MasterVampire wrote:Cold Skin wrote:Ultimate Tenkaichi was really the best Dragon Ball game on this generation, so I guess it makes sense to want a second one.
You really think that crap rock-papers-sissors game was the best out of this current generation?
You must be high.
The gameplay was terrible and shallow.
Raging Blast 2 or Burst Limit were the best.
Ultimate Tenkaichi is not "a rock-paper-scissors game". Luck QTEs are a minimal part of the fight. As Kame Sennin said, "sheer luck is also part of every fight", and in that case, it only decides if you have a head start or a disavantage, making that you have to be prepared for any situation, amplifying the strategic aspect.
The game is more about gauging your actions and your ki depending on what the adversary might try and the amount of risk you're willing to take. It's a constant risk calculation, a strategic battle involving a part of luck for which you should be ready, but ultimately it all depends on the four different ways the situation might turn which you think about as you are fighting. And thinking about the different ways a situation might turn in the next minute is
Dragon Ball.
And if it turns out you are combo-ed by the opponent being left with nothing else than watching him beat you up without being able to touch anything to defend yourself, you likely deserved it for not having prepared what it takes to defend yourself, and most of all: you are in the powerless situation and feel the powerless feeling that many characters have felt many times in the series, that's called good immersion into the franchise's universe. How many characters have been taken off guard one second and suffered a 20-hits combo just because they were not prepared for that situation (right now, the image of Gohan being mad at Freezer for empaling Krilin comes to my mind). That's what you need to go through if you were careless like that character at this instant and didn't prepare for the possibility that the opponent might have an opportunity on you at any time.
It also makes special moves devastating again, instead of ridiculously side-stepped like in the
Raging Blast and
Burst Limit series.
In
Ultimate Tenkaichi, you have a real sense of power when unleashing it, a real sense of emergency when it's unleashed on you and you have to choose which amount of damage you're willing to sacrifice to keep some ki or not depending on your analysis of the adversary's potential, and a real sense of being superior when you're calculated your stuff so that the opponent unleashing his attack on you will actually turn back against him.
Raging Blast 2, on the other hand, was one of the most terrible games ever. It's the
Super Butoden 3 syndrom.
You may make a game's mechanics as good as you want, if there's no story, there's no point playing random fights, and if there's no point playing, the game is pretty much worth a 0/20.
Kills any sort of immersion when it's just "you're that character, you fight that character with these conditions. Why? Why do you fight? Why are you in that place? Why against this opponent? Just because, deal with it!" Great, I feel totally in-character fighting someone I have no reason to fight in an illogical place with an illogical timeline for no reward (pictures of episodes that you can easily find on the web are no reward)...
In other words, the content "was terrible and shallow" to use your words. We give you characters, stages and a gameplay mechanic with various objectives, and we'll just decide to randomly mix these to entertain you for a hundred hours.
Sure, why don't you just give us various "kill this target" mission in random cities without a context/story in
Assassin's Creed while you're at it?
Just make a
Resident Evil game fully based on Mercenaries mode too, a full game with no reason, no backstory to have that character in that place fighting those enemies, that should be entertaining too. (oh, wait, they actually did that!)
Just make a
FInal Fantasy game fully composed of just random fights on random places, one after another, because in a game, we just fight randomly to fight randomly, that's for sure.
In "video game", there's "video", not just "game", otherwise you can just play Monopoly (and even those kind of games have a scenario to justify what you're doing all along).
She/Her 
Wow, I never knew that happened!
