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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by TheGmGoken » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:57 pm

I've only found 2 maybe 3 things I've found wrong with Db. I found 3 things about TTGL. Its bout equal. So please dont make assumptions.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:59 pm

goku the krump dancer wrote:I loved the Dragon Rush in Budokai 3.
That's the function where you can keep teleporting back and forth and smack the opponent around, right? I loved that, I didn't realize it wasn't well liked.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by thatdbzguy » Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:03 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:I've only found 2 maybe 3 things I've found wrong with Db. I found 3 things about TTGL. Its bout equal. So please dont make assumptions.
I'm willing to bet that the things you've found wrong with DB are much worse than the things you've found wrong with TTGL. It is your favorite anime for a reason, right?
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by InfernalVegito » Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:04 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:
goku the krump dancer wrote:I loved the Dragon Rush in Budokai 3.
That's the function where you can keep teleporting back and forth and smack the opponent around, right? I loved that, I didn't realize it wasn't well liked.
No it's not that. Dragon Rush is the luck based mechanic where you have to press the buttons and pray your opponent doesn't press the same.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by TheGmGoken » Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:17 pm

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TheGmGoken wrote:I've only found 2 maybe 3 things I've found wrong with Db. I found 3 things about TTGL. Its bout equal. So please dont make assumptions.
I'm willing to bet that the things you've found wrong with DB are much worse than the things you've found wrong with TTGL. It is your favorite anime for a reason, right?
Actually only 1 thing on my DB list is bad. The other 2 things are just my inner fanboy and nitpicking. While TTGL got 3 things I honestly dislike it.

DB:
1. Goku gets taken out. Everyone panic. Support cast spotlight. Goku comes back with BIG power. Goku win or lose. Saves the day. That's the only thing I dislike.
2. Goten haven't gotten SSj2 in heroes.
3. Gohan's character during Cell Arc.

TTGL:
First 3 or 4 episodes bores me.
Kamina is mentioned WAAAAAAY to much. I understand his death was important but every episode and every 7 minutes. It's like he never left honestly. Maybe if Kamina was mentioned less it would be better.
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As I said. Stop making assumptions. It makes you seem like a "jerk" and as my teacher told me. You make an ass of yourself. Get it? ASSumptions. I have more issues with TTGL than DBZ. Yet TTGL is my favorite anime while DB is in my top 5, Kai is in my top ten. DBZ is in my top 15.

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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:21 pm

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goku the krump dancer wrote:I loved the Dragon Rush in Budokai 3.
That's the function where you can keep teleporting back and forth and smack the opponent around, right? I loved that, I didn't realize it wasn't well liked.
No it's not that. Dragon Rush is the luck based mechanic where you have to press the buttons and pray your opponent doesn't press the same.
Ohh, my bad. What's the name of what I was thinking of then (or did it even have one)? As for Dragon Rush, I don't really like it, but I don't really dislike it either. It could get old when it was all the enemy AI would toss at you sometimes though.
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Post by InfernalVegito » Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:02 pm

I surmise you were thinking of the basic vanishing move which, if you had enough ki, you could use to teleport behind your opponent. Could get rather tedious if both would be doing nothing else.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by superhuman3 » Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:08 pm

I think it's kind of not well liked by a lot of people here, but I actually love the SSJ3 what-ifs. Especially the Vegeta and Future Trunks ones. Yes, I think it should be a progression of SSJ1-SSJ2, then SSJ3, but to be fair on a lot of character SSJ2 really doesn't look different, except Gohan.

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:15 pm

InfernalVegito wrote:I surmise you were thinking of the basic vanishing move which, if you had enough ki, you could use to teleport behind your opponent. Could get rather tedious if both would be doing nothing else.
That's it, yeah. Guess it really doesn't merit a catchy name after all. I love it myself, but I can see how it'd get old.
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Post by JackyBoi99 » Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:24 pm

Unpopular opinion. The artificial human's and Seru arc had the best atmosphere
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Kid Buu » Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:31 am

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Kid Buu wrote:Out of Goku's rivalries I enjoyed his one with Tenshinhan the most.

One thing I noticed about Goku/Vegeta is that they barely interact outside of their two fights until the Vegetto/Kid Buu stuff happens. I didn't notice this as a kid due to stuff like Movie 6.
Yeah, not to mention, Tenshinhan is a very interesting, underrated character. I found him to be one of the most useful characters, despite naysayers who think he's useless.

While I do love Goku and Vegeta's friendship, I find it to be the most overrated frendships, honestly, because I don't think they were close/close until the end of the whole Goku vs. Majin Vegeta fight.

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Here are a few more unpopular opinions I have:

#1. I think Yamcha and Chi-Chi have got to be the most over-hated characters in this fandom, I feel the hate they get is completely undeserved. With Yamcha, I do think fans ignore his good qualities and exaggerate how "weak" he is with the whole memes of him involving the Magikarp, and it's annoying how fans demonize him by making him look like a devil compared to characters like Vegeta.

With Chi-Chi, while it's completely understandable how fans may don't like her because of how the Funi dub portrays her by exaggerating her anger and making her out to be an awful bitch, I do think fans ignore her redeeming qualities and make her outright hateful in fanfics and make her look like a tyrant/abusive mother/person compared to other characters like Bulma and Vegeta, who have done far worse than what she did. Some fans even outright say that she doesn't deserve to be in the Son Family.

#2. I don't hate GT Pan at all. She's not my favorite female, but I don't think she's the worse and fans do exaggerate how "bad" she is, when really, all she does is act like an annoying younger sibling.

#3. I love calling Beers "Bills." I remember almost getting into an argument with someone on which name to call him even though "Beers" is the official, but I still like calling him "Bills" regardless. It's a personal nickname for me.

