"Dragon Ball XENOVERSE" Official Discussion Thread

[DBZGTKOSDH]

If BoG is included in the game I wonder how SSJGod will work. Maybe there'll be a "Will of the Good Saiyans" capsule for Goku.

Goku can transform on his own after BoG, so the same should go for the game.

[Hellspawn28]

My character list for the game. I want to see the forms from Heroes throw in there as well. Unlikely, but this is just a wishlist though.

1. Goku (Base, Kaioken, SSj, SSj2, SSj3, SSjG)
2. GT Goku (Base, SSj, SSj3, SSj4)
3. Vegeta (Base, SSj, ASSj, SSj2, SSj3, SSj4)
4. Piccolo (Base, fused with Nail, fused with Kami)
5. Kid Gohan
6. Cell Saga Gohan (Base, SSj, SSj2)
7. Adult Gohan (Base, SSj, SSj2, Mystic)
8. Future Gohan (Base, SSj, SSj3)
9. Kid Trunks (Base, SSj)
10. Kid Goten (Base, SSj)
11. Future Trunks (Base, SSj, ASSj, SSj3)
12. Great Saiyaman
13. Kuririn
14. Yamucha
15. Tenshinhan
16. Videl
17. Mr. Satan
18. Radditz
19. Saibaman
20. Nappa
21. Cui
22. Freeza's Soliders
23. Dodoria
24. Zarbon (Base, Post-Transformation)
25. Captain Ginyu
26. Recoom
27. Jeice
28. Burter
29. Gurd
30. Freeza (1st form, second form, third form, final form, 100% full power)
31. King Cold
32. #16
33. #17 (Base, Super 17, Super 17 absorbed w/ #16, Super 17 absorbed w/ Super Perfect Cell)
34. #18
35. #19
36. Dr. Gero
37. Cell (Imperfect, Semi Perfect, Perfect, Buff Form, Super Perfect)
38. Dabra
39. Fat Buu
40. Super Buu
41. Kid Buu
42. Kid Ubb
43. GT Ubb (Base, Fused with Buu)
44. GT Pan
45. Sauza
46. Dore
47. Neiz
48. Coola (4th form, 5th form)
49. Broli (Base, SSj, LSSj)
50. Paikuhan
51. Final Form Janemba
52. General Rilldo (Base, Sigma Rilldo, Metallic Rilldo)
53. GT Goten (Base, SSj, SSj3)
54. GT Trunks (Base, SSj, SSj3)
55. Bebi (Kid, Teen, Adult)
56. San Xing Long (Base, Post-Transformation)
57. Si Xing Long (Base, Post-Transformation)
58. Yi Xing Long (Base, Super Yi Xing Long)
59. Beerus
60. Kaioshin (Base, Kibitoshin)
61. Bardock (Base, SSj)
62. Create a character
63. Create a character
64. Create a character
65. Create a character

Characters that can be unlock via item:

Bebi Vegeta (For either Vegeta or Bebi)
Bebi Janemba (For either either Janemba or Bebi)
Cyber Freeza
Metal Coola
Majin Vegeta

Fusions (If they can done through by items or tag team only):

Gogeta (SSj, SSj3)
SSj4 Gogeta
Vegito (Base, SSj, SSj3)
Gotenks (Base, SSj, SSj3)
Adult Gotenks (Base, SSj, SSj3)
Yamhan
Gotan

Buu absorptions (If they come back):

Piccolo
SSj3 Gotenks
Mystic Gohan
SSj Vegito
Final Form Freeza
Super Perfect Cell
Mr. Satan (For laughs )
Final Form Coola
LSSj Broli
Final Form Janemba
Super Yi Xing Long (This one will be the hardest one to get)

[jjgp1112]

I really don't see the need for having loads and loads of characters. The most important aspect is the gameplay.

[Hellspawn28]

60 would my max amount of characters. I would say sick with 45 for now and add more for a sequel.

[dbboxkaifan]

Vegeta should be divided between Normal, Baby and Majin.

That's a waste of space, just have all of them under one to you know, be organised.

Vegeta:
- Base
- Super Saiyan
- Super Saiyan 2
- Super Saiyan 3
- Super Saiyan 4
- Majin
- Bebi

It really bugs me every time I'd see Vegeta, Vegeta Scouter, Vegeta Majin and Vegeta Super Saiyan 3 all in different places! Fuck what a mess, Spike!

To everyone who responded. I played all Tekken seriously along side my cousin who not only a Tekken fan boy but a fighting game fanboy. I asked him said

Gamers all have their own definition of what they know, and it's best shown that they master it as they play it otherwise others are doubtful of his/her word but that shouldn't really matter much.

