

[InfernalVegito]

I'm a little confused....will there YES be cutscenes in the game or NO? How do they plan on telling the sto.....oooooooh, no story mode right?

No cutscenes and thus no old-fashioned storymode so far.

[mystic trunks]

Is Trunks ever going to get his movie 8 and 9 costumes?! Goddamn!

[LeprikanGT]

That's pretty slack on the no cut scenes. How do they plan to seem things together between fights and the stuff they need to cover that aren't IN the battles.

Maybe there will be little clips of the show? -that could be what all those screencaps from the show could have been.

@ Mystic - apparently they don't care about costumes OR characters logically needing to be in the game.