#4. I love Adult Gohan, despite him being "nerdy" and less concerned with fighting later in life. I mean, Gohan admitted that he wanted to be a scholar (anyone who doesn't believe me, I have proof that Toriyama said it). I mean, not every Saiyan has to be a fighter like Goku and Vegeta. Plus, Gohan actuall managed to be a decent father (not the best, but decent) and husband.
#1. I like both fighters, and wish they both got a proper fight in Z.

#2. I like Pan a lot TOO, especially her Japanese VA as its the same as Sailor Saturn!

#3. I've never called him anything to be honest O_O. I usually just refer to him as the villain from BoG

#4. I like Adult Gohan too, in fact I think everything from Saiyaman-Babidi was his best stuff.

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Post by Polyphase Avatron » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:16 am

Despite liking the series/franchise, I have only played a few of the video games, and did not enjoy any of them.
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Post by Gonstead » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:27 am

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Post by TheAldella » Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:17 am

Polyphase Avatron wrote:Despite liking the series/franchise, I have only played a few of the video games, and did not enjoy any of them.
That's not the most unpopular thing ever XD
We have like, one good for a 4 bad ratio.
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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by Hades » Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:09 pm

It would have been better for the Franchise if it ended with Vegeta's death against Buu. It would have been a fitting end, with Vegeta's arc going full circle from killing to conquer Earth to dying to save the heirs of the Saiyan Empire (humanity in general). Goku is gone for good, so is Gohan. It also gives a sense of finality to the series
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Post by TheGmGoken » Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:48 pm

Hades wrote:It would have been better for the Franchise if it ended with Vegeta's death against Buu. It would have been a fitting end, with Vegeta's arc going full circle from killing to conquer Earth to dying to save the heirs of the Saiyan Empire (humanity in general). Goku is gone for good, so is Gohan. It also gives a sense of finality to the series
Goku didn't go SSJ3 yet so he had the rest of the day. So I would't say he was "Gone". Also honestly if Vegeta killed Boo. That would be to short and fast. We barely got to see what Boo was and then you kill him instantly? That doesn't seem like a main villain

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Hades wrote:It would have been better for the Franchise if it ended with Vegeta's death against Buu. It would have been a fitting end, with Vegeta's arc going full circle from killing to conquer Earth to dying to save the heirs of the Saiyan Empire (humanity in general). Goku is gone for good, so is Gohan. It also gives a sense of finality to the series
Goku didn't go SSJ3 yet so he had the rest of the day. So I would't say he was "Gone". Also honestly if Vegeta killed Boo. That would be to short and fast. We barely got to see what Boo was and then you kill him instantly? That doesn't seem like a main villain
Goku would have been out for the count, and the Buu fight would have been Vegeta finally learning to put his arrogance to rest (he remembered what happened last time when he let a villain get too strong) in favour of the world, even if he goes to hell for it. Besides, we already saw Buu's capabilities when it yomped Dabura and "killed" gohan and the Kaioshin.
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Post by TheGmGoken » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:10 pm

Hades wrote:
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Hades wrote:It would have been better for the Franchise if it ended with Vegeta's death against Buu. It would have been a fitting end, with Vegeta's arc going full circle from killing to conquer Earth to dying to save the heirs of the Saiyan Empire (humanity in general). Goku is gone for good, so is Gohan. It also gives a sense of finality to the series
Goku didn't go SSJ3 yet so he had the rest of the day. So I would't say he was "Gone". Also honestly if Vegeta killed Boo. That would be to short and fast. We barely got to see what Boo was and then you kill him instantly? That doesn't seem like a main villain
Goku would have been out for the count, and the Buu fight would have been Vegeta finally learning to put his arrogance to rest (he remembered what happened last time when he let a villain get too strong) in favour of the world, even if he goes to hell for it. Besides, we already saw Buu's capabilities when it yomped Dabura and "killed" gohan and the Kaioshin.
But that will make the whole arc short and kinda....disappointing. Honestly the arc got better once it went along until Boo went Mystic Boo.

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Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Post by baneofdemon22 » Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:46 pm

Gonstead wrote:I wish we had more Great Saiyaman adventures.
Me too! I would want a whole mini-series of the Great Saiyaman! Or read a comic book series.

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Post by SSJ3_Zack » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:02 am

I have a "few" opinions that could be considered unpopular lol:

1) I enjoyed the Super Saiya-Jin transformation in Episode of Bardock. But disagree with the entire concept of the OVA.
2) I love it when Chi-Chi "Bitches" at Son Goku. It's hilarious.
3) Battle of Gods should have had the same art style as Yo! Son Goku & his friends return. I dislike the modern art style.
4) All of the DragonBall Z games are terrible.
5) I prefer Brian Drummond's take on Vegeta rather Christopher Sabat's and Ryo Horikawa's portrayals. He acts arrogant and seems to love the sound of his own voice. Also he was awesome as Pikkon and Vegetto.
6) The Westwood dub is not as bad as people make it out to be (Although I do understand the criticism towards their Cell/Android arc dub).
7) The Blu-Ray season sets are actually not that bad.
8 ) Vegetto should have one voice since he is a permanent fusion. And it should be a mix of Son's and Vegeta's voices not the dual voice that is used in the original Japanese version and Funimation dub.
9) Only Son Goku should be able to obtain the Super Saiya-Jin 3 form.
10) Goten should have been a girl so there would be a female Z-Warrior.
11) There should have also been an overpowered female villain.
12) Android 17 should have joined the Z-Warriors.
13) I want to see Vic Mignogna play Son Goku at some point. He seems like he could pull it off (Sort of..).
14) There should be no good Saiya-Jins. Son should be the only exception.

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