60 would my max amount of characters. I would say sick with 45 for now and add more for a sequel.

Yeah, that's a balanced amount of characters. Dimps just needs to look at what Spike did wrong in all their games and make sure to not make any of those mistakes, one of them being that they had pointless characters as well as making an evolved form its own character.

[Drev]

New famitsu interview

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201406/13055114.html

I cant translate some parts, but not others...is there someone with better knowledge of japanese that can translate all? Or at least interesting part...

[KentalSSJ6]

New famitsu interview

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201406/13055114.html

I cant translate some parts, but not others...is there someone with better knowledge of japanese that can translate all? Or at least interesting part...

You post it in the translation thread?

[miguelnuva1]

Vegeta should be divided between Normal, Baby and Majin.

That's a waste of space, just have all of them under one to you know, be organised.

Vegeta:
- Base
- Super Saiyan
- Super Saiyan 2
- Super Saiyan 3
- Super Saiyan 4
- Majin
- Bebi

It really bugs me every time I'd see Vegeta, Vegeta Scouter, Vegeta Majin and Vegeta Super Saiyan 3 all in different places! Fuck what a mess, Spike!

.

Yeah, that's a balanced amount of characters. Dimps just needs to look at what Spike did wrong in all their games and make sure to not make any of those mistakes, one of them being that they had pointless characters as well as making an evolved form its own character.[/quote]

Majin Vegeta, Baby Vegeta and normal Vegeta all play different from each other.

[TheGmGoken]

Honestly I would have Bebi Vegeta as a different character or have Bebi as his own character

[Hellspawn28]

In IW, they should have made Bebi Vegeta into a item transformation similar to Majin Vegeta. XV needs to make both Majin Vegeta and Bebi Vegeta into transformation items that you need to attach to the character. Same with Bebi Janemba if he ever shows up in the game.

[TheGmGoken]

In IW, they should have made Bebi Vegeta into a item transformation similar to Majin Vegeta. XV needs to make both Majin Vegeta and Bebi Vegeta into transformation items that you need to attach to the character. Same with Bebi Janemba if he ever shows up in the game.

Except. Bebi Vegeta isn't the same character as Vegeta. Majin Vegeta is Vegeta. Bebi Vegeta is Bebi. That's why they shouldn't be the same slot. Hell just make Bebi like Boo and give Bebi his own slot

[Hellspawn28]

Both Bebi Vegeta and Majin Vegeta are both Vegeta got their minds taken over by a evil force. To me, there's not a big difference between the two since Bebi Vegeta would have the same set of moves as Vegeta expect for his final attack in his third form.

[IGhostUlt]

Both Bebi Vegeta and Majin Vegeta are both Vegeta got their minds taken over by a evil force. To me, there's not a big difference between the two since Bebi Vegeta would have the same set of moves as Vegeta expect for his final attack in his third form.

majin Vegeta's mind isnt completely taken over like bebi vegetas, and majin vegeta is fully aware of himself unlike bebi's

[TheGmGoken]

Both Bebi Vegeta and Majin Vegeta are both Vegeta got their minds taken over by a evil force. To me, there's not a big difference between the two since Bebi Vegeta would have the same set of moves as Vegeta expect for his final attack in his third form.

Bebi did more than take over the mind. He took the whole body. He's not even Vegeta no more. Everything is different. Just do what they did with Boo. That way you can get other Bebi forms as well. Pointless for Bebi to be in Vegeta slot.

[IGhostUlt]

Both Bebi Vegeta and Majin Vegeta are both Vegeta got their minds taken over by a evil force. To me, there's not a big difference between the two since Bebi Vegeta would have the same set of moves as Vegeta expect for his final attack in his third form.

Bebi did more than take over the mind. He took the whole body. He's not even Vegeta no more. Everything is different. Just do what they did with Boo. That way you can get other Bebi forms as well. Pointless for Bebi to be in Vegeta slot.

Exactly what he said. Completely different character using vegeta's body

[EXBadguy]

I too think Baby Vegeta should be his own character, but not Majin Vegeta. For Baby Vegeta though, either he becomes his own person, or as GmGoken said, just put Baby(2nd form) in and just put in the Vegeta absorption skill. Heck, I even want them to start with Baby Vegeta's first form, then the ripped 2nd form(which looks cool IMO), and then the final form. They did it with Vegito by starting with base.

[TheGmGoken]

Both Bebi Vegeta and Majin Vegeta are both Vegeta got their minds taken over by a evil force. To me, there's not a big difference between the two since Bebi Vegeta would have the same set of moves as Vegeta expect for his final attack in his third form.

