DBZ: Ultimate Blast/Tenkaichi (Pre-Release Discussion)

[kaialone]

Nooooo Why Dont I have a PS3!Nooooooo!

Ah, guess there´s no way around buying one now. Because I NEED this game.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

So the character creator over-emphasizes Sayains... great.

I am interested in that opening theme, though.

[Zephyr]

.....Well now the game has me somewhat interested.

[Neon Z]

A character creator mode guarantees I'll buy this game, even if it ends up rather limited.

Here are my observations from the trailer:

Basic options:



The basic options for visuals and personality seem to be Name, Hair, Skin (color?), Costume and Voice.

Costumes -> The trailer showed no mix and matching of costumes at all. Every character seemed to have his entire costume based on a single other full body model, aside from face and hair.

The "main" character, who seems to be based on the hero from Dragonball Heroes, has some design differences from Goku's costume. However, considering the menu screen, it seems like his entire costume is a single piece chosen by the player, called "Normal Uniform 1". Other uniforms are directly based on preexisting characters, like "#17's clothes".



Now, after choosing that single piece costume, it's still possible to change each individual color, so the costumes might still end up with some variation in the actual game, depending on the number of base models.

There are also some other options like logo and character's personal "mark". It's not clear right now how one can add the tail though, none of the menu screens seemed to show that option, but they showed the tail added even to costumes that have nothing to do with it, like 17's.

A custom character in Piccolo's costume is shown here briefly:



He seems to have normal human arms, rather than Piccolo's actual arms.

Face & Hair ->

There are various hairstyle options, with color customization. This is separate from the outfit.







Right now, it's not clear how face customization works. The trailer clearly showed multiple faces, but the menu doesn't seem to feature any option to change the faces.

Gameplay

Gameplay options seem fairly straightforward.



There are Free Skills, Action Skills and the Master Skill.



First, there are the "Free Skills". There are the usual power up item slots(Health +, Melee Attack +), then there's a item slot which seems to be used for various types of auras.



There's also the "Action Skill", which seems to define the characters' basic fighting style. Notably, Tenshinhan and Yamcha are listed there, but Kuririn isn't, so, it seems like the fighting style will be restricted to "height appropriate" models. Hopefully, there'll be smaller models for created characters too, considering how the silhouettes in the trailer hints at them.

Finally, Super attacks:



Supers seem to be separate from the other skills sets, so, you should be able to mix and match styles and supers, rather than just making identical clones of the main cast.




Characters

Two of the characters shown in the trailer were adult versions of Saiyan Hero and Saiyan Berserker from DB Heroes. The character with Trunks hairstyle, however, wasn't based on Saiyan Elite, who had the most unique outfit out of the three first DB Heroes characters.

Saiyan Hero


Saiyan Berserker


In general, if the outfit options are really as limited as they look right now, I hope they include as many models as they can, including the alien characters, rather than just humans, androids and Saiyans, like the trailer suggests.

[Jaetinh]

On Facebook there are a lot of new pictures that weren't in in the trailer, other characters with blue, purple etc. coloured skin. It's a bit disappointing that there will only be Saiyajins (or so I presume from watching all those pictures), with tails. No Namekians or any other aliens.

[Rocketman]

Well, they got the spirit of create-a-character down perfectly.

-Take well-known character/character parts
-Recolor
-???
-NOW YOU ARE ORIGINAL~

[Akumaito Beam]

To be fair that seems like the general spirit of Toriyama's character designs period.

[InfernalVegito]

Oh God noo please no recolors of the same identical pre-existing costumes again....

I hope we have ALL the REAL costumes from the series for one fucking time...

[MCDaveG]

Somebody on the facebook page said that this will be the first of nine trailers in these nine weeks.

It won't be on Xbox??

[Jaetinh]

Somebody on the facebook page said that this will be the first of nine trailers in these nine weeks.

It won't be on Xbox??

What're you talking about?

[Neon Z]

On Facebook there are a lot of new pictures that weren't in in the trailer, other characters with blue, purple etc. coloured skin. It's a bit disappointing that there will only be Saiyajins (or so I presume from watching all those pictures), with tails. No Namekians or any other aliens.

Could you post a link?

[nathantheguitarist]

Shitty fucking character creator... But then expecting anything at least on Mortal Kombat Armageddon's level was probably asking too much for these games.

Blue-skinned Vegeta in Broly's clothes. :| *throws everything and walks away*

[oldboy88]

Somebody on the facebook page said that this will be the first of nine trailers in these nine weeks.

It won't be on Xbox??

no worries, sure they release it on 360
Prefer this too, since i dont own a ps3 ...

[Haseowolf]

Kinda hoping they'll include the ability to create female characters. Yes, the guys dominate the Dragon World, but we've got some awesome female characters in the story and it'd be awesome to make some bad-ass lady fighters. All they'd have to do is just include Bulma's hairstyles ALONE and there'd be enough choices! Though I'd like 18, Zangya, Videl, Selypa, and ChiChi's hair available as well

[Jaetinh]

On Facebook there are a lot of new pictures that weren't in in the trailer, other characters with blue, purple etc. coloured skin. It's a bit disappointing that there will only be Saiyajins (or so I presume from watching all those pictures), with tails. No Namekians or any other aliens.

Could you post a link?

Last time I posted a FB link, it didn't work for most people.

So erh, just go on Facebook, search: 'Dragon Ball - Games' and then you'll be able to look at the new pictures. But if you don't have FB, here are some of them:














omg, all the trouble I had posting these pictures. -.-

[Haseowolf]

Whoa, neat. Blue Dragon kid's hair and you can use weapons?? That's awesome

[Jackal puFF]

Very neat and about time! I just hope they won't be sexist and only have one gender..

[mysticboy]

*walks in*
0_o
*goes masturbate*

[Hellspawn28]

I saw the trailer on machinima and this looks even more awesome! The character creation mode and the B3 story type mode has made me want to buy it very soon. Better sell my copy of RB1 and RB2 soon.

[omegalucas]

I don't remember Broly's costume having Goku's boots or wristbands. So I guess that means we can customize the costumes...