Bebi did more than take over the mind. He took the whole body. He's not even Vegeta no more. Everything is different. Just do what they did with Boo. That way you can get other Bebi forms as well. Pointless for Bebi to be in Vegeta slot.

Exactly what he said. Completely different character using vegeta's body

No it wasn't. He said have Bebi under Vegeta. I said have Bebi on his own since it wouldn't take no unnecessary space and Bebi got more people he could take over. It's like having Boo on Gohan slot

[Kendamu]

I really wouldn't mind if this game had some secret bosses similar to how the Street Fighter series had originally introduced Akuma as a secret boss. Maybe if certain criteria were met, the game's path would verge off into one of the movies (depending on what arc you were playing) where that movie's villain would be a secret boss. Maybe something like Garlic Jr., Tullece, Cooler, Broli, Bojack, and Janemba just to roughly cover all the arcs with the more memorable villains. Getting those paths would require certain battles to have different outcomes than the normal story and the bosses would be a bit harder than the boss of the regular storyline.

Time travel seems to be a theme within the game, anyway. Why not go ahead and play around with the "movies as alternate routes" idea like they've done in previous games? Because this is the first game in the series, I wouldn't ask for all of the movie villains to show up in the game. However, a nice selection of secret bosses would be cool. It would be like the secret boss in Attack of the Saiyans, except they would be in context with whatever's actually going on in the story arc.

NOTE: Nothing like this was mentioned during Bandai's E3 presentation. I'm just spitballing an idea I'd like to see implemented into the game.

[IGhostUlt]

Bebi did more than take over the mind. He took the whole body. He's not even Vegeta no more. Everything is different. Just do what they did with Boo. That way you can get other Bebi forms as well. Pointless for Bebi to be in Vegeta slot.[/quote]
Exactly what he said. Completely different character using vegeta's body[/quote]
No it wasn't. He said have Bebi under Vegeta. I said have Bebi on his own since it wouldn't take no unnecessary space and Bebi got more people he could take over. It's like having Boo on Gohan slot[/quote]
No i was going off what you said

[TheDevilsCorpse]

I really wouldn't mind if this game had some secret bosses similar to how the Street Fighter series had originally introduced Akuma as a secret boss. Maybe if certain criteria were met, the game's path would verge off into one of the movies (depending on what arc you were playing) where that movie's villain would be a secret boss. Maybe something like Garlic Jr., Tullece, Cooler, Broli, Bojack, and Janemba just to roughly cover all the arcs with the more memorable villains. Getting those paths would require certain battles to have different outcomes than the normal story and the bosses would be a bit harder than the boss of the regular storyline.

Time travel seems to be a theme within the game, anyway. Why not go ahead and play around with the "movies as alternate routes" idea like they've done in previous games? Because this is the first game in the series, I wouldn't ask for all of the movie villains to show up in the game. However, a nice selection of secret bosses would be cool. It would be like the secret boss in Attack of the Saiyans, except they would be in context with whatever's actually going on in the story arc.

I would honestly love something like this, but I would prefer to have the Z story covered more completely before they worry about that. My personal roster would still allow for a couple of these boss branches though, but not as many as I'd like while trying to keep the roster reasonable for main story coverage (my reasoning for it all, as well as my roster, in the spoiler tag).

Spoiler:

Dimps is usually really good about having fluid animations, good graphics (though some of their models are bleh to me) and a polished combat system. I'm not worried about those sorts of things for Xenoverse. What does still have me on edge though? Well, I'm significantly questioning if we'll be losing Spike's 5v5 team combat options and go back to just 1v1. Other than that though, it's the same thing that always does it to me with a Dimps game; the roster.

I personally like a large roster. I say it all the time. Do you know why? Because my absolute favorite DBZ game experience was Budokai Tenkaichi 3's Survival Mode! Specifically the "Bardock's War" section, where they pit you against 50(?) members of Freeza's army. I usually played as Bardock (who survived Freeza's attack), a rogue Broli looking to rampage across the universe, a "Prince" Vegeta looking to finally usurp Freeza, Goku on his way home from Yardrat, or other members of Freeza's organization that were looking to defect. I severely miss game modes like this. I honestly wish we had more of them in later games that covered more character groups, like "Gero's Robits", "Freeza's Army", "Saiyan Suvivors", "Z Warriors", etc. I can just imagine how amazing new versions of this would be with the Heroes roster... What a dream.

Anyway, I'm more interested in simulating the series with a large group of characters. With the above Survival Mode missing in later games, I tend to just get creative with my Versus matches and make up miniature stories for each fight. It helps to prevent me from becoming bored. That's why, even though I always play as the entire character select screen multiple times over, it's still nice to have some of the peons like Freeza Soldier, even if I don't play as often as the others.

Two things moving forward: We've been told that this game will have a “big” character roster that will feature new characters. I don't know what they mean by big, but I tried to keep the roster under 60. I feel anymore than that would be pushing it. Dimps also doesn't tend to alter every single animation of a transformation, unlike Spike. This means it's easier to include a wider variety of forms since it is a lot less work to include them. As such, if there is a character on the list with a what-if form from Heroes or whatever, I'm throwing it in. This obviously does not mean they will include it; I'm just hopeful and slapped them on the list.

Starting Roster
1.) Son Goku -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3, SSG
2.) Son Gohan (Kid)
3.) Son Gohan (Preteen) -- Base, SS, SS2
4.) Son Gohan (Teen) -- Base, SS, SS2, Ultimate
5.) Vegeta -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3
6.) Trunks (Future)****** -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3
7.) Piccolo
8.) Kuririn
9.) Yamcha
10.) Tenshinhan
11.) Chaozu
12.) Radtiz
13.) Nappa
14.) Freeza Soldier
15.) Freeza -- 1st form, 2nd form, 3rd form, True form, 100% Power form
16.) Jinzoningen 17
17.) Jinzoningen 18
18.) Cell -- Imperfect form, Semiperfect form, Perfect form, Super Perfect form
19.) Majin Buu (Innocent)
20.) "Original Mystery Fighter"

Unlockable Characters
21.) Trunks (Kid) -- Base, SS
22.) Son Goten (Kid) -- Base, SS
23.) Uub (Kid)
24.) Videl
25.) Saibaiman
26.) Gurd
27.) Butta
28.) Jheese
29.) Reacoom
30.) Ginyu
31.) Dodoria
32.) Zarbon -- Base, Monster form
33.) Cold
34.) Jinzoningen 16
35.) Jinzoningen 19
36.) Jinzoningen 20
37.) Cell Junior
38.) Dabra
39.) Majin Buu (Pure Evil)
40.) Majin Buu (Evil) -- Base, Gotenks Absorbed, Piccolo Absorbed, Gohan Absorbed, Freeza Absorbed, Cell Absorbed, Vegeta Absorbed, Yamcha and Tenshinhan Absorbed
41.) Majin Buu (Pure) -- Base, Kibitoshin absorbed

Unlockable Fusion Characters
42.) Vegetto -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3
43.) Gogeta -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3
44.) Gotenks -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3

Hidden Unlockable Characters
45.) Bardock -- Base, SS, SS2
46.) Chilled
47.) Son Gohan (Future) -- Base, SS, SS2, SS3
48.) Tarble
49.) Abo
50.) Kado
51.) Aka
52.) Coola -- True form, Super form
53.) Broli -- Base, SS, LSS, SS2, SS3[*][*]
54.) Janenba
55.) Birus
56.) Whis

Character Notes

• The starting roster is just the characters; not all of their forms are unlocked at the start.
• Unlockable characters show up as blank slots on initial character select screen from the start.
• Fusion characters do not have their own slots, but are selectable on character screen from their fusee's slots.
• Hidden character's slots are added to character screen only after unlocking.
• Son Goku shouldn't have Kaio-ken as a transformation, but knowing Dimps, it will be.
• Son Gohan (Teen) and Videl have Saiyaman costumes.
• Vegeta has an equipable item, "Madoshi Enslavement" (usable with all costumes and forms) from the start of a match.
• Freeza Soldier is a fodder character with costumes that cover the two basic designs, as well as Kyui and Appule.
• Freeza and Coola have an equipable item, "Galactic Reconstruction", that locks them into their Mecha forms at the start of a match.
• Trunks (Future) has an equipable item, "Precision Blade", that changes his Ultimate Attack.
• Son Gohan (Future) only fights with one arm, regardless of if he gets a one-arm costume
• Broli has an equipable item, "Culture Fluid", that locks him as Bio-Broli from the start of a match.

This could have it so that you can play through Episode of Bardock if you meet the conditions while having Bardock fight Freeza. Other conditions could lead to Coola serving as a boss on Namek, Broli in the Cell Arc and Janenba in the Buu Arc. If you want to round it up to 60 though, it'd be fine to add in Garlic Junior, Tullece, Bojack and Mister Satan ( I really wanted him on this roster, but decided to cut him for a potential sequel).